Måndag den 21 mars 2022, Airport Anchorage, Tahiti
En molnig dag med regnskurar. Regn har vi inte haft ett tag så det kändes skönt att få spolad av båten med regnvatten.
Sedan ett tag har vi haft problem med att fylla dagtanken med diesel så idag, en relativ sval dag, skulle vi åtgärda problemet. Den lilla pumpen som pumpar in dieseln i dagtanken sög luft eller ingenting så första åtgärd var att kontrollera alla slangar, slangklämmor och filter på läckage men allt var som det skulle. Sedan tog jag bort en del onödiga slangbitar, luftade och körde pumpen men väldig lite diesel kom in i dagtanken (pumpen klarar 20 liter/minuten). Nästa steg var att kolla själva filterhusen där vi inte hittade något fel. Efter det tog vi bort ett av filterhusen (vi har två) och körde pumpen med enbart det vanlige dubbelfiltret men fortfarande kom det för lite diesel i dagtanken. Sista åtgärd var att köra enbart på Racor-filtret. Det krävdes en del arbete men när Elisabeth startade pumpen fylldes dagtanken på momangen. Vad som är fel med det vanliga skruva-på filtret har jag ingen aning om, det finns 8 packningar i det (det är ett dubbel-filter) som vi alltid byter när vi ersätter filter, så vi gjorde rent det och stuvade undan det.
“Putin justified Russia’s February 2022 “operation” in Ukraine as necessary to stop genocide in Lugansk and Donetsk. This echoed the U.S.-promoted R2P, Responsibility to Protect doctrine, notably the U.S./NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, allegedly to prevent “genocide” in Kosovo. In reality, the situation, both legal and especially human, is vastly more dire in Donbass than it ever was in Kosovo.
However, in the West, any attempt at comparison of Donbass with Kosovo is denounced as “false equivalence” or what-about-ism. But the Kosovo war is much more than an analogy with the Russian invasion of Donbass: it is a cause. Above all, the Kosovo war made it clear that NATO was no longer a defensive alliance. Rather it had become an offensive force, under U.S. command, that could authorize itself to bomb, invade or destroy any country it chose. The pretext could always be invented: a danger of genocide, a violation of human rights, a leader threatening to “kill his own people”. Any dramatic lie would do. With NATO spreading its tentacles, nobody was safe. Libya provided a second example.
Putin’s announced goal of “denazification” also might have been expected to ring a bell in the West. But if anything, it illustrates the fact that “Nazi” does not mean quite the same thing in East and West. In Western countries, Germany or the United States, “Nazi” has come to mean primarily anti-Semitic. Nazi racism applies to Jews, to Roma, perhaps to homosexuals. But for the Ukrainian Nazis, racism applies to Russians.
The racism of the Azov Battalion, which has been incorporated into Ukrainian security forces, armed and trained by the Americans and the British, echoes that of the Nazis: the Russians are a mixed race, partly “Asiatic” due to the Medieval Mongol conquest, whereas the Ukrainians are pure white Europeans.” ‘For Washington, War Never Ends’ -Diana Johnstone
