RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 14.02.2023
Including geopolitical issues affecting the balance of power in the ongoing end game war to establish our common future, a closely monitored prison planet or tolerance for diverse modes of governance.
THE ROAD TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR III RUNS THROUGH HERE.
*** IS THE USA IN A PIPELINE TO COMPLETE INSANITY? ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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THE UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2 JUNE 2014
A lot has been said about atrocities in the western media claimed to have been perpetrated by the Russians, for example at Bucha and Mariupol among others. These assertions are conveyed on the say so of the Ukrainian authorities. How willing though are western news broadcasters to convey atrocities attributed to the Ukrainians? The following will I think provide the answer.
If anyone wonders if they are receiving accurate coverage of the conflict in Ukraine I would suggest watching the video below of an event which occurred on the 2nd of June 2014 and ask themselves if they recall hearing about it on any mainstream media news channel at the time.
The video is harrowing to watch. The bodies (five women and three men) are real. Yet across western media there was only one single news report that occurred a day later. This was from CNN and occurred only because a CNN team happened to be nearby at the time of the atrocity and so the network could hardly ignore it as all others so obviously did.
The video below shows the unvarnished truth that was not considered newsworthy in western mainstream news.
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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (202k subscribers):
Ukraine Retreating Bakhmut, Russia reaches Kupyansk, Liman; NATO Out of Stock.
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‘The Duran’ (335k subscribers):
Silencing Nord Stream w/Dr. Wilmer Leon (Live).
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ (158k subscribers):
Ohio train disaster. Nord Stream climate silence. Biden WH wants Elensky to fight. Esper prank. U/1
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'U.S. Tour of Duty' (27.9k subscribers):
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 45: Ask the Inspector.
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'The Real News Networl' (665k subscribers):
Russiagate was a hoax w/Matt Taibbi | The Chris Hedges Report.
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‘Graham Phillips' (334k subscribers):
Soledear to Artemovsk (Bakhmut) and the New War Realities...
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'Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom' (94k subscribers):
Balloons, Ukraine, Russia & Taiwan.
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'The Jimmy Dore Show' (1.14 million subscribers):
U.S. Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline – Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Confirms.
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'Garland Nixon' (45.1k subscribers):
GAME OVER - EUROPE'S SUICIDAL IDEOLOGY.
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'Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom' (94k subscribers):
Nord Stream Pipeline - why was it blown up to begin with?
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'The Grayzone' (260k subscribers):
Upcoming DC antiwar rally unites political factions.
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'Progressive' hacks denounce Ukraine negotiations.
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'Redacted' (1.7 million subscribers):
Oh SH*T! Something BIG is happening and they're trying to DISTRACT us | Redacted w Clayton Morris.
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Deja Vu! They did the SAME thing to get us into WW2 and WW1 | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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BREAKING! US is sending depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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'George Galloway) (246k subdscribers):
INTERVIEW: This attack, which cut the gas, is a disaster for the German economy and people.
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INTERVIEW: One US official said that that the United States owned one-third of Syria, and they do.
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They’ve even accused your light bulbs and your refrigerator of spying on you.
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'Kim Iversen' (509k subscribers):
Conversation with Dennis Kucinich | How Democracy Has Been Thwarted by The War Machine.
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‘U.S. Tour of Duty’ (27.9k subscribers):
Scott Ritter 2-Minute Topic: Zelensky's Flight of Fancy.
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'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' (213k subscribers):
Wagner LIBERATES Krasnaya Gora, Encircles Paraskoviivka.
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THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.
Russia CAPTURES Krasnaya Gora, Ukraine Receiving DEPLETED URANIUM.
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‘The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (42.2k subscribers):
The Truth About Ukraine's Future w/ Scott Ritter LIVE!
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'Garland Nixon' (45.1k subscribers):
BIDEN IS FACING A POLITICAL CIVIL WAR!
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‘The Jimmy Dore Show’ (1.14 million subscribers):
Matt Gaetz Tries To End Ukraine War Funding.
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‘Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom’ (93.9k subscribers):
Nord Stream Pipeline - why was it blown up to begin with?
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‘Redacted’ (1.7 million subscribers):
BREAKING! UFO Pentagon plot EXPOSED as deep state pushes for war with China and Russia | Redacted.
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‘U.S. Tour of Duty’ (27.8k subscribers):
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 45: Ask the Inspector.
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‘George Galloway’ (246k subscribers):
INTERVIEW: The blowing up of the crucial NORD STREAM pipeline from RUSSIA was before hostilities.
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‘The Dive with Jackson Hinkle’ (213k subscribers):
Some hope.
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Bad news...
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‘John Mearsheimer’ (4.76k subscribers):
US PROXY WAR with Russia.
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The ELITES play games with our lives.
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‘Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor’ (42.4k subscribers):
The Ukrainian army has been bled to death.
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'The Convo Couch' (47.2k subscribers):
US Recruits ISIS/Al Qaeda To Attack Russia, France, Italy, Anti-NATO Protests, Exposing Warhawks.
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'BORZZIKMAN' (124k subscribers):
The U.S. Department of Defense is Roaring and Raving┃Russia is Creating a Naval Base in Sudan.
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Russia Today (RT) - News.
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Russia Today (RT) - Worlds Apart.
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Russia Today (RT) - Modus Operandi.
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‘RealTruthTalk’ (5.89k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Talks Chinese Surveillance Balloon.
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‘FINANCE MAIL’ (32k subscribers):
Douglas Macgregor: Who Is Really Against Putin, Intolerable Policy Of NATO In Russian Borders.
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‘True inFo’ (79.2k subscribers):
Zelensky’s European ‘Freak Show’ Highlights Western Hypocrisy, Russian FM Spox Maria Zakharova.
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‘Dr Marcus Papadopoulos’ (2.84k subscribers):
Dr Marcus on how America is NATO and NATO is America.
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‘TeleSUR English’ (194k subscribers):
Russia alleges U.S. recruiting military insurgents in Syria.
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‘The Real News Network’ (664k subscribers):
French national strikes against pension reforms continue despite police repression.
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‘Info Defense’ (197 subscribers):
EXPOSED: France. Pro-peace demonstrators in Paris cut NATO flag.
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‘Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom’ (93.9k subscribers):
Joe Biden... What the hell are we shooting down from our skies?
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'Reports on China' (42.5k subscribers):
NEW POLL: Majority of Taiwan citizens DON'T TRUST the USA!
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'Sean Foo' (71.7k subscribers):
The Dollar-Yuan Currency War: Everyone’s Getting This Wrong!
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'Cyrus Janssen' (290k subscribers):
China is Beating America with Innovation.
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'Tech Revolution' (69.1k subscribers):
DOOMED! Europe Is Having HUGE TROUBLE Replacing Russian Oil.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 14th February 2023:
NATO to focus on ‘undersea cables and pipelines’.
Stoltenberg vows to “prevent and counter threats” after Nord Stream expose blames US and Norway.
NATO will set up a new coordinating body to address threats to undersea infrastructure, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday. His announcement comes just days after legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh said the US and Norway were behind the September explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines under the Baltic Sea.
“Protection of critical undersea infrastructure will also be high on our agenda,” Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels, following the meeting of NATO defense ministers. The US-led bloc “has been working on this for many years,” Stoltenberg added, “and we are now taking it to the next level.”
A new “coordination cell” will be established at NATO Headquarters to “map our vulnerabilities, and engage with industry,” which will “support our efforts to prevent and counter threats to critical infrastructure, including undersea cables and pipelines,” according to Stoltenberg. He said further measures will be decided at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania in July.
Stoltenberg, who was the Norwegian prime minister before taking over NATO leadership in 2014, did not address Hersh’s story from last Wednesday. Neither did any of the reporters NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu called on.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist had accused the US of ordering the destruction of the pipelines running from Russia to Germany and Norway of helping to carry out the bombing.
The White House denounced it as “utterly false and complete fiction.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed to the words of US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland to say that Americans were “basically admitting” the pipeline blasts were their doing. Meanwhile, Beijing said that Washington owed the world an explanation.
“If Hersh is telling the truth, what he revealed is clearly unacceptable and must be answered for,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said on Friday.
As Hersh noted, both Nuland and US President Joe Biden had made very specific threats against Nord Stream 2 prior to the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine last year. After the blasts, US officials blamed Russia but said the situation presented an “opportunity” for Europe to cut ties with Moscow.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (85.2k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.02.14
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.47k subscribers):
No update posted so far toda
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'NWE WAR REPORTS' (30.2k subscribers):
Ukraine will launch Spring Offensive | Some Personnel evacuated from Bakhmut.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA (55.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (22.3k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (21.5k subscribers):
WAR UPDATE: Russia CLOSES IN On Paraskoviivka.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (135k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57.1k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine War in the Air.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
No update posted so far today
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LATEST REPORT FROM GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES (195k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST REPORT FROM VREVELATIONS: (294 subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION (58.3k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST REPORT FROM 'DJUKI SAN’ (38.5k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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Detailed situation reports can be found on a daily basis concerning events in Ukraine over the past 24 hours at the ‘A SKEPTIC’ Substack account:
Link to 'A SKEPTIC' Substack channel.
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SUPPORTING SCOTT RITTER
I've been listening to Scott Ritter describe how things are for him and I suspect have been for him for quite some time now.
He has been doing a LOT of unpaid work with a great many interview requests coming in that he has been ready and willing to agree to. But the work where receives some pay for have suffered due to this, being left until the wee small hours of the night to complete work on.
Scott, I think you will agree, has been one of the most influential voices out there on Russia and Ukraine.
I was moved by Scott's words to take an annual subscription to his Substack account that he runs in coordination with his colleague on 'U.S. Tour of Duty', Jeff Norman. This is the main way that Scott recommends to help him with finances with which to upgrade his delivery of comment on Russia and Ukraine, via a better microphone etc. and perhaps the creation of a recording studio in his basement to create a more professional and impressive look. To invest in these things he would like to be sure that this has a viable financial future.
Would you also like to help by subscribing at one of the various levels to Scott's Substack account? I hope so. If so the link is here:
Below you'll find the edited part of the video where Scott talks of his commitments to get the facts out on events in Ukraine and of the finances that would come in handy to enhance their delivery:
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VICTORY BELONGS TO RUSSIA: IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS
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DO WESTERNERS NEED SAVING FROM THEMSELVES?
Most of us will be familiar with the psychiatric condition known as the ‘superiority complex’ and also that known as ‘megalomania’. In addition to these two there are conditions such as extreme religious fervour and the many destructive attributes of the various categories of psychopath including that of the socialised psychopath.
These conditions have the obvious candidates for categorisation within the context of their symptomatic behaviour. But is it possible that some of these conditions are reflected in what is generally thought of a normal, or somewhat normal behaviour, in the western world, and to greater or lesser degree elsewhere? I am going to argue that some of the normalisation process in relation to these conditions has become particularly deeply embedded in western societies by many manner of means and that this is due to a great many subtle and persistent conditioning factors that have entered the mass subconscious.
If we look at the historical evidence for western attitudes regarding other peoples it seems to me that this is a rather obvious process that has flowed from the top down to find a place within almost every western mind. The obvious candidates are slavery, colonialism, piracy, plunder, the justifications made for religious conversion and the general elite attitude that the ‘White Man’s Burden’ demands that we teach others how to live like us, believe like us and to adopt our attitudes, ideals and societal and governmental processes.
The first category, that of slavery, had its roots in the need of the settlers on the North American continent for workers. This after the virtual elimination of the native population, or at least the removal of its rights and most of its land. Here we can see some of the facets displayed that reveal attitudes of superior need demanding certain things be done and the justifications inevitably attached to the delivery of those requirements.
The second category demonstrates such proclivities by primarily the white man, that of colonialism. In this case it is even more pronounced. The justifications used were sometimes a profession of good intent being efforts to civilise, improve and ‘bring others up’ to our level of ‘success’ and ‘civilisation’. But however good the intentions of some may have been, as in the case of ‘The British Raj’ in India for example, the initial noble quest can be seen to degenerate over time into the oppressive methods used to control dissent regarding the superiority claimed by the British supervisors and military muscle that bedded itself at the top of Indian society.
The colonial era was arguably begun through piracy in the open seas by gentlemen such as Sir Francis Drake of England who generated vast wealth for the English crown through attacking the cargo ships of Spain at the time when Spain was plundering the civilisations of South America. Later ensued the various wars to become the primary beneficiary of myriad peoples and nations on both the North and South American continents. Britain and France vied with one another for the spoils.
In Africa a great many colonial powers sought to gain footholds. Nations such as Portugal and Belgium along with France and Britain, the Boors of the Netherlands and a host of others who saw the potentiality for gains of many kinds in what were seen as ‘barbaric’ and ‘uncivilised’ peoples within that continent. In their wake came those who personified the third category of ‘superior’ westerners arriving to ‘improve’ what they found in Africa and other nations seen as requiring this fundamental ‘upgrade’. Customs of dress, modes of thinking, beliefs of all kinds, many elements of societal relationships and culture were to be swept away for ‘the greater good’ of dressing, thinking, believing and forming relationships and developing cultures which reflected the ‘better’ western kind.
The political and entrepreneurial business elites seeking wealth, influence, personal and national benefit generated massive funds through all these enterprises and activities with which to fuel their national development. The more the individuals involved succeeded in benefiting themselves the more they benefited their elites at home who in turn were able to develop their societies. In this way initial concepts of western superiority became ever more enhanced and embedded. Along with this process came the affluence which generated a patrician view which felt idealistic to those who had so benefited from the genocide (of the Native Americans), the slavery of millions of Africans, the myriad gains of colonialism and the believed to be civilising effects of religious conversion.
So we arrive at the present day through the many generations since the activities described above. And we arrive with all the most positive aspects of them emphasised in just about every aspect possible and from every quarter, generating, I would argue, a deep subliminal level of conditioning to believe in our own superiority over others that has become almost completely subconscious. We simply ‘feel’ it in almost every fibre of our being. This has erupted at times as overt racism as seen in the generations who suffered from this in North America in particular. But, I suspect if you dare look closely at your own mentality you cannot help but find certain elements and notions of superiority in your own outlook. This I know exists within myself and is an almost inescapable and very likely impossible facet of my being to eliminate. This due to the vast and I would argue all-pervasive and deeply embedded conditioning that derived its power and ubiquity from a desire to cast the very best light on what had been done, counting almost everything related to the past as achievements rather than crimes.
But let us come fully up to the present day and the era of war we have entered. I will argue that notions of exceptionalism in the USA and superiority in the UK, invested to most but not to a totality of extent in their elite superstructure. The notion that we are the crown of creation almost, guided by God, righteous and noble, sensitive, idealistic and desiring to transform lesser beings and societies into some image of ourselves, remains very strong in us. Our relative wealth makes us feel the interventions we make outside of our own national borders are a kind of duty we owe humanity, doing good, expressing the patrician view of lords and ladies toward the unwashed and misguidedly ignorant masses.
In the pursuit of such ‘benefits’ to other peoples, societies and nations there are none so fervent in their desire to do so than those who have taken the name of ‘neoconservatives’. I would argue that these neoconservatives, or neocons as they are often called, are, since 9/11 in the predominant elite positions across the western world. These are the modern day interventionists who stand in place of the sometimes well-intentioned (by their own lights) settlers, slavers, colonialists, outgoing entrepreneurs and missionaries of the past. They have many attitudes in common with those who justified their activities that had such devastating effects on nations other than their own which they conceived the right to intervene in.
Over the past two decades we have seen one violent intervention after another initiated by those who professed that they were ‘doing good’ by such interventions and that they had a vision to bring ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ to those who laboured under distinctly inferior conditions to their own. These new missionaries knowing best what was good for others had and still have tremendous zeal and are indeed modern-day zealots for their cause. Mike Pompeo who was for several years President Trump’s Secretary of State is one such example, a born-again evangelical Christian who believes we are in what is called ‘The End Days’ and who awaits the great ‘rapture’ on the re-arrival of Jesus Christ on Earth.
Coming right up to present time we now have confronting us the wars and threat of wars that reveal what I call the ‘End Game War’, the fight to the death, winning or losing all, of those who conceive their way of life is so vastly superior to all others that they would risk the destruction of the entire planet rather than back down and accept the right of other peoples and nations to have their own sovereign evolution. This, as I see it, is what is going on and has been going on in recent times, particularly since the events of 9/11.
Western elites of all kinds have long considered themselves superior. I hope I have demonstrated this sufficiently above. These attitudes have to a great degree also filtered down to the citizens of their nations, particularly so in the cases of the USA and UK, but also in France and other nations that share (even if subconsciously) surviving elements of abiding western myth, ‘The White Man’s Burden’. Western elites, subconsciously or otherwise, quite clearly conceive that they are the true guardians of civilised behaviour, holding as they do what they see as the ‘best’ systems of governance, the ‘best’ forms of societal rules in regard to regulating their societies and so forth. Due to these notions of exceptionalism and superiority and the concomitant desire to do ‘good’ by transforming all people, societies and nations into our mirror-image we in the West share much in common with those who acted in this manner previously for ‘all the best possible reasons’ as seen by them.
In particular, Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia and essentially all nations not accepting de facto rule by the West, are candidates for proactive intervention, undermining and weakening, the creation of sufficient internal chaos, penury or civil war to effect the goals, both short and long-term of the new high priests demanding change among those they define as inferior, the neoconservatives who have commanded the heights of political power in the West since 9/11. Post 9/11 it was certainly decided by this breed of warriors that no system of governance not corresponding to their needs of safety in perpetuity could be tolerated. Now it was not only personal or state good that was to be used to justify international intervention whether packaged as idealistic pursuits or not, now the until those moments assured superiority of power, of the western world was under threat. Therefore ALL individuals, societies and nations not agreeing to be allied to and dominated by the western powers were to be eliminated.
This is where we are now in my opinion. In a world where one group of nations which has always conceived of itself as ‘top dog’, guardians and warders of our world, global policemen and women, warriors for idealistic concepts regarding human freedoms and rights, see their influence waning. The long-held power to dominate is slipping from the grasp of those who have long conceived themselves to be the rightful judge, jury and executioner when it comes to the lesser mortals of other realms. This is, in my opinion, the overarching motivation for just about all we see occurring now within the war fought on many fronts by the western powers… not only to shore up their waning power base, but to increase and expand it to the level I regard as paralleling what would eventually become a de facto prison planet overseen (for the ‘best possible motives’) by them. This they clearly believe is their rightful place in the world and conceive it to almost be their inalienable right, a benevolent dictatorship in the name of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’.
If they succeed I have no doubt we will arrive at the virtual prison planet I mention above, a planet where satellites monitor so much more than even now, where powers exist to strike down at any nascent threat or those perceived as such by the new powers-that-be. Any and all resistance to the domination of the western elites would be quickly snuffed out by one means or another. Surveillance would exist below just as it would from above, citizens will report those who appear to harbour ‘incorrect’ thoughts and who make doubtful relationships with others. The cancel culture of today will be as nothing compared to the tools used to undermine those not conforming to the required ‘norm’ of those future days.
If the USA, UK, EU and Australia, along with Japan and a few others, succeed in their ambitions against virtually all other nations to effect overall success in bringing to a close the ‘End Game War’ in their favour with all “enemy” nations vanquished I would invite you to contemplate how they would manage the resulting ‘peace’. And to ask yourself if it would be a true peace at all or true freedom, or true democracy either. All as a result of a desire to transform others by the West whatever the justifications, the protestations of idealism, posited goodness and well-meaning desires… all of course which have been seen in every case where catastrophe of one kind or another ensued in the past.
These are the reasons why I believe that westerners require to be saved from themselves… and most probably economically and therefore militarily quarantined in order to do so. What is the alternative? A ruined world ravaged by constant war, the end of all hopes of a sustainable peace for any foreseeable future where the zealots of Washington and London’s Whitehall having dispensed with dialogue and diplomacy foment war against their perceived “enemies” everywhere with no limit in mind regarding the level of escalation they are willing to contemplate.
So I ask the question for all our sakes…
DO WESTERNERS NEED SAVING FROM THEMSELVES?
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