SOCIAL MEDIA IS UNDERMINING WESTERN STATE & MASS MEDIA CONDITIONING

What views might you have now, and what preconceptions might you hold, on geopolitical issues if there were only your politicians and mainstream media news available to form them?

Imagine how it would be if you had only western politicians and mainstream media news to rely upon when it came to geopolitical issues. Undoubtedly you watch western legacy media news from time… unless you have wisely totally switched off from it. Likewise regarding western politicians on these kinds of issues and topics. Either way you will doubtless be aware of the kind of content they deliver, 100% in favor of whatever is the agreed state narrative ignoring all else, with a dash of speculation that bigs up the favored side and denigrates the other.

The above is what passes for informing the public when it comes to political entities unload, and journalism when it comes to the primary western news outlets. All will claim they are impartial, unbiased truth tellers simply attempting to provide the facts as they see them. Believe this at your peril. What once passed for integrity within the political sphere and for impartial journalism and news gathering in the mainstream, is now so one-sided and partisan that its true definition is propaganda. Luckily in our day and age we need no longer rely on the “information” these sources offer us.

Corporate interests will always tend to reflect the viewpoints, attitudes and agendas of the Establishment. Those who work within the spheres of established concerns such as the BBC, CNN and all the others that make up the most prominent “news” organizations all belong to the same club and as comedian George Carlin memorably stated, “You Ain’t In It” and neither are most of those who work within social media. This excludes certain well-heeled rebels such as Elon Musk of course, but in the main those who would be authentic truth tellers tend not to be of the well-heeled class. This is why it is very possible you will hear something closer to the truth from them.

This is not to say that everything on social media is more trustworthy than that which you can find in mainstream news outlets. There are plenty of individuals who wish to deliver the exact same message as you will find in the mainstream on the Ukraine conflict for instance. YouTube is full of them and search engines like Google prioritize them. In fact, using Google to search for those who see things differently from the mainstream outlets are almost impossible to find via Google and not all that easy performing a YouTube search either. Finding out who to trust is a long-term project that starts with a recommendation most times. A name is suggested such as Alexander Mercouris. Then you watch and listen to him and decide over time if you can trust he is providing something close to the reality in Ukraine at any one time.

Once you have created a subscription list on YouTube of the individuals you most trust then you have a good, solid base for understanding the other side of the Ukraine conflict that the mainstream avoids like the plague. They will tell you something of what is happening both positively and negatively for each side. They won’t talk solely on the positive aspects of the Ukrainian prospects and activities of the last 24 hours, they will deliver an overview on how both sides have fared over the last 12 or 24 hours. Whereas on mainstream news channels there is a vow of silence on a whole raft of no-no subjects and a mandatory positive spin on others. On social media, if you have found, through consistency of delivery, trustworthy sources your chances of gaining a true insight into conflicts such as that in Ukraine is far higher than through mainstream media news.

It is a rather scary and forbidding concept, to imagine our world where only the mainstream view exists. That world is the world George Orwell conceived of in his novel ‘1984’, a world where the state and its functionaries determined what was real and what was not and manipulated all aspects of news to condition their populations into accepting their distortions as fact. The present western world in a great many respects mirrors the dystopian and totalitarian world Orwell conceived of. If your view conflicts with the mandated views of the Establishment and others are influenced by you, you could be made into a non-person via the cancel culture that now dominates in the West. If you are like Scott Ritter and demand to have the free speech promised by the U.S. Constitution you may have your house raided by the FBI. The threat is always there that if you say things that the State disagrees with you could be in big trouble.

The western world, the supposedly ‘Free World’ is being turned into the ‘Fear World’ of Orwell, through an Establishment gripped by fear that it is losing its grip and is no longer as able to manipulate us as it was before. Social media has interrupted and intervened to ask questions concerning state narratives that newspapers and TV news applying actual journalism used to do. Now that mainstream news outlets are fully supportive of western state narratives there is no longer an agency within the mainstream to protect us from the abuses of power we know do emanate from the Establishment, especially at times such as these. Of course, until now it is still a relative minority who have the time and inclination to delve deeper than the mainstream narratives via social media. The majority remain the ‘Headline Surfers’ who feel they need nothing more than that to be ‘in the know’.

Those who have taken the trouble to look deeper are in for a shock. To find out just how corrupted mainstream “news” has become will hit people hard, their whole world view may change. Instead of having a degree of respect for mainstream figures in both political and media spheres they may well find themselves absolutely loathing them and will take care to avoid being exposed to lies and serial attempts to condition and brainwash them. It may not be evident just yet but the number of those who have come through the shockwave of understanding just how much the Establishment lies to us has grown very large and its effects will be seen across many election cycles. Already quite a number of politicians have fallen victim to the so-called ‘Zelensky Curse’ and I predict we will soon see the fall of a great many more.

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Some recommended internet sources on geopolitical issues:

Individuals (A-Z):

Brian Berletic 

Rachel Blevins

Max Blumenthal

Russell Brand

Alex Christoforou 

Emil Cosman

Ambassador Alastair Crooke

Dr. Gilbert Doctorow

Daniel Davis

Professor Glenn Diesen

George Galloway

Danny Haiphong

Katie Halper

Ambassador Chas Freeman

Levan Gudadze

Captain Matthew Hoh

Kim Iversen

Larry Johnson

Alex Krainer

Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski

Patrick Lancaster

Colonel Douglas MacGregor

Aaron Maté

Ambassador Jack Matlock

Caleb Maupin

Professor John J. Mearsheimer

Alexander Mercouris 

Ray McAndrew

Lena Petrova

Professor Ted Postol

Scott Ritter

Sabby Sabs

Professor Jefrey Sachs

Professor Richard Sakwa

Sebastian Sas

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson 

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Websites (A-Z):

Breakthrough News

Dialogue Works

Judging Freedom

Neutrality Studies

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The Duran

The Grayzone

The New Atlas

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THE MORE THE WEST LOSES THE GREATER NUMBER OF LIES IT MUST TELL

What is true these days when almost every individual, public relations group and news network can assert that their reality, and only their reality, is the clear and complete truth?

The western powers won’t lose in Ukraine. Zelensky will achieve his victory and the Russians will be defeated.

All of the above will come true… on paper and on your screen. No matter what happens in Ukraine.

All western mainstream news outlets are completely impartial and constantly exhibit the very best practices and principles of journalism. 

Putin plans to attack, invade and occupy all of Europe after taking Ukraine if he is not stopped, before embarking upon a conquest of the USA. This is a true and accurate reflection of the current reality… Lloyd Austin has said so.

The events that occurred in the south-east of Ukraine from 2014 until the present day are not relevant to the war Russia began to wage against Ukraine in February 2022. Fifteen thousand deaths during the years from 2014 (most of them Russian-speaking civilians) are not a factor requiring any consideration.

Whatever you may have heard concerning what happened between 2014 and February 2022 in south-eastern Ukraine does not pertain in any way to the “unprovoked” attack upon Ukraine by Russia. If you are curious about whatever happened there at that time there is only one thing you need to know, it was brought about by “Russian aggression”.

The events which took place on Kiev’s Maidan Square from late 2013 to early 2014 can be characterized as a people’s revolt against repression and was a peaceful demonstration of democracy in action. The president and government of that time were culpable for the deaths of the ‘Heavenly Hundred’ who died at the hands of their psychopathic security services. The demonstrators were totally peaceful, no gun was fired, no Molotov cocktail was thrown, neither bricks, clubs, chains, nor toxic sprays were in evidence. No government buildings were burned down due to this demonstration of wholly justified peoples’ power.

The USA nor the EU influenced the events on the Maidan and no officials for those entities attempted to influence the proceedings, nor did they make speeches in support of the protestors or make a phone call discussing who should be a member of the new government once the peaceful protestors had ousted those, who had certainly NOT been democratically elected.

There was no peoples’ revolt in south-eastern Ukraine concerning the fall of the president and government of Ukraine. They certainly did not fear for their lives, culture and language as a result. The Ghandi-like peaceful protestors who did not use any form of violence against the security forces on the Maidan would never harm them in any way. Seventeen policemen did not die as a result of the peaceful protest conducted with honor and dignity by the virtual saints opposing the evil government on Maidan Square.

No troops, tanks, helicopters or planes were sent to south-eastern Ukraine when the Russian-fomented coup occurred there. The Russian plot to invade and conquer Ukraine was defeated using dialogue from afar.

No referendum took place in the Donbass. This was merely a fiction spread by Russian propaganda.

There are no men or women in Ukraine that honor the memory of Adolf Hitler or the Nazi troops that occupied Ukraine and took part in the invasion of Russia, ‘Operation Barbarossa’. No Ukrainian would ever dream of having their body tattooed with swastikas, neither would any political party in Ukraine employ the same salute used by the Nazis during World War Two. All Ukrainians who live in are completely peaceful individuals, tolerant of all ethnic minorities and would never dream of denying any ethnic minority of their language or cultural affiliations. Quite the reverse.

The new Minister of Education never visited kindergartens asking children their names, nor did she chastise those with Russian names nor praise those with Ukrainian names.

No symbol used by political parties in Ukraine bears any resemblance to those used by the National Socialists during World War Two. If any such symbols were misconstrued as such this is simply due to the ignorance of the observer.

No torch-lit parades ever take place in Ukraine and no chant concerning “Russians on knives” has ever been heard in Ukraine.

The Russian-speaking people of eastern Ukraine were never given the pejorative name, ‘Moskals’ to identify them as nothing better than Russians. There has been no effort whatsoever to harm such people, to torture, murder or ethnically cleanse them.

If there is any question concerning blame for the present conflict in Ukraine there is only one fact that need be recognised; everything has been the fault of the Russians.

Soon the glorious Ukrainian people, in all their righteous purity and innocence will drive the evil Orcs from their land and not a hair on the head of any of the Russian-speaking people of those regions will be touched. There has been no and there will be no filtering system to identify and eliminate those who welcomed the Russian invaders.

All will be sweetness and light once the Russian Orcs have been driven out. The Ukrainian economy will boom and every last home, road, shopping center, park, theater and pavement will be repaired and renewed within weeks of Ukraine’s total liberation.

Volodomyr Zelensky will receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

(This last is the only statement likely to prove true from all of the above.) 

THE USA HAS CREATED A SCHIZOID WORLD, TORN IN TWO BY A GROTESQUE AMBITION

Whether you think the motivations of the USA and its allies are good or bad there is no denying their global effects.

There is much to be said for the USA and the vast majority of its people. Anyone who has toured extensively in the United States knows just how beautiful the country is in those areas not yet transformed into industrial modernity. On those journeys many of you will hopefully have made and on other occasions through your lives you will have come to know the general warmth and friendliness of those who count themselves as Americans. Though parts of the USA and some of its people lack similar positive attributes, there are only very few aspects of North America that concern and constantly trouble the rest of the world.

The first such negative attribute I would like to talk of which affects many populations world wide is the apparent obsession elite America has with interfering in hundreds of nations far, far from its borders. While unashamedly engaging themselves in the internal politics of other nations, elite America comes down extremely hard on even the remotest possibility of any nation doing anything similar within its borders. This even extends to nations entirely independent of the USA within Latin/South America which has been referred to as ‘America’s Backyard’.

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Wikipedia

‘The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. The doctrine was central to American grand strategy in the 20th century.’

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The American elites have used their influence over the centuries since the founding of the USA to reach the preeminent position of the world’s most powerful superpower. They are extremely focused on maintaining this position and the power at their disposal. You will hear them talk of their determination to protect and maintain their ‘national interests’ worldwide and their determination to strike out at anything threatening those interests. The global reach of the USA with its hundreds of military bases spread out across the planet is testament to this determination. Through hard power, always ready to strike out at those who may diminish U.S. influence and interests, and soft power, the ability to manipulate events positively for American elites through “diplomacy” American elites exert their overbearing influence.

All of the above was seen to be more or less adequate to maintain America’s national interests… until 9/11. 9/11 utterly transformed the view taken of the world by the U.S. elites, primarily those in the political sphere of course, but also, and irrevocably and with enormous consequences, by the mainstream media sphere also. After 9/11 we saw the attitude of America’s elites change to the world beyond U.S. borders. No longer content with the level of hard and soft power that preceded 9/11, now it had to be boosted exponentially toward unspecified and in fact unlimited borders. The rest of the world, contained to a certain degree within reasonably acceptable boundaries before 9/11, now had to be TOTALLY contained. If it was not totally contained, America would, to that degree, be rendered unsafe. And vital national interests would be at risk.

The ambition post-9/11 was to have full control rather than partial control, of world events and the people, groups, governments and systems of governance who brought those events into being. The only safeguard was to know as close to all that was going on as possible, to monitor the progress of every vector of nascent force and be able to punch down swiftly to snuff out potentially dangerous activities at will with no risk of negative consequences. The perceived, overwhelming urgency of the situation after 9/11 meant that the relatively background control that these elites had beforehand now required to be brought fully into the foreground. Thus ‘The War on Terror’ began. And consecutively, the project to attain ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ was to be progressed where all individuals, groups, governments and systems of governance that did not align with America’s national interests were to be weakened, then eliminated and replaced. 

While the USA engaged with its allies in ‘The Coalition of the Willing’ in its regime change wars after 9/11 those outside this fraternity looked on with at the very least, skepticism and undoubtedly in the case of a great many, with fear. All nations outside the U.S. sphere of semi- or full control knew what this change in U.S. foreign policy meant. And what it meant for the future. They would have been under no illusions about what this radical change now being acted upon U.S. foreign policy prefigured. This was nothing other than the American elite acting determinedly to engineer what would be in effect a prison planet as the solution to the lack of their control that had resulted in the events of 9/11.

Only full, overarching awareness in depth could provide what the American elites desperately required in order to feel that they and their nation’s interests could be protected. This of course required the safeguarding of their present abilities to control, manipulate and predict outcomes across the widest possible range of strategic concern and of the expansion of these abilities to the absolute limit, that limit being the objective of ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’. No more was anything going to be left to chance. Not after 9/11. Threat surveillance would be expanded toward total insight and response. No nation harboring even the remotest anti-American sentiment could be allowed to escape its transformation to being fully compliant with the U.S as world leader. In addition, any nation rising economically, and thus presenting a threat to American national economic interests, was to be engaged with a view to undermining, weakening and if possible eliminating it in that form.

The nations of the global majority, including those of the global South, Eurasia, the Near, Middle and Far East plus Asia, Eurasia, Latin America and elsewhere saw all this and exactly what it portended for them. There was to be no true sovereignty of nations outside the U.S. orbit. Semi-sovereignty would be allowed only within the confines of a compliant relationship in the context of supreme western domination. No national interests of other nations could ever possibly be allowed to attain the level of importance accorded to those of the USA and its allies. Master and slave after 9/11 would not have been the semantic framing U.S. strategic planners would have used… but this was the reality awaiting all but ‘Coalition of the Willing’ nations if they continued to wish obstinately to remain independent of outside control.

Now you can see very clearly what is at stake for both sides in, for instance, Ukraine. And also in regard to Taiwan. Add any other area of major conflict of interest such as Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Yemen, Somalia et al. The selfsame factor as described above is at play. American elites talk of the ‘Manifest Destiny’ of the USA to transform the world, into its own image. But also to transform the rest of the world so that it permanently, in everlasting perpetuity, bows down to that image also. This is, in a nutshell, what is going on this very day across the world, the fight, instigated by one nation and its allies to subvert the notion of sovereignty enshrined in the United Nations and replace it with a western stipulated rules-based order where the rules are entirely determined by the elites of the collective west.

THE USA HAS CREATED A SCHIZOID WORLD, TORN IN TWO BY A GROTESQUE AMBITION

ZELENSKY IS CLEARING THE DECKS, MIRRORING THE END OF ALL SUCH MEGALOMANIACS

There is a certain fateful pattern to the last days of those who see themselves, and only themselves, as the single universal solution to all their country's needs.

When the end is clearly near a frantic effort is often made to create a change in such circumstances. The panic which tends to infest the brain in these circumstances largely precludes the possibility of determining good options which will indeed effect such a change for the better. So it appears in relation to the news today that seven of Zelensky’s ministers have tendered their resignations.

This comes immediately after a devastating Russian strike on a military academy where foreign instructors (Swedish nationals apparently) were training Ukrainian troops in the art of electronic warfare. At least a hundred in total died or were injured. Add to this the loss in the past week of around six HIMARS systems in the Ukrainian region of Sumy which lies adjacent to Russia’s Kursk region. For good measure there is also the Russians taking large swathes of territory and villages along the Donbass line of contact.

Zelensky certainly doesn’t need to go searching for problems. Every day brings more to his door. This is highly reminiscent of the situation and mentality of Adolf Hitler in the closing weeks of the second world war when he hid in the infamous bunker beneath Berlin that was to see his end. No doubt Zeelensky will be shipped out to save his vile skin when his time comes however. What’s the betting whether he will fear the Russians or his own people at that point?

Zelensky, said to be rather overfond of a certain white powder must be running through quite a bit of it right now. The collapse that has been a long time coming is now looking more inevitable than ever. He has already lost a commander in chief because he found Zelensky (like Hitler) giving orders when he had no background knowledge of military tactics and strategy but who just “knew” what needed to be done. Think ‘Operation Barbarossa’ against Russia. Hitler refused all the pleading from officers at the front who saw their men dying in a lost cause. Zelensky has the same ego-fuelled and terminally delusional self-regard as Adolf Hitler going since the start of this conflict.

The loud, virtually never-ending applause Zelensky received with plaudits ringing continually in his ears has made him almost as ruinous for Ukraine as Hitler was for Germany. Ukraine has lost the lives or health of some half a million in a conflict Russia never wanted but that the western powers ensured was inflicted on both nations every step of the way, taking care to block Russia’s every attempt to find sustainable diplomatic solutions. The incredible, cold-blooded cynicism and cold-blooded strategies of the West to do this are breathtaking in their demonic nature.

So now, unable to trust the abilities and advice of his closest advisers and ministers of his government, it appears Zelensky has decided that being a full-blown dictator is the best solution now. The megalomania involved appears terminal. No doubt he has become completely paranoid, believing he is surrounded by people seeking to overthrow him or, at the very least, people who he can no longer trust in the least. Now he will stand alone, making every decision on the basis of whatever madcap idea comes into his mind next. Either that or he will tap the most malleable lackeys he can that he believes will immediately jump to his orders.

This new ‘Winston Churchill’ is much more like Stalin than Churchill or any other western “hero” that British or U.S. acolytes and sycophants may wish to brand him. Notoriously corrupt and terminally arrogant he will no doubt soon shuffle off to one of his Swiss palaces bought from western taxpayers’ hard won paychecks. There he will continue to bray in that dark brown voice of his regaling a diminishing number of people who will listen to him, of how he was so right in all he did… if only, this, that or the other had been done by others.

WHO IS BEST POSITIONED TO FINANCE A FOREVER WAR IN UKRAINE?

With factors such as a stable, growing economy, a supportive social sphere & allies able & willing to provide assistance...who can best sustain the ongoing fight between The West & Russia in Ukraine?

The conflict in Ukraine will continue for the foreseeable future and may in fact continue, in one form or another, for a great many years ahead. What is at stake for both sides and the now clear and unresolvable enmity involved between Russia and West it will perhaps never conclusively end as the factors in play reveal intractable differences between the two sides. A full settlement where a peace closely resembling normality in the region appears completely unattainable at this point.

Talk of peace, negotiations to bring peace and peace formulas on all sides appear to be only public relations exercises to manipulate public opinion and the attitudes of allied national leaders on both sides. The chances of a true, stable, lasting peace I regard as zero at this point. Only one side or the other achieving total victory will achieve this. And even then moves will inevitably follow to wage a covert war of some kind as the overarching factors well above those purely regarding Ukraine will remain untouched regardless of that conflict’s outcome.

The western powers want two things that currently they are using Ukraine for as a potential springboard to achieving. They want to shore up, build and significantly increase in strength the reach, power and manipulative influence they have had globally since the end of world war II. This desire to dominate once again globally ties in precisely with the second goal which is to attain ‘full spectrum dominance’ brought about by a totally effective system of global surveillance. This latter goal of course cannot be achieved to its fullest extent without achieving the first. Defeating Russia in Ukraine is vital if the project to attain both goals is to move forward.

Nine Eleven was the genesis for both goals above. Prior to nine eleven the USA (and is proxies) were content (in the main, outside the sphere of neocon influence) to maintain the status quo whereby U.S. soft power maintained the interests of the USA worldwide with military bases in place to ensure no one had any ideas of opposing its power. Nine Eleven destroyed all faith in this setup being sufficient to maintain those interests. More and larger bases would not solve this new reality, more threats, bribes or inducements would also not be sufficient to do so. A new, overarching and far more ambitious strategy was required. The talks immediately after nine eleven clearly arrived at the following conclusions:

1. ALL anti-western individuals, governments and systems of governance MUST be weakened, subverted, eliminated and replaced.
2. A comprehensive system of in-depth global surveillance MUST be established to ensure no such event as nine eleven would ever again occur.

This is why the conflict in Ukraine is VERY unlikely to ever, conclusively end. If it ends in Russian favour then the two goals above, seen as utterly VITAL for U.S. national security will not be achieved. Too many major obstacles lie ahead of the defeat of Russia for it not to happen. The overthrow of the Iranian authorities, those of Syria and above all others such as Yemen, Somalia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, is China. Russia was chosen as a primary target after the semi-failures/semi-successes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. These latter were sufficiently weakened, if not brought as hoped for to the conclusion desired. 

This is not to say the Nine Eleven goals are achievable. As we have seen in the final four nations mentioned directly above, there is no realistic prospect of the rather naive new world order with the U.S. firmly in charge arriving any time soon. And certainly no prospect of its arrival at all in the form dreamed of as the ideal where the USA and its allies exist in perfect safety, comprehensively dominating all others and able to spy on and react to the activities and opinions of everyone at all times. No system, no matter how draconian and totalitarian wil suppress everyone 24/7 without stimulating the very revolt it seeks to quash.

But the above demonstrates how important the defeat of Russia is at least. For after Russia comes the big one, China. After the defeat of china the defeat of the small fry mentioned above becomes child’s play. But Russia is the major stumbling block that the collective west MUST remove if it is to have an open avenue of attack toward China. With Russia still able to mount resistance the ability of the USA & co. to have at it in full force against China is severely limited. Russia mUST be defeated. There MUST be regime change in Russia and its people brought to heel, its systems and present figures of authority eliminated and replaced.

So, the war in Ukraine between the collective west and Russia is about SO much more than Ukraine or the Ukrainian people. It is about the West defeating Russia, making Russia economically weak, about stirring up its people against Putin and the present Russian authorities, fomenting insurrection and attaining regime change. This was what the financial and economic sanctions against Russia were designed to do after pushing Russia into waging the present war. Russia was to collapse like a house of cards with the resulting chaos bringing about a ‘Russian Spring’ where western influence became paramount being framed as ‘friendly assistance’.

But Russia not only was not weakened by the western sanctions, it is clear that it has begun to thrive under them, and partly due to them. Niche areas of the Russian arena, vacated by high value western companies and brands have been filled by Russian-owned enterprises and products. The profits and of course the taxes from these developments now stay in Russia and are now free to be invested in Russia. The resultant growth of the Russian economy has been one of the most unexpected outcomes of the western sanctions and is generating much dismay in the West. In addition, the expected (by the West) withdrawal of Russia’s most prominent trading partners from it due to the Ukraine conflict didn’t happen. In fact the reverse occurred, they grew closer.

AS Russia was growing stronger Europe was growing much weaker. Without cheap Russian oil and natural gas the costs of western industry soared. Germany was hardest hit but all across Europe populations felt the difference. They began to feel much poorer than before the sanctions regime was put in place. The USA also felt it at first though Biden put a policy in place that added to the damage being done in Europe but gave the USA a shield of sorts to limit it. This was the Inflation Reduction Act. It should have been abundantly clear to the allies of the USA in Europe that they were being thrown under the bus by the U.S., and would always be whenever push came to shove. Europe then can be seen to be incapable of matching Russian power in the conflict in Ukraine. But what of the USA?

The USA, with a national debt heading toward $35 trillion and interest payments of $billions still manages to retain an exceptional status regarding its many economic woes due to the remaining power within its economy. However, the rot within U.S. society can plainly be seen across many diverse factors of which the average American is very aware. Illegal drug use, the remaining vast inequality, rising crime, police racism and abuse, a medical service either unattainable or likely to bankrupt, a political system where lobby groups and special interests prevail and a foreign policy making the USA a target of increasing dislike and disdain. Can the USA afford to continue to fund the Ukrainian regime? Just about. But can it afford to continue to supply weaponry and munitions to the degree the Kiev regime craves?

This latter point concerning what the Americans call “aid” is where te USA is weakest when it comes to continuing the fight with Russia. Not only are its stocks low and not being replenished anywhere near those of Russia, Russia is also increasingly destroying everything it does provide. Russia’s military industrial complex is running in high gear while the USA has just told the Ukrainian regime not to expect many more HIMARS missiles as it cannot possibly keep up with its demands. At the same time the American taxpayer is increasingly resistant to its government sending every more billions of their money to a the corrupt leaders of the most corrupt nation in Europe, if not the world.

While the West has increasing problems funding its war via Ukraine Russia has only positive aspects regarding its potential to keep up the fight. Russia’s allies are now lending a helping hand while the USA’s allies in Europe, such as Germany, have empty pockets and armories. China is lending Russia moral support and friendship. India too. North Korea and Iran are doing this too and more, they supply a very useful arsenal of missiles and drones for Russian use. Besides Russian MIC at full steam and allies helping on the battlefront Russia has more friends entering the scene via BRICS. Over forty nations are now in the queue to join. So, who is best placed to continue the fight in Ukraine and win… I leave it up to you to decide. 

WHAT IF… IN UKRAINE?

What if... almost everything western mainstream news outlets have told you about Ukraine is a lie?

What if… Zelensky initiated a madcap act of desperation one day a few weeks ago and ordered his Commander in Chief Syrski to transfer the bulk of his most battle-hardened, best trained and experienced troops from the Donbass front to mount an incursion into Russia?

What if… the sending of the Ukrainian regime’s best troops to Russia’s Kursk region left only the least battle ready recent conscripts in Donbass region with the result that the Russian military is able to take important village after village and town after town with far greater ease than before?

What if… the much-vaunted F16 fighter jets that Ukraine has received make the little difference that even western military experts and commentators are saying?

What if… western nations refuse to allow the targeting of distant Russian locations with western long-range missiles?

What if… the Kiev regime is losing all its best-trained and most professional soldiers and a large number of its most effective military vehicles in the Kursk region?

What if… the Kursk incursion has now ground to a halt having failed to make Russia divert the large number of troops from the Donbass front as planned?

What if… the Ukrainian troops and vehicles now in the Kursk region are now steadily defeated with mass casualties with no word from Zelensky allowing them to either retreat or surrender?

What if… the Ukrainian troops along the Donbass front are beginning to make loud complaints about the chaos they see around them of officers unable to risk relating the truth of that chaos and instead passing along false information making all and sundry blind to the oncoming threat?

What if… the forced conscripts, 50 years old and over, dragged off the streets of Ukraine, given a week’s training before being sent to the front lines are seeking any way they can to escape the fighting to return to their families?

What if… the defenses along the Donbass front are in disarray and not kept to any professional standard (as reported by a British mercenary leader recently) and that this is yet another reason why the Russians are liberating hamlets, villages, towns and cities so fast now?

What if… the Ukrainian troops have only one shell to fire by comparison with the Russian military’s six?

What if… the Russian army is becoming bigger, better trained, more battle-hardened and experienced while the Ukrainian army is becoming smaller, weaker, demoralized and looking merely to survive until the inevitable Russian victory and terms of surrender are announced so they needn’t die for places in eastern Ukraine they care nothing for?

What if… the entire West is humiliated in Ukraine when the Ukrainian army completely collapses with its troops running as fast as they can back to western Ukraine to wreak their revenge upon Zelensky and all his murderous minions?

What if… Russia gains such an enormous victory in Ukraine that it becomes the stuff of legend such as the Russian heroes of The Great Patriotic War, World War Two?

What if… the coming Russian victory in Ukraine precipitates the complete collapse of confidence in both NATO and western power in general?

What if… after Russia’s victory in Ukraine ever more nations are inspired to join the victors in their BRICS group and proceed to join with others to use their own currencies in preference to the US dollar?

What if… in the wake of the West losing its proxy war in Ukraine it results in an enormous dissipation of its power and influence resulting eventually in it being effectively quarantined and no longer able to bully the world into doing its will in its sole interest any more?

What if… in consequence of the war in Ukraine we eventually see the birth of a tru;y multipolar world where there is tolerance for diverse systems of government, closer connections between nations worldwide, strengthened bonds through trade, better relations through efforts at mutual understanding and in time the creating of a true, abiding, and stable civilization upon our planet?  

WILL THE WEST WIN IN UKRAINE ON A DIET OF REGIME-GENERATED FANTASIES?

What is most likely to win a war, a slick advertising campaign based on smoke & mirrors, or professional troops led by commanders who can strategize expertly based on hard facts?

If you listen to commentators linked to western mainstream institutions on YouTube you will get the distinct impression that everything is going swimmingly in Ukraine. Russia is being defeated, Putin has been humiliated and the West’s support for the Ukrainian regime is a noble thing bearing great fruit. Just as U.S. officers in Afghanistan emphasized the positive steps they were taking rather than talk of the reality of how badly things were going,in the selfsame way Ukrainian officers, fearful of being demoted or even sacked, send similar missives back to Kiev.

While the Russian high command are certainly seeking to gain the most accurate information, bad or good from the battlefield, so as to plan the next best strategic moves, the U.S. has long complained that it was not getting accurate information from Kiev. This has been the situation in Ukraine from the get go. With far fewer resources than Russia in terms of manpower, technology, industrial capacity and virtually all else, the Ukrainian regime needed factoids they could relate to their western sponsors that gave a positive spin and gloss on things. This has created a culture of lies that makes strategic thinking near impossible.

In recent days Ukrainian troops on the front lines have complained bitterly that their commanders (who they sarcastically refer to as “geniuses”) are telling bare-faced lies to their superiors back in Kiev who will certainly pass this “good news” on to Zelensky. The same Ukrainian soldiers on the line of contact talk of a chaos of uncoordinated strategies conducted in the absence of good information, of ignorance concerning the Russians and their current positions. No one wants to communicate the bad news that Russia has taken this village or town and so the Russian lines are not known to the troops who are supposed to be doing the defending.

The above lamentable circumstances plus the large percentage of forced and only partially-trained Ukrainians along the Donbass front lines, having been left to hold the fort while the better trained and battle-hardened troops left for Kursk, means that Russia is moving at speed toward the most strategically vital Ukrainian targets there. Pokrovsk, the vital logistical hub for the Ukrainians in the region west of Avdeevka is likely to fall in the next several weeks. There are very few Ukrainian lines of fortification beyond Pokrovsk to the West and with Pokrovsk liberated the door is wide open for Russia to take all the land up to the eastern bank of the Dnieper river.

Yet with all of the above being a very stone cold reality you will not find any particular dismay among the western academics, commentators and pundits who know they can only provide a wholly partial rendition of the facts. The level of bias mixed with wishful thinking, cherry-picking of certain events which can be blown up from minor wins to major ones and a total ban on anything that presents Russia or the Russian military in anything but a negative way leaves viewers of such material blind to what is really going on. And this is even more true when it comes to the transfer of the Kiev regime’s “information” on this, that and the other concerning almost anything under the sun. These fantasies spawned from delusion and active, bare-faced lie-telling propaganda creates a miasma that creates an enormous vulnerability.

Russia presses forward inexorably, keeping all lines of attack in coordination. Accurate data is transferred between units and to central command. The winning of the conflict depends upon this. The Russian Ministry of Defense holds back on announcing gains until they are totally verified and not before. The Russians understand the vital importance of accurate information while the Ukrainian regime fights a PR war, constantly seeking to send good news to its sponsors so they keep supplying the vital money and machines without which they would very soon collapse. You can’t fight and win a war with theatrics like this. Ultimately you lose through their use as you blind yourself and all allies seeking to promote your chances.

This is one of the main reasons why Russia is winning. While the western powers was never going to bring themselves to stop the supply of money, machines and manpower to the Kiev regime this war was always destined to continue long after it should have been lost by Ukraine. So the fantasy world that western commentators are spinning and the delusions of grandeur and victory that Zelensky clearly has can go on almost indefinitely. But hard reality will naturally continue to prevail. Russia will continue inflicting massive casualties and continue taking ever more territory. No fantasy or delusion will be able to hide these hard facts. 

Sooner or later the shock of having been told one lie after another by their politicians and mainstream media news outlets will hit western populations. There will, without doubt, be a massive hue and cry, just as there was when the Iraqi WMD scam was exposed. Of course new lies will be required by these sources in an attempt to cover the old ones. Russia couldn’t defeat Ukraine, couldn’t attain its goal of conquering and occupying Ukraine will be the chief lie to cover their arses. That Russia never wanted this war and did everything possible (Minsk-Istanbul) to avoid it will not matter. The most expedient lies will simply be endlessly repeated until western audiences are benumbed into frustrated silence.

Yet another fantasy world where the West has won will emerge on its defeat in Ukraine. NATO will be said to have come out of it larger and stronger. Some form of war against Russia will continue where it is said it faces defeat and humiliation. Projections of this kind will abound. The West will be doing just fine. All is well… now let’s concentrate on waging war against China next. 

Though Russia will still be lambasted as the greatest evil ever known in general, like a dog licking its wounds in silence news of Ukraine will fast disappear from the headlines of major news outlets across the West. Just as those regarding Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have done.

Delusion, fantasy and the fabrication of a positive scenario regarding the West and its righteous and sanctimonious goodness will continue even more ferociously into the future. Just as no one believed anything published by the state officials of the former Soviet Union, only very few deluded sous will believe the increasingly totalitarian epithets, statements and Orwellian pronouncements emerging from the White House, Whitehall or Brussels. Despite every attempt to keep feeding the delusion of the West’s greatness the reality of its decline will be seen in all its stark reality by the focused, reality-based eyes of the global majority. The West’s decline into ever-deeper levels of fantasy and delusion at this point is most certainly assured.