The End of the Last Empire: The European Empire. 

Part one

What makes me visit and revisit the topic of the Ukraine war is how much we psychoanalysts can say about the media and politicians misleading people, abusing both known intentions and nonconscious activation of personal (individual) needs, to distract from the basic facts in this seemingly meaningless conflict between two uneven powers. It is a post on the power of projection. 

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Evolution and development are unnoticeable but inevitable conditions of all matters in existence, whether material or non-material. All living things die, and anything material decays. So, as the signs of life in animals or plants wither and die, the material evidence of decay manifests in degradation of the original quality of the decaying matter. At the present time we are at a point when we should be asking: what is the matter with the world of humans? After almost a century of obvious relative peace and fast recoiling from the possibility of major wars we are now steadily toward expanding a tense situation in the Ukraine to become a serious possibility of a large war. I will venture and deal with that question by notions that I reached from outside the regular ways of arguing issues first before reaching conclusions. The end of WWII took us to a point where we thought there would be no more major wars because the last conflict ended with two atomic explosions that gave a new meaning of war.  However, the realistic reason is that it looked as if the last empire in the history of humanity- the European Empire- had completed the evolution and change of a fragmented world and a new homogenous world in beginning. It started six centuries ago and began its decay a few hundred years ago with endless internal conflicts and wars, and two atomic bombs of which one was unnecessary to use (The Nagasaki bomb).  

The falling started at the end of the second world war by the liberation of African, South America, Southeast Asia some smaller change in the Karibian islands. But the most demonstrative of all those changes is the migrations of people of the old empire to the source countries of that empire. Even though this reverse migration is small in margins it says that 'the world is no longer divided into master\slave, white\black, poor\rich etc.' One of the most perceptive books of late is entitled: The World is Flate (By: Thomas Friedman). Flattening the world is not fully done yet, and the Ukraine War attests to a foolishly stubborn western Europe to hold on to its old fictitious sense of superiority. Although Russia is not known as part of the European history of racial discrimination it practiced subtle methods of discrimination and played a similar role and adapted the same colonizing inclines to its claims to communism. This happened in middle Asia (away from noticing), in some parts of the north of Asia and mostly in Eastern Europe. Thus, with confidence it could be said that the present war in the Ukraine is an internal squabble between Easten and Western Europeans. The unity between Easten and Western European was always at the e expense of a third party like Iran, Iraq and other Muslim nations. 

Because racism is a core in Narcissism it is not easy to know what is happening in the \Ukrainian war.... two narcists fighting about who is entitled to be a genuine European master. The Western Europeans are unable to accept yet ‘old-despised Russia and China as equals. That despise has proven to "always" be done when an empire starts its end. They choose an old inferior adversary- who has become later as an equal- to treat him as a failure in progressing and catching up with civility. At the present time the old European trick of deprecating an adversary as a lower-class human, criminal to humanity, lying and hiding its vicious nature, makes the enemy suffer because of a low sense of morality. Ukrainians were easterners thus inferior- but not enemies or at least not difficult to befriend as was done with the people of the old Soviet Union.  

The case of a Dying Empire: 

The historical events that led to the war in the Ukraine are PATHETIC, and had exposed to us, psychoanalysts, a living political event that we know much about its psychological core. It might sound to you like a ridiculous explanation of a grave event, but it is not (remember the assassination of a prince that started WWI that lasted for more than four years!?).  

After WWII the European world divided into the West European league of NATO, and the Eastern league of WARSO. The events of disbanding of the USSR   and the formation of modern Russia reflected the modernization of the Eastern part of Europe and the inability of the western side of the European part of giving up the ‘silly’ sense of imperial superiority. This difficulty came directly from the USA’s taking over the leadership of the west. (New, vigorous, did not lose much yet in wars, etc.). So, the European Empire remained claiming its old inhumane status with the USA looking for chances to fill the place of the old glamour of the Westen Europeans.  

A very sad situation was created but was not interesting enough to the clinincal psychoanalyst: a dying empire is gone before a new country had a chance to take its place. The twentieth century saw handing the Batton to the USA to replace the old union of England and France. The USA accepted quietly to be the younger brother. The USA made all the right moves to keep NATO active, to keep the European economy healthy, but created crises that frightened the world and begged for protection from. Most of the sinking countries of the eastern European side of the empire remained alive, not out of honest concern, but only to deprive Russia from its old allies.  This is what created the present Ukrainian war. It is clear, like everything, that what the media in the west is using to describe the Russia’s meanness and inhumanity, etc. is a drop of tears compared with the blood bathes they created around the world over six long centuries. Just a few years ago France massacred the Algerians like flies, the British in Ismailia killing Egyptians like shooting targets, let alone the slaves from Africa and Acia. Make a comparison between Russia avoiding or limiting civilian targets compared to the USA spraying miles and miles of Vietnams jungles and vegetation with chemicals to destroy its forests. The European Empire is only humane in the European Media because it does not mention the avoided targets and mentions only the ‘discomfort's of keeping them alive without heat. The Algerians would have preferred discomfort over death. 

This introduction is meant to pave the way for psychoanalysis to contribute to a political scene that does not make sense, as psychoneurotic symptoms and conditions do. The European countries who ruled, exploited, and exhausted their potentials beyond the limits of existence-like the Greek, Romans, Babylonians, Inka people did before- are now showing all the signs of a dying empire. It started by the end of the second world war and the liberation of African, South America, Southeast Asia some smaller change in the Karibian Islands too. But the most demonstrative of all these changes is the migrations of people of the old empire to the source countries of that empire. Even in its small margins it says that 'the world is no longer divided into master\slave, white\black, poor\rich etc.' One of the most perceptive books of late is entitled: The World is Flate (By: Thomas Friedman). Flattening the world is not fully done yet, and the Ukraine War attests to a foolishly stubborn Europe to hold on to its passee fictitious sense of superiority. That has proven to "always" be achieved by choosing an old inferior adversary who has become an equal to treat as a failure in progressing and catching up with civility.  

This is the seat of what we call projection. In this case, Russia is the barbarian, savage, backward, dictatorship.... but somehow changed politically and let go of colonizing its previous east European allies. Western Europe is doing the opposite: they are holding firm to the concept of colonization and NATO.  In the case of the Hong Kong crisis, few months ago, China was the savage barbarian, uncivilized, un- European, undemocratic villain. The USA is civilized and head of the dying European empire even though it suffers from social disintegration of a large scale. Few months ago-in Hong Kong, China was the savage barbarian, uncivilized, Un European, undemocratic villain. It was not forgotten yet what the USA did in the elections in south America for the last hundred twenty years, and ending by the assassination the elected president of Chile and replacing him with a military general.