IS THE USA ACTING TO STOP A WAR OR TRYING TO GET ONE STARTED?

 

 There is a relentless push going on to provoke Russia into an act of war.

With this the USA gains some public relations points by being able to say Russia is an unconscionable aggressor state. This latter also helps in what may well be the greater goal in the present scenario, to relentlessly blacken Russia's name with a view to taking down any and all economic rivals.

The USA is in the fight of its life to retain its economic dominance. China is rising inexorably and Russia, though having a far smaller economy than either China or the USA, is also a nation of great influence.

Political influence is one side of a strategic coin where economic success is the other. Where you are a powerful influence you will also have open channels for your business sector to exploit to the full. This also works conversely, where you have built up an extensive trading network you will also have a high degree of political influence.

The trend has been to the economic advantage of China and Russia over the USA and EU for many years now, especially and observably so regarding China. This threatens both the economic success of the USA and Europe as well as its taken-for-granted political influence.

The USA and UK and to a lesser extent European nations have fashioned for themselves an aura of indomitable influence that stretches to almost every corner of the world. From their ivory towers these elites scan the globe with patrician mentalities that have come to seem their natural inheritance. Over the centuries from slavery to colonialism to the "winning" of the Cold War they have prided themselves on their values of superiority and their to them highly deserving 'exceptional' status. The continuance of this status depends on their continued political influence which hangs in turn upon their economic success. That economic success of course also determines their ability to support their military reach and sustained levels of potential threat to rivals.

It has long been commented upon by those not enamoured of western foreign policy that war and the threat of war are necessary to maintain the military industrial complexes of western nations and particularly so when it comes to the United States. In this field political influence also plays an important part. Apart from the revolving door aspect where political bigwigs end their political careers to become board members in so-called defence corporations there is also the incestuous sponsorship regime they need to support reelection campaigns. The "defence" corporations need ever more orders, politicians require ever more cash and those who pay for these mutually beneficial relationships are usually those in nations targeted for regime change.

Regime change enables a flow of orders to western (usually U.S.) companies for a variety of services from legalised mercenaries to building contractors and a plethora of other service industry personnel linked to the U.S. Army and Air Force. The mightily raised threat level (usually on a one by one basis, but not always) creates the leeway required to boost "defence" spending and generally smoothes the influence highway to the goals set which the threat levels are raised as high as necessary to accommodate.

We see this currently regarding the situation revolving around Ukraine. Russia is the threat (even when it is clear to incisive observers that it is instead the USA) that makes the usual range of win-win factors come into play. Military industrial complexes are stimulated, NATO gains more traction in ex-Warsaw Pact nations, American influence rises, Russia as a trading partner becomes less favoured and perhaps even excluded from consideration.

In this scenario as in all those seen previously the target tends to get caught in a net spread through myriad devious methodologies. No matter what it does the western machine adjusts its tactical ploys to further ensnare the victim.

Continuously repeating that Russia could attack Ukraine at any time thoroughly conditions western minds not adept or interested in probing such situations deeper than reading or listening to headlines. These headline surfers tend to be in the majority in these days of limited leisure time, work stress and hard-to-balance household budgets. Western mainstream media acts as the complicit foil for western states in all this as examined in my previous commentary.

It all amounts to a Devil's Recipe Book wherein a somewhat bitter propaganda soup is cooked and then served both daily and nightly into the open minds of its somewhat tired and distracted customers.

Russia can demand that this stop. Russia can prepare her defences. Russia can appeal to the better nature of the powers tormenting her. Russia can look to the better natures of those in the UN. None of this is likely to stop or even to restrain the determination of western powers to eliminate its leadership and present system of governance. The decisions made immediately after 9/11 do not allow for any restraint to be shown in eliminating all targets not conforming to western will. Neither do they allow any moral or ethical considerations to affect the methodologies used to effect the goals agreed.

So, when it comes to the question of whether the USA is acting to stop a war or trying to get one started, it will always be the latter. That is, until every last possible opponent of unlimited U.S. power has been demonized, subverted, deceived, tortured, attacked, invaded and finally eliminated from the face of the Earth.

 

 

THE PART WESTERN PRESS & MEDIA PLAY IN FOMENTING WAR

The words "Bring 'em on" by George W. Bush became infamous for their inference that the USA welcomed war.

Bush's style of leadership was abrasive and aggressive while most observers doubted that any intellectual capacity or ability to reflect reality lay behind his words. What was obvious however was that he had by one means or another reached a pinnacle of power in the West that he was blatantly using to foment war.

At the time Bush was speaking he was almost unanimously backed by western press and media, in fact the lust to attack "America's enemies" was palpable across all western and much of its population. The level of support seen then among western populations subsided to a great degree after the serial disasters of America's subsequent wars, especially when the lies used to gain support for them were revealed.

You might think this welcome cynicism brought about by successive disastrous wars initiated by the West in recent decades which so altered public opinion about them might have had a salutary lesson for western press and media also. But this reflection of reality in the West's news outlets was notable by its absence. In fact the jingoistic quality of its coverage has only increased in recent times.

Both the Guardian newspaper and the BBC in Britain have swung readily to the side of the neoconservative viewpoint that many of us expected to be discredited after America's exposure as a deceiving warmonger/war criminal state via Julian Assange's ‘Wikileaks’ site and other keen-eyed observers. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have likewise found no issue with further U.S. aggression and have regularly beat the war drums in the last decade.

What is going on? Why does western press and media seem so compelled to get behind the constantly warlike rhetoric of western politicians since their previous forays into this field have proven so disastrous for public trust in general and the targeted nations in particular?

Currently Russia, which long been lambasted as a kind of reconstituted Nazi Germany with a new Hitler, Vladimir Putin, at its head, is facing what appears to be an end game of unrelenting pressure from the West and its media is right behind these efforts. Seemingly completely unaware of its past support for such memes in the cases of Slobodan Milošević, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi it has ramped up this portrayal of highly targeted demonization where the wish to "bring on" war is inescapable.

 

Again, what is going on? What can explain the incredible degree of irresponsibility involved?

For me it all goes back to two factors:

1. 9/11 and the decision to eliminate all entities not obedient to western will.

2. The rise of Eurasia that will inevitably lead to the eclipse of western dominance.

These factors clearly represent a threat to the entire western world, 9/11 most obviously but the rise of Russia, China and others comprise an even greater threat economically and thus in terms of influence and manipulative power.

The identification of western elite power structures with each other is the prime factor in my opinion in solving this seeming mystery of the conclusion between press, media and state in fomenting war against certain targeted nations.

This can be seen virtually across the board in relation to reporting on a variety of nations from Venezuela to Nicaragua to Cuba to of course Russia and China. Now and then a somewhat critical article may appear regarding a western ally but these appear very seldom and do not reflect the consistent animosity in reporting toward the nations on America's 'A list'.

The slant of articles and programming across the western world's most prominent publications and news outlets against the target nations spoken of above is surely clear to everyone except those who are constantly imbued with the conditioned fervour of belief in the state narratives being conveyed.

Where do the principles of journalism figure in all this? Dedication to the truth no matter what. Principled devotion to ascertaining the facts and presenting a rigorously balanced picture of those facts with a minimum of opinion intervening. The right to reply and representation of those who are accused of transgressions. These fundamental precepts of good journalism are now completely missing. Now, for one reason or another opinion has become virtually all, assertions, speculations and accusations. Putin thinks this, Putin plans that, Russia did this, Russia may do that... this is what sells newspapers in the West and advertising and channel sponsors in the media. Generating controversy, increasing drama... sells.

And behind all this the determination to help western elites stay top dogs in the world because their ultimate fates regarding increasing or decreasing prosperity as press and media outlets as well as their status levels and career structures depend on the West winning out. Besides, these elites know each other well, they feed each other in incestuous fashion back and forward with briefings, meetings, intimate conversations and intel connections.

The onus is on obedience to the necessities involved in keeping the West great and eliminating those rising powers who it necessary to describe as a threat, as enemies with malign purposes. The world must be split in two with one half demonized and maligned constantly, almost to the extent where George Orwell's '1984' and its conditioned populations are mirrored, groomed for war and demonstrating necessary levels of fear and hate.

Western political elites can only do so much to foment war without the level of avid public backing needed to ensure minimal backlash.

 

This is where western press and media are such useful tools in the deadly enterprise embarked upon by their state elites, the fomenting and waging of the last world war.

 

 

WHY THE WEST HAS BECOME SUCH AN ELITE WARMONGERING ZONE

You may be surprised that the world is moving ever closer to war. Don't be. It is an inevitable consequence of decisions made immediately after 9/11.

On those days of shock and anger in the USA the most primary individuals at the top of the U.S. elite power structure gathered to map the way forward.

What were they to do?

The first priority and goal which remains in effect to this day is to do everything in their power to ensure nothing of the kind ever happens again. This required locating and eliminating each and every element that could contribute in any way or form to America being at risk. No stone was to be left unturned and no weapon to hand was to be neglected. Moral, ethical and principled stances were never to stand in the way of the primary goal. It was to be a no-holds-barred campaign to the full and absolute conclusion where no possible enemies of the USA would be left standing. All must comply with these wishes or be designated as targets.

We are living through this campaign even now. It is designed to work its way through to the point of an absolute zero of threat. That means in addition an absolute zero of criticism of the USA and the policies of its elites, even if this means a world war and ultimately a prison planet observed, controlled, judged and punished from space.

There are to be no survivors from the world that attacked on 9/11. All are to be eliminated whether that means leaders, systems of governance and all else within any incalcitrant nations that underpin stability. No recognizance of the need for stability exists within the protocols agreed after 9/11 except in respect of nations towing the line and submitting themselves to U.S. dominance.

Whether dictatorships or democracies, if you are on the side of the USA and its requirements you are safe from its targeting. Whatever you are, democracy or not, you are targeted for the extinction of all elements not willing to comply with U.S. needs.

For the reasons above the situation in Ukraine is unlikely to be resolved peacefully. Russia is quite obviously one of the USA's primary targets. The goal is the elimination of its leadership and system of governance. It really is of no concern or interest to the U.S. political hierarchy what Russia says about its concerns. The USA seeks Russia's total compliance with its wishes. Nothing less will do and any and all means will be used from subterfuge to insults to fake agreements, to false promises to every threat and ultimatum possible and all with the mass conditioning of its populations for support. Ukraine is being used as a battering ram to destabilize Russia with the ultimate goal as delineated above, its transformation into a nation compliant with U.S. needs.

This is what is going on and why it will be taken to its bitter end, not by any form of Russian aggression as asserted constantly in the West, but by the unlimited, ongoing and incessant machination of all western powers to attain the primary U.S. goal stated at the beginning of this commentary.

It is my long-held opinion that these factors, over and above all others, are the fundamental causes regarding why the West has become such an elite warmongering zone.

 

 

 

WHAT YOU ARE HEARING ABOUT UKRAINE FROM THE WEST IS REALITY REVERSED

 

What has happened, is happening or is about to happen in Ukraine to cause the current escalation in western rhetoric with daily accusations that Russia is at fault?

We will see that the actuality is far from the fantasy picture being painted by western elite sources, in fact it is the reverse of that fantasy depiction of events in Ukraine.

Why would either side wish to foment a situation where lives could be lost at any moment?

Who would have a reason to build the pressure likely to cause that loss of life and what might that reason be?

And finally, what factors are missing from the equation that informs the analyses seen daily in western mass media and across internet social media sites such as Twitter?

It is very clear that few, if any, fundamental steps are being taken to calm the situation and avert the likelihood of open conflict. One side or the other must have a compelling reason to keep the tension high. What might that be?

Many accusations and assertions are constructed making Vladimir Putin out to be the 'bad guy' in all this. There is nothing unusual in that however, this has been par for the course for well over a decade and a half now. In the West virtually every politician and news outlet in the mainstream says there is no justification for the so-called massing of Russian troops near the Russian-Ukraine border. Is this correct?

In fact no. There is justification aplenty as we will see.

In the past year we will find multiple good reasons for the presence of those troops.

1. Ukraine held mass training sessions where Ukrainian troops took part in exercises with NATO forces.

2. Ukraine has been massively building up its military forces in proximity to the two autonomy-seeking republics largely composed of Russian speakers who have Russian passports.

3. The West has been supplying Ukraine with ever-increasing numbers of weapons and in recent months with those of a higher specification and lethality.

4. Ukraine has acquired weaponized military drones from Turkey and has used them to hit targets within the republics.

5. In recent months the Ukrainian president, Zelensky has begun a pogrom against Russian and pro-Russian entities within Ukraine. Opposition politicians have been accused of treason and arraigned for trial, opposition (Russian language) TV stations have been shut down.

6. The rhetoric from officialdom, led by Zelensky in Ukraine has become increasingly heated against Russia whereas in his presidential run and in the early days of Zelensky's presidency he vowed to repair relations with Russia.

7. Ukraine has received endless moral encouragement from the West and NATO regarding its eventual entry into NATO along with Georgia. This is a red line for Russia that cannot contemplate for a moment having NATO troops and weaponry right up close to its border.

8. The refusal of Kiev to implement its promises in the Minsk agreements and the clear abandonment of them sent a strong warning signal to Moscow that Kiev was intent on using other, military means to resolve the situation in their favor alone.

9. Each step of the way in the events depicted above the Ukrainian president and the Ukrainian government has received the full backing of western political elites and western mass media.

Take all of the factors above in combination and you can see why Putin and Russia are concerned enough about these developments to have a contingency force ready to take on any eventualities. These factors are why the Russian troops stand ready. Russia has stated that it will protect its people in south-eastern Ukraine if they are attacked in a full-scale military campaign by Kiev. That obvious possibility considering points 1 to 9 above is a very real one and an eventuality that neither Putin nor the Russian state can afford to ignore.

With points 1-9 being the case and with the U.S., UK and others backing the mounting aggression being shown by Ukraine, what other choice did Putin and Russia have? They had none. Sit back and hope for the best? No. There was no way they could countenance such a strategy in the circumstance. Russia's troops are there to ensure no such action as described above by Ukraine are taken and if it is, to react swiftly and decisively to end it.

The growing aggression from the Ukrainian authorities with the attendant backing for it and support of it with financial and military assistance from the West shows clearly that the danger inherent in the present situation comes not from Putin or Russia but from Ukraine and the western powers.

Putin has called constantly for the implementation of Minsk to resolve the entire situation. He has never called since the start of the conflict for any solution involving violence. Minsk calls for the authorities in Kiev to speak directly to the leaders of the autonomy-seeking republics and to pass a bill in its Duma to allow federalized status to these regions. This latter is a crucial step as eastern Ukraine has very different loyalties and historical/cultural/ linguistic factors underpinning its society and mentality from the west. These need a system of semi-autonomous control free from oppression and/or domination by Kiev. Without this guarantee of democratic rights to choose the long time heritage beloved by each region further conflict is inevitable.

Yet Kiev refuses to budge, kept fixed in its positioning by ultra-nationalism and deep-seated hatred stemming from as far back as World War Two. Eastern Ukraine in general looks east. Western Ukraine west. Therefore an agreement to resolve this situation after the Euromaidan revolution took down the democratically elected presidency and government of Ukraine in 2014. (A president and government voted in via the greatest majority living in eastern Ukraine and Crimea. By taking them down this was the clear signal to those living in the east that their democratic rights were now nullified.)

The reasons above are why there is an imminent risk of a hot war breaking out at Europe's eastern frontier. The reasons have nothing whatsoever to do with "Russian Aggression". The reality is quite the reverse, this situation has arisen due to western aggression by its getting behind a coup in Kiev in the winter of 2013-14. This has led directly to the situation now prevailing.

But why double down? Why push this so hard? Ukraine is not a strategic asset to the West beyond a certain point. It should not be all or nothing for the West so why does it risk mass bloodshed and a war that would devastate Europe's economy and set back nations even further afield?

The answer lies in the days immediately after the events of 9/11. It was decided in meetings that took place then that ALL entities not in full compliance with the U.S. as the predominant force in the world must be regarded as risks for the nation and must therefore be eliminated as threats. It is dressed up in all kinds of fancy words such as 'Human Rights', 'Democracy', 'Freedom', 'Western Liberal Values' and 'A Rules-Based International System' but at its heart it is merely the push to rid itself of all entities not conforming to its needs and wishes. In practice it is a campaign to remove all non-conforming entities from power and the operative word is ALL and the determination is to do this as soon as possible. Hence no true diplomacy, hence no diminution of pressure and instead the incessant ramping up of pressure on all selected targets.

Above are the reasons why the situation in Ukraine continues to worsen. They are the reasons why bloodshed is almost inevitable. They provide an insight into exactly who is behind the reckless drive toward conflict and quite possibly outright war. And they show precisely why what you are hearing about Ukraine from the West is reality reversed.

 

 

THE FINAL RECKONING IS COMING THAT WILL HUMILIATE ALL WESTERN ELITES

They have squirmed and lied, fought and subverted, betrayed and undermined to the last... but now the final comeuppance is staring the serried ranks of western political elites right in the face.

The campaign of disinformation the West has mounted from its centers of political and media power has failed to stop the factors that will defeat them in the end.

No amount of deceit will avail them now, no treachery will bring them any comfort from the hammer blow of failure about to fall. Their fate is well and truly sealed and if truth be told it always was. The mendacious, malignant and murderous course western elites chose to follow is now turning on them to bring them down to the levels of humiliation they so richly deserve.

There can be no mitigating circumstances now, each opportunity was totally squandered. The bloody trail of slaughter the West indulged in to prove itself after 9/11 damned it completely to a future of total ignominy. The die was cast there and then, the future fate of such a record of self-demeaning barbarism, irresponsibility and wholesale deceit would never be forgotten and would come back to haunt the elites perpetuating these horrors time and time again until the bitter end of their horrendous legacy.

Now, in a geopolitical eyeblink the western elites who have so demeaned their nations by indulging in mass murder based on a pack of lies face total humiliation. Russia and China have risen to stymie all the remaining villainy the West had planned, they have risen to the point of near invulnerability to such dirty tricks and subversion that have marked the malignant course of western foreign policy since the conclusion of World War Two.

The collective back of the murderous extremists that have so infected western foreign policy for so long now is about to be broken. It is purely only a matter of time before their total humiliation and disgrace before the eyes of the world. In defeat they will of course accept no blame. They will curse others for the demise of their plans and failure of their objectives. At best they will slink away out of the public eye and let their minds fester on the subject of who to blame in their memoirs. Their impotent fury and lack of self-awareness will consign them to a coterie of extremist nobodies such as the backwood militias and would be Nazis of America's hinterland.

All the misguided and mindless who supported the Ukraine policy around which the ultimate fate of the hubris-driven, exceptionalist U.S. policy of self-righteous arrogance faltered and fell, will continue to bluster no doubt. Just as those who claimed that if only the USA had bombed Vietnamese peasants more than they did already they would have won that war of U.S.-sponsored and perpetuated carnage. These two historic apologists for mass murder and destruction are only the latest in a long line of patrician, colonialist and imperialist exploitative psychopaths that the West generates like human-body-shaped cancer cells.

Soon the malignant era of western elite dominance will be over. It can be seen faltering daily now. Riven by internal lesions and laden with debt it struggles to land any blows whatsoever in the callous, cynical and endlessly cruel way it has been accustomed to. Its impotence in the face of others with vastly greater stature, integrity and now power and influence will become ever more obvious.

No one will weep due to the passing of the monstrous cabal of demonic exploiters and wannabe modern slave-traders, racist and fascist as they inherently are. No memorial will be erected for them. Their lasting legacy will only be those lessons learned by present and future generations concerning how a group of the western privileged, born of robbery and exploitation determined to win supreme dominance over all others using continual interference composed of lies, threats, acts of subversion, destabilization, murderous military attack and invasion.

The reckoning is coming for those criminal elites of the western world who have so damaged our world and it is now thankfully arriving faster with every day that dawns.

 

 

THE WEST IS IN WAR MODE WHERE TRUTH IS THE CONTINUAL CASUALTY

Mainstream news outlets in the western world continue to report on the words and deeds of their political elites as if the surface context created by them is all there is to consider. No deeper probing of underlying motives are discussed, referred to or even mentioned. Listening to these reports, where state-sanctioned narratives are treated as holy gospel, delivered by virtual saints, any truly insightful individual will smell a rat. These outlets are partners with their elites in an ongoing crime against their populations.

The elites of the western world are waging a war to maintain their dominant status in the world. As in all wars, truth is the first casualty. Barefaced lies are simply one more weapon in an armory where no holds are barred in pursuit of the ultimate goal sought. This goal is the total elimination of all entities opposing complete global dominance by the USA and its allies. The goal is not containment of the leadership of rising Eurasian nations, it is their outright elimination. All means considered necessary are being used in pursuit of this goal.

We have arrived at a fight to the death where only one approach to international systems of governance and one value system will be tolerated by the West should it win. Its elites have left nothing off the table when it comes to the weapons they will use to achieve victory. Deceit at every level, any degree of sophistry believed useful, betrayal to demoralize and confuse, a whole host of the dirtiest tricks dredged up from over a century of global subversion. This is the milieu in which we now live, an end game war where the West fights the dirtiest war in its existence to maintain its failing patrician control of the planet.

The intelligence agencies of the USA and UK are at the forefront of the dirty war being waged. Innumerable plans are continually being organized in minute detail to confuse issues, create false flag events, maintain facades of trust and arrange the undermining of those targeted as enemies. No holds will be barred until this effort by the West is somehow brought to an end by a sufficient rise in the fortunes of the Eurasian nations to make them completely invulnerable to the West's attacks.

Meanwhile, those who live within the propaganda soup that is the western world's mainstream news media will be fed soporific drivel where insight and analysis of any worth is completely absent. Fixed points of reference will be maintained at all times whereby western intentions and deeds are sanitized, portraying them all as innocuous and virtuous attempts to do good. This will remain true, as it did in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, even as hundreds of thousands die, economies are ruined and entire regions of the planet are fragmented into wastelands.

This no holds barred, truth-free environment can be seen in all western elite acts and statements and have been seen for over a decade and a half now. To gain some sense of the truth of any given situation you must now reverse and re-interpret all that emanates from official western sources and their media mouthpieces. The end game war demands that ANY methodology be used no matter how immoral, unethical or downright criminal it may be. The West is in a fight for survival and its claws are permanently bared in a continual war mode. This will remain true until the last moments of its malignant existence while even an iota of its past power remains.

 

 

THE WEST IS PLAYING A LOSING HAND WITH EVER GROWING INCOMPETENCE

Like a gambler who has reached his last reserves of cash to remain in the game and win back his enormous losses, the elites of the western world are becoming increasingly desperate and in their desperation are failing to think with clarity.

Unable to any longer factor in the vital elements of the geopolitical game being played they are making a bad situation progressively worse.

Even at the outset of this "game" the western elites hindered their awareness of the full panoply of factors involved by the fixed nature of their group-thought approach. The mythology of their superiority inevitably brought with it the hubris that has led to all their previous downfalls in the geopolitical sphere. When you assume certain factors to be universally and perpetually true then inevitably you create for yourself a delusionary picture of reality. Thus a myopic state of mind ensues.

The U.S. elites conceive themselves to be infallible, to know best on every subject and to be able to make demands others must obey and if they refuse, to have the capacity to MAKE them obey. This latter at least is beginning to no longer be the case. The rising powers of Eurasia are now more than capable of resisting a fast reducing level of western power. The various sanction regimes that the West can deploy are rapidly resembling an old dog who can no longer learn new tricks, whose teeth are falling out and is in addition dying of rabies.

To act as if you are still at the height of your powers when it is clear to all others in the "game" that you are not makes you ripe for defeat on almost every level imaginable. To assume your threats will be taken seriously when all and sundry are aware just how much you are a wounded beast dying on its feet, makes you ridiculous. Demanding respect you feel is due to you when everyone sees just how disreputable your past acts have been makes you subject to scorn.

Lies justifying mass murder and invasion of nations outwith the sanction of the United Nations and international law has made of U.S. elites a recognised criminal band of lawless terrorists capable of doing immense harm to the planet and no amount of bluster now will change that fact. Pretending past history of its murderous regime change policy was simply composed of a few mistakes and bad decisions doesn't cut it. Some things are as plain as the nose on one's face. And when a gambler has no believable poker face the game is as good as lost.

Russia and China hold all the good cards now. The USA and its simpering supporters such as the United Kingdom hold busted flushes. That the U.S. continues to desperately seek a win that is now totally out of reach means it is merely making a ridiculous spectacle of itself. Russia is key to supplying Europe with natural gas. China already has much of North America in hock and is poised to expand her economy ever further. Both nations, with unified populations, are in lock step toward ever greater cooperation and expansion of both economic and geopolitical influence. The western world by contrast is mired in debt, riven by dissension and losing ever more influence by the day.

While losing hand over fist in the geopolitical game underway, U.S. and UK elites continue to talk as if they run the game instead of presiding continually over a misguided effort to ruin it. Their incapacity to confront reality and incessant habit of assuming the verity of their own delusions of perpetual superiority make them blind to their inevitable failure and ultimate ejection from the game itself. The glory days of the British empire are long gone. The chest-thumping bravado of U.S. exceptionalism is fast collapsing. Hoist on their own petards of self-induced delusion and perpetually refreshed myopia the game is very definitely up for these increasingly frustrated past powers. There will be no more regime change success. No more arm-twisting will be possible. A new geopolitical paradigm is forming. And it is now obvious that the West is playing a losing hand with ever growing incompetence.