thanks karl... you've touched on every concern here, however briefly.. the article could be retitled 'the kitchen sink of geo politics' lol.. i liked the quote from hudson - "we’re now engaged in a “war between Barbarism and Socialism.” - could we say that late stage capitalism is barbarism?? it certainly seems to be in bed with war, which is a polite way of saying ''rape and pillage''... it comes down to power and the fanatical need to control everything... sounds like a recipe written by the devil himself and that wouldn't be too far off, lol...
not sure how this resolves, but i am reminded of how a wounded animal is an especially dangerous one... this is where i think we are with regard to usa-israel-uk and europe, nato included - this is my own version of the kitchen sink, lol.. thanks for sharing... i need to insert a painting of the angel of darkness by some renowned artist right here, lol..
My interpretation of the Klee painting isn’t at all like that of Benjamin’s, which is why I decided to leave it alone. Yeah, I did write a review of sorts that was motivated by Crooke’s chat with the Judge this morning.
My meditations on Klee's Angel led me to the conclusion that everything is housed in the past. The future too. The present is a kind of black hole over whose horizon we hang for a moment.
I tried to deal with Klee’s depiction as I would a Salvador Dali or Picasso, cubist essentially. I don’t see any movement or any appraisal. And the actual title, “New Angel,” influences my seeing a pre-teen angel without fully formed wings and a pimply complexion. I’ve viewed a lot of art that emerged from the post-WW1 years and experience. It would be good to know what Klee though of that work.
I planted a tree 25 years ago; it's now 30 meters tall. Birds nest in it, people sit in its shade. No matter what my intention was in planting it, it no longer belongs to me. The same thing happens with art, as it should.
"When the Classical Economic Reformers were unable to eliminate the House of Lords and end Feudal control in the UK and the forces of Reaction retaliated, the die was cast for the events of today."
"I get tired of hearing the word “Nazi.” It’s so stupid to remain fixated on a political party that has been banned, and was destroyed eighty years ago. Call it Nazi Fatigue. Like Trump Derangement Syndrome, Nazi Derangement Syndrome is a very real malady. People don’t blink when you tell them about all those best and brightest liberals, from Woodrow Wilson to George Bernard Shaw, who were devout eugenicists. Eugenicists believe that the “wrong” people have to be eliminated. As enthusiastic evolutionists, they fervently believe in the survival of the fittest. Those who aren’t “fit” must be kept from breeding, at the very least. Margaret Sanger, founder of the elitist favorite Planned Parenthood, left some pretty chilling quotes on the subject. And yet it is Adolf Hitler who is solely credited with attempting to wipe out the weak and unfit. The non Aryans. If Hitler did everything he was accused of, shouldn’t the eugenicist Left have applauded? Isn’t this exactly what they desire?" - DJ
It used to be understood that the greatest marxist theoretician after Marx was Rosa Luxemburg who, in the very early years of the C20th, noted that the alternative to socialism was barbarism.
She understood that the age of easy imperial expansion had come to an end and that capitalism's future expansion would lead to fascism (a word that, so far as I know, she knew nothing of).
In fact she became one of fascism's first victims being beaten to death by Freikorps thugs in 1919.
Anyone who doesn't know about Rosa, her brain and her steadfast, heroic life is missing a lot.
Thanks for sharing Pepe's essay. I've seen plenty of interviews with him, but haven't read what he's written before.
These are scary times and, like almost everyone else, I'm sure Israel and the USA have some tricks up their sleeves for Iran. I don't expect peace to hold, or maybe there'll be a false flag.
I just wish that somehow the genocide could be stopped and food and aid get in. And that fake aid group that's more of death squad would be kicked out of Gaza.
Should China sell $5bil worth of treasuries every day for a fortnight and use those funds to buy Gold, the Ponzi scheme that is capitalism would be over.
Now would that be enough to stop the Zionists and the Capitalists? I'm not sure for the WEF's Great Reset is in play, yet no one touches that subject bar a few relevant but minor podcasts.
Maybe the Russia/China/Iran axis need to realize that although they aren't being attacked in a
manner which they believe not to cause retaliation that that strategy needs to be pricked at the least and highly modified rather hastily, The US/UK/IS/NATO team only knows doubling down, peace doesn't exist in their strategy/tactics
Sometimes I wonder is Putin the right guy to fight the Axis of Evil, while we know Pezeshkian
is in over his head. Xi is a wildcard but I believe he'll be the strongest among these in fighting the fight facing humanity
Putin’s chore was to make Russia strong again and then to make it resilient and impervious to Western attempts to destroy it economically. The first task was to rebuild Russian military and its MIC which was done and continues to be modernized. Undoing the many Outlaw US Empire advantages which it’s had for over 100 years won’t be an easy task for BRICS in combo because the conditions that gave the Empire its advantages don’t exist for BRICS. But progress is being made even if we don’t readily see it. The real key is to outlast those within the Empire who think war is the only answer, that without Primacy life will become unbearable. Many of those are ChristoZionists and if not outright neocons sympathetic to that cause. Then there’re the Neoliberals and their greed. They are the easier force to deal with. Putin will retire from active governance in 2030 as will some of his team. Look at who is being groomed to become the next leaders—War Heroes. Putin’s making the right choice for Russia as the final showdown with the Empire will happen in the next decade. So, don’t eat all your popcorn yet!
Thanks Karl, I'm now back off the ledge, though I'm not sure if I'll have enough popcorn to see it thru.
The BBB that's about to pass is but just another nail added to the Golden Coffin as the people don't even get crumbs. It'll be interesting to see if a real revolution takes place
The Angel of History as embodied in Iran and the ideology of resistance has a key advantage over the Death Cult hailing from TelAviv and Washington. No matter what they try, no matter what strings they pull, no matter what atrocities they commit, the Death Cult is ultimately and infinitely more afraid of Death than the Angel in Resistance. They are only tough so long as it’s their proxies, conquered slaves or mercenaries are dying for their criminal elite cabal. When death is brought on to them, even on the relatively smaller scales, they lack the fortitude, courage, and will to fight and risk their own lives. Just as Ukraine will vanish and NATO will be left naked, Israel is on the way to oblivion when its tiny loudmouth population continues its flight to stage their delusional dance in the safer spaces of the Western wastelands, rather than sacrifice and die for an ideology that in practice has only worked well behind the presumed safety of their illusory “oasis.”
Like Palestinians, Iranians are exactly where they need to be historically, with no desire or notion of a need to go anywhere, as their homeland is a fact of living history not some nascent delusional psychopathic concoction drawn from a self-serving myth. And the Iranians just like Palestinians (or Russians or Chinese) will remain fighting each in internal unity till the last person alive. Isn’t that exactly what the Russians did in WWII facing a much superior and vast death cult at the time in history? Don’t expect any less from Iranians, as the Vietnamese proved to a much superior American a few decades past. Even without all its modern technological and military prowess and accomplishments, Iran would never surrender. And as the great Imam Khomeini’s simple yet poignant reminder to Iranians in 1980: AMERICA CAN’T DO SHIT”!
Iran like Russia will be just fine as long as they keep the cockroach American elite (Zionistas) out as once you allow those parasites into your home you're screwed (see Europe). It's the Emirati vassals and regional satellites who should do all the worrying as their citizens will have been emboldened by Iran's resoluteness.
I expect they've learned bundles, internally especially, even getting rid of that pompous twit Mohammed Javad Zarif the former Foreign Minister under Rouhani who swanned around preening himself with Obama and other American State actors during the protracted JCPOA debacle which allowed the intrusive IAEA inspections lifting only 40 of the 30,000 sanctions on the country. Just learned that Zarif was serving as vice-President in the new Government. A BA & MA from San Francisco University and family/business ties in US Murder Inc should have been red-flags but I suppose appeased various segments in the country who desired a Fistful of US Freedom Fries would help stabilise matters.
The Israeli-NATO failed destabilisation will have strengthened the hardliners resolve and weakened the 5th Column greatly, a blessing even.
Trump's a clown, that was a great deal for the American & Israeli Zionists.
The new President despite being of Iranian-Azerbaijani extraction with a Turk mindset will now have less flexibility with the IRGC playing a more proactive role in matters of Foreign Affairs as witness the hastily arranged trips to Moscow & Beijing in company with the new FM.
Soleimani & Raisi's deaths were a setback but there's no shortage of talent in Iran and fingers crossed they'll announce le bomb in a short space of time to put an end to all this US-Zionist fuckery once and for all.
Iran will go from strength to strength in a Multipolar NWO while the American, Israeli, British and European REGIMES are on a such a downward spiral it's only a matter of which crashes first.
Russia, China, and the BRICS overall can benefit Africa a lot as their intent is to aid not plunder. The return to the aiding nations will be the increased commerce between them—the Win-Win solution. The colonial nations had that same opportunity but chose to pursue plunder instead. In 2022, I wrote an article “The Plundering Nations Last Stand” https://vk.com/@580896205-the-plundering-nations-last-stand?ysclid=mcktaiufcz449088239
In searching for the above article, I discovered some of my other work was captured by the internet and even archived at a few sites including the wayback machine. There are four items from 2022 at this link, https://archive.md/sOUxj
which was saved to the archive by someone and makes me curious about what else is out there.
I didn’t want to argue the interpretation of the picture as that was beside the point of writing. As I commented to james, my interpretation is very different from Benjamin’s.
Reading Alastair Crooke's Resistance after seeing Pepe's name check. So far I'm greatly reminded of Marshall Hodgson's Venture of Islam, but continued in discussion with contemporary thinkers.
i stopped reading at "One could say Russia is conducting its SMO in an Islamic manner".
heavy words coming on my mind towards the deranged head claiming that what RU is doing in UA has anything noble/ethical in it, but Id rather use my energy some way/place else
" “Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, but do not exceed the limits; Surely Allah does not like those who exceed the limits” [Qur’an 2:190]
" This verse also makes it clear that retaliations must be proportional, and blowing up a city block in order to kill one person is most certainly unacceptable and forbidden! Not to mention, it implicitly condemns preemptive strikes. And there is a clear and simple precedent for this. A person cannot be punished for something he/she hasn’t done yet!
" “Fight them until there is no more oppression…but if they cease, then let there be no hostilities except on the oppressors.” [Qur’an 2:193]"
Hmmm.... it's a pity the Zionists don't obey the same dictum isn't it. Standing by a religious/ethical principle might get you into heaven but meanwhile, here on earth...
Fighting for principles is hard, yes. The Houthis are very principled, which is why they’re the only “nation” to directly intervene in the Zionist Genocide in Palestine. No other nation stands by the principles they supposedly signed onto when they signed and ratified the Genocide Convention. In this instance, who are the exceptional people? Where and how does this figure:
“Live by the sword die by the sword.”
Liberals are accused of Moral Relativism because they always fudge on what they proclaim as their principles. When I was younger, I tried to argue that wasn’t the case, but over many years and plenty of examples I’ve changed my mind on that issue.
I agree with Ron Unz - "America and its close allies possess overwhelming dominance over the global media, allowing them to shape the perceived reality of much of the world’s population, ruling elites included. By heavily influencing the thoughts and beliefs of the individuals who control large military forces, nuclear arsenals, and vast wealth, this power of illusion can often easily overwhelm the political impact of the existing balance of physical power in the real world.
This same media mind-control is powerfully deployed inwardly at our own citizenry and ruling elites. Thus, the Western alliance has remained surprisingly cohesive and committed, adhering to policies that would seem deeply inimical to the best interests of many of its major members, who might otherwise have been expected to revoke their damaging alignment.
Any actual use of nuclear weapons let alone strategic ones might plausibly escalate to the large-scale exchanges that would result in worldwide destruction. Therefore, their main practical value is as a powerful means of deterrence and intimidation. But any such impact assumes that other leaders will recognize that power and react accordingly. This is not the case if the thoughts of those leaders are heavily clouded by media mind-control.
Thus, to a considerable extent, this Western media weapon has successfully nullified the impact of Russian strategic military superiority. For such superiority to have any influence, it must be recognized as such, and if media power blinds both Western populations and their elites to that important reality, the impact is largely eliminated. A loaded handgun cannot be used to effectively deter or intimidate a group of individuals if their zombified brains fail to appreciate its potential lethality.
Put another way, even if Russian hypersonics can successfully pierce any of the West’s defensive missile systems, the political results of this powerful military technology will be minimal unless the Russians can similarly develop some effective means of piercing the West’s defensive shield of media mind-control."
The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economic exhaustion. We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. (This is where we are now)Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. Albert Pike
"Politically, Trump campaigned to end the Forever Wars and swiftly end the Ukraine conflict, and so far he’s been an abject failure, which has degraded his support base."
Why do people continue to believe that Trump intended to end anything??? I just don't get it. Is it wishful thinking on the part of the author? Especially given the thrust of the rest of the essay reveals just how venal (and desperate) the Empire is. The US ruling class selected a psychopath as its leader, for good reason; there's no place for rationality in this 'do or die' moment for Imperialism. They're no longer playing chess but chicken.
thanks karl... you've touched on every concern here, however briefly.. the article could be retitled 'the kitchen sink of geo politics' lol.. i liked the quote from hudson - "we’re now engaged in a “war between Barbarism and Socialism.” - could we say that late stage capitalism is barbarism?? it certainly seems to be in bed with war, which is a polite way of saying ''rape and pillage''... it comes down to power and the fanatical need to control everything... sounds like a recipe written by the devil himself and that wouldn't be too far off, lol...
not sure how this resolves, but i am reminded of how a wounded animal is an especially dangerous one... this is where i think we are with regard to usa-israel-uk and europe, nato included - this is my own version of the kitchen sink, lol.. thanks for sharing... i need to insert a painting of the angel of darkness by some renowned artist right here, lol..
My interpretation of the Klee painting isn’t at all like that of Benjamin’s, which is why I decided to leave it alone. Yeah, I did write a review of sorts that was motivated by Crooke’s chat with the Judge this morning.
My meditations on Klee's Angel led me to the conclusion that everything is housed in the past. The future too. The present is a kind of black hole over whose horizon we hang for a moment.
I tried to deal with Klee’s depiction as I would a Salvador Dali or Picasso, cubist essentially. I don’t see any movement or any appraisal. And the actual title, “New Angel,” influences my seeing a pre-teen angel without fully formed wings and a pimply complexion. I’ve viewed a lot of art that emerged from the post-WW1 years and experience. It would be good to know what Klee though of that work.
I planted a tree 25 years ago; it's now 30 meters tall. Birds nest in it, people sit in its shade. No matter what my intention was in planting it, it no longer belongs to me. The same thing happens with art, as it should.
Cool comment! It relieves some stress from what began as a stressful day.
"When the Classical Economic Reformers were unable to eliminate the House of Lords and end Feudal control in the UK and the forces of Reaction retaliated, the die was cast for the events of today."
Spot on
My generations learned of The NAZI atrocities after the war.
It was seared into our minds... But my generation is on it's way
out, and the atrocities of the NAZI are dimming into History...
For the current generations, they will not have to be told, after
the events, of atrocities worse than those committed by the
NAZI. Those events arebeing seared into their minds as they
take place...
And the new atrocities will be remembered, for generations...
The 'Never Again' Atrocities...
Look out - here come DaNazis!
"I get tired of hearing the word “Nazi.” It’s so stupid to remain fixated on a political party that has been banned, and was destroyed eighty years ago. Call it Nazi Fatigue. Like Trump Derangement Syndrome, Nazi Derangement Syndrome is a very real malady. People don’t blink when you tell them about all those best and brightest liberals, from Woodrow Wilson to George Bernard Shaw, who were devout eugenicists. Eugenicists believe that the “wrong” people have to be eliminated. As enthusiastic evolutionists, they fervently believe in the survival of the fittest. Those who aren’t “fit” must be kept from breeding, at the very least. Margaret Sanger, founder of the elitist favorite Planned Parenthood, left some pretty chilling quotes on the subject. And yet it is Adolf Hitler who is solely credited with attempting to wipe out the weak and unfit. The non Aryans. If Hitler did everything he was accused of, shouldn’t the eugenicist Left have applauded? Isn’t this exactly what they desire?" - DJ
https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/the-enduring-power-of-nazi-derangement?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=344941&post_id=163780499&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email - but I thought Hitler's dead? Ain't he? But what if it ain't DaNazis? SHHHH - don't ever say that - you'll live to regret it. Or maybe not.
OK - can I use the initials of DaRealCulprits?
Maybe......but I won't read them.....too dangerous for public consumption......besides, they don't exist.
Where did you hear that?
In DSOS!
Now you dun'it!
It used to be understood that the greatest marxist theoretician after Marx was Rosa Luxemburg who, in the very early years of the C20th, noted that the alternative to socialism was barbarism.
She understood that the age of easy imperial expansion had come to an end and that capitalism's future expansion would lead to fascism (a word that, so far as I know, she knew nothing of).
In fact she became one of fascism's first victims being beaten to death by Freikorps thugs in 1919.
Anyone who doesn't know about Rosa, her brain and her steadfast, heroic life is missing a lot.
“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.”
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
― G.K. Chesterton
Thanks for sharing Pepe's essay. I've seen plenty of interviews with him, but haven't read what he's written before.
These are scary times and, like almost everyone else, I'm sure Israel and the USA have some tricks up their sleeves for Iran. I don't expect peace to hold, or maybe there'll be a false flag.
I just wish that somehow the genocide could be stopped and food and aid get in. And that fake aid group that's more of death squad would be kicked out of Gaza.
Should China sell $5bil worth of treasuries every day for a fortnight and use those funds to buy Gold, the Ponzi scheme that is capitalism would be over.
Now would that be enough to stop the Zionists and the Capitalists? I'm not sure for the WEF's Great Reset is in play, yet no one touches that subject bar a few relevant but minor podcasts.
Maybe the Russia/China/Iran axis need to realize that although they aren't being attacked in a
manner which they believe not to cause retaliation that that strategy needs to be pricked at the least and highly modified rather hastily, The US/UK/IS/NATO team only knows doubling down, peace doesn't exist in their strategy/tactics
Sometimes I wonder is Putin the right guy to fight the Axis of Evil, while we know Pezeshkian
is in over his head. Xi is a wildcard but I believe he'll be the strongest among these in fighting the fight facing humanity
Putin’s chore was to make Russia strong again and then to make it resilient and impervious to Western attempts to destroy it economically. The first task was to rebuild Russian military and its MIC which was done and continues to be modernized. Undoing the many Outlaw US Empire advantages which it’s had for over 100 years won’t be an easy task for BRICS in combo because the conditions that gave the Empire its advantages don’t exist for BRICS. But progress is being made even if we don’t readily see it. The real key is to outlast those within the Empire who think war is the only answer, that without Primacy life will become unbearable. Many of those are ChristoZionists and if not outright neocons sympathetic to that cause. Then there’re the Neoliberals and their greed. They are the easier force to deal with. Putin will retire from active governance in 2030 as will some of his team. Look at who is being groomed to become the next leaders—War Heroes. Putin’s making the right choice for Russia as the final showdown with the Empire will happen in the next decade. So, don’t eat all your popcorn yet!
Thanks Karl, I'm now back off the ledge, though I'm not sure if I'll have enough popcorn to see it thru.
The BBB that's about to pass is but just another nail added to the Golden Coffin as the people don't even get crumbs. It'll be interesting to see if a real revolution takes place
The Angel of History as embodied in Iran and the ideology of resistance has a key advantage over the Death Cult hailing from TelAviv and Washington. No matter what they try, no matter what strings they pull, no matter what atrocities they commit, the Death Cult is ultimately and infinitely more afraid of Death than the Angel in Resistance. They are only tough so long as it’s their proxies, conquered slaves or mercenaries are dying for their criminal elite cabal. When death is brought on to them, even on the relatively smaller scales, they lack the fortitude, courage, and will to fight and risk their own lives. Just as Ukraine will vanish and NATO will be left naked, Israel is on the way to oblivion when its tiny loudmouth population continues its flight to stage their delusional dance in the safer spaces of the Western wastelands, rather than sacrifice and die for an ideology that in practice has only worked well behind the presumed safety of their illusory “oasis.”
Like Palestinians, Iranians are exactly where they need to be historically, with no desire or notion of a need to go anywhere, as their homeland is a fact of living history not some nascent delusional psychopathic concoction drawn from a self-serving myth. And the Iranians just like Palestinians (or Russians or Chinese) will remain fighting each in internal unity till the last person alive. Isn’t that exactly what the Russians did in WWII facing a much superior and vast death cult at the time in history? Don’t expect any less from Iranians, as the Vietnamese proved to a much superior American a few decades past. Even without all its modern technological and military prowess and accomplishments, Iran would never surrender. And as the great Imam Khomeini’s simple yet poignant reminder to Iranians in 1980: AMERICA CAN’T DO SHIT”!
Bravo! Well stated!
Iran like Russia will be just fine as long as they keep the cockroach American elite (Zionistas) out as once you allow those parasites into your home you're screwed (see Europe). It's the Emirati vassals and regional satellites who should do all the worrying as their citizens will have been emboldened by Iran's resoluteness.
I expect they've learned bundles, internally especially, even getting rid of that pompous twit Mohammed Javad Zarif the former Foreign Minister under Rouhani who swanned around preening himself with Obama and other American State actors during the protracted JCPOA debacle which allowed the intrusive IAEA inspections lifting only 40 of the 30,000 sanctions on the country. Just learned that Zarif was serving as vice-President in the new Government. A BA & MA from San Francisco University and family/business ties in US Murder Inc should have been red-flags but I suppose appeased various segments in the country who desired a Fistful of US Freedom Fries would help stabilise matters.
The Israeli-NATO failed destabilisation will have strengthened the hardliners resolve and weakened the 5th Column greatly, a blessing even.
Trump's a clown, that was a great deal for the American & Israeli Zionists.
The new President despite being of Iranian-Azerbaijani extraction with a Turk mindset will now have less flexibility with the IRGC playing a more proactive role in matters of Foreign Affairs as witness the hastily arranged trips to Moscow & Beijing in company with the new FM.
Soleimani & Raisi's deaths were a setback but there's no shortage of talent in Iran and fingers crossed they'll announce le bomb in a short space of time to put an end to all this US-Zionist fuckery once and for all.
Regime change IMO will always be the goal Iranian nuke or not.
You surprise me Karl!
Iran will go from strength to strength in a Multipolar NWO while the American, Israeli, British and European REGIMES are on a such a downward spiral it's only a matter of which crashes first.
Yes, Iran can and ought to grow stronger while those others decline. But it will take a group effort to make that so.
I was hoping to send link Karl of a 15 minute interview of the Malian President on his recent visit to Russia with President Putin titled . . .
'Full interview with President Assimi Goita on the result of his visit to Russia (Youtube)'
Very interesting and worth a watch, detailing Russia's partnership with Mali/AES. Nuclear power stations, Mining, Agri, Security etc
The West will be evicted from Africa after years of plunder, hastening their demise.
Russia, China, and the BRICS overall can benefit Africa a lot as their intent is to aid not plunder. The return to the aiding nations will be the increased commerce between them—the Win-Win solution. The colonial nations had that same opportunity but chose to pursue plunder instead. In 2022, I wrote an article “The Plundering Nations Last Stand” https://vk.com/@580896205-the-plundering-nations-last-stand?ysclid=mcktaiufcz449088239
In searching for the above article, I discovered some of my other work was captured by the internet and even archived at a few sites including the wayback machine. There are four items from 2022 at this link, https://archive.md/sOUxj
which was saved to the archive by someone and makes me curious about what else is out there.
Hard to reason why one has to experience a near death so one can listen to the angels of history .
I didn’t want to argue the interpretation of the picture as that was beside the point of writing. As I commented to james, my interpretation is very different from Benjamin’s.
Reading Alastair Crooke's Resistance after seeing Pepe's name check. So far I'm greatly reminded of Marshall Hodgson's Venture of Islam, but continued in discussion with contemporary thinkers.
i stopped reading at "One could say Russia is conducting its SMO in an Islamic manner".
heavy words coming on my mind towards the deranged head claiming that what RU is doing in UA has anything noble/ethical in it, but Id rather use my energy some way/place else
unsubscribing from this bs
Good. You clearly lack the intellect to understand anything past a 4th grade level.
" “Fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, but do not exceed the limits; Surely Allah does not like those who exceed the limits” [Qur’an 2:190]
" This verse also makes it clear that retaliations must be proportional, and blowing up a city block in order to kill one person is most certainly unacceptable and forbidden! Not to mention, it implicitly condemns preemptive strikes. And there is a clear and simple precedent for this. A person cannot be punished for something he/she hasn’t done yet!
" “Fight them until there is no more oppression…but if they cease, then let there be no hostilities except on the oppressors.” [Qur’an 2:193]"
Hmmm.... it's a pity the Zionists don't obey the same dictum isn't it. Standing by a religious/ethical principle might get you into heaven but meanwhile, here on earth...
Fighting for principles is hard, yes. The Houthis are very principled, which is why they’re the only “nation” to directly intervene in the Zionist Genocide in Palestine. No other nation stands by the principles they supposedly signed onto when they signed and ratified the Genocide Convention. In this instance, who are the exceptional people? Where and how does this figure:
“Live by the sword die by the sword.”
Liberals are accused of Moral Relativism because they always fudge on what they proclaim as their principles. When I was younger, I tried to argue that wasn’t the case, but over many years and plenty of examples I’ve changed my mind on that issue.
Yes, it's like capitalist democracy, only when it's convenient.
First of all, we have to get their attention.
I agree with Ron Unz - "America and its close allies possess overwhelming dominance over the global media, allowing them to shape the perceived reality of much of the world’s population, ruling elites included. By heavily influencing the thoughts and beliefs of the individuals who control large military forces, nuclear arsenals, and vast wealth, this power of illusion can often easily overwhelm the political impact of the existing balance of physical power in the real world.
This same media mind-control is powerfully deployed inwardly at our own citizenry and ruling elites. Thus, the Western alliance has remained surprisingly cohesive and committed, adhering to policies that would seem deeply inimical to the best interests of many of its major members, who might otherwise have been expected to revoke their damaging alignment.
Any actual use of nuclear weapons let alone strategic ones might plausibly escalate to the large-scale exchanges that would result in worldwide destruction. Therefore, their main practical value is as a powerful means of deterrence and intimidation. But any such impact assumes that other leaders will recognize that power and react accordingly. This is not the case if the thoughts of those leaders are heavily clouded by media mind-control.
Thus, to a considerable extent, this Western media weapon has successfully nullified the impact of Russian strategic military superiority. For such superiority to have any influence, it must be recognized as such, and if media power blinds both Western populations and their elites to that important reality, the impact is largely eliminated. A loaded handgun cannot be used to effectively deter or intimidate a group of individuals if their zombified brains fail to appreciate its potential lethality.
Put another way, even if Russian hypersonics can successfully pierce any of the West’s defensive missile systems, the political results of this powerful military technology will be minimal unless the Russians can similarly develop some effective means of piercing the West’s defensive shield of media mind-control."
https://www.unz.com/runz/a-forceful-russian-response-to-nato-recklessness/
As RU describes - NATO headquarters in Brussels would be one hell of a demo!
The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economic exhaustion. We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. (This is where we are now)Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. Albert Pike
"Politically, Trump campaigned to end the Forever Wars and swiftly end the Ukraine conflict, and so far he’s been an abject failure, which has degraded his support base."
Why do people continue to believe that Trump intended to end anything??? I just don't get it. Is it wishful thinking on the part of the author? Especially given the thrust of the rest of the essay reveals just how venal (and desperate) the Empire is. The US ruling class selected a psychopath as its leader, for good reason; there's no place for rationality in this 'do or die' moment for Imperialism. They're no longer playing chess but chicken.
It’s what Trump said he’d do. He either lied outright and never intended such an outcome or he failed in his attempt.