“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another”
Hamlet
Today’s post is about how sanity is designated as sickness, to brainwash Western populations into compliance with policies of national suicide and international genocide.
The example of NATO is given to illustrate how a delusion is maintained to market the machinery of insanity and destruction - as a patriotic duty.
I begin with examining how an idea called “conflict resolution” has arisen to define dissent from the destructive delusions of Liberal government as something to be cured - by propaganda.
The real conflict today is not confined to the wars on which the Liberal elite depend for their livelihood. It is between the fantasies of the rulers, and the reality of the ruled.
In the realm of military conflict, the resolution is more war - vouchsafed by propaganda.
This is why there is a sustained campaign to defend NATO, whilst nothing is done to defend its member-nations borders.
CONTENTS
Part One: Gaslighting the West
THERAPEUTIC EDUCATION
MANAGED INTO DECLINE
Part Two: The NATO delusion
NATO HYSTERIA
THE DIPLOMATIC DEFICIT
WHAT IS NATO FOR?
A FATEFUL ERROR
THE COST OF NATO
THE METHOD OF MADNESS
PRO-WAR, ANTI-WINNING
CAN NATO WIN?
Part Three: The Patriotic Duty of Insanity
MADNESS AND CIVILISATION
INSTINCT VERSUS INDOCTRINATION
THERAPEUTIC EDUCATION
One fascinating concept I have learned from reading Irving Kristol1 is his concept of the origins of “conflict resolution”.
In his outrageously titled essay of 19992 he noted the origins of this concept.
According to this branch of social science, ethnic, racial or religious conflicts are the result of bias, prejudice, misunderstanding or ignorance.
The vision of politics derived from this kind of social science can fairly be described as “therapeutic,” as it assumes that ethnic, religious or racial conflicts can be resolved by educational therapy that will uproot the psychological causes of the conflict.
I think this observation explains much of the nature of political power in the West today. A campaign of “education” is directed, versus the population and its undesirable conclusions, which often designates unwelcome views as some form of paranoid, bigoted or dangerous malaise.
In fact, these are simply reactions to the enormous damage caused by the domestic and foreign policies of Western governments - suffered by their own populations.
MANAGED INTO DECLINE
The conflict our therapeutic education is intended to resolve is that between itself and reality.
It is obvious that our political leadership has managed the entire West into a precipitous decline. Is this what NATO is designed to defend?
If so, who will fight for it to do so?
No propaganda is powerful enough to conceal this fact. Measures to censor the opinions of the public on social media are the last resort of the management of public opinion.
The “conflict” requiring “resolution” here has been created by the policies of our governments. The “cure” is to saturate you with propaganda.
This creates a second order conflict - between the propaganda and reality itself.
NATO HYSTERIA
One significant aspect of this schizotypal situation is the hysteria over the proposed revision of the US role in NATO.
Trump’s position is that the US pays for NATO and should not replace domestic European responsibilities in so doing.
This is true, and the second point is a fair one. Europe’s armies have shrunk to insignificance and their presence on Russia’s borders reduces to that of a “tripwire” to trigger US intervention.
Why then the outcry? Neocons such as John Bolton in the US have joined European leaders to condemn any move towards European military independence from the US, which would also free Europe from the replacement of diplomacy with bombing.
THE DIPLOMATIC DEFICIT
The prospect of European home rule has outraged its leaders. Why?
Thirty years of dependence on US military supremacy has left the West with no serious diplomats.
Diplomacy is a forgotten language to these people.
To return to a world which requires diplomacy is to expose our leadership’s limitations.
Their talents are limited to appearing in Ukraine-coloured twinsets and stunning pantsuits, to issue ridiculous boasts and threats - and then to retreat beneath the US military umbrella to pop champagne corks.
To people such as Ursula von der Leyen, NATO offers a desirable sinecure. It is a place into which failed politicians are promoted.
What else is NATO for?
THE PURPOSE OF NATO
Lord Ismay, the first head of NATO, said in 1948 its purpose was to
“keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”3
The Soviet Union collapsed between 1989 and 1991.
Why is NATO still fighting a war which ended over three decades ago?
In the mid 1990s Bill Clinton decided, under pressure from the Baltic republics, to begin a programme of NATO “enlargement”.
Since then, NATO has doubled in size, from 16 members to 324.
NATO’s purpose, after the fall of the Soviet Union, is to expand.
This is how all bureaucracies survive - “expand or die”.
A FATEFUL ERROR
Writing in 1997, George F Kennan said in the New York Times5 that NATO expansion would be
“The most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold-war era”.
He maintained it would inflame nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion and have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy.
It was under Clinton that this decision was taken. It was also Clinton who used NATO to bomb Serbia for 77 days, in a move reminiscent of the plot of the film Wag The Dog - where a US President starts a war to distract from his own sex scandal6.
This is not the only example of NATO being used to make a career move on behalf of US power.
Prescient as he was, even Kennan could not predict that under NATO, the USA would attack the infrastructure of its major European ally, Germany - destroying its economy and by extension, destabilising the entire European Union. This was done to secure US dominance in Europe.
The “fateful error” of the US/NATO provocation of Russia became policy - in the neoconservative strategy to remove Putin and collapse his empire.
The costs of this intentional error have been borne by Europe, whose fate has been shaped by the attendant sanctions on its own cheap energy supply.
WHAT PRICE NATO?
The cost of membership of NATO has been devastating for Europe.
It has been disarmed by donations to Ukraine and dependence on the US
It cannot negotiate with the great power on its borders
Now, it cannot secure its own energy supply
What industry it had is vanishing in this changing climate, with NATO’s dead hand on the thermostat.
When relations return to room temperature, no one in Russia will negotiate with the current crop of liberal interventionist leaders. They will have to go.
What the neocon war faction in the US shares most with the ruling elites of the liberal parties of Europe is a dependence on this ideological bureaucracy.
NATO is the vehicle which armours their fantasies, their income and unmerited prestige, against reality and the consequences of incompetence.
Without a US-led NATO in Europe, these people have no future.
To secure their own, they are destroying yours.
THE METHOD OF MADNESS
Recent stories about mass conscription are simply attempts to scare Western populations into compliance with the NATO business model.
Like an abusive parent, the Liberal elite are using their media power to terrify their people into demanding further measures to destroy their own way of life.
This destruction will not come from an immediate war with Russia. It is accelerated by vast borrowing, commenced under lockdown, to finance the Ukraine war. It will come from the continued application of the politics of national suicide, to whose ideology NATO is itself committed.
This war has failed. Russia has not been defeated, and it won’t be destroyed.
To prepare the public for the inevitable humiliation in Ukraine, which has come at the needless cost of countless lives and vanished tens of billions of dollars, the bogeyman of Russian expansionism is being raised.
NATO: PRO-WAR, ANTI-WINNING
It is a proven fact that the war could have ended in March 2022 with an agreement brokered by Israel and Turkey to guarantee Ukrainian neutrality.
This treaty was sabotaged by then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson - whose governing party has continued to shrink the British Army.
Any attempt to repair European military capacity will have to be paid for with vast borrowing. Germany has no means of doing so beyond 2027. It faces an insoluble budget crisis.
The survival of NATO depends on the fostering in the public mind of a coming war with Russia.
Ultimately, NATO cannot continue unless it makes this threat credible. It is a dangerous thing to wish for. The cost of this self-service by NATO will include spending cuts and vast borrowing in the UK and in Europe.
The aim is to terrorise the populations of the West into yet another round of vast borrowing. As with lockdowns, the cost to society will be enormous.
We know how safe and effective was the covid regime, which has already bankrupted much of the West. What will NATO provide for this new debt mountain?
CAN NATO WIN?
Since the height of the Cold War, and to the present day, there has never been a moment when war planners in the West agreed that NATO could win a land war against Russia7.
Six years ago RAND demonstrated to the US Congress that, given denial capabilities including nuclear missiles and overwhelming ground superiority, Russia could overwhelm the Baltic republics in 72 hours8.
Throughout the Cold War, the US privately conceded that only massive strikes with strategic nuclear weapons could halt a Russian led advance across Europe, leaving it destroyed.
NATO was in essence a defensive alliance against the threat of Soviet invasion. This threat has vanished. NATO has since become offensive, expanding to reflect US imperial ambitions. In so doing, it provokes another war it cannot win.
MADNESS AND CIVILISATION
In this process the US and the West have forgotten the basic principles of statecraft and have neglected the heavy industry required to sustain an extended campaign at the kind of scale required for a land war with Russia.
In summary, NATO in its current form projects an ideology of fantasy as power, the posturing of whose proponents endanger us all with repeated provocations.
NATO is currently led by a United States which handsomely funds an ongoing genocide, having destroyed Iraq at the behest of the Israel lobby, and against the advice of the former head of NATO9.
It is in the interests of national survival, and of sanity itself, that this organisation no longer offers refuge to the inmates of a political asylum which has managed all of our lives into decline.
At the moment, to oppose the destruction of your own nation is extremism. To ask why so much money can be spent on the defence of Ukraine by nations indifferent to the invasions of mass migration is counted as treason.
What is the point of armies, of navies, when we cannot defend our own borders?
How long can our welfare states survive with exponentially rising demand?
Where has all the money gone?
INSTINCT VERSUS INDOCTRINATION
The lifeboat is sinking. It is being scuttled by our leaders, who tell us we are traitors if we complain of drowning.
It is a strange irony of our times that it is the insane who prescribe a sort of mass psychological therapy to those who notice their policies are deranged.
The purpose of “educational therapy” is to replace the certain knowledge of the senses with self doubt, dependence, and then submission.
It replaces even the most basic instincts with condescending alibis. The natural revulsion of perverse practices is now a hate crime. The horror at child sexualisation is problematic and transphobic. Kinship and ingroup preference, practised worldwide, is a sin to the indigenous populations of the West.
Even the smallest mouse knows their life may depend on supplying the right answer to the basic question of “approach or avoid”.
The Liberals, the teachers of humanity, have replaced this instinct with an obligation to fatal ignorance.
This basic instinct alone would prompt aversion to the policies of national suicide and extermination defended in Israel, in Ukraine, and throughout the anti-natalist and open-borders West.
Instinct, together with any other foundation of sanity, is the enemy of Liberal political power.
What has happened to our civilisation? The people who direct its course have become completely detached from the awful reality created by their fantasies.
The enemy is not abroad. It is not confined to the self-serving NGOs and vast corporations, themselves part of a machine which is devouring everything of value in life to keep itself alive.
The enemy is at home. You see them on the television every day. The enemy is the political establishment. Its war is waged on you.
There is no amount of educational therapy that will make their poison taste like medicine again.
Irving Kristol is described as the “Godfather of Neoconservatism”. Unlike his son William, who co-founded the Project for the New American Century with bloated obscenity Robert Kagan, Irving Kristol could think.
The Kagan family business is war. There is also Victoria Nuland, Kagan’s wife, and his brother Frederick - who is a member of the Institute for the Study of Wars Started By His Family. It was founded by Frederick Kagan’s wife, Kimberley Kagan.
Frederick Kagan is the man who pushed for the troop “surges” in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
Consortium News in 2015 ran an excellent piece by the late Robert Parry on the Kagan-Nuland “Family Business of Perpetual War” here.
“On the Political Stupidity of the Jews”, Irving Kristol, Azure, Autumn 1999, no. 8. Kristol’s subheading read
“Whether in America or in their own sovereign country, Jews still have no idea what statecraft is.”
Well, not quite yet. It will be 32 when - if? - Hungary agrees to Sweden joining.
“A Fateful Error”. George F Kennan, New York Times, Feb 5th 1997
“Is Kosovo Clinton’s Most Dangerous Wag-the-Dog Exercise?”Center for Security Policy March 27, 1999
“Why are we “in” Serbia? Appalling as it may be, the answer that seems increasingly
unavoidable is that Mr. Clinton’s decision to intervene over Kosovo was motivated more by his well-established determination to save his own skin.
It is but the latest in example of a Clintonian “wag-the-dog” exercise, of a piece with his earlier highly debatable uses of military power in Afghanistan, Sudan and Iraq to divert attention from domestic travails that appeared to threaten his presidency.”
“Inside NATO's Crazy Cold War Plan to "Win" a War Against Russia” - National Interest, October 11th 2019
“Even before the guns fell silent in Europe in 1945, it became apparent to American and British planners that the Soviet Union would hold a massive advantage in land power along the Central front.”
This assessment is drawn from Blueprints for Battle: Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968
The late Carl Builder’s RAND Corporation study The Masks of War highlighted the dangerous gap between US military self perception and capability which bedevils its operations to this day.
His work shows that soldiers and military analysts in the 1980s had little confidence in NATO’s belief that it could halt an assault by the materially superior Warsaw Pact.
“Limiting Regret and Deterring Russian Aggression in the Baltic States” RAND Corporation video , Timothy Bonds and David Shlapak: presented before the House Armed Services Committee, March 2017
Shlapak, co-director of the RAND wargaming center, said
“NATO is completely unprepared to defend these states against Russian aggression”.
Bonds went further and said
“This may have been the first time that we could see we would suffer a catastrophic strategic defeat”.
Retired four-star US Army General and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark said in an interview prior to the Iraq war:
"Those who favor this attack [by the US against Iraq] now will tell you candidly, and privately, that it is probably true that Saddam Hussein is no threat to the United States.
But they are afraid at some point he might decide if he had a nuclear weapon to use it against Israel."
The report from The Guardian in August 2002 also notes
“And they had been arguing for the attack long before September 11, he said.”
Who are “they”? Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz - and Benjamin Netanyahu - among others. A report from 1996 suggests an
“…effort [that] can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right...”
This is taken from the policy paper A Clean Break - A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”, archived here.
Perle produced the report for Netanyahu. In August 2002,
“Israel signalled its decision yesterday to put public pressure on President George Bush to go ahead with a military attack on Iraq, even though it believes Saddam Hussein may well retaliate by striking Israel.”
Then in February 2003, Israeli news was reporting
"The [Israeli] military and political leadership yearns for war in Iraq”
The war was launched the following month, based on “fear and false belief” - a depressingly familiar modus operandi.
In Finland Sanna Marin was the youngest prime minister ever anywhere. We had high hopes for her as she wrote 10+ years earlier as a younger social democrat party member that vaccine manufacturers used fear to market their products. She then wound up doing exactly the same with covid. In the in between years she went for YGL training.
There was also a scandal when she was partying with coke heads, and flirting with other guys while married with a young child. Says she was whispering to someone and this resulted in loads of cartoons with her and the guy with an ear growing from his neck. Another leaked picture shows a couple of her female acquaintances making out in her office closet.
Since leaving office she now works at a think tank run by Tony Blair and partly financed by some Middle East prince who is famous for human rights abuses.
https://www.tiktok.com/@catchupnews/video/7231970132954746154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21A3tS6_vs
“Kinship and ingroup preference, practised worldwide, is a sin to the indigenous populations of the West”
Frank, you have an uncanny way of unravelling the propaganda-lies-that we have been subjected to. It seems so very obvious when you state it, yet we have been conditioned to think badly of ourselves for feeling what’s utterly normal and rational. Thank you, Frank. Your work is vital right now. Please keep going! 🙏