THE NEW GLOBAL VISION: ALL THAT DIVIDES US MAY YET UNITE US

Vive la différence!

The French who coined the phrase above knew well the positives to be found in the unfamiliar and unusual.

In international relations however, there has been less pleasure than the potential for misunderstanding and subsequent aggression in differences between nations. In particular, the elites of the USA and other western nations in its orbit have recently fallen in line with a greater degree of intolerance when it comes to cultures other than that of the West.

A new meme arose out of 9/11 and the alignment known as the ‘Coalition of the Willing’, the group of nations who swallowed the lies told concerning Iraq and the supposed dangers it posed for the western world. Several more disastrous interventions took place all reinforcing and re-emphasizing that those of the West were one thing and they, another. Hundreds of thousands of lives were sacrificed and in an infamous phrase this was ‘a price worth paying’, mainly due to the fact that they were ‘not like us’, they were different, expendable, so different in mentality that those of the West need not be too concerned at their demise.

The regime change mentality along with that which embraced the concept of a ‘clash of civilizations’ and an extremely heightened sense that it was down to the survival of ‘them or us’ is exemplified in the phrase used by so-called Christians who almost exclusively viewed life through the Old Testament, “Kill Them All and Let God Sort Them Out’. This kind of mentality requires the complete demonization of a complete category of other humans in exactly the same mental state as the Nazis viewed all Jews.

The memes of the USA and UK preceding the recent additional concepts arriving after 9/11 formed the groundwork for the heightened sense of difference and intolerance with which much of the rest of the world was viewed. These earlier memes are well known and continue to wield a strong influence that creates a continuing intolerance for difference across the western world. These are of course the memes of exceptionalism, of superiority and of having the ‘correct values’. The mentality involved sets the western individual on high, looking down from his or her ivory tower of exquisite purity on the rest of humanity. It requires a permanent state of master and servant where those not willing to be servants must necessarily be punished sufficiently until they acquiesce. 

Holding all those who do not agree and agree also to bow down before the “perfection” of the western way of life and the ‘western liberal values’ it espouses as ‘beyond the pale’ of so-called western civilization, creates an environment where war of one kind or another is inevitable. This is the future that faces the world now due to the fixed intransigence of the West, wholly transfixed by its concepts of self-awarded perfection and “holy” duty to deliver it to others, whether they express any desire for it, or not.

The attitudes of western elites can deliver only a global environment of intolerance for differences, attitudes wholly in conflict with the phrase with which I began this commentary. 

So, does there exist an alternate vision of the world that may augur a world where stability and peace prevail based upon not only a tolerance of differences but indeed a delight in tem? I believe so and in my estimation we can see that future of mutual respect and tolerance for diversity being laid out for us consistently by two main actors upon the world stage currently.

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have, in their many speeches, long exemplified their desire to usher in this future world where tolerance is prioritized over the aggressive intolerance and interference displayed by the West. Their vision is one where national sovereignty is inviolate and differences between nations are opportunities for mutual benefit in terms of cultural exchange, tourism, commerce and trade. Non-interference by nations in the affairs of others is a policy long held by both Russia and China. This was seen at its most public expression at the United Nations when both refused to sign off on the ambition of the USA and UK to attack and invade Iraq. Their view on these interventions has remained constant from that time to this.

China is building the most ambitious project ever seen in its ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ which will exemplify the notion that diverse nations can come together in cooperation and move ever forward to enhance their cultural and commercial interests in a spirit of mutual respect.

The USA and UK show no such inclination and much of Europe, though not as extreme in their view, is tending still to add support to interventionist policies of intolerance and demands for adherence to so-called western values.

These are the two great thrusts of history evident on the world stage currently and which show no sign of being modified until one gains greater influence than the other. Currently, there is near balance between the two with the West, the long time most dominant, still holding most sway. China however is fast rising to fully balance the effect of western power and within the next decade to eclipse it. With Russia by her side and a strong alliance with all others threatened currently by western intolerance, China will have sufficient influence within Europe, Africa and elsewhere to ensure the new paradigm of respect for differences within the context of inviolate national sovereignty prevails.

We face a clear choice.

A virtually endless future of war against different national cultures and beliefs by a West itself riven by conflicting attitudes within its own populations.

A future of increasing stability where nations are no longer subject to destabilizing by others, nor attacked by military means, but through trade and tolerance for inviolate sovereignty, they are encouraged to connect with and move forward with their global neighbours.

The choice is stark and is coming ever more into focus as the West continues to ramp up its efforts to ensure it remains the dominant power and continue its project to mould the world into a mirror image of its unstable self.

THE WEST IS TARGETING CHINA TO MAINTAIN ITS EVIL REIGN

China threatens the malign empire of the West, the empire that has ruled the world without authority, extorting, exploiting and ruthlessly suppressing it, for a hundred years and more.

China is rising fast to stymie the continued regime of mass murder and robbery that has characterized the activities of western elites for generations.

China will push back the malignant western influence that it has remorselessly inflicted on weaker nations unable to resist it.

There is nothing more important to western elites than the retention of their power over others, the maintenance of their ability to manipulate events and the continued ability to safeguard the resulting wealth flowing to them from their criminal abuse of others.

Any lie or cynical distortion that can serve western elite narratives will be deployed both by governmental figures and mainstream news entities. All elite elements with a channel to public opinion are working overtime to deliver a war of words against China. Governments of the western orbit will increasingly use these lies and distortions to “justify” economic warfare against China.

No agency of government will maintain integrity in the face of the unified desire to weaken China in the war to maintain western dominance and dictatorship.

This war is the final world war by totally self-interested elites who will use all past ruses to attack and undermine China and Chinese interests worldwide. Not one word of the campaign to denigrate and weaken China will be the undisputed truth, it will instead be a matrix of knowingly created untruths, exaggerations and downright lies. The so-called justifications using whatever buzz words western elite institutes use will not remotely be the true motivations of the western elites using them. We are familiar with those of ‘Freedom’ and ‘Democracy’ which have been used and abused in the past. But allegations such as ‘genocide’, ‘forced labour’, ‘cyber warfare’ and ‘forced sterilization’ have been added as button-pushing motifs to use on headline surfing western populations.

This is all out war. It is a fight to the death for elites in the West who have themselves fully convinced of their goodness even in the face of all we know of their disgusting activities and mass murder of hundreds of thousands based on lies. The attempt being made now by the West to wage war against China by other means that the kind of military attack used previously will use false concepts to hoodwink their populations one last time.

The lies used against previous regime change targets are to be wiped from public memory if possible. Agencies such as the CIA and MI6 who have actively indulged in known assassination attempts, coups, murders, torture and cynical and constant use of propaganda are to be set on a pedestal as totally trustworthy.

Governments of abject liars in the West are going to continually set themselves up as exemplars of probity, honest to the core, 'wouldn’t hurt a fly' saints.

And those who refuse to continue to bow down to their malignant power but are rising now to face them down and replace their murderous rule with an alternate geopolitical reality will be attacked to the death, even to the point where their actions threaten the very survival of life on Earth. This is the extent of their lust to retain power, to dominate, dictate, manipulate and hold the power of life and death over others for their own benefit and no other reason.

This is the reality being revealed today by a united front of self-serving western elites in their struggle to preserve their empire of pure evil.

This is the final world war, a war between the West and China, Russia and all their allies that now stand strong against a malignant regime whose time of murderous domination is at an end.

LIVING IN THE USA (THE USUAL SEMANTIC ASSESSMENT)

There are no godlike journalists who span the world with their minds and eyes reporting universally and objectively.

What there are, are paid observers within the mainstream who have a lens with ‘West’ painted all over it.

Apart from those above, we have independent observers who attempt to counter the distortion caused by their corporate or state-paid counterparts.

To say that the West is soaked in a perpetual rain of propaganda is to mischaracterize the situation however. Though ‘Operation Mockingbird’, the CIA program to ensure mainstream media news mirrored U.S. state narratives no doubt continues to some extent, the problem is wider in extent than this.

There is an unwritten consensus across western mainstream news on certain geopolitical issues which if any journalist, editor or owner does not adhere to they will soon find themselves the subject of enormous controversy.

The geopolitical consensus in place across the West has a number of specific facets to it:

1. Western elites never act badly by design or in their own self-interest.

2. Any deaths or disasters caused by the West are due solely to well-meant mistakes.

3. Neither of the two factors above should be applied to target nations of the West.

4. Due to 3. Above both China and Russia can be portrayed in a wholly negative light.

5. Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and others are fair game for all.

A feature writer or invited observer will be given a brief or have one accepted only if the above facets are adhered to in one way or another. This needn’t and indeed should not be glaringly obvious to the average reader. The article ought to seem reasonably even-handed and written with good explanatory, simply a cogent analysis to enlighten the publication or network’s readership. Nevertheless, it will act at the most potent level merely to reinforce points 1 to 5 above.

To some this may seem perfectly reasonable. However, what this repetition of certain west-centric narratives does is fix in ever more permanent form a single set of narratives that maintain what appears to be a desired status quo. This status quo is a fixed division across our world just at the very moment it desperately requires to find unity of purpose.

There can surely be no doubt that 1 to 5 above can and does do this. What other effect could there be when article after article reiterates the same message? The subliminal effect on those who continue to use western mainstream news as their primary choice of information on the world cannot help but be enormous.

This conditioning effect comes not only from mainstream media news, it emanates from every major figure in every political party wielding a significant degree of power across the western world.  

In recent days, after their meeting, Biden and Merkel have agreed that it is very important to stand against “Russian Aggression”. That is to stand against the president and nation which refused to go along with western adventurism in Iraq, Syria, Libya and elsewhere. Is it not a curious phenomenon when the no previous acts of illegal attacks and invasions by western elites are relevant in the context of “aggression”. I would argue that the non-coverage of these activities in this context are due to the self-censorship involved in 1 and 2 above.

The acceptable behavior within the orbits of western mainstream media news and western mainstream political circles totally mitigates against any negativity regarding western aggression, indeed it would never be labeled as such. Only those outside the saintly western world could be labeled as behaving this way and are, constantly.

At its most banal it reflects a simplistic black versus white scenario. A very unpleasant harmonic of the semantic dualism George W. Bush invoked. We are the good guys, they are the bad. Therefore if you are not one of us you are one of them. This reflects the kind of kindergarten level of Hollywood movie scripts also indelibly placed in western minds. The good guys fight the good fight and ultimately, always win. Westerners are endlessly encouraged to be with the good guys and to accept the view (as expressed through 3 to 5 above) that the ‘others’ are the bad guys.

These techniques are hardly new, yet they conflict rather glaringly with the relatively modern concept that those in the West are now in a new world of unhindered access to accurate information. In what seems to be a further attempt to establish narratives 1 through 5 all else is increasingly deemed fake news or the product of ‘Russian Agents’, Putin’s Puppets’, ‘Assad Apologists’ and other traitors to the righteous western cause. 

Hopefully an ever-increasing number of those living in the western world are realizing that half the story on any issue is arguably also half lies, it is at the very least a deception, an attempt to mislead and deepen an already very deep misapprehension of reality. Figures such as Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, Aaron Mate and many others are accessed on YouTube increasingly for listeners to access the complete picture and the full story. Unfortunately the majority appears to still implicitly trust those who are handsomely paid to endlessly reinforce points 1 to 5 above. Delivering the Usual Semantic Assessment.

HOW IS THE USA DOING AS “GLOBAL LEADER”?

It is something we’ve heard time and again over the years from U.S. presidents, that the USA has an inalienable right to its role of global leadership. In both the last administration and this there has been an emphasis on America being back… as if it had ever gone away. (For the USA to go away and stay away would arguably be a net positive in most instances.)

Trump’s Pompeo went round the world assuring allies that the USA was still engaged, still ready to interfere in their nations and commit its usual crimes there for their own good. Biden has a trickier task, to do much withdrawing in the Middle East while re-stating the old mantra that the USA is back and here to stay. However, no matter what the U.S. tactics of the day may be, whether the USA stays or goes, the assertion that the USA has the role of global leader is certainly here to stay. (At any rate until the economic rise of others makes this assertion untenable.)

For the time being the USA retains massive power and is, as ever, in a constant frame of mind to wield it. So how is it doing? How should we judge the world’s CEO?

If we look at leadership in general there are certain attributes I would claim the USA is showing a distinct lack in.

Imagine there is a king of a medieval walled city where an evil horde is approaching his city gates to demand the city’s surrender. Is the King uniting his people in readiness to oppose them? Is he deeply engaged in raising their morale and getting them prepared to work in a highly coordinated fashion to best ensure their survival? No. In fact this king is fighting his own internecine battle with certain factions within the city, berating them, acting to isolate them and in general spreading division in his ranks.

This is one analogy for the USA and how I see it performing as “global leader”. The evil horde approaching the city gates represents all the threats now facing us as a species on Planet Earth, the present and future pandemics, the increasing effects of Global Warming and all the climate changes to come. As these threats to all humanity loom ever larger in all our lives and have the potential to decimate us to untold degrees it would seem obvious that we must unify our efforts to combat these threats. Yet what does the USA constantly do rather than seek this unity of purpose. It acts like the king in my analogy, working to sow discord within, ever seeking to find grievances with others and greater divisions between nations, even to the extent of seeking to undermine them and their ability to contribute against all present and fast-emerging threats.

This is not global leadership. This is partisan in-fighting.

A true leader reconciles differences within the sphere of his or her influence to make an organization stronger and more able to function well for the benefit of all. Any leader, whether a head of state, corporation or mythical medieval city choosing instead to weaken the entity in question through internal division is not truly a leader but a liability.

The situation we now find ourselves in could hardly be clearer. Covid has decimated so many societies around the world and caused immense harm. It revealed which countries could coordinate well against it and in which the result of its efforts were chaotic. I would argue that recent history has shown that the way the USA responded to Covid was the most chaotic of all. Competing, not cooperating appears to be an irremovable part of the USA’s genetic code and cooperation appears to have become an almost unthinkable attribute.

The endlessly competitive and combative USA along with its colonialist allies with their concept of themselves as superior to others makes for an eternally divisive force separating them from those they disdain as inferior. Their attitude is that those they consider inferior should simply listen to them and obey. This is a familiar dictatorial style of management once accepted as the standard with an elite of ‘them’ deciding for a mass of ‘us’ who were only there to obey. Over recent decades it has been recognized that this style of management was ultimately detrimental to boss/worker relations and toxic when it came to the mutually cooperative ethos that was the true ideal where all thrived.

This exceptionalism at the heart of western elite beliefs is, I believe, the root cause of the enormous lack of true leadership potential within the United States and its allies. Their own attitudes make them incapable of the tolerance and mutual respect required for the kind of successful unity required. Instead of recognizing all we have in common nation to nation the USA and its allies continue obsessively to focus on all the differences they can find. This style of management is inherently corrosive, of trust, of willingness to engage and crucially of the willingness to work together.

China and Russia have made clear their wish and willingness to work in partnership with the West. But the elites of the West only see competitors, stuck fast in their mentality which demands they always retain superiority over others. In the situation we now find ourselves in as a species, with enormous threats to us quite clearly in view we cannot afford a leader that divides rather than unites us. In fact such a leader can only lead us into greater and greater vulnerability to the threats facing us and almost certain disaster.

IS THE WEST'S GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECT AT AN END?

It cannot be lost on anyone by this point in time that the western world and its allies are engaged in a project to transform the world into an approximation of their image, or at least one compliant with it.

This should come as no surprise due to the following combination of factors:

This project is the result of hundreds of years of attitudes held by western elites and many of those they have governed. These attitudes can be encapsulated in three simple words: ‘We Know Best’.

White Europeans have been those at the forefront of this entire project from the start. It was they who embarked on the initial stages of a global takeover from Elizabethan times when its emissaries transformed themselves into common pirates attacking Spanish ships transporting stolen gold home from South America. Britain, Spain, Portugal and others initiated the first exploitative forays into nations unprepared to resist them.

White Europeans migrated in ever greater numbers to what was to become the USA and by violence took land from the native population who they deemed to be “savages”.

The same white Europeans made fortunes from the slave trade.

Later, with the advent of the British Empire, the ultra-aggressive white Europeans took over multiple countries as their right through force of arms and a belief in their superiority over the “primitive” people they found there. Other European colonial powers such as Germany, France and Belgium joined the plunder of nations unable to resist them.

These attitudes where other, weaker nations and those that govern them are labelled “uncivilized”, “primitive” or “savages” still survive consciously or subconsciously to the present day.

The vast wealth accrued by Europe from colonial empires enriched the nations involved at the expense of those too weak to resist them and endlessly bolstered the notion that there was an inherent superiority in western culture. The fact that this was based largely on a privileged power structure built on long-term abuse of that power and indulgence in endless violent repression, coercion and exploitation was of course totally ignored. The myths of superiority were naturally much better suited to the egos of all those involved.

Little has changed in essence from those days to this. The elites of the USA continue to preen themselves and their nation as exceptional. The elites of the UK still puff their chests out in pride about how they have the capacity to civilize the world and bring it to its senses by dint of their ‘civilizing’ manipulative power. ‘Johnny Foreigner’ as he is called is always in need of civilizing by either Britain or America it seems.

These attitudes are so deeply ingrained and so modified by overlying concepts used to justify an ongoing need to dominate the world that the West as a whole has become in effect a composite criminal entity. The myths overlying this reality are those of self-justification, absolutely vital to the need for continued expansion of western influence. All negatives related to the activities of western elites were and are submerged under the weight of self-affirming mythologies. By these mythologies the U.S., UK and others in the western justify their habit of colonialist exploitation, dominating, judging and punishing all exclusively for their own benefit.

In its entirety, the western concept of its perpetual superiority is a psychological dysfunction that has become a totally hidden norm overlaid by a toxic belief system supporting a mindset where unquestioned superiority and purity of purpose hold all else in abeyance.

This dysfunctional but self-serving mindset has as its ultimate political goal in the political field in similar form to that in the field of business, to expand without limit, minimizing all opposition, eliminating it wherever possible. In the context of geopolitics, this endeavour signifies the attaining of global hegemony. All barriers to achieving this are required to be removed, for the advancement of both corporate and political goals. In addition, the protocols set in place after 9/11 with their insistence on gaining full spectrum dominance, play powerfully into the overall goal of unlimited expansion of influence over others seen as dubious at best.

Nations having standards not connecting in synch with western modes of governance and social values are therefore targets for disruption using the familiar power structures of the West. Alongside this interference in the affairs of others in an effort to transform them, the twin power structures of the political and corporate worlds coincide to attain their equally self-serving goals. Sanctions, political pressure, covert use of intelligence agencies, media campaigns and military might are all honed into potent weapons with which to coerce nations to be transformed to conform to western wishes.

The extremely long history of western exceptionalism and unlimited ambition to expand influence, power, wealth and control over others can be seen to be still ongoing as new initiatives arise on a daily basis. There are no signs that this centuries-long exploitative activity of western elites will ever end except by the rise of an equally powerful opposing force.

Happily for humanity and especially for all nations presently targeted for transformation by the West that force has emerged. China, with Russia by her side plus their allies comprise that force. Clearly, it is China that makes up the greatest degree of economic power within that counterforce. This is why China is now the primary target for the USA and its allies, recognizing that without China there would be no adequate opposing force to their plans.

The long progress of a flawed notion of superiority by those initial white Europeans and their generations of offspring has led directly to this moment in time. For the first time in history, their way forward to global hegemony is blocked. At this moment the great weight of momentum of the oppressive and malign era of ultra-aggressive and acquisitive western power is being slowed to a halt. The deeply flawed, inherently racist and exploitative, myth-infested, dysfunctional global transformation project of the western elites is a juggernaut now thankfully hitting a solid wall of resistance. We have China to thank for this and of course a resolute Russia standing at her side.

The events of the next five to ten years will clearly decide the entire future of our planet in geopolitical terms.

That is, whether we live under an elite that falsely believes itself eternally superior and exceptional, above all others and destined to control them or a planet where great diversity is recognized, tolerated and appreciated as the best reality possible within a fully multipolar world.

WE CAN COMMIT ANY CRIME WE LIKE... BECAUSE WE’RE THE GOOD GUYS!

The above covers a lot of sins. Sins that are claimed as virtues.

How does this seeming contradiction make any sense?

It makes sense when you believe only you and your people are pure of intent, forwarding a purpose that has an equally and unquestionably pure goal.

Tens of thousands of Americans working for the CIA (and many others within entities both governmental and private) appear to have no doubt whatsoever that both above are true and unquestionably so.

They clearly believe that the end justifies the means in almost every case where an obstacle to their goal is found.

The “pure” goal talked of above has the same characteristics as average Hollywood movies of all eras since the motion picture industry began.

It is to wipe out all the “bad guys”, to remove them from power wherever they find them and in doing so install the “purest” political system ever devised, that of democracy.

This is literally, a la James Bond, a license to kill. In fact, it is a license to do almost anything. As long as you are convinced your intent is pure along with the goal you seek then you can justify acts that others may consider reprehensible. Murder, torture, propaganda, disinformation, subversion, demonization, war crimes, crimes against humanity and essentially anything else across the full spectrum of deceit, violence and any wrong-doing you can imagine. Those perpetrating such acts will no doubt sleep soundly afterwards however as they are content that their intent is pure, as is the goal they seek.

What you have seen and heard over the last three decades at least which gave you the distinct feeling that something was wrong in our world came from the notion that the “good guys” should never have their hands tied but should be free to respond with whatever weapon they consider will work against their chosen foe. And no moral, ethical, social, military or political code of right conduct should interfere in any shape or form as such interference may eventuate in the evil that is being attacked to eradication may escape and the consequences of that happening are much worse.

This is the circular doublethink involved at this level of elite western thought, supported and strengthened by an environment where group-thought reinforcement is all-pervasive.

It is for these reasons that the USA can have propaganda outlets such as The Voice of America spread far and wide across the planet with the sworn mission to influence populations while at home anyone suspected of doing the same thing is condemned outright. Because we’re the good guys.

We have the right stuff. Our intentions are pure, we come like Superman to save you from the evil big boss. We’re the cavalry riding over the hill to save you from the savages. We’re the knight that rescues the fair damsel from the evil dragon spitting fire. We reflect all the heroes down through American literary, televisual and motion picture history.

No matter what we do, what chaos we cause, what civilians we kill, what prisoners we torture, what leaders we slander, what nations we invade and destroy… we remain the good guys with the best intentions for humanity that it’s possible to have.

What? You want us to stop? Are you insane? We are the only ones saving you from slavery!

That’s why we can’t allow you to hear just anything. We have the “good stuff”, the “right stuff”. Listening to us you hear the truth. All else is disinformation. So we are going to stop those creeps with some other view infecting your mind. Why would you want to read or hear the words of evil men and women anyway?

Unless you’re one of them.

You see how this works?

We are the good guys. You better believe it!

You don’t want to come to our attention, do you?

Why support the enemy?

If you do, you might be surprised what we can do to you.

Working against us is working for the enemy. That makes you a traitor and fair game for anything we might want to do to you.

Live free. Just don’t get in our way, keep your head down, believe what we say, and never look anywhere else for your information than us.

Then you'll be fine, right?

CAN THE WEST OVERCOME ITS PUTIN & RUSSIA PHOBIAS?

So many negative claims have been made about Vladimir Putin and the Russian state that a fabric of toxicity has been constructed around them.

The genesis of much of this can be found in the pure and precious state in which the elites of the West regard themselves.

They see themselves as epitomizing the peak of civilized values, forever displaying integrity and unassailable decency in both intent and act. They have set themselves up as the universal standard that all others must be judged by. Naturally these judges consider themselves to be of unquestioned probity. How could they demand obedience to their strictures and punishments if they themselves were in any way flawed?

These points of view have resulted in the job description western elites have provided for themselves, to act as global school masters and mistresses, lecturing, warning, threatening and punishing any errant pupils with a view to making them adhere to codes of conduct they have laid down.

Why has Putin and the Russian state caught this collective teacher’s eye and fallen foul of  its codes of conduct? The view expressed on this depends crucially on which eyes you are looking through. Through the eyes of the pure-as-driven-snow professorial elites of the West they need a touch of corporal punishment to make them mend their ways.

These elites, considering themselves the closest thing to political perfection attainable in this world see any nation not behaving as they do as an errant pupil needing a clip around the ear.

Meanwhile, anyone in these errant nations having a leader considering himself in any way a teacher like them and not acting according to the rules of the ‘central authority’ (i.e. the western elites) is seen as also requiring multiple clips around the ear.

To allow such “bad behavior” to go unpunished would be impermissible. So, such continuing “bad behavior” brings with it ever more lectures and punishments in the hope of forcing a change of attitude that is more amenable to the codes of disciple laid down from above.

This attitude of ultimate superiority, of being unassailably exceptional is so deeply ingrained and so comprehensively and inviolately held as fact that the status of global teacher is now regarded as a totally permanent and unquestioned institution. It is an institution that cannot possibly tolerate its probity to be questioned. Not by anyone and particularly not within its own sacrosanct offices.

The irritation and frustration, amounting at times to outright rage of the global teachers regarding pupils who constantly refuse to obey and whose behavior shows no signs of coming into line with “acceptable standards” knows no bounds. How dare they flout their resistance to authority!

This is the locked-tight reality of those in the upper echelons of the western political establishment. To question the foundations of this reality would be to risk descending to the level of all others. This is completely unthinkable to them. How would the school survive if there were no entities enforcing discipline on the naughty pupils? It would surely descend into anarchy. The teachers clearly believe this to be the case. However, what is also the case but which they have no incentive to inspect is that to relinquish their position would significantly diminish the present status which they find very conducive to their own personal needs.

With a patrician view like this and the added incentive of all the positives associated with being the self-awarded highest authority you can see that extending a hand of cooperation to those you consider lesser, imperfect and annoyingly rebellious mortals will never prove easy.

Western elites want things done their way globally. They clearly consider this important, indeed imperative. Imperative for the USA at least, not so much for Europe. The elites of the USA have the specter of 9/11 in their minds at all times, whether on a conscious or subconscious level. Controlling every class in the entire school 100% of the time is their unquestioned but unattainable goal. They will find that goal to ultimately be totally impossible to achieve... but they will continue their attempts to the absolute end point come what may, without deviation, diplomacy and quite independent of all destructive forces unleashed along the way.

The existing, unrecognized teachers of errant nations cannot possibly be given anything approaching the kind of status the school authorities have. Any attempt to appear cooperative or inclined to reach some settlement with the authorities will be seen as a trick, a ploy, some maneuver designed to allow an upgrade to his status, something that cannot be allowed without total agreement to the full demands required of him.

Those who express loyalty to such unrecognized teachers of errant nations are regarded in the same way, as suspect, bad actors, naughty schoolboys who create disorder in the school and cause frustration and irritation among the masters.

So, to answer the question at the head of this commentary, no, it appears impossible for the West to overcome its Putin and Russia phobias.

Not until they submit to the punishments inflicted on them, repent their past actions in full and promise faithfully to comprehensively obey the codes laid down by the self-awarded global masters in future.