A PARABLE OF A SCUFFLE ON THE PLAYGROUND

 I have a parable to share:

So there was a boy who was an otherwise nice boy who was minding his own business when a group of kids showed up and started levying allegations against the boy's uncle and his company that had done several wrongs to the kid's family and many in the group.  The boy was fond of his uncle and, while human, the uncle was known as a man of integrity.  The company had troubles, as all companies do at times (making payroll, ensuring things truly ran smoothly, bills were paid on time, etc), but the overall consensus of the company was that it was one that could be trusted by most to do a fair business.

The posse of kids kept taunting the lad by saying that the uncle was a fraudster and usurper based on how they and theirs had been treated by the company (and they did indeed have a basis for their grievances from past poor interactions with the company); even calling the uncle a murderer at one point.  The uncle had recently died (no wife was living at the time) and his businesses had been disbanded and shut down and there were no real records to go back in to do an audit to see if he really was a fraud.  No way to prove things one way or another.  Just allegations and innuendo by those who controlled the narrative with the greatest amount of skill/time/effort.

The boy being incensed at the allegations specifically agains the uncle, off and popped the head instigator in the nose bloodying his bully and causing an outcry from the posse of accusers.  There were even attempts to by the bully to cry foul to those around him/her that the instigator was actually the lad that had been previously keeping to himself.  The playground monitor arrived on the scene, just in time to see that the former accuser/bully was lying on the ground with a bloodied nose and, of course, things did not look good for the unassuming lad who, quite frankly just wanted to be left alone - but whose sense of fair play did not allow him to listen to the allegations without returning a defensive argument.  This, just landing the lad the title of the "contentious one" etc.  The lad went away from the group thinking on the meaning of gaslighting because the whole thing had been turned on him.

Whom should be punished?  The lad or the bully?

Parable over.  The key to the parable is as follows:

The "lad" is V"lad".  The bully and accuser is the USA who has been provoking Russia into doing the unthinkable.  So, when Russia uses the underwater drone nuke to create a megatsunami and destroy NYC by water (modern, post-Brighamite prophecy) or London, England by water (Russian insiders have intimated that this scenario has been modeled), then who do we have to blame?  The V"lad"?  Or ourselves?  

I submit that we are as guilty as can be.  

If the gal who was beaten daily by her wife-beater wearin spouse, finally snaps and grabs the shotgun and blows Billy-Jo Bob away in a fury of double-00 buckshot, does the jury put her away for life?  Or do they exonerate her after witness after witness backs her story up?  Usually, she walks free.

If any other parallels apply to the parable at the top, please apply liberally to individual circumstances.