Julian, it brings me comfort that you, a person of my age group is relevant still today. For me, it is not difficult to feel irrelevant in todays crappy world, even after the experiencing the joyous, bumpy, ballyhooed ride across time in that most marvelous period of our youth.
For those that experienced the ride eyes wide open, how ever could we be irrelevant?
Thank you for this comment. One of the benefits of getting older is clarity of vision -- being able to distinguish truth and falsehood, what is important and what is not. For the first 40,000 years of our history, we looked to natural survivors - our elders -- as sages and sources of wisdom and advice. . So you are not just "still relevant"; you are MORE relevant than before.
The Russians did a similar thing in Chechenya in the 1990s. In destroying the jihadis, much of Chechenya and Grozny were smashed. The devastation was terrible and to an outside observer, you would have thought that that level of destruction would have seared hatred for the Russians into the Chechen's very souls. But a strange thing happened. The Russians came back and rebuilt Chechenya and worked with the people and restored the balance of the Russian civilizational state. Russia is not a national state, but multi-ethnic and civilizational and the Chechens were welcomed back to Mother Russia, which they re-embraced wholeheartedly. Chechenya is now one of Russia's most patriotic states and at the forefront of the Ukrainian operation. This project will be repeated in Ukraine.
So much confusion about the Ukraine and Russia's chances and intentions, even among seemingly trustworthy voices in the alt media, it's difficult to know the truth. I would be happy if Russia won; the hegemon has brought far too much death and destruction, and pain, to the world to allow it to continue to reign. Would that we had taken a different turn after WWII, down the road to building a multi-polar world instead of a unipolar kakistocracy.
Well, yeah. But as the old saying goes, "If wishes were horses beggars would ride".
There is something that many people do not understand and recognize. Namely, our World is a fallen world. The sin that accompanies evil is never vanquished. It recedes for a while, but is never eradicated. For that to happen we would need The Second Coming.
First of all, thank you very much for this contribution. You write in the end...
"Please support the Alternative Media. Moon of Alabama. SouthFront. The Saker. Alex Mercouris. Brain Berletic. Naked Capitalism. Larry Johnson. Media Lens."
Do not forget Scott Ritter, Douglas MacGregor, Alexander Christoforous (the Duran), Gonzalo Lira, Pepe Escobar, Jeffrey Sachs, Maersheimer, Richard Black and other I forget in the moment. Great analysts as well.
Dear Julian, I appreciate your writing and your analysis. With most of it I agree and especially with your personal remark regarding the irrelevance of the terms „left and right“ out of personal experience.
What I disagree with or what I may find too harsh is your characterization of main part of society as a kind of sheep. Since I‘m an engineer I had to work very often with bell curve analysis and the fact that the bell curve is a part of nature. Since human evolution is driven by nature I naturally started to wonder how the bell curve is embedded in our evolution. In my opinion the bell curve becomes visible in the way society progresses. The 5-10% on the one side of the bell curve represents the elements of society who are seeing the world as is, the challenges which might be ahead, and the positive visionaries. The 5-10% on the other side of the bell curve represent the destructive parts off evolution as a counterpart like Jin and Jang.
The what is the role of the core part? In my mind they represent the core of civilization who carry on no matter what. We as an evolving civilization need a stable, stoic center in order to have stability. Otherwise everything would fly apart! Imagine a civilization without a stable center! It would become fragmented before it even took off.
This is a short version of my reasoning, but I believe the stoic center is as important as the left and right end of the bell curve! How would we define good and bad if we would have the differences right in front of us???
The US and the UK, the "West" generally have a long history of financial piracy, stealing the reserves of countries like Cuba, Venezuela and others - countries that have little power to retaliate, with no regard at all for the rule of law, As in courtrooms throughout the West, no one is equal before the law. .However, Russia is different from poorer countries.. It maintained its foreign reserves to pay off foreign debt and to actualize financial transactions. Freeze our assets? OK. Then buy in rubles, not dollars. Suddenly, the whole global dollar economy is threatened. You are correct, countries like the KSA and India have taken notice, taking steps to protect themselves. So the Gold Freeze has a Silver Lining -- it is helping realize BRICS and BRI This is not a controlled demolition, bringing down the whole system -- rather it is a dismantling, one piece at a time. . In addition, foreign companies have billions in assets in Russia, that Russia could (but doesn't want to) nationalize but Russia hasn't taken that step--it recognizes that the US imposed financial SYSTEM is the culprit, rather than individual enterprises. .
Julian, it brings me comfort that you, a person of my age group is relevant still today. For me, it is not difficult to feel irrelevant in todays crappy world, even after the experiencing the joyous, bumpy, ballyhooed ride across time in that most marvelous period of our youth.
For those that experienced the ride eyes wide open, how ever could we be irrelevant?
I need to keep telling myself.
Good work brother!
Thank you for this comment. One of the benefits of getting older is clarity of vision -- being able to distinguish truth and falsehood, what is important and what is not. For the first 40,000 years of our history, we looked to natural survivors - our elders -- as sages and sources of wisdom and advice. . So you are not just "still relevant"; you are MORE relevant than before.
The Russians did a similar thing in Chechenya in the 1990s. In destroying the jihadis, much of Chechenya and Grozny were smashed. The devastation was terrible and to an outside observer, you would have thought that that level of destruction would have seared hatred for the Russians into the Chechen's very souls. But a strange thing happened. The Russians came back and rebuilt Chechenya and worked with the people and restored the balance of the Russian civilizational state. Russia is not a national state, but multi-ethnic and civilizational and the Chechens were welcomed back to Mother Russia, which they re-embraced wholeheartedly. Chechenya is now one of Russia's most patriotic states and at the forefront of the Ukrainian operation. This project will be repeated in Ukraine.
So much confusion about the Ukraine and Russia's chances and intentions, even among seemingly trustworthy voices in the alt media, it's difficult to know the truth. I would be happy if Russia won; the hegemon has brought far too much death and destruction, and pain, to the world to allow it to continue to reign. Would that we had taken a different turn after WWII, down the road to building a multi-polar world instead of a unipolar kakistocracy.
Well, yeah. But as the old saying goes, "If wishes were horses beggars would ride".
There is something that many people do not understand and recognize. Namely, our World is a fallen world. The sin that accompanies evil is never vanquished. It recedes for a while, but is never eradicated. For that to happen we would need The Second Coming.
Another great article, thank you!
First of all, thank you very much for this contribution. You write in the end...
"Please support the Alternative Media. Moon of Alabama. SouthFront. The Saker. Alex Mercouris. Brain Berletic. Naked Capitalism. Larry Johnson. Media Lens."
Do not forget Scott Ritter, Douglas MacGregor, Alexander Christoforous (the Duran), Gonzalo Lira, Pepe Escobar, Jeffrey Sachs, Maersheimer, Richard Black and other I forget in the moment. Great analysts as well.
You mean John Mearsheimer? (it's indeed a tricky spelling of an old German surname)
If that good professor is to whom you refer, Amen! I just watched an hour long interview with him (recent too) on UnHerd. Pure gold.
Dear Julian, I appreciate your writing and your analysis. With most of it I agree and especially with your personal remark regarding the irrelevance of the terms „left and right“ out of personal experience.
What I disagree with or what I may find too harsh is your characterization of main part of society as a kind of sheep. Since I‘m an engineer I had to work very often with bell curve analysis and the fact that the bell curve is a part of nature. Since human evolution is driven by nature I naturally started to wonder how the bell curve is embedded in our evolution. In my opinion the bell curve becomes visible in the way society progresses. The 5-10% on the one side of the bell curve represents the elements of society who are seeing the world as is, the challenges which might be ahead, and the positive visionaries. The 5-10% on the other side of the bell curve represent the destructive parts off evolution as a counterpart like Jin and Jang.
The what is the role of the core part? In my mind they represent the core of civilization who carry on no matter what. We as an evolving civilization need a stable, stoic center in order to have stability. Otherwise everything would fly apart! Imagine a civilization without a stable center! It would become fragmented before it even took off.
This is a short version of my reasoning, but I believe the stoic center is as important as the left and right end of the bell curve! How would we define good and bad if we would have the differences right in front of us???
Thank you for your excellent reporting and overview of this “war” between Russia and NATO.
Thank you for the kind comment. It encourages me to keep writing.
Please write more
clarifying, thank you
The US and the UK, the "West" generally have a long history of financial piracy, stealing the reserves of countries like Cuba, Venezuela and others - countries that have little power to retaliate, with no regard at all for the rule of law, As in courtrooms throughout the West, no one is equal before the law. .However, Russia is different from poorer countries.. It maintained its foreign reserves to pay off foreign debt and to actualize financial transactions. Freeze our assets? OK. Then buy in rubles, not dollars. Suddenly, the whole global dollar economy is threatened. You are correct, countries like the KSA and India have taken notice, taking steps to protect themselves. So the Gold Freeze has a Silver Lining -- it is helping realize BRICS and BRI This is not a controlled demolition, bringing down the whole system -- rather it is a dismantling, one piece at a time. . In addition, foreign companies have billions in assets in Russia, that Russia could (but doesn't want to) nationalize but Russia hasn't taken that step--it recognizes that the US imposed financial SYSTEM is the culprit, rather than individual enterprises. .