Simon Kuper Wins The Ben Hodges Award For Ukraine Fabulism | The Gateway Pundit

Simon Kuper. He’s a “columnist” for the Monetary Occasions. I believe a extra correct title is, “fabulist.” For these whose native tongue is apart from English the phrase, “fabulist”, is a well mannered synonym for LIAR. And boy did he lie in his newest column, “What If Russia Wins — A Counterfactual View of the Conflict in Ukraine.” His subtitle ought to have been, “A Fabricated Account of the Battle in Ukraine.” I’m not shocked that the Monetary Occasions would embrace hysterical propaganda like this, however I did anticipate one thing stylish and good. That is crude and silly. Simply the sort of stuff that Joseph Goebbels put out for his boy, Adolf.

Listed below are essentially the most weird straw-men from his dystopian imaginative and prescient of a Russian victory:

1. Russia exacts horrible victor’s justice on Ukrainians. This isn’t hypothesis. It’s exactly what the Russians have already achieved in Ukraine: mass executions, castrations, rapes, torture and abductions of kids. Bear in mind Russia’s pre-invasion lists of Ukrainian public figures to be “eliminated”. . . .

4. Putin’s success would encourage international locations all in favour of invading a neighbour: China, Venezuela, Azerbaijan and, certainly, Russia. Dara Massicot of the Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace: “Each time the Russians suppose that they’ve ‘gained’ in a battle beneath Putin — Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014, Syria 2015 — they study one thing about us . . . turn out to be overconfident of their skills and in a couple of years they fight greater and bolder operations.” The probably creation of a Ukrainian military in exile operating sorties from European international locations would additional incentivise Russian assaults on these locations.

Kuper is engaged in good, old school projection. For instance, Russian troopers haven’t carried out “mass executions” except your definition of mass execution relies on the Russian victories in Mariupol or Bakhmut. Ditto for castration. The video proof of that warfare crime reveals Ukrainian troopers doing the soiled deed. And it’s Ukraine that has earned the sordid fame for trafficking in kids to service pedophiles and harvesting organs from wounded troopers.

Kuper’s reinvention of historical past could also be a operate of his relative youth, i.e. he’s uneducated and didn’t learn his historical past classes. What number of overseas army adventures has Kuper’s residence nation, the UK, carried out within the final 30 plus years? Iraq twice, Libya, the Balkans/Serbia, and Syria. Russia’s historical past shouldn’t be plagued by repeated cases of overseas conquest and colonial exploitation (and, oh sure, enslavement of native populations). That might be the UK. Kuper can be properly suggested to heed the phrases of Jesus, “Let him who’s with out sin forged the primary stone.” Offers me an concept for a correct nickname for Kuper — Glass Home. If you happen to stay in a glass home you shouldn’t be heaving rocks.

With respect to Russia’s function in Syria, Kuper conveniently ignores the truth that the UK, together with the US, had been closely concerned in launching the insurgency to oust Syrian President Assad. It was solely after Assad requested for assist that Russia despatched its army to Syria to beat again the Western subversion, which included funding radical Islamists. Putin realized the lesson of the Maidan (the place the U.S. and the U.Ok additionally performed a key function in overthrowing a democratically elected chief in 2014) and succeeded in derailing the Western coup try in Syria in 2015. Each Washington and London are nonetheless pissed at Putin over that.

Kuper seals his fame as a person dumber than Ben Hodges with this beauty:

Russia has a low-tech economic system in regards to the measurement of Canada’s. The Europeans may assist Ukraine stand up to Putin even when Trump pulled out. We’d must construct up our arms industries quick, however the effort required of us can be tiny in contrast with Russia’s.

Low tech, huh? You imply just like the hypersonic missiles that neither the US or the UK can construct and deploy? You imply just like the drones Russia is manufacturing on an industrial scale whereas Ukraine depends on Mother & Pop workshops to crank out a couple of hundred? You imply just like the thousands and thousands of artillery shells Russia is producing whereas the West, having stripped itself of its industrial base, is begging South Korea to offer what Washington can’t? Final I checked the one constructive factor one may say in regards to the British Challenger tank is that it burns properly when hit by a Russian ATGM.

Evaluating Russia’s economic system to Canada’s is laughable. Think about this. In 2023 Russia surpassed Germany as the most important economic system in Europe and fifth largest on this planet with a purchasing power parity GDP of $5.3 trillion dollars. Canada is ranked number 12.

Simon Kuper ought to resign from the Monetary Occasions and get a job with a satirical journal. He may proceed to write down this sort of nonsense and it could appropriately be labeled as darkish humor and fantasy.

Though Mr. Kuper has zero expertise as an intelligence analyst, I believe he would match proper in with the present crop of sycophants that inhabit the headquarters of the CIA and MI6. Ray Mcgovern and I mentioned the reason for intelligence failures with Decide Napolitano as we speak.