THE BIGGER PICTURE: WHY THE WEST WILL NEVER TOLERATE PEACE

Many people are asking why the world is constantly at war these days and why the art of diplomacy is no longer applied to any meaningful effect. War after war is erupting across the planet and while the United Nations is ostensibly the forum to resolve such occurrences it is now more akin to a gladiatorial arena for a war of words. Something has changed since the days when attempts were made to resolve differences for the sake of saving lives. No more are issues thrashed out at the UN, now each side expresses the desire to thrash each other in a geopolitical spectacle that invites ever more death and destruction.

What changed you may ask. Didn’t the two sides during the Cold War find ways to resolve their most fundamental differences so as to obviate the possibility that lives might be lost if things got out of hand? Why are we now in such a frightful situation where one side at least appears to actively wish to see ever more war and does not lift a finger to reduce them quite apart from eliminating them altogether. What possible sequence of events could have supercharged lust for war at all costs and at the same time minimised to near zero the desire to mitigate them by seeking diplomatic solutions through negotiated settlements?

If we look back over the last several decades one event leaps out at us as the primary candidate that could explain the impulse in certain elite strata for the constant state of war we see now and the failure of anything approaching intent to stop the wars that result. That event delivered a group of people to the most prominent positions in the nation now adding to its track record of wars initiated by them and to the seemingly never-ending list of potential target nations they want never-ending conflict with.  That event resulted in all the bridge-builders, peacebrokers and long-serving diplomats being cast out as no longer required. Put quickly in their place were warriors, men and women who saw what they perceived as the need for a forever war.

For the people mentioned above the war that they seek, this forever war, will be waged across more than one generation. It is a war that they have decided MUST be won because for them everything they hold near and dear collapses and dies if they do not win this war. For them there will be no further decent world if war is not won. What will result will be hell on earth, they believe, a world that can only descend to unfathomable depths where no return to the ideals they proclaim of ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’ will be possible.

The event stimulating all these fevered thoughts and the rabid determination to wage continual and unabated war against their enemies was of course 9/11 and the men and women who seek to initiate wars worldwide to “save” their “ideal world” of the West are of course the Neocons. Post 9/11 the entire political superstructure of the western world turned Neocon and the notions talked of above became the standard mindset and lens through which the world was seen from that time forward. For these people there are no two sides to any question. There is only one way, one right mode of thought and one solution, beside which all else is false and quite possibly traitorous. No other views are taken into account. For them all is settled and they will brook no resistance to their decided solutions.

The changes mentioned above are currently turning the USA into a totalitarian state where it is only acceptable to express yourself in accordance with selected state narratives on geopolitical or foreign policy issues. Just as there are now no true diplomats as there is only one acceptable outcome to any conflict, that being total western success, no westerner can have any view which varies with their state’s view or be considered to be in league with ‘the enemy’. Branded a ‘Putin Puppet’ or ‘supporter of terrorism’ your chances of success in whatever field of employment you have entered will be minimal if you do not maintain your silence on such issues.

The collective west sees no need to advocate for negotiations regarding the targets for continual war because the outcomes required MUST conform to the final goal which was decided upon in the days immediately after 9/11. Those goals require that no opposition of any kind be left standing that pose even the slightest threat to western hegemony. No barrier or potential threat to absolute western power, security, domination and control can be allowed to exist. All such barriers and opposition MUST be completely eliminated no matter what it takes to do so, no matter how many die or how much chaos, misery, disruption, fragmentation is caused in the process. Diplomacy would only delay this outcome, bringing about frustrating periods where opposition forces could be increased making the job of destroying them all the harder.

Continual war until total victory is the only path the neoconservative warriors conceive as the single and stand-alone solution to the state the USA found itself in on 9/11. The entirety of opposition against the USA and western world, every last opponent uttering negative statements or desiring their own way rather than the way of western national interests, must be destroyed, undermined, weakened, subverted and replaced. To the last possible opposing element. And then a universal security structure would be constructed to ensure no such oppositional elements ever arose in future and if any, even minuscule nascent threat arose, it would be nipped immediately in the bud. The surveillance, control and punishment mechanisms installed after the goals of the forever war were attained would make of our world something between a global slave colony and prison planet.

Look in the hope of an end to the wars raging around us now unless those waging them are reduced to impotence due to the rise of nations powerful enough to quarantine them. If those nations, nations such as China and Russia fail to make those of the West think again we will certainly see these wars continue unabated and the prospect of that slave colony/prison planet grow ever more certain. As the western totalitarian region expands we will see all our freedoms snuffed out, fear will rule our every day, fear that our thoughts, associations and actions will be found unacceptable and punished to the point where the slavery intended find its way into the deepest recesses of our minds. On the day this becomes our daily reality we will fully understand that our arrival in this state of slavery was due to the Neocons determining that security for them and the power of their region was of overriding importance, of such importance that absolutely nothing else mattered to them. All else was merely collateral damage in pursuit of this one vital goal. And this is why the western elites could never tolerate true freedom nor the prospect of peace.