I am sure I sound like a broken disk by now, as I keep going on and on the same subject....the lessons we could learn from the contemporary political situation, especially from the war in Ukraine. The reason is that that subject is of importance to me and some psychoanalysts because of the variant impacts it has on "the psychological" factors behind each distinct opinion ( 'I agree but not for the same reason you base your opinion').  This phenomenon reveals something of very significant value to us, psychoanalysts (but because this is not the place to expound on this point, I will just underline its source. Our opinions and most of our judgments stem from and support our personal narcissism, whatever the mental contribution to that issue). The specifics of all this are interesting because the obvious and declared opinions about the war negative or positive as they might be do not have the same sense of source. I am saying this because I have a sense of something more than politics and psychoanalysis has to be addressed. It is the nature of the link between individual narcissism and national and group narcissism, I am working on it still. 

        This twist in my thinking came about and is still coming, from reading a book that I came to discover lately (honestly by chance). The author Samir Uri is a historian and a brilliant analyst of historical facts and has the gift of an analyst who makes the best choices to connect different events (The name of the book is Shadows of An Empire). It is a book on the birth and collapse of the British Empire. He also states in brief that there will not be national or racial empires again and we are now out of the Shadows of Imperialism. We are in the universality of all the past and present. So, we can recognize and realize that the sequence and evolution of empires were reflections of stages in the evolution of the human subject.  The war in Ukraine is one of the last steps toward the decline of ethnic, racial or national narcissism. It is becoming ridiculous for a nation, a race, or a population to claim superiority. The obvious reason is that the basis of superiority is now available to every grouping in any part of the world. Still, there are some corners of the world that hang on to "their" superiority, but they seem to be left to their illusions (Mainly in North America).

        Believing in what I just mentioned I can also make you see how losing the basis of narcissism generates distortions in the perception of reality. In the Ukraine war, the disparity between Russia's capabilities and the Ukraian capabilities creates a gap that distorts reality and reaches a point when the distinction between wishful thinking and strait perception is lost. The president of Ukraine who is only important to the West as an element of annoyance in the cold conflict with Russia sees himself and the people around him as an active factor in the ongoings of matters in that conflict. he used by the West as an occasion that permits accusing Russia of inhumanity, war mongering, and war crimes. Even if we leave the past dormant and do not recall what the West did in the colonies, we still can see till now how projection distorts perception. Going back to the war between Iran and Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan, and North Sudan, Afghanistan, we cannot miss the active participation in those massacres and the claims that the West is not involved in them. The West is unable to live in a world that is not divided into good and bad and that is always on the side of the good. The reasons given are that the West is the Civilized, Free, and Democratic. The fallacy in this 'perception' is evident in the West relying on military power keeping NATO while there is no military threat in the world to justify creating military alliances.

        Thus, after all the wars and the impossibility of a new World War, the West remains captive of its NARCISSISM that requires the despise of the enemy even if there is no enemy to fear. Russia, China, North-Korea, are still the hateful enemies: A question: Isn't this mentality enough to make the West the world's enemy by now.