by Mark Hackard
Geopolitical analysis, the art of explaining power relationships through the prism of impersonal geography, can be a helpful tool for observers of the Great Game – but it also has its limitations. A case in point is the renewed US-Russia confrontation. Think tanks and policy insiders easily sell the narrative that from the dark days of the Cold War to our own time, Russia and the United States are fated to play in a zero-sum contest for the future of Eurasia and the world. Deterministic theories, though, can be used to legitimize predatory policy, and pseudo-scientific formulae often conceal manipulations by parasitic elites. Scoring a fortune off human misery and mass death, plundering economic assets, and shaping entire societies in one’s own image all find justification in claims of historical inevitability and the necessity of “progress.”
While Russia and the United States can easily be cast as eternal enemies in the manner of Rome and Carthage, or Ivan Drago and Rocky Balboa for modern audiences, we should recall that the two states were originally allies. From the time of 1776, Russo-American friendship was a contributor to the peace and security of both nations for nearly a century and a half. Catherine the Great shrewdly supported the independence of the American colonists, who were able to mount a successful rebellion against an exploitative oligarchy acting through the British Crown. In the terrible cauldron of the US Civil War, Tsar Alexander II, liberator of the peasantry, sent his fleet to America’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts to deter British and French intervention schemes.
In Realpolitik, where expediency is the order of the day, alliances are defined by a common adversary. For both Russia and the United States, that adversary was not simply another nation-state like England or France, but a financial international bent on controlling the world through elaborate fraud, war, and revolution. Banking dynasties under names like Rothschild, and later Morgan, Warburg, and Rockefeller, had ascended to power in the West from the seventeenth century onward. Their planned global imperium of borderless labor and capital flows, today promoted as the Open Society by billionaire speculators such as George Soros, was already entering its initial stages of implementation. Thus the fledgling American Republic, an Enlightenment project but not yet under bankster domination, and Imperial Russia could unite for the freedom of their peoples and against the assaults of the Money Power.
What changed? In the early twentieth century the masters of usury struck back decisively against the United States and Russia, by stealth in the former case and an outright coup d’état in the latter. Through various machinations, the privately-run Federal Reserve Bank was established in 1913 to issue the US currency at interest, suborning institutions of government and crushing Americans with a national debt now counted in unfathomable trillions. The Great War was unleashed upon Europe in a nightmarish conflagration, and in 1917 the Russian Revolution, funded by the banking houses of London and Wall Street, installed a vicious Bolshevik regime – dependent on Western credit for the whole of its existence. As for the rest of the twentieth century, we witness globalist plutocrats’ use of dialectics, wielding ideologies as weapons and pitting nation against nation, in the Hegelian procession toward the World State.
Today the realization of that Novus Ordo Seclorum draws ever nearer. And as its grand strategist emeritus Zbigniew Brzezinski makes clear, Washington’s “indispensability” marks only a period of transition:
In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but is also likely to be the very last.
Brzezinski artfully neglects mention of what is intended to supersede American unipolarity: planetary tyranny, a system of total population control and resource extraction. Moreover, all of this is being constructed in the name of “liberty” and “equality,” abstractions serving as mere rhetorical cover for a demonic will to power. It is the liberal program of the oligarchs that has erected an all-pervasive surveillance grid unprecedented in scope, and it is their program that aims to rob man of his faith, family, and heritage, abolishing all that makes him truly human. In the novel The Possessed, Fyodor Dostoevsky articulated this drive with prophetic pathos through his utopian theorist Shigalev, who “proceeding from limitless freedom,” would “bring about an unlimited despotism.” Pyotr Verkhovensky, the leader of the story’s revolutionary cell, exults:
To level the mountains is a good notion, not a ridiculous one. I’m for Shigalev! We don’t need education, enough of knowledge! There will be enough material for a thousand years, but obedience must be arranged. There’s too little of one thing in the world: obedience. The wish for education is already an aristocratic wish. A little bit of family or love, and you have a desire for property. We will kill the desire: we’ll unleash drunkenness, scandal, denunciation; we’ll unleash unheard-of deviance; any genius we’ll extinguish in infancy. All toward one denominator: total equality… The slaves must have rulers. Total obedience, total impersonality, but once every thirty years Shigalev will set off a spasm, and everyone will begin to eat each other to a certain point, just so that everything’s not boring.
Behind every effective revolutionary stands the financier who created him. Equality to the slaves, an equality of the graveyard, and to the moneyed elite – godlike power over the Cosmos. In exchange for ever more “inherent rights” and meaningless depraved spectacle, socially-engineered mass man forfeits his freedom and his soul. With the West conquered, now all of humanity is set for standardization through postmodern colonialism, covert-action NGOs, carrier battle groups, and killer drones. Any sovereign state resisting the march of progress must be destroyed.
At the Cold War’s end, a defunct Soviet Union was supposed to fold into the world controllers’ planned capitalist-communist synthesis, and minor “rogues” like Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya could be dismembered with impunity in the meantime. From the chaos, destitution, and demoralization of the post-collapse period, however, another Russia has slowly re-emerged, its people broadly nationalist and increasingly unashamed of their thousand-year ancestral faith, Orthodox Christianity (see footnote). Nothing could be more intolerable to the robber-baron superclass, who have already for the past century waged ruthless war against religion and organic cultural identity in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to impose their desolating vision upon mankind.
Another round of US-Russia tensions might be unfolding, but such a clash was neither foreordained nor inevitable; between the two largely distant lands there is mutual nuclear deterrence and an absence of directly conflicting vital interests. Beyond inane sloganeering about democracy and human rights, more sophisticated Western strategists can cite new iterations of Halford Mackinder’s Heartland thesis or the latest Eurasian pipeline maneuvers as reasons to “contain” Russia. None of this accounts for a cosmopolitan oligarchy that sets policy, subsidizes scholarship, and manufactures consent in pursuit of its totalitarian agenda. In their quest to liquidate the American, the Russian, and every other unique people, the predators from the bankster international consider themselves above all laws human and divine. Yet the swelling arrogance of sociopaths brings about their downfall – and the sooner their crime spree comes to an end, the better chance we all might have for peace and reconciliation.
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Footnote: It should be noted that even Russia is still not free of the banksters in its own state apparatus, with the Central Bank and the Medvedev government under the influence of pro-Western liberal technocrats familiar with Putin from his days in St. Petersburg. With economic warfare waged by the international a present-day reality, it would be reasonable to expect a quick resolution to this problem in the near future.
“Putin will seek further autonomy for the Russian economy and further state control of the banking system in order to protect it by foreign financial speculative games. It seems that BRICS increasingly gaining financial independence from the Western neoliberal bloc. This will bring further panic to the Western oligarchs as may fear that a fast growing Russian economy could become a new model for other countries even from the Western sphere of influence.”
Russia’s moves to decouple economy from the neoliberal monetary monopoly
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-17/russian-food-suppliers-have-begun-halting-shipments
US official says American data on MH17 handed to Dutch investigators.
Nuland also dismissed any reports claiming that the U.S. had not transferred the data, saying they stood at variance with reality.
She also said the U.S. continued both public and confidential contacts with Russia on the issue and the real question was whether or not the Russians had shared their information, too.
http://tass.ru/en/world/767605
Ukrainian Soldier Confirms: Ukraine’s Military Shot Down Malaysian MH17 Plane
http://rinf.com/alt-news/featured/ukrainian-soldier-confirms-ukraines-military-shot-malaysian-mh17-plane/
Is it a joke?
Russia’s Central Bank sees no signs of currency market manipulation.
http://tass.ru/en/economy/767453
It is possibly good old Russian humor. Russian/Soviet political jokes are world leading!
2014 Report out.
The 5 deadliest countries for journalists:
Syria : 15 (22.73%)
Palestine : 7 (10.61%)
Ukraine : 6 (9.09%)
Iraq : 4 (6.06%)
Libya : 4 (6.06%)
Rest of the World : 30 (45.45%)
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/12/rwb-66-journalists-murdered-119_17.html
full report:
en.rsf.org/files/bilan-2014-EN.pdf#page=1
I am sure that I can agree with any of that to be honest. The ongoing war between Russia and the US (or should we say the entire Western world controlled by it) is not so much about religion or universalism and particularism.
To proceed along these lines, I would say that the west is indeed the universal in the current world situation, and Russia does indeed embody the particular, at least superficially. English is indeed the universal language. The US dollar is indeed the world currency. The US is still the world policeman and American or rather Anglo-American culture is indeed dominant all over the world to a certain degree. Russia is obviously the particular. The Russian language is spoken only in Russia and her near abroad. Russian culture has great merits but is not universally appreciated. Russian financial power is nothing compared with the west,etc etc.
But there is indeed also a reverse argument. The west is the particular, its total population is just a bit above 10% of the world total (and that is broadening the term West quite generously) The west also is ferociously self serving, the rest of humanity is there to serve them. At least in their minds. Conversely, Russia now truly embodies the universal imperative of humanity today. The struggle against enduring, unreconstructed and unapologetic Western imperialism and the exploitation and instrumentalization of the rest of the planet. Russia’s current struggle is the universal task for humanity and the only way for genuine equality and respect among the people of the world.
Global systemic crisis 2015 – Oil, currencies, finance, societies, the Middle East : Massive storm in the Western port!
http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-90-is-available–Global-systemic-crisis-2015-Oil-currencies-finance-societies-the-Middle-East-Massive-storm_a17295.html
In the spirit of Lavrov’s “Poroshenko, Ukraine’s [and Moscow’s] best chance,” Russian TV Channel 1 brought for its TV panel Alexander Goncharenko, a deputy in Verkhovna Rada in Poroshenko’s bloc and ONE OF THE ACCOMPLICES OF THE ODESSA MASSACRE FROM MAY 2. Lavrov’s call for dialogue with Poroshenko and the junta was thus heeded by Russia’s first state TV channel. http://el-murid.livejournal.com/2143181.html
Excellent digest by Mark Haggard.
Nails it!
And it needs to be translated into every major language, especially Mandarin.
We need to get a pipeline of dialogue with the Chinese people.
They are next on the target list.
The US befriending Cuba now is an attempt to forestall Russian influence in Cuba, just as Russia was establishing military bases in Cuba.
Hi Saker,
Just read an article from Andrew KORYBKO
http://orientalreview.org/2014/12/18/did-raul-just-reverse-the-entire-cuban-revolution/
It seems that the USA has scored a major strategic victory that could have a domino effect.
I would greatly appreciate your opinion on this Cuban deal with the US.
Most of this post is, to be kind, unhelpful.
To understand the US-Russian rivalry it helps to recognise that the US has inherited the British Empire and developed its role in the world.
To understand the current situation and Russia’s position it is necessary to understand both the Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union. To dismiss the one as a financiers’ conspiracy and the USSR as a failure is to make the past incomprehensible.
In many respects the Soviet Union was a crucial actor which mitigated the worst features of imperialism. The Bolshevik Revolution was an event of world historical importance and a testimony to the energy and altruism of the peoples of Russia.
Let’s leave the wilful and philistine destruction of monuments to the Bandera-istas and other emigre fascists.
In six hours Putin will face the nation at his annual press conference.
How can he answer questions when the situation is so fluid and changing minute-by-minute?
Kudos to Mark Hackard for his enlightening essay.
It seems to mesh perfectly with our present reality.
… their program that aims to rob man of his faith, family, and heritage, abolishing all that makes him truly human.
Which is to say, cultural genocide: a simultaneous program of racial genocide being undertaken by means of mass immigration and the suppression of the reproduction of indigenous populations through mass slaughter of the unborn (three quarters of a million in the US last year), sex ed (i.e., indoctrination in all the arts of non-reproductive sex), and distraction from the reality of the Western population bust by endless media lies and bogus education about the population “bomb”, climate change and resource depletion.
This is an excellent article, but it is in error, I believe, in suggesting that central banks pocket the interest on the money they create. The US Fed, at least, does collect interest on government bonds it has purchased with “ink money” (i.e., money created out of thin air), but each year it pays to the treasury its profits less (no doubt generous) expenses.
A ne pas rater : RT retransmettra la conférence de presse annuelle de Vladimir Poutine
Le président russe Vladimir Poutine tiendra une grande conférence de presse demain à 9h, heure française (12h, heure de Moscou). Regardez en direct et en exclusivité son intervention sur la chaîne Youtube RT France : http://www.youtube.com/user/rtenfrancais
#Poutine #ConférenceDePresse #direct #RT #RTFrance
How I hate that we fight their proxies instead of the evil-doers who delude and bribe and intimidate them. Even when we identify that it is the US behind occupied Ukraine we have not identified the Deep State behind them– ultimately perhaps a thousand families and the various professionals they employ. Why can we not arrest them, rather than lay waste entire countries?
Bank on with this article ,the psychopathic banksters and their puppets are the root of all evil .
This is a spiritual reckoning played out in the material world and i have the feeling we have never had a better opportunity to finally rid ourselves of these parasitical entities .
They are being exposed in all countries , even with their high tech mind control,MK Ultra holywood BBC Nbc etc , chem trails , poisonous pharma and gmos All the increasingly desperate false flags
It wont work, something has changed , people are not buying it , and nobody wants war .
That is why they are trying everything now to start war ,
they are desperate
BANKSTERS. And the endless spiral of debt.
For the french readers here (there must be some equivalent in english…or need to be translated).
# The FED (How does it work? The scam which makes the private banks who owns it way, way wealthy ‘out of thin air’, nearly without doing Nothing… since 1913 !!). [The Bank of England is built the same way]
http://aline.dedieguez.pagesperso-orange.fr/mariali/chaos/conspirateurs/conspirateur.html#9
– Le mécanisme de l’escroquerie de Réserve Fédérale –
# In France …since 1973 (and later in whole EU: art. 123, deep inside the Lisbon Treaty).
http://aline.dedieguez.pagesperso-orange.fr/mariali/chaos/banksters/bankster.html#5
– Les banquiers deviennent des banksters. L’exemple français –
…and the consequences. Rising, Out of control debt. Welfare cuts and austerity (it must be the same with other European countries) :
– La finance nous a volé 1500 milliards d’euros ! –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBlfwRaWicM
Anonymous: Thank you for the newest GEAB– interesting, but what a pack of lies. They even managed to get peak oil in there.
Wm Engdahl has several articles in which he demonstrates the enormous availability of oil– enough for well into the next century. sorry, no time to find the link.
MUST READ:
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/12/17/financial-market-manipulation-new-trend-can-continue/
MUST VIEW:
Paul Craig Roberts-US Government Most Corrupt on Earth
http://youtu.be/SRrNs4mlHMA
Speaking of the BRICS:
Brazil’s Dilma Roussef has captitulated, naming as econ czar Joaquin Levy, follower of neo-liberal Prof Milton Friedman, former econ adviser to Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet. As a former top official in the IMF, Levy advocated austerity programs which a decade later impoverished southern Europe and Ireland.
He wants a new strategy of vastly increasing the profits of foreign and domestic finance capital, in the hope of attracting large scale investments to end economic stagnation. . . the entire economy must be directed to gaining the “confidence” of the capitalist class.
The social policies which were implemented earlier are now subject to elimination or reduction. Cause of the current econ woes? Previous IMF agreement, strictures & privatizations. http://www.globalresearch.ca/brazil-and-the-politics-of-neoliberalism-president-rousseff-declares-war-on-the-working-class/5419732
And why do you suppose Brazil can’t generate its own capital– her central bank’s policies of course. If under the same strictures as Russia, she can invest in US bonds, but not Brazilian govt bonds.
Stavros H
You’ve been making a lot of sense the last few days.
I can only hope so.
@Sun Lion
That seems to the million dollar question at the moment.
Did Raul Castro just sell out Cuba to the American Evil Empire, spitting on the legacy of decades of Cuban struggle and sacrifice?
And for what?
The return of American mafioso, sex tourists, and military war criminals openly prancing about Havana?
Whether it be from treason, stupidity, or desperation, Raul should be careful about letting the American fox into the chickencoop.
He has only to look at Gitmo Gulag to understand America’s true character.
Don’t bend over, cause Uncle Sam has some “rectal feeding” he would like to perform on you!
China to bail out Russia
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-17/china-prepares-bailout-russia
Excellent related video…
http://scgnews.com/the-geopolitics-of-world-war-iii
CanSpeccy, Thank you for your comment. It is so refreshing to hear from somebody who has seen thru so many hoaxes.
Regards.
Russia’s Participation in the U.S. Civil War
Historian Webster Griffin Tarpley talked about the contribution of Russian Tsar Alexander II to a northern victory in the U.S. Civil War. He said that the Imperial Russian government had issued an ultimatum to Britain and France specifying that if those powers should intervene on the side of the Confederate States of America they would immediately find themselves at war with the Russian Empire. Mr. Tarpley marked the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Russian Baltic Fleet in New York City on September 24, 1863, and of the Russian Pacific Squadron in San Francisco on October 12, 1863. He argued that it was the presence of those fleets that provided the final deterrence. Russia was the only country to extend direct military support to the Lincoln government.
“Commemorating the Russian Fleets of Autumn 1863” was an event of the McClendon Group, held in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club
http://www.c-span.org/video/?315198-1/russias-participation-us-civil-war
“… their program that aims to rob man of his faith, family, and heritage, abolishing all that makes him truly human.”
“Bank on with this article, the psychopathic banksters and their puppets are the root of all evil.
This is a spiritual reckoning played out in the material world and i have the feeling we have never had a better opportunity to finally rid ourselves of these parasitical entities.
They are being exposed in all countries, even with their high tech mind control,MK Ultra holywood BBC Nbc etc, chem trails, poisonous pharma and gmos. All the increasingly desperate false flags.
It won’t work, something has changed, people are not buying it, and nobody wants war.
That is why they are trying everything now to start war,
they are desperate.”
“Deep State”
So, who are THEY…REALLY…and what is their AGENDA for humanity? Are THEY desperate – or just METHODICAL, CUNNING, COLD and CRUEL and without a CONSCIENCE?! Are THEY really human? With that AGENDA, could THEY possibly be human??? If THEY were human, their END GAME would be self-destroying! Does that make sense?
The facts are that THEY LIVE – and THEY have an AGENDA for humanity (TOTAL ENSLAVEMENT and MASS SURVEILLANCE of the Human Race and the creation of GULAG EARTH) and that AGENDA does not include their own destruction! Behind banksters, the “Deep State”, the “ruling Elite”, etc. are a Genetically re-engineered RACE of Humanoid Reptilian ALIENS. Williama Pawelec (and others) met some of THEM face-to-face. You nad I have met some of THEM face-to-face. We all have seen THEM on the streets and on TV. THEY look just like us – but THEY AIN’T!
THEY have created a civilization which is best described as a THEATER OF THE ABSURD, now playing out the FINAL ACT. “All the world’s a stage…” – and many of “US” are really THEM – Crisis Actors (Sandy Hook, Boston Marathon Bombing, Aurora, etc.).
How can we sum it all up in a way that makes sense, coming from the most reliable Source that we know?
“Satan is the ruler of this world.”
The end game
http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/jim/
It is incredulous that a country as sophisticated as Russia has nobody advocating for Social Credit. You have the Central Banskters of the world that have clearly declared war on them. You have a recognized 5th column that is clearly aligned with the banksters against Putin and the Russians – motivated by greed. Rather than continuing to try to play by the rules of the banskters, why not simply change the game? Since Putin’s goal is to live up to the will of the people, while protecting his nation’s best interests, what could be better than putting in place a social credit economy that meets all of these goals while ushering in a new prosperity that will be unprecedented in history? See http://www.economiccures.com for a simple explanation. See http://www.socred.org for an on-going dialog of just what social credit is. I’ll give you a hint. It’s not capitalism and it’s not socialism. It is a third option that has never been tried but the torch has been kept alive for a century by thousands of people who see its value.
I think Mark Hackard has written a great piece here – thank you Saker for publishing it.
Bevin, I always read with interest anything you write, and I take your point that USSR shouldn’t be dismissed as some kind of wholly alien parasite that took over Russia. At the same time, I have to set aside your point as a nuance for later examination, because Mark Hackard makes his so well, the very point that in fact this is exactly what happened to Russia, and the US.
In a thumbnail I’d say that the US was taken over by a parasite, first by agents of the “Bankster International” and then by its creation, the Zionist movement. The US is in the process now of being discarded, having used up its usefulness. Even Zionism will be discarded if it can’t get things done anymore. Russia was served the same way.
Hackard is right that Russia and the Union of the American States have far more in common than not. Far more. And we were both f*cked by bankers, and it ain’t over yet.
I look to Russia for clues, asking what is the thing that survives such a wash of lies and manipulation? Only the spirit, seems to be the answer. I believe what Mary McCarthy wrote back in the mid last century, that the true soul of America is transcendent of the material, and allied with the spiritual. An unlikely irony, but I believe it.
Mark Hackard’s is the first piece I’ve read that seems to offer some room for this concept. In fact this article seems kindred with the recent piece by Joseph Farrell, parsing Putin’s national speech not in economic or political terms but in spiritual and existential terms. Russia is ahead of the West, said Farrell, further down the path of history, and studying aspects of national life that haven’t occurred to the West yet.
I suspect we in the US will actually follow in the footsteps of Russia over the next few decades, as Russia strives to shake off its chains, and we in the US become more aware of ours.
SunLion said…
“Just read an article from Andrew KORYBKO
It seems that the USA has scored a major strategic victory that could have a domino effect.”
Really,there is nothing but guesses here.This is making a mountain out of a molehill.I don’t know how ill Fidel is.But I know he and Raul would never sell out to the US.Their whole lives have been devoted to battling US control over Latin America.Raul is old now too.And he has already been talking of retiring and letting younger men take his place.He knows the US wants a color revolution in Cuba.And won’t let that happen.He is a reasonable man but is no Yanukovich.He was in charge of the department that headed the security services,and headed FAR in his younger days.
The Castro brothers come from a line of Latin American revolutionaries of the old school.Not as much communists as Latin American nationalists.Though Raul in the day was more a doctrine communist than Fidel was.They hate and fear the US as the oppressor of Latin America.And I can’t envision any deal that they would trust the US to keep.
For years there has been talk of reestablishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.They have quasi diplomatic relations now called “interest sections” in each others capitals.All this does is upgrades them to full Embassies.
The sanctions as far as I can tell aren’t affected by this move.Though what Obama can do to ease them without Congress will probably be done.
This has probably been talked over for a while now.And I have little doubt Russia knew all about it.The Cuban intelligence service was trained and aided by the Soviets and those ties have been kept open with Russia.So nothing of importance concerning Cuba wouldn’t be known by the GRU.When Putin visited Cuba he was asked about the Lourdes listening station being reopened and he said it wasn’t going to be.So the loss of nothing is no loss at all.As for the prisoners released being “untouchable”.I don’t think the author knows Cuba very well.If they are caught working for the US,they WILL be touched.Opinion in the US isn’t that high on Cuba’s list of priorities,to let traitors betray the Revolution.
I think all these stories are a form of anti-Russian and in this case also anti-Cuban propaganda.Meant to make the US look good and that they tricked Putin.It’s very doubtful that there is anything to them.
Uncle Bob
Excellent piece. Thank you for it.
pcz
@Larchmonter445
Don’t worry, we Chinese people realise that fact fully (except those liberal zombies! Sadly we have a lot more of them than Russia. Russia has like 5%, but I think we have 30-40%)
And I agree with you on the importance of this piece, already translating it :)
Dear Friend,
Did you see this? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40486.htm
good article, I am currently reading Erich Fromms ‘The Fear of Freedom’ which covers the rise of capitalism from the middle ages and its effects on communities and the psyche of the individual. Thanks.
The current assault on Putin and his policies match what was done to Saddam Hussein after he had bowed to the imperialists by undertaking the war against Iran. Nearly bankrupted the country. Then they pulled the rug out from under him by reducing the price of oil. He began talking about getting paid in euros rather than dollars and forming another oil consortium with Mexico, Venezuela, Libya and a fourth that I forget who it was.
Many people in the US do not understand that even under Hussein, the Iraqis received good health care, free education, employment and food subsidies — paid for by the sale of oil. Like every other country that takes care of its people, Iraq had to be brought to its knees and Hussein eliminated.
The price of opposing the superpower is very high indeed. Also, we might recall the destruction of the culture of that country with the bombing of its institutions and the looting of its museums per Haggard’s theory.
“The Bolshevik Revolution was an event of world historical importance and a testimony to the energy and altruism ..”
The bolshevik Revolution was a bloody coup d’etat, killing millions of Russians (more than WW1) done by the same money changer oligarchy that financed and ignited the Ukrainian revolution (Soros, Nuland, Kagan, Kolomoisky, Yatsenyuk, Poroshenko, Hroisman all included there).
What followed in Russia after WW2 is another story, I can understand that the postwar socialist security is revered among Russians.
Israel’s Secret Plan for a “Second Israel” in Ukraine
http://www.voltairenet.org/article186164.html
‘It is time for Australia to end its strategic dependence on the United States. The relationship with America, which has long been regarded as beneficial, has now become dangerous to Australia’s future. We have effectively ceded to America the ability to decide when Australia goes to war. Even if America were the most perfect and benign power, this posture would still be incompatible with the integrity of Australia as a sovereign nation. It entails not simply deference but submission to Washington, an intolerable state of affairs for a country whose power and prosperity are increasing and whose national interests dictate that it enjoy amicable, not hostile, relations with its neighbors, including China….’Malcolm Fraser
Only neoliberal banker-swamped Britain has gone along with them on this, and in my view (accompanied by an avalanche of evidence) it has destroyed the place as a functioning ‘social’ civilisation. The French reject ‘l’anglo-saxonisme’ utterly – a large percentage of the reason I live there now. The Germans under Merkel have seemed generally keen to do America’s bidding, but the ‘old’ Eastern, central and south-eastern European States do not want anything to do with what they increasingly see as US-led globalist colonialism. The Poles suspect American motives, the Hungarians actively oppose them, and Greece will never forgive the US for siding with fascists throughout its postwar period. All of these States feel closer to Moscow: they detested the Communists, but see Putin as a bulwark against Washington.
All of this seems to bounce off sovereign America without making the slightest dent in policy. And as long as the politicians remain the bought whores of US corporates and bankers, that braindead response will continue.
As I’ve written before about both the UK and Brussels, “Anything could happen, but nothing will change”.
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/emerging-markets-unraveling-is-the-us-going-for-broke-or-just-stupid/
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/12/17/financial-market-manipulation-new-trend-can-continue/
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No country dependent on foreign capital is sovereign. A country dependent on foreign capital, especially from enemies seeking to subvert the economy, is subject to destabilizing currency and economic swings. Russia should self-finance. If Russia needs foreign capital, Russia should turn to its ally China. China has a stake in Russia’s strength as part of China’s protection from US aggression, whether economic or military.
The American attack on the ruble is also teaching sovereign governments that are not US vassals the extreme cost of allowing their currencies to trade in currency markets dominated by the US. China should think twice before it allows full convertibility of its currency. Of course, the Chinese have a lot of dollar assets with which to defend their currency from attack, and the sale of the assets and use of the dollar proceeds to support the yuan could knock down the dollar’s exchange value and US bond prices and cause US interest rates and inflation to rise. Still, considering the gangster nature of financial markets in which the US is the heavy player, a country that permits free trading of its currency sets itself up for trouble.
The greatest harm that is being done to the Russian economy is not due to sanctions and the US attack on the ruble. The greatest harm is being done by Russia’s neoliberal economists.
Neoliberal economics is not merely incorrect. It is an ideology that fosters US economic imperialism. By following neoliberal prescriptions, Russian economists are helping Washington’s attack on the Russian economy.
Apparently, Putin has been sold, along with his internal enemies, the Atlanticist integrationists, on “free trade globalism.” Globalism destroys the sovereignty of every country except the world reserve currency country that controls the system.
As Michael Hudson has shown, neoliberal economics is “junk economics.” But it is also a tool of American financial imperialism, and this makes neoliberal Russian economists tools of American imperialism.
The remaining sovereign countries, which excludes all of Europe, are slowly learning that Western economic institutions are deceptive and that placing trust in them is a threat to national sovereignty.
Washington intends to subvert Russia and to turn Russia into a vassal state like Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Australia, the UK and Ukraine. If Russia is to survive, Putin must protect Russia from Western economic institutions and Western trained economists.
It is too risky for the US to take on Russia militarily. Instead, Washington is using its unique symbiotic relationship with Western financial institutions to attack an incautious Russia that foolishly opened herself to Western financial predation.
Excellent summary, Saker!
Even if Russia would temporarily be brought under Atlanticist control, not everything would be lost. America is a spent force and will fall apart eventually due to demographics. According to Paul Craig Robert, America will be a ‘third world country’ by 2024. Pat Buchanan expects the country to fall apart before 2025.
http://www.welt.de/img/wirtschaft/origs111865855/4259728-w900-h600/DWO-EU-27Nachhaltigkeitsran.jpg
The Euro-Americans can praise themselves lucky if they manage to maneuver parts of their balkanized country of the future into a role as a junior partner of Euro-Siberia and avoid the Gulag on American soil.
Kind regards,
Dutch
You may not like the reality, but it is probable Russia is part of the monetary transition narrative from the debt burdened USD System to a world SDR System managed by the IMF + BIS. It is my opinion that these supra-banking entities are a ‘priesthood’ interested in maintaining stability in global trade and the status quo of a master/slave relationship of economics which reflects the deep heritage of human nature evolved over millions of years of evolution. These institutions reflect the unfinished evolution of the human mind. I appreciate Saker’s mix of economics, politics, and religion. It enables further evolution of human spiritual development, which will in turn be reflected in the global institutions. The solution to the corruption of our world can be found…by looking in the mirror!
Global Stagnation
“”This brilliant, modern free trade system and all of its benefits cannot be implemented using the US dollar as a reserve currency. It shuts off commerce that in turn limits the use of commodities such as oil, metals, food and the like. Many hail the low price inflation in the US as a victory and ignore the intent other nations had in following “free trade”. That being to promote a world economy, not just a US economy….”
The End Game
“China is NOT anti-establishment or anti-new world order, nor is Russia. Eastern opposition to the NWO is a lie. Period. In fact, the BRICS have argued only for greater inclusion in the IMF system and have no intention of developing a legitimate alternative to “Western” globalization. If you do not understand that the BRICS are part of the NWO, not opposed to it, then you do not understand a thing.”
The SDR Purpose of BRICS
“In line with transitioning away from the USD based system, SDR pegging would encourage a true multilateral global monetary policy and framework which would stand in contrast to the imbalances found in the current system, which is based on the policies of a single country, or economy, being the USD.”
@Dutch (18 December, 2014 14:34):
Dutch, you don’t get it, do you? The fact (and it is a fact–I say that sadly as an American) that the American economy and culture are in decline poses little threat to the empire, and concerns the oligarchy running that empire not at all. If anyting, it will only serve to make the people here even easier to manipulate, intimidate and neutralize.
America today is no longer a truly sovereign nation; it is by long now just another province in the ‘American’ Empire. But that empire is not run for the benefit of most Americans. It is run by–and for the benefit of–a corrupt, decadent, hellenistic, globalized elite–some of whom are American, but most of whom are not.
This is what Saker means when he speaks of the ‘AngloZionist Empire’. He is not against most Jews or most English-speakers. He is merely condemning a system that first arose in (took over?) England centuries ago, and later moved its HQ to America after WWII.
cute understanding of early american history. poor oppressed freedom loving genocidal slavers. I’m also very sure the soviet nuclear program was a key component in the international plutocratic conspiracy.
There is a lot going on behind the scenes, but saying that everything is down to one big conspiracy is religious, it’s the psychological need for order rather than chaos.
@Seamus Padraig
You are talking about ‘cultural and economic decline’ and state that that is no threat to the US elite and I agree with that.
I was talking about demographics. There are little or no example of multi-ethnic states that have any stability. And please don’t bring up Russia as a counter-example; Russia is indeed a multi-ethnic state, but held together by a dominant Russian ethnicity.
In the US, the social-ethnic differences are much larger. Demographic changes have occured with break-neck speed. And Americans are not really used to hardship, unlike the Russians.
Tellingly, 25% of the Americans would favor secession. Expect that number to rise when the situation in the US will further deteriorate. And many Americans are armed and deeply distrust their government.
Kind regards,
Dutch
I saw this great post today:
“Obama ambiguous: After 65 years of economic sanctions against Cuba he admits they have not worked; at the same time Obama will put a new round of economic sanctions on Russia, whereas he believes (?) they will work. Anybody see logic in it?”
Uncle Bob
The Zionists Israelis strike again at a “theater( CUBA) near you”.
YEAP! you got it! another country taken over by the Zionists:
http://www.luxner.com/cgi-bin/view_article.cgi?articleID=363
Regards,
Carmel by the Sea
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Washington intends to subvert Russia and to turn Russia into a vassal state like Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Australia, the UK and Ukraine. If Russia is to survive, Putin must protect Russia from Western economic institutions and Western trained economists.
It is too risky for the US to take on Russia militarily. Instead, Washington is using its unique symbiotic relationship with Western financial institutions to attack an incautious Russia that foolishly opened herself to Western financial predation.”
@18 December, 2014 14:09
So true, Anonymous. Agree w everything you said. So heartening to hear from someone who gets it.
I’m getting the impression that the writer believes that a plutocracy has been the one behind everything since WWII and even before Napoleonic times. I find it rather hard to believe that some capitalist/banker oligarchy is behind all of this. We should ask why is this plutocratic oligarchy, which wants to reduce everything to profit, so powerful? Any elite will in reality just be a reflection of what a society values. The British and The Americans are peoples that value money making, they have refined the merchant mentality. Is it any surprise that Capitalism arose in Britain? Did not Napoleon call the English a “nation of shopkeepers”? The Bankster International only got to this point of power because the societies in which it was dominant, England and America, defeated the two other societies in Western Europe which blocked its way for consolidating Europe(Western Europe). First was Napoleonic France and second was Nazi Germany. These latter may have had markets and proto-capitalist aspects(like the Russia of today) but their main core values were not about making profit or reducing everything to production and consumption; Nazi Germany had its own collectivist master race ideology and so its policies would be towards “protecting and enhancing” the Aryan master race. A Napoleonic Europe or a Hitlerian Europe would never be at peace with Capitalist Britain or America, the different value systems and and ideologies would never allow it. Today’s financial oligarchy was not always a Pan western European elite, there may have been embryos of it in Napoleon’s France or Hitler’s Germany just like today there is in Russia, but it along with its value system has its origins in mercantile Britain. The very idea that America can be sacrificed is viable only because Europe has gradually accepted this value system after WWII, so at any rate it would be safe even without the US now but not back then. But as history proves Europe is not a homogeneous area and we see this with the disintegration of the EU, which really is just a capitalist project. Nature, Geography, and more importantly the different national cultures around the world are ultimately on our side.
Ivan Contreras
The reason the Plutocracy is so powerful is their privilege to create money out of nothing. Typically 9 times more money than they have in the bank. Moreover according to current rules they dont need to have the 10% sum before two years after lending the money. Thus with an interest rate of 5,5% on the loan they can cover the 10% through interest alone. Thus in principle they may lend a huge sum while having nearly nothing at all in the vault or in any other way.
The privilege, at least in the EU costs €5million so any determined group of people may start a bank. The reason there arent much in the way of public banks is that the elites dont want people to know. Economics education does not explain this to the students. But nothing prevents a worldwide establishment of public banking giving the private banksters a murderous competition. The public owned banks would have a good chance of decreasing unemployment if this is desired by the public.
However it must be understood that the reason the western economic system appears to be effective is that one normally does not mention that imperialism has been an important ingredient. Without imperialism and every country minding their own business, there wouldnt be any free lunch. Public banks could not spend fortunes on social security and such before they had set up a well functioning productive economy with selfsustaining businesses.
Some authors believe public banks would allow a society to pay its national debt by printing money. Thats only possible in the event that the nation in question has the means to blackmail the rest of the world and use military power. But thats imperialism.
Saker
Too much credit has been given to idiots and war criminals like Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski .
quote “Today the realization of that Novus Ordo Seclorum draws ever nearer. And as its grand strategist emeritus Zbigniew Brzezinski makes clear, Washington’s “indispensability” marks only a period of transition: “
The New Wolrd Order will never happen
read this . The system the Jews created is going down the toilet . This is as far as it will go !
” http://investmentwatchblog.com/inflection-point-unprecedented-fear-as-everything-falls-apart-andy-hoffman/
Morte al Nuovo Ordine
Other signs that the NWO is going down
Paul Craig Roberts – Russia To Unleash Ultimate Black Swan Against The West
http://kingworldnews.com/paul-craig-roberts-russia-unleash-ultimate-black-swan-west/
Morte al Nuovo Ordine
“Behind every effective revolutionary stands the financier who created him.”
Ooohh! I like that! Wasn’t that what the Germans did for Lenin? Load him up on a train with a boxcar of money and send him back to Russia to subvert the Tsar?
“Behind every effective revolutionary stands the financier who created him.”
Like Gelfland created Lenin by arranging a few tens of millions of dollars in a Sealed Train to St. Petersburg.