By Aleksandr Khaldey
Translated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard
cross posted with http://www.stalkerzone.org/aleksandr-khaldey-russias-asymmetric-response-to-the-us-in-syria/
source: http://www.iarex.ru/articles/59803.html
In the war between Russia and the Anglo-Saxons all the tricks of our enemies happen because of a certain political course that, under Vladimir Putin, is being gradually embodied by the Russian political government. This course is shortly expressed as the gradual squeezing out of the West from spheres representing basic importance for it. This squeezing out is not a whim or avidity, but a vital need, that’s why Russia will follow this course regardless of the one who leads it.
Since the military power of Russia doesn’t allow the enemy to use military methods to push it back, the West uses all the other things at its disposal – diplomacy, finance, special operations, and propaganda. It in order to provide a complex of measures to push Russia back, the Anglo-Saxon elite uses the principle of provocation, where a crime is organised and then attributed to Russia, and, under the control of dependent pseudo-expert and information structures, statements about Russia’s guilt are spread. On the basis of these charges, a number of aggressive strategies are put to work that couldn’t have legitimate justification in the opinion of public opinion of the West if it wasn’t for these provoked pretexts.
One of such crimes organised for the purpose of informationally and politically ensuring a whole cascade of aggressive measures against Russia in all spheres – from military to information and economic – is the poisoning of Sergey Skripal and his daughter by gas, the production and delivery of which to the territory of Britain is attributed to Russia. As Britain can’t really counter Russia in foreign policy, it chose the method of bribing international officials and putting pressure on international organisations in the form of its intelligence agencies blackmailing the responsible employees of these structures. And this is how Britain frankly – because of its inability to do it covertly – put the OPCW at its mercy and then, using the hands of this organisation, carried out a made-to-order “examination”, in which it is declared that the Skripals were poisoned with the “Novichok” gas.
Since after the Skripals were poisoned in Salisbury other people in another town – Amesbury – were poisoned and, unlike the Skripals, died, the OPCW gave out the verdict that the gas used was “Novichok”, however the Skripals and a certain Sturgess/Rowley were poisoned with different batches. Since what is called the word “Novichok” is manufactured by many other states, it is impossible to prove the direct participation of Russia. But such a task is at the same time not necessary. Britain considers the desired effect as achieved and the needed paper from the OPCW as received. London stated that the OPCW carried out the task with honor, and that the high standards of the scientists of this organisation again proved themselves – well, and so on, and so forth.
It is clear that since the Brits praise the decision of the international experts for its objectivity, it means that the Brits organised everything as they needed it to be, and with these compliments they formally take away suspicion from the OPCW of performing a political order. Nothing more is needed – any participation of Russia in the investigation won’t be allowed, like concerning the examination of the case of the Malaysian Boeing.
The policy of Britain and the US in regards to Russia is reminiscent of a title fight in boxing: Russia is tied to the ropes, then the Englishman kicks Russia in the groin – and the judge declares the victory of the English boxer. And the American boxer jumps out behind the judge’s back and rabbit punches the tied-up rival several times, which the judge doesn’t react to in any way. Then the voting panel hands the championship belt to the Englishman and the American and declares both of them world champions. And police officers take the tied-up Russia to the locker room and, after untying it, throw it out onto the street. Everyone in the world sees what the Anglo-Saxons get up to, but everyone supports what is happening because they are afraid.
Why do the Anglo-Saxons do this? After all, this isn’t rational. Everyone can see that they are provokers and villains. They are despised and hated. They aren’t trusted by their own citizens. They already don’t care about looking correct at all. They behave like bandits who occupy a village and don’t even pretend to seem like decent gentlemen.
The fact is that Russia pursues its policy without paying attention to their provocations. It crushed the Wahhabis in the Caucasus well trained by the West and snatched Crimea from under NATO’s nose. It snapped the US’ scenario in Ukraine. It restores the EAEU. In Syria Russia completely booted the Anglo-Saxon West from the pedestal that it had occupied during the whole post-war 50-year period. By its bombings of ISIS militants, Russia broke the rigid ribs of the geopolitical world contours built by the Americans. This is a catastrophe, to which the Anglo-Saxon world has nothing to reply with in relation to the nuclear power of Russia.
While Britain was showering the bought-and-paid-for experts of the OPCW with compliments for the needed act, Russia struck the strongest bombing attack on Idlib, clearing the way for the Syrian army for the destruction of the last enclave of American fosterlings, thus striking a blow to the gut of the British political elite. After all, all the dancing around the Skripals and the subsequent sanctions is designed to prevent what Russia is now doing in Idlib. They didn’t succeed to prevent it, and this is a demonstration of the weakness of the British ruling class, which is capable of only stealthily nibbling the heels.
But what’s worst of all is that the actions in Idlib show the weakness of the US. Trump is completely muzzled – not by his adversaries, but by Russia. It’s exactly like this. Russia uncovered preparation for a provocative chemical attack in Idlib, which it reported at the UN in front of the whole world. And everyone heard it. With all the details, including the quantity of barrels and their color, and also the description of ways of delivering chlorine to Idlib and the places of their secret storage. All the trump cards of Americans have been illuminated. There is no sense in the operation anymore.
But there will be an operation all the same. The match will take place in any weather conditions. The US already planned the places that it will bomb. The storm will be more resolute than the previous time. Preparation happens as if the US is sure that a chemical attack will take place, when the US will decide on it. Not Damascus, but Washington. I.e., in general all masks were thrown off, and the US openly prepares aggression with a provocation in a sovereign country where they frankly have the status of an occupier.
And even if there won’t be a chemical attack at all, the American strike will take place anyway, because the Russians shook via bombing their American proteges too strongly. They are too close to defeat – their excuse for being in Syria will be evaporated. How can such a thing be allowed? A strike of prestige is needed, and it will happen, even if the sun falls on the Earth and the Mississippi river will flow in reverse. It’s just that it’s difficult to see any prestige in this.
The US is increasingly sliding from strategy to tactics. The Americans need a strike on Syria not because it will decide something in terms of the outcome of the campaign. It won’t decide anything, because in order to change the course of the war the US needs to enter its land troops with everything that it implies – the death of military personnel and clashes with Iran, Syria, and Russia. And even with Turkey. Along with China, which is silently standing behind them. This is a guaranteed defeat, the global consequences of which are unpredictable.
The first thing that can be made out is the crumbling of NATO. A second Vietnam will crush not only the American president, but also the US itself. That’s why Americans will score a goal of prestige and will leave the lost match. They will strike in Syria where again Russian intelligence will beforehand reveal the supposed targets of the blow, will withdraw the Syrian leaders from there, and will then again collect from the fields of Idlib a heap of unexploded Tomahawks, which will be presented to Russian rocketeers in the form of a gift so that they can improve their missile defense methods further.
Russia has a difficult task in Idlib now. It consists not of repelling an American attack, but of not repelling it too strongly. Trump opts for an attack not because he wants to win against the Russians in Syria, but because he wants to win against the globalists back home in America, and to do this on the eve of congressional elections. I.e., the reasons for America’s attack against Syria are purely internal.
If Russia hits Trump in Syria too strongly, it risks drowning him instead of somehow supporting his menacing image and helping him to win [in elections – ed]. Simply because Trump is favorable to Russia – he breaks too well everything that the American power of the last few decades has been based on. To help the impeachment of such a guy is outside of the national interests of Russia. We can’t now overstep the mark in Syria. Trump has to leave the line of fire as a fine fellow, but not as a fool and a loser.
I.e., the fate of the US is now in Russia’s hands. And Russia guides America according to its plan, lowering it slowly and controllably – although the US remains the world hegemon and thus hits Russia very strongly via sanctions. But Russia thus doesn’t sink its teeth into the throat of the US. At the same time Berlin, maintained by the cheap gas of Moscow, finishes off London in Europe.
Understanding this is very painful for Brits and Americans. It is so painful that no collapses of the ruble or jokes in Salisbury – with useless scraps of paper of local clerks from the OPCW who were intimidated by the British intelligence agencies – are capable of relieving this pain. Russia answers asymmetrically – by continuing to do what became the very reason London and Washington resorted to such crazy and inefficient actions in the first place.
After the US has fired its load at Damascus, Russia and Syria will continue to squeeze Idlib and will resolve the situation definitively. And after this they will construct a “big Chinese wall” around Deir Ezzor and no mouse will slip out from there, especially with oil. We have already seen with the example of Erdogan how easy it is to bomb caravans of oil, the export of which from Syria Russia doesn’t wish to allow. And the US will have to leave from there too. And saving the face of the US in this story of their latest defeat will be the subject of negotiations with Russia.
But in the meantime, Russia needs to apply itself very much in order to not let Trump fire missiles where they shouldn’t be fired and at the same time not to expose him as a weakling and a symbol of American shame. Russia must give Trump the chance to resolve his important affair. The US won’t have another such president, just like how Russia won’t have a second Mishka Mecheny [a nickname assigned to Mikhail Gorbachev; “mecheny” = labeled, because of the birthmark on his head – ed].
So glad you posted this, Saker. And much thanks to Ollie and Angelina for this translation.
Everyone should read it twice. There is a feast of importance to understand the Russian strategy, words and movements.
Aleksandr Khaldey deftly exposes the Russian acrobatics. They have to balance on the high wire of saving Trump and coaxing the beast without enticing, by seeming weak to the Hegemon, some adverse action.
The bottom line, of course, is the very serious business of pursuing Russia’s goals which push the Beast out of the center ring.
A very excellent article.
The counterpoint to saving Trump is that Russia could just as easily destroy him, if they leak something that supports Russia collusion. I assume Trump would see this, and so just as Russia’s actions may be moderated, so will Trump’s.
I am not sure, if there is Russia collusion, contrary to what you are implying. Good try, but I do not buy your collusion implication. Yes Russia could destroy Trump by playing a hard-line opposition, but why, for what benefit? Also, I am not sure if Trump is Russia-friendly, he isn’t. His talk is cheap, but actions speak to the contrary.
Larch, this article is an excellent take on the situation at hand explaining Russia’s balancing act to stay out of direct conflict with AZ’s. It brings Martianov’s couple articles to my mind:
http://www.unz.com/article/grand-strategy-revisited/
http://www.unz.com/article/russia-as-a-cat/
Enjoy
Anonius: I don’t believe there is any collusion. But I’m sure those clever people in the GRU could spin up a great story, and it would be lapped up in the US. Sorry I wasn’t clear, but this is what I meant.
Larchmonter445
Yes, a very excellent article indeed. In the military there is a strategy known as “the defensive offensive”. That is what Russia is doing. Domestically it has concentrated on building up it’s infrastructure and military, while on the international field it is applying surgical initiatives, like the military operation in Syria. It has also, in conjunction with China, created the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Zone and the Eurasian Economic Union.
And what have London and Washington been doing ? More of the same. Preserving Atlantist interests, trying to prevent the rise of any continental power and in the process unifying Russia and China, who are bringing Germany into the club, with others waiting to join as well.
The end is going ton be both interesting and dangerous. We shall see if London and Washington accept geopolitical reality, or do something foolish, like starting a wider war.
this is a kind of relief to me trying ti imagine a way out for us all….
once again I must concede to Putin as a master of his situation as leader, master of the stage.
I have kept with Trump because I got the impression from the start he was sincere about unwinding the empire and returning america to some kind of nationalism whatever that is worth. what he will be doing of course is precipitating an american revolution.
but there is no alternative to the winding down of the empire
What Syria needs in order to prevail and drive the Americans out of its territory is a relentless guerrilla campaign like the Vietnamese threw against the Yanks every day of the conflict. They need to infiltrate their bases and those of their head-chopping hired terrorists and blow them all to hell, like the Taliban tries to do in Afghanistan. We don’t hear of a relentless campaign like that ongoing in Syria. Instead, the “good people” flee to Europe and other places. Russia, Iran and the SAA alone are not going to liberate all of Syria without an effective populist underground to help them. There need to be car bombs and sniper shootings everyday in Raqqa, al Tanf, Idlib and all the other viper nests being cultivated by the Great Satan.
And, while we are discussing tactics for killing large numbers of people, how is it that Washington can possibly object to poison gas (chemical substances their own minions are the ones using) when they themselves extensively used napalm to burn entire forests and villages of people alive in Vietnam, or “Agent Orange” in the same venue, or burning white phosphorus in Iraq, particularly in Fallujah when they decided to clear out every last living human being from the wreckage of that city? Washington should make not a peep if the Syrian defenders choose to burn out every last terrorist in Idlib using napalm and white phosphorus. If they do purport to object, they should all be tried and convicted of the war crimes they quite openly and repeatedly committed, and still perpetrate! This American “exceptionalism” should not extend to a pass on morality. The world should not stand for this blatant double standard.
Now, I don’t want to see anyone killed in the last analysis. I want Washington to end the slaughter and solve the problem by taking in these 100,000 or so butchers they’ve cultivated as refugees into their own cities, like the Europeans have been forced to do. They created the monster, they should live with it. No other country with sane leadership would ever contemplate harboring such a vast population of demons in their midst. They must be extirpated from Syria for that country to finally have peace. If Washington loves its vile creations so much, it has an obligation to retrieve them. They will make Saturday nights in Detroit and Chicago even more exciting than they presently are.
“And, while we are discussing tactics for killing large numbers of people, how is it that Washington can possibly object…”
And to think, I was just reading about Washington’s war plans of the 1950’s where they proposed to kill about a third of the world’s population in global nuclear war. That would be in the initial attack. The rest of the world’s population would be dead within a year or maybe two from the failure of crops in the following nuclear winter.
It would appear that talking about killing large numbers of people has long been a popular parlor game in Washington DC.
read your old testament. That sort of nastiness has been a defining characteristic of one tribe in particular for a very long time, and that tribe has its arm well embedded in the US fundamental orifice.
I’ve seen reports of uprisings and resistence against the Americans and the SDF in Raqqa and other places. Remember, the SDF is a largely Kurdish force, with a few token Arabs. Arabs don’t seem to like living under Kurds. The stories mention press-gang style forced conscription and siezing of property by the SDF, which of course is not making the people who have their sons and property stolen very happy. Thus there is resistence.
I don’t believe Raqqa was a Kurdish town. But the Americans pushed the SDF to go take it because they wanted the propaganda of getting their first as a trophy in their fake war against ISIS. Thus, at least in that area, the Kurds are left now ruling an Arab population that doesn’t really want them there.
So, there is at least the beginnings of a pro-Syrian government resistence in the American controlled areas. Since the Americans and their proxies are always corrupt and always try to beat down any resistence, this is likely to get worse for them.
And their only supply line comes through Iraq, where the Americans are now trying to wage a desperate color-revolution campaign to try to overturn the results of the recent election which was lost by the American controlled factions. Unrest and potential guerrilla war along their only supply line into SDF zones of Syria does not bode well for the American presence in Syria.
yes according to me also guerillia is the thing. people will have to do their bit. nice comment
Such guerilla war is apparently planned:
On June 1, 2018, the :Elders of seventy Syrian tribes and clans” gathered in a conference and issued a statement – “Syrian Tribes Against American and Foreign Presence in Syria” – in which they pledged to form popular, or “tribal units of resistance” that will, as “faithful helpers of our heroic army”, “confront by all means necessary” Americans and other invaders and “expel them” from “the precious land of Syria”, for which they’d be “gladly shed their blood”.
It’s in Arabic: if in a hurry, just begin by google-translating paras 4 and 5 to see what was pledged. The last para scolds the Kurds for refusing: You were bought, you’ll be dropped just as easily…
https://www.raialyoum.com/index.php/%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%8A%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA/
But let’s hope it won’t come to that extremity…
Hello. Will anyone chime-in regarding Trump v Globalist? To all appearances there is only For Trump the hero/anti-hero, or Against Trump the usurper. Nothing else except for The Saker, who judges Sept eleventh to divide truth from fiction here.
Question to radio Yerevan.
Does anyone have some decent sattelite pictures of Al Tanf. Google Earth has only 2 year old garbage.
Ask the Russian Military. They’ll have plenty.
As Google is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US government, don’t expect it to show you anything the Pentagon or the CIA wouldn’t like you to see.
(It may also show you some things that don’t exist, but they would like you to believe in).
Virtual monopolies are such incredibly fruitful revenue streams, in so many unobvious ways.
call it capitalism at its best!
Actually, google which is a subsidiary of alphabet is a cia asset. Always has been from day one. The cia is not a us gov. agency but a private corp. chartered by the us gov.
cia is a banker’s asset, not a gov. asset, therefor google is a banker’s asset, not gov.
this is very true, google was a CIA start up ( what? you think the cia doesn’t have venture capital arm? they put all that war against drug money to good use)
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e
Answer radio Yerevan to Kampfbeobachter.
Try Yandex search. A lot of different stuff. It wont be any better.
Stepped into this one on Yandex from 1.6.2018 Al Masdar ;-).
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/satellite-images-show-us-expanded-tanf-base-as-battle-for-syrias-south-looms/
Well, this could explain a lot of things. I never considered Russia to be so delicate into dealing with Trump.. but this makes sense, a lot of sense.. in this case, cross your fingers and hope that everything’s gonna run smoothly..
Do we actually know that the Skirpals were poisioned by Novichuk? We know the British government says they were? We know the British government gave some samples to OPCW, which itself may not be honest in its accessments. But we do know that the chain of custody and origination of said samples depends entirely on the word of the British government. None of the apparent victims has been allowed to freely be in public and telling their story. We’ve seen various soviet style interviews, but only with people who are apparently otherwise in custody and with minders present.
Just a reminder, we don’t really know anything actually happened. It could all have been a performance art piece.
The interesting part I read today on Craig Murray’s piece was that both Skirpals had turned their cellphones off from 9am to 1pm. I know I came from a rough neighborhood, but the boys around there only turned their phones off when they were doing something underhanded and didn’t want anyone tracking them. What were the Skripals doing that got the former spy to turn off both of their cellphones?
Apart from two exact times of the two suspects either going through the same exit tunnel …or the same time for different exit tunnels…some peoples claiming they can produce this by a photoshop fit up too…the main big hole in the narrative appears to be the times they arrived in Sunday to put liquid or gel not gas as stated above by the author…is after when the Skripals exited their home and not returned so could not contact it from their front door !
Having followed the Skripal story right from the start with fairly careful attention to detail, I think it’s safe to say that the only certain conclusion is that the British government is lying. Because they are lying so much, it seems impossible to work out what (if anything) really happened. To my mind, it’s quite possible that nothing happened at all except for a lot of theatre, the indefinite detention of the Skripals, and the death of that poor woman. (Perhaps the last was done by the UK government to blunt criticism that the deadly novichok has not actually killed anyone).
To have simply whisked the Skripals away and imprisoned them (as, for instance, Julian Assange is virtually imprisoned) would have looked quite bad. The story constructed gives the government some kind of fig-leaf behind which to hide its gross behaviour.
Brilliant article! Thank you Ollie and Angeline for the translation!
You’re most welcome, Alexandra :)
Actually, Idlib doesn’t have much to do with the Americans excuse for invading (lets use the correct word) Syria. The Americans keep saying they are there to fight ISIS. And, while there are lots of radical, Islamist jihadists in Idlib, ISIS doesn’t seem to be among them. ISIS is now down to being seen in the American invaded areas in the east of Syria (of course).
Thus, a Syrian plus allies attack on Idlib has little to do with American excuse for invading Syria. Of course, with the Americans such excuses can change at the drop of the hat, rather like Orwell’s news reader who changes in mid sentence from being at war with East Asia to a war with Eurasia. Or vice-versa. Its hard to tell since America not too long ago was at war with the same radical Islamist jihadists who are in Idlib, except now its the name Al-Qaeda that has disappeared down the memory hole.
Geopolitically there is no hope now for Anglo-Zionist-Bankster-Freemason-Vatican mafia machine. This wicked and genocidal alliance of the above groups, which formed in the 1940s and had hegemonic power since fall of USSR, is collapsing in front of us. Although the rest of the world still has some work to do. please take a moment to celebrate this moment of history in which Russia plays the key role. It started with the defeat of chechen terror, then georgian attack, then Donbas, then now the Empire breathes its last in Idlib. There will be no nuclear firework display, much to the dissapointment of video games fans. Just a gradual isolation, irellevance and impoverishment of Empire territories, and its replacment with Eurasian and African co operation.
We can also thank the Russian people, for rejecting Navalny and his type, despite Empire attempts to lure them and start color revolutions, the people stood firm. We also must thank Trump in contrast for displaying to the world the sheer stupidity of the views held by the Exceptionalist Anglo masses and their ability to refuse to accept reality, truly thinking he will change things, when he is just another operative of Empire. Sanctioning China will only quicken the shift to Eurasia. We must thank the English also for showing to the world their immense delusion, voting to leave EU because they believe they are superior- when in fact it will only result in Europe turning to Russia. We must thank Israel for openly declaring itself a Jewish supremacist state, confirming what was obvious to all.
What will replace the Empire?. Not Russian Neo-Imperialism or a new USSR, but a return to Silk Road times, mutual trade and commerce, nations tolerating religious and political differences but maintaing relations, like Russia and Turkey have done. Financially the new Economic direction of Eurasia is essentially a dynamic of state capitalism, natually focused on ending conflicts and increasing standards. Ironicaly this is the true ‘end of history’ – a return to normality.
Aleksandr Khaldey wrote:
“At the same time Berlin, maintained by the cheap gas of Moscow, finishes off London in Europe.”
Other than Berlin/Frankfurt being the future winner in the competition with London to become the main Chinese RMB trading hub in Europe, how does Berlin “finish off” London? How does Germany reverse its internal problems with overpopulation and the uncontrolled influx of people from Africa and the Middle East who will never assimilate?
Regarding Trump, why won’t the US “have another such president?” Does this mean that after Trump, one of Hillary Clinton’s associates (a Republican or a Democrat) will assume office?
It means that Anglo-Saxon hegemonic control of Europe ends the moment Nord Stream 2, which Germany needs in order to counter Washington’s blackmail, enters full working capacity.
Nord Stream 2 is just a symptom. Europe is controlled by politicians who are controlled by the media – whenever politicians dare to criticize the USA, the media makes sure they lose most of their voters. This is done by “journalists” that are members of transatlantic organizations. But these organizations are not pro-USA, they are pro-Hillary and pro-Soros. So now it’s allowed for politicians in Europe to criticize the USA by criticizing Trump. Everything that was a taboo for decades, can now be said without getting the political career destroyed – just by replacing the word “USA” with “Trump”.
“It means that Anglo-Saxon hegemonic control of Europe ends the moment Nord Stream 2, which Germany needs in order to counter Washington’s blackmail, enters full working capacity.”
I certainly hope this is true.
but I wonder.
Technically Germany is still occupied.
They cannot get rid of big USa military presence, esp. Ramstein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramstein_Air_Base
Years ago there were big demos in Germany to get the Americans and their bombs and bombers and personnel out.
But it could go nowhere. The gov’s hands were tied.
There has never been a final treaty concerning the status of Germany that would restore to it full sovereignty.
Germany and other EU states are militarily and administratively aligned with NATO. There is a word for this—integratoin? not sure. that is why it is such a big deal the Turkey has decided to purchase Russian missiles or whatever.
After the fall of the USSR the huge push by the USA was to incorporate new european states and get them on board with the integrated military program ( I read about this in detail in a book about the early nineties in Romania).Of course all the big MIC corporations were scrambling to get in there, take over Romanian assets, get the Romanians “signed up” for the biggest “set of encyclopedias” on offer—but you cannot then just pull out of the deal; you hve to keep ordering the next encyclopedia in the set. Maybe not dissimilar from integration of a country’s banking and financial systems. Not so simple to delink. Huge amounts of $$$ also down the drain. The USA was like a succubus in the former Soviet Bloc countries, sitting on their chests and soffocuting them and sucking up blood . . . Very likely the same scenario is being attempted in Ukraine.
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That is my understanding of the legal facts.
I those are correct, I hope a gradual pulling away will be possible.
Katherine
I may add to your comment that at first, the eastern European countries (former socialist) have been taken into NATO and then in the EU. I can hardly believe, these countries have ever been on the real purpose of integration with their western counterparts, they are just Buffer Zones between the west and Russia.The leaders of these countries are indeed in the pockets of the Hegemon, whatever they may speak or behave.The commentator above yours is right, Germany is still in the same pockets – you can see it in the media – there is a small room in which is allowed to walk for their politicians, nothing more. The easterners are doing the same thing. The question is, what must happen in order for a real change to come ? I don’t see how a gradual pulling away should or could happen. If Germany cannot resist the pressure, how could these countries ? Again, something must happen, to force the events and the world is moving in that direction. Thanks for your comment.
“How does Germany reverse its internal problems with overpopulation and the uncontrolled influx of people from Africa and the Middle East who will never assimilate?”
Probably much the same way as the UK, which started down the same path long ago.
As for overpopulation, the establishment simply ignores it and pretends it isn’t a problem. (Which it isn’t for them – they just retire to their extensive country estates, or idyllic islands and ranches in far-away countries – and in town they get driven around in armour-plated cars with armed guards).
As for lack of assimilation, I don’t know if this counts but Britain is increasingly ruled by people from Africa and Asia. Whether, or how much, they have “assimilated” I couldn’t say – but they don’t behave much like Gladstone or Churchill.
Very interesting to observe, this transformation of the UK.
Home Minister and London Mayor Pakistanis, Africa-born Church of England clergy – including the archbishop of York – No. 2 in the hierarchy – the Muganda Sentamu ! Very “progressive” – the CofE now rejoices at being ” less “male, pale and stale”…
So perhaps in a few decades, we should expect a Ghanaian queen, and more Indians and Nigerian magnates in the City, such that in a little bit more time, this new UK will have no one to feed its obsessive Russophobia.
Lumpenkonig
You have raised an interesting question, regarding Germany and overpopulation. By overpopulation you probably mean immigrant population. Well, lets compare Germany, France, Britain, Belgium, Holland and Sweden. All have immigrant problems. Can any of them solve them ? In the long run, Germany, due to the strength of it’s economy and the fact that many of the immigrants are newly arrived and can legally be repatriated, because a “refugee” cannot be a refugee all his life.
“Regarding Trump, why won’t the US “have another such president?” Does this mean that after Trump, one of Hillary Clinton’s associates (a Republican or a Democrat) will assume office?”
there will probably not be a joonited states of terror as you know it today. If we are lucky there will exist Libyan conditions there for a long time so the rest of the world can breathe and evolve naturally.
As an American voter, I don’t really see a problem with exposing a weakling as being a weakling. I doubt that would be of any great surprise to most Americans.
Amongst American voters, there’s around 20% who love Trump and thus who accept any lies told in favor of Trump and also who dismiss any claims against Trump as viscious lies.
There’s about another 20% who don’t really like Trump but who consider themselves to be Republicans and who definitely hate the Democrats and who will always vote against them even if it means voting for Trump.
There’s about 40% who are Democrats and who hate Trump and who believe any claim against Trump as true and any evidence supporting Trump are considered total and outlandish lies.
These groups are all set in stone, and no arguments, facts, evidence or anything else will likely move them.
The ones in the middle decide elections. There doesn’t seem to be any great love for Trump in this middle ground. Trump is regarded as a con-man and a buffoon. But after the Clintons, the Democrats are hated as well. In the last election, a final groundswell of opposition and disgust towrds Hillary (and I suspect the image of Bill being back in the White House) tilted the vote toward Trump.
Frankly, I don’t think that middle group particularly wants war. American voters have been generally against these wars since late in Bush’s term. Thus, I doubt a missile strike that threatens to bring WW3 will be very popular. And the closer the world seems to get to WW3 in this latest fake-crisis, the more alarmed this group is likely to be. For them, the best course for Trump would be no strike at all. From there it goes on a scale up to seriously threatening the Russians and risking WW3 which tilts Trump towards being viewed as a fool and a buffoon and even worse, being very dangerous.
When the Democrats threaten impeachment, they lose ground with this middle group who doesn’t like the idea that the last election can be so easily overturned. When Trump blunders towards WW3, he loses ground with this middle group who then feel that perhaps he is too inexperienced and dangerous.
Note that for the Russians, it doesn’t really matter. Trump has little or no control over foreign policy and the military. He can hold one-on-one talks with someone like Putin. But he can’t control the military-industrial-intelligence-media-complex which means that after he comes out of those meetings which means Trump can’t deliver on anything promised in those meetings. Neither VP Pence nor any Democrat in 2020 would seem at this time to provide any real control over the MIIMC thus it doesn’t really matter to Russia if it Trump or someone else sitting in the White House.
Maybe I should call it the Military-Intelligence-Media-Industrial-Complex. At least MIMIC is a better acronym. Until it kills us all.
“Maybe I should call it the Military-Intelligence-Media-Industrial-Complex”.
MIMICC – don’t leave out Congress. Eisenhower actually said that he really should have included Congress in his valedictory speech, but he didn’t think he could afford to make any more enemies.
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress”.
– Mark Twain
“These groups are all set in stone, and no arguments, facts, evidence or anything else will likely move them.”
Yes, indeed. Someone wrote yesterday on how Trump supporters seem impervious to all those smear campaigns in the media: “Access Hollywood” tape, there were the “John Miller” tape, “The Apprentice” tapes, the “pee tape,” the Michael Cohen tape, and the Omarosa tapes…”
All that has come to nothing: “… the world learned something else. With Trump, the normal rules don’t apply: Even with a video, there are those who will still argue it didn’t really happen.”
Sarah Ellison, Who’s taping now? https://www.washingtonpost.com/
The tapes and quotes and all the rest only work on the opposition, who get so worked up they’ll soon go stark raving mad.
Even the so-clever criticism of Obama gets dismissed with a laugh:
“I’m sorry, I tried to listen, but I fell asleep. I find him very good for sleeping.”
The Trump crowd laughs and applauds, and moves on, while the Never-Trump crowd gnash their teeth at yet another blunted barb…
It baffles me why people put any stock in Trump’s supposed positive attitude to Russia and, even more so, desire to change the course of the US policies towards the rest of the world. Trump is an opportunist. His strategy is simply a rather crude one of exploiting inherent weaknesses of lesser nations to America’s benefit. He wants the US to both have the cake and eat it, to have other nations pay increasing tribute to the US on top of being tied to the US reserve dollar system. This is his solution to the US debt problem. There is no great strategic thought behind it, just opportunism and bullying trade/”diplomacy” tactics.
The fact that Trump is despised by other parts of the US/UK establishment does not really matter since he is powerless to turn the momentum of the US Empire, in fact he is making matters worse by increasing the US debt and boosting the US military to enforce obedience across the world while alienating “allies” with high handed and crude meddling in their internal affairs.
I disagree with the excellent OP about Trump breaking things in the Empire. Trump is only highlighting the increasing dysfunctionality and ensuing desperation in the US/UK establishment ranks. The US establishment figures live under the illusion if they had another figure head the cracks in system would not be as visible. This is nonsense. No one can hold back the tide of collapse. And Trump is not a man of reform.
The real danger is the unpredictability and desperation that comes with the collapse of Empire. The American Empire and culture has always been reflexively homicidal, the question is, will it go quietly when it’s time is up?
Sorry, but I did read this translation twice and came to the same conclusion; This is just a bit of cheerleading and wishful thinking. The writer wants to think and hope that Putin has a strategy, which will lead to the downfall of the Evil Empire. There is not any erudition -much less an explanation- of what strategy the Russians are preparing and planning to implement.
Russia blew the opportunity to create an autonomous “Novorussiya”. It didn’t because it feared the consequences of doing so. Yet guess what? Everything, that it hoped to avoid in the way of economic sanctions and political isolation, has happened. At some point in the near future, the Ukrainians will begin operations against the rebel republics that will force the Russians to either counterattack or to negotiate a surrender of these rebels to the Kiev-based government.
Russia has done much better in Syria; but the Turks and the Americans have inflicted casualties upon the Russian military without ever enduring a counter attack. Along with the Israelis -who admit to arming the rebels and offering them logistical support- American air forces have launched hundreds of attacks on Syrian and its allied forces in Syria. So far, the Russians have done nothing east of the Euphrates and inside the Al-Tanf pocket. The Americans and Israelis have no respect for this “Paper Tiger”.
Paul Craig Roberts is right. The Russians have turned the cheek too many times.
At the moment, I cannot identify a single former member of the USSR that is all-in with Russia. Everyone of them are hedging, by openly seeking improved political and economic ties with the West. China has always been hedging. And Turkey has always been feckless.
In my opinion, Russia must prepare for an opportunity to respond to hostile provocations with military force. It should be able to determine if its military capability, to deliver a decisive defeat of US/NATO/Israeli forces in the Mideast and the Ukraine, is improving or deteriorating. If it is deteriorating, then time is not on Russia’s side.
Russia should be able to determine if its economy is getting stronger despite the sanctions, or weaker because of them. It must determine if the material well-being of its citizens is improving or deteriorating. If the economy is weakening, or if the citizens are suffering, then Russia is running out of time.
China is all in, though. Just has different role and strengths. Russia doesn’t need anyone else all-in. Listening, talking, observing is all they need right now. US dollar is still too important for many leaders and countries. But time are a changin, and when they get the chance…
Europe is the prize for Russia, not the enemy. European independence from the US Empire, and rump UK machinations is the way ahead for both Russia and Europe. A united Eurasia from Vladivostok to Lisbon, allied with China, would mean the end of the US Empire. This is why the US is waging war not only against Russia but against Europe, WITHIN Europe (Ukraine, ex-Yugoslavia etc) and putting massive resources into controlling the political, social and economic landscape of Europe.
Just minutes ago, RT English flashed breaking news …
Two US F-15s just bombed a Syrian Town with white phosphorus bombs, which are banned chemical weapons!
What more provocation does the Russian military need?
And what did the US achieve here? Jackshit. And Russia should do what here? Behave like the US and bomb their troops? What will that achieve? Will peace ever arrive?
I agree with you 100%, with all due respects to the luminaries on this site with their brilliant analyses. If Russia ever wants to create a better world – for itself and for the helpless and weak of the world – it has to lay down some basic moral and legal principles to the USA and its vassals. Thou shalt not bomb countries at will. Thou shalt not invade weak countries and lay waste to millions of people and their homes. Thou shalt not lie and deceive. Thou shalt not lay claim to countries with oil and resources in the name of your “national security:” Thou hast fed off the weak of the world for centuries, time to lay of now, no more feeding off other peoples’ blood and earth.
Is that asking for too much? How can anything better emerge if all analysts talk only along “pragmatist” lines. If it comes to pragmatism, then Kissinger was a world leader in his times. There are plenty like him, perhaps many, many more, still. Has the world become better after 40 years of pragmatism?
The basic moral principles of the United States of America is for the US citizens to lay down. It’s is NOT Russia’s job. When will the American people hold their government to account for it’s war crimes and humongous corruption?
I find it very comforting to read your insights, Andrei. I do understand that Russia has to let the US down gently, so Trump can continue to break the deep state. I cannot imagine how bad it would be if a Clinton was their Pres. But if it was a Clinton (or even worse), there would be no “letting down gently”, I am sure.
But as for the UK, I would like to see Russia use one or two of its new weapons to take out some Brit hardware that attacks Idlib. That would also send a discrete message to the US about Russian capabilities and that it got “let down gently”.
That would be one option for the Russians.
Better yet would be to electronically hijack a few planes and force them to land at the Russian base in Syria.
They might take out some Brit “humanware” based in Idlib.
Brit submarine with tomahawk missiles on its way apparently to eastern Med…but navy admits they just have no idea where Russian submarines are they are too quiet to follow……good! It is all stacking up folks. Presumably usa planes that just dropped banned phosphorous bombs in dher ez zher could now be considered live targets? Some usa military important person has stated there have not been recent or planned to be any conversations with his Russian oppo…..sign of the times folks.
“Germany may join possible airstrikes on Syrian government forces by western nations in case of chemical weapons use by Damascus, according to local media.
German Defence Ministry has mulled joining possible airstrikes by the United States, the United Kingdom and France against the Syrian government forces, Bild reported. The ministry is considering the option only in case of possible chemical weapons use in Syria, the outlet said.”
Sputnik news
Love those friendly conversations between Putin and Merkel….keep selling the gas..
Yes, I agree completely. This is an amazing perspective on things. I hope it will saturate Russian thinking as a path for action. Having by now seen some of Russia’s domestic discussion, I have great hopes that it will form part of internal Russian understanding.
And perhaps it already is, if Adam Garrie’s take on the Tehran meeting of yesterday (September 7) is correct*.
He points to the “open microphone” gaffe whereby Russia and Turkey began their diplomatic talks apparently not knowing that Iran was still broadcasting, and calls this intentional theater. A false flag, in fact, whereby the three countries are using immaterial disagreement to cover their very real material agreement with regard to Idlib.
And so, are we saying that Russia now so holds the upper hand that it can begin to game the understanding of the west, in order to mislead and trick it?
Exactly.
*Forget White Helmets: This Year’s Oscar Goes to Putin, Erdogan and Rouhani
Syria raising the tone of debate at UN; there is still room for diplomacy before the guns fire in earnest. Courtesy of SyrPer analyst Canthama:
“It is always a pleasure to hear Dr. Bashar Al-Jaafari, Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, a person who has shown a consistent sense of dignity and love for his country over the years, and has been a beacon of light inside the UNSC.
One of Jaafari’s best moments, in the recent meeting at UNSC, was when he said on minute 6:10… “those who facilitated the entry of foreign terrorist fighters into my country, especially the Turkish government, still have a chance to remove them from Idlib province.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-LZrJ81FI&feature=em-uploademail
Asside, watch Nikki “the disgraceful” Haley’s face when calling on Syria’s dignified Jaafari to speak (at seconds 0:18). Priceless.
A good analysis on balancing between the devil and the deep blue sea.
“the West uses all the other things at its disposal – diplomacy, finance, special operations, and propaganda”
Here’s an example of the propaganda from BBC/MI6/CIA, the headline of which is probably true for once:
Syria war: Idlib rebels targeted by ‘fiercest raids in weeks’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45460486
Barrel bombs are back in vogue, Syrian Observatory too, but no ‘last hospital in XXX bombed’ -soon to be remedied doubtless and it looks like the ‘White Helmets’ have removed their helmets and scarpered. Perhaps some may still slither out from under stones and rubble for a quick ‘chemicaling’.
Obviously “barrel bombs” are so much worse than the GBU-43 B,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_MOAB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaiKodpkw00
Sky news showing white helmet vids every time they talk about Idlib…..yuk.
I do not think there is or there has ever been a collusion between Trump and Russia, although his policies may be convenient to Russia, of course. I think the author should underline his intuition as his sources on Trump being convenient to Moscow, not to do any favour to the wrong guys in the story.
Now I am writing the following out of my pure male intuition, based only on piecing together the info from the net.
If there is any collusion, it is between Trump and some powerful London financial circles, the same ones who seem to stand behind the Brexit. These circles have seemingly made up their mind to change horses, as the centre of the world economy is moving east rapidly. For them the US is spent and is becoming an obstacle, just like the heap of nouveau rich investors personified by Soros, civil servant’s Deep State and politicians like Clintons there, who can earn their money only in the environment of pumped out dollars and war machinery.
The reason they obviously supported Trump in his coming to power was his well known simply minded political profile of the ‘America first’ type, which could only lead to the fast deconstruction of the American power based on the dollar. After decades of printing, a drop in the economic activity inevitable with the Trump’s protectionist measures, for example, could only lead to a crash. And I think that is what these London circles want, to sweep the US out of their way. Trump is further helping the American power crumbling with his attitude to the allies in a cowboy like profile and I think that has been well known to his backers in London in advance. They had business dealings with him for decades. Still, they play dumb, pretending their direction to be quite contrary, of course.
I think this all to be well known in Kremlin, who is not without it’s relations with the same London circles, I suspect. And this knowledge seems to be quite valuable in deciding the general strategy directions there.
That is all from my intuition.
I think there has been some admission by some persons in the usa that there are terrorists in Idlib region that they know they will lose out on….those endless two years meetings between Lavrov with knowingly completely untrustworthy duplicitous Kerry vainly hoping the usa would be a partner to separate out terrorists from moderate rebels has led to this. Pointless unless time was being played in order to get Russian intelligence into Syria and sort out the military.
But…yesterdays usa announcement of not exiting Syria to continue their false agenda of fighting daesh-how convenient to justify their presence at al tanf as they had to fend off an attack by Isis yesterday- but truly revealed as empire building…creating defence and administration…in order to confront Iran and Russia…..https://southfront.org/us-officially-admits-its-not-going-to-withdraw-forces-from-syria/
… so with all the bases …regular transport supply ….convoys arriving every month.defence systems..the article seems to have made no reference to this. Whilst we are not privy to the plans of Shoigu and SAA although we get news of meetings with Erdogan Putin and Rouhani…sometimes announcements that Russian military returning home…and regular statements from Syria and lately more determinedly by Iran that usa must leave Syria…..what the heck is possible east of Euphrates…apart from a few father or mother of all bombs or even worse?
Craig Murray nailed the Skripal thing with one map and two short sentences.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Screenshot-515_LI.jpg
“I am all out of ideas Inspector. What can possibly be the source of these mysterious poisonings?”
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/07/wheel-out-the-skripal-story-again/
“Russia must give Trump the chance to resolve his important affair. ”
Why? Trump is powerless and no skills to do so nor friends to help him.In view of UN meeting re Skripals and increasing sanctions just for example is it not time politically to burst the self inflated bubble of usa politics and neutralise it to do quite a big favour to the beltway and give an opportunity to the average american to have a political re-boot….bring back UN to some kind of sensibility not a happy playground for psychotic Hayley and friends …surely the democrats can be finished off by themselves ……..at least it might remove this continuous 1 minute to midnight ww3 we get every day. Russia owes nothing to assist usa politics anymore.Not even a handshake…. a phone call…a meeting. Shut it down…..expose it for the nonsensical laughing stock it is to save its own time and energy…otherwise all you are doing is playing along with its own game.
Yeah but the real fear is if Trump is ousted the incoming regime may go straight to all out war.
Trump bought Russia time that’s all.
“A strike of prestige is needed, and it will happen, even if the sun falls on the Earth and the Mississippi river will flow in reverse”.
An accurate, though terrifying, choice of words. If the Americans start a war with Russia it WILL be “as if the Sun falls on the Earth”. For all of us.
Janda says the Deep State is so unhinged and about loss of power, wealth and coming prosecutions that they may attack America. Janda says his Washington D.C. sources say, “Here is what they are really worried about . . . and why there are so many people concerned about what is going on. My sources told me they are very concerned about an EMP event in the near future. That would lead to problems with the rule of law in this country and to the financial markets. . . . They are concerned about an attack from the Deep State, as an act of not power, but as an act of desperation.”
https://youtu.be/imPvpG6asYg
Trump does a 180 on Syria. War is on the horizon
https://youtu.be/0W8E6-tciJo
The development comes amid US media reports claiming that the Russian military had allegedly warned Washington of its plans to attack militants near America’s al-Tanf military base in Syria.
Over 100 US Marines were sent as reinforcements to the military base in al-Tanf, Syria after Russia allegedly revealed intentions of launching precision strikes on an area under the US-led coalition’s control, Task & Purpose reported.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201809091067871002-us-troops-syria-base-russia/
Breaking: Massive Turkish Army convoy enters Idlib with large arsenal of weapons
New Erdogan betrayal of Russia(no surprise indeed)
Breaking: Massive Turkish Army convoy enters Idlib with large arsenal of weapons
Some opposition activists have claimed that the Turkish military was heading to the Idlib Governorate with manpads, which, if true, would mean that they are preparing to down any Syrian warplane flying over their positions.
Turkey appears to not be backing down from the Syrian government forces, despite the fact that the latter is backed by Ankara’s allies: Iran and Russia.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/breaking-massive-turkish-army-convoy-enters-idlib-with-large-arsenal-of-weapons/
”Pension reform maidan’ not doing very well for the moment in Moscow
reuters
US Senator Black in Damas accusing the US/UK-MI6 to provide chem and weapons to al qaeda/nusra etc
https://www.facebook.com/Bouthaina.Shaaban.Official/videos/2170964556483950/
News on the Turkish entry appeared 10 hours ago. Still not a peep on any western outlet. A NATO Article 5 or an attack on US forces (illegally) stationed at Tanf garrison would supercede the need for a false flag.
https://www.rt.com/shows/worlds-apart-oksana-boyko/
Worth catching…..re Idlib etc…Russia, Turkey and Iran got together to discuss the future of the last opposition-held stronghold in Syria. Did the meeting in Tehran eliminate the danger of an imminent bloodbath and was it ever on the cards? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Alexey Khlebnikov, Middle East expert at the Russian International Affairs Council.
Super-interesting.
Esp. the last: Trump as opportunity to be nurtured, not injured.
Thanks to the translators, as always.
Small lexical point:t “nipping at the heels” of an opponent is constant small harrassments; aggressive dogging or following. ((:-))
Katherine
This article is so hard to dispute ,mostly because I have felt the same way for some time now.The Americans and the UK have lost the fight already and they know it also.The way forward is to allow them to fall gently so as to not cause too much of an earthquake .Just a minor tremor .The world will then re-adjust .I know that Russia does not seek empire ,nor does it want to be ruled by any .
The London bridge is falling ,as the song goes, and the world will never be the same.Something that truly makes my heart smile.
I’ve just come back from Mount Athos. What if only the Russian Air force or Navy would bomb the terrorist targets in Idlib ? And recorded by drones ?
Anyway,the global war is getting closer and closer,the global patient is connected to the tubes , the morality has passed away, the family,the school,the church,the nation is barely breathing…the hatred and the madness are on the top of Everest.
Meyssan thinks Syria will not launch a ground attack before the US elections: if there is no ground attack, there can be no chemical attack (as they’re have to be mortar-launched). so the UK-UK can’t accuse them. But air raids can continue… http://www.voltairenet.org/article202839.html
Some thoughts on the potential consequences of this inevitable “American” planned strike on Syria (whether “provoked” by another false-flag chemical attack or not)…
a. Helmuth von Moltke the Elder believed that it was only possible to plan the beginning of a military operation, i.e. “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength” (the origin of the well-known military maxim “no plan survives contact with the enemy”)
b. Military veterans with combat experience will also confirm Murphy’s prescient view on such plans – “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”
c. To save a thousand words I’ll summarize my thoughts on the potential consequences of this typical American arrogance by concluding with this “Trust me, I know what I’m doing” picture: https://gph.is/1WpTdwC
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Best wishes to all,
Q.
Anglo-Saxons?
Seriously?
Perhaps the author missed the history lesson that described the Norman conquest of Britain.
Also, the British inbreeds, otherwise known as the royal family are ethnic Germans. Interestingly enough, the largest ethnic group in the US is also Germanic (although anymore most people are mixed mutts of multiple ethnicities).
Correct, but do not forget Vikings (from modern Norway and Denmark). I still remember BBC program, where they were talking about thousands of skeletons of people taller than 6ft, around London. They made sure to point out that locals were all short people.
Returning to Normans, Richard the Lionheart did not even speak English, my question is did anyone at his court?. Anyone watching Robin Hood should keep in mind that the story is about Normans fighting Saxons.
Edward III of England, 150 years later, still spoke no English. That was OK, as neither did anyone else who mattered. (Rather as in 19th century Russia where all the nobles spoke French).
Tom, French was it in Russia even longer than you are saying. Well, the same was in Poland.
Don’t get carried away with your own enthusiasm. Even the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, when they invaded England, did not wipe out or expel the earlier Britons. Recent genetic analysis shows that the great majority of English people have “ancient British” genes. The Anglo-Saxons made a slight impact, the Normans almost none.
As for the Royal Family, Prince Philip’s ancestry is mostly German, with some Danish and Russian admixture. The present Queen is half Anglo-Scottish (on her mother’s side) and mostly German (with some Danish admixture) on her father’s side. Talk of “inbreeding” is nonsense, as marriages have not been with close relatives.
Anyway, why the emphasis on the family’s German genes? Is there anything wrong with German people? To my knowledge they have contributed as much to civilisation as any other nationality. Attacking people on the basis of their ancestry seems to me a very poor way of improving international peace and understanding.
As for the largest ethnic group in the UA being German, that is on a self-reporting basis. Many people whose ancestors were mainly British would not see fit to describe themselves as “British-American”, because they consider that the default.
I’d just like to say it is unfortunate the term “Anglo-Saxon” has come to mean “modern English speakers”. The Anglo Saxons haven’t ruled England for 1000 years and of course would never have been so treasonous as the Judeo-Normans who displaced them. It was the Normans who brought Jews to England and the Normans who cut England away from Constantinople in favor the the heretical bishop of Rome.
I could not stop laughing while reading this great article. I think that we have reasons for optimism. Aleksandr Khaldey made my day. Thanks!
A great article…this man is definitely a thinker of the first order…
Thank you for the article.
In the vast preponderance of the analysis, I totally agree.
Initially, when I was exposed to the A-Z (which implies the an A-S-Z) hegemonic concept, it was instructive, and as an abstract concept, helped assemble the pieces, enabling new perspectives.
However, now I find the term, and even more the ascribing of the root of evil to “Anglo-Saxons”, which I must admit, along with Celt, forms the basis of my ancestry, to be misleading and unnecessarily bigoted.
I personally do not at all believe in any pre-destination of behaviours to ancestry/genetic pre-disposition, but allow a reasonable, science-based maximum of 7% correlation (the theoretical max).
I believe that lifelong behaviour trends to be overwhelmingly influenced by learned/environmental influence, particularly, in the context of the history of material published for our disparate beached-submarine community, to be indoctrinated upon the otherwise blank slate of psyche, which the majority come into the world with, and the active measures to cripple the universal empathetic response of humans, especially the selective empathetic response used by the successful affiliations/collectives.
How can we better describe this faction at war with humanity?
After all, as many in the community know, it lives also in Russia, non?
Peace and respect.