The Abyss of Nihilism
The following is an account of a new interview of Donald Trump’s chief “negotiator” with Vladimir Putin, Steve Witkoff, conducted by the perfect interviewer for putting Witkoff at his ease in expressing his true thoughts about his assignment, namely Tucker Carlson, who has been the American media’s number one apologist for the Kremlin since the weeks before Russia’s full-on invasion of Ukraine.
“What do you think of Putin?” Carlson asked.
“I liked him. I thought he was straight up with me,” Witkoff responded.
Witkoff also spoke about the communication he has had with the Russian president saying, “many people would say I shouldn’t have had (communication) because Putin is a bad guy. I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy.”
“That is a complicated situation, that war,” he said. “And all the ingredients that led up to it. You know, it’s never just one person. I think we’re going to figure it out.”
Steve Witkoff does not regard Vladimir Putin as a bad guy. He likes him. As for the mountains of carnage that have directly resulted from the premeditated and unprovoked war of conquest that Putin initiated against Ukraine, Witkoff whisks all that away, in Carlson style, with the trite observation that war — note the way he hides behind the universal rather than speaking to this war, these facts — is “a complicated situation,” with “all the ingredients that led up to it,” because “it’s never just one person.”
It’s never just one person, that’s quite true. That is to say, one person can start it, as in this case, but then there are the hundreds of thousands who must die, the millions dislocated, and in this particular war the tens of thousands of children kidnapped, all at the whim of that one man who started it. That one man is the person Witkoff wishes to assure us is not a bad guy, but rather a straight up guy, a very likable guy. Witkoff’s kind of guy, just as he is certainly Trump’s kind of guy. A mass-murdering psychopath with world domination fantasies and a quarter-century-long river of blood, both foreign and domestic, on his hands. Quite a guy indeed.
What is one to say to this? How is one to come to terms with the fact that this kind of insanity in defense of uncomplicated evil is currently the voice of the “free world,” with the fate of whatever is left of civilization resting in its nihilistic, money-grubbing, shameless hands?
