Actually, the so-called Zio-Nazis have chosen India—not China—as their preferred Asian partners.
Recently, Israel awarded India control over its strategic Haifa Port rather than competing bidders like China and Turkey. This was due in part to American pressure to hand over the port to India rather than China. The Indians are even boasting about the strategic significance of India control over Haifa Port as part of its broader anti-China policy.
India Controlling Israel’s ‘Strategic’ Haifa Port Is A Part Of New Evolving Regional Strategy To Keep China At Bay
What’s more, India is part of the USA-led I2U2 Quad group (Israel, India, USA, UAE), which is a West Asian version of the USA’s other Quad group (USA, Australia, Japan, and India) in East Asia. The agenda of this I2U2 Quad is the same as that of the other Quad group: anti-China containment.
What many geopolitical armchair “analysts” apparently still haven’t realized is that India has stealthily become Israel’s arch strategic ally in Asia over the past decade.
Indeed, India is even aping the Zionist apartheid state in both its domestic politics (with a repressive Zionist-style Hindu fascism) and the deployment of an India lobby (USINPAC) in the USA in strategic partnership with the infamous Israel lobby (AIPAC).
India once called Zionism racist. Today it moves to replicate it
Remarkably, I think that Israel is less Zianists than the neocons themselves, especially if you look at the way they reacted to the Russia / Ukraine war. Sure, the US is using them as a vessel for projecting their power, but I think uktimately Istael has less room to pursuit delusions of grandure, as the fight to extend US hegemonic power is not some far-off process for them, it brings the death and destruction right to their doorstep, and it often bleeds over. M
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.
As far as I've heard, you are right. The West adopted Durgin as a mascot because they thought they could use his language and imagery to paint Putin as an ultra nationalist of one sort or another.
Further, as I understand, Durgin does not even have a big following in Russia, although I think the wests use of him and the murder of his daughter by the SBU has attracted more attention to him within Russia.
The Article does point out that he has no formal connection or influence with Putin, but he still perhaps articulates a strand in Russian thinking...
I thought Dugin was even farther to the "right" than Putin? Same thing with Navalny. Dugin has a reputation for being an ultra-nationalist in what I've read about him at places like The Saker and Moon of Alabama. He wanted Putin to completely level Ukraine in the beginning rather than this long slow war of attrition, IIRC. But yeah, I always kind of saw him as a Putin critic, not an associate.
He taught philosophy at Moscow State University (if I recall correctly), but was dismissed for extremism in 2014, particularly for comments on post-coup Ukraine. Obviously he did not enjoy any special Putin protection of privilege.
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 ...
It was another American/Israeli attempt to gain advantage over Iran. The Americans supplied Saddam Hussein with weapons, including chemical weapons, and enticed him into attacking Iran. Iran eventually prevailed and the Americans conveniently forgot they had supplied Iraq with chemical weapons and encouraged Hussein to use them on the Iranians.
It wasn't just Israel (somewhat debatable about Israel actually supporting Iraq in the war as well tbh considering they bombed Iraq during the war) and the US that supported Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. Iraq was supported by basically the entire world including France, Germany, UK, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and even the Soviet Union. Technically Iraq also won the war as Iran were forced to sue for peace.
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!
Let's grant that you are right, re: "Both MODERN Russia&CHINA are Rothschild bitches".
How do you integrate that with the rest of your comment ? The inference I draw from the rest of your comment is that Putin/Russia and Xi/China are proceeding in what appears to be their own national interest: "Both MODERN Russia&CHINA are Rothschild bitches."
The MSM have been building the narrative that Russia is the junior partner in the ''relationship', they view everything as some kind of Domination match. They think this is some grand high IQ strategy of propaganda that will result in some kind of humiliation. Shows how little they understand that not everyone in the world views things as binary as the West does.
Thanks I'm familiar w/him and do miss The Saker, I am newer to this Geopolitical stuff. English opinions & spin on Russia mean very little to me, but Every is at least worth considering for a second. Just wanted Simplicius thoughts too.
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.
I agree, but it's the philosophy that is key to understanding our current predicament. It helps to recognize the philosophy guiding our foreign policy today.
You are correct. America has been imperialist since its founding. That never changed, though there were relatively short periods of isolation - but in the end they always reverted to Empire. The neocons, however, brought with them an added feature - Zionism, supporting Israel in its efforts to be the dominant power in the Middle East, and rebuilding the world through chaos (think the Great Reset, and "Build Back Better"), a long-held Zionist objective in their efforts to destroy the world and re-build it in their own image. Maurice Samuels once characterised the Zionist position exquisitely - "We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own." And they are using the USA to further that objective.
The quote and related commentary seems to conflate Jews with Zionists, and that is a big mistake IMO. Also, not also Zionists are the same. Better to stick with discussion of the philosophies as opposed to the ethnic identities of the people holding the philosophies.
Zionism IS a philosophy. And its fanatical adherents are not just a relative minority of Jews but many millions of Gentiles - Christian Zionists as an example. But the fact is that Zionism's roots lie squarely in Judaism.
Without USA projected power the NEOCONs would not be able to easily rape the world of its wealth and assume their long sought power to rule the world as their God-given right. Wthout the NEOCONs we would not be trillions of dollars in the hole.
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".
Well said : " The Frankfurt School realised that if the proletariat were to rise up they would first have to lose their connection to such institutions." And it appears that this culture war is reaching a culmination in the increasingly visible threat to the sovereignty of the US in the form of a federal union. I'm sure Oswald Spengler would agree with your statement.
It's not clear to me that we are seeing "the cause of international communism [brought] its logical end . . ." . The WEF and its minions look more like fascistic authoritarians in a poorly written sci fi movie. It must gall them that the US Fed has flipped them and the EU the finger.
From the Department of Unthinkable Possibilities: The now heretofore inconceivable likelihood that Israel's political current "leaders" in it's current fractured fairy tale polity will pursue a war with Iran to the point that its own military will take down the only "democracy" in the Middle East. See: "Elite officers in Israel's military plan walkout on Sunday in protest of judicial system overhaul," @ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/elite-officers-in-israels-military-plan-walkout-on-sunday-in-protest-of-judicial-system-overhaul
Good points. I never said any of these groupings would succeed in their end goals - only to point out some of the roots of the current disorder we are witnessing in the world today. Indeed, I believe they will fail, but not completely.
I have to admit that this is the most compelling description of the Frankfurt School i read in years but you are very off mark. You describe a „fantasy Institute“ devoted of historical and political context. If you are talking about the Institut für Sozialforschung / Frankfurt your description is pretty strange.
Much of valid critisim towards a post WW2 German society seems to get molded in to a „plan.“
And to be clear i am not even callenging what you wrote, but i advise weater be clear abut who sayd waht, when…
Look at the time and place were and when the institute was founded and by whom. What was left of values, religion, family, traditions, culture, politics, society? After the red armies liberation of Auschwitz? After Stalingrad? And all the endless stream of insanity?
Germany first of all devoured it self and yes the Proletariat went along (very complex subject that i could give alot a family context but i simply dont have the time now).
I grew up seeing the memorial tower (Glockenturm) of Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar every day. Weimar, the city of Bach, Ghoete, Schiller, Nietsche, Schopenhauer and so manny more. Next the Jena, City of Zeiss and Shott Glass.
Culture and barbarism!
This dialect is the key to early „Frankfurt School“. Adornos „Dialectics of Enlightment“ might be the key text to „understand“ Germanys frenzy.
This Franfurt School label became independent of much what the „Institute für Sozialforschung“ actually stands for. And there is tons of stuff that can be criticised.
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.
While the USA may indeed channel some of the 'spirit' of ancient Rome, in particular the hedonism, it's organisation is almost entirely a carbon copy of the Dutch Republic, which preceded the USA as the first modern republic by almost two centuries.
Just about everything the founding fathers did, including the declaration of independence and how the political system is organised, was taken directly from what the Dutch had done previously, with a bit of tweaking here and there to make it better fit their specific circumstances. There is almost nothing new or original about what those 'fathers' did. As they pretended otherwise, one might justifiably call them plagiarists.
The Dutch Republic itself has already been referred to in the above essay, and given its attributed role in the events described above, it is probably not a coincidence that its template was used.
Obliviously I meant its used as a basis for the US brand, the status as the new Roman Empire has been used by the British before, and then naturally followed by their offspring, the US. France, Prussia, The Nazis, even the Ottomans to a lesser extent have used that brand over the centuries. I'm not saying its valid, I personally find it ridiculous, but I am just pointing out the particular very aggressive "Roman Empire" narrative is one that is very ingrained into the American/European world view. The Romans were awful, aggressive bullies, seeing themselves as the chosen rulers of the world, exterminated countless peoples. Their way was one of domination and subjugation, assimilation only counted if you submitted and converted to their ways and worked for their benefit.
And so it appears that Russia (or at least Dugin) is also more enamored of the 'idea' of Rome. Not so many people would rather identify with Carthage these days. The Roman empire has many branches (or toes..?)
Dugin's comparison seems very artificial. Rome and Carthage were both part of the same Mediterranean geography, and their war was a result of both needing to eliminate the other for hegemony in the Mediterranean basin. This of course required a powerful navy, which the Romans initially lacked - having been preoccupied with subjugating the italic peninsula - but the pragmatic needs of survival dictated that they should become a naval power. But I see no real "dichotomy" in the Rome/Carthage confrontation, as they were both Mediterranean civilisations, like Greece and Phoenicia. Such comparisons in my opinion are either based on a poor understanding of the ancient world, or just meant to be sold to the popular imagination.
The true counterweight to the mediterranean world, in terms of both geography and civilisation, was the "continental" Iranian world, stretching from northern Mesopotamia and across the Iranian plateau to the Oxus in Central Asia, and ruled by the Parthians and later the Sassanid Persians until 650 AD. Contrary to the Greco-Roman world, the Iranian world had no "centralising" sea, and no major, navigable rivers between the Tigris and the Oxus. It should therefore be no surprise that socio-political order, trade, and warfare were all different in such a geography, with the military relying on cavalry-based armies, and trade on camel-based caravans. If you want to find an ancient counterpart to the "Atlantic/Continental" dichotomy of our times, the history of the Roman-Iranian confrontation provides a much more natural comparison.
Interestingly, the Parthian and Sassanid empires were always denigrated by Roman propaganda as wicked, barbaric and "inferior". This was partly the result of Romans never managing to overcome them, with most Roman campaigns ending in failure (e.g. the famous Crassus debacle in 53 BC, Marc Antony's failed invasion of 36 BC, Valerian's capture in 260 AD, Julian's death in 363 AD). This is related to another fact about the Parthian/Sassanid Empire, that makes it the "Russia" of the ancient world; it was very difficult to invade, and almost impossible to conquer, because of the logistical challenges it threw at ancient armies.
Actually, the so-called Zio-Nazis have chosen India—not China—as their preferred Asian partners.
Recently, Israel awarded India control over its strategic Haifa Port rather than competing bidders like China and Turkey. This was due in part to American pressure to hand over the port to India rather than China. The Indians are even boasting about the strategic significance of India control over Haifa Port as part of its broader anti-China policy.
India Controlling Israel’s ‘Strategic’ Haifa Port Is A Part Of New Evolving Regional Strategy To Keep China At Bay
https://eurasiantimes.com/edited-india-controlling-israels-haifa-port-is-a-part-of-evolving/?amp
What’s more, India is part of the USA-led I2U2 Quad group (Israel, India, USA, UAE), which is a West Asian version of the USA’s other Quad group (USA, Australia, Japan, and India) in East Asia. The agenda of this I2U2 Quad is the same as that of the other Quad group: anti-China containment.
I2U2 can block China’s rise in West Asia
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/in-perspective/i2u2-can-block-china-s-rise-in-west-asia-1200296.html
What many geopolitical armchair “analysts” apparently still haven’t realized is that India has stealthily become Israel’s arch strategic ally in Asia over the past decade.
India and Israel's Secret Love Affair
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/india-israels-secret-love-affair-11831
Indeed, India is even aping the Zionist apartheid state in both its domestic politics (with a repressive Zionist-style Hindu fascism) and the deployment of an India lobby (USINPAC) in the USA in strategic partnership with the infamous Israel lobby (AIPAC).
India once called Zionism racist. Today it moves to replicate it
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/whereas-india-once-called-zionism-racist-today-it-moves-replicate-it
Pro-Israel, pro-India Lobbies Now Working Together in U.S.
https://www.haaretz.com/1.5371792
Jewish lobby in US bats for India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/jewish-lobby-in-us-bats-for-india/articleshow/45517641.cms
Hey, if Israel's got its Gaza, India can have its Kashmir. Sounds fair, no?
The Haifa port was recently acquired by indian conglomerate Adani Group. Don't see any chinese involvement.
Remarkably, I think that Israel is less Zianists than the neocons themselves, especially if you look at the way they reacted to the Russia / Ukraine war. Sure, the US is using them as a vessel for projecting their power, but I think uktimately Istael has less room to pursuit delusions of grandure, as the fight to extend US hegemonic power is not some far-off process for them, it brings the death and destruction right to their doorstep, and it often bleeds over. M
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.
As far as I've heard, you are right. The West adopted Durgin as a mascot because they thought they could use his language and imagery to paint Putin as an ultra nationalist of one sort or another.
Further, as I understand, Durgin does not even have a big following in Russia, although I think the wests use of him and the murder of his daughter by the SBU has attracted more attention to him within Russia.
The Article does point out that he has no formal connection or influence with Putin, but he still perhaps articulates a strand in Russian thinking...
His daughter was probably not the real target but him.
I thought Dugin was even farther to the "right" than Putin? Same thing with Navalny. Dugin has a reputation for being an ultra-nationalist in what I've read about him at places like The Saker and Moon of Alabama. He wanted Putin to completely level Ukraine in the beginning rather than this long slow war of attrition, IIRC. But yeah, I always kind of saw him as a Putin critic, not an associate.
Practically Everything we hear and have heard in the West is either skewed or just a flat out lie.
I should have had better sense than to eagerly gobble up all bs in the past decades
But, it’s called a “fractured trust” and as all fractured things can ever be restored to its original state.
It’s now clear two new world leaders have emerged and thank God the U.S. is not one of them.
So then, I’m getting ready for the inevitable collapse as the other 70% of the earth’s population unplugs from the international dollar.
I think I heard the yuan will temporarily be the new currency for Eurasia.
Iran and KSA will no longer be using the petro dollar.
He taught philosophy at Moscow State University (if I recall correctly), but was dismissed for extremism in 2014, particularly for comments on post-coup Ukraine. Obviously he did not enjoy any special Putin protection of privilege.
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 ...
It was another American/Israeli attempt to gain advantage over Iran. The Americans supplied Saddam Hussein with weapons, including chemical weapons, and enticed him into attacking Iran. Iran eventually prevailed and the Americans conveniently forgot they had supplied Iraq with chemical weapons and encouraged Hussein to use them on the Iranians.
It wasn't just Israel (somewhat debatable about Israel actually supporting Iraq in the war as well tbh considering they bombed Iraq during the war) and the US that supported Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. Iraq was supported by basically the entire world including France, Germany, UK, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States and even the Soviet Union. Technically Iraq also won the war as Iran were forced to sue for peace.
I always liked the "we know they have chemical weapons" shtick. Well of course you do, you probably still have the list of what you gave them.
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!
Libya - we are making a pan african gold backed currency'
America - you need some democracy!
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!
Let's grant that you are right, re: "Both MODERN Russia&CHINA are Rothschild bitches".
How do you integrate that with the rest of your comment ? The inference I draw from the rest of your comment is that Putin/Russia and Xi/China are proceeding in what appears to be their own national interest: "Both MODERN Russia&CHINA are Rothschild bitches."
The MSM have been building the narrative that Russia is the junior partner in the ''relationship', they view everything as some kind of Domination match. They think this is some grand high IQ strategy of propaganda that will result in some kind of humiliation. Shows how little they understand that not everyone in the world views things as binary as the West does.
Junior in terms of population and economy it is true, but China does not have enough energy and some minerals and metal + food to feed 1.5 billions.
On the military side they are still nowhere near Russia.
Get a dose of Andrei Martyanov, to educate yourself on who in fact has the real muscle in this partnership...
Thanks I'm familiar w/him and do miss The Saker, I am newer to this Geopolitical stuff. English opinions & spin on Russia mean very little to me, but Every is at least worth considering for a second. Just wanted Simplicius thoughts too.
The Saker was great. He coined the term Anglo-Zionists Empire.
I am still looking for him to rise again like the phoenix.
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.
I agree, but it's the philosophy that is key to understanding our current predicament. It helps to recognize the philosophy guiding our foreign policy today.
You are correct. America has been imperialist since its founding. That never changed, though there were relatively short periods of isolation - but in the end they always reverted to Empire. The neocons, however, brought with them an added feature - Zionism, supporting Israel in its efforts to be the dominant power in the Middle East, and rebuilding the world through chaos (think the Great Reset, and "Build Back Better"), a long-held Zionist objective in their efforts to destroy the world and re-build it in their own image. Maurice Samuels once characterised the Zionist position exquisitely - "We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own." And they are using the USA to further that objective.
The quote and related commentary seems to conflate Jews with Zionists, and that is a big mistake IMO. Also, not also Zionists are the same. Better to stick with discussion of the philosophies as opposed to the ethnic identities of the people holding the philosophies.
"ethnic identities"??
Jews and Zionism don't refer to ethnicities.
Zionism IS a philosophy. And its fanatical adherents are not just a relative minority of Jews but many millions of Gentiles - Christian Zionists as an example. But the fact is that Zionism's roots lie squarely in Judaism.
I think you mean ideology, not philosophy?
Point taken. You are, of course, quite right.
Without USA projected power the NEOCONs would not be able to easily rape the world of its wealth and assume their long sought power to rule the world as their God-given right. Wthout the NEOCONs we would not be trillions of dollars in the hole.
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.
It occurred to me it was a convenient land corridor and also ‘Lebensraum’ for Israeli expansion.
That's the point of Saker et.al America bad bad bad hate Amurikkka. Russia beautiful though Florida's is a tough second choice.
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".
Schooling doesnt help you with separating the wheat from the chaff,
it simply encourages the stupid to believe they're intelligent...
Well said : " The Frankfurt School realised that if the proletariat were to rise up they would first have to lose their connection to such institutions." And it appears that this culture war is reaching a culmination in the increasingly visible threat to the sovereignty of the US in the form of a federal union. I'm sure Oswald Spengler would agree with your statement.
It's not clear to me that we are seeing "the cause of international communism [brought] its logical end . . ." . The WEF and its minions look more like fascistic authoritarians in a poorly written sci fi movie. It must gall them that the US Fed has flipped them and the EU the finger.
From the Department of Unthinkable Possibilities: The now heretofore inconceivable likelihood that Israel's political current "leaders" in it's current fractured fairy tale polity will pursue a war with Iran to the point that its own military will take down the only "democracy" in the Middle East. See: "Elite officers in Israel's military plan walkout on Sunday in protest of judicial system overhaul," @ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/elite-officers-in-israels-military-plan-walkout-on-sunday-in-protest-of-judicial-system-overhaul
Good points. I never said any of these groupings would succeed in their end goals - only to point out some of the roots of the current disorder we are witnessing in the world today. Indeed, I believe they will fail, but not completely.
Sorry, but to claim Leo Strauss "disciple of the Frankfort School" is simpy nonsense
I have to admit that this is the most compelling description of the Frankfurt School i read in years but you are very off mark. You describe a „fantasy Institute“ devoted of historical and political context. If you are talking about the Institut für Sozialforschung / Frankfurt your description is pretty strange.
Much of valid critisim towards a post WW2 German society seems to get molded in to a „plan.“
And to be clear i am not even callenging what you wrote, but i advise weater be clear abut who sayd waht, when…
Look at the time and place were and when the institute was founded and by whom. What was left of values, religion, family, traditions, culture, politics, society? After the red armies liberation of Auschwitz? After Stalingrad? And all the endless stream of insanity?
Germany first of all devoured it self and yes the Proletariat went along (very complex subject that i could give alot a family context but i simply dont have the time now).
I grew up seeing the memorial tower (Glockenturm) of Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar every day. Weimar, the city of Bach, Ghoete, Schiller, Nietsche, Schopenhauer and so manny more. Next the Jena, City of Zeiss and Shott Glass.
Culture and barbarism!
This dialect is the key to early „Frankfurt School“. Adornos „Dialectics of Enlightment“ might be the key text to „understand“ Germanys frenzy.
This Franfurt School label became independent of much what the „Institute für Sozialforschung“ actually stands for. And there is tons of stuff that can be criticised.
bravo! You captured this brilliantly, well said!
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.."
Been a long time since I watched that movie. Thing I'll watch it tonight. Cheers.
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.
Nonesense.
While the USA may indeed channel some of the 'spirit' of ancient Rome, in particular the hedonism, it's organisation is almost entirely a carbon copy of the Dutch Republic, which preceded the USA as the first modern republic by almost two centuries.
Just about everything the founding fathers did, including the declaration of independence and how the political system is organised, was taken directly from what the Dutch had done previously, with a bit of tweaking here and there to make it better fit their specific circumstances. There is almost nothing new or original about what those 'fathers' did. As they pretended otherwise, one might justifiably call them plagiarists.
The Dutch Republic itself has already been referred to in the above essay, and given its attributed role in the events described above, it is probably not a coincidence that its template was used.
Obliviously I meant its used as a basis for the US brand, the status as the new Roman Empire has been used by the British before, and then naturally followed by their offspring, the US. France, Prussia, The Nazis, even the Ottomans to a lesser extent have used that brand over the centuries. I'm not saying its valid, I personally find it ridiculous, but I am just pointing out the particular very aggressive "Roman Empire" narrative is one that is very ingrained into the American/European world view. The Romans were awful, aggressive bullies, seeing themselves as the chosen rulers of the world, exterminated countless peoples. Their way was one of domination and subjugation, assimilation only counted if you submitted and converted to their ways and worked for their benefit.
And so it appears that Russia (or at least Dugin) is also more enamored of the 'idea' of Rome. Not so many people would rather identify with Carthage these days. The Roman empire has many branches (or toes..?)
Dugin's comparison seems very artificial. Rome and Carthage were both part of the same Mediterranean geography, and their war was a result of both needing to eliminate the other for hegemony in the Mediterranean basin. This of course required a powerful navy, which the Romans initially lacked - having been preoccupied with subjugating the italic peninsula - but the pragmatic needs of survival dictated that they should become a naval power. But I see no real "dichotomy" in the Rome/Carthage confrontation, as they were both Mediterranean civilisations, like Greece and Phoenicia. Such comparisons in my opinion are either based on a poor understanding of the ancient world, or just meant to be sold to the popular imagination.
The true counterweight to the mediterranean world, in terms of both geography and civilisation, was the "continental" Iranian world, stretching from northern Mesopotamia and across the Iranian plateau to the Oxus in Central Asia, and ruled by the Parthians and later the Sassanid Persians until 650 AD. Contrary to the Greco-Roman world, the Iranian world had no "centralising" sea, and no major, navigable rivers between the Tigris and the Oxus. It should therefore be no surprise that socio-political order, trade, and warfare were all different in such a geography, with the military relying on cavalry-based armies, and trade on camel-based caravans. If you want to find an ancient counterpart to the "Atlantic/Continental" dichotomy of our times, the history of the Roman-Iranian confrontation provides a much more natural comparison.
Interestingly, the Parthian and Sassanid empires were always denigrated by Roman propaganda as wicked, barbaric and "inferior". This was partly the result of Romans never managing to overcome them, with most Roman campaigns ending in failure (e.g. the famous Crassus debacle in 53 BC, Marc Antony's failed invasion of 36 BC, Valerian's capture in 260 AD, Julian's death in 363 AD). This is related to another fact about the Parthian/Sassanid Empire, that makes it the "Russia" of the ancient world; it was very difficult to invade, and almost impossible to conquer, because of the logistical challenges it threw at ancient armies.
Thank you for this offering. I enjoyed every bit of it.