Some miscellaneous Euroweinie
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and no worries about the lack of hot water this winter.
There was some discussion in the comments on Larry’s recent post about whether the rulers of the West could really be as stupid as they appear to be.
The short answer is this – how have things been going in the West since the “unipolar moment”? Are we all happier healthier and richer? Is the Western world better off? Stronger? More peaceful? Longer-lived? Of course it isn’t. Not better and actually worse for most. The conclusion is inescapable – either the West’s rulers have seriously screwed it up or they actually want it to be this way.
We’ll explore the first possible answer. (Maybe we are ruled by lizardoid aliens or a cabal of greedy bankers – given the last three decades you can’t rule it out but, following Hanlan’s Razor, I’ll stick with stupid).
Or whatever word you would apply to someone who believes that the Russian Army needs your dishwasher to make hyper-sonic missiles. And even if she doesn’t believe it but says it anyway, what’s the word for that? Surely some variant of stupid.
Here we are in September 2022 looking down the barrel of the Russian gun, doubling down on support for a corrupt regime in a bankrupt failed state infested with Nazis, running out of weapons, facing economic decline (collapse even – name an industry that doesn’t need energy or a person that doesn’t need food), a cold winter, rising inflation. Does that sound like something designed by smart people? And it didn’t just suddenly happen – it’s been building for years.
Arrogance and stupidity. Our rulers live in a tongue-bath of pleasing illusion. Russia is weak and feeble but we are strong and mighty. Putin is a dictator surrounded by hungry under-bosses but we are democratic leaders of free populations. He kills people but we do humanitarian bombing. The Russian economy desperately needs the money it makes selling energy to Europe but we can easily turn the thermostat down a bit for a month or two and bankrupt it. As a former Austrian water-colorist once said “You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down”.
Crashing Russia will be easy. It doesn’t make anything – gas station masquerading as a country. rapidly aging and shrinking population – Weak Country with a Nuclear Arsenal – Russia’s Weak Strongman – Russia’s Strength Is Its Weakness. And lots more where those came from. As Hitler said, just one kick – stop buying their gas, they’ll hang Putin and come crawling back.
Our rulers have been surrounded for years by people telling them this. Anyone who said that Russia has a big and very self-sufficient economy, that Putin is quite popular and at least half of his critics think he’s too soft, that money from gas sales to Europe are nice but there are lots of other customers, that you can’t be secure unless the other guy feels secure – what happened to them? You know the answer. They never got the chance to tell the bosses this and they never got in the door. And, when they did say these things – on the fringes far away from “trusted sources” and “fact checkers” – they were condemned as Putin apologists and their social media accounts were blocked. After all you can’t give a platform to disinformation when there’s so much real information from real experts like Martin Walker who told us in 2006 “But strategically, Russia’s real weaknesses are getting worse and its non-oil economy is lagging ever further behind its Indian and Chinese rivals.” Stupid or smart, the bosses were only told one thing by everyone who got to them and year after year they ignored all the counter evidence. That’s stupid. But it’s pleasing, especially to mediocre minds, to be told that you’ve got both might and right in your corner and your skillful management and nuanced understanding deserve another pay raise. For years, the same old stuff, over and over amplified and repeated – just one kick.
A couple of days ago stupid became really stupid.
Or, following Einstein, should we start saying insane?
Great insights.
I’d love to think that they know it’s all lies and that it’s just geopolitical grandstanding.
Sadly, however – and more worrying – I think that they believe it’s all true.
To me, we are witnessing collective narcissism. Psychiatric illness. This phenomenon is recognised by leading psychiatrists.
It’s a small group, an elite, operating in a hall of mirrors in which they can gaze at their own reflections and those of each other, in mutual admiration.
Not only do they believe it’s all true, they NEED to believe it is true. Why?
Because they’ve also been told and believe that they are morally and intellectually superior to everyone else. The greatest, most progressive and advanced humans to have ever lived.
If Russia wasn’t the lowly vodka swilling peasant nation, it would threaten this deluded sense of superiority, that these weirdos have.
They can’t control what’s happened with Ukraine, and they can’t control Putin, who is exposing them 24/7. That’s why they are so unhinged, fearful and pathological in their non-stop lying.
Just my ten cents.
we have been trained by our western psychocracy over decades that you can just use your loudest megaphones to socially construct anything – and then trick, bribe or force people into believing it – or at least to obedience-signal that they are believing it… and voila – your fantasy becomes ‘relity’…
That’s how cults operate. Reality does not matter and obedience signalling is all that counts.
there are ways to make people more ‘receptive’ to cults: make them desperate, poor, disoriented, without a clear sense of self, isolated etc.. basically the America I know from having spent many years in LA, SF, DC, Chicago.
All these factors also tend to make us less intelligent literally – according to a book called I think YOur Brain at Work, we are literally less intelligent when we feel a lack of Safty, Conectedness, Autonomy, when our status is deflating etc…all the things actively promoted by our psychocracy of EU and 5Eye moder day MORDOR countries.
“make them desperate, poor, disoriented, without a clear sense of self, isolated etc..”
This sounds similar to what the Khmer Rouge communist style brainwashing like what Pol pot dished out in 1977 Cambodia. People learn how bloody wonderful the West is and just how badly they will fuck up your life if you displease them.
Historically Russia has made tremendous contributions in many areas: music, science, literature to name just a few. It is also true that the West has made lasting contributions. What is happening in the West now is propelled by the US. The dying giant syndrome. The US can read the writing on the wall. Decline of America is historically inevitable. To add to the historical tide a lot of injuries are self inflicted. Americans have been totally brain washed to beileve that they are exceptopnal and their “Raj” will never end. The wolves are just outside the door–China the giant has woken up. India another giant is making rapid progress. Russia is not as weak as the US told us it was.
In the Astrophysics term the US is a Red Dwarf -dying star-slowly but surely. It will drag as many as it can in it struggle to remain a hegemon. Europeans are slaves to the US. It is unreasonable to expect them to challenge the US. So we are at this abyss! The beginning of the dark age for the West
red dwarfs are quite long lived though. And nobody sane can want that thing to continue. Let’s hope it ends as a supernova and ends as a nebula .
too bad we’re all going to be in the house when reality kicks the door in; huh?
Precisely.
Let’s hope they don’t become unhinged and dangerous to humankind when all of mirrors shatter..
I deem it very good and sensible cents, Scipion.
They suspect in back subconscioness it ‘s all BS but that is vastly overwhelmed by their collective narcisism and swim in a sea of self atributed superiority.
Seems that beside watchin the geo-political lanscape all around, you do study and practice amateurish psychiatry in your spare time. Which is pretty good hobby no doubt.
I think our fearless leaders violated the first rule of the drug lords “you sell the crap, you don’t consume it.” I suspect they sold so much industrial-grade propaganda, it boomeranged on them and they began to truly believe their own lies.
Larry, I would agree with Einstein. The European leaders are insane and stupid. These people actually believe the lies they tell the people and I don’t think that they can any more tell the difference from reality and fantasy. They should all be committed. I fear that before they have a chance to check themselves into an asylum that they will find themseleves swinging from lamp posts.
I’ll supply the rope…..
From my windows, a field of pretty very solid street lamps…
don’t forget to bring the soap,to grease the rope.
The desire to destroy Putin and his country even at the expense of your own countrymen I think you have to add evil to insane.
Evil is enough. Insane is a copout or at best a metaphor for horribly unethical behavior. They chose the evil they are and have been committing.
We ain’t right and we don’t have enough might.
I do think you’re giving “the bosses” too much benefit of the doubt!
DC must be overthrown by any and all means. Period.
nothing clever to say – just feel really bad about all this. thanks for saying it out loud.
Well, this is a really easy question. The answer is yes. Stupid is as stupid does.
The current EU Commission, it’s like there isn’t a grown-up in the room. They behave like a clique of spoilt kids in a playground, ganging up on the kid they don’t like, calling him names, thinking of new ways to be mean. But he’s a big kid and they’re too cowardly to actually have a go.
It seems to me, one of the (many) fatal flaws of the EU is that Member States have no way to sack commissioners once they’ve been appointed. Were it my call I’d sack the lot of them and start again.
They are acting out a narrative, a pretense, doing what they are told to do by big finance, when your in debt over your head you do what your Bank wants you to do. The rest is just a big corporate raid on Russia/China/EU and anywhere else in the world where commodities are found, in the search for ownership of commodities with real world value once paper money is made worthless by financial collapse, triggered by stupid politicians/electorates who used to believe in money tree miracles rather than the real world.
Can’t sack em by design! This isn’t a democratic organization, why would you assume its interests align with that paradigm?
The EU Commission can actually be sacked but it requires Politicians with spines . Back in 1999 the Commission resigned before they could be sacked .
Exactly. They get big EU bribes and they sell out their sovereignty to some unelected bureaucrats. People sit at home and don’t bother what is happening. Now they are all trapped. The EU has decided to go all in against Russia and lost. The pain will grow and it may get very ugly on the streets soon. People will gather and protest. But it is already too late in my opinion. Europe will become the next ghetto of the world. Germany will lead.
These people, such as on the EU Commission, are not leaders, they are middle-level functionaries (i.e. flunkies). So yeah they are stupid enough to believe what they are told to do. But if you end your thought experiment with them, solely, then you’ve missed the whole operation. The ones you have to be fearful of are the evil ones behind the scenes.
I don’t know about stupid but way the MIC and all government contracts are you better play stupid if you wanna survive. The “deep state” literally swims in trillions of tax payer and borrowed dollars to lie about how well things are working – whatever it is. At the EPA or DoD. If you rock the boat kiss your career, congressional seat, stars on your shoulders, board position at Lockheed – however you’re integrated into the system, goodbye.
I worked for .gov 30 years and held my tounge to but didnt rise because I couldn’t lie.. (actually 26 years bought my last 4 so I could GTFO early)
The plan to bleed Russia and disconnect the EU from Russia and China only has greed behind it! Or if we prefer American exceptionalism. Stupid was the guy from the sound bite at the gas pump who met with Ukrainian neo-Nazis but said he was a great Democrat in the US Senate.
The issue is not the US that has been doing the same for 75 years. The question is how Europe fell into this trap. With countries heavily indebted and with the EU trojan in Brussels. How does NATO stop when American leaders go to Europe they don’t need to sleep in two hotels. And with weak leaders like the German liver sausage who went to the White House to be told he can’t open Nord Stream II to an old man with Alzheimer’s. But tomorrow’s election in Italy could already start to change a lot in Europe!
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/11/13/how-the-cia-created-the-eu/
Where is Forrest Gump when you need him? “Stupid is as stupid does”. I know a whole raft of clever people who believe any amount of bovine excrement about Putin, Russia despite ample evidence to the contrary. Ultimately without their suspended disbelief we might have voted our cretinous leaders out of office.
I somehow noticed the cities in America are starting to look like third world cities. I imagine just as soon as the Big Corps., Bankers and the Elites suck the last drop of blood from the people, steal the wealth and collapse the markets. This parasite will move on the next host country, maybe China. That seems to be the next global money sink. Then they will give the nod to let loose the hounds of hell, (nukes). Then America and it’s rotten cities full of welfare folks and the mid country full of gun totters and all debt will be cleansed by fire. And who cares if the gas station, (Russia) is irradiated. They can still pump the oil and gas from these wells. Problem Solved. We’ll never beat them because they can buy too many who has any power to confront them. I’ve watched them buy off or destroy everyone who even leaned towards protecting the little man. Many past Presidents and other people who loved America have warned us of what would happen if this got out of hand. And now big tech. has taken away any voice that rises to sound the warning. So most people, not us here. But most people are lambs led to the slaughter. And some of the rest are the sheepherders paid to cut our throat.
I noticed the same thing a decade or longer ago.
San Francisco has been full of homeless drug addicts (many are veterans of America’s imperial wars I was told), streets filled with used syringes, piss, shit etc – it literally looks and smells like a giant open air toilet.
I’ve been taking photos of such scenes at least since 2006 to send to my European friends. I once counted 12 young (all white) people injecting heroin on sidewalks of SF as I walked from the top of Russian Hill to SF Opera one day at around 2 pm I think. People passing by just behaved as nothing was happening. Only German tourists were really shocked. This was I think 6 or so years ago.
It’s been this way for many years – I have seen it with my own eyes everywhere I lived in USA – SF, LA (and I lived in best parts of town), Chicago, Honolulu etc etc…when it does not rain in SF for a long time- the whole city smells like piss. And I noticed they only ever clean one side of the road in SF. So syringess stay there forever. USA has been a hellhole for a while.
Yes, unless BRICS+ takes away the USD gravy train.
Repudiation of the USD and global acceptance of an alternative reserve “currency” stops the money flow and the corruption that it buys.
Ding ding ding we have a winner.
The USD is being decoupled from other currencies worldwide at a rate not yet seen.
Russia and China have been working towards this end for decades, and they know they can succeed which is why we are where we are.
For those who say “but, China needs us to buy all their stuff”, think for a moment about the fact we are only 4% of the worlds population. China has been developing other foreign markets for their export for years.
Thinking China needs us is just another example of American arrogance. When we lose the dollar reserve status, we’ll be as globally significant as Zimbabwe.
You claim that most people are lambs led to the slaughter and yet you decry people who tote guns…? Not a very consistent level of logic…
Victoria Nuland, 61, the Russia-hating zealot, the most public face of US “policy” viz. Russia Federation, according to Internet sources lists her as 5’5″ or 5’7″ and 145 lbs. to 150 lbs.
Does this look like 145 lbs. to 150 lbs. [66KG to 68KG]?
https://mobile.twitter.com/UnderSecStateP/status/1573457181961224203
Since her number one job is to enforce false and dangerous and deadly and catastrophic narratives — deploying military grade propaganda — to lie to us, deceive us. . . .the Americans for whom she is supposed to work for — one should look at her: and feel free to give back as “good” as she.
Her behavior has been atrocious for a long time.
And since NYTimes, CNN, CBS, NBC, WAP, WSJ, Fox, etc. have no problem contributing to her effort to make it socially unacceptable to even discuss her murderous, blood-soaked “diplomatic” record — and more on point: her job to make it verboten for it to be socially acceptable to discuss, rationally, what she, in our name: is doing, with war now between USA and Russia, — take a good look at her.
Does she look 145 lbs. 150lbs.?
https://www.france24.com/en/20140207-ukraine-usa-eu-nuland-leaked-audio
She is a traitor to our country and belongs in a penal colony — her, one of scores in our government and in other walks of life. . . selling out our country.
She is what treason looks like
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psychopaths especially the ones from her ‘cultural’ background are natural traitors – they have as much loyalty as say HIV or syphilis.
Yeah yeah, The JOOS dunnit. But a lot of the big time neocons who got us into this mess are not. Zbig for one. All those ex-nazis in the League of Captive Nations. Cheney. and lots of others. It’s more than that.
Ok, I will bite.
So, if this Nuland witch is not representing the USA’s interests, just whose interests is she representing and advancing, exactly? Who is Nuland, who is she married to, and who are they connected to? follow the thread, folks.
A clue can be found in reading “The Controversy of Zion” by Douglas Reed, available for free, online, here: https://www.controversyofzion.info/Controversybook/reeedcontrov.pdf
In the opinion of this very humble farm labourer who sometimes dabbles in investigative work for paid reward this book is a key to opening the door to the creaking eddifice that is about to crumble. A long and very determined campaign has been waged over the last 150 or so years to pursue what a small, very narcissistic cult see as their god given right to treat all other humans as livestock. Reed lays it out in meticulous detail, well researched and supported by footnotes. It is the final effort of a stellar career as a journalist, back when it was a profession to be proud of. It was never published in print, because no publisher was ever brave enough to stand up to the threats made. Thanks to the internet, it is now available to all. It is not an “anti-semitic” rant, it is a clear and concise account of a series of actions and their consequences leading to the creation of the state of Isreal, detailing the participants, their victims, their means, motives and methods. Once understood these means, motives and methods can be easily identified when observing the actions of the likes of Nuland.
Yes, maybe it is “ Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”, but it could also be what Goebbels said – a lie repeated a thousand times will become true….for everybody, even those who lied……
Thank you for this article.
A more recent phenomenon is the Left’s penchant for believing their words change reality. It’s similar to repeating a lie through the creation of stories–The Narrative, repeated. Called “influence operations,” the idea that outcomes can be manipulated with propaganda by influencing the behavior resulting in the outcome.
It worked with panic porn during SARS-2, while compliant behavior is one thing, battlefield outcomes with opposing forces are another.
The creation of stories-the Narrative is shaped based on the planning for an event. The event needs to be created or incentivized to happen by some crazies and then that created story/narrative is than used as the explanation for that event. When the real explanation for what happened is never revealed.
Kind of like how people once believed the sun rotated around the earth, until a few questioned what they observed and figured out the actual nature of the universe and the forces which predicted those events.
“Our rulers live in a tongue-bath of pleasing illusion”. I salute this jewel of prose. Made my day!
We had a Canadian clown for a prime minister in the midst of a serious flu outbreak tell us on television that this horrible pandemic was a horrible thing ….in light of the ramifications of failed medical policies that crippled the economy and destroyed civil rights and charter protection…..but it was a good thing because it would usher in a Great Reset that would build back better. So if the actions of the collective west is destructive and seemingly stupid…..I suggest the actions are well thought out and designed to collapse the entire rotten structure……which means our beloved leaders are at war with their constituents ultimately
in light of the ramifications of failed medical policies that crippled the economy
Juristiction: Almost all medical policies are provincial. Blame a bunch of idiot premiers like Ford or Moe. Raving idiots like Scheer and Singh must have missed or slept through that lecture in law school.
If the federal government dad wanted to do anything they would have had to bring in the Emergencies Act in about April 2020 and keep renewing it and not just when they did to get those mad right wingers , religious nut cases, and those few duped real truckers out of Ottawa away from the border crossings.
A great article. Also great was Larry’s Roundtable which I read after writing an article with similar opinions for Substack and Medium– and which caused me to revise the article to direct readers to this site. https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/how-the-west-was-won-russias-victory Larry’s articles are in contrast to Scott Ritter’s which reflects the difference in backgrounds. Johnson was a CIA analyst, which means he was trained to look outside the box. Ritter was trained in the Marine Corps, which means he was indoctrinated in American military philosophy — and that shows in his mis-assessments of the Russian strategy and capabilities and American military aid to the Ukrainians, which he calls a “game changer”. Yeah, it changes the game — to the disadvantage of the EU and the US, who are emptying the public purse to no purpose. It aint 2012. The Russians have technological military superiority.
Ritter’s assessments have been spot on. In essence they don’t contradict Larry’s either though there may be differences in detail and focus.
I don’t think “they” are stupid, across the board. The political strata certainly, in part, though clearly many of them are still willing to spout big (stupid) lies in the service of their sponsor’s agenda. I think the rest are just part of the well oiled, well paid MIC, which has quite brilliantly created a massive arms void by disposing of all those obsolete soviet arms in Nato hands, by shoveling them into the Ukraine maelstrom, requiring massive replacements with modern “Nato Standard” (ie: largely American) weapons systems, at the same time – emptying the US weapons stocks and requiring stock replacements there as well. Almost as good as selling to both sides, but you can’t have everything.. not that they’re not trying. Cui bono usually answers the question, why?
Winner winner chicken dinner!!!!!!
Spot on good Sir, just one part of the plan….
MIC has been a tool of very wealthy elites who desire global economic dominance. These folks have the wherewithal to buy entire governments, referring to our very own.
The WEF is one aspect of their overall ambitions.
We don’t have to guess at this Davos has admitted to the great reset many times. Depopulation has been a part of their plan for decades.
Stupidity yes, evil yes, but you gotta follow the money. The desire for money corrupts, it’s just that simple.
The problem is not one of stupidity or malice, but of philosophy. The ruling elites, most of them educated in modern western humanities, follow a philosophy called constructivism. They believe that there is no objective reality but that reality is created by perception. They believe that reality can be changed by changing the perception of something.
This is the explanation why there are suddenly 78 genders. If you believe that the existence of two biological sexes it not objective reality but just a perception created by biologists, then you can change reality by creating a different perception.
Thus inside of this philosophical framework reality can be changed if you have enough power to change the perception of a sufficient amount of people. That is the philosophy underlying Carls Rowes famous quote “we are an empire now, we create our own reality”.
So the political elites of the west do not think that their job is to recognize objective realities and then develop strategies to optimize a certain outcome in the given frame of reality. Instead they think (and that is certainly megalomaniac) that their job is to shape reality according to their political ideology.
That explains why for the Ukrainian side PR victories are more important than real gains on the battlefield. It also explains why they are so obsessed to control the media and the education system, because those are major handles to control how people perceive the world.
Since this is a question of philosophy, philosophy will tell us what the outcome is. Famous conservative philosopher Ayn Rand, fully aware of the megalomaniac ideology that creeped into once well educated western elites said “you can ignore reality, but you can not ignore the consequences of reality”.
And those consequences are hitting everywhere. In Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Ukraine, economically, in Brexit, in the MAGA movement. Western elites are simply unable to recognize that there are forces in this world they can not control and that either have to find a way to coexist or they will get destroyed. In their world they can shape reality by just lying hard enough.
In this context you often hear the quote of Joseph Goebbels, that people will believe every lie if repeated often enough. The western elites who follow this strategy tend to forget that Goebbels lies created a house of cards that came down when soviet troops raised the soviet flag above the heaps of rubble that once was the city of Berlin.
There is much truth in those words. Notice how reality comes to bite their bums now and again. The fantasies spun about the Ukraine conflict will not be able to stand up to the physical expulsion of Ukrainian troops from the Donbass and reality will bite once again. The most effective philosophical approach to this BS is scepticism. Doubt everything, as Descartes said. And heed what the great sceptic David Hume said: ‘A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence’. Hume lived some of his life at Chirnside in the Scottish Borders; not far from here. There has never been a time when scepticism and agnosticism have been needed more. Brainwashed people are our worse enemies because they think they know when they do not know.
Yessir, winner winner chicken dinner for you, too!!! Excellent, YOU get it.
“They believe that there is no objective reality but that reality is created by perception.”
Mass media ‘entertainment’ and commercials strongly support this. I’ve long thought that the leftists making programming decisions believe that if they simply put their happy, prosperous multicultural vision on the idiot box and have it pounded again and again and again into the viewers, that utopia will somehow magically instantiate. I’ve seen it referred to as ‘deep programming’, but I don’t recall the source. (Unconstrained Analytics?)
That’s a lot of words to say : they’re
godless.
I would draw an analogy between Western politicians to junkies. They are hooked on fakes news and false narratives they fabricated in the first place for political aka financial benefits for themselves and their maters aka The Deep State. Deep down their mind and during rare sane moments junkies do know that this shit is doing them no good. But since they are deeply hooked on this stuff for so long they would only double down on the dosage over time. Only two things can stop them, their own destruction or shock therapy. Russia is helping them on both.
honestly i always debate this with myself, since largely the people I know haven’t the least bit of clue as to how thoroughly the world has gone off the rails, malice or stupidity. I never really come to conclusions. I suspect there are elements of both. For instance I think legendary a-holes like Soros and Gates for instance most certainly have more malice than stupidity, while Jester Biden is a toss up, and your run of the mill plebe shouting about racism while advocating for it are just plain dumb. But what I find hard to fathom is how the class of stupid has pulled from the class of intelligent people to make them completely fail to recognize what is going on. I mean I read mishtalk and he posted some of the most basic retard propaganda out there the other day and I was blown away… he seems to clearly have an idea about so much of the reality of whats going on but somehow he posted something that my 6 year old could debunk. wtf how does that happen? it blows me away.
But I also find this failing in some of the very most knowledgeable about everything geopolitic… the ones who only see the pure stupidity of the ruling class. There is an overwhelming silence or malunderstanding of peak oil and it makes even the most based understandings I can find outside of that movement itself, severely lacking. They completely ignore the potentiality that some of the higher ups in these mini and various cabals have identified the long term downtrend of fuel and therefore economy, and have convinced their greentard lemmings to voluntarily give the MIC the remaining fossil fuels (the opposite is the rightards who think oil is abiotic and lasts forever). Putin and Xi don’t seem interested in surrendering their fossil fuels to the WEF for the 500 year Reich of champagne and caviar. The western puppets seem happy the lap up the dripping fluids of the ‘in the know’. The populace is completely in the dark. The midterm prospects for the entirety of civilization are dangerous, and long term collapse is coming without clear rational leaders to direct our actions with dignity.
Same here: the current geopolitical situation is so insane, reckless, and mind-boggling that one really does wonder what on earth is going on. But I agree with your statement: some in the elite are acting very much in a calculated and very sinister ways; others are just the court jesters distracting the masses.
Last night I listened to Alexander Mercouris on Youtube: “Russia Storming Bakhmut Suburb Zaitsevo, Mobilisation Continues; US Giving Moscow Nuclear Warnings” and he made some very interesting points. He appears himself to be at least partially perplexed about the West’s very aggressive diplomacy.
As I’m understanding the situation now (following Mercouris thinking), it seems to me that the USA and in particular the current administration is just fueling the fire by all means to force both Russia and China into a greater conflict. Why? China’s might is growing, while the West including USA is steadily losing ground. Actually China’s GDP adjusted on PPP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)) is already substantially ahead of USA. So there’s talk of a “window of opportunity” (whether from China side, or USA side, according to the media’s spin). Point is that some people out there may think that it’s now or never.
Hence the crazy mad dash (?). In any case, we shouldn’t underestimate any side and we must remain vigilant and awake, lest the night catches us asleep.
“we must remain vigilant and awake, lest the night catches us asleep.”
Excellent advice on sleep deprivation if you want to increase disorientation and stress levels even when restricted to nights, which likely will delay, but not avoid, the disorientation and stress outcomes.
“Point is that some people out there may think that it’s now or never.”
I think this is even more true for military human resources. A substantial portion of legacy Americans (the most capable portion, I suspect) are opting out of military service. The Globalist American Empire is not going to win any wars against peer or superior opponents if loyal, capable, and committed Americans are replaced with unassimilated aliens drawn from peoples with population-mean IQ’s in the 70’s and 80’s.
We can scream all day long that it is unfair that the world is the way it is, but we didn’t make it. We just live in it like everyone else. Equalitarianism is a lie. People are not fungible. Inequality in the world is one of God’s tests (choose to be either a sheep dog or a wolf) and leftists fail before they get out of the starting gate.
If you have a huge arsenal of weapons that are becoming obsolete and you don’t have any manufacturing capacity, what do you do? You see your adversaries getting stronger by the day and your one strength is propaganda, the ability to print money, pharma and digital communication, the natural nihilist strategy is to go for broke with what you have. That’s what’s happening. They’re not stupid.
The power of the US attracted, rewarded and cultivated a high concentration of psychopaths and a lot if groupthink. Crossing the Rubicon into decline we have all the wrong people in charge.
Mishtalk ?
Mish’s ethnic background blinds him to anything Russian. It’s an absolute mania with this ethnic group.
And when you add in the manipulations of a small group of people who are members of a cult whose ideological basis is that they are put on this earth to rule over the rest of us, and who have their agents either within, or corrupting governments in the west, then the whole shitshow just gets even more “interesting”.
Root cause failure analysis is a practice used in industry to determine why machinery fails. It demands the repeated asking of the question “WHY” until no further answer is forthcoming.
With respect to the above posts, i suggest, as humbly as is possible, that if one asks why one more time one can find people, like Nuland and her husband Kagan doing things that make no sense except when seen as pursuing the breakdown of existing structures in pursuit of a great resetting which will leave a “one world government” and guess who will be in control.
umm, how many us bases in occupied europe? no autonomous decisions there. impressive blog-thanks
“Cancel Culture”, “Disinformation”, “Echo Chamber”, ad nauseum. Books banned, non-narrative supporting views/facts/science/opinions/commentators deleted, deplatformed, defamed, criminalized or just plain silenced permanently. Entire races/people/religion/country demonized. Mr. Lavrov’s address to the UNGA makes interesting reading and feels a lot more authentic than Obama’s “Audacity of Hope” message that I fell for hook, line and sinker (younger, dumber and full of blah, blah, blah). I believe “There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee- that says, ‘Fool me once, shame … shame on you. Fooled me-you can’t get fooled again’…” by an allegedly former leader of the free world. Or, and this could (or not) be controversial, it’s just me that’s stupid.
I was taught in my way earlier years that the saying was “YOU FOOL ME ONCE YOU FOOL ME, YOU FOOL ME TWICE I AM A FOOL” more germane and apropos said that way methinks
I’ve always heard, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” By the way, I think Suresh was quoting a politician. I don’t know who it was. Biden, maybe?
Suresh was quoting W Bush.
W was trying to quote the saying here in the US “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
But halfway through, he forgot how it goes, so ad-libbed with “Well, I won’t get fooled again.”
The way my late mother expressed it was – “fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”
Hanlon’s Razor is all very well, but are we to throw out the principle of Qui Bono? If you believe that western leaders are representatives of their people, of course their policies seem stupid, but when you consider who benefits from them, they appear villainous instead. Of course, greed makes smart people do stupid things, so perhaps the solution is: Why Not Both?
The US will host european capital and finance once the EU is done with destroying all its economies through population mistreating (the disgusting lies of the « health crisis policies ») and industrial dismantling (sanctions against Russia being the pretext to the operation).
von der Leyen may be of German origin, but she has been brainwashed in the German-American young leaders (or some thing like that). She works for the corporations (her friendship with Bourla) and for the USA. In the same way, and for the same reasons, Macron’s mission is to dismantle France (selling its strategic industries, like Alstom, is enough proof of that).
Russia doesn’t make anything, it’s gas station masquerading as a country. It has a rapidly aging and shrinking population etc etc.
These ridiculous memes work on the majority of Westerners sadly because the have an attention span of a goldfish hence their laziness to research anything they are told. And worse still, you can verifiable evidence to them and most would just shrug it off.
When the topic of whether the rulers of the West are fools or villains comes up, I think of the speech by Miliukov in the Duma in 1916, where he listed a string of failures asking each time “Is this stupidity, or is this treason?”.
If you cannot tell the difference between malice and incompetence from the results, what does it matter? It might as well be malice and therefore needs to be treated with the urgency that malice demands.
Breaking: EU’s Josep Borrell warns that Putin is not bluffing about using Nukes, Borrell said that the European Union should take Putin’s warning about using nuclear weapons seriously. The politician proposes a search for a “diplomatic solution” that would suit all parties to the conflict.
Quite a change of tune from “we must defeat Russia on the battlefield” 😂😂
Borel first said that we need to be defeated on the battlefield.
Now, he is saying :
“There must be a diplomatic solution to the conflict that suits both sides”. Indeed, diplomatic solution exist. The unconditional surrender of Ukraine. That’s the only solution we accept now.
” Putin is not bluffing about using Nukes”
Of course not.
The nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation by way of Presidential decree no 355 of the 2nd of June 2020, entitled “On the fundamental of the state policy in the field of nuclear deterrence” was signed into law on the 3rd of June 2020.
An upgrade was made to include biological weapons, which probably gave rise to the Jewish lady who forgot the salt on Independence Square in February 2014 to increase her incontinence pad supplies in case she forgot.
All “interested” parties are aware of the nuclear doctrine of The Russian Federation and have been from 3rd of June 2020 onwards.
Never confuse conspiracy with incompetence!
Go work for the Government. You are surrounded by non competitive individuals employed by the “Dick Related” and or “Mates Rates,” $ystem.
Cannot get sacked, job for life and guaranteed wages.
No longer the situation in any NATO military.
The Russian Artillery just screwed that idea. No Navy can hide from a full production, hypersonic missile . The Fat35 is going to kill you if you fly too fast or fire the damned gun. The Guardians, God bless their little tight uniforms are locked down because of monkey pox.
Excellent article and the answer is,“Yes….. there is no conspiracy, there is no conspiracy at all .”
When “muscle America,” don’t show up any more on the building site or parade ground, it’s over America, it’s all over. The EU does not count.
Hold bullion, guns and ammo & learn to love sandwiches.
“Never confuse conspiracy with incompetence!”
https://soundcloud.com/pushbackshow/us-uk-sabotaged-peace-deal-because-they-dont-care-about-ukraine-fmr-nato-adviser
” since the “unipolar moment”? Are we all happier healthier and richer? Is the Western world better off? Stronger? More peaceful? Longer-lived?”
Well, you assume that they want the good of the people.
They -yes- are happier, richer, etc.
And they want to stay that way, by robbing their own people to maintain their declining profit rate.
That’s not what I call “stupid”.
What is stupid is to believe that they are, when they have organized their own world, where nobody can interfere. The plundering of democracy is working well, without the people flinching: no more unions, no more real education, no more ability to think, systematic destruction of organizations that were working quite well (education system, health system, energy system, etc.), destruction of newspapers.
They are not stupid, they have organized themselves and pay a lot of money so that the people can be crushed.
They are not stupid: look where they are and where we are, and if we can reach them.
Yes, they are as stupid as that.
Since the emergence of the despicable worthless creature known as the Career Politician, there is nobody in the political class with any independent track record of achievement or success in industry, commerce, professions or the skilled trades. They are ignorant, sub-standard performers incapable of holding a real job.
As a kid, a former foreign minister was a year ahead of me in primary school. I wrote him off as an irredeemable shit when I was 7 years old. Never favourably impressed by any of the others I knew in university who later who achieved political office.
There is a lot to be recommended for random selection of legislators from electoral registers, it certainly could not produce a more worthless crowd!
The five basic laws of Stupidity By Carlo M. Cipolla
http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/
1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
2. The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.
We are not ruled by lizards – just psychopaths
They cannot care about or love others even if they wanted to due to their mental sickness.
putting them in a position of power is like putting a fox in charge of a hen house.
They excel at lyeing, all kinds of fraud, deeit, thievery, preferably while acting really well, gaslighting and even making it look as if they are somehow victims and not agressors.
Certain ‘culthres’ train their children to think this way and to effortlessly dehumanize their victims. Psychopaths for those psychopath support groups masquereded as a ‘culture’ are like psychopaths squared.
this is the kind of leaders we have.
Psychopaths tend to eventually self-destruct.
A good book ont he subject (by the inventor of the psychopath test Robert Hare) is called Without Conscience. ANother good one is The Sociopath Next Door by Marta Stout. Israle Shahak’s Jewish History Jewish Religion THe Weight of 3000 Years is also excellent as it provides real world examples of the whole process, almost like a manual for how psychopaths.
All are available for free on pdfdrive com.
Imagine WW II only this time America is fighting with Nazi Germany. Only this time both sides get to start with nukes.
Napoleon unifies Europe – Attacks Russia – After signing “Peace treaties”.
Estimated 2 weeks to defeat Russia, brought 30 days of supplies just in case.
Hitler unifies Europe – Attacks Russia – After signing “Peace Treaties”.
Just have to kick in the door and the whole rotten edifice will collapse.
EU unifies Europe – Attacks Russia – After signing “Peace Treaties”.
Russia is a gas station pretending to be a country.
Could someone run a pattern analysis on this?
An alternative to Hanlon’s razor may be Occam’s razor: Follow the money. My perception is that they (the politicians) are just doing what is expected from them by big money: Blackrock, Vanguard, …
These companies have, via their investments (in military companies, in land in Ukraine, …), huge interests in this conflict to escalate further, eventually even at the cost of WW III.
The situation resembles to the situation before WW I and WW II, periods during which the Wallstreet banks were the driving force behind the political moves.
I’m sorry about my bad english but I want to tell you how stupid people here in Finland are. They actually believe that russians use tape to rig they gps in fighter jets. They also believe that they can beat the russian army this time. Now finnish media tell us that they can mobilisize on old drunk people with ww2 guns. We should know what is our opponent but no. We stil hitting our heads to karelia woods. I’ m a child of karelian refugee and my grandfather told me never underestimate the power of russian people.
We are all in phase 2 of a 3 phase journey, that we mortals are here means we got through phase 2, this phase is continuing the testing of our internal desire for truth or error, right or wrong, our integrity, honour, courage, faith, compassion, charity etc etc. Will we have a pure heart & clean hands when our life here is said & done will determine whether we will pass into phase 3 ie a millenium of peace. We were warned the deception will be great and few there will be that will find their way home. God our father & the Lord are in the details, their judgement will be perfectly just & merciful, we will all need that. As you sow so shall you reap. Endtimes are accelerating hold true to that which is right & God bless all.
Jim
Hi Larry,
Do you remember when Al Gore predicted in 2009, I think it was around that year, that by 2013 there would be no more ice in the arctic.
After that 2013 climate fiasco; climate experts blamed the ice because it wanted to stay ice. I guess it’s still the same today.
“The Russian military takes chips from dishwashers and refrigerators to fix the military hardware because there are no semiconductors anymore.”
This sounds like a recycled story from the early 80’s. Back then I was doing software development for the C64 and the story was that the USSR was buying PCs and pulling the 6502 and 6800 chips to use in missile guidance systems. Supposedly they were getting around an export ban by having them shipped through Finland. Never did find out if it was actually true, but around that time I switched from BASIC to FORTH, and you could definitely have used FORTH to write military code for those chips. It was very robust and ran lightning fast, at least for those days.
Here’s another rumour: Lately Russia has been buying huge numbers of smoke alarms and extracting the Americium in them to build nuclear triggers. How do I know it’s only a rumour? Because I just made it up:)
I am not sure I would say the Western leadership are stupid, but rather that they are not practical.
They show a lack of practical training, a lack of practical experience and a lack of practical wisdom. Of those in Germany’s present coalition, I could find just one who had worked as a salesperson in a bakery, the big practical experience there being: rolling preloaded carts of dough into an oven to make (that is, finish) Brötchen – an oven that was on thermostat and timer, and that shut off and beeped when it was time to roll out the bread. Everyone else I studied were blank cartridges, practically speaking.
I can’t even begin to describe how frustrating it is to have these leaders as a European.
My nations leaders are much the same with the added disastrous effect of them always wanting to be ‘best in class’ when it comes to living up to the insane ideals of the EU and UN.
And the electorate keeps voting for these idiots! I’ve seen the lies for decades, but if you voice them, you risk your friends and colleagues accusing you of being conspiratorial or a Putinist. They did this even long before the war, and it much worse now.
The war in Ukraine has rallied the Europeans around the lies even more. I fear Putin is underestimating the masses of Europeans that actually will suffer through just about anything as long as the leadership continues to serve them comfortable lies that reinforce their false worldview.
To me, I’ve seen this madness for a long time, but it never stops being scary, and there is little I can actually do.
“ARE THEY AS STUPID AS THEY LOOK?”
Many “blogs” are based upon notions of if only the Papa Czar knew, and hence tend to “see” stupidity as a disadvantage as a function of “seeing is believing”; not “seeing” that “seeing” is interpreting.
For many years in hope of transcending “seeing is believing” the opponents have sought to evaluate levels of stupidity using “big data” and other linear methods, including binaries of “analyst”/”analysed”, “subject”/”object”, but as a function of their methods/interpretations have failed to substantiate en mass – “Are they as stupid as they look ?” tested through en mass implementations, and hence rely on varying levels of belief – which they try to minimise by re-iterating their processes of “evaluation” of levels of stupidity in environments where lateral change is a constant, hence illustrating Mr. Marx’s paraphrased observation that – Philosophers here to fore have merely described the word, the problem is to change it – (precluded by “philosopher’s” methods of analysis/evaluation/interpretation, predicated upon assumptions of the pertinence/significance of- if only the Papa Czar/”they” knew.) – a re-iteration of the deflection dance.
“that reinforce their false worldview.”
Since omniscience is not a possibility in environments where lateral change is a constant, all have a false worldview in varying aspects.
This is a component of the reasons why science is catalysed by doubt – not certainty which cannot exist in the abscence of omniscience-, and why to some the practice of de-emphasising the significance of science – described by Mr. Clifford Connor and others as The Tragedy of American Science – is not evaluated as tragic, but as vectors to transcend “The United States of America”.
Guess you had a misstype: Marx said that philosophers should not make interpretation of the world, not word.
“Guess you had a misstype: Marx said that philosophers should not make interpretation of the world, not word.”
Thank you for illustrating the encouragement of focusing on minor details to attempt to make an “interpretation” of more salient points – the word being by design not default, facilitating the guessing of others predicated on expectations, as previously some grocers hoped to achieve by spelling eggs as eggz.
The Theses on Feuerbach was a prologue to The German Ideology, volume 36 of the Collected Works of Marx and Engels published by Progress Publishers from 1970 onwards based upon original materials collected from 1921 onwards by some who were subsequently designated as “Trotskyists”, but “frozen” after 1924, to facilitate “Socialism in one country” and its methods of facilitation.
These publications and their publication facilitated various vectors in the ongoing transcendence of “The Soviet Union” by The Russian Federation.
The context included, but was not restricted to, prevalent practice/practices of reading between the lines not restricted to Pravda, “Eurocommunism” primarily in Italy, and the notions of Mr. Gramsci in respect of “organic intellectuals” which in part was predicated upon Mr. Marx’s observations on philosophers in The Theses on Feuerbach, but not to suggest that Mr. Gramsci should be held as a role model as he was imprisoned when he wrote down his observations, and Mr. Guevara was rendered a T-shirt, and to some degree facilitated the Condor Years primarily, but not solely in Argentina, Brasil, and Chile, before the Progress Publisher’s updated edition of the German Ideology was published.
Mr. Marx observed that philosophers have merely described the world whilst the purpose is to change it – hence philosophers are unfit for purpose if the purpose is to change it, Mr. Marx having the benefit of trying to change it unsucessfully in Germany in 1848 facilitating his subsequent domicile in “The United Kigdom”.
In some notes whose references I can’t remember since I probably read them at least 50 years ago or so before Mr. Mitrokhin mastered the intricacies of photocopiers, Mr. Marx also observed that it was a good thing that philosophers had merely described the world and would likely continue to do so, since this would keep them busy, which would facilitate others’ efforts in changing the world with lesser distractions,
A linear current extrapolation upon this is:
many commentors on blogs merely attempt to describe the world without testing their hypotheses in validation through implementation, and hence are not fit for purpose if the purpose is to change the world, but quite useful in illustrating the “plausible beliefs/narratives” of the day. :
an updated version of the fallacies of if only the Papa Czar knewness and the Zubatovschina – an oblique reference to bank robbers who forgot to count all the money before handing it over to “The party”, in addition to reference to a catalyst of “The Russian Revolution of 1905”, which was de facto a revolution mostly around fixed points to sustain the status quo in modified form using the tool of “representative democracy” via Duma or even Dima.
“Our rulers live in a tongue-bath of pleasing illusion.”
— Beautiful turn of phrase!!!
“either the West’s rulers have seriously screwed it up or they actually want it to be this way.”
— My take: Either the West’s rulers have seriously screwed it up or they have seriously screwed us up. Because stupid politicians do not last long in that pit of vipers known as Washington DC, those who persist must therefore be clever, not stupid. But clever people with bad motives are nothing but schemers, rustlers, con-men. And since a cheat’s prime goal is money, not murder per se, so the West’s rulers scheme and plot to enrich themselves in the main. And where is the font of the money that they so gather up for themselves if not the national treasury — that storehouse into which the produce, the productivity, the manufactures of a nation’s labours, labourers, creativity, good repute must be accounted into? So, yes, we are most certainly screwed by our ‘rulers.’ Screwed out of our blood, sweat and toil more often than being led by incompetent ‘leaders.’
– a stupid man is, per definition, too stupid to realize that he is stupid.
– we measure intelligence. Are we too stupid to measure stupidity?
– A real stupid man makes a plan, that in outcome will not only not reach what he intended, but will cause damage to himself.
– it is dangerous to classify your enemies stupid.
” it is dangerous to classify your enemies stupid.”
In environments where lateral change is a constant it is dangerous to classify anything, although the opponents do not agree since their hope/purpose is to sustain a linear modified undefined “status quo”, which they hope to facilitate by enmazing others in linear paradigms -whose components remain undefined thereby hoping to catalyse “intuitive responses” within acceptable precedents/tolerances- in interaction with the experiences of others – sometimes known as lives – whom they hope to enmaze.
My maxim (which isn’t original to me, I know) is that ‘perception lags reality’. It’s served me well over several decades by providing a reasonable explanation for much of human activity.
That is, people will believe any old idiocy even when (or perhaps ‘especially when’) objective facts–sometimes a veritable tsunami of facts–prove that their beliefs are false. Very few individuals are able quickly to assimilate and accept facts which contradict their beliefs, and those who can do so are usually termed ‘sceptics, naysayers, heretics’ by their contemporaries. Those who can rapidly adapt their modes of thought to accommodate new information inputs are quite scarce and ironically, once the generality of the population finally recognizes that ‘gee, things have changed’, those who were once deemed ‘heretics’ may be relabelled as ‘visionaries’ or ‘martyrs’ (for those who have paid the price for the terrible sin of ‘being right’-vide Giordano Bruno, e.g).
Unfortunately, history is replete with examples of such cognitive dissonance. More often than not, culture and society will experience radical transformation (religious, economic, even military conflict) while the ‘elites’–those wielding power at the top of the political, social and cultural pyramid–carry on as if nothing much has changed. Indeed, even as a political entity fades and flickers out, its elites may continue to act as if everything is perfectly unchanged. At worst–as appears to be happening now–those same elites will reassure each other that any unpleasantness of which they take cognizance is actually ‘the fault’ of their inferiors, who actually ‘deserve’ whatever badness happens to be occurring (‘it’s God’s judgement’, ‘it’s a consequence of not addressing climate change’, blah blah). Naturally the elites–while their society comes crashing down around them–will act to protect their own interests, and be damned to to rest of the those who suffer.
John Michael Greer has written at length on the ‘managerial class’ as he styles our modern elites, and how utterly foolish they are. ‘Perception lags reality’ to an astonishing degree amongst these folk, for those who might like to explore this thesis in greater depth.
Thanks for sharing, well said. I will have to give that author you mentioned a second look.
they are most certainly not “elite” by any metric I know of…
Agreed. ‘Self-styled elites’, might be a more accurate description.
The word “elite” lost its meaning, just like “democracy”, “freedom”, “equality”, and many others.
You have to burn it all down in order to build the West CCP China rump vassal better.
Can distorted lens long marching mediocre mental midget minds do anything but destroy?
It all makes sense if you conclude that the “elites” want a high KIA and smoking crater of egalitarian socialist ruin.
More for them and less for us.
Its funny, everyone with an outlet is running around waving their arms explaining how THEY are able to pierce the fog and explain whats REALLY going on.
This all doesn’t make sense because … insert golden nugget of truth here (thats really just regurgitated talking points from 6 months ago).
Michael Yon had an EXCELLENT post about how ones paradigm affects their ability to discern the truth. When things don’t make sense, its your paradigm thats out of whack, he says brilliantly.
You are all wrong because you are searching for an answer that fits your previously held paradigm. Instead look for a paradigm that fits your facts.
This isn’t happening on accident nor due to negligence, ignorance, malfeasance, nor sheer low IQ. THIS IS ALL HAPPENING ON PURPOSE, WITH FORETHOUGHT AND CAUSE.
They want the world at war.
They want the economies to collapse.
They want people at each others throats over imaginary social issues.
They want millions to die off.
All of the gender bending BS is on purpose (none of the ‘elites’ actually believe men can get pregnant, but if they can convince you they can, selling this great reset idea is childs play).
The whole fucking world is being played by these globalist clowns in the UN and WEF (same group of psycho’s, just read their resumes), and they’re all so sure of their own fucking brilliance, they are unwilling to see that they have been duped from the beginning, so they double down on mental gymnastics to try to make the facts (that are unmalleable) fit their paradigm (thats about as strong as a wet noodle).
Sad to see how arrogance can be tweaked to manipulate allegedly smart people into doing and believing things. Psychology 102 ‘fer Chris’sakes people (when you do it to manipulate a child’s behaviour we call it ‘reverse psychology’, but you’re too brilliant to fall victim to it, sure, you bet!). Wake the fuck up, its already too late to stop the shooting.
Thank you for this really delightful piece of prose; I enjoyed reading it.
Yes, the collective West is in an advanced collective state of “mythomaniac” schizophrenia regarding Russia. They’ve become totally disconnected from reality, swimming in denial despite the mounting evidence and testimony of the error of their ways. I’ve never witnessed such a state of collective Russophobic delusion and crusading hysteria. Even scholars, generals, philosophers, academics, and generally people who should know better, are victims of this strange phenomenon to the point that made someone suggest that “they must be putting something in their water supply”!
I’m at a loss of words to describe what’s happening with nutjobs in powerful positions talking of “pushing the red button”. The level of Western hysteric propaganda is just plain toxic and cannot be escaped but for a very few people with a strong education in life and in school.
Putin was spot on when he called it the Empire of Lies : they’ve lied so much that they now believe their own lies which act as a prism through which they perceive an alternative reality and end up making stupid schizophrenic decisions. That’s why lying is so dangerous and a capital sin. Lying is the mother of Evil and it is forbidden by all religions and human traditions. Yet, today’s West has made it its favorite instrument of government following the principle that the end justifies the means.
Those of us that wish to see can clearly understand that the combined west has not only lost it’s mind but is treasonous to the principles of what we are. The problem is clearly before us but the solution escapes our senses. However the solution is right in front of us but we’re afraid to look. Everyone wants to be a patriot until it’s time to do patriot stuff. Elections won’t change anything and I doubt we have two years left until the 2024 cycle. At this rate we’ll never make 2024. I’m reminded of the movie Apocalypse Now, where Martin Sheen is being briefed by the CIA officials. What is the purpose of his mission, terminate with extreme prejudice.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
” but is treasonous to the principles of what we are.”
No business as usual for them, and business as usual for you in your illusions of what we are, nobody being treasonous, although all being “enemies of the people”, including themselves.
I vote for the lizard people thesis.
Or maybe Klaus Schwab wrote it as it is in his book « The great reset ».
The plan is to destroy everything for the purpose of rebuilding along the lines of our grandiose mission : transhumanism, immortality, automated industries. And depopulation for the poors : 1 billion human beings is better « for the planet ». Humans are dirty, they shit everywhere, they stink, they even pollute !
Hence, all these puppets, like Emmanuel Macron in France, follow the directives of some consultant shadow cabinet — like McKinsey in this case.
They are stupid — it is a requisite for the job, but they are essentially obedient and, above all, have renounced any type of spiritual sovereignity.
“it is a requisite for the job”
You missed a requirement.
They need to be vulnerable, like salesmen/saleswomen who are encouraged to “over-extend”, which encourages some to minimise their “vulnerabilities” by hedging their bets, thereby limiting obedience to practices of mis-representations, since some “handlers” believe that there is no one more obedient than one who is completely compromised.
Perhaps Mr. Zelensky could illustrate this with his own “case study”?
It is very dangerous to call those EU leaders stupid, as they are not. Evil and deceiving – yes, but definitely not stupid.
The very fact that everything goes according to their plans – i.e. centralization of EU, increase of censorship, total control of thousands of big and small protests europe-wide, total media blackout, and the very fact that people are buying their idiotic statements and not trying too hard to depose them, shows they are highly organized, have detailed plans for what they are doing, and are executing it mercilessly.
If someone does not understand their plans, of course he will call them stupid. But it will be in effect just the opposite.
To underestimate your enemy is the best way to lose the war.
I will prefer to believe that majority of those EU politicians are highly intelligent and corrupt evildoers and act accordingly.
Those who believe that those EU leaders are just stupid morons and therefore there is no need to do anything, as they will destroy themselves being that stupid, will do that on their own peril.
I don’t know why anyone would think our rulers are insane or stupid, as they keep achieving their goals. If you think something is stupid but it works, it isn’t stupid.
Their goal in UKR was to get Europe to stop shifting towards RUS sphere of influence, and back to ours. Especially in re: nat gas, as the Big Guy needs his 10%. Secondary goal was to weaken RUS.
Let’s add something else to the analysis:
Rational observers like John Meersheimer have said that the logical course for the US would have been to team up w/ Russia against China, the real threat for both. Instead we drive RUS into China’s arms, then weaken Russia which is already the weakest partner, while at the same time continuing to strengthen China by offshoring our manufacturing there.
Link that to all the proven links between China and our government, including a congressman on the Intelligence Committee banging a Chinese spy, and I’d say it’s far worse than people think. They aren’t crazy, they know what they are doing and why, and no one on our side… actually, there is no ‘our side’ just a bunch of people on the internet with opinions.
Russia makes some damm fine weapons. We have not seen peer to peer confrontations so we can only extrapolate not conclude superiority.
SU line up vs F line up. Russia clear winner
TU line up VS B2 line up, Russia clean winner in practical non nuclear applications
M 15 vs AK Russia total smackdown. Same goes for light machine guns
777 VS Russian artillery. Russia can fire more than 30 shots without needing critical repairs
Apache VS Alligator, we have not seen enough evidence to declare, but one of them has ejections seats.
Russian air missile defence has no peer. Skeet shooting Himars
I could go on and on.
I knew a very rich girl once ,and have have a relative with a super rich boyfriend, my observation has been is because they always have money and lots of it is they think differently.
It’s the weirdest thing and hard to explain, I worked at a Corporate jet place and noticed even though I was poor and driving a junker ,I began to think ….well its just 500$ etc just being in that world as a grunt
I lean towards they are just out of touch idiots
Empathy diminishes proportionately with wealth. The more you have the less you have. And it’s pretty much the same for everyone. Remember Zuckerberg in around 2012 telling the world that nobody needed 80 billion and that he was going to give it all away and only keep a couple billion for himself? Couple years later he was thinking about running for president. Couple after that he began censoring and you can see how it is with him now. Oh 12 was the last gasp of normalcy and the path fell off from there. It would be the same for you and I, were we to become so “fortunate”. How deeply one falls is different among individuals but the overarching paradigm remains the same. Fortune is misfortune and misfortune is fortune, Grasshopper.
How about them being both stupid and evil?
There is stupidity, ignorance, arrogance and evil. For example, the coverage of the referendums and the comments of westerners reveals ignorance and intentional bias. Most people who rely on main media coverage are ignorant of the facts. Media are intentionally lying and continually use words like”sham voting process.” I have watched unbiased coverage of the people voting and their opinions. Westerners, to a large degree, misunderstand eastern Ukraine, Russia, and majority ethnic Russians. They want security, peace, jobs and prosperity, not the economic disaster brought about by the west. In fact, many of them feel that nothing good has ever come from the west.
I would like to explore the second choice: that western rulers actually want it this way. There is a school of thought that all of this is being purposefully done; that economies are being reduced (or ruined) in order to reach the level of energy that ‘green energy’ provides’; that western financial systems are so corrupted and bankrupt, there is no other choice but to destroy them and ‘build back better’, etc. ???
The leaders in the West well know the truth, but the truth does not serve their interests. So, they deny and demonize the truth and truth tellers wherever they come from. that is what “cancel culture” is all about: denying the truth and the ability to tell the truth.
The West is rapidly declining. If you want to survive, make sure you live in a country that grows food and produces energy.
It is not that they look dumb as more it is the effects which can not be kept disguised due to many being paid globalist whores, LARP’s and other globalist cabal agent provocateurs, (s)elected to public office via massive vote rigging and gerrymander, in order to facilitate the subversion and undermining of the European Union as a union of individual sovereign nation states, same things been happening in America with positions from school board officials and teacher union actors, AG’s to POTUS.
Could not be more obvious, yet the scale of this is almost inconceivable to honest and law respecting people, so it kind of hides in plain sight, but once you begin to catch on to it you can not but see it everywhere. Then it is no mystery, making commom sense what is happening and why.
Besides it is the only logical reason explaining why these LARP’s and agents act in total contradiction to rule and color of long held laws, traditions, and most importantly the will of the people, against all time honored traditions and the codes decent people live by and their cultures derive from.
And that last is another aspect, how more so each passing day we the people are ever more irrelevant?
Well thats there’s a totally reasonable thing, how that is only possible because our “elected” representatives deliberately foster that demise of the franchise and rightful most legitimate manifest will of the electorate.
And all that is patterns of detail of a larger sneaky cunning pattern of usurpation by something rather like, if not, a vast conspiracy working to destroy freedom and Liberty and hold “Dominion”, (like as in rigged Dominion voting machines, Duh!), over all of us. Done a bit at a time. Like boiling the frog. Till its too late, so those involved hope, for us little people to say No, and do our thing to cause positive change and get rid of implied tyrants and their centralist tyrannies.
Like the Goose, its feathers plucked carefully, one at a time and one day the Goose looks back, and realizes he ain’t got any feathers left, naked, vulnerable to the whims of the cruel world, the protection his feathers afforded the Goose gone.
It appears a most serious race with precious father time is underway, between those involved in plucking the goose and the goose catching on whats being done to it. Too, it seems Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin have caused an upset in the goose plucking schedule and the conspiracy is attempting to catch up to get back on schedule advancing their singular global power. 4 years of President Trump put a hurt in their almost incomprehensible filthy lucre theft and laundering, why these vast sums of hundreds of billions sent down the black hole called Ukraine and the puny regional conflict that in no way requires those vast sums to maintain the known flow of arms and munitions. Particularly in the stark comparison to what the Russian Alliance spends with its vastly higher expenditure in tube and rocket, plus aviation, armillary.
The basic arithmetic does not add up.
The congress and US .mil has surpassed a Trillion Dollars from the federal government largess alone earmarked for Ukraine.
Are You Effing Kidding Me?
1,000,000,000,000 Bucks?
One Thousand Billion Dollars?
For that tiny country?
WTF?
Not including the tens of billions from 2014 to end of 2021?
The 2legged rats in the swamp are still at it laundering the last of our seed corn this past week.
It was $850 billion by July.
For protection of Ukraines border.
Zero for protection of our sovereign border.
Of course our government and folks in Europe .govs are polluted with globalist whores, LARPS, and agent provocateurs, they need all those thieves and organized crime gang members running things, how else would it be possible, TO STEAL, and disappear, launder, that much money?
And the numbers maimed and killed in the process? Just in Ukraine? 200,000 KIA Ukie’s. Its right up there for Donbas Arc civilian deaths.
But MAGA folks are deemed by writ of attainder Domestic Violent Extremists by the same collection of conspiracy actors?
Guess some dead people are more important than others.
Well, makes the Mexican Cartel’s seem like nice bunches of fellows.
One thing that a lot of people don’t know, because history in today’s USA is not at all a priority or is seen as merely another worthless liberal arts major like majoring in art history or sculpture, is that the west has repeatedly tried to invade and take over Russia’s vast resources. Napoleon tried in the early 1800s; Hitler in the 1940s; and now it’s USA’s turn. Will they be successful? It remains to be seen.
“Will they be successful?”
Perhaps you should read Presidential decree No. 355 of the 2nd of June 2020 signed by Mr. Putin on the 3rd of June 2020 thereby being deemed as law, which will likely answer your question, and some others in relation to present hysteria in “The West”.
Can we start by identifying the Neocons then drag them out into the streets and beat them?
Living in Brazil I always thought that the US and Europeans leaders were smart and rational people. I am wrong. The mediocrity of these authorities is absurd as well as arrogant and stupid.
The people of these countries are really zumbizied by the roten and corrupt press from west, since we don’t see anything strong on the streets to change the situation.
Well, let’s wait some weeks, then is getting colder and the inflation higher. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!
Meanwhile, I, a US engineer do have to buy hobby boards to pull the IC’s for my projects…
I see parralells between current Western establishments and the 18th C. Bourbon dynasty in France, so stupid they inflict suffering on the masses who reach “critical mass” riot then turn on their tormentors in a rather violent way.
Let us not conflate evil with stupidity. Actual stupidity is only moderately rife and the vast remainder willfully so. It is fact that psychopaths can smell each other out and that they subsequently are brought into the fold of their brothers is certain to follow. As has been said, Don’t worry about hurting a psychopath’s feelings, they don’t have any. All they got is the rush. And the next rush. They cannot quit. They cannot fade humanly into the sunset. The doddering psychopaths so close to the tools of destruction wink at each other in a mutually understood message, Hey, watch this shit! There are two things which can stop a psychopath. Death and another psychopath. Blindness is embracing the latter.
Would it be fair to say that with 90-95% of Ukraine’s GDP being in the East (ie in the Donbass and the other 2 regions), that the nasties in the West of Ukraine have been living off the backs and blood sweat and tears of the people they are trying to genocide. Good riddance I say in terms of the referenda.
Since the implosion of the communist East in 1990, the solo husbandry of the world by the US Governing Elites has furnished nothing but pain to hundreds of millions, economic destruction of the Western economies, the loss of hope for a peaceful future, the doomsday clock has never been as close to midnight before, the unipolar world has proven to be no good for anything or to anyone, it has to end before the nukes begin to fly, we all glow and die slowly.
Some tell us the Russians are so stupid that they can’t mobilize a reserve force or move supplies to the front. Yet they can launch men into space, build hypersonic missiles and modern fighter aircraft?
The United States has been at war with Russia since 1917. As Orwell wrote, “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.” Here is a short video about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieKHdQ2J3T4&t=1s
https://www.commonsense.news/p/ukraine-can-win-this-war?utm_source=email
Would be interested in your take on this piece.
Usual stuff. Stopped reading after defeat in Kiev (read piece) Putin nervous (didn’t look like it) and Great Ukrainian Victory (tell me what has changed on the battlefield.) BTW a lot of pieces saying Ukraine can still win have spontaneously appeared in the last couple of days. A coincidence I’m sure
As scary as it sounds, I really want to believe the visible shot callers are just stupid, and maybe they are, but what about those we can’t see, you know the Central Banker types. They are far from stupid. All most every move our elected leaders make seems to further hurt our nation and the world at large. Who benefits from such ‘stupidity? It’s unpopular, even illegal in some places, to suggest it may be certain tribes calling the shots. If one’s awake enough to look back at history there’s only one group that claims superiority overall. They call their self the Chosen ones. Historical records are full of stories, truth or fiction, of tribe members infiltrating governments to become the tax collector, or senior advisors. As they have no loyalty to anyplace, they always work against the host and move on. Ah it’s a long story. 3,000 years long.
I agree that many European “leaders” are deluded narcissists, perhaps even all the way up to Klaus Schwab – he seems a bit off. But I also believe that there are some people behind the scenes, like Soros, who are running the whole show and they are far from insane, stupid or deluded by their own wonderfulness. This small group of conspiracists are just plain EVIL.
I respectfully disagree with Mr. Smith.
This goes back at minimum to the founding of The ,(infamous) Tavistock Institute in 1913 by the English Royal Family, the Rothschilds, Rockefellers and several other families.
The overarching goal was the imposition of a One World Government.
They realized their biggest obstacle was the deep bonds of extended family and deeply ingrained Judeo Christian values.
They accepted this would be a very long term project and set to work on their immediate task of Manufacturing for Consent the English public mind to reverse it’s deep antipathy towards their planned World War, which, obviously hadn’t even started yet.
Their first Director was Dr.Sigmund Freud.
Edward Bernays, Freud’s nephew, and Walter Lippmann came over from the United States to begin the project which yielded the desired results very quickly.
They then returned to the U.S. to work in the newly established Committee for Public Information set up by Woodrow Wilson, who rode into office on a Peace Ticket, promising not to drag the country into a Bankers War in Europe.
The CPI turned the public mind in record time, just 6 months.
After the War, the Tavistock Institute conducted a study of shell shocked WW1 veterans whose core identities had been shattered by 24/7 shelling which caused their core identities, which normally lock in by the age of 8 to completely unravel .
These poor souls were warehoused in mental facilities with no contact with their families who were told they were KIA,MIA,etc.
In studying these men, the Tavistock Institute had no intention to help them, just to gain more of an understanding of the human psyche in order to effect more efficient and subtle means by which to control and direct the public mind towards the aforementioned overarching goal, i.e. the enslavement of humanity.
What the Tavistock Institute discovered was that these severely traumatized men were different only by degree compared to an average person in society.
Those men were buffeted between Euphoria– I’m still Alive! — to Disphoria — I’m going to Die! — every few minutes or seconds for days and weeks on end, in some cases. Until their core identity shattered.
The majority of society is also buffeted, I can pay the rent –now my kid is sick —
I have to save them but how do I pay the rent, etc., etc.
Dr. Mengele applied this knowledge and further studied thousands of children subjected to repeated trauma in his labs at Auschwitz during WW2 and was scooped up by the OSS, as planned, along with his entire staff and most importantly — all his research. He was brought home to the U.S., given a new identity, Dr.Green and sent up to the University of Ontario to work with the monstrous Dr.W.Ewan Cameron, who had his own ideas and methods to shatter an adults solidified core identity in order to create a more acceptable persona.
Their work was conducted under the still ongoing MK- ULTRA/Project MONARCH program and the despicable Dr Sidney Gotlieb.
As you can tell, this rabbit hole is very disturbing and very deep.
I caution all to beware of what you may find researching this particular nightmare.
I have read things that once known cannot be unknown.
I know this may sound incongruous but I BEG you NOT to read of Mengle’s cages and live vivisections and little game with a flower, plucking petals , going from one child to the next – I love you, I love you not…. Or Cameron’s methods.
Leonard Cohen was one of his subjects, btw. You can find a photo of him in Cameron’s lab, unless it’s been memory holed.
I’ll jump ahead to David A. Rockefeller and the Council on Foreign Relations efforts in the 60’s and 70’s to put some of the final pieces in place to insure what he later crowed about in his autobiography.
He stated, ” I stand accused of working to crush the Democratic Government’s of the World with debt so they will beg for A One World Government be installed over them
I plead Guilty As Charged and would it over and over again”
I may be paraphrasing a bit, but only just.
Now, with UN Plan 2030 and the World Economic Forum’ Great Reset and Build Back Better in all the Neolib/Neocon countries of the West, the Tavistock Institute plan continues space.
While I have difficulty trusting Xi, I do believe that President Putin, who is of deep Orthodox Faith is possibly the last hope for Humanity.
It’s been said before, and I’ll repeat it
Fidel Castro in 1997, said that the next civilizational war would be fought by Russia against fascism once more and that this time, fascism would be called Democracy.
I believe this only ends one of two ways.
Either Russia prevails and de-militarizes and de- nazifys the West or the World burns
Blessings to All
Slava Russia
L
“Dr. Mengele applied this knowledge and further studied thousands of children subjected to repeated trauma in his labs at Auschwitz during WW2 and was scooped up by the OSS, as planned, along with his entire staff and most importantly — all his research. ”
Perhaps by using a question as an entry portal I could suggest some items which may further illuminate your comment.
How did Franz Stangl and his associates “restructure” Treblinka in 1942 to attain productivity levels of “processing” circa 800,000/900,000 “stuk” in about a year ?
Components of the answers can be found in what some refer to as the Trawniki Papers – Trawniki being one of the “training” facilities to facilitate “Operation Reinhard” and other projects “co-ordinated” by Mr Globocnik – although you may find this “restricted” according to clearances. If this proves to be a problem, perhaps in the not too distant future, some may publish these materials in the public domain.
Apparently this information was “transferred” as a consequence of the “not unconditional surrender” agreement made on or about 4th May 1945 in the Bolzano area of Northern Italy, between Mr. Karl Wolff representing the SD and Mr. Allen Dulles apparently representing no one, despite Mr. Dulles having a relationship with the SD through those representing him in Switzerland via the Masson-Schellenberg connection.
Apparently this information has informed the practices of the coercive social relations self-misrepresented as “The United States of America” from 1945 onwards, including but not limited to, the uses of hope and tempo, partly informed by the observations of Mr. Taylor in “Scientific Management” and elsewhere.
What if the conflict is aimed at containing Western Europe within the banker’s grasp and Russia is just being used as a proverbial Boogeyman
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/michael-hudson-americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies.html
“What if the conflict is aimed at containing Western Europe within the banker’s grasp and Russia is just being used as a proverbial Boogeyman ?”
That has been the case since at least 1917, systematised by way of The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and NATO in 1949.
The present is a linear extrapolation in amplitude and scope necessitated by the ongoing processes of the lateral transcendences of “The Soviet Union” by the Russian Federation’s networks.
If they mean what they say, yes: stupid.
If we accept that the Russians and not we the uppity peasants of America and the West are not the targets. If judged by effects we suffer, we may be the targets.
One must also consider strategic depth: which the USA now has in Western Europe to an unchallenged degree. Strategic depth being the point of Empire.
Judge by results, not by words.
Well, we are certainly not ruled by “lizardoid aliens” .And we aren’t ruled by a cabal of bankers…It would be incorrect to call it a “cabal” and yet, let’s be honest enough with ourselves to place the credit where its due. Yes there is a massive state that does most of the actual ruling, but their paychecks don’t appear out thin air (except metaphorically) . Our politics serve our wealth and our wealth serves a shockingly small number of people, and despite constant claims to the contrary it is not imaginary. Its real wealth, labour and natural resources expropriated from the “other” 80% of the worlds people, by military force and political bullying, organized by and for finance capital. Before the accusations of “communist ” start flying I got this from reading the recent work of an almost legendary American capitalist theorist, Michael Hudson not Karl Marx
for a long time i’ve played a mental game when i watch the actions of beltway types: evil or stupid? sometimes both. also, evil is subjective so feel free to substitute “psychopathic”. two other words that sum up DC “decision makers” and their handlers in the business sector: cloistered and ossified. ever been to northern virginia where the people who actually run the show live? they live in the extravagant equivalent of unabomber shacks; a few miles from the urban parts of DC but they may as well be on the moon.
but then the US is geographically and culturally a cul de sac so no surprise there. the most surreal experiences of my life were moving to DC from the south and returning to the same after a long trip to eastern europe (which, oddly, reminded me a lot of the southern US). they really are a foreign culture within their own country; i’d also throw in what i call “beltway idiot savant syndrome” which is a condition where someone – usually a well-off yuppie from a confortable suburb – goes to univeristy for a specific skill and does well enough to get a job in DC doing said thing but completely fails at every other aspect of being a human being. a city full of “rain man” clones.