This is a post to clarify my treasonous optimism, and an invitation to you to help build a better tomorrow. This is a moment when the system which hates us is clarified.
I do qualify my optimism with some doom, for you doom-lovers out there. Yet the main event here is that the grotesque spectacle of our “democracy” is nearing its finale.
There is danger, but there is also the end of great evils in sight. What a time to be alive.
THE SHOW IS OVER
I think the United States is facing the greatest strategic defeat in its modern history. I do not believe what the leadership is saying. Neither do they. The scale of this disaster has shocked them out of self hypnosis.
Just look at Antony Blinken’s face. Does Kuleba look happy about Blinken’s “bridge” to NATO membership? The US has been building that bridge for sixteen years. Neither men believe in this teenage dream.
I explained why we are not facing WW3 as a result here1.
I do not think we face a third world war versus Russia in Ukraine. There is no industrial basis for this and no counterforce in Europe.
I think NATO is finished, and whatever it does now can only make it fall faster.
A new world has emerged, and it is not the one that the global architects planned. Contact with the enemy has wrecked this plan.
The enemy is reality. The plan to reshape it has failed.
Moltke, Bismarck’s General, said this in 18712
“Kein Operationsplan reicht mit einiger Sicherheit über das erste Zusammentreffen mit der feindlichen Hauptmacht hinaus.”
“No plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.”
He also said
“Only the layman believes that in the course of a campaign he sees the consistent implementation of an original thought that has been considered in advance in every detail and retained to the end.”
The bullshit you see as “news” is for the layman. There is no plan to ride to the rescue in Ukraine.
In reality, we are witnessing collapse. Something like the fall of the Soviet Union. It is underway, the sounds of alarm are genuine, but they are the cries of a desperate plutocracy reduced to the bitter lees of the winepress.
The future they fear is not to their taste. They are terrified of “populism” - the opposite effect of their “Liberalism”. This cannot be stopped.
The “Deep State” mechanisms are all calibrated to the sale of a product that is no longer popular. Its brand is ruined, its power now increasingly limited to the terrorising of its domestic populations. It will not fall as fast as the front men, but without them it has no acceptable public face to sell its “centrist extremism”.
What is more, people are on to them. The Deep State is mainstream news. This is never good news for the spooks. People are sick of fear.
I think we are developing herd immunity to this mind virus.
THE FATE OF TANTALUS
The loss of Russia to the US-led system was never costed, as anything but victory was unimaginable. Its price is everything.
I think Project Russia was about absorbing a defeated Russia into the US-led global system. I also think this project was appealing because it would hand Russia’s national banking system and near limitless mineral resources to a bankrupt West.
A land border with China would be a bonus, of course. The dazzle of this prize made a Tantalus of all our leaders.
His punishment by the Gods was to suffer a desire he could never satisfy, with the object of his insatiable want to remain before him, just out of reach, for eternity.
He was tantalised for being unworthy of the favour he had enjoyed, to spend forever in the hell of the ancients, Tartarus.
THE SUBJECTS OF DESIRE
In my view it is not the myth of Sisyphus which exemplifies our absurd condition. Whether that of Camus or of Roszak, who updated the archetype to have man chained to the machine that rolls the rock forever, man is not spent in pointless labour but expended in insatiable desire.
It is Tantalus who was master of the ruler and the ruled.
A system forever inflamed with what it did not have, glutted but never satisfied, agonised in the futile grasp for more.
Desire and its rights have displaced life with death, and made of killing a virtue and a duty. The unborn, the old, the sick, the poor, the victims of the plunder wars - all laureled with ethics. The politics of national suicide were at least sincere. We did not, however, die fast enough to make ends meet.
There is fight left in the just and there is justice in this fight. It begins with your family and ends with that of your fellow men. I think everyone a friend who stands against this Satanic machine3.
We can work out our differences when it is gone. First it must be seen to finish. Until that time, my only politics is an end to the means of the enemies of mankind4.
Perhaps in some cases separation is better: certainly a mutual respect in place of manufactured hatred and division. Absent the infliction of mass insanity as civic duty, a surprising opportunity for flourishing appears.
DOOM INTERLUDE
It is to be remembered that the people aiming to build the Temple on the site of the Al-Aqsa mosque are determined to bring about armageddon.
This is the invocation of Satan, of course. These people are not only mad, but dedicated to the supreme evil as a means of salvation. Some of them are in government, and they have a lot of influence with the people in yours, too.
You can read about that story, which is too crazy to satirise, here.
This lobby of influence, well documented by bigots such as Max Blumenthal, is also past its zenith. It too has sought to seize beyond its grasp, and may well end up with nothing as a result.
Sane people must remove their finger from the nuclear button.
It is antisemitic to think Israel should stop killing civilians and calling that a “war”, even when they are killing your own. Just ask Alan Duncan MP what happens when you question why some British government members are “Israel extremists”.
Israel killed one American and three British last week, striking separate humanitarian aid vehicles three times with different drones to do so over a route almost 2 kilometres long. They call this a mistake, and the US/UK say they should investigate themselves for this crime. These are the rules of the rules based order, the sensible centrism of the Liberals.
Watch this video from Jose Andres, the Spanish chef behind the World Central Kitchen operation, whose workers bringing food to the intentionally starved population of Gaza changed vehicles three times after each was successively struck by air strikes. The third strike killed seven people.
The aim here is to kill anyone trying to prevent famine engineered by Israel.
Israel is the number one threat to world peace and is, according to Andres, “waging a war against humanity”. He is right.
This war may expand to engulf us all. In fact, escalation is Netanyahu’s strategy.
All of this stops when the US halts the supply of weapons to Israel, which has been described as “A messianic dictatorship with nuclear weapons”.
It should also secure the Israeli nuclear arsenal, to prevent the initiation of the “Samson Option”.
Again, I have discussed this criminal state inspired by armageddonists here.
WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
The US and its system is bankrupt in every sense. Its control of the world has slipped away, and it cannot maintain its corrupt system of patronage as a result.
This means less or no money for the expensive mistakes it has funded for decades.
What is called “woke” is maintained by money. It is a project of insane demands, a gilded husk of grievance. No one sane would choose to fund this. Now is a time of urgent needs, not frenzied desires.
Israel is conducting business as usual. This time, however, the world is watching. Its influence is spent, and it is a curse on anyone who supports it. I think the era of Zionist dominance is ending. How it ends is the question.
The forever wars are a means of washing money out of the subject nations of the US empire and into the coffers of the donor class.
This war has emptied the military inventories, and the attempts to magic more money into the machine have encountered technical difficulties.
No one is buying the bonds that back these new debts any more.
TODAY AND TOMORROW
Bullshit is a bad investment. The US system no longer controls the world’s capital, whether in fiat money or in fact. Tony Blair was the first of them to warn of this, saying for the first time in modern history the monopoly of world resources no longer belonged to the West.
He warned in July 20225 that
“We are coming to the end of Western political and economic dominance. The world is going to be at least bi-polar and possibly multi-polar.”
He was strident in his condemnation of populism. A Liberal, and a liberal interventionist, he cannot see that “populism” is simply the unpopularity of policies like his.
Blair is a model of the modern politician. He is vain to the point of blindness, and convinced with messianic certainty of the rightness of whatever he believes at the time he is saying it.
This used to work when the media worked for him. It doesn’t anymore. The sale of Twitter shifted the debate to include the ordinary views of ordinary people. These people are now “populists”. They would like to live in a sane society, not one of madness bannered with scolding slogans.
I think that is the society of tomorrow. I think there will be a tomorrow.
I think you can all help to make it better than today.
To those of you who pay me for this, thank you for supporting my work.
I would not be able to put all this time into getting on all these watch lists without you.
I am taking a week off to get babooned by my children, who are on holiday.
This means, I am told, that so am I.
See you next week.
Frank
I explain why we are not facing World War Three with Russia (at least this week) in an article I wrote on Antony Blinken’s remarks about Ukraine and NATO.
Defeat in Ukraine is the end for them, not for us.
Dr Maitra was kind enough to supply some exclusive comment. He is the man whose advice on NATO has shaped the (likely) incoming Trump administration’s grand strategy, which in turn will reshape the West. I interviewed him about this here.
1900, Moltkes Militärische Werke: II. Die Tätigkeit als Chef des Generalstabes der Armee im Frieden, , pp.287-291, Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Berlin, Germany.
For a splendid portrait of Moltke, Bismarck, and the aptly named August von Mackensen in his Prussian Totenkopf hat, see the Danish TV series 1864.
I think it very important to make friends now. Do this whenever you can.
We must take seriously the injunction to love one another. This does not mean “like”. I love lifting weights. I don’t like it, because it causes me extreme pain at times. Yet I have become inured to suffering. I also love my wife.
Debt slavery, mass psychosis through therapeutic education, donor class “politics”, permanent war, diabolical experiments in desire, the promotion of sickness as health in “antidepressants” and food-like fodder, addiction, hypersexualisation and the reduction of life to transactions are a few aspects of the machinery of death. Mankind has a higher spiritual purpose and that cannot be met in the absence of God.
Ditchley Lecture, July 2022, transcript at The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Great piece, Frank, thank you. It's a true challenge to be an optimist in this tortured environment of deception. (Btw, the 'here' link in Footnote #1 is to a private page.)
Thanks Frank. Beautifully said.