By Batiushka for the Saker blog
A U.S. 51-star flag has already been created just in case there ever is a 51st state.
Foreword
Joke of the Decade from the quisling Stoltenberg: ‘NATO is united’. (Amazing what a few million dollars deposited into their bank accounts will do to some people’s sense of truth-telling. Ask the President of the Ukraine, if you do not believe me). Apparently, Stoltenberg has not heard of Greece and Türkiye (whose President the NATO US tried to assassinate). Or Romania and Hungary. Or try Germany and Poland. Many Non-Norwegians, for example all Germans and Poles, are aware that Germany and Poland are not on good terms. The current Polish government wants even more money back from Germany in war reparations – yes, for that war which ended 78 years ago.
Meanwhile the Germans continue to use the expression ‘polnische Wirtschaft’, literally ‘Polish economy’, meaning total chaos. And then there are Germans who would like Silesia back, those cities like Breslau and after all, why not Danzig? As for the provincial Polish obsession with recovering their ‘greatness’, a Polish Empire from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, by taking over and perhaps ethnically cleansing the western Ukraine (remember Akcija Visla in 1947; the parents of some of my best friends lived through it), Germans shake their heads in despair. However, there is also another international ‘rift in the lute’, or crack in the violin creating disharmony. It could be fatal. Read on.
London and Washington
Nationalism is always inherently narcissistic because it is all about imagined self-preening superiority. Once upon a time this was an imagined racial superiority, also known as racism. Thus, the British novelist Delderfield wrote a series of novels about the Victorians (1) called ‘God is an Englishman’. ‘Send them gunboats and missionaries’ (in that order), proclaimed the Victorians with their patronising ‘civilising’ mission. Their imperialist poet Kipling spoke of the Maxim gun and the Bible. Same thing. ‘Wogs begin at Calais’, proclaimed the splendid isolationists, right up until the 1950s. I remember a conversation a few years ago with an Indian, who told me that very, very few Indians had accepted Protestantism in India because, as he said, apart from anything else, Protestant English ‘missionaries’ had told Indians that if they wanted to become Protestants (or ‘Christians’, as the Victorians miscalled it), they would first have to agree to wearing trousers. In other words, it was never an issue of faith or the spiritual, but of becoming second-class Englishmen.
A century later the same mentality came to rule over the USA, where it was called ‘White Supremacism’ and the people who accepted it were called WASPs, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. However, that is now all taboo. There is no such thing as racial superiority among modern woke Americans, only of moral superiority. This is in fact even more insulting and condescending nonsense, which means the acceptance of ‘our’ values, i.e. ‘freedom and democracy’. Thus, Victorian London imposed the Puritan Englishman as the model for salvation (‘wash more often and your skin will become as white as ours’), whereas ‘liberal’ Washington says ‘wear jeans and trainers, eat at MacDonalds, drink coca cola and watch Disney, and you too will be saved, even though you are the wrong skin colour’. Same old, same old.
Greatness and Decline
Among the Victorians there were politicians with personalities: Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone, the only one adored by Bulgarians. Of course, the first two were obnoxious imperialists – but they did have personalities. Among them we can also include the Kurd-gassing Churchill and the Pinochet-loving Thatcher. They were Victorians in their mentality. Racist to the core. But they did have personalities. It seems now that they were the last of the line.
After Thatcher came a series of nonentities, the believing in his own delusions Blair and then in 2022 the three geniuses: Johnson, whose name is now a synonym for a buffoon; Truss, who gave the world a new word, a ‘Trussism’, e.g. ‘Peru is the capital of Africa’ or ‘Inflation is overcome by printing more money’; and then there is the Indian banker, sunny Sunak, not quite a billionaire, but well on his way:
Say no more.
Such British geniuses should recall that the neocons who run NATO and then think that if they extend their war in the Ukraine and hope to drag it out for a decade or so, that will destroy Russia. Clearly, they live not in the real world, but in a virtual world. The longer it lasts, the greater the damage to the West. This is what they will create: Civil war in the USA. Bankruptcy in the UK. Collapse in Germany. Revolt in France and Southern Europe. Chaos in Eastern Europe. The end of NATO. The trouble is that, as Col. Douglas MacGregor always quotes his Spanish NATO friend as saying: ‘The USA is not another country, it is another planet’. Having been to different parts of the USA four times, visiting from the Old World, I can confirm the words of the Spanish officer.
Continents and Islands
The point is that those who live on Continents are always pragmatists. They have to be. They have to live alongside those who have different religions and therefore different cultures, speak different languages and eat different food. No American-style ‘one size fits all’ here. However, the UK is an island. When you live on an island, you can run away to Dunkirk and go home for cups of tea in Brexitland, as the Germans call it. Britain can be to the USA what New Zealand is to Australia, i. e. a bit of a joke, as Texans say, ‘that iddy-biddy liddle island off the coast of Europe’.
So, before you make the choice, just remember that the USA is also an island. Or more precisely Northern America (the USA and the Frozen North, also called Canada, is an island. (Mexico is neither South, nor Central, America, but it still belongs to Latin America, not Northern America; remember Trump’s promised wall?). And since Northern America is thousands of kilometres away from any Continent, it is not like Britain, thirty kilometres from a Continent, but a very insular island.
And just remember that if you want to be taken over by Washington and become the 51st State, the Americans are really bad losers. Bad losers are those who if they can’t have what they want, throw their toys out of the pram and destroy everything. They would sooner choose self-destruction, as they cannot destroy others. Coming second is not an option for bad losers. And when their toys are nuclear, be careful. The British, say what you will, are not like that. (Probably because they have been coming second for a whole century now, so they have an awful lot of experience).
Bad Losers
I can think of half a dozen examples, but the most ‘actuel’, as the French say, is Meghan Markle. Here we are, the American actress who wanted to become a Princess, so then she could be ‘the Queen of England’. They would not let her, as she came too late and snatched the wrong baby, the ‘Spare’ (Harry) and not the Heir (William). In any case, William sems to have some backbone, whereas the depraved, drug-taking, Afghan-murdering Harry appears to be the classic weak-willed man, who will do anything, including maligning his own family, for the sake of going to bed with an American actress. (Remember his great-great uncle, the Hitler-saluting Edward VIII?) Another case of Hugh Grant and the strong American woman. And Meghan Markle has simply thrown her toys out of her pram, because she could not get her way, using Harry as her ventriloquist’s dummy. The classic American bad loser. It is a bit like homosexuals who are in denial: ‘I hate you and I am jealous of you because you are normal and therefore I am going to destroy you’. And that is what necons, Victoria Nuland a prime example, do.
Now this family argument between Harry and the Family Business in itself is not about the big political questions, but it is symptomatic of the ‘special relationship’ (i.e. London licking the boots of Washington every time Washington has walked on some turd). The fact is that the German House of Windsor is on its way out, Harry, Duke of California, or not. The fact is that there is no war between the Ukraine and Russia. The war is between Washington and Moscow, and quite a few British people are starting to cotton on to this fact. The Ukrainians, like most Western Europeans, including the British, are just naïve pawns in the Great American Game in their struggle to maintain their world domination. And therefore Britain is going to have a choice to make quite soon. Neither the dying and obsolete gerontocracy of the grandchildren of Nazis, known as the EU, nor insular English nationalist Brexit, but Eurasia or the 51st State. Choose wisely. You might get a better deal from those who are 21 miles away than from those who are 3,000 miles away.
Johnson, who was born in New York and Sunak who studied at Stanford, be careful of bad losers. They can get you into big trouble, especially if they decide to throw their nuclear toys out of their pram on top of you. As the Victorian poet Lord Tennyson wrote in 1859:
It is the little rift within the lute,
That by and by will make the music mute.
9 January 2023
Note:
1. Just for the sake of historical accuracy, let it be said that the whole 19th century period is miscalled ‘Victorian’. It should have been called Alexandrinian, as Queen Victoria’s real first name was Alexandrina, held in honour of her godfather, Tsar Alexander I.
I do agree with the main theme the Batiushka proposes here, would just like to add a few points that came to mind while reading.
1). ” ‘Send them gunboats and missionaries’ (in that order), proclaimed the Victorians with their patronising ‘civilising’ mission. Their imperialist poet Kipling spoke of the Maxim gun and the Bible. Same thing. ‘Wogs begin at Calais’, proclaimed the splendid isolationists, right up until the 1950s” .
It was from this nationalist, racist mindset that a word over used to day and wrongly, came.
During the Raj in India there formed relationships sometimes between some of the Male British “NonComs” and Indian women. The offspring were labelled by the snotty nosed English Officers class as “Eurasian”. It meant the cross race offspring of a European or Englishman, and an Asian woman. It was derogatory.
Sadly, few realise this today, thinking that its use indicates a person who is terribly well informed; that it is an upper class way to refer to the Great Northern Land Mass, and it’s peoples. Quite how people of the Orient are “European” is never explained. The name dropped out of usage after the Raj, was resurrected by George Orwell applied to his mixed race Slavs and Mongols of Russia of his fictional “1984”;, dropped out of usage, to be resurrected, this time with resounding success, by Zbignew Brzeziński, the ardent Russia hater trying to wipe Russia from the minds of people. I see the writer is one of those drawn into this piece of perception management.
2. ” ‘The USA is not another country, it is another planet”.
The problem is that this other planet is not only America it includes all of the vassals of America, which are the other of the Five Eyes English speaking nations plus those of the Atlantic peninsula called Europe.
The thing that binds all these though, is the dominant paradigm they are living under; an anachronism; a paradigm that was developed 500 years ago. That paradigm was one of their believed right to invade any country they wanted ; to use force to destroy the people who live there and own the country and steal its wealth. It was also a Paradigm of excessive hierarchy;. they all and still do have, a dominant “Upper class”, of Monarchy, or titles, or very wealthy who hold unassailable privilege of an Upper Class. They exert this superiority of self over their own people, as well as those of other races and nations. It was all of them; the English speakers were the biggest of the empire builders, but we had Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, who all had their share. They are still living under that dominant mindset under that highly anachronistic paradigm and their day is done because an anachronism, is never going to survive when it’s surrounded by flourishing modernity.
I call them the Old World, because that is what their much loved Dominant Paradigm stems from. A world of over 500 years ago, back to the Dark Ages. This planet, those of this Paradigm, are, to use a Chinese phrase “flying West with the Cranes” [i.e. dying].
3). Finally I would add , there is a significant difference between NZ and the British Isles.
On the Greater Island of the British Isles there are three peoples the English the Scotts Gales and the Cymraeg Celts, who have never been apart of that dominant paradigm apart from some of them joining in their forces. The people who rule the island of Great Britain are those of the English, AngloSaxon White Hall Warriors and White Hall Mandarins. You’re not going to find too many if any of either Welsh or Scots among them.
Please remember that it’s the English – that Franco Germanic English – who spread across the world this anachronistic paradigm of invasion, violence, theft and piracy. Certainly their time is coming to an end and certainly their tendency to “throw their dummy out of the Pram” as the others say, in a sheer temper at not getting their own way and being number one is absolutely endemic throughout all of them.
Correction the term is not Eurasian but Anglo Indian. We have less than 200,000 or so of them. Most are in southern India. The singer Queen and Canadian comedian of Indian origin Russell Peters are well known.
Not a correction. Perhaps go read some social history of the Raj, and you will find the term. Eurasian was the fore runner, but when it became “cancelled” [before they even called it that] , they substituted Anglo Indian.
Correct.
This demographic group is called Anglo Indian.
One of my dear old friends self-describes as Anglo Indian. Her grandmother married an Englishman; her mother and father were both half English. She grew up in Bengal, north of Calcutta. Quite a few Englishmen who married Indian women worked for the railroad.
John Masters write a number of novels about Anglo Indians, most notably, Bhowani Junction.
“This demographic group is called Anglo Indian” yes, now. It was not the case in the days of the Raj. Which is what I stated. And given that it was dropped in favour of Anglo Indian, that should tell you what the feeling about the word Eurasian was. It had certainly been used pejoratively , when they were not using the even nastier “blacky white”. !! One needs to learn the etymology of words to get a full understanding of their roots and original meaning.
From online Etymology site, “Eurasian 1844, from EURO- (Cf. Euro-) + ASIAN (Cf. Asian). Originally of children of British-East Indian marriages;”
Freddie Mercury was a Parsee, who wasn’t born in India, so it’s more accurate to describe him as a child of Iran.
“The people who rule the island of Great Britain are those of the English, AngloSaxon White Hall Warriors and White Hall Mandarins.”
Quite. But others may be happy to do their dirty work. I recall visiting the Kelvingrove in Glasgow a few years back where a good case was made for renaming the British Empire the “Scottish Empire”, considering who developed and ran said empire.
For Highlanders the choices were to starve, to emigrate or to serve in the Highland regiments. As Highlanders had previously served in the armies of the kings of Scotland, the chiefs of Ireland and the kings of Norway many chose to take the English king’s shilling. Apart from their hybrid Scandinavian ancestry there is no difference between Highland clansmen and Irishmen. Their culture is essentially the same and their views of the Sassenach are identical. Éirinn go Brách…Alba gu Bràth.
Hi,
As a native English speaker (Irish citizen) – I never heard that expression before – A Rift in the Lute!
You are right of course Batiushka, the UK and Ireland also, must decided whether we belong to Eurasia or to become respectively the 51st and 52nd states of the US.
Europe as a whole needs to shake off US hegemony, ditch the empire and embrace a multipolar world. It will be a wrench away from the US, but one that is necessary, given the craziness of US politics and geopolitics. I think it will take a lot more pain before that happens
An interesting take. Although the genesis of nationalism is the same desire all humans have to group together into some form of society – be it clique, club or congregation. This desire can be manipulated by those wishing to instill team spirit into the sports team or army unit – hence the desire for uniforms.
“Their imperialist poet Kipling spoke of the Maxim gun and the Bible.” He also (and rather more famously) wrote of an Indian water-carrier:
‘Though I’ve beaten you and flayed you,
By the living God that made you,
You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!’
BTW – for the sake of accuracy the first 40 years of the 19th century in the UK would be thought of as Georgian rather than Victorian
Haymer, good of you to point out that there was two sides to Kipling – there are passages in the novel “Kim” that could only have been written by an author with a profound respect, feeling and knowledge of Indian culture.
After Thatcher came a series of nonentities, the believing in his own delusions Blair and then in 2022 the three geniuses: Johnson, whose name is now a synonym for a buffoon; Truss, who gave the world a new word, a ‘Trussism’, e.g. ‘Peru is the capital of Africa’ or ‘Inflation is overcome by printing more money’; and then there is the Indian banker, sunny Sunak, not quite a billionaire, but well on his way:
British-Indian Prime Minister Richie “I’m a total coke addict” Sunak is funny as hell.
He fits in perfectly with other Western regime leaders like the Leader of the Free World himself, Voldemort Zelensky, who is also a total coke addict.
I had never heard of ‘Akcija Visla’, so I turned to Wikipedia. Although I have found that Wikipedia has turned more and more to the Dark Side, still I get the drift that bad things happened to Ukrainians by Polish and Ukrainian communists. Both seem to have gotten tired of warring against the UPA and the Bandera fascists.
Collective punishment is not regarded as nice nor legal these days, but it surely has been practiced over time. The Americans fighting Indians would destroy enemy villages wholesale to diminish the fighting spirit of the warriors. The English corralled the Boers, the Americans again sent Vietnamese to controlled encampments. I am sure there are many other examples other than Genghis Khan.
Not good, but nothing special, sad to say.
The WHO Vaccine Crisis Response manual was just discovered online today. It tells national health departments what to do in the event of a vaccine safety crisis, i.e. something big enough to reach the public goes wrong.
Ignoring the vaccines, it is a blueprint for a generic propaganda campaign that we see used repeatedly in the West.
They are very good at what they do.
I believe the author left out the primary points of money and power. Although they can be used together as one we must remember the USA has bought friend countries around the world through USAid and many other money laundering bribes. Cut off the money to the friends and the USA will have no friends and no power.
In the UK the main fracture points are Northern Ireland and Scotland. A united Ireland is inevitable and an independent Scotland is inevitable. The first is likely to be resolved in a relatively peaceful manner with a final Anglo-Irish settlement but regrettably the second is unlikely to be resolved in a peaceful way (because England cannot afford to lose Scotland’s natural resources). In the nineteen fifties Scottish Whisky was labelled ‘Made in North Britain’, but I don’t believe that this tactic can work in the twenty twenties. Do these young Scots look like they can be culturally suppressed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdOwd5RqKLk
The author correctly points to “Prince Ari”s murderous exploits in Asia, but glides over the massacres, mass murders, and beating-up by Ukrainians. The Ukrainians are not just naïve pawns; they have a particularly ugly history of repeat-offending.
I think Britan made the choice of becoming the 51st state back in 2014, or shortly there-after.
Brexit looks like an Elite move to protect the island from the coming flames in Europe, as well as protecting the global bay of pirates, City of London, from ‘destructive’ EU policies related to finance and tax-havens. It was an omnious sign back then. Also the Scottish referendum, sent sesessionist signals to regions in EU. Perfectly timed before the referendum on Brexit.
I think Britans role in Empire is underplayed. It seems to be the main antagonist of Russia in Ukraine.
If shit hit the fan, I would not be surprised to see London being the first imperial center of C&C up in smoke.
I do not agree that nationalism is a priori bad: let’s start from the fact that we are all relatives in one nation, that there are certain means of genetic recognition (look, smell, skin color, complexion) …
– it is normal that you take more care of “yours” than of others.
– it is normal that your “own” are closer to you than others – so the whole living world survives on the mutual support of those closer to you!
It doesn’t work out so well in an existing multi-national state. As lately seen in Ukraine.
I humbly beg to differ in one key aspect which fully agrees with Prof. Michael Hudson.
This conflict is between the US + UK against EUROPE with tactics disguising the real strategy behind a different form.
The ´morally superior´ (ha!) Anglo-Saxons know bloody well they can´t defeat Russia right on its borders in a very strict land war with no air or maritime support no matter what they or Ze or NATO does.
But Europe can and will be plundered easily to death ASWKI (not Russia) and picked up for cents on the dollar if Europeans are stupid enough (and so far they have proven to be so) to follow their Master´s tactical policies. Thus, the Anglo-Saxons would have defeated Europeans for three straight times in a century, this time around possibly for centuries to come as the Eurasian train is already well on its way with Europe not part of it, not even as the caboose.
Furthermore, if escalation keeps on, the UK would be a Russian-preferred (and very easy) target.
Here in Southern California, Ole!, it seems to me like the money changers in the “51st State” took over the other 50 states around 1910 or so… I think the British Ruling Class actually won the American Revolutionary War, it just took them a bit long, that’s all.
Naturally, they took over their country before, some 500 years earlier.
In a short work related trip to Singapore, a few years ago, I had the opportunity to visit their National History Museum (or something like that). The one thing I came out with is that the British were some Big Time Arrogant, Narcissist, A$$ho!es.
Americans will at least happily give out good chocolate and chewing gum and treat the kids nice. But the Brits colonialists deserved, IMHO, to succumb to a slow grind of dysentery.
The British used to fly over villages in Yemen dropping chocolates in order to impress the natives. British chocolate is mostly made out of milk products so it does not compare to continental European chocolate, however at least it contains some cocoa solids unlike fake American ‘chocolate’, which is considered to be scarecely palatable by the rest of the world. Please try some good quality Dutch or Swiss chocolate before singing the praises of American ‘good chocolate’.