The End of Black History Month & The Ukrainian People
Claudewell S. Thomas, MD, MPH, DLFAPA, is an established psychiatrist who is currently retired ,, He received his medical degree in 1956 at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine and specializes in social psychiatry, public health psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry. Dr. Thomas was board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry... more
As we come to the end of Black History Month we can anticipate International Women's Day. The framework of observation is the demonic Russian invasion of Ukraine and the unmistakably evil assault on women's reproductive rights and voting rights for all of us. Casting a net over it all is the unfinished business of COVID-19 and mandatory procedures and practices.
Looking through the retrospectoscope we can interpret Putin's bare-chested antics including horseback excursion, boxing, wrestling, hockey, etc., as autocratic midlife crisis symptoms. With the additional imposed isolation due to SARS-CoV-2 and variants like Omicron, we could have predicted a desire to be a God. Thus a neighboring Russian-speaking Ukraine prospering from capitalism and western association and contrasting with a struggling kleptocratic former Russian empire would have to be eliminated as the first signal act of a man who would be a God.
The heroics of the Ukrainians cannot be denied, unfortunately, without more meaningful world assistance short of nuclear war, they will be ground down by overwhelming Russian force. The emergence of their racism in support of intense nationalism is unfortunately not a surprise.
