Trump’s myth attracts my attention regardless of how true it is. Not because I’m attracted to it per se – it’s too cartoonish for me –, but because “draining the swamp” is sorely needed. There is corruption aplenty in every nation on earth. How could it be otherwise; power corrupts. Power attracts those who hunger for power, a civilisational dynamic we must live with. So evidence of voter fraud, properly exposed, would flush out much corruption. So much so, in fact, that few of the horrifically partisan mass-media outlets, social and conventional, will escape unwounded, and many might perish. – Me in November 2020
I thought the bizarro world of lockdowns would be enough to wake people up. I was wrong. I thought the stolen 2020 election would be enough. I was wrong. I think Russia beating Ukraine will be enough. Let's see what happens.
The pressure is mounting. The West's very long-term investment in Project Ukraine looks to be at the edge of collapse. Foolishly, vainly, Trump managed to convince himself over the course of a sweet little golf putt that he could art-of-the-deal his way to a Big Beautiful Peace Settlement between Russia and Ukraine and make beautiful photo-op headlines shaking hands with Putin. He also managed not to notice that the US is basically running the war against Russia, and managed not to notice that Putin has all the good cards. But that's what President Trump managed to believe, and this is the supper he will dine on for the next few years.
The EU (primarily France and Germany) and the UK are deeply into Ukraine with both feet, both hands, the whole of their drooling mouths, and all of their future monies. It could not be a more hideously monstrous and tragic catastrophe. If they don't succeed, they die. So these inbred, deranged co-belligerents are doing their pathocratic best to inflame matters into WWIII, and thereby bomb everything to rubble, to then make mo money rebuilding the world and taking control of Russian subsoil assets.
BUT! What did Trump just promise Putin, for Putin to suggest to the President of the nation he is more or less at war with – the nation that is keeping Ukraine in the fight against Russia – so that Putin would help Trump out with his Iran negotiations?
What does President Trump have to offer President Putin other than staying out of Putin's way? I suggest that it is a reasonable guess that if Trump stays out of Russia's way while Russia does what it feels it must in Ukraine, Putin will then, and only then, help Trump out in his negotiations with Iran.
Which is but one part of why The West* is sounding even more screechtastic than it has of late. The UK, France and Germany cannot prevail against Russia without the US. The US cannot prevail in its national and international ambitions without Russia. The pathocratic neocon faction in the US cannot survive without toppling Putin and somehow driving a wedge between Russia and China, to then be able to fatally weaken both by all means foul and fouler, to then one day live happily ever after with their Beautiful Global Hegemony bride. Yes, the shrill needle is all the way over to the right, at the very far end of its red warning band ... whereupon Musk and Trump jump head first into the fray to entertain us all with their multibillion-dollar playground spat. Nice.
Back in 2020, I had the strongest intuition that Trump represented an opportunity for bursting The West's self-aggrandising myths, but wasn't able to articulate it clearly enough. Since I started listening to The Duran, Scott Ritter, Garland Nixon, Glenn Diesen, and several others from that big-tent assemblage, and reading very broadly on geopolitics and political ponerology, the detailed nature of that intuition has become much clearer to me. What is far less clear, is to what degree the rot that is The West is global, and thus to what degree its imminent demise will drag everyone else down with it. There is so much that is wrong on planet Earth right now, I dread to think how bad the situation really is.
But anyway, the masks are off. Again! Lower than ever before. Might it be that this time the ugliness that lies behind what has become of the West will stink too badly to ignore? Is a sufficient percentage of the West's citizens capable of identifying that stink, and then wanting to do something positive about it?
Time will tell. And I don't think there's very much time left before we find out.
* By "The West" I mean those Western establishments – intelligence, financial, political, media, education, etc. – that are fundamentally pathocratic, deranged, and fighting for their miserable lives. I do not mean the West, that delightful mix of cultures and traditions I love so much.
7 comments:
Its long overdue to finally depart from the conviction that the West can drag the World into demise. The West tried to build Russia and China and lots of other places according to its values. Result? Failed miserably. What the West is actually doing in Ukraine now is fighting for its existence as an geopolitical, demographic and cultural entity. And dear President Trump is doing a lot to speed this process up even if he tries to kinda slow it down with one hand. The West should behave like Israel to Iran if it wants to put a fight for its own cultural survival.
Hi Игры рынка,
I think it's clear that the West can drag itself into its demise; that's what civilisations do, periodically, sometimes terminally. I hope you are correct about its inability to thoroughly poison humanity's deep cultural well, but the insanity of the various western power groups is such that I still cannot rule out a nuclear conflagration. Short of that, I suspect you're perspective is sound.
It is all good with one terminal flaw - it is not the West who wants a nuclear WWIII. What do we do then? Give everything up and surrender? If this is our destine, why do we even try to protect our borders or whatever else we try to do. I see a clear contradiction.
I strongly suspect elements of the West believe they can win a nuclear war. I'm not aware of non-western powers that have nuclear weapons who want or believe the same thing. But this could go beyond such beliefs or expectations and become a runaway historical process that drags nuclear powers into a nuclear war. In the end, therefore, it doesn't really matter who starts it, because everyone will lose. What will we do then? We will die.
There are always and definitionally elements of all colours because this is the West. It does not matter whether you are aware today or not because again by definition it will be too late to become aware to defend our survival. Unfortunately, we are strongly and confidently on the trajectory of awareness of other parties being ready to win a nuclear war. Look at Israel. They do not want the awareness of Iran being ready to win a nuclear war against them. It is existential.
Agreed. But I include Israel in my understanding of "the West". Israel is an expression of the West's geopolitical need to dominate West Asia as one vital pillar of its hegemonic addictions / structural compulsions.
Yes, Israel is the West but they told everyone else to f-off because they picked a fight instead of becoming aware. They did a lot to play along "lets not risk a ww3 etc blabla" until it was too much, namely October 2023. If hamas had launched 2 years later, it might have been too late for all of us and we *all* would be aware. If Ukraine did not put a fight, we *all* would be probably a couple of months away from becoming aware.
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