Exp-cuses

*exp-cuse - to explain and excuse incompetence and failure at the same time in order to save face

 

Whenever the west suffers military defeats and humiliation, as it has in ukraine, or tries to justify and excuse its crimes and mass abuses, it makes up myths to cover these up.

After the US loss in Vietnam, this phenomenon was fully on display with all sorts of bitter war hawks going on about how if Nixon did this, or that, and gave the US military more time, they would have defeated the Vietnamese.

This is also where we get the BS that winter, and not Russian soldiers drove Napoleon from Russia in 1814. How is it that the Russian winter decimated French ranks, but not Russian ones is never explained.

In the 1940s, Nazi Germany also indulged in myths to *exp-cuse their loss to the Soviets. They blamed bad, muddy roads for their predicament. And again, why is it that bad, muddy Russian roads stopped the Germans but not the Soviet Army?

Another myth-this time a Britoid imperialist one- is that the Irish potato blight resulted in mass starvation of Irish peasants. No. The Irish famine was caused by British imperial policy of mass commodity extraction from the Irish countryside. At the time of the Irish famine, Ireland was producing a lot of food other that potatoes. So blaming the starvation on a potato bug is nonsense, and a feeble attempt to cover up what qualifies as ethnic cleansing.

Another myth is that Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul 2 defeated the USSR and ended the cold war. They didn’t. Soviet Union was dissolved by internal agreement from the top. There was no Russian Maidan, as many assume.

A recent myth is that US cutting off of aid from ukraine is responsible for recent Russian successes. This is not true. Russian operations, AD systems, and airstrikes destroyed ukrop capabilities to fight. 

Also, recently the New York Times penned a pathetic screed to basically cover up the abject failure the combined west suffered at the hands of Russia by the *exp-cuse that ukraine’s failures were due to kiev not doing exactly as told by the pentagon and NATO, and that if they did, ukraine would have defeated Russia. 

To the US, EU, and NATO, Russia’s better trained, equipped, and prepared military forces, and good strategic planning had nothing to do with Russian successes. No one in the west will ever admit this was the case. The myth that the US military is the best must be maintained, regardless of how untrue it is.

Another old myth that has been around since the 1980s, is how the US-made Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles defeated the Soviet air force in Afghanistan and turned the tide of the war in the western-sponsored Afghan Mujahideen rebels favor.

But the Stingers were only briefly effective against low-flying aircraft, like helicopters. They could not target jets because they were out of range. Also, after a brief period of the Afghan rebels scoring hits, Soviet helicopter pilots adapted their flying tactics to those missiles and the Stinger lost its effectiveness.

The US runs on myths. And it is the belief in those myths that is the source of its miscalculations and blunders.  

When those myths are exposed, new myths are made up to cover up all the contradictions and failures.

This will only cause the US, and the combined west to fail even more.