Monday, February 17, 2025

Negotiating with Evil – v2 #Russia #Lavrov

We must not see him as an equal partner, an ally,
he is not a worthy opponent, a human,
but an embodiment of evil, inhumanity,
risen from the pit, walking this earth,
sowing terror, genocide, destruction…
 
He is a monster, a villain, a cancer,
a soulless murderer, a madman, a poison,
in the world, in this time of power, of empires,
“might make right”, a canard, a lie, a delusion,
suffering of innocents for his imperial lusts…
 
While he sits in his bunker, surrounded,
by only those who would embolden him,
fawning, preening, jesters, yes-men, cowards,
vassals of the madman, the illegitimate tsar,
pulling levers of power, of terror, of genocide…
 
Negotiating with Evil, recklessness, foolish,
seeking a deal with this demigod, this Satan,
as if he would honor any treaty, any agreement,
when he must be defeated, derided, made a pariah,
when he must be made small again…
 
Losing our own souls, made complicit, appeasers,
in negotiating with Evil, in seeing him as a partner,
when he is not rational actor, inhuman,
willing to concede anything, negotiating,
when he must be defeated…

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Edited February 17, 2025
Negotiating with Evil – v2
 
edited February 15, 2025
Restored Sovereignty – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/02/restored-sovereignty-v2.html
edited February 15, 2025
Three years of terror, of genocide – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/02/three-years-of-terror-genocide-v2.html
March 5, 2022
Don’t give Ukraine to the Madman
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/03/dont-give-ukraine-to-madman.html
 
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