THE BUBBLE OF WESTERN PROPAGANDA ON UKRAINE WILL BE SEEN TO BURST

It was inevitable due to the parlous state of western mainstream journalism that it would descend into abject jingoism in response to the past eight-year history of Ukraine.

Just as it descended to these depths over Syria and before then Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan so it has once more in respect of Ukraine.

Was it what journalism was meant to be about? No. But it became the default stance over time to bolster western interests to the detriment of any principles involved.

Of course there was the hand of western state officials in western journalism’s demise also. The Gilligan ‘sexing up of WMD claims’ affair in the UK along with the smashing of the Snowden laptops in the office of the Guardian newspaper there also (by state officials or those sent by state officials) that provided a heavy hint that editors and owners would toe the line… or else.

Only a few stalwarts such as Robert Fisk and John Pilger remained to provide examples of what true journalism was. The opinionated talking heads on the BBC and CNN were midget-like figures by contrast along with those across the panoply of viewspapers that pretended to be communicating news in the West.

So it came to Ukraine’s turn for the treatment. Its president, along with just about anyone and their dog that had something to do with the Kiev side of things were given the red carpet, “You are speaking Holy Writ” treatment. What has transpired from 2014 to the present day has been the obedient passing along of whatever propaganda this side wished to pass off as “news”. In combination with this a strict filtering system has been evident across all western mainstream media.

What was good for Kiev was seen as good to go, inserted immediately into news articles and TV “news” programming for maximum effect. What was bad for those seeking autonomy in eastern Ukraine or for Moscow was also good to go and inserted alongside the former. All in a nice neat convincing and conditioning parcel of half-truths, omitted facts, obvious propaganda gambits and outright lies.

Meanwhile Kiev was given a huge green light to continue bombarding urban areas in eastern Ukraine, killing innocent men, women and children with complete impunity, totally unreported by a western press and media pretending to be completely unaware of this and maintaining a deafening silence upon it. Residential tower blocks (of which there are a great many across Ukraine from Soviet times), hospitals and schools bore the brunt of these incessant attacks. Bodies littered town centres and leafy avenues alike. Editors and commentators in the West stared at their computer screens and sat on their hands. No news of these events was to reach any western population if they could help it.

Then we come to more recent events with the operation Russia has now conducted to remedy the silence that western opinion leaders have sought to enforce for these past long eight years of genocidal attacks by their proxies on the people of eastern Ukraine. And, of course the self-same mentality, still rigidly in force of portraying everything Kiev as good and everything Moscow as bad kicked off in even greater earnest than before.

Ukraine, brave little Ukraine was steadily defeating the mighty ogre Russia that had descended upon it in an unwarranted, entirely unprovoked attack. All the abandonment of true journalism over the previous eight years in Ukraine and the one and a half decades of bad-mouthing Putin and Russia were about to pay off.

Ukraine, poor Ukraine they said… let us see your tears, raise your voices and open your wallets, in this black and white war it’s good versus evil and everyone must get on board the hate-Russia bandwagon or be cancelled with a modern day version of the village stocks.

And so it was. And so we heard that plucky Ukraine was achieving victory after victory against evil Russian forces who were perpetrating one vile atrocity after another with Russian generals salivating over killing babies, school kids, doctors and hospital patients using some of the most expensive weapons ever devised. And what purpose was there in that, what possible strategic goal would be achieved in so doing? This was not an answer heard from western mass media. The message was simple and potent, ‘Russians are evil’, end of story.

 This has gone on for two months now with endless stories reflecting these memes and tropes. Russia evil. Ukraine saintly. Over and over. Ukraine winning, Russia stalled, running out of weapons, taking enormous casualties, losing ground, being steadily defeated ushering in victory for noble, self-sacrificing, enormously brave little Ukraine.

But wait. What’s this appearing as unwelcome as indications of cancer on an x-ray? The filter seems to be malfunctioning, reality is intruding upon a facade leaking and exposing facts. Russia has surrounded entire divisions of Ukrainian troops and has taken Mariupol and threatens to take Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and the entire Donbass within weeks. It can’t be!

So… what that is positive can be found or made up to make things look more positive for that glorious hero Zelensky and his mighty warriors? A fake sinking of a Russian shop. Good one! A fake victory on Snake Island, scene of an earlier fake that had traction for a while. Throw in a fake school attack… and what about that fake chemical weapon attack we’ve been holding back as the big one… perhaps it’s time?

But none of this will be of any avail. Russia will blithely stroll past these PR stunts, facades and propaganda gambits and continue to grind the remaining Ukrainian army and its associated modern day Nazis to dust. The shock of this inevitable eventuality will knock all the western fantasists back on their heels, those of them who have lost their brains completely and have begun believing their lies will be hardest hit. Those that simply played that vile game to save their jobs and career prospects from detriment will give a cynical sneer and simply get on with the next round of distortions their job entails.

In the wider western world the shock and horror that Kiev was defeated will equal the shock and horror felt… and a large amount of disbelief to boot, that they had been lied to so comprehensively by those claiming to be purveyors of news. The furore will last a week at most before the great western public docilely slips back into its normal routines, switching on their black box and taking in, as if nothing has happened, whatever the next batch of conditioning has to offer them.

But still, for a while until the diversion policies kick in…

THE BUBBLE OF WESTERN PROPAGANDA ON UKRAINE WILL BE SEEN TO BURST 

THE DISASTROUS UTOPIANISM OF THE WESTERN ELITES

Perhaps the goal of universal control by western elites of all major aspects of geopolitical importance worldwide has ALWAYS been their goal but it has clearly existed at least as far back as the end of World War II.

In any event, it has become abundantly clear in the last two decades that this is the fixed goal that unites not only the West’s political elites but all others of any importance within their societies, in a war to achieve it.

In any event, it has become abundantly clear in the last two decades that this is now the fixed goal that unites not only the West’s political elites but of all others of any importance within their societies in a war to achieve it.

The pathway to having every nation globally mirror western liberal values and having systems of governance that mirror the so-called democratic systems of western nations runs through the ambition to undermine all systems, individuals and cultures which do not mirror these requirements.

Whether this goal and these requirements must also be acquiesced to by the dictatorships of western allies in the Middle East is doubtful however, that nations such as Russia, China, Syria, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, North Korea and presumably Vietnam and others MUST do so has been made abundantly clear if not clearly stated as such.

This is a form of utopianism which in my opinion can only lead to disaster and mass death due to its inherently divisive nature. The mix of colonialist concepts of superiority, racist notions of the same and a mentality that reeks of the worst kind of intolerance seen in the western missionary zeal of the nineteenth century in Africa.

Western elites have almost completely dispensed with diplomacy in their demand that others comply with their demands and instead wage wars of overt and covert subversion, engage in insidious propaganda, information wars and outright military aggression to achieve their goal of forcing all nations to bend to their will. This they do expecting all those within their camp in a position to assist to do so and in so doing completely distort access to or reporting of objective truth.

In addition, a false facade of sanctity regarding all past and present acts of violence and all continuing acts of aggression, continue to be framed in a way that relieves western elites of any notion of culpability and instead provides a fig-leaf of universal goodness over their crimes.

In total, this portrait of western elites and their activities provides a constant platform for unlimited acts of international aggression, the potential for mass murder and destruction while total sanction for all such activities is readily and constantly available. In this respect, the iniquities of all previous misguided and brutally callous utopian demands of others whether in the political or religious fields are reflected.

The group-thought belief systems inherent, particularly in the USA and UK, have a long and inglorious history. The wiping out of the native population within what is now the United States and subsequent enslavement of millions from the African continent along with the colonialist exploits of the United Kingdom show where such exceptionalist and utopian concepts have led in the past.

What confidence can there be that this latest, largely US-UK project will be any different from their activities in the past? If an objective approach is taken informed by the myriad acts of international piracy and interference by these two nations in past times the answer must surely be little indeed. The most likely result will be a level of division, war, disruption, global chaos and misery quite unparalleled in human history.

HOW MUCH MORE LYING FROM THE WEST TILL EVERYONE REALISES THE TRUTH?

It started with a vendetta against Vladimir Putin and that campaign, even after a decade and a half, is still ongoing.

The tried and tested methodology learned from the Nazis to repeat your lie over and over and over has been pretty effective.

Huge numbers in the USA and UK believe President Putin is the new Hitler, a murderer, a serial killer in fact, a modern day monster and supercrook, a man who is evil through and through and who would do anything to stay in power including invade the rest of the world after destroying their democracies.

Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi’s propaganda chief would nod sagely and slowly clap his hands in admiration. Here’s a little advice from the lie-master of WWII:

“Never admit to a fault or wrong; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time; blame that enemy for everything that goes wrong; take advantage of every opportunity to raise a political whirlwind.”

Does this sound familiar at all regarding the boogie man come scarecrow that is Russia or Vladimir Putin. What about that line about ‘one enemy at a time’? You got it, the main campaign, that against China, the USA’s primary rival, comes later.

But let’s stick with Putin for the time being.

Here’s Goebbels again:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Another bit of advice from the master deceiver:

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

All the elements used against Vladimir Putin are present in Goebbel’s advice above.

Just keep repeating the lies and use the press and media as your keyboard. And denigrate/cancel anyone attempting to portray Putin in any other light as an ‘agent’, ‘puppet’ or useful idiot.

And the clincher from JH?

“The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.”

So, when you have a compliant media and so-called journalists ready and willing to write hit pieces plus magazines happy to depict Putin with fire in his eyes and the equivalent of vampire teeth the impact on an audience of largely gullible Joes and Josephines, especially when repeated endlessly, is not hard to guess.

But the propaganda pogrom against Putin was not enough. The Svengali needed an extensive orchestra to manipulate. This would be the Russian state. In this scenario, Russians, in general, were to be made scary monsters, ready to kill you in your bed and eat your children for supper.

So we had the entire ‘Russiagate’ furore, a four-year Russia hate-a-thon where Putin and his cronies were responsible for just about every awful thing that ever happened to anyone anywhere. And especially for Hillary Clinton losing the 2016 presidential election to a fat clown non-politician who liked to run off at the mouth and deliver lies faster than she could. Though no solid evidence could be found to link the winning sociopath candidate and ‘the Russians’ enough of the lie stuck to make it useful. Oh, and those nefarious Russians had made $90k of Facebook ads SO VERY EFFECTIVE they outdid the $100m or so the Democrats spent. You might think they’d hire those admen geniuses wouldn’t you? And discover how it could be that almost none of the ads mentioned the presidential election AT ALL. Pure genius that.

And so it goes. Along came the hapless Skripals. Mr Skripal had been set free by Russia in an exchange. You might think if he was such a danger to Russia they’d have killed him while they had him, wouldn’t you? Or if not perhaps bump him off with something less ‘Russian’ than Novichok, perhaps a knife between the ribs or a bullet from a silencer to the head, but no, it had to be associated with Russia. If you think those in the new KGB are as dumb as that, okay… but I don’t. And certainly not Putin.

Then we had Navalny apparently go down (but not out) using the very same Novichok (apparently). But hey, if Russia had already been identified as the wannabe killer of Skripal would you use the selfsame compound to do in Navalny? And would you do it in full public view leaving traces? And as it had failed to kill Skripal would you use this failed method to kill Navalny? And fail once again. Don’t you think that would be sheer carelessness on top of dumbo ignorance? How long have the KGB been at this game? Come on... really?

In between times and in no particular sequence we had the downing of the Malaysian airliner MH17 with 298 passengers fatalities. No one has given an explanation as far as I know of why Vladimir Putin or the Russian state would wish to do such a thing, yet we are to believe that several vehicles comprising a surface to air missile unit set off from somewhere in Russia and travelled for days to be in the right spot to do this. It makes no sense, no sense whatsoever. Except as the very next stick to beat Russia with.

When you consider how little any of this affected the rest of the world outside of the USA, the UK, and some of Europe, how trade and good relations with Russia continue, and official visits with smiles and deals made with Russia and also with Putin personally… you begin to smell a big lying rat, several in fact.

Western elites are presiding over a dying empire that has let them dominate and exploit the rest of the world to their advantage for lifetimes. They cannot stand the thought of losing this extremely potent and even more extremely lucrative advantage. All abilities to arm-twist others to their advantage are beginning to fade with the rise of Eurasia and specifically China. Being able to manipulate events, threaten so-called wrongdoers and administer punishments to them with impunity, attack and invade, indulge in mass killings and destruction also with impunity. It all disappears along with their self-awarded high status as world guardians with all the prestige and power that entails.

So what are a few lies when all is fair in love, war, and economics? When your back is against the wall what are you to do? As a terminally wounded beast you lash out at every supposed “enemy” around you, don’t you?

And you also use every dirty trick in your well-thumbed playbook, right? And what is the CIA expert in after all? What empire in such dire straits will not use the psychological operations (PsyOps) teams together with those in BlackOps as necessary weapons in the war to save the empire? It’s all grist to the mill as they say. What matter a few more lies when you’ve already used a whole bunch to get a war started against Iraq and others with hundreds of thousands dead when you’ve tortured, renditioned, and held people without trial for decades? When you are in an existential struggle to save everything that keeps your mojo going each day by being a world controller what do a few useful lies matter?

DO WESTERNERS NEED SAVING FROM THEMSELVES?

Most of us will be aware of the psychiatric condition known as the ‘superiority complex’ and also that known as ‘megalomania’. In addition to these two there are conditions such as extreme religious fervour and the many destructive attributes of the various categories of psychopath including that of the socialised psychopath.

These conditions have the obvious candidates for categorisation within the context of their commonly known psychiatric behaviours. But is it possible that some of these conditions are reflected in what is generally thought of as normal, or somewhat normal, behaviour in the western world? I will argue that some of the normalisation process in relation to these conditions has become deeply embedded in western societies by many manner of means and that this is due to a great many subtle and ever-present conditioning factors that have entered the mass western subconscious.

If we look at the historical evidence for western attitudes regarding other peoples it seems to me that this is a rather obvious process that has flowed from the top down to find a place within almost every western mind. The obvious candidates are slavery, colonialism, piracy, plunder, the justifications made for religious conversion and the general elite attitude that the ‘White Man’s Burden’ demands that we teach others how to live like us, believe like us and to adopt our attitudes, ideals and societal and governmental processes.

The first category, that of slavery, had its roots in the need of the settlers on the North American continent for workers. This after the virtual elimination of the native population, or at least the removal of its rights and most of its land. Here we can see some of the facets displayed that reveal attitudes of superior need demanding certain things be done and the justifications inevitably attached to the delivery of those requirements.

The second category demonstrates such proclivities by primarily the white man, that of colonialism. In this case it is even more pronounced. The justifications used were sometimes a profession of good intent being efforts to civilise, improve and ‘bring others up’ to our level of ‘success’ and ‘civilisation’. But however good the intentions of some may have been, as in the case of ‘The British Raj’ in India for example, the initial noble quest can be seen to degenerate over time into the oppressive methods used to control dissent regarding the superiority claimed by the British supervisors and military muscle that bedded itself at the top of Indian society.

The colonial era was arguably begun through piracy in the open seas by gentlemen such as Sir Francis Drake of England who generated vast wealth for the English crown through attacking the cargo ships of Spain at the time when Spain was plundering the civilisations of South America. Later ensued the various wars to become the primary beneficiary of myriad peoples and nations on both the North and South American continents. Britain and France vied with one another for the spoils.

In Africa a great many colonial powers sought to gain footholds. Nations such as Portugal and Belgium along with France and Britain, the Boors of the Netherlands and a host of others who saw the potentiality for gains of many kinds in what were seen as ‘barbaric’ and ‘uncivilised’ peoples within that continent. In their wake came those who personified the third category of ‘superior’ westerners arriving to ‘improve’ what they found in Africa and other nations seen as requiring this fundamental ‘upgrade’. Customs of dress, modes of thinking, beliefs of all kinds, many elements of societal relationships and culture were to be swept away for ‘the greater good’ of dressing, thinking, believing and forming relationships and developing cultures which reflected the ‘better’ western kind.

The political and entrepreneurial business elites seeking wealth, influence, personal and national benefit generated massive funds through all these enterprises and activities with which to fuel their national development. The more the individuals involved succeeded in benefiting themselves the more they benefited their elites at home who in turn were able to develop their societies. In this way initial concepts of western superiority became ever more enhanced and embedded. Along with this process came the affluence which generated a patrician view which felt idealistic to those who had so benefited from the genocide (of the Native Americans), the slavery of millions of Africans, the myriad gains of colonialism and the believed to be civilising effects of religious conversion.

So we arrive at the present day through the many generations since the activities described above. And we arrive with all the most positive aspects of them emphasised in just about every aspect possible and from every quarter, generating, I would argue, a deep subliminal level of conditioning to believe in our own superiority over others that has become almost completely subconscious. We simply ‘feel’ it in almost every fibre of our being. This has erupted at times as overt racism as seen in the generations who suffered from this in North America in particular. But, I suspect if you dare look closely at your own mentality you cannot help but find certain elements and notions of superiority in your own outlook. This I know exists within myself and is an almost inescapable and very likely impossible facet of my being to eliminate. This due to the vast and I would argue all-pervasive and deeply embedded conditioning that derived its power and ubiquity from a desire to cast the very best light on what had been done, counting almost everything related to the past as achievements rather than crimes.

But let us come fully up to the present day and the era of war we have entered. I will argue that notions of exceptionalism in the USA and superiority in the UK, invested to most but not to a totality of extent in their elite superstructure. The notion that we are the crown of creation almost, guided by God, righteous and noble, sensitive, idealistic and desiring to transform lesser beings and societies into some image of ourselves, remains very strong in us. Our relative wealth makes us feel the interventions we make outside of our own national borders are a kind of duty we owe humanity, doing good, expressing the patrician view of lords and ladies toward the unwashed and misguidedly ignorant masses.

In the pursuit of such ‘benefits’ to other peoples, societies and nations there are none so fervent in their desire to do so than those who have taken the name of ‘neoconservatives’. I would argue that these neoconservatives, or neocons as they are often called, are, since 9/11 in the predominant elite positions across the western world. These are the modern day interventionists who stand in place of the sometimes well-intentioned (by their own lights) settlers, slavers, colonialists, outgoing entrepreneurs and missionaries of the past. They have many attitudes in common with those who justified their activities that had such devastating effects on nations other than their own which they conceived the right to intervene in.

Over the past two decades we have seen one violent intervention after another initiated by those who professed that they were ‘doing good’ by such interventions and that they had a vision to bring ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ to those who laboured under distinctly inferior conditions to their own. These new missionaries knowing best what was good for others had and still have tremendous zeal and are indeed modern-day zealots for their cause. Mike Pompeo who was for several years President Trump’s Secretary of State is one such example, a born-again evangelical Christian who believes we are in what is called ‘The End Days’ and who awaits the great ‘rapture’ on the re-arrival of Jesus Christ on Earth.

Coming right up to present time we now have confronting us the wars and threat of wars that reveal what I call the ‘End Game War’, the fight to the death, winning or losing all, of those who conceive their way of life is so vastly superior to all others that they would risk the destruction of the entire planet rather than back down and accept the right of other peoples and nations to have their own sovereign evolution. This, as I see it, is what is going on and has been going on in recent times, particularly since the events of 9/11.

Western elites of all kinds have long considered themselves superior. I hope I have demonstrated this sufficiently above. These attitudes have to a great degree also filtered down to the citizens of their nations, particularly so in the cases of the USA and UK, but also in France and other nations that share (even if subconsciously) surviving elements of abiding western myth, ‘The White Man’s Burden’. Western elites, subconsciously or otherwise, quite clearly conceive that they are the true guardians of civilised behaviour, holding as they do what they see as the ‘best’ systems of governance, the ‘best’ forms of societal rules in regard to regulating their societies and so forth. Due to these notions of exceptionalism and superiority and the concomitant desire to do ‘good’ by transforming all people, societies and nations into our mirror-image we in the West share much in common with those who acted in this manner previously for ‘all the best possible reasons’ as seen by them.

In particular, Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia and essentially all nations not accepting de facto rule by the West, are candidates for proactive intervention, undermining and weakening, the creation of sufficient internal chaos, penury or civil war to effect the goals, both short and long-term of the new high priests demanding change among those they define as inferior, the neoconservatives who have commanded the heights of political power in the West since 9/11. Post 9/11 it was certainly decided by this breed of warriors that no system of governance not corresponding to their needs of safety in perpetuity could be tolerated. Now it was not only personal or state good that was to be used to justify international intervention whether packaged as idealistic pursuits or not, now the until those moments assured superiority of power, of the western world was under threat. Therefore ALL individuals, societies and nations not agreeing to be allied to and dominated by the western powers were to be eliminated.

This is where we are now in my opinion. In a world where one group of nations which has always conceived of itself as ‘top dog’, guardians and warders of our world, global policemen and women, warriors for idealistic concepts regarding human freedoms and rights, see their influence waning. The long-held power to dominate is slipping from the grasp of those who have long conceived themselves to be the rightful judge, jury and executioner when it comes to the lesser mortals of other realms. This is, in my opinion, the overarching motivation for just about all we see occurring now within the war fought on many fronts by the western powers… not only to shore up their waning power base, but to increase and expand it to the level I regard as paralleling what would eventually become a de facto prison planet overseen (for the ‘best possible motives’) by them. This they clearly believe is their rightful place in the world and conceive it to almost be their inalienable right, a benevolent dictatorship in the name of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’.

If they succeed I have no doubt we will arrive at the virtual prison planet I mention above, a planet where satellites monitor so much more than even now, where powers exist to strike down at any nascent threat or those perceived as such by the new powers-that-be. Any and all resistance to the domination of the western elites would be quickly snuffed out by one means or another. Surveillance would exist below just as it would from above, citizens will report those who appear to harbour ‘incorrect’ thoughts and who make doubtful relationships with others. The cancel culture of today will be as nothing compared to the tools used to undermine those not conforming to the required ‘norm’ of those future days.

If the USA, UK, EU and Australia, along with Japan and a few others, succeed in their ambitions against virtually all other nations to effect overall success in bringing to a close the ‘End Game War’ in their favour with all “enemy” nations vanquished I would invite you to contemplate how they would manage the resulting ‘peace’. And to ask yourself if it would be a true peace at all or true freedom, or true democracy either. All as a result of a desire to transform others by the West whatever the justifications, the protestations of idealism, posited goodness and well-meaning desires… all of course which have been seen in every case where catastrophe of one kind or another ensued in the past.

These are the reasons why I believe that westerners require to be saved from themselves… and most probably economically and therefore militarily quarantined in order to do so. What is the alternative? A ruined world ravaged by constant war, the end of all hopes of a sustainable peace for any foreseeable future where the zealots of Washington and London’s Whitehall having dispensed with dialogue and diplomacy foment war against their perceived “enemies” everywhere with no limit in mind regarding the level of escalation they are willing to contemplate.

So I ask the question for all our sakes…

 DO WESTERNERS NEED SAVING FROM THEMSELVES?

THE TERMINALLY SKEWED ELITE VIEW FROM THE WEST

What can account for the disdain, aggression and relentlessly patronising attitude of western political elites to Russia, China and other states with systems of governance that diverge from those in the West

What is it that informs, motivates and supports the apparently totally fixed notions within these elites that they are singularly exceptional and that their societies are composed of the peak that humanity can aspire to?

Finally, what is the overarching goal of the western powers in their constant aggression against Russia, China and others, often dressed up as a defence mechanism against them?

It seems to me that the genesis of all of the characteristics and behaviours above stem from a, for them, convenient, matrix of dynamic mythology, vacuum-flask upbringing, pseudo-religious concepts and a large dose of self-interest. Add to this what is a very common militaristic/macho outlook, a devotion to maximum competition and an easy acceptance of semi-criminal or criminal behaviour if they deem the occasion warrants it.

Much of the above is seen as normality in the USA at the chauvinistic/hard-nosed feminist end of the scale. It is simply normal for such types to be tough on others, to have a disciplinarian outlook, looking down on those who are weaker or who are not ‘of your tribe’.

Anyone who has come into contact with those who run the upper social, political or military worlds of the USA will recognise the type. You have to fit into this type to be accepted to any degree in those upper-class circles. If you don’t fit you get rejected at the outset. Only those who correspond to their definition of ‘the right stuff’ are acceptable. Once accepted you join the ranks in a similar way that troops in earlier days did, with shields defending your squad, weapons aimed resolutely outward, always ready for the enemy that is forever ‘out there’.

The administrative ranks of western political organisations below the topmost ranks behave in similar manner. They get paid as an elite and certainly consider themselves an elite and those on the ‘other side, wherever that may be, are beyond the pale, regarded as of the ‘lower orders’. The similarity to out and out racism is painfully obvious.

This is why a resurrection of the Cold War mentality was so easily effected in such people. They fit right into the mould, already pre-primed for that particular shape. Then, after years of conditioning by endlessly repetitive warnings of just how bad ‘the other’ is, how devious, dirty and well, evil they are, the armour of prejudice is so enclosing as to be airtight and will not let even the tiniest sliver of open-minded insight inside.

Imagine then how difficult it would be as such a person to conceive the possibility that you might want, or need to treat those ‘others’ with something approaching respect. It would be unthinkable to such a person. Thus the unedifying spectacle occurs of treating those ‘over there’ as lesser beings, as unredeemably evil souls who you have nothing in common with, you being part of the upper echelons of the “perfect” western world.

Do you think this might lead to something similar to what we see today in the way western political and media elites speak of those ‘others’ in Russia and China?

It’s as if they are in some old ‘B’ movie where there is always an evil (and often foreign) boss determined to destroy the world. The present situation is even worse than during the Cold War. A modicum of mutual respect back then made diplomacy along with a certain degree of dialogue possible, enabling agreements to occur. Diplomacy and dialogue in anything like the form of those days is notable by its absence.

We are expected to believe that Biden (the good guy) will talk with genuine respect to Putin (the bad guy). How possible is this after all that has been said over these many years, including Biden’s agreement to the assertion that Putin is “a killer”? Besides, do American political elites make agreements set in stone and affirmed by their signatures… or do they make tactical moves to fox those ‘others’ and then abandon their supposed integrity whenever they feel like it to get the better of them? I would say that the evidence points to expediency among them rather than reliability these days.

Trace it all back and you’ll find these elite classes in environments where the certainty of their own exceptionalism goes without saying. The Ivy League, Harvard and Princeton environments, the old money privilege and patronage, the super self-confidence and world-defeating ego that fuels a political career in particular and generates many of the media establishment also.

What other result can we really expect from the kind of upbringing and mutually self-congratulatory corresponding superior visions of their place in the world and combative edge to remain forever top dog (where their supreme self-confidence tells them they of course belong)? No other result is possible where those who do not fit are weeded out at their very first detection.

These creatures of preening exceptionalism, of self-sustaining, self-confident myopia, of disdain for all those outside their tribe, those with a determination to stay on top no matter what… look down on the rest of us from their ivory towers in smug self-satisfaction, always ready to assail and destroy any who threaten their status.

This is the unchanging stance of successive U.S. political elites and their media brethren.

This is the elite view from the West.

FROM DETENTE TO PERMANENT DIVISION

Who gains from a world divided into warring camps? Who would want such a thing with all its attendant dangers? Surely no one truly sane.

What happened to our world?

Only a few decades ago it seemed that significant differences had been reconciled and that we had learned to work together for the common good. Where did that vision, that hope, that fervent desire for the good of all go?

Why, after such a watershed moment are we where we are now?

It cannot be any one factor as geopolitical changes of these magnitudes are inherently complex. But it cannot be denied that we are in a far more fear-ridden, accusatory and aggression-laden place than we were in recent memory. Why?

The Factors Denying Tolerance and any Hope for Future Peace:

That Fateful Day - 9/11

It is too simplistic to say 9/11 made all the difference but the events of that day certainly created waves of change that we still feel today and which show no sign of breaking to leave a new space for something more healing and unifying.

The Theatre of Economic Warfare

Every nation is doing what it can to increase its economic growth. Many nations have little to play with, are poor and will doubtless remain poor. But others are making steady progress and whereas before they were extremely reliant upon western goods and services this is changing. The main change however has been the economic rise and rise of China with its command form of governance whereby many areas of potential red tape and planning restrictions simply do not exist. It can move quickly and, using huge cash resources it can plan for and initiate huge projects in prime industries and infrastructure to guarantee future success. This has come to a point where in the near future China will overtake the western world and the USA as the world’s primary economic driving force.

The Administrative Pushback Against Peace

An extremely large proportion of monetary and material resources are claimed by the intelligence, security and military echelons. Vast numbers of extremely well paid individuals depend upon continuing high levels of threat to maintain their jobs, status and career structures going forward. A coming together of nations to face the monumental challenges of humankind in years to come in an atmosphere of cooperation, compromise and peaceful coexistence endangers every aspect of their livelihoods. In addition it endangers the future income of those who own corporations within each nation’s military industrial complex. It cannot be a coincidence that the generation of fear has become an industry in and of itself... though those within that industry will claim they have no thought of self-interest.

Political Expediency, Elite Protection and Self-Interest

Politicians in the USA require funding. This funding comes mostly from U.S. corporations, many of them high flyers on Wall Street within the Banking, Pharmaceutical and Defence industries. There is an incestuous relationship within Washington between these corporations, their lobbyists and both the permanent and transient elites within the U.S. governance establishment. The people of North America are largely left out of the equation due to having undefinable wishes in anything like certain terms. Both major parties pay lip service to what they think the U.S. population wants by majority but they know with a great deal of certainty what corporations and their lobbyists want. And, due to their financial symbiosis with those corporations it is in their self-interest to provide it while putting on a certain show for the general public based on their guess about the majority view.

Mass Media and its Self-Inflicted Limitations

The bought media, i.e. that which is owned by corporations and billionaires has a vested interest in keeping its owners happy. The censorship applied is self-censorship and will hardly ever be vocalised, it needn’t be... it is in the air, it is taken for granted. Certain myths, attitudes, beliefs and narratives are subsumed within its central ethos and the milieu within which the staffs of its organisations reside. True journalism is almost never seen due to the restrictions of the subconscious and barely conscious group thought agreement that exists within these entities. Almost no attention of any geopolitical nature is directed inward, only outward. Therefore, the controversies must be found overseas where geopolitics is concerned and so the inclination builds inexorably to find objections to other nations generating fears to fever pitch while the home team stays pure as driven snow in relation to its geopolitical intent.

The Self-Serving Inclinations of Intelligence Agencies

Due to the secrecy at the very heart and nature of their industry entities such as the CIA and MI6 have enormous power. To manipulate information that only increases their value, status and continuing expansion is child’s play for them. They can hardly be gainsaid as only they have the access required and all others have extremely limited oversight into any aspect of their structure, methods and data-gathering function or the analysis which filters it. What is known and known without any doubt is that the creation of lies (misinformation, propaganda, psychological operation narratives) are a primary part of any intelligence agency’s day to day work. All empires seek to maintain themselves. The empire of each intelligence agency is no different.

The Might of the Military Industrial Complex

Eisenhower was brave enough to speak his mind about the M.I.C. as he left office. No doubt while in office he found it impossible to do so and it is interesting to speculate on why not. The M.I.C. is hugely powerful. It employs hundreds of thousands and generates vast wealth for what must be a sizeable number of others. It’s highest ranking individuals are often given equally high positions within consecutive U.S. administrations. Its donations to politicians are the most reliable along with the banks and pharmaceutical companies of the USA. The M.I.C. is an integral part of the deepest structure of the U.S. state and what it wants would be extremely hard to resist if any politician wished to maintain his or her position, career path and hopes of still higher office. The M.I.C. needs war and the threat of war like any company selling a product. Both desire an ever-greater number of customers imbued with the unassailable conviction that the products on offer are a must-have accessory to life without which they would be subject to a mournful longing tinged with an abiding fear. The M.I.C. knows exactly how to ensure their products are always in demand. Along with all others above it generates the ever abiding fear of enemies and there must always be enemies. If not real, then imagined.

All of the factors above combine and conjoin to create the self-serving fear matrix that keeps all of its diverse individuals and entities cruising along in their upwardly mobile status, all working toward the same end of goal of self-interest above all else. It is exceedingly effective in this. From the Oval Office to the office of the lowliest clerical officer in Raytheon the self-serving, thoroughly cynical fear industry continues to thrive 24/7, all the while smoothed over with a facade of rectitude and patriotic myth duly channelled subliminally by its political and mass media mouthpieces.

DO YOU WANT TO LIVE ON A PRISON PLANET?

No matter which way you look at it, the active movement of almost every part of western foreign policy is engaged in an effort to bring down powers that oppose it and replace the systems of governance within those powers. Concurrently the USA has, for two decades and more, sought to create a global surveillance system effected through satellites in geosynchronous orbit.

Have you considered what this will mean for your future and that of your offspring and their families as we move forward? Presumably you have also become aware of cancel culture whereby the previous norms of freedom of speech in the western world have become seriously curtailed. Speaking your mind these days can be a risky business. People are being warned to keep their mouths shut if what they wish to say does not fit the agreed narratives as supplied by state institutions and their  compliant stenographers within mainstream media.

Match these factors with the current ‘war mode’ against both Russia and China and extrapolate these combined factors into the future being assured that once instigated certain modes of behaviour and technologies to effect the expansion of their remit tend only to grow more forceful and all-pervasive over time.

If the coalition of the USA, UK and EU defeat Russia and then China using whatever means they deem necessary and, in light of the protocols clearly agreed upon after 9/11 to take out any and all threats from whichever direction they emanate from I think you will begin to envision the prison planet of which I speak. The concept is not hard to delineate or understand. The goal post 9/11 was not only to eliminate all individuals, groups and modes of governance that in any way opposed the USA or the expansion of western power, it was also to establish a system of surveillance to enable the early spotting of any nascent threats globally.

You see where this is going, don’t you? The political elites of the USA decided that only a virtual prison planet over which they were warders would suit their future needs for total security in the post 9/11 world. Naturally enough, all nations considering themselves in need of the U.S. security umbrella were willing to give 100% support to this goal. Whether somewhat reluctantly (due to so many established human rights norms being undermined) or not, it is clear that all nations in a relationship with the U.S. decided to give this goal their full support until it was met.

The present situation in Ukraine is an integral part of the furtherance of this goal on many levels and displays the degree to which the European powers lend their full support to the USA despite any harm to their economies this may do. The genesis to the seeming madness of escalating toward a potential nuclear conflagration lies in the factors spoken of above. The goal being sought is of such overarching importance to the political elites of the USA and its allies that no Plan B is contemplated. This is an ‘all or nothing’ project. As seen from the western elite point of view if they fail in this endeavour there can be no coming back from such a failure, their level of influence will be catastrophically weakened.

Why is this important for them?

The western powers have held sway for generations, they’ve been top dogs and believe this is their rightful status. They have convinced themselves that only they have the ‘right stuff’, the supreme ability to guide and guard all the nations of our world, and to discipline them whenever necessary. These attitudes stem from many sources including mythologies of exceptionalism and superiority, sometimes expressed as ‘The White Man’s Burden’. These myths have been embedded so deeply and been believed in for so long within the U.S. and UK cultures particularly that they are no longer seriously questioned at an elite level. 

In the USA the mythology underpinning exceptionalism is particularly strong emanating from the history of those oppressed pilgrims who arrived on North American shore and founded the “perfect” political and moral backdrop which many others in later years believed in so much they considered it was their ‘duty’ to bring their benefits to all others across the globe. In Britain the British Empire, was underpinned by a similar belief in the general superiority of the british over inferior cultures, nations and forms of governance.

With all targeted individual, nations, leaders and forms of government not conforming with western requirements there will remain one significant problem, the possibility that forms of behaviour and modes of thought will arise that could potentially threaten the “perfect” world they had fought so hard to create. It is certain that a vast number of the defeated would not agree at all that all was now perfect within a perfect world with all their previous leaders and institutions replaced, so the need to keep an eye on such people and seek to eliminate them to stop them gaining any vestige of power if left to their own devices would be strong.

A global police state ethos would inevitably emerge with propaganda used as a means of telegraphing the fear of the elites into populations and the assisting in the necessity of creating a citizen-reporting culture far outdoing the present cancel culture. Strict controls on speech and media would accompany such measures. And every channel of communication or action would be monitored at as great a depth as possible that would far outdo the considerable powers that the NSA now have.

You get the picture I am sure.

Currently the goal has its emphasis in weakening Russia with a view to undermining and replacing its present form of governance.Then China and concurrently all other nations that do not conform with western requirements. Those others you will already know something of concerning western attempts to undermine them: Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua and a number of others. Each one of these, led by China and Russia represent incalcitrant nations requiring extreme modification and replacement of their systems of governance by whatever means are deemed most effective by the USA and its allies.

A multipolar world where there is a general tolerance for most if not all modes of government and where trade, cultural exchange, economic and financial agreement replace enmity and where sovereignty is sacrosanct free from outside attempts to undermine national modes of being protected by the tenets of the United Nations is unacceptable to the USA and its allies. They have anointed themselves as world’s managers, and since 9/11, its warders. They provide themselves with the ‘right’ to override the sovereignty of others, to flout international law as they see fit and to dominate each and every aspect of others’ lives in their interests, including the right to threaten, sanction, subvert and violently attack any nation as they see fit according to their needs.

These are the aspects that should inform every one of us regarding why it is so very vital that neither Russia nor China be undermined, defeated, weakened or otherwise limited in their ability to lead all nations wishing to retain their freedom and sovereignty. Should they fall then I am confident that you can clearly perceive what will then follow… the inevitable establishment of a virtual prison planet from which the western powers will then ensure there is no possible escape.