Pelshval

Month: July 2022

  • Let us behave as mature human beings

    The title of this post is long, but I shall make up for that with a body text that is commensurately brief. I put to you that almost all human beings want: enough to eat three times a day a bed to sleep in (without bedbugs) do not want: to fear for their children to…

  • Narratives vs. fairytales

    If the West has presented a narrative that gives a clear, recognisable picture of reality, why should it so adamantly suppress the Russian narrative, which is that USA is waging, and has long been preparing a proxy war against Russia? Likewise, had Zelensky’s narrative given a clear recognisable picture of reality, why should he have…

  • Propaganda

    The other day, I tried to explain to my sister-in-law that USA/NATO had effectively been provoking the Russians over a long period of time . The person I was talking to was non other than my sister-in-law. She smiled and said, “well, you would say that, wouldn’t you – you like Putin.” “I what?!!!” “Well,…

  • This business of guns …

    During the seventies, feminists maintained that if women had power, there would be no wars. Women, feminists claimed, know that food on the table is more important than guns. After all, we can’t eat corpses. Back then, of course, many women spent most of their lives cooking, cleaning and looking after children. But now, with…

  • Addendum to “Exclave”

    The Norwegian foreign ministry has decided to block transport of supplies to the Russian settlement Barentsburg on Svalbard, or Spitzbergen, as the island is also called. The Russian foreign ministry has threatened retaliatory action. This is in essence very much the same situation as the one in Kaliningrad. The 400 people living in Polar conditions…