TRUMP IS BACK FOR ANOTHER TERM AS U.S. PRESIDENT - WHAT WILL IT MEAN FOR RUSSIA, CHINA, UKRAINE & THE REST OF US?

The man America's elites couldn't contain, corrupt or clamp in irons has beaten all expectations and elite efforts to return to the pinnacle of U.S. power. What will he do with that power this time?

The ogre so many among the wannabe intellectual, arty, academic, liberal and student circles love to hate, is back, brought back by the working class who those first mentioned look down upon as second-rate citizens. Those who conceive themselves to be of higher class, entitled to make the rules for all others have received a mighty shock. They believed they were in an unassailable position to perpetually govern those they regard as rather ‘ignorant’ and uncouth who they think were in fact born to serve them while knowing their place. They believed their rightful role was to govern, to discipline, control and punish those beneath them, keeping them from straying. This was the role envisioned by the so-called great and good for themselves, the intellectuals, academics and all the other high-flown and entitled liberal elites and they expected all lesser mortals to be content with this, for them convenient, status quo.

The ‘great unwashed’ horde were supposed to be quiet and consume the rightful edits, narratives and agendas from those who ‘know better’, to accept their wars, to fight their wars when necessary and to applaud their wars through the vehicle of legacy news media. All that is now totally undermined with the rise of those ‘Unwashed’ hordes, adamant they will be hears and that their loud-mouthed and aggressive mouthpiece will be their agent of revolution, tearing apart that entitled and conceited liberal consensus. We won’t support your wars anymore and less and less of the poorer in this society will fight them either! At least for four years. The new and by the liberal class unexpected, unwanted and EXTREMELY unwelcome new Trump years.

Though Trump will be in office, will he be in power? Will he this time deliver on his promises? Will that swamp that he totally failed to drain and which remains as bog-ridden as ever? Will he once again be overwhelmed by ‘The Blob’, the permanent residents of the U.S. deep state who love nothing more than to see the USA at war? Will he TRULY engage Russia this time round or will he once again only APPEAR to do so while figuratively applying the knife to Russia’s back as he did last time? In 2016 he overrode Obama’s decision to forbid the Kiev regime lethal weaponry and without any doubt caused the deaths of a great many Russians who would ot have died otherwise, in doing so. Will his instinct to do what is best for HIM override all other priorities? Will his instinct to ‘MAKE TRUMP GREAT AGAIN’ blind him to what might make the world once again more peaceful?

Clearly Trump will embark once again on an expanded economic war against China. In doing so he will attempt what he recently claimed he would do, tear Russia and China apart. Can there be any doubt that his warm words toward Vladimir Putin and Russia will be seen to be mere semantic shoe-shuffling when compared to his dedication to weakening and splitting those two allies apart? Trump may think he is amazing and has the power to effect great change but we must hope he concentrates on the enormous woes of his own country before trying to inflict them on others, namely on the BRICS nations and specifically upon Russia and China. On Ukraine he talks big, but what can he deliver? It must be strongly suspected that his campaign trail rhetoric, designed merely to strike a powerful pose will find the actuality quite impenetrable and intractable. No easy solution will come from some simplistic, unrealistic and woefully naive banging of Russian and Ukrainian heads together. Neither will threats work, especially not against Russia. Of all bets on Ukraine, telling Zelensky that the U.S. cupboard is now bare as far as he is concerned is the very best of them. No more handouts. Tell the Ukrainian beggars they can now go wanting, see what the paupers of Europe can offer, or better still, get the best deal you can from Russia that it is still willing to offer.

He’s back. He appears stronger than ever. But will a newfound wisdom and humility be seen due to his years in the political wilderness. Will humiliation have taught him some of that vital ingredient, the humility that can come from eating the worst of crow? We have to hope so, because bravado and mouthing off won’t cut it any more if it ever did. And asking neocons to come protect you won’t either. The stupidity of that first term in taking on ideological monsters such as John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and their ilk was about as wrongheaded as it gets. With this second chance there is at least the merest possibility that truly great things can be achieved. They won’t be achieved however by setting the USA against the BRICS and the idea of a multipolar world however. Take that avenue and you walk down a cul-de-sac Donald, a road to the various wars, economic or otherwise, that the entire planet is thoroughly sick of. Beware that pugilistic stance you love so much. In some humility, walk on and see what true good you can do… for ALL of us.

What will it be this time Donald…?

 

WHICH PRESIDENT WILL BE ELECTED BY THE MOST PROPAGANDIZED PEOPLE ON THE PLANET?

Which way will the world's most deeply conditioned nation jump? Jump as they may, both choices offered by the infotainment networks will certainly be controlled by others.

Today the world’s self-appointed police chief, the USA, elects its next president. Its population will choose between two candidates who have received approximately 99% of all media attention. This reflects the so-called “democratic choice” available in America where 0.001% of the population, the elites of the corporate sector, set the framework for that choice. This is what passes for political freedom in the USA, freedom to view your choices largely via the lens of a TV screen. The choice is reduced (in this case) to him or her where whichever one is chosen, whether he or she, will certainly answer to others.

Since their post-9/11 regime change wars of relentless carnage, destruction, chaos and destabilization across the Middle East the political and military elites of the USA, and those of nations who assisted them, should properly be treated with utmost disdain. However, it is far from the case and in fact there is little sign, as yet, of any significant backlash against them. The neocons took power and are still in power. A change in the figurehead president will ultimately make not one whit of difference.

Perhaps out of a craven sense of loyalty, or else a notion that they are somehow protected from the enemies conjured up for them by those elites, the western tribe to all intents and purposes appears to stand behind and support their leaders. In Europe there is some fraying around the edges in this regard as the rise in popularity of politicians like Viktor Orban of Hungary and Robert Fico of Slovakia gain and maintain power. But in the USA the same simplistic two choice system of presidential elections and the no choice deep state continues unabated.

The picture we can see, especially since 9/11, is of western populations by majority in the thrall of a continual, combined state and mass media cabal who corral them into a unified force that guarantees the provision of consent. Consent easily then gained by the deep state to attack whoever it wishes to at will regardless of the presidential figurehead nominally in charge. International law can then be disregarded, with the presidential figurehead easily manipulated into providing every false justification required for the maintenance of consent.

The use of torture was an early example of the disdain with which the neocons regarded both international law and the UN post 9/11 as revealed after the illegal attack upon and occupation of Iraq. Bagram Airbase and Abu Ghraib along with Guantanamo in Cuba were locations, along with ‘black sites’ across the world where the western allies rendered prisoners so their torture could be better hidden.

The various disastrous interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have all demonstrated beyond doubt which region of the world was using war as its primary “solution” to furthering its interests. Millions have died, millions more displaced. As in the current case where the Israeli regime slaughters tens of thousands, a great many of them women and children, so it was before the West’s war on Iraq. The pre-war sanctions on that country are estimated to have cost the lives of some half a million such children.

All the above has the quite mysterious capacity to pass western populations by with attitudes seemingly hardly to change at all. It still remains quite easy to demonize the leaders the West wishes to dispose of. They can still, through mass med, be convincingly be painted as the new Hitler, portrayed as the latest ultimate threat to the western way of life and all it stands for, and be widely believed. The same trick works time after time without fail. The insidious, constantly promulgated conditioning at work from every media source on every subconscious mind is arguably as effective as hypnosis. Thus choosing a president simply another exercise in this art.

All this takes place when the fundamental and constant geopolitical reality is that the purpose of the deep state is constantly to shore up and expand U.S. and western elite power and influence by using every means deemed necessary. It is all quite observable and there have been a great many erudite sources over the years pointing exactly this out, Noam Chomsky being one of the most influential and well-informed on the subject. Yet does the mass western mind alter after having the most recent opportunities afforded it via the various murderous campaigns of the West? It does not. The power of the constant assertions of western “goodness” and probity made by agents of the deep state via mass media overcome all the myriad facts to the contrary.

What is the primary reason for what appears to be a case of mass amnesia/denial regarding an obvious reality? Two were posited at the outset of this commentary ; a craven sense of loyalty, or else a notion that they are somehow protected from the enemies conjured up for them by those elites. But none of this would have been possible without the help of western mainstream news media. This alongside long-held and incessantly reinforced myths about western civilization and its superiority over all others. These two in combination, the concepts of innate superiority and ‘goodness of intent’, supposedly inherent in western civilization, along with consistent reinforcement of a ‘them and us’ attitude to state-named enemies has conditioned most western souls in depth.

Where we are now in the West we are EXPECTED to fall into line. Accepting state narratives sheep-like is demanded more and more to be our automatic response. The vast majority of us comply, but those who wish to maintain a degree of independence from generally accepted state narratives, are increasingly being regarded as potential, or actual criminals, virtual felons and traitors, those requiring constant censorship and warnings to shut up, punishment via lawfare and quite possibly if we persist in talking out, incarceration. The totalitarian world envisioned by George Orwell in ‘1984’ is being seen ever more comprehensively in the so-called “Free World” of the West. Those who fight back, attempting to maintain the freedom of speech our leaders say others envy so much, find themselves increasingly characterized as ‘enemies of the state’. People such as Scott Ritter, ex-marine and who was a lead weapons inspector in Iraq, and many others have found that free speech isn’t quite as free as we were told and are being targeted and harassed to make them shut up.

The conditioning of the people who live in nations loosely called ‘The West’ has been insidious and far reaching, especially so during the last few decades. It did not start with 9/11, though examining the situation before and after 9/11 reveals an immense expansion of the desire of the state to control geopolitical narratives post-9/11. For anyone who has lived long enough this hardly requires much effort  in order to convince them. It is so very obvious. Directing the great mass of people on how they should think has become a task that western news and televisual media took on with alacrity (and, in light of 9/11, with an obvious misguided sense of loyalty). In what meaningful sense then do the people of North America have freedom of choice in selecting their president? How can such a brainwashed population, transfixed by their TV-screen propagandists, exercise truly thoughtful and insightful choices?

Mainstream news media has previously, until relatively recently, been one of the very few powerful forces that had the potential to reign in the excesses of state power. Since 9/11 however all such safeguards ended with that same mass media aligning itself almost 100% with western state narratives. This is far and away the main reason why we are where we are now, within what is a very successfully-created, state and media supervised milieu of mind control. Those who have not educated themselves about this and have extricated themselves from it will certainly continue to be locked inside, inside an insidious and deeply cynical state and media trap where they are made constantly malleable due precisely to their conditioning. The results of which we will see in their choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee as U.S. president today.

UKRAINE WAR ENDING IN RUSSIAN VICTORY - ZELENSKY & HIS SPONSORS REMAIN IN DENIAL

A vicious egomaniac is the illegitimate president of Ukraine. How much longer can he hold onto power while a thousand of his ‘subjects’ die daily?

More and more signs of disarray in Ukrainian battle lines are becoming too obvious to ignore for western legacy news media. Though the effort to find a silver lining to the dark clouds increasingly seen over the Ukrainian armed forces remains, a certain sapping of that fervent wish is clearly evident. More and more articles are displaying an increasing level of alarm, even among the strongest mainstream supporters of Zelensky and his obnoxious regime. Nerves are fraying and patience for Zelensky’s constant demands for more looks set to expire very soon.

Endlessly repeating the same mantra has worked for Zelensky so far. If he was to stray from it and appear to countenance Russia succeeding in any way regarding keeping what it has fought for, he would be in immediate danger of overthrow and worse from Ukraine’s ultranationalist extremists. He dare not do that, therefore endlessly repeating his maximalist demands will likely continue to be heard from him until told in no uncertain terms by the western powers that his time is up.

The endgame in Ukraine is becoming ever clearer. No miracle “victory” by Ukraine is anywhere in sight. The truth is, once Russia beat the sanctions upon it, the global majority stayed in support of it and it defeated all western “gamechanger” weapons, no other outcome but a Russian victory was even a remote possibility. Only direct intervention by the West via NATO could have changed that outcome. And risking World War Three for Ukraine, no matter how strategic it was seen to be against Russia, was a war too far for the West.

Russia is now readying its forces for the final push that should deliver the final punch to a tottering Ukrainian army. It is only a matter of time before the collapsing Ukrainian military gives up the ghost on one or several fronts. For month after month for the past year and a half Russians have been volunteering to join the Russian military at a rate around 750 to 1,000 per day. This gives the Russian army strength in depth. In comparison the Ukrainian regime is having to drag men forcibly off the streets, some of them quite elderly, along with, in desperation, taking convicts from Ukrainian jails. All are given a couple of weeks training before sending them to die in the trenches of the front line.

The western powers keep throwing (admittedly smaller and smaller) amounts of money at a problem that has been growing worse day by day, especially over the last several months of increasingly rapid Russian advance. No amount of money, weapons or ammunition will help when the majority of the most highly trained in the Ukrainian army have left the battlefield over the last 34 months, dead and wounded. Russia has a constant supply of volunteers increasing the overall size of its army while Ukraine is scraping the bottom of the barrel failing to replace those of its troops leaving the battlefield dead and injured.

The magical thinking that continues among those paid to lie with the western media, along with the need to kick the can further down the road past November in the hope Harris reveals the desperation being felt by the neocons regarding the fast failing western plan regarding Ukraine. As we greet 2025 it must surely become clear to all and sundry that the hugely misguided venture to use Ukraine to weaken Russia has backfired in spectacular fashion. Russia is gaining in strength across the board and once its victory in Ukraine is fully acknowledged it will inevitably be stronger still. All that will be left for the western sponsors of this incredibly reckless, foolhardy and ultimately disastrous policy will be humiliation.

And Zelensky, what of him? Where can this rat who refuses to leave his sinking ship flee to? Israel perhaps? The USA? Who will have him? Will there be any among the hordes of misguided sycophants left to harbor this delusional individual, destroyer of his nation and now useless pawn of the West? That he will be a broken man cannot be in doubt. A man filled with regrets at every level. A man who threw away a career in entertainment that gained him the love and respect of the majority of Ukrainians. They trusted his election promise that he’d bring peace to the Donbass when all he brought was ever more war. His name, in Ukraine, will elicit nothing than a snarl of absolute hatred for the absolute catastrophe he brought down upon the heads of the Ukrainian people and on their nation.

THE WESTERN WORLD IS IN DECLINE & NO LONGER ABLE TO DICTATE ITS TERMS

Empires rise and fall... but no empire ever fell willingly. This of course can result in that fall being even more catastrophic than it need be.

The regime change wars that the USA and its coalition of allies instigated in response to the events of 9/11 and which fell under the heading of ‘The War on Terror’, have been hugely counterproductive, producing a loss of influence for the entire West.

In addition to the above, by continuing an ultra-aggressive policy where it sought to make its global dominance unassailable the USA has brought into being the seeds of its future impotency.

The recent electoral results in both Georgia and Moldova strongly indicate that the writ of the West does not run as it once did and it no longer has the commanding power of past times. 

The ratio of western power to eastern/eurasian power has shifted massively in recent times and is accelerating. The old order where the West commanded (or else) and the rest of the world obeyed, are over. 

Whereas governments could be depended upon to condition their populations through compliant media regarding the positive aspects of siding always with western interests this is no longer the case in areas vital to the western powers. 

The West’s favored weapon of choice these days (rather than the CIA) the NGOs is now increasingly blunted through the adoption of foreign agent laws. This spells the further death knell of West domination and therefore too that of the use of aggression with impunity to get its way. 

Public opinion has turned against the western powers for many reasons, their bloody (and failed) regime change wars, the signs of degradation within their societies (plus increasing debt) along with the current situations in both Israel and Ukraine. 

By stoking an insurrection in Ukraine and being instrumental in undermining and removing both the democratically elected Ukrainian government and president the West has only succeeded in undermining itself. Further, by unconscionable, fulsome support for the genocidal regime in Israel it has sealed its fate as a malignant force in the world. Those who are now so enthusiastically supporting the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza are creating a pariah status for themselves in the minds of the global majority.

The West is, through its own actions, being subjected to increasing exposure to increasing levels of disapproval and outright loathing by its own hand. That internally western nations are seen to be in a state of advancing degradation regarding cultural mores, becoming increasingly burdened by massive debt and through being increasingly defeated across multiple battlegrounds and areas of western interest where prior to now it could expect an easy ride, world opinion has shifted enormously against it. 

The process of declining western power is accelerating for multiple reasons, the most important being the mounting and insistent desire for peace. Perceptions have been shaped in light of all recent West-fomented wars; due to the realization that Russia and China are ascendant and can provide a safe haven for nations under threat from the West and represent hope for a stable and peaceful future. 

A multipolar world where power is shared far more equally and where the West can no longer dominate, and is indeed effectively quarantined, is clearly on its way. The resistance now evident to a world dominated by the West and its allies is palpable across every major issue facing humanity currently. An end to the aggressive, interventionist West-dominated era is now quite obviously being demanded with a fearlessness not seen until now. 

Multipolarity is more than a momentary trend, the determination to move in this direction has a long history, stretching back to the Fifties at the very least… and will now no longer be denied. “An end to all that” is what the rest of the world, the global majority, is at last in a position to finally and boldly tell the West. Your era of domination is over. Live with that fact, or be gradually quarantined until you can be trusted to exert influence once more, but as an equal, no more as self-appointed global dictator.

 

THERE IS NO AVOIDING THE WEST TAKING AN ENORMOUS HIT OVER UKRAINE

They will use every possible device to do so, but the effects of the arrant stupidity, unconscionable irresponsibility & unbounded hubris of their absolutely wrongheaded actions cannot be hidden.

Doubling down all the way from the NATO summit in Bucharest where it was stated that Ukraine would at some point join NATO has brought the western powers to their greatest humiliation since the previous series of Afghanistan, Vietnam and, much further back in time, the Suez Crisis. We could also add Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen but for the moment let us focus on the first three which were the most obvious western humiliations in living memory.

Biden is doing his utmost to escape the blame and may succeed. His mental state of mind appears likely to preclude anything approaching a sharp awareness of the blame he cannot possibly avoid in this. An enormously embarrassing debacle is a mere few months away from exploding onto headlines worldwide. Biden will seek to shelter behind the focus on whoever is elected to be the next president in just a few days time. By January 2025 it is almost certain that there will be a general consensus across the western world that the Ukraine war is well and truly lost. The shit will then well and truly hit the fan.

Despite the spin devised by the White House professionals where Russia actually lost because it didn’t manage to take and occupy the entirety of Ukraine there is still likely to be a good proportion of the West that won’t be fooled. That the majority may well wish to believe the spin is also likely. The reality will be shunned to the greatest degree possible. That reality will be all that is important to Russia, not the continuation of the lies spread among western populations that have been a keynote since 2014. Russia will have its eye firmly focused on delivering what was promised, Ukraine never to join NATO, the Russian-speaking majority of the Donbass having their safety and security guaranteed in posterity and the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.

Despite the frantic attempt to cover western political arses and truly breathtaking, bare-faced lies designed to offer at least a partial fig leaf for failure, the remaining leaders of the collective west and NATO will, behind closed doors, be reeling. This could not be other than so. Look at the result and consequence of their doubling down until, outside of starting a nuclear war, they have nothing left to double down with. Arsenals across the West are all but bare, industrial capacity in the West is only capable of extremely slowly rebuilding them. NATO has been shown to be both a paper tiger and an overall negative when it comes to security. Russia will have one of the largest, most definitely most experienced army anywhere in the world. Russia’s prestige across the nations composing the global majority will be at sky high levels. BRICS will be further strengthened with an increasing number of nations seeking affiliation if not full membership. The Russian economy, already powering ahead, will rise to ever-greater heights.

The West? What of the West? Yet another gigantic failure. A humiliation arguably greater than any before in terms of its implications for the future. Prestige, powers, influence and global reach hugely shrunken and subject to the status of a laughing stock. Where do you think it could have the temerity to threaten then? Even if it dared, who would believe it after its total and overwhelming defeat at the hands of Russia? The answer is no one. Trying to shore up the damage by offering large bribes under the name of aid could well be tried and probably will. But the leaders of states now well outwith the control of the USA and its proxies will be laughing behind their hands.

The extent of the humiliation coming to all the nations of the West who aided and abetted the doubling down of the USA cannot be hidden except partially in the theater of western mass media deception, obfuscation and deceit. This is a very poor conciliation for whoever is left standing of the mendacious and overweeningly foolish and terminally arrogant leaders currently in place. They will take little consolation from this. The verdict of the major, economically powerful and populous nations of the global south who compose the global majority will be of inestimable importance and that verdict will be withering and hugely debilitating for the West. The speeding of the arrival of multipolarity will have been “achieved” by the communal stupidity and lack of insight demonstrated across the West.

This latter consequence, the inevitably speeded rise of the peer competitors of the West, the great powers of both Eurasia and Asia will hit harder month on month, year on years in the wake of the Ukrainian disaster. Shrinking visibly across the world stage back to its own borders the USA will be left to decline at ever faster pace, unable any longer to exploit the muscle that it previously abused so readily. Its decline will be speeded to a most precipitous extent with an internal level of social chaos as its economies shrink ever further as its eastern competitors inexorably rise. Who would wish to be within the borders of these states as expectations fostered to create consumption booms prove totally hollow, the American Dream well and truly dead and gone forever in a world that scorns the very mention of their nation’s name?

The egotistical, arrogant, interfering and murderous empire of the West is about to die by its own hand. Its leaders will fall like ninepins if there is any justice combined with a goodly level of insight that sees through the spin designed to gloss over their idiocy that brought about defeat. There will be no true escape for those scurrying around looking for shelter. They may burrow themselves away in grotesque fantasies mirroring the actions of George W. Bush after his comeuppance was avoided along with that of Anthony Blair. But the inner awareness of their guilt cannot so easily be avoided, nor can the catastrophic consequences for their nations.

WAR & HOW WE VIEW IT IN THE WEST

Ever wonder how our enemies see things? Is it even possible to stand in their shoes after so many decades of being told there's no in-between, only us V. GOOD guys here & those V. BAD guys over there?

In the affluent West we see things very differently from those living in certain parts of the rest of the world. That is not to say that we are all Little Lord Fontloroys, far from it. Most, if not all of us, have faced some, perhaps even many, hardships in life. Our general environment however, no matter how far you go back in living memory, can at least be said to be relatively forgiving of failure and for an increasing number over the years quite comfortable. This is of course especially true of the more elite spheres and what could be called the middle classes to which the majority of us now belong.

In a world where expectations have risen over the years within an ambiance of relatively high stability attitudes change. These attitudes are not those of the aristocrats of previous eras or of those who lived in grand houses who had certain high expectations and arguably little in common with those that worked for them and catered to their wishes. However, I believe a case can be made that our attitudes to how others far away conduct themselves have been molded in a somewhat similar direction.

The world of television and the way its fictional output has been constantly delivered to us has honed a certain subtle, growing focus on our ‘being the norm’, rather ‘exceptional’ and almost invariably ‘good’. If you think back through all your years since childhood, will you find a televisual or cinematic piece of fiction that didn’t contain two essential ingredients; bad elements and good elements and of course with the good elements (usually people of course) triumphing in the end. It was entirely predictable that the good guys would win and the bad guys would lose but the make believe regarding the possibility the bad guys were winning suspended your disbelief enough to keep you entertained and perhaps even in some degree of suspense.

Though the scenarios above are not entirely unknown elsewhere they are certainly predominant in the West. The idea of having a mix of good and bad in fictional characters in any media shown or published in the West is a very new innovation. Elsewhere there has generally been a more complex picture where tragedy and many less comfortable features than appear in western fiction feature and at times, strongly. The ancient Greeks were of course particularly interested in stories that had a tragic storyline. In more modern times Russian literature at its best portrayed life in terms that were broadly realistic and designed to be as such by their authors.

Fed on a constant diet of the unequivocally good and bad guys, the saintly heroes and utterly unredeemable villains, with the constant emotional dynamic created within us to see good done and bad defeated it can’t help but strongly influence our world view. In fact we can quite easily due to this long and deep history that was welcomed into our subconscious minds to be groomed by those who would manipulate us to their purposes into seeing the world and all within it in precisely these terms. To avoid seeing the world and its actors in this way takes real effort. Requiring no effort at all, how much easier is it to accept and go with what we are being told… that we are in the good guys, they are the bad guys? This requires almost no thought and no confusion at all.

Though we may not contemplate the idea at all, let alone realize its effects on us, our subconscious minds here in the West have had no resistance to this unintended conditioning. Depending on how old you are you will not harbor any suspicion that any of those TV or movie scripts were intended to condition you. It was what simply constituted the natural order of things. Who would want to read a book with an unhappy ending where the bad guys won out and escaped justice, or a film with a similar ending? It wouldn’t feel right at all. No one is going to reflect reality, real life with an unhappy ending and expect to make money. Such texts can be found only in the avant garde films or those made by Scandinavian directors such as Ingmar Bergman, that only relatively few enjoy.

When we compare the ratio of those who enjoy the regular reading or viewing experience where ultimately good always wins and bad always loses and those who enjoy an artistic/creative attempt to portray something more akin to often hard, nuanced and confusing  reality one thing is clear. The majority of us prefer the simple to the complex, the clear as crystal goodness of one against the equally clear as crystal badness of the other. World War Two has also played its part in the transference from fiction to a particular reality. Hitler and the Nazis who acted in his name were so clearly on the evil side of the equation that our knowledge of that was can be quite easily be manipulated. How many times have the West’s enemies been compared to Hitler. Milosovitch, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and now Putin?

The majority of us are suckers for a good story, whether in book form or on screen. The vast majority of us are not of the highbrow type who like to read ‘difficult’, ‘confusing’ stories where good and evil are rather difficult to discern at times. In general the majority of us hold sway in terms of the way media of all types approaches us, delivering to our expectations. For the politicians we are the group it is most important to influence. Therefore, the focus required to be addressed is not hard to fathom, there must be the good guys and there must be the bad guys, in reality just as in fiction. Zelensky becomes the good guy required now to suit western elite narratives and agendas. Putin and all those who respect, or work for him in any way, must be the bad.

Might it just possibly be that by believing so implicitly in the concepts of good and evil with all the fervor of our beings through media that we open ourselves to being rather easily manipulated and in fact duped into facilitating evil ourselves?

So it goes as Kurt Vonnegut III wrote 106 times throughout his book based around the carpet bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Airforce during World War Two, Slaughterhouse 5’. 

‘And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. 

So it goes.

WILL THE 2024 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BRING AN END TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE?

Who wants to see more war? Very few. But when those few occupy the highest political positions... more war is exactly what we get.

The question is no longer whether the Ukrainian regime will win against Russia. The question now is how long the western powers will sustain the regime until it loses. The secondary question related to this is how will the western powers react when their narratives about this conflict begin to collapse, as they are in the process of doing now. ‘Project Ukraine’ is crucial to these powers in their dedication to weakening first Russia, then China. Could it be that the upcoming presidential election in the USA will bring about the end of the Ukrainian war and ultimately, an end to the West’s determination to achieve global hegemony.

The prospects for an eventual global peace via multipolarity rests in the present day upon the conclusion to the Ukrainian war, the West’s ‘Project Ukraine’ and all that goes with it, including the prospective war of the West against China. The upcoming election in the USA is a crucial element regarding the western neocon elite to whom there never was such a thing as a bad war. To defeat and permanently defeat this way of thinking will involve a massive change. The result of the 2024 presidential election in the USA has the potential to be crucial in this respect. The fixed policy of the current western political elite is embedded within its ‘Project Ukraine’. The task involved in terminating it will involve immense effort and dedication due to its importance as seen by the neocons who have achieved ascendancy in the West since 9/11.

Project Ukraine

The pressure on Russia was unrelenting by the western powers as they sought to drive it into a war with the Ukrainian regime. The preparations were meticulous as we have seen through the length of time the Russian military has taken to break through the 1,000+ km line of Ukrainian fortifications. The West developed the Ukrainian army to NATO standards as the vital complementary component to man them. Along with the sanctions regime against Russia and what they thought would be the entire world on their side, it was believed Russia and its authorities would crumble.

With successive Ukrainian regimes since the US-fomented Maidan coup in 2014, the western nations drove Russia into the only viable course of action left to it if it wished to maintain its security and long term sovereign stability. Every possibility to resolve the Ukraine problem was taken to its full conclusion by Russia in a near decade-long attempt via the Minsk process to find a diplomatic solution whereby peace and reconciliation could be accomplished. As we now know from statements by Angela Merkel and Petro Poroshenko the entire process was merely a sham to give the West time to build the Ukrainian army and the fortifications across the entire line of contact with the Russian-speaking republics of the Donbass.

In addition to Minsk, in a last gasp attempt to persuade the western powers that peace was possible, Russia offered to negotiate a new security architecture for Europe which would safeguard the security of all. Missives on this basis were sent to both NATO and the western powers. These were dismissed out of hand, especially so by NATO whose stance was that they could do whatever they wished in accepting nations into their organisation and Russia had no say in this whatsoever. 

Then, after Russia was left with zero good choices having tried everything possible to avoid war, it began its special military operation, a limited strategy designed to bring the Ukrainian regime to its senses and to implement the Minsk agreements that had been ratified at the UN, the two sides held negotiations seeking a way forward.  In March-April 2022, first in Minsk and later in Istanbul delegates ultimately came close to an agreement. A previsional document was initialled with more work envisioned being done to reach a final comprehensive agreement. At that point a visit to Kiev by Boris Johnson, then prime minister of Britain, ended the entire process.

The history of western leaders seeking to attack Russia in almost every possible way short of outright military attack is a long one. The verbal abuse had been constant for decades. Then came the economic war against Russia through sanctions that has been the most unrelenting economic attack on a nation ever seen. Yet Russia has stood resiliently determined to see things through and its economy has in fact grown stronger rather than weaker over these years. The second arm of the attack against Russia whereby all nations would cut ties with it, also failed. The third arm, the massively prepared siege line the West built facing the Donbass and the professional army designed to defeat Russia by NATO is now in the process of collapse. The West’s entire plan has backfired in all its parts, leaving the western war powers scrambling for any means to reverse this, including desperately promulgating continuously false narratives.

The most blatant false narrative created by the western powers was that Russia’s entry into Ukraine was “unprovoked”. The hymn sheet instructing every western official of any note to use this word went out very early. Saying Russia made an “unprovoked” attack on and invasion of Ukraine was meant to discourage anyone from looking at the genesis of the conflict. As anyone with an independent frame of mind can easily see, Russia was massively provoked, and over and over again constantly since 2008 when the Bush administration twisted European arms to support Ukraine’s entry into NATO. The provocations against Russia during the entire time leading up to its special military operation that began on February 24th 2022 have been massive and continuous.

The lie that Russia made an unprovoked attack on Ukraine is being exposed now as never before. This is due to the fact that as the war in Ukraine has dragged on it has stimulated ever more people to look deeper than the headlines. Online commentators who have demonstrated their trustworthiness over these years such as Alexander Mercouris of The Duran website have been available to relate in detail the true origins of the Ukraine conflict. Besides Alexander there have been others such as Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern, Daniel Davis, Colonel Douglas Macgregor and an increasing number of others. Now we can see more and more politicians both in Europe and in the USA who are refusing to mouth the agreed-upon narratives insisted on by others. Viktor Orban in Hungary, Robert Fico in Slovakia and those around Donald Trump in the USA are no longer willing to support the distortions that have been rife in the West for almost three years of war in Ukraine. They seek peace in Ukraine, not the continuous war, with all its massively tragic consequences, sought by the elite neocon cabal of the West.

The lying narratives promulgated by the top echelon of the western powers are being exposed as never before. Just as Zelensky’s corrupt and inhuman regime is crashing and burning before us, so too are the utterly false narratives of the warmongering western neocon elites. The politicians who have been telling these lies about Putin, Russia and the genesis of the Ukraine war are being exposed as never before. What will they do in response? Certainly they will attempt to cancel those among them who have chosen to broadcast the truth, to degenerate them, call them traitors and any other pejorative term possible. I suspect their chances of succeeding as the Ukrainian regime goes down are slim. The humiliation awaiting those who chose to lie for war rather than seek peace is approaching fast.

Watch this space…