Most of us have experienced one at some time or another. Either in our school days, in work, the military or in vocational training. Those individuals who, for some internal reason find it necessary to express their power over others. The Bullies.
Some just go right into it, pushing, prodding, getting in your face... looking for a reaction.
Others try to get to you through denigrating you in front of others, calling you names, looking for buttons to push to make you react.
It can be almost impossible to react in a way that resolves the situation other than violence... but most of us are either loath to resort to that for various reasons or we feel ourselves to weak.
The worst is of course a whole gang of bullies surrounding you, poking and prodding you, looking for you to react, either by breaking down and submitting, pleading for them to stop or, if you simply lose it, lashing out... at which point you get pummeled by the entire gang.
There was only one comedian to my knowledge who made the link between this kind of scenario and the USA’s approach to its regime change targets (such as Iraq) and that was Bill Hicks. You can see the clip below but basically he mimics the part of Jack Palance in the movie 'Shane'. A young sheep-herder has come into town for some candy for his kids and gingham for his wife. For some reason Palance has taken a dislike to him. He throws down a gun at the young farmer’s feet and tells him to pick it up. The hapless guy tries to get out of it pleading this and that to no avail. Palance simply keeps saying “Pick up the gun”. Eventually the guy starts to reach down for the gun and Palance shoots him. He then turns to the crowd watching saying, “You saw him, he had a gun.”
Now observe what’s been happening in Iran in the past few weeks... explosions here, there and everywhere including at a nuclear energy installation. Observe too what has been happening to China in recent weeks and months with a variety of accusations, name-calling and tactics to undermine the nation. Look also at the litany of economic attacks upon Russia and all the name-calling that has gone on and which continues unabated until today.
Is the archetypal bully’s game that’s being played here?
Is the USA and its allies looking to generate a reaction that will allow the justification of even greater attacks, perhaps even protracted campaigns of bombing as we saw in the decimation of Yugoslavia and later Iraq and Libya? It certainly looks like it.
The USA, United Kingdom, Israel and Saudi Arabia along with NATO and European allies of the USA have huge fire power, logistical and technological range to them along with a combined utterly massive military presence. U.S. bases span the world. Collectively they are the equivalent of a mob of bullies surrounding far weaker nations.
However... this situation will not last. China has been rising fast in recent decades and will do so again. She is rising to face the bullies. She will no longer be kept cowed and submissive. Russia too to a lesser degree is stepping forward saying she won’t be bullied into toeing any foreign nation’s line.
The collective bullies of the West don’t like any of this.
That, in my opinion, is why they are doing everything possible now, while they still have overwhelming might to come down hard on the rising powers expressing their independence above.
We are in the end game war my friends, this is truly the final world war. I know the previous world wars were supposed to be the wars that ended all wars but no... there is the one we are in now, the end game war. There ultimately will be one victor and only one victor.
Either the United States and its allies will subjugate all now independent states not toeing the U.S. line and a virtual prison planet ensues. Or, China and all non-U.S. compliant states will rise economically to quarantine the USA and its allies to allow the emergence of a planet where different systems are celebrated and not used as regime change justifications.
This is the challenge facing us. This is the war that is upon us.
Will the bullies win? This hangs in the balance and will be determined by how smart the at present weaker nations play their hand. Right now Iran is being pushed toward breaking point by Israel. China is being pushed toward breaking point primarily by the USA. And Russia is being abused using endless lies by the UK and USA both.
Bullies push for a reaction they can then exploit.
Clever individuals turn the other cheek if no other option is available.
It’s the same old game from micro to macro. You’ve seen it in countless films. The baddie seems destined to win, he lands all the blows. The hero seems out for the count. In the movies against all odds the hero invariably surmounts his difficulties, defeats the bullies and the audience goes home reassured all's right with the world.
Unfortunately for all of us life is not so predictable and in the theatre of geopolitical ambitions there hero is not always going to be the good guy. In that theatre of the damned the bullies and their power all too often win out then use western movies to dupe audiences into believing they really were the good guys.
(So anyway, here’s Bill with one of his most telling skits.)
(R.I.P. Bill... you left us far, far too soon, as did George (Carlin).
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