Conspiracies and Killers

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Justin Trudeau, Joe Biden, Margaret Thatcher, Hillary Clinton, Lindsay Graham, Nancy Pelosi, Lizz Truss, John McCain, Keir Starmer all condemn Vladimir Putin as a soulless monster, a killer, a murderer, dictator and war criminal—without any real evidence.

But does evidence matter?

Take the trial of that Jewish guy, Jesus.

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find any. Many testified falsely against him, but their statements did not agree.

Then some stood up and gave this false testimony against him: “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with human hands and in three days will build another, not made with hands.’” ⁵⁹ Yet even then their testimony did not agree. Gospel according to Mark

Lack of evidence didn’t matter.

Jesus got crucified anything. For which poor old Pontius got blamed.

Since it couldn’t be proven J was conspiring against anything or anybody on this earth, the logical conclusion was that he was conspiring against, well…everything.

If the rationality of this escapes you, just read the New York Times or WaPo or listen to Sir Keir talk or maybe Donald Trump.

Jesus and his Disciples were the very first Jewish Conspirators, the model for all later Jewish Conspiracies. Which is not to say that there are not real conspiracies, but the moment someone produces a “theory” it must be testable. To prove it, one must first try to disprove it. So much for Jewish people ruling the world.

Am I digressing?

What’s all this got to do with Putin?

The Putin Conspiracy

Simply put, it is very, very difficult to prove the Putin or Russia are conspiring against the West, as Western politicians, pundits, think tanks, academicians, journalists, and a lot of cranks on “X” want to say.

But very easy to prove the opposite— that he is conspired against!

Of course, Putin is said to be half-Jewish, like that guy two centuries ago.

The other half is Russian, which as Hitler could have told you is a lot worse. But I don’t think these things are relevant. Certainly, the Russians don’t care.

Still, I am surprised this has not sparked a new Jewish conspiracy theory.

The anthropology of Conspiracism

“Conspiracism” goes back at least 10,000 years to the first large, multi-group, hierarchical “civilizations” – first tribal, then multi-tribal. Paleo civilizations didn’t do “conspiracy” because a.) reverse dominance b.) egalitarianism c.) they were single group societies d.) they were matrist if not matriarchal

Later, the larger tribal societies had in-groups and out-groups. And, of course, there were also other neighbouring tribes competing for resources. So one group was always conspiring against another, seeking domination and resources. YOUR group was good; theirs not so much. Naturally, no group would admit to being motivated by simple greed.

Today, the West is a super-tribe.

It sees Russia – and also China—as part of one huge conspiracy against all that is decent and good — which can only originate in the West like…like…um…the Kardanshians? McDonalds? Microsoft? I dunno – there MUST be something “decent and good” west of Moscow?

The point is these other tribes beyond the pale just hate us for what they don’t have and we do, even if they don’t really want what we have or even if we don’t really have what we think they want.

Does that make sense? Maybe not. Sorry, I am still working on figuring out Grade Five addition and subtraction.

"Why do they hate us? They hate our freedoms --freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other. George W Bush

Aha! I get it! To stop them hating us we just have to get rid of those pesky freedoms.

Oh, we already have?

Freedom of religion? … Sorta of, as long as you are not anti-Zionist. Freedom of speech? Ummm…NOT! Certainly not at a university. Freedom to vote? HaHa. Which clone do you choose? Freedom to assemble? Ask antizionist demonstrators or people in LA. Freedom to disagree. LOL. Free love? Pleaaaaaaaaaassseee.

We’ve done our bit to compromise. But “they”—the Russkies, the Chinese, and brown people who are terrorists, cartel members, murderers, rapists and eat poodles – are out to get us.

It’s a conspiracy.

Who to blame?

With conspiracies, it is always helpful to have someone to blame, so kids can see his picture in their history text book.

Who to blame has been a tough question in the case of Western conspiracy theories.

Up until now at least, you just said “Putin”.

But Trump says he and Vova are buddies.

But for the Donald, the Presidency is just a Gig job. We can hardly take anything he says or does seriously.

Vova is still the guy on the wanted poster to all those people I just mentioned at the beginning of this piece plus the Democrats, anti-Zionists, and the Federal Government as a whole.

The Time Honored Tradition of Hate

Now, I am talking like there is no foundation to the time-honored tradition that is Russia conspiring against the West, seeking domination. It’s like I don’t watch Netflix or something.

Of course there is less hard evidence proving the Russians want to control the world than there was for Jesus advocating violent rebellion. But look how that turned out! Hey, how many jillions have Christians killed?

Neither Stalin --who had Trotsky murdered for advocating extending the revolution to Western capitalist regimes--nor Putin who has always sought cooperation with the West -- ever indicated any intention to conquer Paris, or god-forbid London, with their crappy subways and street crime.

But Western designs on Russia go back to the 18^th Century.

We don’t actually hate them. We just want their stuff. Oil, gas, gold…..And Russians are not really white, don’t ya know. Worse than that, we gotta history with them. Remember the Light Brigade.

The Heartland

Russia is the “Heartland”.

It is from the Heartland that all European civilizations had their origins, thousands of years ago, through tribal migration, not that Europeans (and therefore Americans) will ever acknowledge that.

The Heartland is a source of resources but inhabited by many different peoples. In this sense, it is like the Americas.

By the 17^th Century, the indigenous population, once 60 million, had been reduced to less than 6 million In North America. The Six Nations fought back against the British. Then came the Revolution, which militarized the colonies, who leveraged the power they used to expel the Brits to spread westward and take Indian and Mexican lands and resources. A lot of Americans got rich.

That’s what you might call a civilizational “template”, which is characteristic of all colonial and imperial exploitations. We want to do the same to vast expanses of Russia and its diverse people.

The conspiracy against Russia

Yes there is a “Russian conspiracy” – but it is a conspiracy against Russia.

We tend to assume that “conspiracies” are like bank robberies, with a small group plotting a strategy and all members having assigned roles. Normally, there is one leader and/ or master-mind. These conspiracies are pragmatic and practical, and a lot of attention is paid to details.

But sometimes conspiracies are just a group of people or groups with the same ultimate goal and multiple leaders, in general agreement even if differing on details. Such conspiracies are amorphous and to tend to emphasize emotion over practicality, If their targets are not thoroughly incompetent or weakened by circumstances they often fail. Too many cooks….

A good example might be the Allied invasion of Russian in 1918— the Western attempt to subvert and break up the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union,

The Western conspiracy against Russia simply had too many actors and agents and was sustained only by cultural animus rooted in fake history.

Going back to bank robbery.

A bunch of guys get out of prison at the same time, and meet at the same bar. They can’t pay the tab so they decide to rob a bank. “The banks are stealing from us, they say. It’s a conspiracy!” In a sense, they are right. It is an unequal society economically.

They were all in prison and didn’t’ know each other up until they got drunk together in the bar. But this idea prompts another round of drinks …and another…and who’s going to pay .

Give the bartender an IOU and rob a bank?

Other criminals – and their younger brothers and sisters join in. Strength in numbers.

You get a huge gang occupying a bank. The National Guard gets called in. Everybody dies, including bank employees and customers, except the organizers of the heist who turn out to “confidential informants”.

The Western assumption of conspiracy by Russia against the West was a projection of its own ill intent, rationalized at the cultural level to promote a measure of unity in neoliberal, neocolonialist cultures and justify robbery. But unity of purpose is not the same as strategy.

In conspiracies of such kinds there are rarely, if ever master minds. No Jewish oligarchs. No shadowy cabals in London or Washington directing everyone else. That is not to say, there aren’t groups ensconced in powerful positions trying to improve their positions, ‘nationalists” in the CIA and MI6 for example, or billionaires seeking to expand their financial empires. Nor just good ol’ psychopaths out for themselves, feeding off chaos.

This article

This article is part of my research on Putin 4. As you can see, I am drawing on theories of social evolution .

There is much disagreement among social and cultural anthropologists, neuroscientists, paleontologists, and geneticists about things like the human tendency towards “conspiracism” which uses cognitive capabilities that appeared with H. Sapiens “behavioral modernity” about 50 to 60,000 years ago and about 109 new genetic factors. Anatomically “correct” H. Sapiens goes back much further, of course.

Nature or nurture?

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