[United States / Ukraine] - The Dominant Leader Demands a New Puppet to Feed a Phantom of Cheap Fuel

Event Baseline: The US president publicly called for Ukraine to replace its president after the latter criticized a US-Russia diesel import deal. Simultaneous Russian glide bomb attacks on Zaporizhzhia killed at least 20 people, including children.

The dominant self believes it owns the other's sovereignty. The US leader's thought operates from a mechanical calculation of fuel prices, a phantom of economic control, demanding Ukraine's leader be swapped like a faulty part. This is the illusion of the self as puppeteer.

The demand to replace a democratically elected leader because he refuses to accept Russian diesel that funds his people's murder reveals the total incoherence of national self-interest. The belief that Ukraine must kneel to lower US prices is a program error: the same thought that signs a deal with the aggressor bombs the victim. The self cannot see the contradiction because it is identified with power, not reality.

Unless this fragmentation ends, the war machine will consume all. The leader who cannot perceive another's dignity as real is not a leader but a malfunctioning algorithm of domination.