Those Who Truly Support Peace

Squeals of moral outrage are forthcoming from the EU after the leaders of Slovakia and Serbia disobeyed orders and attended Russia's military parade, which was also and purely incidentally a commemoration of the Great Patriotic War and not in any way related to recent military parades which have taken place elsewhere in honour of Mr Churchill and other fighters for peace. Russia's military forces are engaged in an illegal invasion of Ukraine, which the EU deplores because it is entirely dissimilar to the Righteous State's illegal rampage in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Iran, which the EU is facilitating. The actions of the Serbian and Slovakian leaders in appeasing an authoritarian gangster régime in a country much larger and more powerful than their own certainly bear no meaningful resemblance to the diplomatic efforts of Lord Mandelbrot the Infinitely Recurring in crawling up the Trumpster's non-speaking sphincter, primarily though not exclusively because the actions of the Serbian and Slovakian leaders are unlikely to bring material profit to Lord Mandelbrot the Infinitely Recurring. Above all, the Great Patriotic War is nowhere near as good an excuse as the Holocaust, because the victims of the latter were retrospective cadres of the Righteous State and the victims of the former merely Communists.