Correct me if I am wrong, but Putin and Dugin have never met, and Dugin has never held any real position in the Russian government. I think he was a university instructor for a brief time.
I wonder what role the Iran-Iraq war played in this history, and who were the string-pullers. This war lasted from 1980 to 1988. It's odd that all memory of it seems to have vanished ...
I believe at a minimum 4 of those countries-Iraq Syria Libya & Iran did NOT have Central Banks at the time, and as we should all know here Uncle Samuel is the enforcement arm of the IMF-BIS.
IMF-international monetary fund (commie/fascist globalists)
BIS-Bank of international Settlements (commie/fascist globalists)
Fukuyama wrote two volumes: The Origins of Political Power & Political order and political decay, in which the main problem is the decaying US. Not a very well discussed piece of work in the media. I wonder why...?
Michael Every of RaboBank writes notes that're often featured on ZH. Today's note featured a lengthy quote from a professor of the Russian Institute of London (LOL) that states, long story short, that Putin's sold out Russia to Xi & China, and that Putin's essentially Xi's bitch. I frankly don't believe a word, but I must admit, the Xi smirk-sneer facial expression he often fronts, I find incredibly disconcerting!
Dugin is brilliant as no-doubt also was Mackinder, but like other big thinkers they fall prey to the tyranny of big ideas. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes the simplest explanation is best. The US seeks hegemony because it can and will. I think that the idea that without the neocons in charge that America would revert to peaceful isolation is unrealistic. However, your article is thought provoking and as usual has lots of interesting links and I thank you for writing it.
Wow!! Such a lot to digest here. This explains so much. I will be re reading this numerous times. One thing that caught my eye was your blue line from the coast of Lebanon to China. Perhaps the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983 was also a Straussian engineered salvo under the veneer of Islamic Terrorism?
Iran had American hostages for 444 days in 1979 plus and only released them on the day of Ronald Reagan inauguration? That was very convenient and quite the show on Jan 20, 1981. How did that deal go down ?
My days hanging out on The Saker certainly opened my eyes to many things I had just accepted without question prior. Now I am not as naive and much more cynical. Disgusted too may I add.
From the 30,000 ft perspective, US attempts to totally dominate the world have been a fool's errand, ultimately destined to fail. The US is essentially a powerful outpost, insulated by two oceans, possessing a large measure of resources (many of which it has already burnt through), the indisputably most powerful country in a hemisphere that has less than 15% of the world's population. For awhile it really was the dominant economic power in the world, but that ship has sailed. Now the US is relegated to exerting control by devious and destructive methods - regime change, undermining governments, economic bullying, threats, and in the case of Ukraine, supplying weapons. No matter what desperate tactics the US employs, they are now failing with more frequency. The US could still pull back, remain the dominant power in the America's, establish new relations with world powers OVER THERE in the old world, where the nexus of power and population now resides. It could still be a powerful country, co-existing with other powerful nations as peers, but the so-called leaders the US has today are incapable of making that leap. No matter what they try, it won't reverse the trend, which is inexorable.
The Jewish roots of the neocons goes far beyond Wolfowitz and Straus. Straus himself was a disciple of the Frankfort School, a small group of influential german Jewish academics who departed from traditional Marxism involving world conquest though a global uprising of the proletariat against the ruling bourgeoisie as country after country would be overcome with the proletariat revolution. The Frankfurt School lost faith in such an idea when it saw that after the Russian Bolshevik Revolution it was apparent that the proletariats were not at all inspired by the revolution and indeed even backed their rulers in war against the communists. So those founding members of the Frankfurt School found this phenomenon interesting and came up with the conclusion that the proletariats did not rebel because they were too tied to national borders, culture, traditions, history and foundational institutions such as the family and the church. The Frankfurt School realised that if the proletariat were to rise up they would first have to lose their connection to such institutions. Thus began the effort to attack the ruling system from within in a multi-generational 'war' that would cause the people of a country to lose their sense of history and culture, lose faith in their traditional institutions like marriage, family, church and government. A people without a history, culture and traditions would be a people ripe for manipulation. The countries of the West were the best targets for such an effort as these "democracies" could be easily manipulated, their cultures and traditions attacked as symbols of minority oppression and colonialism. Their primary focus was the educational system ythrough which tey would develop young people who would eventually infiltrate higher education and begin turning out primary and secondary school teachers to influence children from the time they started school through university and into the professions. The current chaos and 'woke' power in schools, universities, and even large corporations is largely the result of that work. Leo Straus and his followers have had a major part in influencing the foreign policy objectives of that school. And extremely wealthy individuals and leaders of multinational corporations and international bankers have had a major hand in the promotion of organisations like the WEF, carrying the cause of international communism to its logical end - world governance without national borders and a social system in which "you will own nothing and be happy".
This is a real eye-opener. Thank you! I've been involved in many philosophical discussions of late -- about Carl Schmitt for example -- but it's time to open our eyes and see the philosophy at the heart of US foreign policy.
Dugin appears to have reversed the historic players, America as Carthage? America is very much Rome, a modern version of it, from its organization; Republic, Senate, Branches, to the iconographic (heck Washington DC is a modern copy of the idea of Ancient Rome), and even ideals; Military, Plutocracy, Marketing. The founding fathers were very big fanboys of Rome.
Russia in this context is playing the role of the ''Barbarians'', always at the gates, always terrorizing poor civilized Roman citizens with their irrational barbaric ways.
Correct me if I am wrong, but Putin and Dugin have never met, and Dugin has never held any real position in the Russian government. I think he was a university instructor for a brief time.
I wonder what role the Iran-Iraq war played in this history, and who were the string-pullers. This war lasted from 1980 to 1988. It's odd that all memory of it seems to have vanished ...
I believe at a minimum 4 of those countries-Iraq Syria Libya & Iran did NOT have Central Banks at the time, and as we should all know here Uncle Samuel is the enforcement arm of the IMF-BIS.
IMF-international monetary fund (commie/fascist globalists)
BIS-Bank of international Settlements (commie/fascist globalists)
Thanks for the very informative link!
Thank you!
Fukuyama wrote two volumes: The Origins of Political Power & Political order and political decay, in which the main problem is the decaying US. Not a very well discussed piece of work in the media. I wonder why...?
great rundown!
I recall a lesson on the heartland and rimland in Afrotc studies around 1970
Awe, such detail, thank you, so very much❤️🇷🇺💙🐼🧡🐻
Michael Every of RaboBank writes notes that're often featured on ZH. Today's note featured a lengthy quote from a professor of the Russian Institute of London (LOL) that states, long story short, that Putin's sold out Russia to Xi & China, and that Putin's essentially Xi's bitch. I frankly don't believe a word, but I must admit, the Xi smirk-sneer facial expression he often fronts, I find incredibly disconcerting!
Dugin is brilliant as no-doubt also was Mackinder, but like other big thinkers they fall prey to the tyranny of big ideas. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes the simplest explanation is best. The US seeks hegemony because it can and will. I think that the idea that without the neocons in charge that America would revert to peaceful isolation is unrealistic. However, your article is thought provoking and as usual has lots of interesting links and I thank you for writing it.
Wow!! Such a lot to digest here. This explains so much. I will be re reading this numerous times. One thing that caught my eye was your blue line from the coast of Lebanon to China. Perhaps the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983 was also a Straussian engineered salvo under the veneer of Islamic Terrorism?
Iran had American hostages for 444 days in 1979 plus and only released them on the day of Ronald Reagan inauguration? That was very convenient and quite the show on Jan 20, 1981. How did that deal go down ?
My days hanging out on The Saker certainly opened my eyes to many things I had just accepted without question prior. Now I am not as naive and much more cynical. Disgusted too may I add.
From the 30,000 ft perspective, US attempts to totally dominate the world have been a fool's errand, ultimately destined to fail. The US is essentially a powerful outpost, insulated by two oceans, possessing a large measure of resources (many of which it has already burnt through), the indisputably most powerful country in a hemisphere that has less than 15% of the world's population. For awhile it really was the dominant economic power in the world, but that ship has sailed. Now the US is relegated to exerting control by devious and destructive methods - regime change, undermining governments, economic bullying, threats, and in the case of Ukraine, supplying weapons. No matter what desperate tactics the US employs, they are now failing with more frequency. The US could still pull back, remain the dominant power in the America's, establish new relations with world powers OVER THERE in the old world, where the nexus of power and population now resides. It could still be a powerful country, co-existing with other powerful nations as peers, but the so-called leaders the US has today are incapable of making that leap. No matter what they try, it won't reverse the trend, which is inexorable.
The Jewish roots of the neocons goes far beyond Wolfowitz and Straus. Straus himself was a disciple of the Frankfort School, a small group of influential german Jewish academics who departed from traditional Marxism involving world conquest though a global uprising of the proletariat against the ruling bourgeoisie as country after country would be overcome with the proletariat revolution. The Frankfurt School lost faith in such an idea when it saw that after the Russian Bolshevik Revolution it was apparent that the proletariats were not at all inspired by the revolution and indeed even backed their rulers in war against the communists. So those founding members of the Frankfurt School found this phenomenon interesting and came up with the conclusion that the proletariats did not rebel because they were too tied to national borders, culture, traditions, history and foundational institutions such as the family and the church. The Frankfurt School realised that if the proletariat were to rise up they would first have to lose their connection to such institutions. Thus began the effort to attack the ruling system from within in a multi-generational 'war' that would cause the people of a country to lose their sense of history and culture, lose faith in their traditional institutions like marriage, family, church and government. A people without a history, culture and traditions would be a people ripe for manipulation. The countries of the West were the best targets for such an effort as these "democracies" could be easily manipulated, their cultures and traditions attacked as symbols of minority oppression and colonialism. Their primary focus was the educational system ythrough which tey would develop young people who would eventually infiltrate higher education and begin turning out primary and secondary school teachers to influence children from the time they started school through university and into the professions. The current chaos and 'woke' power in schools, universities, and even large corporations is largely the result of that work. Leo Straus and his followers have had a major part in influencing the foreign policy objectives of that school. And extremely wealthy individuals and leaders of multinational corporations and international bankers have had a major hand in the promotion of organisations like the WEF, carrying the cause of international communism to its logical end - world governance without national borders and a social system in which "you will own nothing and be happy".
This is a real eye-opener. Thank you! I've been involved in many philosophical discussions of late -- about Carl Schmitt for example -- but it's time to open our eyes and see the philosophy at the heart of US foreign policy.
"Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.."
Dugin appears to have reversed the historic players, America as Carthage? America is very much Rome, a modern version of it, from its organization; Republic, Senate, Branches, to the iconographic (heck Washington DC is a modern copy of the idea of Ancient Rome), and even ideals; Military, Plutocracy, Marketing. The founding fathers were very big fanboys of Rome.
Russia in this context is playing the role of the ''Barbarians'', always at the gates, always terrorizing poor civilized Roman citizens with their irrational barbaric ways.
Thank you for this offering. I enjoyed every bit of it.