How Forever war captured America

The actions of factions have changed regimes at home and abroad

The Revolution of Dignity continues to deliver

In this long post, intended as a background to my series on Ukraine, I will examine some of the factionalism present in the US state, in foreign as in domestic policy.

This post is paywalled beyond the first part, providing some well deserved bonus content for my paid subscribers. The first part is my attempt to make sense of the propaganda picture surrounding what I will call Project Ukraine. I hope it is helpful.

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The rest of the post treats with particular interest the phenomenon of the neoconservative or ‘liberal interventionist’ faction. Their routine arrogance in the wake of uninterrupted policy disasters typifies a political hegemony which considers itself immune not only from a democratic process it specialises in subverting, but from the catastrophic and nation-wrecking consequences of their own policies.

I will show how these policies have not only ruined nations and destabilised entire regions abroad, but have also imported into the US the kind of debased and corrupted state level practices which they have used to such great effect across the world. The regime they have truly succeeded in changing is their own, that of the United States. As we shall see, neoconservative regime change means little more than ruin. The project has domesticated its unbroken record of disastrous results abroad, weakening its global reach and seriously undermining its strongest allies.

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Here are some features of this post.

• A brief analysis of Project Ukraine

• PAYWALL

• Freedom of speech is a danger to democracy

• What has happened to America?

• The diminishing power of the US presidency

• The factionalism of lived reality versus media fantasy

• More on the neoconservatives

• The National Endowment for Democracy - the CIA in action

• NED and regime change in Ukraine

• Curtis LeMay and the legacy of Vietnam

• Jewish identity and Eastern Europe

• A second Jewish perspective - Stephen Cohen, Henry Kissinger

• What next in the zero sum war game

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Project Ukraine - An attempt to make sense of a mess

The US has won the media war, as it did in its other adventures. That’s about it. This sort of thing may come out a bit more as project Ukraine winds down. The arms supply has slowed, the money pouring in is often routed out, the energy grid is collapsing. And so on.

It’s either drawdown or all in. Escalation or defeat, basically. The neocons will push for escalation as they have staked everything on Ukraine, which they openly admit was undertaken to topple Putin and enjoy cheap resources from the resulting client state. I don’t see any sign of this happening.

Human shielding, torture of civilians, unaccounted arms flooding in, and of course financial corruption have all been visible from March if you wanted to find it. War is cruelty and so on, but this one is especially so. How long does Zelensky last? How much of Ukraine remains at the end? What happens to the rump state?

If this seems excessive consider that France and Germany have resiled from their earlier position - supporting no negotiations till Putin is gone, and the return of all the regions including Crimea.

The latest media gambit is to propose a peace process without inviting the Russians, who are only to attend following a trial in The Hague. This measure is preposterous but allows for the message that “we are willing to hold peace talks” to be broadcast, as few people will look beyond that headline.

Apologies for comic sans

There is serious discontent brewing in Europe over the economic crisis resulting from the sanctions. This is a problem which will get worse, not better, should relations with Russia not improve.

Even Kissinger, who warned of the need to avoid a third world war, described the demonisation of Putin as the absence of a rational policy, saying we need the Russians.

The alternative is the economic ruin of Europe from which there will be no escape otherwise. I have written in depth on the gas market - which shows a worsening picture over the coming year. I will publish this analysis soon.

It is staggering to try to calculate the cost of this latest adventure. It includes the reduction of Europe to a deindustrialised economic backwater. The plan has failed, and has made casualties of the allies of the US in Europe, whilst forcing the Russians into the warm embrace of China. It is hard if not impossible to see a win for Europe in a hot or cold war.

Source? Reality.

I think Ukraine was a stepping stone to Russian regime change, itself a waypoint to war with China. Inasmuch as any of the wars make sense, this is the best I can make of it. The reputation and influence of the neocons may finally be at stake.

This is what I meant when I said months ago that the longer this goes on, the better it is for the Russians. It takes time for reality to filter through to the screen based fantasies of the western current thinger. It can’t be ignored when you can’t heat your house nor afford your food shopping.

Democratic values in action

I don’t think the Russians are going for stasis, but even if that is all they did, it will degrade the west to the point at which ideological alliances fracture under electoral and social upheaval. They have the mineral resources, manufacturing and supply lines to keep this up. We don’t.