In this second post, I will argue that the crisis we inhabit in Western society can be largely attributed to a forty year policy to undermine competitor nations to the United States - whose origins I traced in part one.
This process was enabled by a domestic insurrection which has hijacked democracy, and whose helpmeets have been empowered to dismantle it.
This is the story of the decline of the West.
CONTENTS
WINING IS FOR LOSERS
END OF THE EVIL EMPIRE
WHY THE WEST WENT WOKE
EXTREME RIGHTS
THE DONOR CLASS WAR
AND END TO PROSPERITY
PREVENTING PEACE
A SHARP RIGHT TURN
THE EMPIRE OF LIES
WHEN WINNING MAKES FOR LOSERS
The Soviet Union kept the West honest. With an opponent whose values were Godless, illiberal and anti-consumerist, the West had a ready made contrast against which it could celebrate itself. The Soviet Union was, in the popular imagination, everything the West was not.
With the fall of the Soviet Union this mirror image vanished. As the neoconservatives sought to sell the merits of war over the peace dividend, a new contrast was required to distinguish the West from the enemies of democracy.
THE END OF THE EVIL EMPIRE
With a limited democracy of its own, and with obvious public appetite for consumerism, Russia had come to resemble Fukuyama's idea of "elections plus VCRs" - that combination of suffrage and cheap goods which had secured the supremacy of the values of the West.
With a resurgence of religious belief, Russia was not only becoming more "electoral" and consumerist, but was also no longer Godless. With its obvious limitations, the Russian model was nonetheless no longer a stark antithesis of the West.
How could the narrative of liberal supremacy be recast if the former enemy, whose overthrow you still seek, has now adopted your model?
WHY THE WEST WENT WOKE
This is the reason the West now stands for mass immigration and the rainbow flag. These two socially antagonistic issues have been adopted as a form of state level marketing.
It is a feature of the poverty of Western journalism that no attempt is made to explain the obvious cause and effect which explains mass migration to Europe.
The destruction of nations such as Iraq, Syria and Libya under the banner of "regime change" is the motor and gateway of mass migration to the UK and Europe.
The ideology of the West makes a virtue of explaining this necessary effect of nation wrecking. Every party of the liberal consensus describes criticism of open borders - and the rainbow lobby - as a form of extremism.
EXTREME RIGHTS
Extremism here is opposition to the "Open Society".
NGOs such as the Open Society Foundation - named after Karl Popper's book - exist to promote both mass immigration and LGBTQ issues as a rights-based vindication of the supremacy of this distortion of "The West".
Rights-based extremism is devastatingly effective method of dissolving social cohesion. This is the purpose of rights-based NGOs - a non governmental weapon to destroy nations from within. It is used as much at home as abroad, and it is called progress.
You can read more about how “rights based” grievance farming destroys nations here:
Since the 1980s, George Soros' Open Society Foundation has been implementing "Project Russia".
Initially based in Moscow, following legal measures to limit the activities of "foreign agents", Project Russia operates from New York.
I have written about Project Russia, and the allied policies of Western political managers here.
THE DONOR CLASS WAR
The framing of societies as "closed" versus the "open" West is a means of legitimising war and regime change operations against them. Attempts to halt this subversion at home and abroad are framed as extremism. The persecution of the Hungarian government is a case in point.
Why do these policies continue to be implemented regardless of election cycles? A powerful donor class stands to profit enormously from the industry of war and the plundering of the nations it destroys.
BlackRock, along with major banks, have an interest in buying Ukrainian farmland and in "reconstruction". The biggest corporation in the world has admitted its own role in promoting policies which have destroyed the prosperity of the West.
In its Outlook 2023, BlackRock conceded that the use of its enormous influence to promote Net Zero in industry, and secure "equity based discrimination" in workplaces, had contributed to the end of the Great Moderation.
This is the name given to the period of carefully managed rising prosperity and aspirations in the West begun under Reagan and Thatcher. BlackRock admits that the promotion of these ideological goals has destabilised and deskilled the West.
AN END TO PROSPERITY
The result has been deindustrialisation, economic chaos, energy crisis and the replacement of competence in every institution with the preferment of people for superficial characteristics.
This donor class includes the military industrial complex itself, whose vast profit making in the current and former regime change operations has been described as "obscene" and a "cardinal sin" by retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson.
The former Chief of Staff to then US Secretary of State Colin Powell maintains in the above video that the US is using the war in Ukraine, and the devastating energy sanctions, to establish control over Europe.
This control is of course necessary for the maintenance of an anti-Russian alliance. This control was the reason it that a peace deal agreed between Russia and Ukraine weeks after the war was sabotaged.
PREVENTING PEACE
Ukrainian sources reported this two years ago. It has been described as Russian propaganda ever since - right up to the point that Foreign Affairs admitted the peace deal was real a fortnight ago.
German news also took possession of the signed treaty, which was dismissed as a lie when Putin showed it to the South Africans in June 2023, saying
The Kiev authorities threw the peace treaty we agreed into the dustbin of history
The intervention of then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a sudden appearance in Kiev, is of course a coincidence which bears no relation to the equally sudden decision by Zelensky to abandon a deal so appealing he could not dream of it today. And so to an escalated war, instead of peace.
How is that going?
A SHARP RIGHT TURN
The decision to commit NATO to a proxy war was taken to maintain control of the destiny of Europe, and aimed to seize that of Russia.
Europe cannot survive without cheap Russian oil and gas. With Project Russia now failed, the European political establishment is facing wipeout, with the ECFR warning of a “sharp right turn” in June’s EU elections.
Its January 2024 report warns of
populist radical right parties gaining votes and seats across the EU, and centre-left and green parties losing votes and seats
which presents a threat to the EU itself, and
is likely to have significant consequences for European-level policies, which will affect the foreign policy choices that the EU can make, particularly on environmental issues, where the new majority is likely to oppose ambitious EU action to tackle climate change.
This is the reason for the renewed interest in narrative control. The world has turned against the number one foreign policy choice - Israel.
Former British Ambassador Craig Murray said on April 26th
The Western political elite, paid tools of the Zionist machine, are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians and ethnic cleansing of Gaza at a much deeper level than the people have yet understood.
He concluded
Times are not this dark by accident. They were designed to be this dark.
This is not the work of Netanyahu operating as a rogue.
It is the result of the machinations of a professional political class across the Western world welded to Zionism, with the supremacy of Israel as an article of fundamental belief.
I think fears about future cohesion are well founded. The Zionist lobby remains, but its cause is despised. The EU itself is fracturing.
The ideological bureaucracy of NATO is also doomed, itself being an instrument to enable a global supremacy whose unipolar moment has passed.
The situation abroad has departed from the plan. What remains is the regime that has changed at home. This is secured - for now - by information warfare.
If you would like to know more about the “ideological bureaucracy” of NATO, you can hear it from the man who coined the phrase here.
His ideas are behind Trump’s new policy of a “Dormant NATO”, and I interviewed him about this last November.
THE EMPIRE OF LIES
Without - and perhaps despite - renewed attempts at narrative control, populations in Europe look certain to call for a negotiated settlement in the war declared on themselves by their own governments.
61 percent of Germans supported a negotiated peace in Ukraine in 2023.
I think they have largely stopped asking what the people think now. The reason why is indicated in this report from the European Council on Foreign Relations, which plaintively asks
“How European leaders can maintain public support for Ukraine.”
The problem is that very few people still believe “Ukraine is winning”.
The answer, of course, is more propaganda.
Noting the sad fact that people have noticed reality, the report recommends the creation of a new one.
Leaders in Ukraine and their allies need to find a new way of making the case to continue public support for Ukraine.
They should root this in a reality in which Europeans do not want Russia to win, but are not feeling particularly heroic either.
It also warns that Trump must be prevented from posing as “the party of peace”, even if he makes it.
In the event of a Trump victory in November, it will be vital for Ukrainians and their European allies to develop a narrative that prevents Trump – and Putin – from posing as the ‘party of peace’ in a conflict whose outcome is still far from decided.
With the end of the shooting war in sight, the ECFR is telling you that the information war will not end with it.
The battle to frame the meaning of a ‘durable peace’ will thus be crucial.
The reason why these policies continue regardless of elections is that all foreign and domestic policy goals must ultimately align with Project Russia - which is regime change.
The near limitless mineral wealth and state owned banking system is a valuable prize to a system bankrupted by plunder and utopian fantasy.
These imperial dreams - of a single system dominating the world - have created an empire of lies. This system is breaking down, while the lies intensify.
This is where we are now.
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I saw a quote (I forget the attribution) that really stuck with me. A bit glib, but sometimes the truth is simply, simple.
"Propaganda serves the same role in a democracy as force does in a dictatorship."
Given all the bleating we hear constantly about muh precious democracy* and the propaganda levels that shouldn't even be possible we are experiencing, I see nothing to gainsay the referenced quote.
I suppose we should take heart though, the dictatorship is most violent right before its end so we can (optimistically) theorize that our "democracies" are doomed as well.
*A democracy being defined as a political system where the wishes of the governed bear no resemblance to actual government policy.
Excellent post. Thanks. Its so important to step back and take this kind of "macro" level approach to understanding what is happening. It is all to easy to find oneself endlessly bogged down in the minutia of each and every bit of "individual issue" crazy while failing to grasp the "big picture." Examining each puzzle piece is important in its own right - but assembling them and trying to understand the "image" they reveal is what is most important.