By Batiushka for the Saker Blog
The Barbarian West
By the fifth century AD the barbarians had moved into Western Europe in significant numbers, bringing about the fall of Old Rome in what is now Italy in 410. Curiously, the barbarianism they brought with them, combined with the systematic brutality of Old Rome by the most brutal of them, the Franks, survives today. Indeed, we can state quite clearly that many in Western Europe have remained barbarians, knowingly or unknowingly supporting the ‘Frankish’ warlord aristocracy/ oligarchy which administrates (but not controls –control is from elsewhere) the Western world till this day. At first the barbarians took over only Western Europe, but then they expanded to its immediate neighbours in Eastern Europe, the Near East and along the African coasts. However, from 1492 on there began the Western European occupation and exploitation of the New Worlds. Barbarianism had literally gone global.
As we have said, the Franks (literally meaning ‘freemen’, that is, not slaves) (1) led the field among the barbarians, even renaming one country, Gaul, after themselves, as ‘France’. The word ‘Frank’ was generalised after Charlemagne who in the late eighth century massacred other less violent barbarians, the Saxons. Charlemagne founded a ‘Holy Roman Empire’ (in reality an Unholy Frankish Empire), whose intellectuals had been trained by Jews in Spain. Thus, tenth-century Muslims used the word ‘Frank’ to mean an ‘aggressive Western European’, as did eleventh-century Orthodox Christians in New Rome. In 1100 Baldwin I was enthroned in Jerusalem as the ‘first King of the Franks’. In the late eleventh century, Welsh chroniclers called the invading Normans ‘Franks’, as did the Irish and the Scots in the twelfth century, as did the Spanish and Portuguese French invaders, and did Poles and Czechs German settlers. In the sixteenth century the Chinese called marauding Portuguese and Spanish ‘Fo-lang-ki’, taken from the Arabic ‘Faranga’, from the selfsame word ‘Frank’.
Soon after 1492 the second of the two Spanish Borgia/Borja Popes, Rodrigo Borgia, alias Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), defined Non-Catholic European men as non-humans, permitting them to be robbed, enslaved and killed. In the twentieth century, this misogynistic and racist Western culture graciously extended its ‘superiority’ to Western women, then to the Jews, calling their ‘Western civilisation’ ‘Judeo-Christian’, and then extended it to all races (2), but on one condition: that these newcomers accept ‘Western values’ such as ‘democracy’ = a new word for Western supremacy, that is, Nazism. Thus, today Kiev’s barbarian troops, the New Vandals, are doing the same as Western barbarian marauders, the Old Vandals, genociding all who do not accept their Nazi ideology. Russia is fighting the West today, because the barbarians are at its gates in the Ukraine – again, just as they were eighty years ago.
In the Ukraine
In recent months, here and there in various Western European countries, I have seen two or three flags being flown together, the EU One Ring ‘to rule them all’, sometimes the local national flag, and beneath it the Ukrainian one. This represents Western supremacism, the Nazi ideology which proclaims the long-desired Westernisation of the Ukraine. It says that any who do not accept ‘Western values’ are to be destroyed or, as they say now, ’cancelled’ – with Western fake news, Western arms and Western death.
Who are today’s aristocratic warlords, today’s Franks, Lombards, Goths, Vandals and Vikings? They are Stoltenberg, Biden, Johnson, von der Leyen, Blinken, Nuland, Kagan, Scholz, Macron and all the other knowing and unknowing neocons who fly these flags together. The barbarians were there sacking civilisation in August 476 and in August 1914, they were there sacking civilisation in late 1492 and in early 2022. However, the world that started on 12 October 1492 died on 24 February 2022 and a new era has begun.
On 14 July 2022 the Serbian President Vucic said: ‘Now the whole Western world is at war with Russia through Ukrainian intermediaries and today’s armed conflict can almost be called a world war’. ‘I know what awaits us. As soon as Vladimir Putin has finished his work in Seversk, Bakhmut and Soledar and then reaches the second line in Slaviansk-Kramatorsk-Avdeevka, he will make an offer. And if they (the West) don’t accept – and they don’t intend to – we shall take the road to hell’.
After the Barbarians
So what happens if the Western world chooses not to go to hell? What happens after the barbarians, after the final demise of the myths of ‘The West and the Rest’ and ‘The West is Best’? At the moment, the alternative is an alphabet soup of BRI, BRICS, EAEU, SCO etc. BRICS itself is becoming old-fashioned, as it may well soon be joined by Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and maybe Argentina and then, who knows? Does that make BRICSITESAA? An alternative name like ‘The Anti-West’ is purely reactive, negative and refers to the 530 years before 24 February 2022. It is especially inappropriate since the EU is clearly collapsing and it is obvious that, at the very least, countries like Serbia, Hungary (whom the EU elite wishes to expel from the EU) and Germany, if it is to survive, will be joining the to-be-renamed BRICS.
Perhaps we could call the future bloc ‘The Free World’, but that also makes too close a reference to the past. We of course do not know the future name. But we could suggest some more realistic names like ‘The International Alliance’ (IA), or, ‘The Free Alliance of Sovereign Peoples’ (FASP). Such a bloc could help settle long-standing historic injustices, through the formation of new countries, new borders, new constitutions and new prosperity. The fact is that the world has not yet been decolonised. You can still see straight lines on maps, usually the work of tidy-minded colonial bureaucrats a century or so ago in London and Paris, who had little concept of history and geography, of rivers, mountains and the languages of different ethnicities, let alone of humanity, justice and prosperity.
There are still dispossessed peoples waiting to get or get back their own sovereign homelands, such as those in Scotland, Wales, Carpatho-Russia, Abkhazia, Ossetia, Kurdistan, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico. There are still peoples waiting to return to their real homelands, such as those in Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, Taiwan, American Samoa, Belize, French Guiana, the Falklands. There are still artificial countries which may well disappear entirely or else be federated, such as: USA, UK, France, Spain, Belgium, Kosovo, Ukraine, Morocco, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Israel, Lebanon, Kuwait, North Korea, South Korea. Finally, there are countries with disputed borders, not least in Europe, such as Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, the Jordan, Yemen, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, India. If we are to go not towards Hell, let us go to Free and Sovereign Nations, lands for native peoples, and not for colonial powers, and let there be a World Alliance of Free and Sovereign Peoples.
Notes:
1. We are reminded of the anthem of eighteenth-century British slave-traders and slave-owners that they, at least, would ‘never, never, never be slaves’. Of course they would never be slaves, they were ‘Franks’, aggressive Western Europeans.
2. Just as most in the twenty-first century had no problem with Obama (a pale brown, definitely not a black, man and the useful and self-obsessed idiot who started all the problems in the Ukraine) becoming US President, so few have a problem with the idea that a man of Indian extraction is the current frontrunner to be the next UK Prime Minister. After all, the candidacy of Rishi (called by some ‘Richy’) Sunak, until recently UK Chancellor/Minister of Finance, from an Indian/East African merchant family, worked appropriately for Goldman Sachs, married the daughter of the sixth richest billionaire in India, their combined fortune approaching $1 billion, Member of Parliament for a town called, strangely enough, ‘Richmond’, is unsurprisingly supported by the British Establishment’s ‘Financial Times’.
It’s good to know that I wasn’t wrong in thinking for so many years that what calls itself Western democracies in actuality were all along “enlightened barbarians”. LOL
“today’s armed conflict can almost be called a world war’.”
I don’t believe it will get to an actual World War, for the simple reason that what the “Barbarians” actually want is an economically decimated Europe so they can swoop down and pick up businesses, real estate, etc at bargain basement prices. A hot world war defeats that purpose.
I do believe there will be a major regional war in the Middle East. Because Apartheid Israhell will not rest until Hezbollah and Iran and Assad are gone.
With that war the Anglo-Zionist Empire will come crashing down.
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/israel-the-scourge-of-empires/
“I don’t believe it will get to an actual World War, for the simple reason that what the “Barbarians” actually want is…..”
You make it sound as if the decision for war was all in the hands of the Western “barbarians”. It is not. It takes at least two to have a war. In the current situation, the perception on the part of Russia and China is that the West wants to weaken, confine, subjugate, destroy and rape their countries by hybrid war means little by little, over the next few years.
Russia’s current and clear perception is that it is in an existential struggle. There might well come a time (and perhaps Vucic has hinted at it) when Russia will decide that they must create hell for the West, that they have no other choice. And as Putin has remarked on occasion, if a fight can’t be avoided, strike first and strike hard.
‘enlightened barbarian’ is an oxymoron.
So is civil war
EU and NATO are nothing more than accessories to murder, or pyromaniac who started the fire and continue to use a double standard for self-interest.
I tend to see China as the centre, the eternal Empire with a constant succession of barbarians invading or flowing ever Westwards in search of conquest or fleeing those behind them til Cortez saw the Pacific. So yeah, we are enlightened, fierce, clever, cultured but…barbarians ever.
Don’t idealize human “kingdoms”. All political power is based on violence and oppression, thus evil. China’s CP is no less evil than present day western tyrants.
excellent post. well said. we do not all consent. we know the truth, western hypocracy is abhorrent but so many moron sing their song : (
I fundamentally agree about this “romano-norman” (Frank) world they insist on bullying forth… been pointing it out forever, wild Pict that I am.
so …. do we move to BRICS et al nations, or just hope for liberation some future day? : /
Let’s not forget that it is Rurik, an Eastern swede who became prince of Novgorod and that his dynasty created Kiev and later ruled Moscow. Let’s not forget also the March east starting with Ivan all the way to Alexander the second colonizing Muslim and Buddhist populations all the way to the pacific and the Chinese border. Everyone is a colonialist.
The difference really is that the west has degenerated into an abject lot whereas the east has managed to keep its strength of character and most of their traditions.
london-rome-?copenhagen? triangle or the likes, think that was point, takes in Paris and nederlands too. The rotten dam?
But aye, I think you are correct- the less pampered a life you wallow in, you’re probably a more practical and hardier being,
and more alive for it : )
get me outa here!
is there a hectare in siberia for societal refugees? ; )
Rurik was a Slavic Wend, not a Scandinavian.
It seems he was a Varengian viking, whatever he was, with a name like Rurik, one knows where he was from… It’s useless and unwise to change historical facts for the purpose to make a point.. Don’t become like the west, accept the greatness of your history as it is. Catherine the Great was German, did she not make Russia Great? Off course she did. Russia is like most countries, everyone worked to make it great… And it is great.. Be proud
Author really speaking negatively of so very much that has come from Central and Western Europe. Might you balance your assessment out a bit, given that there is ample justification to do just that? It reminds me a bit of the effort by Marxists/globalists to erase and denigrate every single person, institution and accomplishment in the USA. We’re simply not all that terrible, or different from you. Yes, those who squat in positions of power are that terrible, but…
Marxists/globalists that’s a Western invention, therefore it’s overboard to call the West for what it really is, barbarian.
“Marxists/globalists that’s a Western invention”
Ashkenazis are “western” now?
Barbarism begins at home!
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/07/night-of-living-braindead-planetary-sit.html
It is undeniable that the world has had a criminal past, sometimes covered up with nice ideas, but in practice criminal conduct. Even Christianity was used by whites to kill, enslave and rob non-whites.
Apparently there is an awakening and finally begins to think as humanity. Let’s see how much blood it takes to build a better world.
I am profoundly grateful for your writings Batiushka!
” ‘Frankish’ warlord aristocracy/ oligarchy … administrates (but not controls –control is from elsewhere) the Western world till this day.”
I hope you would offer your views on the most crucial issue of where the control comes from.
Blessings,
Ernesto
Please refrain from using all caps as per moderation policy, mod
Just no, this is the same as saying Mongols took over most of Russia and some point and are still in Russia and therefore they are still raping and pillaging Europe/Asia to create more vassal states for the empire?
It’s worse… the Ashkenazi took over Russia in 1917…. Yeltsin declared Russia independent of them in 1991, but by 1996, had taken control of Russia again, through the combined actions of Ashkenazi econ faculty members from Harvard, Ashkenazi bankers in NYC, and Ashkenazi bureaucrats (who received loans to outbid everyone at the privatization auctions, and thus became oligarchs)… then in 2000, Putin promised to put the corrupt oligarchs in prison and raise the income and standard of living of Russian citizens (which he did!).
Now the Ashkenazi are desperately trying to regain control of Russia again….using NATO as their personal army.
How enlightening! I am impressed and do hereby thank you making me a bit (smarter) more educated.
No, I di not learn any of this in school.
No, I did not run across information such as this in the daily journals that teach us to go “beeee”.
An eye opener just as majority of opinions and historical facts presented here always are.
And to point out, RT.com and Saker, are practically all I I can understand and appreciate.
The rest, and there were dozens of pages have become literally repulsive and the lies are blaringly obvious. Who wants to get sick every morning?
Mr. Batiushka for your clarification:
On June 9, 1537, Pope Paul III shed light in the face of so much darkness; in the Bull Sublimis Deus he declared them men:
We, who although indignant, exercise the power of Our Lord on earth, and fight by all means to bring the lost herd to the fold that has been entrusted to us, nevertheless consider that the Indians are true men and that they are not only capable of understanding the Catholic faith, but, according to our information,
Desiring to provide certain remedies for these evils, we define and declare by these our letters, or by any faithful translation, signed by a notary public, sealed with the seal of any ecclesiastical dignity, to which the same credit as the originals will be given. Notwithstanding what has been said or is said to the contrary, such Indians and all those who are later discovered by the Christians, may not be deprived of their LIBERTY BY ANY MEANS, nor of their properties, even if they are not in the faith. of Jesus Christ; and of their properties, and they will not be slaves, and everything that is done will be null and void.
What you say about Pope Alexander VI I have not read in any Papal Bull of the time, what is more, what you say Pope Alexander said is absurd because he is contrary to the Catholic Faith.
I can gladly clarify more doubts
It is not the only historical fail in this article.
Also speak about Frank and Spain and Portugal have no sense.
Spain and Portugal come from the same Kingom. The Visigoth Kingdom of Toledo.
And they were Visigoths, mot Franks
@Oscar.
Thank you for that declaration by Pope Paul 3, which is more in line with Christian faith that what was said of the previous Borgia pope [shortened version for clarity]:
” We, who fight by all means to bring the lost herd to the fold, consider that the [red] Indians are true men and that they are capable of understanding the Catholic faith.
Desiring to provide certain remedies, we declare such Indians may not be deprived of their LIBERTY BY ANY MEANS, nor of their properties, even if they are not in the faith of Jesus Christ; and they will not be slaves.”
Very informative. Thanx
The end of World War Two was the ‘beginning of the end’ for old world imperialism. From the ashes of the war, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as dominant powers who aimed to reshape the world in their own image. America with atomic weapons and the world’s strongest economy was challenged by the Soviet Union, who, after the war, possessed the world’s largest conventional army and controlled one fifth of the globe, including parts of Central and Eastern Europe. The two wartime allies disagreed on the future political direction for the world. Even though, in 1946 in San Francisco, they were the co-founders of the United Nations, whose aim was collective security, they followed policies of self-interest. In the post-war world, ‘our glorious Soviet allies’ and their leader ‘Uncle Joe’ became ‘enemy number one’.
Decolonization in Asia and Africa, instability in Europe, as well as oppressive right-wing dictatorships in Central and South America exposed the conflicting interests of Soviet and American imperialism. These conflicting political and economic interests created a bipolar world where ‘communists’ led by the Soviet Union and the ‘democracies’ led by the United States struggled for the minds and hearts of people in developing nations. This struggle, in other words, “the Cold War mixed domestic and international threats and anxieties and created a crisis atmosphere which was temporarily useful — but blown out of all reasonable proportions.” The Soviet Union, where state capitalism under the guise of communism, and the United States, a two-party dictatorship under the guise of democracy, competed directly or indirectly, to dominate the post-war world.
The wartime allies, America, and the Soviet Union, disagreed on the future political direction of the countries in Central and Western Europe. The Russians refused to allow their wartime allies any input into the political choices they made for the territories under their control. They justified this position by saying that the Western Powers refused to give them any say in the future of Western Europe that was under the influence of America. This lack of co-operation, and more importantly the domination of Central and Eastern Europe by the Soviets, concerned President Truman. This lack of co-operation was seen by the Truman administration as a direct challenge to American political and economic interests, even though, CIA reports, in 1945, portray the Soviets as a spent force, large with their homeland devastated, their economy in ruins, and their supply lines inadequate. According to intelligence analysis, it would take some fifteen years before they could militarily challenge the West in Europe, since the intelligence agencies estimated that the “Russians would not possess nuclear weapons for another five years.” They did, however, have sufficient conventional forces to influence events in countries where left wing movements were active in attempts to overthrow the existing governments. Of particular concern for America was the communist influence in Greece and Turkey. Formerly under British influence, this strategic area was used in the past to prevent the tsars from challenging British imperialism in the Mediterranean. With the demise of the British ability to maintain the status quo, America stepped in to stop what they saw as a ‘domino effect’ in a region which was of historic strategic importance to capitalism. To this end, America introduced the Truman Doctrine, whose aim, like the British Empire before, was to stop the spread of communism, or Russian influence, whether local or international, by helping the existing government stay in power, whether a dictatorship or a democracy, as long as it was friendly to American interests.
In Western Europe, particularly in France and Italy, economic crisis led to the election of large communist parties. More immediately, the easy takeover of Czechoslovakia by the communists scared the Congress into implementing the proposed Marshal Plan, designed to help European economic recovery. America introduced the Marshall Plan to combat the communist threat to Europe and American influence by means of a ‘full belly’. At the same time, the Marshal Plan allowed American companies to jump the tariff walls and American multinational corporations were able to dominate European commerce from the inside. Also, the implementation of the Marshal plan led to the integration of German, French and Belgian coal, and steel industries, the first step to the present European Union, dominated by the United States and its new military bureaucracy NATO. Moreover, this integration was intended to stop German militarism and revenge by integrating the German economy with that of her neighbors. Even though, the Marshal Plan aid was offered to the Soviet Union, they saw it as a ‘Trojan Horse’, and refused it, since they saw it as an attempt to de-communize Eastern Europe. The political ‘tug of war’ and ‘one-upmanship’ in Europe and at home in America did not end with the Marshal Plan, but continued through espionage, propaganda, and series of crisis which created a symbiotic relationship between the Soviet and American industrial military complexes. The state of Crisis intensified with the communist takeover in China in 1949 and the Soviet explosion of the A-bomb. The Soviets saw many of these events as self-defenses, while Americans saw the same events as a threat to her democracy.
Outside of Europe, at the end of the Pacific War, America feared that Soviet entry would lead to communization of Asian territories that came under her control. At the same time, Truman felt that the Soviets would help the Chinese communists in their effort to expel the American ally Chiang Kai-Shek from China. Communization of China could mean an end to the historic Open Door Policy that America had supported, since 1922, in relationship to this country. Soviets had a large conventional army, and they were committed to enter the war against Japan. Truman did not want the Soviet control in Asia to follow the European example. His fears were proved right as the Soviets helped communize North Korea and China. Communization of North Korea and China was followed by attempts to communize the whole of the Korean peninsula. “In 1949, there was the Communist victory in China, and in that year also, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. In 1950 the Korean War began. These were all portrayed to the public as signs of a world Communist conspiracy” by the American media rather than a process of decolonization. Anti-communist elements in America viewed as equally serious, “anti-imperialist insurrection in the world, which would require gigantic American effort to defeat national unity for militarization of the budget, for the suppression of domestic opposition to such a foreign policy.”
These anti-communist elements, led by Herbert Hoover and Joseph McCarthy, by their propaganda brought out the most repugnant side in human nature. In the name of patriotism and self-promotion, many Americans, like Ronald Reagan and Charleston Heston, turned in their friends to government committees. Even though, some of this propaganda had an element of truth, much of it was so strident and overblown that it became virtually impossible to establish whether there was a communist threat.” Certainly, the Soviet espionage rings were present in the West. Igor Guzenko, a cipher clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, sounded a warning to their presence. Russian archive today indicates that Soviet spies like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had passed atomic secrets to Soviet agents. However, espionage is as old as history; all sides participate in it, one way or another. McCarthyism gave the American government an opportunity to bring into line the media, the film industry, and the unions, which they control to this day.
Furthermore, the American government used the fear of Communism to increase military spending and suppress left wing revolutions in Latin America and anti-colonial revolutions in Asia and Africa.
The american government broke its own laws and international treaties to suppress communism in America. The threat to American democracy, up to the present, was more domestic than foreign and the media hides this by promoting American wars as building democracy when they are a diversion from domestic social problems. Internationally, however, establishment of quasi-communist dictatorships in Eastern and Southern Europe as well as in China, and presently the BRICS threatens American economic influence in these areas. By creating an anticommunist, anti-Russian paranoia, the American government was able to justify to its people the need for greater and greater military expenditures. Also, it was easier to justify keeping American troops in Europe and sending them to fight in the Korean War. The threat from communist espionage in America, in the immediate post-war period, was something that the legal institutions could have controlled. Ideas, whether communist or capitalist, are never a threat in a society that respects freedom of speech which is protected by the rule of law, due process, and an independent judiciary which no longer exists, and in reality never existed
Well ww1/2 were essentially resource colonialist wars, out of the destruction of which emerged a workers claim to public resources/capital.
From end of ww2 until now, history has essentially been a repeat of the microcosm of the full period of the French Revolution. The question has always been who will win? Babeuf or the reactionaries?
Maybe it’s time to get the guillotine out of the museum ad sharpen it, but then one will not do and start in Poland first.
“The Polish government under President Andrzej Duda is a reactionary regime which has banned the Communist Party of Poland, prohibited the promotion of communist ideas and introduced LGBT “free zones.”
Duda is a leader of the right-wing Law and Justice Party, which legalized government control over the media and has promoted the repression of critical intellectuals.
Andrzej Duda [Source: ft.com]
Duda has also promoted a right-wing revisionism surrounding World War II. In 2018, Duda signed a law that banned people from accusing Poland of Holocaust atrocities committed by the Nazis and from referring to concentration camps as “Polish death camps.”
The Duda regime has made a point of emphasizing Polish resistance to the Nazis, but has underplayed Polish crimes like the Jedwabne pogrom in July 1941, where Poles rounded up and killed their Jewish neighbors.” Jeremy Kuzmarov
When it comes to Jedwabne: the proposal of exhumation is on the table for over 10 years – to explain WHO and WHAT did it. Still effectively blocked by “Polish” government, and also by rabies for “religious reasons”.
I remind here, that in 1941 Poland was under strict German occupation – and there is no physical possibility that (armed!) Poles, did such things without prior approval and probably threat.
Anyway, exhumation should discover many interesting things. We are patiently waiting for…
@Vuki
Brilliant summation of world affairs :-)
Thank you.
McCarthy’s only mistake was underestimating the amount of communist infiltration of the U.S. government by a factor of at least 10x.
sunak has close ties to WEF . his family company INFOSYS is well adopted into globalist ideology, so i guess he will win the ” first past the post ” race for the top job. sure theres a list of globalist sychophants like truss etc, if they so choose. it will take a few years for a public vote for them to be able to choose after the party has decided for the nation,
Infosys is not Sunaks family company.
His wife happens to be a very tiny shareholder i. Infosys. Her father though the key founder himself owned very little shares just 1.98% and his wife and daughters owning even less.
Narayan Murty is unlike other billionares he and his other founders gave away so much stick options to their employees even to janitors, drivers and cafetaria workers.
Infosys had 5 initial founders who stayed on till the end. Most of them are now not evem on the board now. even at the peak infosys was a professionally managed company the cofounders took turns to be CEOs and subsequently removed themselves from operations then evem from the board after many years of Murtys retirement he had to intervene when its performance plummeted under professional managers.
Calling it his son in laws family company is showing total ignorance of the history of Infosys and the life of its founders especially Narayan Murty.
There is a heaven and a hell, there is one God Jesus Christ and two religions for mankind from the garden of Eden to eternity. Mankind can follow Jesus Christ or follow the Devil. Jesus commanded to love one another, to love your enemies, to do justly, and to love mercy, and walk humbly with the lord. Those that rape, rob, and steal, make war and kill and murder are not following God (Jesus Christ) for that is not love. Love suffers long and is helpful, lifts not up one’s self, but lifts up their neighbor….
G’day Emmett,
There is no hell mate! Apart from what we create for ourselves while incarnate. See eg:
https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book/read-urantia-book-online
Christ Jesus didn’t come to establish the Christian religion and didn’t. Pharisees did; and they influenced Roman emperors to impose it. See eg: Judaism and Christianity – Two Thousand Years of Lies – 60 Years of State Terrorism http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/Judaism-and-Christianity—Two-Thousand-Years-of-Lies—60-Years-of-State-Terrorism.shtml
G’day Ron Chapman. Bs Laura Knight self.
Facts and universal law and rules referenced in the Christian bible stand by themselves and do not need other references, analysis or examinations.
They just are, as anyone who tries to deviate will be a liar.
Phariseeism is Talmudism is modern-day Judaism.
‘Judeo-Christianity” is literally the equivalent of “Satano-Christianity” … a complete contradiction in terms.
World Peoples’ Alliance (WPA)
Simple. Strong. Uncomplicated.
Among semantics it reminds me of the Libtard one liners;
“You must learn to sell (marketing) yourself”,
“Try another department and see if another man will have you”,
“My relationship – to my boss, my employees, my customer, my clients, my wife”.
The author knows that “barbarians” does not mean what he implies? It’s a term the Romans came up with for many nations: Berber, Germanic, Celts, Iberian, etc. Some of which in terms of gold and advanced culture or art could easily compete with Roman wealth and sophistication. Even military the outcome was not predictable. The one thing where Rome stood out was there engineering projects. And perhaps the way to retell history in their favor…
Anyway, it’s hard to read the rest of the article in that light. What seems to be described is the usual messy story of civilizations. All of them. And somehow imply it’s a problem from from whose perspective? There’s no enlightened civilization around in that sense. But decadence does exist and decline of empires are a given. But lets not hold our breath to witness any benign nature of new ones.
The term “barbarian” was coined by the Greeks, to whose ears other people’s languages sounded like “bar-bar”, the barking of dogs. It meant simply non-Greek speakers.
Romans continued to use the word in this tradition, using it to refer to people who did not speak Latin. It had nothing to do with social customs or personal hygiene. Ironically, cultured Greeks saw their Roman overlords as the ultimate barbarians, a nation of uncouth moneygrubbers who unfortunately possessed an invincible military machine. This of course is how much of the world regards Americans today.
For the record, the Visigoths who sacked Rome and settled there were Christians, having converted to the Arian variety quite a while before appearing at the gates of the Eternal City.
The Visigoths of the 410 very mild sacking of Rome subsequently had a long-lived kingdom in Southern France and Spain and never settled in Rome or Italy.
I agree with all apart from the Arian part .To this day Arians are considered heretics -with good reason theologically- by the Orthodox and Catholics, and I believe the Protestants too. They are about as Christian as the Mormons are .
So’s the Pope.
Judaism and Christianity – Two Thousand Years of Lies – 60 Years of State Terrorism http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/Judaism-and-Christianity—Two-Thousand-Years-of-Lies—60-Years-of-State-Terrorism.shtml
Yes, a messy plot, but one criticism of this “”Franks are barbarians”” thesis, is that before Charlemagne, and indeed afterward, the selfsame barbarians were Christians, of the faith now termed Orthodoxy. Rome of the West did fall to German tribes, but was fully restored under their kingship, receiving the right to rule from the emperors of Constantinople, with whom ties continued for some time.
One may argue that only a percentage of citizens were “”true”” Christians, and they were skewed toward Arianism and heresies of all sorts, and in fact, that all Westerners are schismatic, and always were, from the beginning of the world until now. But, it is not to be denied that the West marked itself as against Constantinople and against the Faith, but there werenmanifold and divers reasons for this 500-something year process of schism to metastasize; yes, the great schism is also a messy one.
No, these barbaric Goths and Vandals were made civilized, and flowered in Christian civilization of no lesser a merit than that of any confessing Orthodox nation. Perhaps we have been caught in a moon landing paradox, of disproving a negative we don’t think to question. In general the world is confused by the veil of self serving lies the West has used to obscure the Orthodox shoots of its own generation, by calling it the “dark ages” which transformed into the “age of reason”. Since these dark ages were the rebirth and birth of the West, and is now well hidden, and the age of reason is the obfuscating name given to the impassioned embrace of a mystery called iniquity.
BTW. To list disputed borders and not name China is a gross oversight, as no nation on earth has more trouble with its land and maritime neighbors; nine-dash-line as one Example.
Yesteryears’ “Leaders” were the Black Nobility (Venice), today’s “Leaders” are White Trash (YOO-K and YOO-S).
G7 & its vassals = Zone A
Rest of the World / Global South (Incl. Russia & China) = Zone B
Hispania fue una de las seis naciones del imperio romano occidental (II AC-V DC) . Los visigodos la conquistaron siendo el único país del antiguo Imperio Romano que no cambió el nombre por el de la tierra de los conquistadores. Invadida por los musulmanes fue el primer país que los expulsó. Se reunifica en el XV DC. Llamar a España un país artificial es muy duro
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Hispania was one of the six nations of the Western Roman Empire (II BC-V AD). The Visigoths conquered it being the only country of the ancient Roman Empire that did not change the name to that of the land of the conquerors. Invaded by the Muslims was the first country to expel them. It is reunified in the XV DC. Calling Spain an artificial country is very hard.
Didn’t help when 70,000 Nazis were imported to the USA- Operation Paperclip after WWII ended.
“Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), defined Non-Catholic European men as non-humans”
Could you please give us some source or link?
Thanks a lot.
A little bit of info about Rishi Sunak’s Father in Law Narayan Murthy. .Son fo a modest school teacher lived in a very small home ( 700sft) in a lower middle class neighbourhood of Bangalore.
He along with 4 of his friends founded Infosys un mid eighties after a stint in USA where he had gone to do his masters
they set about leading by example their middle-class ethos of modest living.
He and his cofounders gave away so much stock options that the press alternatively criticised and admired them. Unlike other silicon valley companies who gave stock options to retain talent Infosys founders gave stock options to distribute wealth , the nonessential staff like car drivers, security guards janitors got the stock options.
He was credited for being the first person in india to create 1000 dollar millionaire among his employees.
Even till around year 2000 he used to live in his same old extremely modest home and was forced out of it by a govt which git tired of ensuring security( which he refused but the financial markets demanded it of the govt) to one of the richest men in india and a key economic player and head of a $20 billion company. he used to drive a modest ford ikon till 2004 saying its more than what he needed
he only owned 1.98% of Infosys stock
evem his family owned very little of the stock even though his wife was one of the early founder employee.
All the founders took 5 year turns at being CEO of the company.
To this day he often travels economy class.
Infact he was flying with me three weeks back from Bangalore to Delhi on a commercial discount airline all alone,no minders , assistants or fawning people around. Very few people recognised him he sat at the gate just like everyone else. was seated in the plane like an ordinary passenger.
The whole thing in the west about Rishi Sunak’s wife being daughter of a billionaire is ridiculous. He also happens to be the school classmate and old childhood friend of a close relative of mine. They reports that they all very middke class old men still meet him once in two years that they used to do since they left school.
if you want to know more about him and his family check out his wifes, youtube channel her name is Sudha Murty she runs infosys Fondation and also other family charities. she often talks about bringing up children.
On a positive note, as an open-minded Barbarian, who is deeply dismayed and apologetic at the stupidity of our Western rulers and their disrespect for their/our own Rule of Law and purported “values”, as well as the Russophobia of my fellow barbarians, I can say that this conflict, has put me on a learning curve re Russia, Russians and Russian history – a previously “unknown” country to me.
I am fully behind the Russians in this conflict. I abhor the way the West has treated Russia since the end of the Cold War, and I have acquired a deep respect for the new Russia which has been revived under Mr Putin’s stewardship.
So what happens if the Western world chooses not to go to hell? What happens after the barbarians, after the final demise of the myths of ‘The West and the Rest’ and ‘The West is Best’? At the moment, the alternative is an alphabet soup of BRI, BRICS, EAEU, SCO etc. BRICS itself is becoming old-fashioned, as it may well soon be joined by Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and maybe Argentina and then, who knows? Does that make BRICSITESAA? An alternative name like ‘The Anti-West’ is purely reactive, negative and refers to the 530 years before 24 February 2022. It is especially inappropriate since the EU is clearly collapsing and it is obvious that, at the very least, countries like Serbia, Hungary (whom the EU elite wishes to expel from the EU) and Germany, if it is to survive, will be joining the to-be-renamed BRICS.
Perhaps we could call the future bloc ‘The Free World’, but that also makes too close a reference to the past. We of course do not know the future name. But we could suggest some more realistic names like ‘The International Alliance’ (IA), or, ‘The Free Alliance of Sovereign Peoples’ (FASP).
Here’s an idea. How about calling this future bloc the Real International Community?
After all, these nations of the BRICS and indeed Global South comprise the majority of people on this planet.
The Fake International Community (America, the Anglos, the Euros, and their allies like Japan) represent only a small minority of people on this planet and thus are usurpers of this “International Community” title, who should be kicked to the curb.
Quote:” Who are today’s aristocratic warlords, today’s Franks, Lombards, Goths, Vandals and Vikings? They are Stoltenberg, Biden, Johnson, von der Leyen, Blinken, Nuland, Kagan, Scholz, Macron and all the other knowing and unknowing neocons who fly these flags together.”
In fact, Stoltenberg, Biden, Johnson, von der Leyen, and Scholtz are mere “puppets” for the US Hegemony. It is an establiished fact, that the Europeans cited here, along with Johnson and Biden have all been “bought off” by the US Financial Hegemony.
The US has been buying off all politicians for decades. That includes ALL Latin American, Canadian, African, and many Indonesian leaders to name only a few.
The real “aristocratic warlords” at the helm of the US Financial Hegemonic Power include the five big banks in New York State, the enormously ultra wealthy Hedge Funders like CEOS like Larry Fink who holds $$ trillions of dollars in assets throughout the world, along with The Fed and the ultra wealthy multi-billionaires in the US and Western Europe.
As for Nuland/Kagan & others, they play behind the scenes, manipulating key politicians. Perfect example: Nuland stage-managed the 2014 Maiden uprising. They play an active role in maintaining the US Financial $$$ Hegemony.
Among the dispossessed peoples, you forgot the Chagos Islanders, the entire population of which in 1970 was ethnically cleansed by Britain from their Island, to make room for . . . US Air Base Diego Garcia.
Please, all, read and weep and cry out loud:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/02/uk-government-humiliated-over-chagos-islands-again/
My mistake, the more important article about Chagos is this one:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/03/chagos-and-the-dark-soul-of-the-british-labour-party/
A key Frank group which I have been tracking since February 2020, and which appears interwoven with the new normal of the Banksters’ Going Direct Reset, is the Knights Templars.
This short lecture provides a chilling historical window on the ideology behind the current global Crusade. History rhymes and the same criminals use the same M.O.s, even a millennium later.
A fascinating exposition into the Cathars by presenter Mickoski, who considers them the same as the Templar Knights. He considers the WEF/NWO cabal espousing the same weltanshauung as the RC church which expunged the Templars. I disagree to a point, and do not see the benign in the Templars at all, but the key point is the historical links he draws between the Templars and our current predicament of crazy neocons/globalist Technocrats.. This dovetails with others who indicate the current western NWO is run according to Templar principles, symbolism and totems.. He ties other threads we see unfolding in front of our amazed eyes.
It is a quick 1-hr, but he is easy to listen to, esp if you set speed to 1.5x
N.B. laodan explores from cultural perspective the Franks living in southern France, which included the Templars. They became fabulously wealthy from the Mediterranean trade, initiated with the first Crusades, multiplying their influence and access to European and Papal elites.. Their orders would soon be given special indulgences and sovereignties usually accorded to kingdoms.
Some of my notes from Mickoski above, of contemporary parallels with the Cathars/Templars:
▪︎ they were a death cult with which one could not reason ➡️ current uncompromising fatalism and suicidality of the End of History Technocracy
▪︎ they had an occult pedigree from Ancient Egypt or earlier ➡️ current fetish with kabbalistic numerology
▪︎ they were a melding of gnosticism, buddhism, and some native american animalism (his words) ➡️ current fetish with the New Age cabal’s universalist One World Religion based on lukewarm woke love.
▪︎ they did not believe in Judgment Day and accountability for their deeds.. in fact they consider the Old Testament written by the devil and that this life is hell incarnate and one may lie and sin without consequences ➡️ current unconscionably hyperaggressive conduct by AZE
▪︎ Their enduring obsession was escaping this hellish existence, this irredeemable material Earth life. “Human beings are a disease.” If escape from cities was not possible, death, even via suicide, was permissible ➡️ current obsession (1,001 movies on escape from Earth) with colonization of new Space realms, uncaring despoliation of earth by multinationals, western legalization of Euthanasia, and even in last two years of pushing mass involuntary euthanasia via eugenicist inoculation
▪︎ they believed in reincarnation, into any animal form ➡️ I wish to come back as a virus..
▪︎ they had a green environmental craze, wanting to deconstruct and level mankind to the pastoral ideal, as well as population reduction. They considered many structures sinful ➡️ current deindustrialization of Petroleum Man and dooming their cities, cutting off fuel, shutting down Big Agriculture, burning & desecration of churches, mosques…
▪︎ they were strict vegetarians, to avoid accidentally eating a prior reincarnated human spirit. So they fought the killing of animals (more animal rights than human rights!) ➡️ Hmm.. do we see a current push to outlaw animal meat worldwide, even moving to Canadian “alternative protein?” Prince George’s Greenpeace, Hitler’s better animal rights record than human ones..
▪︎ they didn’t mind sexual relations, even between the unmarried, but were adamantly against procreation, considering it sinful! ➡️ Hmmm. Promotion of homosexuality and promiscuity; Sex, drugs and rock & roll; cohabitation; onerous alimony leading to hatred of marriage & new generations’ preference of Friends with Benefits in the age of Roe?? These are all cogs of a wheel.. and it started long before in Europe then rolled across the Atlantic..
▪︎ they were such extremists, even the Catholic church declared a crusade against their heresy and fanaticism ➡️ Is there an ongoing global Operation Z against the crazies??
▪︎ they had a fetish of Dualism ➡️ Hmmm. Promotion of insanely corrupt [two-party] parliamentary democracy at gunpoint around the world, Hegelian dialectic of sponsoring both commies and nazis, conflict between Whites/Blacks/Others, richer/poorer, supermen/untermensch, good/bad, etc..
▪︎ they were strictly egalitarian wrt to gender ➡️ 20th century’s women’s rights, ordaining of female priests, other recent movements, including “countless genders’ equal rights”
So all things considered, if one wished to seed absolute chaos in our world and escort Petroleum Man to hell in a handbasket, the modern day revival of the Templar Knights is the perfect fanatic vehicle to use.
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here!”
A fine lucid article thank you. “Barbarians” came from Greek jingoistic perceptions of the Other. An affliction that still pervades in the West and elsewhere.
And now for something inspirational. “The Barbarian” by Emerson Lake and Palmer, taken by Emerson from the piece Allegro Barbaros by Bartok:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwmSS_64IN4
Hot Dang!
Finally someone with the guts to call a rake a rake, him not being a true spade.
I know, NOT woke and offensive, lol.
But truth be said, Obama was another blemish on the line of presidents of the U neverknow States.
A self indulgent windbag fronting for his paymasters executing crimes against humanity and setting up the board for the next atrocity.
Obviously we should name, at least, a university after him.
“What happens after the barbarians, after the final demise of the myths of ‘The West and the Rest’ and ‘The West is Best’?”
The same thing that happens every time. Whatever emerges will have a period of growth and abundance and good feeling. Then there will be cultural rot and decadence from all the comfort and abundance. And finally there will be evil people who take over and use the system to destroy everything and the system/empire will collapse. Throughout history its the same pattern over and over and over and over. At least those living now in the South and East will enjoy the ride on the upswing while those of us in the West are stuck riding out the collapse in our Fourth Turning. A few generations from now, the South and the East will be rich and demanding under threat of war that the poor destitute West uphold human rights for transgenders, child molesters and cannibals. Its the same thing every damn time. Human nature is a real bitch.
I disagree,
It ain’t gonna happen this time.
This is the end of an epoch and those who survive this transition will learn to love one another and thrive; along with all others left in the world. It’s a choice. Doya want to evolve to a higher level of consciousness or not? The process is painful and requires overcoming cognitive dissonance; i.e. rejecting the self image you have acquired as a result of a lifetime of accepting false perceptions garnered while swimming in a sea of lies from cradle to grave.
The issue is: Doya want to ‘let go’ of the lies you’ve absorbed in your life to date OR stay comfortably ignorant? The problem with being the change you want to see in the world is that you have to learn to live with the fact that the idea of yourself programmed into you by parents and society et al, IS NOT YOU.
Don’r forget Peru -the oldest civilization in the Americas (circa 2500 BC)- which has been kidnapped by bearded barbarians from Spain. Its inheritors live here and have discriminated against millions of native people for five centuries. They took away our language, our customs, our history. However, we still survive. I don’t want revenge, but a new and fairer agreement where the native weltanschauung is as valid as the one that came fro overseas is necessary. We want access to the elite’s positions. We believe we can make a much better job in leading our country. We have a better ethics and moral standing. We don’t stress greed nor naked, brutal power. I can only hope that these big changes in the geopolitical chessboard will also bring changes in many countries like mine.
Good luck with that noble goal, fellow traveller from a very distant region from me. Some of us here in the West, has not drunk the cool aid, many of us are frightened that the Idiots manage to push the button….. And oh the irony(to me) for 35 years was part of a force that tried ( succesfully) to avoid a WWIII.
I know there must be a person like me, somewhere in the East, in Russia who had the same job. Looking across the southern Baltic, it is not that far from Rostock.
Many a year later in Berlin I, coincidently met an Ossie in a bar, we started to chat, he had been an East German soldier, destined for Denmark. We both got absolutely completely smashed (Drunk), completely, I woke up in an unknown house, clothes neatly folded, wallet beside me, stark naked in a very fine bed.
A knock on the door ” are you decent?”
“Yes” i said while I covered my self in sheets.
In came a woman, approx little older than my age, with coffee and a shot on a tray and said
” My brother drags all sorts of people home, but you seemed decent, clean underwear, I washed it btw, wrap the linnen around you and come for breakfast. So I did, completely blushed, and there were her whole family, waiting to have a chat, we did that, and had some Snapses and eventually they decided it was best for all, if I went back to Checkpoint Charlie, and we did. I crossed and was detained immediately.
It was all sorted out eventually, and I had no further problems. It did not impede my further career, albeit “they” knew about it. I even got to work for “They”.
End of story.
The older you get, the more you can tell.
How interesting! Thanks for sharing your story.
The Bible GIVES us Unfailing Wisdom; and it is Because it is From a Loving and All Wise, and Perfect Creator (Proverbs 30:5; John 3:16; 1 John 4:8); and “The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it (Proverbs 27:12).
Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me. Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him Only.’ Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him (Matthew 4:8-11).
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are. “Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’ You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’ You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it. “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisees! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started! “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation” (Matthew 23:13-36).
The West Have an Anal and Paedophile and Perverted Deviant Agenda; and Are looking to Rid the Earth of Religion, and Are in Contact with their “partners” in Russia who they Can Use, Because these Want Decency and Human Rights for the Innocent; and I Seriously Advice Russia to Lift the ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses; and Release All Wrongly imprisoned Jehovah’s Witnesses; “And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve (2 Corinthians 11:14,15), and “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed” (Ephesians 4:19).
The truth comes out : thank’s a lot. Fantastic to read. So, my soul is living in the sphere of saker. Every time. I’m living in Sweden and it is well-known for everybody that here goes out the nobel prize spectacle every 10 of december and it goes nearly every time to americans. It’s a completely stupid world. For now on I will create a new section of the nobel price and that is : the nobel prize for truthtelling. And the winner is : The Saker. (Every year ) ! Today I read from the state television that the israelis have been attacking military facility in Gaza. And at the same time the russians have attacked civilians in Ucraine. It’s amazing how the truth is transformed to completely lie. The palestinians civil society is not under any kind of attack,but only their military. What a bunch of lies! Have you ever seen the palestinians having an army? The israelis saying that all palestinians are an army. What a bunch of lies. The ucranians are so civilians. In Sweden we never hear of any Ucranians wear military clothes.Russians are killing civilians every day in Ucraine. What a bunch of lies. Thank yoy Saker for telling us the truth.
And I went around feeling bad because my ancestors were Vikings, I fell not so bad now ;)
We’ll be 8 billion people on Earth very soon, an achievement very much due to the exploit of crude oil.
Reading Batiushka’s text made me think what will be necessary (among barbarians and all) to reach this Free Alliance of Sovereign Peoples, all borders rectified.
Maybe is Earth itself figting for balance, equilibrium; maybe “To Hell” will be the outcome, the solution to return a massive amount of hydrocarbons (petroleum) back into the ground very fast.
I remember one day, strolling in Eilat, seeing those people carrying too much gold in their necks, speaking “bar bar”, it sounded like they were pretending to kill each other when in fact, if I could understand their language, they were talking about happiness, even love (who knows if they know what love is?)
I just wish we could have a clear sense of what is in fact necessary to restore Earth’s balance ourselves, find the “Not to Hell” solution and proceed in that direction. If not, there won’t be many of us left to see the mountain of skulls while this beautiful planet remineralizes itself, frankly.
If the hidden controllers of this planet hadn’t suppressed Nikola Tesla’s discoveries and inventions, keeping them for their exclusive, covert use, our world would never have been very dependent on crude oil. Moreover, the resultant prosperity and abundance created by the availability of nearly free energy and other Tesla inventions, if properly shared, would have almost certainly resulted in a much lower and happier global population.
I ran into the word “farang” in Thai, and wondered at its etymology. I thought perhaps it was how the word “foreign” sounded to them. Now I know the real story. Nice article.
All good stuff but a curious lacuna on the expansion by conquest of Islam along with enthusiastic enslavement into the lands of those “aggressive Europeans”, indeed only being reversed at Tours/Poitiers and at the gates of Vienna. ‘West versus the Rest’ is a little over-simplified when the Rest can be divided further in very significant ways. Merely suggesting some qualification of an otherwise interesting piece.
Isn’t strange that every year the Charlemagne Prize is awarded for work done in the service of “European unification”?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne_Prize
The current winner of this prize is Zelensky of course and the first person to be awarded this was none other than Coudenhove-Kalergi.
Is it possible that these “Franks” have kept their expansionist dreams alive all of this time?
I didn’t read your article , but I’ll suggest a new name for brics +++
GFSC
The greater free Sovereign countries.
America must of course be excluded…
Regards
I disagree.
The USA under Trump and his supporters will be an integral part of the new genuinely free world coming; just as Putin and Xi and their supporters will be.
So pretty much everyone who was not Russian was a Frank?
Wow….
What about those Rus viking who tried to invade Norway, Sweden, Etc. I am sure they were just on a “Special Military Operation”.
I am Celt/Scandi so no fan of the Pope or the English or French but this article is pure agitprop.
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How about BRICS+ ….
In all that its is notable the Romans were never able or willing to take over Russia because the climate and the strong tribes there despite the fact they knew there was things there they could use. Same with Germany where the most of troublemakers were.
Nor did Alexander the Great in Classical Greece.
It was to far and too hard. In the end in fact they had to change their capitol to Constantinople to meet the northern foes.
Lessons of the past have not been learned.
Batiushka dreams of a world where all ethnicities have their own cultural, political state. But this is a recipe for endless conflict between states. And for a new empire emerging.
Empires emerge when charismatic military leaders see the possibility of uniting disparate tribes into one, large, invincible conquering army. This is the history of all Chinese civilizations (centripetal empires cycling with centrifugal war lord states), the history of the ancient Mideast, of Greece, Rome and the Western empires and of the New World Aztec, Inca and Olmec empires.
As conquest moves forward, smaller, disparate tribes join the imperial juggernaut for plunder, for adventure, for power derived from the superior power of the whole.
Are humans better off in smaller, closed, ethnic, cultural, tribal systems? Is this even possible given global technology? Batiushka doesn’t consider any of this. He is too focused on hatred of all things “Western” and naïve hope for the New Multipolar World Order.
Without a major change in human social-political-economic realities, we’re destined to replace one empire (the chaotic, savage, currently insane empire of the West) with a new empire with China-Russia or whomever as hegemon.
Meet the new boss.. same as the old boss. Or.. nuclear holocaust, a very real possibility.