The Works of Projection in the present Ukrainian War 

The present situation in the world defies all attempts at making sense of cause\effect issues, acting, and reacting\issues. The reason is twofold. We are going through a serious crisis-the Ukraine- that does not show yet how it is going evolve. The other is that we are going and will continue to go through a basic historical evolution that will end the dominance of the Western Empire as it happened with the end of the Roman empire….Chaos and bombastic claims of entitlements.

I should go back to what is in the range of my understanding: the Ukrainian Crisis. The two opposing parties in the Ukraine conflict are not anymore at the same point  they started from. My opinion will not sit well with the supporters of one of the two camps. I think that Russia has not changed much its objective which is related to the practicalities of security and defense (war), while the other camp has shifted the attention of security to focus on depicting the other camp as humanly criminal and  victimizing innocent people for unjust cause. It is impossible to ignore the national and racial issues involved in the western camp’s media. So, what started as Russia invading the Ukraine to stop it from joining NATO became a scene of incriminating it and characterizing her as an uncivilized and war criminal.

What is the benefit gained by the West from making that shift?  The war in the Ukraine is of very limited interest to the rest of the world, and that is, only, if it has any effect outside Europe and the USA! It is just as an item in the news in most countries which is not part NATO. It will have no effect on Nigeria, Chile, Singapore, or Yemen. Therefore, reducing the war to meaningless acts of killing and destroying lives turns the war to be Russian  immorality’ and Russians into immoral in people. However, ‘the psychoanalytic way of thinking about matters’ reveals what is consciously being done, but also reveals the aim of  creating an ‘unconscious’ effect on  people. If there is no clear military message in the news, then there is an implicit -unconscious-message in the same news.

The West calls itself ‘the civilized, free, democratic, and moralistic part of the world. In their attempt to influence its own people-unconsciously-  the media is doing a very slob work of projection. The history and the contemporary actions of the West took, and still takes everywhere they went, is the core of their accusations of Russia. Whatever they are now accusing their adversary the Russians with is what they have practiced everywhere they imposed their will upon before. The West’s colonization of Africa, Opium War, slave trading, Vietnam, the banana republics, making Cuba an international bordello and center of drug trafficking, using  the atomic bomb twice in two days, and lately assassinating the opposition to its influence in South America, etc., etc. is more than enough to confirm the Westerners excel in criminality as they do in other aspects in life. Westerns Projections on the war in Crimea is one more proof of their criminality, as all whom they accuse .

Few Notes on Projection

In early psychoanalysis there was a commonly used term: Defense Mechanism. It was also a psychoanalytic concept denoting warding off unpleasant and rejectionable psychical issues which causes the subject a sense of guilt. The term ‘defense Mechanism disappeared from our vocabulary when we come to understand projection for instance not as defending the ego but as a process engendered by a demand. The guilt behind projection is related to the subject’s inability to sorting out matters pertaining to ‘reality’. So, if I am sure of the reality of a psychical issue projection would separate my wish from my conception and create a situation where knowing is the concern: am I seeing him as the cause or seeing my wish as if it is his!? Directly to the Ukraine: are the Russian criminals or I wish them to be criminal !? Why the question: because the question is: have we provoked Russia by threatening it militarily and ignoring the signed agreement about its security, or we are free to do that without any objection. Again: are they equal to us or we the free world, ta ta ta  are not supposed to be questioned? The answer is no, you do not have the right to impose on others what you call your system of values. The reason is that you are not moralistic enough to talk about VALUES [Doing away with democracy if the outcome is not in your favor Chile and Aliunde]. The western nations in NATO resorted to projecting (their history, nature, narcissism) and expected to see themselves in the mirror they invented for the occasion. The Russians wanted to show the real image.