I've followed this since 2014 and I'm finding it difficult to understand much of what's happening to be honest.
It seems "The West" has fallen victim to believing and then embracing their own propaganda to formulate policy.
We saw this psychotic behaviour before with the collapse of Enron. It's worth watching the Doco "The Smartest Guys in the Room." Madness up close and intimate!
We watch nuffies like Biden, Macron, VanDerLyin et al, talk nonsense consistently and it makes me wonder if I'm goin nuts or they've already arrived?
I think I'm OK.
With 'Leaders' like we have in The West, we can smirk, shrug and even mock but at the end of the day, The joke is on us!
Thanks for putting me onto the Smartest Guys in the Room. Very good. As for madmen....Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat literally those whom God would destroy he first makes mad, much quoted in the 18th and 19th Centuries and adapted from Sophocles "evil appears as good in the minds of those whom god leads to destruction" I prefer Sophocles. Crazy people do not always lack a moral sense but psychopaths do. And that is the kind of madness we see in the West. IMO
Oh yea. Ya gotta watch 'The Smartest Guys in the Room'.
We're talking about a corporate cult of belief in a 'righteous superiority' mixed with 'the emperors new clothes' sycophancy.
In Proverbs it states that, 'there's nothing new under the sun'
The 'madness' sure seems to be what's happening in the West for sure. The entire Covid scamdemic revealed a lot of that to those who were watching.
I'm amazed how this same 'madness' at the top seems to dribble down to the masses though via the incessant propaganda.
Overall, propaganda really works I'm sad to say.
I talk to intelligent people who are inherently good people. I listen to them attempt to describe why a certain country or, a particular people are corporately guilty and therefore, deserve being destroyed because of said guilt.
I don't think they hear themselves?
They deliver an incoherent version of the propaganda. It's obvious that they fail to understand any of the facts but KNOW absolutely who is guilty!!
And, this is the main thing!
The details don't matter! Only who is to blame for the disgust that's been stirred up.
They've been emotionally targeted via the Media over a course of months and neither comprehend details or, when they consented to becoming part of the Jury. But unknowingly, they have!
Author, apologize to Ukraine and delete the article. Otherwise I will complain to international institutions to have people like you either arrested or beaten up. You justify dictators and don't think about our democracy.
Ukraine is a peaceful country, it has never bombed anyone!!! You will be punished for your fake articles!! Putin will die when our beloved Zelensky shoots at Moscow from himars.
Very insightful. I'm wondering lately if the vaudeville act between Prigohzin and Putin is a planned bit of theater. Or at least in a somewhat more than miniscule fashion.
Putin knows this war is a grind of draining the capacity out of the NATO countries allied against China. Every piece of artillery used or destroyed in Ukraine is unable to be used against China and unable to be replaced either.
In addition, soaking the Western nations of money hand over fiscal sense over time simply accelerates the final breath those countries draw before they become Ukraine copies but without the heavy artillery damage. Still relatively intact but completely resourceless because the hyperinflation, broken economy, and banks collapsing will place everything out of reach.
I hadn't thought that -- Progzhin and Vlad' have a bit of "theater going". Certainly, the act benefits both. Prigozhin, with his gung-ho -- slaughter the bastards rhetoric. And Vlad, the cool voice of reason. Good Cop - Bad Cop? In the short term, the US MIC makes money from the war. In the long term, the US economy becomes unbalanced and unproductive of what American society really needs.
Well, the Art of War applies to any conflict. After the "leaks" came out I was even more sure that's exactly what we were watching. A Good cop Bad cop sucker play. Show a little weakness with a fake fight over ammo, meanwhile Putin and Xi fix everything behind closed doors. And your media operations are faking British Intel reports that there's a Wagner divorce looming. While others are bemoaning their increased presence all over Africa.
And this American regime could care less about the economy or what Americans want or need. In a fight for existence day to day considerations like that melt from the agenda like ice cream the resident forgot to eat. Tomorrow becomes the only target.
I like your point wrt why the SMO is slow against the west. Faster wars benefit the participant with large stocks but lesser industrial production. In this regards, Russia is the Allies, and NATO/US is the axis. very insightful.
Also, the politics - Pres Putin spent the enormous effort to define this as existential to ensure support for a long war against NATO. The west, suffering economic collapse due to way too much debt (another analogy between the Axis and Allies swap) does not have the political time frame.
Yes, you are right I think-- the US is the "axis". And it is repeating Japan and Germany's mistake in WWII, taking on enemies with greater industrial capacity. An interesting side note is that Germany would have lost the war in 1939~40, if France and the UK had attacked right after they declared war, when Germany's forces . At that time, German forces were weaker than those of the allies, who gave the German's breathing space, time to regroup and resupply after Poland and mount an offensive through the Low Countries bypassing the Maginot Line.
In a true multipolar system, not every country is equal. Instead there will be Great Powers, Middle Powers, Regional Powers, and smaller countries. Russia won't be equal with Estonia. Turkey won't equal Russia but will have agency and might belong to multiple factions and temporary partnerships. It isn't the end of war, but the end of efforts at global hegemony.
Balance of power politics and shifting alignments will be the norm, to prevent the rise of another America. Russia doesn't want Pax China any more than it likes Pax Americana.
This is a very good point-- that not every country is equal in terms of size, population, economic power, resources, etc. As you say, Russia won't be equal to Estonia. This point is interesting and maybe should be the subject of another article. Thank you! However, what we see with countries is also true of people. People are supposed to be equal. But mostly not. Some rich, some poor. But we are told that we are all equal before the law. (even though that isn't so). Our paleo ancestors lived in "reverse dominance" societies -- small bands -- that were fiercely equalitarian. No rich. No poor. No sociopaths (quickly ostracized and exiled_. With the advent of larger static societies, power relations became important. I think multipolarity is achievable only with agreement on principles of international law. Putin is a lawyer and you will notice that the pays great attention to legality, as he has with the SMO from the outset.
Our paleo ancestors lived in hierarchies, even if it was just an extended family. Someone was always the chief, the boss, the warleader, the priest, etc. Most societies in history had different rights, privileges, and status based upon position in society.
Law matters a lot to Putin and he strictly complies with it, unlike the US, which uses law as a tool and rarely obeys it, and instead creates its own rules.
The truth about law is that it is rarely is about truth and justice and is usually more about power relationships.
Multipolarity recognizes the truth about power. Law is important, but much more important is the diverse power centers and the ability of these to balance each other to prevent violations of law. It is only when one country has extreme power against the others that multipolarity fails.
Here are just a few points in the article I thought was worth emphasizing and repeating.
“In the West, stories are more important than realities.”
Highly Agree,
The propaganda machine in the West pumps out stories in favor of the stark reality/ truth.
“Russia has started a revolution, with China now joining in.”
“Of course, Jefferson definition of “all men” was exceptionalist. He really all “white males who owned property”.
Great point
“Whatever the Declaration of Independence says, the US’s revolution stalled,”
if in fact it ever was more than a transfer of power from elites in Britain to elites in Washington.”
“The US never prioritized “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” much less the equality that
Jefferson calls “self-evident”. At war for most its history, its priorities are different, driven by greed, lust for power and the exploitation that is the core of predatory monopoly capitalism. This is a conflict culture.”
“However, this is the country that invented our modern notion of PR.”
I added
Of which we have become the masters.
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
“US is not going to give up because it doesn’t know any other way to do things, besides not be interested.”
“If the US were a person, they would certify it as psychopathic.”
I add here:
The United States is
being led by psychopaths that understandably gives us a psychopathic government and a hostile antisocial foreign policy.
I like that addition. I write a lot in the area of cognitive and evolutionary psychology on my website www.ageingyoung.com and psychopathy is a among the subjects that interest me --namely, its relative absence in Paleo societies -- unlike modern mass societies.
Good write up, your research effort shines through. I think Napoleon's quote applies to Artemovsk: "Never interrupt an enemy while he makes mistakes." The Russian-Wagner forces were fine with country 404's troops revealing themselves to probing efforts. Once revealed, artillery would be called in to eliminate 404's troops. Slow and methodical.
The research helps. There are a lot of smart people out there, whose brilliance I feed off. Mercouris. Berletic. Simplicius. Black Mountain.....I could go on and on....
Excellent piece. I do wish US would not always get 100% of blame. City of London, WEF, Rockefeller's Nazi infiltration post WW2 have suckered us into this long national nightmare...
I like your newsletter. Thanks for commenting so I could find it. I know how you feel about the US. I'm Canadian. And there is little to choose between the US and Canada in mentality.
Thank you. Now I feel need to get more posted, but my internet access has become awful -- sporadic, randomly intermittent, often unavailable ever since Verizon bought out tracfone.
Brilliant. A kind of "multipolar" analysis making sense of the whole thing. Thank you.
I just subscribed to HIghway to Hell. Love the picture!
Thank you!
Guess it's my ASD. I'm multipolar by definition.
So "disorder" is a misnomer, right?
Brilliant is our Ukraine and our democracy!!! delete your comments, I have already complained about the author of the article and he will be arrested.
Good reading. Your anaysis resonates. Appreciate your work, Thanks
Thank you for the encouragement. This one took a lot of research.
Great article mate.
I've followed this since 2014 and I'm finding it difficult to understand much of what's happening to be honest.
It seems "The West" has fallen victim to believing and then embracing their own propaganda to formulate policy.
We saw this psychotic behaviour before with the collapse of Enron. It's worth watching the Doco "The Smartest Guys in the Room." Madness up close and intimate!
We watch nuffies like Biden, Macron, VanDerLyin et al, talk nonsense consistently and it makes me wonder if I'm goin nuts or they've already arrived?
I think I'm OK.
With 'Leaders' like we have in The West, we can smirk, shrug and even mock but at the end of the day, The joke is on us!
Keep writing mate!
Thanks for putting me onto the Smartest Guys in the Room. Very good. As for madmen....Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat literally those whom God would destroy he first makes mad, much quoted in the 18th and 19th Centuries and adapted from Sophocles "evil appears as good in the minds of those whom god leads to destruction" I prefer Sophocles. Crazy people do not always lack a moral sense but psychopaths do. And that is the kind of madness we see in the West. IMO
Oh yea. Ya gotta watch 'The Smartest Guys in the Room'.
We're talking about a corporate cult of belief in a 'righteous superiority' mixed with 'the emperors new clothes' sycophancy.
In Proverbs it states that, 'there's nothing new under the sun'
The 'madness' sure seems to be what's happening in the West for sure. The entire Covid scamdemic revealed a lot of that to those who were watching.
I'm amazed how this same 'madness' at the top seems to dribble down to the masses though via the incessant propaganda.
Overall, propaganda really works I'm sad to say.
I talk to intelligent people who are inherently good people. I listen to them attempt to describe why a certain country or, a particular people are corporately guilty and therefore, deserve being destroyed because of said guilt.
I don't think they hear themselves?
They deliver an incoherent version of the propaganda. It's obvious that they fail to understand any of the facts but KNOW absolutely who is guilty!!
And, this is the main thing!
The details don't matter! Only who is to blame for the disgust that's been stirred up.
They've been emotionally targeted via the Media over a course of months and neither comprehend details or, when they consented to becoming part of the Jury. But unknowingly, they have!
I think it's called 'Manufacturing Consent!'
Author, apologize to Ukraine and delete the article. Otherwise I will complain to international institutions to have people like you either arrested or beaten up. You justify dictators and don't think about our democracy.
Ukraine is a peaceful country, it has never bombed anyone!!! You will be punished for your fake articles!! Putin will die when our beloved Zelensky shoots at Moscow from himars.
Slava Ukraine!
Glory to Ukraine!
Death to the Russians and their henchmen!
Very insightful. I'm wondering lately if the vaudeville act between Prigohzin and Putin is a planned bit of theater. Or at least in a somewhat more than miniscule fashion.
Putin knows this war is a grind of draining the capacity out of the NATO countries allied against China. Every piece of artillery used or destroyed in Ukraine is unable to be used against China and unable to be replaced either.
In addition, soaking the Western nations of money hand over fiscal sense over time simply accelerates the final breath those countries draw before they become Ukraine copies but without the heavy artillery damage. Still relatively intact but completely resourceless because the hyperinflation, broken economy, and banks collapsing will place everything out of reach.
I hadn't thought that -- Progzhin and Vlad' have a bit of "theater going". Certainly, the act benefits both. Prigozhin, with his gung-ho -- slaughter the bastards rhetoric. And Vlad, the cool voice of reason. Good Cop - Bad Cop? In the short term, the US MIC makes money from the war. In the long term, the US economy becomes unbalanced and unproductive of what American society really needs.
Well, the Art of War applies to any conflict. After the "leaks" came out I was even more sure that's exactly what we were watching. A Good cop Bad cop sucker play. Show a little weakness with a fake fight over ammo, meanwhile Putin and Xi fix everything behind closed doors. And your media operations are faking British Intel reports that there's a Wagner divorce looming. While others are bemoaning their increased presence all over Africa.
And this American regime could care less about the economy or what Americans want or need. In a fight for existence day to day considerations like that melt from the agenda like ice cream the resident forgot to eat. Tomorrow becomes the only target.
Keep going! It's about to get really hot.
I like your point wrt why the SMO is slow against the west. Faster wars benefit the participant with large stocks but lesser industrial production. In this regards, Russia is the Allies, and NATO/US is the axis. very insightful.
Also, the politics - Pres Putin spent the enormous effort to define this as existential to ensure support for a long war against NATO. The west, suffering economic collapse due to way too much debt (another analogy between the Axis and Allies swap) does not have the political time frame.
Yes, you are right I think-- the US is the "axis". And it is repeating Japan and Germany's mistake in WWII, taking on enemies with greater industrial capacity. An interesting side note is that Germany would have lost the war in 1939~40, if France and the UK had attacked right after they declared war, when Germany's forces . At that time, German forces were weaker than those of the allies, who gave the German's breathing space, time to regroup and resupply after Poland and mount an offensive through the Low Countries bypassing the Maginot Line.
Excellent summary. Good to read anothr person who articulates my views, far better than I could myself!
"Articulating" these views wasn't easy this time. Took me a lot of re-writes. And I am still not sure if I really got it all.
Good article.
In a true multipolar system, not every country is equal. Instead there will be Great Powers, Middle Powers, Regional Powers, and smaller countries. Russia won't be equal with Estonia. Turkey won't equal Russia but will have agency and might belong to multiple factions and temporary partnerships. It isn't the end of war, but the end of efforts at global hegemony.
Balance of power politics and shifting alignments will be the norm, to prevent the rise of another America. Russia doesn't want Pax China any more than it likes Pax Americana.
This is a very good point-- that not every country is equal in terms of size, population, economic power, resources, etc. As you say, Russia won't be equal to Estonia. This point is interesting and maybe should be the subject of another article. Thank you! However, what we see with countries is also true of people. People are supposed to be equal. But mostly not. Some rich, some poor. But we are told that we are all equal before the law. (even though that isn't so). Our paleo ancestors lived in "reverse dominance" societies -- small bands -- that were fiercely equalitarian. No rich. No poor. No sociopaths (quickly ostracized and exiled_. With the advent of larger static societies, power relations became important. I think multipolarity is achievable only with agreement on principles of international law. Putin is a lawyer and you will notice that the pays great attention to legality, as he has with the SMO from the outset.
Our paleo ancestors lived in hierarchies, even if it was just an extended family. Someone was always the chief, the boss, the warleader, the priest, etc. Most societies in history had different rights, privileges, and status based upon position in society.
Law matters a lot to Putin and he strictly complies with it, unlike the US, which uses law as a tool and rarely obeys it, and instead creates its own rules.
The truth about law is that it is rarely is about truth and justice and is usually more about power relationships.
Multipolarity recognizes the truth about power. Law is important, but much more important is the diverse power centers and the ability of these to balance each other to prevent violations of law. It is only when one country has extreme power against the others that multipolarity fails.
There are many opinions among paleontologists about our ancestors, about whom we really know little in any definitive sense. So, we have people like Stephen Pinker, the Harvard grammarian, who argues that homo sapiens prior to the Neolithic era were brutish, Hobbesian creatures. We also have people like Marshall Sahlins (https://www.publicbooks.org/marshall-sahlins-original-affluent-society-at-50/),Christopher Boehm ( https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-09498-0140 and his disciple Dr. Peter Gray ( https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201908/the-play-theory-hunter-gatherer-egalitarianism). My own book Ageing Young: You're Never Too Old to Rock 'N Roll has biological explanations for Boehm and G
Gray's theories as do my essays here: www. ageingyoung.com. Of course, I am biased. My expression of ASD, not to mention old age, makes me prefer Gray's theories over Pinkers'....LOL. You can read my book here; It's free on Kindle or $0.75. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08T9G1YB4?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_0&storeType=ebooks Needs to be revised, though.
Just like 'simplicius', someone on MoA gave you the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval'.
So--subscribed. Nice writing style & analysis.
I like Simplicius a lot. Great respect, if not admiration. So being included with him with an approval on MoA means a lot.
Very good, good job!
Here are just a few points in the article I thought was worth emphasizing and repeating.
“In the West, stories are more important than realities.”
Highly Agree,
The propaganda machine in the West pumps out stories in favor of the stark reality/ truth.
“Russia has started a revolution, with China now joining in.”
“Of course, Jefferson definition of “all men” was exceptionalist. He really all “white males who owned property”.
Great point
“Whatever the Declaration of Independence says, the US’s revolution stalled,”
if in fact it ever was more than a transfer of power from elites in Britain to elites in Washington.”
“The US never prioritized “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” much less the equality that
Jefferson calls “self-evident”. At war for most its history, its priorities are different, driven by greed, lust for power and the exploitation that is the core of predatory monopoly capitalism. This is a conflict culture.”
“However, this is the country that invented our modern notion of PR.”
I added
Of which we have become the masters.
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
“US is not going to give up because it doesn’t know any other way to do things, besides not be interested.”
“If the US were a person, they would certify it as psychopathic.”
I add here:
The United States is
being led by psychopaths that understandably gives us a psychopathic government and a hostile antisocial foreign policy.
I like that addition. I write a lot in the area of cognitive and evolutionary psychology on my website www.ageingyoung.com and psychopathy is a among the subjects that interest me --namely, its relative absence in Paleo societies -- unlike modern mass societies.
Good write up, your research effort shines through. I think Napoleon's quote applies to Artemovsk: "Never interrupt an enemy while he makes mistakes." The Russian-Wagner forces were fine with country 404's troops revealing themselves to probing efforts. Once revealed, artillery would be called in to eliminate 404's troops. Slow and methodical.
The research helps. There are a lot of smart people out there, whose brilliance I feed off. Mercouris. Berletic. Simplicius. Black Mountain.....I could go on and on....
Best report out there hands down! Thank you.
I liked your peace plan BTW. Good work.
Excellent piece. I do wish US would not always get 100% of blame. City of London, WEF, Rockefeller's Nazi infiltration post WW2 have suckered us into this long national nightmare...
I like your newsletter. Thanks for commenting so I could find it. I know how you feel about the US. I'm Canadian. And there is little to choose between the US and Canada in mentality.
Thank you. Now I feel need to get more posted, but my internet access has become awful -- sporadic, randomly intermittent, often unavailable ever since Verizon bought out tracfone.
I think we all need to support each other. You have good ideas. I hope to read more from you.
Marvellously put together and artfully balanced. Your contributions are always accurate and informative.
More power to you.
Thanks Badbard. I love poetry BTW.
I enjoyed reading it. Thanks;)
Thank you Aleks. You are always an inspiration to me. And your work is superb.