I used a link to RT archive which no longer works with reference to the Sber bank. If you go to Brave, click on the bar in the top right hand corner and select 'new private window in Tor' - wait for it to load then search for RT. You should be able to get it.
Regarding the Baltic attitude to the "Russians", it is actually hardly surprising. In late 1939, in accordance with the [then] secret parts of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the USSR made demands on Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland. Finland resisted and was attacked by the USSR and ultimately lost the Winter War. The Balts did not resist and allowed Soviet forces to be stationed on their territory. On the 25th of may 1940, the USSR accused (falsely) the Baltic States of plotting against them and demanded regime changes. This was at the height of the German operations in the West and there could be no aid from that direction. The Soviets began massing 400,000 troops to invade including field hospitals for expected casualties and setting up interment camps for 50,000 prisoners. They implemented a naval blockade. Unlike the Finns who made a fight of it, the Balts all folded. They were subject to a wave of repression, murders and deportations and the countries were socialised. This accellerated in the immediate pre-Barbarossa period (as it did in occupied Poland and Besserabia) and again when the countries were "liberated" by the Red Army later. The Balts - like the Finns - saw the Soviet Union as an enemy. And hardly surprising given the fact that they were invaded by the Red Army and subject to the worst of the NKVD. Their armies were incorporated into the Red Army and promptly melted in 1941, some units even changing sides. Subsequently many Balts fought against the Soviets in army, police and laterly SS formations - all of which had a poor record in terms of the killing of civilians and jews in particular.
Stalin's Russia treated the Baltic States very badly and it is hardly surprising that they have a hatred of all things "Russian" which alas includes Russian speakers within their own populations. This is akin to the neo-Nazi beliefs prevalent in modern Ukraine in too many aspects. Letting these ethnic fault line countries into NATO is the height of folly in my opinion. Nevertheless they have a folk memory of Soviet repression and invasion, and that has been transferred to modern Russia. No love is lost. You might be forgiven for arguing that hatchets should be buried etc and I would go along with this. However I would not expect them to honour their "Soviet liberators" as to a large extent their liberation came via the Wehrmacht. A complicated and messy business.
Thanks for that. I can understand why they would hate Russia and maybe there's a place for that in their culture but my point is that they should also have respect for the soldiers who liberated them. It is their graves that are being moved. Hate Russia by all means and hate Stalin with justification but thank the soldiers who gave their lives to set the country free. Yes, I would like to see lots of hatchets being buried but not in people's backs.
Yes, hostility to Russia is understandable, but the soviet era is well and truly over, and the Baltic states are behaving as though Russia is still soviet. This is making them back the wrong horse, when they should be embracing the new BRICS+ initiatives.
The EU has been complicit in the Russophobia since the Baltic states joined. I discovered that the Baltic states refused to give the Russian born or Russian descendants full passports. They were given Alien passports which meant they aren't treated as EU nationals and don't have the freedom rights of other EU nationals to work, live etc in other EU countries.
I have no sympathy for the Baltic states who completely refuse to learn from history. They have about 20,000 soldiers combined and would last about a week against the Russians. They always hated the Russians but the Soviet's behaviour has provided the justification in their eyes for their Russophobia. The real issue is that the Baltic states and Poland are the frontier of where the Roman Catholic/Lutheran influence meets the Orthodox. Its a clash of civilisations. Thats why they are desperate to destroy Orthodoxy in Ukraine. Some of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust took place in the Baltic states almost on a par with what the Ustase did in Croatia. Again, the justification was that the Baltic Jews were pro Russian. Ian Kershaw writes about it at length. If i was the Danish i would be slightly wary that the fancy bridge to Sweden might be a tempting target if they keep stirring it or Kerch is hit. Again, much like the Baltic states Denmark is a non entity militarily. Didn't they surrender to the Germans without a fight?
Another nice recap, Rob. Sorry to be late posting, but I just came off of 24 hours of no power in the center of San Francisco - a preview of the future state of America, I'm sure.
"the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war."
I think Wilkerson is wrong. The Pentagon may be afraid of a nuclear power like Russia, but they are not afraid of Hezbollah, or Syria (except the Russian presence), or Iraq, or Iran. In any event, as I've pointed out in my recent Substack articles, the only political faction that counts in the US is the neocons around Biden. So when people like Ritter say stupid stuff like "the US doesn't want a wider war", I ask "Who is 'the US', paleface?" The neocons most definitely want a wider war and have for at least three decades.
Same here in rural Perthshire re outages. We usually also get a lot of military airfreight over the Sidlaws if something is brewing and activities at Barry Buddon and RM Condor etc. Been quite a lot of movement recently.
My understanding was based on various news reports. Zelensky clearly wasn't happy with what he was told. And Trump clearly wants the war over ASAP. I suspect he didn't mince words. I will look around for precise quotes of what he said to Zelensky.
Don't worry about looking around for precise quotes. I have no doubt that the sentiments these quotes express is genuine. I will be doing a short piece on Z's meeting with Trump without quoting what was said - I am letting the pictures speak for themselves.
The meeting was private so we can't know exactly what was said. We do know the Toronto Star reported earlier in the week Trump described Ukraine as “demolished” and its people as “dead,” and also said: “Any deal — the worst deal — would’ve been better than what we have now” And you're right, Zelensky's face spoke volumes about what had occurred.
Thank you for these reports. They have quickly become by far my favourite one-stop way of keeping up with News.
In this report a couple of alarming points for this reader:
1. How the West still depends on Russian oil. On one level there is conflict but on a higher oligarchic level it's business as usual (like during WW II, still poorly understood as the contretemps still ongoing in the Baltics demonstrates).
2. The multiculturalists briefly mentioned driving immigration surges in an increasingly brazen fashion. There is a short YouTube video from many years ago of a Swedish Jewess calling for exactly this as the only way to save Europe and stating that Jews would be taking a leading role in this multiculturalist development. Whether or not this description is accurate, those pushing this throughout the West remain largely occluded and as with so many other big policy initiatives the last few decades their genesis and purpose escapes scrutiny. Why some call our current Western order a Cryptocracy - appropriate perhaps as soon our currencies will be cryptoid by design.
This hidden layer needs to be exposed and extirpated. Otherwise global totalitarianism is more or less inevitable. BRICS after all is the brainchild of a Goldman Sachs executive.
Thanks for that: you make some interesting points but I'd need more information to understand 2. Why did this Jewess think that Europe needed saving and in what way did she think multiculturalism would save it? Is Cryptocracy another name for the Deep State? Forgive my ignorance. Sachs may have created BRICS but sometimes creations take their own path. I am hopeful about BRICS but it will a long time before we can judge it as an alternative to the Unipolar World Order.
“... And such as we heard there are people in Sweden who support Israel and have a deep sense of the Injustice of the present situation it's these people who give hope to those who still believe that things will get better here one of them is Barbara Spectre a former American who made Aliyah and then 10 years ago with the help of the government of Sweden set up a non-denominational Institute of Jewish learning with a Greek name of pida here in Stockholm she believes the current wave of anti-Semitism in Sweden will pass and that Jews have an important role to play in a country undergoing profound change. [Spectre:]
““I think there's a Resurgence of anti-Semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be Multicultural and I think we're going to be part of the throws of that of that transformation which must take place Europe is not going to be the monolithic uh uh societies that they once were in the last century Jews are going to be at the center of that it's a huge transformation for Europe to make they are now going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role but without that leading role and without that transformation Europe will not survive.””
Like I said, I have no idea if what she said is representative of any sort of concerted agenda or policy drives, but I do strongly suspect that the drive to de-homogenize Christian or White Europe is something in which many politically active Jews have conspired. That said, I also strongly suspect that much of the shenanigans Jews are blamed for involve many other factions which hide behind these perennial ‘chosen’ outsiders whom they can use as convenient scapegoats. In any case, the Enemy is always within.
As to Cryptocracy, I’ve seen a few writers use the term but am not aware of any widely established meaning. Instead of rule by the mob/people (demo-cracy) or the rich (olig-archy) or the most noble (aristo-cracy) one could posit rule by those who are hidden (crypto-cracy) in the sense that the true organs of leadership in any given body are hidden. The Deep State is a term more or less describing such but there are many others. Everyone finds mon-archy anathema these days, though throughout history it has proven excellent, albeit by no means infallible and indeed sometimes ghastly, but at least with that system the leader in whom final authority is vested by the collective is openly known and knowable - not to mention highly vulnerable to influence, censure and assassination. What we have in the West for the most part is an ostensibly democratic system contributing to secular constitutional republics and yet the powers that be, those who have far more influence than the officials We the People know and elect, are hidden and therefore not accountable to the People or the Law. Surely this is not a good thing? In any case, the reference you made in your piece (or someone you quoted) about engendering multiculturalism is a fairly obvious example of current Cryptocratic trends: there is some sort of uber-policy trumping many different supposedly sovereign nations, and yet none of us know where this policy comes from, who exactly has the agency to push it, and why they are doing it. Rule by The Hidden.
I feel your hope with BRICS etc. but retain a level of cynicism about it because utopian-style language and promises are suspect. For example, the recent declarations about the Future from the UN do not address clear and present security issues, such as what is ongoing in Palestine (since 1948 and counting) because they have no agency, vision or enforcement mechanisms to do anything about it. There is no final Authority in the UN or any soviet/committee style governance which ends up breeding factions both overt and hidden; over time more of the latter than the former. This is almost certainly be design but even if not was entirely predictable from the get-go (and why it took so many decades to put together; intelligent people rightly cautioned against moving forward with it).
Structuring societies properly, and with proper leadership, involve very, very old issues which I don’t pretend to have mastered and can only perceive dimly. Simply put, the risk of a single Ruler is tyranny; the risk of multi-vector rule is Babel. I personally believe that the Prime Challenge for all governance systems is how they both theoretically and practically deal with:
a) a positive and realistic vision and ethic for human society (usually a deep, multi-layered process taking generations if not millenia)
b) define jurisdiction(s) clearly
c) propose ab initio how it to first expose and then dispose of inevitable corruption
d) know what generally needs to be preserved multi-generationally so that people can lead productive lives and plan them accordingly with hard work and wisdom
e) whilst also adapting to ongoing change, the only constant in this mortal realm.
I am drawn to multipolarists like Dugan who propose how the next great political movements must involve ‘civilization states’ rather than ideologies or shallow material-modernist constructs like fascism, liberalism, socialism, communism etc. because they tap into bedrock civilizational roots, that which is essential to the characters of a people and their civilizational sphere – such as Russian, European, Arab, Persian, Chinese/Asian and others. This I think is a valuable, worthy proposition. But it doesn’t on its own address global governance issues. I think attempts to knit the world together under one administrative umbrella, like the UN, is (even if well intentioned which it certainly is not in the case of all major players) fraught with danger because once you set up a Master Committee administering a universal set of Rules and Law which supposedly different civilizations with different worldviews and values are bound, immediately there will be pernicious actors seeking to, and doubtless soon succeeding in, penetrating into that group and turning its original intentions to do Good into Evil. The Serpent in the Garden principle, which is there are the Beginning, or in other words is an inevitable element in any human society.
Which brings us back again to dealing with corruption, one of the main roots of which both psychologically and politically is Deception (hiding/cryptos). Satan in Christian narrative is known as ‘The Great Deceiver’, just like Sauron in Tolkien’s world deceived the leading Ringmaker of the ancient Elvish world, working as his Advisor and Assistant, into creating magical agents of Good Power for all the major civilizations (Elves, Dwarves & Men) but the deception involved in their creating (because he always intended to create a Master Ring to rule those lesser Rings and hid this from Lord Celebrinbor) functioned as a Spell to undermine any actual power they had to do Good. For the Dwarves it enhanced their desire to possess and hord treasure; for Men it enhanced their desire to conquer mortality by first having great magical powers to conquer any enemy and then learning how to live forever in psycho-sorceror realms unbound by physical or mortal limitations; Elves were able to resist its evil somewhat, but the stain of the One Ring led them to hide their talents and increasingly retreat from, and then finally leave, Middle Earth (making rule by the Best – aristocracy, which is the ideal system of course - impossible). The UN is such a One Ring idea structurally speaking. Even if it is pursued with good intentions, there are many Deceivers in the mix who will wish to use its Authority for nefarious, self-serving ends. Better not to provide such an opportunity, no? I mean: look what has happened to the Palestinians, one of the UN’s first creations being Israel back in 1947.
So we are left with, first of all, exposing that which is hidden, the many forms in which Deceivers operate amongst us, including how we also deceive ourselves with childish hopes, feeble excuses, laziness and stupidity for which we really cannot in all honesty blame others. Does the UN have a clear policy for how to first expose and then root out corruption? Not at all. Do BRICS/the multipolarists? It remains to be seen for right now they are united by the purpose of resisting a wicked Hegemonic power which has long exceeded its due date and needs to be dissolved. This is not creating a New Order, rather cleaning up the mess of the Old. I hope they don’t try to build a New World before dismantling the corruptions of the Old, otherwise they will build on evil foundations.
A brilliant young man wrote thusly:
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil. (Thomas Jefferson)
I think that is a good insight. But it is not what either BRICS or the UN is proposing. Unless I am missing something. And look what has happened to the republic he helped found, one designed to avoid the corruption which now rules it.
Well, that was much too long. Apologies. But editing it will take MUCH longer, so I beg your indulgence.
Thanks for that. Yes - it is too long and I don't have the time to comment on it, though you raise some interesting points that I hadn't even thought of. I agree with some but not all of what you say but really don't have the time or the inclination to engage in a lengthy discussion through a medium which I believe is not best suited for that purpose. I mean no offence. My background is in face to face philosophical discussion. But it is good to hear your views. Maybe others would like to comment. I find Dugan interesting btw.
Thanks for the great update Rob. The Vuhledar battle looks to be finishing soon and hopefully without too many more costly direct assaults.
Very strategic location and once it falls that whole Southern section of that front will move forward.
As you and other posters have mentioned it looks like the pentagon has exercised considerable restraint in reigning in the globalists and their WW3 desires.
Good to see the ex comedian didn't come away with what he wanted from his trip to the states, save for $8 billion dollars of weapons, to kill more people with.
The shell signings in Scranton were disgusting and the award of his plate for 'advancement of humanity' is some kind of neo con twisted joke on the people.
A bit off topic-but if the globalists lied/mismanaged the covid crisis, trying to force injections/lockdowns etc on society, lie about Israeli genocide., lie and mismanage their economies, lie and enforce their crazy net zero policies etc etc then it basically points to lying about the Ukraine war motives.
But a huge proportion of the general public are still lapping it up without question.
Thanks for that Anthony. I am hopeful that more and more people have stopped 'lapping it up'. Btw - the $8 billions is spread over a number of years apparently.
Zelensky's current position is reminiscent of McCarthy's last days, when, after causing so much anti-communist chaos, he found himself ranting to a mostly empty room, with Senators walking out while he was speaking. Totally discredited.
On immigration: like the anti-semitism slur against Israel's critics, accusing people who are anti-immigration of being "racist" or "extreme right" is using language to push the cheap labour, anti-union, globalist agenda. It is not washing. John Pilger was pro-Brexit because mass migration was driving down pay and conditions for workers in Britain. He has always been well to the left.
Thanks for that Ray. The globalist left agrees with democracy as long as it favours them. It's was the same with Brexit. I actually campaigned to stay in the EU as Chair of a Labour Constituency: I didn't know any better at that time. But I was sadly disappointed in many of my Labour colleagues who accused Brexiteers of racism and refused to accept the result of the election. I departed company with Labour and the 'left' soon after.
I used a link to RT archive which no longer works with reference to the Sber bank. If you go to Brave, click on the bar in the top right hand corner and select 'new private window in Tor' - wait for it to load then search for RT. You should be able to get it.
Regarding the Baltic attitude to the "Russians", it is actually hardly surprising. In late 1939, in accordance with the [then] secret parts of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the USSR made demands on Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland. Finland resisted and was attacked by the USSR and ultimately lost the Winter War. The Balts did not resist and allowed Soviet forces to be stationed on their territory. On the 25th of may 1940, the USSR accused (falsely) the Baltic States of plotting against them and demanded regime changes. This was at the height of the German operations in the West and there could be no aid from that direction. The Soviets began massing 400,000 troops to invade including field hospitals for expected casualties and setting up interment camps for 50,000 prisoners. They implemented a naval blockade. Unlike the Finns who made a fight of it, the Balts all folded. They were subject to a wave of repression, murders and deportations and the countries were socialised. This accellerated in the immediate pre-Barbarossa period (as it did in occupied Poland and Besserabia) and again when the countries were "liberated" by the Red Army later. The Balts - like the Finns - saw the Soviet Union as an enemy. And hardly surprising given the fact that they were invaded by the Red Army and subject to the worst of the NKVD. Their armies were incorporated into the Red Army and promptly melted in 1941, some units even changing sides. Subsequently many Balts fought against the Soviets in army, police and laterly SS formations - all of which had a poor record in terms of the killing of civilians and jews in particular.
Stalin's Russia treated the Baltic States very badly and it is hardly surprising that they have a hatred of all things "Russian" which alas includes Russian speakers within their own populations. This is akin to the neo-Nazi beliefs prevalent in modern Ukraine in too many aspects. Letting these ethnic fault line countries into NATO is the height of folly in my opinion. Nevertheless they have a folk memory of Soviet repression and invasion, and that has been transferred to modern Russia. No love is lost. You might be forgiven for arguing that hatchets should be buried etc and I would go along with this. However I would not expect them to honour their "Soviet liberators" as to a large extent their liberation came via the Wehrmacht. A complicated and messy business.
Thanks for that. I can understand why they would hate Russia and maybe there's a place for that in their culture but my point is that they should also have respect for the soldiers who liberated them. It is their graves that are being moved. Hate Russia by all means and hate Stalin with justification but thank the soldiers who gave their lives to set the country free. Yes, I would like to see lots of hatchets being buried but not in people's backs.
Yes, hostility to Russia is understandable, but the soviet era is well and truly over, and the Baltic states are behaving as though Russia is still soviet. This is making them back the wrong horse, when they should be embracing the new BRICS+ initiatives.
Agree that they've backed the wrong horse but maybe things will change when they get a different rider.
The EU has been complicit in the Russophobia since the Baltic states joined. I discovered that the Baltic states refused to give the Russian born or Russian descendants full passports. They were given Alien passports which meant they aren't treated as EU nationals and don't have the freedom rights of other EU nationals to work, live etc in other EU countries.
Yes Michael, slowly forced out like the orthodox church, Russian language, people, culture and even names of cities in Ukraine.
Ending in the shelling of the pro Russian enclaves.
Loved' by the cultural diverse EU.
You couldn't make it up!
Although I have met Baltic state people that were pro Russian.
They and their families are probably the ones being forced out now by the nazi lovers.
I have no sympathy for the Baltic states who completely refuse to learn from history. They have about 20,000 soldiers combined and would last about a week against the Russians. They always hated the Russians but the Soviet's behaviour has provided the justification in their eyes for their Russophobia. The real issue is that the Baltic states and Poland are the frontier of where the Roman Catholic/Lutheran influence meets the Orthodox. Its a clash of civilisations. Thats why they are desperate to destroy Orthodoxy in Ukraine. Some of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust took place in the Baltic states almost on a par with what the Ustase did in Croatia. Again, the justification was that the Baltic Jews were pro Russian. Ian Kershaw writes about it at length. If i was the Danish i would be slightly wary that the fancy bridge to Sweden might be a tempting target if they keep stirring it or Kerch is hit. Again, much like the Baltic states Denmark is a non entity militarily. Didn't they surrender to the Germans without a fight?
Thanks for that Michael. I think Denmark did capitulated without a fight - but resistance would have been pointless.
Another nice recap, Rob. Sorry to be late posting, but I just came off of 24 hours of no power in the center of San Francisco - a preview of the future state of America, I'm sure.
"the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war."
I think Wilkerson is wrong. The Pentagon may be afraid of a nuclear power like Russia, but they are not afraid of Hezbollah, or Syria (except the Russian presence), or Iraq, or Iran. In any event, as I've pointed out in my recent Substack articles, the only political faction that counts in the US is the neocons around Biden. So when people like Ritter say stupid stuff like "the US doesn't want a wider war", I ask "Who is 'the US', paleface?" The neocons most definitely want a wider war and have for at least three decades.
Thanks Richard. I think you are right about future power outages. We get them here in the Scottish Borders but we'll get more in the future.
Same here in rural Perthshire re outages. We usually also get a lot of military airfreight over the Sidlaws if something is brewing and activities at Barry Buddon and RM Condor etc. Been quite a lot of movement recently.
Thanks again Rob for another excellent piece of work. I always like the detail you provide. Don't know how you manage it.
It's a labour of love - and I have a routine.
At least Trump has been straight with Zelensky. Which is more than I can say about anyone else in Washington. https://bruceohara.substack.com/p/trump-the-truth-teller
Thanks for that Bruce - are you sure Trump said 1-3?
My understanding was based on various news reports. Zelensky clearly wasn't happy with what he was told. And Trump clearly wants the war over ASAP. I suspect he didn't mince words. I will look around for precise quotes of what he said to Zelensky.
Don't worry about looking around for precise quotes. I have no doubt that the sentiments these quotes express is genuine. I will be doing a short piece on Z's meeting with Trump without quoting what was said - I am letting the pictures speak for themselves.
The meeting was private so we can't know exactly what was said. We do know the Toronto Star reported earlier in the week Trump described Ukraine as “demolished” and its people as “dead,” and also said: “Any deal — the worst deal — would’ve been better than what we have now” And you're right, Zelensky's face spoke volumes about what had occurred.
Thank you for these reports. They have quickly become by far my favourite one-stop way of keeping up with News.
In this report a couple of alarming points for this reader:
1. How the West still depends on Russian oil. On one level there is conflict but on a higher oligarchic level it's business as usual (like during WW II, still poorly understood as the contretemps still ongoing in the Baltics demonstrates).
2. The multiculturalists briefly mentioned driving immigration surges in an increasingly brazen fashion. There is a short YouTube video from many years ago of a Swedish Jewess calling for exactly this as the only way to save Europe and stating that Jews would be taking a leading role in this multiculturalist development. Whether or not this description is accurate, those pushing this throughout the West remain largely occluded and as with so many other big policy initiatives the last few decades their genesis and purpose escapes scrutiny. Why some call our current Western order a Cryptocracy - appropriate perhaps as soon our currencies will be cryptoid by design.
This hidden layer needs to be exposed and extirpated. Otherwise global totalitarianism is more or less inevitable. BRICS after all is the brainchild of a Goldman Sachs executive.
Thanks for that: you make some interesting points but I'd need more information to understand 2. Why did this Jewess think that Europe needed saving and in what way did she think multiculturalism would save it? Is Cryptocracy another name for the Deep State? Forgive my ignorance. Sachs may have created BRICS but sometimes creations take their own path. I am hopeful about BRICS but it will a long time before we can judge it as an alternative to the Unipolar World Order.
I managed to find the very short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALrE6QJLFgM
A little background blurb: https://paideia-eu.org/programs/the-paideia-project-incubator/tutors/ . Transcript from the Youtube:
“... And such as we heard there are people in Sweden who support Israel and have a deep sense of the Injustice of the present situation it's these people who give hope to those who still believe that things will get better here one of them is Barbara Spectre a former American who made Aliyah and then 10 years ago with the help of the government of Sweden set up a non-denominational Institute of Jewish learning with a Greek name of pida here in Stockholm she believes the current wave of anti-Semitism in Sweden will pass and that Jews have an important role to play in a country undergoing profound change. [Spectre:]
““I think there's a Resurgence of anti-Semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be Multicultural and I think we're going to be part of the throws of that of that transformation which must take place Europe is not going to be the monolithic uh uh societies that they once were in the last century Jews are going to be at the center of that it's a huge transformation for Europe to make they are now going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role but without that leading role and without that transformation Europe will not survive.””
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Like I said, I have no idea if what she said is representative of any sort of concerted agenda or policy drives, but I do strongly suspect that the drive to de-homogenize Christian or White Europe is something in which many politically active Jews have conspired. That said, I also strongly suspect that much of the shenanigans Jews are blamed for involve many other factions which hide behind these perennial ‘chosen’ outsiders whom they can use as convenient scapegoats. In any case, the Enemy is always within.
As to Cryptocracy, I’ve seen a few writers use the term but am not aware of any widely established meaning. Instead of rule by the mob/people (demo-cracy) or the rich (olig-archy) or the most noble (aristo-cracy) one could posit rule by those who are hidden (crypto-cracy) in the sense that the true organs of leadership in any given body are hidden. The Deep State is a term more or less describing such but there are many others. Everyone finds mon-archy anathema these days, though throughout history it has proven excellent, albeit by no means infallible and indeed sometimes ghastly, but at least with that system the leader in whom final authority is vested by the collective is openly known and knowable - not to mention highly vulnerable to influence, censure and assassination. What we have in the West for the most part is an ostensibly democratic system contributing to secular constitutional republics and yet the powers that be, those who have far more influence than the officials We the People know and elect, are hidden and therefore not accountable to the People or the Law. Surely this is not a good thing? In any case, the reference you made in your piece (or someone you quoted) about engendering multiculturalism is a fairly obvious example of current Cryptocratic trends: there is some sort of uber-policy trumping many different supposedly sovereign nations, and yet none of us know where this policy comes from, who exactly has the agency to push it, and why they are doing it. Rule by The Hidden.
I feel your hope with BRICS etc. but retain a level of cynicism about it because utopian-style language and promises are suspect. For example, the recent declarations about the Future from the UN do not address clear and present security issues, such as what is ongoing in Palestine (since 1948 and counting) because they have no agency, vision or enforcement mechanisms to do anything about it. There is no final Authority in the UN or any soviet/committee style governance which ends up breeding factions both overt and hidden; over time more of the latter than the former. This is almost certainly be design but even if not was entirely predictable from the get-go (and why it took so many decades to put together; intelligent people rightly cautioned against moving forward with it).
Structuring societies properly, and with proper leadership, involve very, very old issues which I don’t pretend to have mastered and can only perceive dimly. Simply put, the risk of a single Ruler is tyranny; the risk of multi-vector rule is Babel. I personally believe that the Prime Challenge for all governance systems is how they both theoretically and practically deal with:
a) a positive and realistic vision and ethic for human society (usually a deep, multi-layered process taking generations if not millenia)
b) define jurisdiction(s) clearly
c) propose ab initio how it to first expose and then dispose of inevitable corruption
d) know what generally needs to be preserved multi-generationally so that people can lead productive lives and plan them accordingly with hard work and wisdom
e) whilst also adapting to ongoing change, the only constant in this mortal realm.
I am drawn to multipolarists like Dugan who propose how the next great political movements must involve ‘civilization states’ rather than ideologies or shallow material-modernist constructs like fascism, liberalism, socialism, communism etc. because they tap into bedrock civilizational roots, that which is essential to the characters of a people and their civilizational sphere – such as Russian, European, Arab, Persian, Chinese/Asian and others. This I think is a valuable, worthy proposition. But it doesn’t on its own address global governance issues. I think attempts to knit the world together under one administrative umbrella, like the UN, is (even if well intentioned which it certainly is not in the case of all major players) fraught with danger because once you set up a Master Committee administering a universal set of Rules and Law which supposedly different civilizations with different worldviews and values are bound, immediately there will be pernicious actors seeking to, and doubtless soon succeeding in, penetrating into that group and turning its original intentions to do Good into Evil. The Serpent in the Garden principle, which is there are the Beginning, or in other words is an inevitable element in any human society.
Which brings us back again to dealing with corruption, one of the main roots of which both psychologically and politically is Deception (hiding/cryptos). Satan in Christian narrative is known as ‘The Great Deceiver’, just like Sauron in Tolkien’s world deceived the leading Ringmaker of the ancient Elvish world, working as his Advisor and Assistant, into creating magical agents of Good Power for all the major civilizations (Elves, Dwarves & Men) but the deception involved in their creating (because he always intended to create a Master Ring to rule those lesser Rings and hid this from Lord Celebrinbor) functioned as a Spell to undermine any actual power they had to do Good. For the Dwarves it enhanced their desire to possess and hord treasure; for Men it enhanced their desire to conquer mortality by first having great magical powers to conquer any enemy and then learning how to live forever in psycho-sorceror realms unbound by physical or mortal limitations; Elves were able to resist its evil somewhat, but the stain of the One Ring led them to hide their talents and increasingly retreat from, and then finally leave, Middle Earth (making rule by the Best – aristocracy, which is the ideal system of course - impossible). The UN is such a One Ring idea structurally speaking. Even if it is pursued with good intentions, there are many Deceivers in the mix who will wish to use its Authority for nefarious, self-serving ends. Better not to provide such an opportunity, no? I mean: look what has happened to the Palestinians, one of the UN’s first creations being Israel back in 1947.
So we are left with, first of all, exposing that which is hidden, the many forms in which Deceivers operate amongst us, including how we also deceive ourselves with childish hopes, feeble excuses, laziness and stupidity for which we really cannot in all honesty blame others. Does the UN have a clear policy for how to first expose and then root out corruption? Not at all. Do BRICS/the multipolarists? It remains to be seen for right now they are united by the purpose of resisting a wicked Hegemonic power which has long exceeded its due date and needs to be dissolved. This is not creating a New Order, rather cleaning up the mess of the Old. I hope they don’t try to build a New World before dismantling the corruptions of the Old, otherwise they will build on evil foundations.
A brilliant young man wrote thusly:
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil. (Thomas Jefferson)
I think that is a good insight. But it is not what either BRICS or the UN is proposing. Unless I am missing something. And look what has happened to the republic he helped found, one designed to avoid the corruption which now rules it.
Well, that was much too long. Apologies. But editing it will take MUCH longer, so I beg your indulgence.
Thanks for that. Yes - it is too long and I don't have the time to comment on it, though you raise some interesting points that I hadn't even thought of. I agree with some but not all of what you say but really don't have the time or the inclination to engage in a lengthy discussion through a medium which I believe is not best suited for that purpose. I mean no offence. My background is in face to face philosophical discussion. But it is good to hear your views. Maybe others would like to comment. I find Dugan interesting btw.
Oh well. That will be that. I think we might now really be on the brink.
Can you explain? Have I missed something?
Sorry it seems a bit over dramatic now. I had just read that Nasrallah had been killed. I think there is major trouble brewing.
Yes - it's brewing.
Thanks for the great update Rob. The Vuhledar battle looks to be finishing soon and hopefully without too many more costly direct assaults.
Very strategic location and once it falls that whole Southern section of that front will move forward.
As you and other posters have mentioned it looks like the pentagon has exercised considerable restraint in reigning in the globalists and their WW3 desires.
Good to see the ex comedian didn't come away with what he wanted from his trip to the states, save for $8 billion dollars of weapons, to kill more people with.
The shell signings in Scranton were disgusting and the award of his plate for 'advancement of humanity' is some kind of neo con twisted joke on the people.
A bit off topic-but if the globalists lied/mismanaged the covid crisis, trying to force injections/lockdowns etc on society, lie about Israeli genocide., lie and mismanage their economies, lie and enforce their crazy net zero policies etc etc then it basically points to lying about the Ukraine war motives.
But a huge proportion of the general public are still lapping it up without question.
Lets see what happens next week.
Thanks for that Anthony. I am hopeful that more and more people have stopped 'lapping it up'. Btw - the $8 billions is spread over a number of years apparently.
Thanks Rob, that is good news.
It will be a long process for the brainwashed but hopefully the truth will gain some sort of victory in the end..
Not helped by the amount of propaganda out there though.
I have been looking at a few other sources on telegram recently and some of the Russian hating by the Ukrainians is appalling.
For example, At least legitimny calls it for what is is when a UA air defence missile takes out half a building and reports it as that,
Unlike the Western press who immediately throw up pictures and lies of 'Russia targeting civilians'
The exilenova page on telegram is another example of this.
Zelensky's current position is reminiscent of McCarthy's last days, when, after causing so much anti-communist chaos, he found himself ranting to a mostly empty room, with Senators walking out while he was speaking. Totally discredited.
On immigration: like the anti-semitism slur against Israel's critics, accusing people who are anti-immigration of being "racist" or "extreme right" is using language to push the cheap labour, anti-union, globalist agenda. It is not washing. John Pilger was pro-Brexit because mass migration was driving down pay and conditions for workers in Britain. He has always been well to the left.
Thanks Joy - I've long been a fan of Pilger and its sad he's no longer with us.
Text update on the Afd German “Democracy” soap opera.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/thuringian-parliament-descends-into?
Thanks for that Ray. The globalist left agrees with democracy as long as it favours them. It's was the same with Brexit. I actually campaigned to stay in the EU as Chair of a Labour Constituency: I didn't know any better at that time. But I was sadly disappointed in many of my Labour colleagues who accused Brexiteers of racism and refused to accept the result of the election. I departed company with Labour and the 'left' soon after.