By Andrei Sorokin, September 4th 2015
Translation: TB
Original article: http://www.odnako.org/blogs/parad-samoopredeleniy-na-paradah-pobedi/
Once upon a time in the West, there was a science called “sovietology”. It was concerned with researching the secret plots of the Kremlin through examining the positions taken by the members of the Politbureau on the Mausoleum tribune during workers’ marches and military parades. Based on this, it made conclusions and gave its valuable recommendations to the Western political leadership.
Of course, we couldn’t dream of rising to such lofty heights of science. However, we could make some conclusions of a similar kind based on the results of the two Victory Parades – the one in Moscow on May 9th and the one which took place yesterday in Beijing. Those conclusions would be in line with the Western scientific canons, based on observing “who stood where”. Or, rather, who wasn’t standing anywhere.
Our observation would be very simple: the main celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the two nations which bore the overwhelming brunt of the Second World War were not considered necessary to attend both by their erstwhile allies and by a few international partners of today. The USA and the majority of EU countries did not respond to the invitations sent from Moscow and from Beijing.
Even though the skeptics would have it that the cunning Chinese fellows, going by their observations of the anti-Moscow positions expressed on May 9th, sent two types of invitations to their “international partners”: one for those who they really wanted to see attending, and one for those whom it would be rude not to invite but who they would rather not see in Beijing.
Be as it may, the list of attendants on the stands in both the Red Square and the Tiananmen Square is basically the same, aside from variations based on regional specifics and other accidental factors.
And, my friends, it doesn’t seem like a “mausoleum fortune reading” or even a coincidence to me.
This, dear comrades, is the self-determination of the actors in the international political process made at the peak of the world systemic crisis.
First of all, this is an act of self-determination in regards to the main historic event of the XX century. Our “Western partners” and their clients have decided that the Second World War has been reduced to a Hollywood comic reading, with its lessons thrown out to the scrapheap due to being unnecessary and uncomfortable. Thus, history has already been falsified and rewritten based on the current needs of the masters and beneficiaries of today’s world order and the enthusiasts of a new Big War (which are one and the same). Nothing happened – which means that we can start the war chants all over again.
Secondly, this is an act of self-determination in regards to the Yalta system as the main result of the Second World War. Generally, here our “Western partners” are being honest. They openly proclaim the fait accompli of the death of the Yalta system and – and this is more important – they announce their renunciation of its main principles. To be more precise: any and all sorts of rules of engagement and competition between different civilizational projects, and even the very right to any different civilizational projects are eliminated from the current world order. There is only one true project – the Western one, and it grants others the license of being in line with itself. China and Russia have now been denied that license twice – on May 9th and September 3rd.
Thus, there is no such thing as “the united will of the great powers” anymore, because there can be only one “great power”, and it acknowledges no “rules of engagement and competition” – all it needs is “might makes right”.
Thirdly, this is an act of self-determination in regards to the delineation of frontlines in the current worldwide conflict. That is, the worldwide conflict itself is also acknowledged as an obvious reality and receives no further discussion. Here, our “Western partners” have drawn a very clear line: on one side, there is the “Progressive Humanity”, which has ignored the “militaristic” and “aggressive” Victory Parades in Moscow and Beijing, and on the other, respectively, there are the “outcasts”, the “Axis of Evil” of the XXI century. It isn’t exactly hard to tell who is going to be “the bad guy” and the prospective victim of the current worldwide conflict.
Among all this brilliant clarity of our “Western partners’” self-determination, we have two questions remaining:
- What is the matter of the current world conflict?
- What is the self-determination of the “Victory Parade powers” in regards to this matter?
This is to be discussed at a later time.
About the author: Andrei Sorokin, advisor to the Minister of Culture of Russia, publishing director of the Odnako group. Born in 1969 in Bryansk. Graduated from the department of journalism of the Moscow State University in 1990. Worked in the following publications: “Soviet Youth” (“Sovetskaya molodezh”); Riga’s “The Hour” (“Chas”), Latvia; “The Independent Paper” (“Nezavisimaya gazeta”); “Red Star” (“Krasnaya zvezda”), “The Profile” (“Profil”), “Russian Industrialist” (“Promyshlennik Rossii”), Moscow.
Personal quote: “Tanks do not need a road – tanks need a mission.”
“Sir. This just in; the Soviets have a super silent submarine.”
“You don’t say… Ehrm… Any evidence to back that up?”
“No. We don’t have any, sir.”
“Why not?”
“It’s too silent, sir.”
“Ahhh…, must be like with that rocket.”
“Rocket, sir?”
“Yes. The one they blew up on purpose last year, to make us believe it was an accident. Anyway, we’d better ask for an additional 3% increase in our annual budget to better combat all this savagery. Dismissed!”
Wonderful piece, gracefully translated TB. Thank you & Thanks to Saker for making it possible.
I look forward to hearing the author’s analysis of the substance (matter) of the current world conflict. And the self-determination of Russia and China with regard to it.
@ Penelope,
Q; Wonderful piece, gracefully translated TB.
R; I’d missed that bit. Mind if I add my voice to the chorus?
Thank you, TB.
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Big hug.
Penelope, the current world conflict is between Absolute Evil and Relative Good. Russia and China may not be perfect societies by any stretch of the imagination, but the West is ruled by psychopaths, humanoid emanations and exudations straight from Hell itself.
Its really somewhat like the World Wars of the 20th Century.In no stretch of the imagination could you call the Allied Powers the “fount” of humanity.But in comparison to the Axis Powers they where.Similar to the situation in today’s conflict.
From the American Hegemonic POV, why talk to your enemies, or allow your vassals to associate with those enemies?
It isn’t just about a balanced view (accurate) of history.
It isn’t about respect and justice for the victims of WWII.
Everything the American Hegemonic power is about is Power over all others.
Partnership, friendship, cooperation are not in the toolbox of hegemons.
The history of humanity has never been here before—one dominant power struggling to keep hold of everything on the globe, trying to destabilize the keystones in various regions, waging hybrid and proxy wars against its rivals.
What is needed is a clear mind and no emotion in constructing and waging the counter-measures to cripple the Hegemon and preserve the civilizations and sovereign nations it is trying to destroy.
The problem is that the USA, while clearly dying as a society, with so many manifestations of spiritual Evil as to make your hair stand on end, is ruled by psychopaths infected with the quasi-religious belief that they are doing ‘God’s work’. Many of the increasingly metabolically deranged, drug-addled, semi-impoverished, morbidly obese citizenry share this ‘religious’ conviction, most often expressed as a generalised fear and hatred of everything ‘un-American’ and a fanatic determination to destroy it everywhere. The Trump/Palin worldview. And as Paul Craig Roberts observed, America’s sacred ‘National Security’ can nowadays only be achieved by ruling over every square inch of the planet, such is Yankee paranoia. This insane situation has only been exacerbated by the takeover of US politics, finance, MSM, entertainment and foreign policy by the US Jewish Fifth Column, the ‘dual loyalty’ crowd with their first loyalty to a very nasty racist, terrorist, despotism, Israel. Their paranoia, xenophobia and aggression even outdoes that of their host, the US ruling elite. These creatures are quite capable of destroying humanity to please their bloodthirsty ‘God’, make no mistake about that.
Bro, its only the wealthy zionist jews that are a problem. The rank and file jews dont have any more say in any of this nonsense than you or I.
Massinissa, of course there are degrees of culpability, criminality and evil within Jewry as within every group you care to define. The high-ranking Jews, the financial plutocrats, the gambling zillionaires, the neo-conservative genocidaires, the neo-liberal capitalist apologists and propagandists, the political pay-masters who control both US parties and the West in general and the huge Zionazi propaganda apparatus are the source of Exceptionalist evil, that so clearly grows out of the ‘Chosen People’ psychopathy. Moreover, despite many Jews being on the side of humanity, decency and justice, the Jewish community still acts as it has throughout history, as an enclosed entity that keeps itself separate from the rest of humanity and in the main looks down on the goyim and has few compunctions in exploiting them. Of course Jewry has a selective pressure to maintain its separatism, supremacism and sense of superiority. People can ‘marry out’ which to the orthodox and ultra-orthodox means the ‘death of precious Jewish souls’, that Rabbis like Kook the Elder reminded us were so superior to the souls of non-Jews. Some, like Gilad Atzmon, can leave in disgust, or simply reject Israel and its evil behaviour. But all in all, Jewry acts as history tells us they always have, with belligerence and aggression (just ask the Iraqis, Syrians, Lebanese and Palestinians)until they provoke some opposing force (Rome or the Nazis for instance) to enact a dreadful vengeance, or some strong central power keeps their worst tendencies suppressed while guaranteeing their security (eg the Parthians, Ottomans or Moors).
@Mulga Mumblebrain:
I know what’s going on.
You probably already know the following video, if not then maybe you want to watch it (4 hours) :
The Money Masters Bill Still Documentary on Central Banks and their secrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2zxQ3IQnQ0
rgds.
OT. An article here from the Sydney Morning Herald. Australia perhaps heading for very dangerous territory.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/syria-plan-is-madness-and-wont-work-former-bush-adviser-20150908-gjhfwl.html
>As well as meeting with the Prime Minister, Mr Abrams spoke at a private dinner in Canberra that was attended by some senior government and Liberal Party officials, where he made his criticisms of the current anti-Islamic State strategy. He is being hosted in Australia by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council.
>”That’s what it would take – a willingness to say to the Russians, ‘We’re not willing to tolerate barrel bombs slaughtering civilians. So we’re willing to destroy the Syrian air force. So you had better not have people at that air base’.”
Anon, Abrams, a major war criminal from the terrorist wars in Central America and the Iraq aggression, who, in a decent world would be mouldering for the rest of his unnatural life in prison (although not in the evil living entombment of solitary confinement that the USA inflicts on 100,000 in its own poisonous society)was on the local ABC TV last night, spewing lies and hatred in familiar Zionazi reptilian manner. The gist of it being that in order to destroy Daash (the USA’s own creation)that ‘Assad’ (the usual evil and puerile reduction of a nation to one demon-figure, for the cretins)must be removed. The vacuous air-head ‘interviewing’ him went right along, he being a famous Chosenite, invited by a Chosenite propaganda sewer, so meek goyish acquiescence and admiration are de rigeur. One’s career goes down the plug-hole if you appear less than groveling before these semi-divine creatures.
Seriously,just like the US,Australia is a lost cause for the multi-polar World.They are completely supportive and owned by the Empire and Israel.I don’t see any redemption there until the Empire loses its power.And then Australia will have to deal with the bad choices they’ve made.And figure out how to survive without markets in 3/4 of the World.
Australia has built up a shed-load of bad karma from the evil maltreatment of the indigenous that continues to today, the rape of the land and our complicity in every US aggression going. Climate destabilisation will fuck us over big time, but we won’t be alone in that. What will really show that we are morally insane is if we join in the US/Israel attempt to ‘Bring China down’. Unfortunately we are led by such ninth-rate human garbage that anything is possible.
I heard they wanted to use those tiles made by ancient Australians to build a railway line as there are so many of them around and it is cheaper than trucking in gravel. Such respect for ancient humans who developed the place.. Just because there are millions of them does not make them less valuable. But when was the last time anglo’s learned their lesson? They think if they keep doing it, in the end they will win and for the last 500 years, it has worked..
Yes, absolutely true.
And how right he is to put the damn our “Western partners” into double quotes.
An interesting piece – thank you.
I liked the [Personal quote: “Tanks do not need a road – tanks need a mission.” ]
Which makes me wonder – what is the ‘mission’ of those blue painted tanks paraded in China?
Mmm perhaps they can walk on water.
I was actually wondering why China has adopted that color for much of their military equipment and camo on their uniforms.With green or light brown I can see why.Those colors blend with terrain,depending on the area.But why the blue,I can’t understand how that would blend in.There must be a reason,I just don’t know about (besides there being a gigantic sale on blue paint and dye).
> made at the peak of the world systemic crisis.
Would be nice if it finally was already the peak.
But many things suggest, this is not even the beginning yet.
In some years many might look back to @now as “the good old golden days” (if they still can look back to anything at that point).
Martin
I enjoy your posts – your passion and your SEB insights.
Cheers
Бабушка: Спасибо!
Cheers
Martin, what with economic implosion under unpayable debt, record inequality, savage social barbarism inflicted on the weak and powerless and the rapid financialisation of Western economies, the West is stuffed. They cannot ever raise interest rates again, so gargantuan is debt. The serfs are so downtrodden that mass consumption is at an end, save for Wal-Mart and junk-food. Competitive devaluations are spreading and austerity ravages societies, yet the rich blood-suckers demand more and ever more, greed being insatiable.
Bad enough, but hopefully presaging revolt, although the bloodsuckers would welcome it as an excuse to crack down harder and spread their global genocides further, but the unique circumstance today is, of course, the ecological crisis of crises. It takes a lot of effort by the bloodsuckers to have their brainwashing apparatus deny the anthropogenic climate destablisation Holocaust, but what of ocean acidification, oceanic death through warming, stratification and anoxia? What of the spread of anaerobic bacteria spewing hydrogen sulphide gas? Of biodiversity loss, deforestation, loss of fresh water, fossil water, topsoil etc? Of mass pollution everywhere of every type? Of melting down nuclear power stations, when the Collapse comes? What of all that? Well, here in Australia, the Right simply deny it all. Every now and then some Murdoch shit-rag will run a story from some ‘think-tank’ asserting that, thanks to ‘The Market’, the planet’s ecology has never been better, and all claims to the contrary are ‘Green terrorism’. Man, it’s bad enough living when humanity is destroying itself, but the impotent acquiescence of the proles as they are led to the slaughter by evil imbeciles is truly diabolical.
Hi Mulga Mumblebrain,
I much appreciate your comments and insight.
Also your adavanced English is difficult for me to understand without a dictionary (which I normally don’t need for English).
As for the topic: I like your term “bloodsuckers” when referring to the “money changers”.
That really hits the nail.
However: What do you think about climate change? Is it not a hoax invented to tax us a bit more and in the future to invade countries under the pretext of “doing something good for their nature”?
Green-Party terrorists: They exist, be assured of this!
Martin, I don’t believe that anthropogenic climate destabilisation is a hoax. It might be misused by the usual suspects, but the science is rock solid, and I believe we can see it progressing rapidly. As for ‘bloodsuckers’, -I’m with Malcolm X who said, ‘Show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a bloodsucker’. I enjoy your missives from S.E.B, too, but what is S.E.B?
Here comes more self-determination. Damn!
“As the number of US and British forces on the ground in Syria grow, a variety of cover stories have been invented. The latest has been posited by Foreign Policy magazine. In their report titled, “Meet the Americans Flocking to Iraq and Syria to Fight the Islamic State,” they claim:
“…the number of Americans traveling abroad to fight the Islamic State is picking up, with 44 percent of all fighters identified in the report arriving between May and mid-August of 2015. Whether you think of them as brave patriots stepping up to oppose a pressing threat or meddlesome war tourists taking foolish risks, one thing seems certain: More Americans will be arriving in Iraq and Syria to take up the fight against the Islamic State in the near future.
“The anecdotes used to qualify Foreign Policy’s claims that these fighters are “volunteers” and not special forces or paid mercenaries are the clearest indication that the article, and many like it, are a cover story. Ironically, it would be one of Cass Sunstein’s “independent credible voices,” Eliot Higgins – who regularly claims Russian volunteers in Ukraine are in fact sanctioned by Moscow – who would publish a “report” supporting Foreign Policy’s “volunteer” premise.
“In reality, Foreign Policy is covering up the immediate implementation of admitted and documented US foreign policy to invade and occupy Syrian territory using special forces. A growing number of US and British special forces in Syria to take and hold territory will be impossible to cover up perpetually, so alternative narratives explaining the large and growing numbers of Western fighters in Syria has been fabricated.
“And while the prospect of volunteers travelling to Syria is not entirely fantastical, the transportation, funding, arming, and both tactical and political support of these fighters requires state resources. The fact that American citizens are forbidden by law to partake in foreign conflicts in this manner, yet are able to freely enter Turkey, then cross at Turkish-controlled checkpoints to fight in Syria – like the flow of weapons, supplies, and fighters to bolster ISIS at these same checkpoints – suggests stated US foreign policy to both use armed terrorist groups to overthrow the Syrian government by proxy, and now the use of US and British military forces to do so directly, is being executed before the eyes of the world. — Tony Cartalucci
http://journal-neo.org/2015/09/08/us-seeks-occupation-as-us-fighters-flood-syria/
If these are ‘US Special Forces’, then their expertise is in night-time death-squad raids on sleeping villages, the shooting of pregnant women and various torture techniques. Maybe Hezbollah could second a few real fighters to exterminate them, as they did the Israeli ubermenschen in 2006, and before.
Maybe a job for the Russian volunteers,the media talks about.Possibly Kadyrov might “spare” a few hands for that task.He might actually enjoy that.
China-Russia military maneuvers?
Imagine such one.
A squadron of AN-124 heavy lifters land at a Chinese Airbase. From there a Regiment of Dongfeng-26C, mounted on their trucks, is airlifted to an air base in Central Russia, West of Moscow, and immediately deployed in wooden areas. Then, the exercise ends with the inverse airlift bringing back home the missiles.
Even if the missiles on the trucks were just a mock-up, it would be a so strong signal…
Excellent article, excellent translation. Thank you both to Andrei and TB.
Andrei wrote “history has already been falsified and rewritten…” I never thought possible that history could be falsified to such an extent to suit the interest of the current cabal. A short article in Fort Russ shocked me for the vile and blatant abuse of propaganda techniques to achieve this objective.
The article is titled: “American propaganda success: 60% of Japanese youth believe the atomic bomb was dropped by the USSR”.
I was astonished to learn that the museum of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will not identify who dropped the atomic bomb. Not a single time… And if it was not enough, it “suggests” that USSR did it by using the “guilty by association technique” that is well known in the propaganda world. This is accomplished by reporting that the Japanese made the decision to capitulate only after the USSR brought in the troops and started a war and after the report about the second bomb in Nagasaki. By not naming the US as the perpetrator and linking the bombing to the action of the USSR, the Japanese and the Americans accomplices, deliberately create a vacuum that produced the results shown above.
Disgusting is a week word to express my feelings…
Time to cut of Bulgarian flights over Russian soil.And hopefully all gas and oil sales to Bulgaria.If you want to be a stooge for the US,time to pay the price for it:
“Bulgaria denies airspace use for Russian supply flights to Syria – Reuters”
http://www.rt.com/news/314719-bulgaria-airspace-russia-syria/
Uncle Bob,
I don’t get it. Why are Greece and Bulgaria on the way to Syria?
You saw my Tony Cartalucci post above, right? Now we know why Russia stepped up support for Syria. Fars news is reporting lots of success by Syria & Iraq. For some time the Iraqis report that US tries to dissuade them from military action in some areas.
US is following thru on that d***d Brookings Institute plan to take Syria.
Turkey is actually invading Iraq “in hot pursuit” of Kurds.
I don’t understand it either.Unless Turkey won’t let them use its airspace.And in that case the other two best routes would be over Bulgaria and then Greece,and directly to Syria.Or over the Caspian and Iran,then over Iraq into Syria.The 1st would be quicker and safer I think.But they have said the 2nd may be the one used.
Here is probably part of the confusion about Russian “involvement” in Syria:
On September 4, Russian marines arrived in Syria to train the Syrian “National Defense Forces”.
http://southfront.org/russian-marines-in-syria/?COLLCC=2734802361
“I was astonished to learn that the museum of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will not identify who dropped the atomic bomb. Not a single time…”
Definitely not true of the museum in Hiroshima which I visited early August this year. Unless the Pindos have marauded the museum since, everything is covered including the military offal directly involved in the crime.
But I admit that since I couldn’t read the Japanese texts, my account doesn’t entirely rule out the possibility either.
This information was provided by Mikhail Delyagin (a prominent Russian author, politician and economist) in a radio interview. You will find the original article on the following link.
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/09/american-propaganda-success-60-of.html
If you find that the information provided by Mikhail is wrong, I would appreciate your feedback on the following points:
1) 60% of Japanese youth believe the atomic bomb was dropped by the USSR. Is this true, and if true, how come?
2) Wikipedia (in Russian), reports that the Japanese made the decision to capitulate only after the USSR brought in the troops and started a war and after the report about the second bomb in Nagasaki.
The disinformation process is multi-dimensional. You have to look at the whole picture in order to form an enlightened opinion.
I don’t know about the 1st point.But on the 2nd,Japan had hoped to use the USSR to sue for peace (since the two weren’t at war at the time).But once the USSR fulfilled their promise to the US and Britain (the US and Britain got a promise from Stalin that as soon as Hitler was defeated the USSR would enter the war against Japan) and entered the war.Japan knew the war was lost for them.They would have to surrender completely or face utter defeat and invasion of the home islands.There was no other neutral great power left to negotiate through, for a peace settlement not involving unconditional surrender.
While waiting for the further development of this interesting essay, it is worth pondering the two questions posed. Firstly, what is the “matter” of the current world conflict? In my view it is the utter and complete failure of the fascist capitalist imperialist pseudo-democratic western system not only to provide for its own minions but also to protect itself. The failure is revealed in the abandonment of capitalist market systems in favor of permanent interventions by the masters of the systems, along with the progressive abandonment of the populations governed by those systems. It may be that the western “system” can be defended if it is known at its root to be not a system but a collection of chaotic events; but this is obviously not the case since the populations and masters of the western system have made sincere efforts to craft harmonic social systems, i.e. entities that remain stable by changing in the face of change. “Constitutionality”, “the rule of law”, “liberty and justice for all”, etc. is part of their ideological being. The ideology cannot be removed without destroying the dream. So it must be admitted that the collection of chaotic events is an admission of failure of the system. It failed because its masters had a faulty moral compass. Their ideology was based on a false god, namely money: it was thought that if everyone seeks their own selfish enhancement, at the highest level by accumulating ever greater amounts of money, somehow everything will be good; those with the most money must be the wisest, and therefore will rule. But money is only a tool, not a god to be served. It leads nowhere. So the masters fell into a trap which they themselves devised by serving money, and became its prisoners.
I do not think the masters of the failed western system truly believe they can spread their system over the entire Earth. I think they understand that they have failed. A new world is being born, but the west is on a kind of semi-war auto-pilot while it figures out what its new place will be.
The second question virtually answers itself if we understand the failure of money to create harmonic social systems. Harmony, not money, is the secular god to be served. (I have a spiritual god, a god who lives in the electromagnetic field in other words, but I will not bore or anger anyone with my god.) I think the leaders of Russia and China understand the failure of money as a god, and the primacy of harmony, and the permanent search for harmony, in the new world.
Harmony means Dharam which is why India rising the fastest & west crashing at breakneck speed.
“Three messages without subtleties by China (2)” by El Territorio del Lince blog
http://elterritoriodellince.blogspot.com.es/2015/09/tres-mensajes-sin-sutilezas-por-parte_6.html
“(….)the iconography. Mao’s portrait; red flags; the “Mao” suit of Xi Jinping (in contrast to the Western suit of their predecessors, who accompanied him on the podium) the musters in the traditional vehicle of Chinese leaders, the “Red Flag” (…)
(…) Xi greeted the troops participating in the parade in an unusual way: “Hello, comrades. you have worked hard!”. He did it several times. The troops responded differently in each greeting: “Hi, leader, we serve the people.” “We follow The Party !,” Forging an exemplary conduct “,” Fight to win” The “Mao” costume of Xi is not a subtle nod to the Chinese people but the realization that Xi is president not only of China but of the Central Military Commission of the CPCh and, therefore, supreme commander of the army.(….)
(…) Because with the stock market crash, with the devaluation of the yuan or renminbi, which, incidentally, means “people’s currency” – has launched a tough campaign against the pro-Western and liberal within the Chinese Communist Party, including arrests and expulsions. The parade was broadcast on television and China in full has followed it. The salutation of Xi and the responses of the Army, the least corrupt institution in China, make clear to the Chinese people themselves-here the message is intended exclusively for the Chinese people- that the PLA is in the hands of the CPCh and the CPCh has the PLA. That there are no cracks. Westerners can stop illusions about this, or can continue feeding them as one feeds a chimera.(….)
“Three messages without subtleties by China (and 3)”:by El Territorio del Lince blog.
http://elterritoriodellince.blogspot.com.es/2015/09/tres-mensajes-sin-sutilezas-por-parte_8.html