NYTimes’ new feature profiles Richard N. Haass, the longest serving president of the Council on Foreign Relations, focusing on his decision to step down from the institution itself regarded as the oldest of America’s policy thinktanks. The article delves into Haass’s slow disillusionment with the direction the country’s taking amid the changing world.
Good riddance though I don't suppose the next person will be any more reflective nor question war as a vehicle of foreign policy. Your most important line I believe is "Now, alarmed by what’s become of the country his own outfit contributed to destabilizing, Haass declares that the next phase of his life will be devoted to spreading awareness of ‘civic virtues’. "
This is no different from all Neo-cons or Atlanticists, heavens even McNamara recanted/regretted. Too little too frigging late. The dogs of hell are unmasked and unleashed.
the Council is the arm of the military-industrial complex, the enormous war toys industry whose interests are so zealously guarded by such institutions as the Wall Street Journal. It is where our disastrous destructive foreign policy has been forged.
I think the CFR is more the arm of the international banks. David Rockefeller was one of its progenitors. The banks and international businesses like GM, Boeing, Microsoft, Google. These are the folks who want an international rules based order that will allow capitalism to dominate the planet.
The "international banks" are just the forces of corporate capitalism and the rich everywhere on Earth. They're just one wing of the capitalist apparatus. There's nothing special about them. Also "international bankers" is a well-known rightwing populist and even fascist dog whistle.
I may be misunderstanding you, but my impression is that "the forces of corporate capitalism" are not as homogeneous as you might think. The finance wing of capitalism has interests that conflict with manufacturing or research or technology companies. International capitalist enterprises -- those with important investments in other countries -- have interests that differ from those of, say, a large dairy that does not export its products. Obviously, all capitalists have certain interests in common -- the sanctity of private property and contract, for example. But there is also a lot of struggle and contention between various types of capitalist enterprises to control policy. For example, America's big banks and multinational corporations like GM, Standard Oil, Freeport McMoran, Boeing and Eli Lilly had major investments in Europe. After WWII they had an interest in keeping Europe from being taken over by Communism. They wanted rapid economic recovery so they could make money in Europe. So they applauded measures to make investments abroad safer. Measures like the Marshall Plan and the Bretton Woods Institutions. Small town and regional bankers, car dealers. ranchers and construction companies were virulently opposed to the Marshall Plan, the IMF, the UN and the World Bank. All were capitalists but they only shared some, not all, interests. The struggle between these two broad currents of American capitalism, and the compromises that used to be made, are what shaped the broad contours of American foreign policy. There's less room for compromise these days.
The military-industrial complex is the same thing as US capitalism. How many corporations or banks do you see going up against the military-industrial complex? Anyway the MIC is just the armed wing of US imperialism.
And just who is this globalist snake who has slithered around the planet promoting the Worst of All Possible Worlds?
"Haass was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, the son of Marcella (née Rosenthal) and Irving B. Haass."
I mean, it's just a joke at this point. An ever-returning joke. And obviously, his replacement is from the Our Gang crowd as well, because what else?
"Froman grew up in a Jewish family in San Rafael and graduated from the Branson School."
But Simplicius, I assure you, Froman does not consider himself an "old white man" at all.
Anyway, what is this obsession with "democracy"? Why do I give two flips if Nation A is a democracy or not? Are they reasonable? Can I engage with their leadership in a sensible and mutually beneficial way? Then who cares! Though of course, "democracy" is just a cover word for all the joys of GloboHomo moral degeneracy they seek to impose everywhere. Because really, nobody cares if you're a dictator, as long as you're a PRO GAY dictator.
It's a scam! It's the "democracy," scam. Capitalist rats can always buy their way into power in a bourgeois democracy. That's why they favor that form.
Also, they make up a lot of stuff. The US goes in and does all this scurriilous illegal and insurrectionary stuff and if the government tries to crack down on the riots, treason, coup and assassination plots, contras, or whatever, we scream DICTATORSHIP. It's the "democracy" scam. Just another sleazy scam like everything Uncle Scam does.
No, Haas does not mean hate in German. Instead of two a's it has two s's: hass (formerly (prior to 1996 Rechstschreibung) spelt haß - ß this symbol is called a sharp s, and is pronounced as a double s.)
When the WEF took over the Dem Party (along with the Republican Party it had in its pockets) and our country went full rainbow, eco-global and fixed the elections with Hillary and Soros and Gates money and influence, the CFR became irrelevant because it requires a sovereign United State acting in its on interests for the CFR to represent. What amazes me is the world wide depth of the conspiracy and how otherwise intelligent people keep believing nonsense.
"the CFR became irrelevant because it requires a sovereign United State acting in its on interests for the CFR to represent"
Does it now.....its interests are and always have been global, not 'American' even though its image, as just about everything in America is/has been image, was always 'American'. It is another Jewish-led organisation among many others directed towards establishing a world order with but one sovereign, nation with national borders - that of Israel. Americans would do well to look at the incredible influx of Jewish influence into its many institutions at all levels of government and non-government agency, far exceeding any semblance of population proportion. To understand where that ends, simply compare to Weimar Germany in the 20s and early 30s.
I know this sounds 'anti-Semitic' but the truth is that it needs to be discussed and the fact that it isn't allowed to be discussed publicly is surely indicative of a deep-seated problem in the Western world.
The CFR is playing second fiddle to the Gates/WEF/ Reset w/ Vaccine/ Take over of the Dem Party vote-rigging conspiracy that dominates our cultural, political, and social lives. I don't regard "It" as "Jewish" or "Israeli," just Caucasian, British Financial Imperialists of the tradition of Alexander the Great whose tradition was woven into the Pentateuch in the conquest of the Holy Land, which never occurred. They really aren't "Jews" in the Biblical familiar sense. They can be better compared to "the Scribes and Pharisees," than any "people." There is little discussion of the human soul, or God's love for all His children, in the Pentateuch. A slave is property, and of no value in and of itself. That is where they come from.
Making a career in this way within “think tanks” feels a very odd thing to do, for anyone “normal”.
I was just on a plane flying to an Eastern European city from London. A number of people near me seemed to be associated with Chatham House, the British semi official think tank. These are people I would normally go a long way to avoid. One of them was brandishing a paper from June 2023: “How to end Russia’s War on Ukraine: Safeguarding Europes future and the dangers of a false peace”. It is worth checking out on their website but seems to be saying that only total Ukrainian victory over Russia is acceptable and anything else is a sell out. It has multiple authors who clearly make money by fomenting war, one of whom happens to have been a tutor of mine in Soviet Studies many years ago at Oxford. At that time I thought he was sensible but he is now funded to work for some Baltic States think tank (as well as Chatham House, it seems) and spouting pro war, anti Russia propaganda is presumably part of the deal.
These people were quite open in their conversation. At one point they discussed the Ukraine counter offensive and the “dangers” of peace negotiations. One of them then said that it needs to be seen as a series of offensives! That could go on for months, They also expressed indignation that Russia has any valid security concerns with respect to Ukraine and one of them said that nobody has ever articulated what they are. Clearly, these people want never ending war. It pays them and let’s them feel relevant, I guess.
I think they were traveling to a conference. It is nice work if you can get it. What tickled me most was that at one point we had minor turbulence. One of those people shrieked when it happened. Clearly, she has never been under artillery fire and has no idea what real war means. Richard Haas and all of these characters seem to live in an unreal bubble where they just write reports and exchange intellectual ideas with zero understanding of reality. Sorry for the rant but their conversation was appalling. Obviously, on a plane one does not choose to tell them their fortune but in a bar I would have seriously let fly. Of course, our taxes pay for this nonsense too. They also ought to be more discreet and professional on planes.
Richard Haas may in some ways now have seen the light but there is still plenty of delusion about amongst his ilk.
Exactly. They were discussing who to have as a moderator for some overblown conference and were rejecting names of people who might not be 100% on “their” side. That meant anyone who thinks there might need to be negotiations at some stage. Of course, they did not at any point wonder whether Russia has any incentive to negotiate given western perfidy and the fact they are winning. It is all about what these people want. Such characters will propel us to WW3 if they are left unchecked.
I had a similar experience once in Athens. I was waiting in the airport listening to these American high rank officer old witch wives talking about the defendability of Montana's capital from a ground attack. They wanted to show off how smart they were after having spent their lives listening to their husband club conversations. Its all about status, social position and prestige. As the Chatham house Oxford ghouls they dont know what war is. However, facts are stubborn and at some point reality will bite this delusional murderous scum
"It's all about status, social position and prestige."
They are like actors who have memorized the lines they have to say to survive and prosper under US imperialism. Serving the Empire pays very well. Opposing it pays not in zero dollars but in negative dollars.
The Red Army Faction used to shoot some of those types. I supported them then and I support them now.
Also, this is where the money is, bro. I know people going into careers in this scamdustry, and they barely even believe in this crap. They know exactly what's going on. They just know what lines they have to say to get the MONEY, so they brainwash themselves into believing it's true. There are ZERO DOLLARS to be made voicing yours and my POV.
Haass had not "seen the light". As Simplicius notes, he is off to swat the American citizens who believe they should rule themselves (not by Haass' people) and that America should focus on their interests and welfare and not the interests of the globalists, including Haass and Froman.
Anyone that supports "Global Warming" is supporting WEF "rule the world" idealogy. GW is the best red pill subject for many reasons, as its age and history enable underdstanding the politics behind it, and the failed science is readily available to anyone willing to look.
This one post was written for any family or friend that only has heard the legacy media presentation, but still may respect you. It has proven very effective.
Incidentally, 'Chatham House' was formed as an offshoot with the post-Inquiry CFR crowd meeting together to form one US/UK organization, but ultimately decided to split it into two separate ones which became CFR & Chatham.
From the conversation I heard the Chatham House types are equally delusional and impractical. For allegedly such well traveled people, for example, they had no idea that they needed to stow hand baggage in the first row of the plane and one character used his mobile when we were waiting to take off. They gave a super bad impression of being entitled people.
They then even criticized Hungary because hardly any women there show up to conferences and praised Ukraine for the opposite. It was an interesting thing to worry about in the context of a war. Never at any point in their dialogue did I hear any concern for the death and suffering that people like this encourage through their writings. That was the most shocking element.
Thank you for this report on the Chatham House people – for it is hard to imagine what or how they think and do beyond reproducing the fixed banalities of the opinions they, as the CFR, re-publish
So much so it is difficult to understand how they might have anything to discuss, except for observations on correct degrees of orthodoxy, as per the moderator and percentages of women attendees– their opinions having been pre ordained and not arrived at individually or independently, but the result of merged groupthink
I have little idea as to how this orthodoxy has been imposed, apparently to the public extinction of any dissent, within EU and NATO, within the last generation or so, and how it has come to be so far removed from any observable reality
I suspect it goes much deeper into the psyche, as well as physics, than we are currently looking.
As I see it, synchronization is inherent to structure. Signals from the noise. So there is a gravitational effect in any large system, pulling into a collective point of reference.
The opposing factor is the the ecosystems in which these organisms exist are essentially infinite, so the individual entities coalesce and dissolve. The positive feedback turns negative at the crest of the wave. So those riding it cannot look outside this box to which they have devoted their lives and can only draw the wagons ever tighter.
The effect is that it becomes disconnected from the soil in which it grew and can only grow harder and crustier, like a scab, slowing dying and peeling away. As new forms start to grow in the increasing space.
Safe to say, I've spent more time studying nature, than culture, but culture is the subset.
Thanks for this reply – which, although vast, can not be wrong – any glance at the instantaneity with which the crassest of ‘social media’ permanently monopolises everyone, from the cradle to the deathbed, is enough to indicate that nature has evolved
I think I was looking for a bureaucratic or political economy explanation and time line – how the ‘west’ was governed by certain practices of reason, distinction and independence, so of culture, only to pivot very quickly 360 degrees as the saying goes
Whereas it appears that other parts of the world still adhere to culture and tradition; very superior as to political economy and bureaucratic efficiency- as witnessed in the current war- with accompanying worldwide formal alliances and technical industrial progress
Western culture tends to focus on the node, from individualism to atomism. While Eastern culture tends to be more about the network, the ecosystem, in which all the various organisms are waves rising and falling.
Which makes Western culture focused and concentrated, but short sighted.
Toward the end of World War II my aunt Kathy was in a movie theater. She overheard someone say that it was too bad the war was ending as they were making so much money off of it. Kathy was so appalled she left and went home.
The day the war began I knew Ukraine would lose. I knew the recent offensive would go nowhere. I even knew that the USA would love to blow up that pipeline (though I didn't believe they would ever do that). I'm nowhere near an expert, but this is basic military knowledge. How can these people not know this stuff? In my experience think tankers are just salesmen. It's no different from Glengarry Glen Ross.
The true goal of the war is to maximize the sale of expensive weapons systems. Though it is not a sale in the sense that Ukraine will never be able to pay for it at all. All the money is printed. The US citizen pays by way of the resulting price increases on basic goods. To pursue maximal sales the war will be continued indefinitely. The only thing that will stop it is if the Ukrainians rebel. That won't happen soon.
Maybe these airplane guys really believe this stuff, maybe it's all games, who knows? And it makes no difference, so who cares?
Consider that more tonnage of bombs were dropped on Korea, than Germany and Japan combined. War is not just a racket, it's an industrial and labor policy. In fact, the only public works project this country can agree to.
It is the weapons sales that feed the bigger machine with all its meshing cogs that create the wars. : propaganda media, politicized government, politicized and badly weakened US military, Big Money, Big Industry, Big Pharma. Overall the mad belief that a country as weakened domestically as we are could ever rule the world. And corruption on every side. In Ukraine, as elsewhere, It just takes enough dead bodies of 18 year olds going home to Mom to turn the tide.
Since US media prints the opposite of the truth it can be quite revealing. If they say Putin has a mad plan to take over the world you know that the USA has a mad plan to take over the world. And so forth.
Excellent comment. The chattering class of self-important warmongers can only get to the point of total absolution for the West by avoiding reflection more assiduously than the most timid vampire. Vampires are fiction. Unfortunately these bloodsuckers aren't and they are in dire need of a mirror. The essay and the Conclusion written in response is void of historic context.
Such willful amnesia will get us all killed. They will likely miss it because their own blissful blindness to reality. We have a serious short supply of wooden stakes.
Thank you for the insight. The fact that they were so indiscrete shows 1. Their total sense of security (they truly believe that their final victory is inevitable), and 2. An appalling lack of professionalism.
well said simplicius! i liked this quote especially : "during which America enjoyed the fruits of sole ‘superpower’ status, but squandered them with its bloodthirsty and immoral pursuit of total subjugation." and they are still squandering them in the same bloodthirsty and immoral way..
AMERICA (ie its people) never enjoyed those fruits. The fruits were entirely enjoyed by the people who control America and have despoiled its culture, economy and society, as they have done to many countries around the world, Ukraine being one.
that is an important consideration to keep in mind.. i would say that is true for all the poor leadership of other countries.. it can't be blamed on the people generally speaking..
Then maybe these people should stop claiming they live in a democracy?
American/UK doublethink gives any outsider a whiplash.
With one corner of the mouth they say: "yeah, we didn't want this and this what our politicians did, like - nuh-uuuh, no responsibility", and out the other "muh dEMocrAci and freeeeDoms that cant be found anywhere else!".
Like chose one. Either your leaders answer to you, and you're therefore complicit in all the shit the state does, or you aint - but then you're an authocracy like the "bad guys".
I don't know why you have to be so nice to these vermin.....But then again, Mr. Bnai Brith may turn out to be another Thomas Jefferson for all we know....
"Removing all possible borders to international capital" and the "commodification of all possible values" (including your precious borders and democracy) is what this guy and his ilk "globalists" are all about.
The commodification of everything and everyone, including our bodies and the air we breathe. No fun allowed on that reservation.
A community college history course that I took flat out celebrated America's colonization as a joint stock venture which culminated in the abolition of slavery as the second founding and the groundwork for the exceptional basket of shining awesomeness and democracy that we have today. Of course the Patriarchal sins of our forefathers were a little rough (according to the bombastic professor's text. He performed a spoken word "Emancipation Proclamation" that was amusing to watch. Very emotional.), but with a sense of optimism and exceptionalism, "Well kids, it's you're country..."
Inculcating the idea that it's "Our Country" has been the bedrock of those kinds of classes and will probably persist in the classroom up to and maybe beyond the physical dissolution of "Our Country".
"Removing all possible borders to international capital" and the "commodification of all possible values" (including your precious borders and democracy) is what this guy and his ilk "globalists" are all about.
There's no such thing as "globalism." This is what the CORPORATE CLASS in US MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS want. Those are your globalist enemies. As are the richest people in the US. The villains here are the usual, the corporations and the rich. "Globalism" is a smoke screen because all the rich and all the corporations are effectively "globalists" because this is how you maximize profits and pad your bank account most effectively.
That's perhaps the greatest irony of modern history. We didn't defeat Communism; we imported it. And they took on at least many of the aspects of liberal, market democracy that we now despise.
The Rothchilds et all put the chips " all in " finally to try and steal the 8 time zone Russian resources. There " ace in the hole " is that even if the west loses to a multipolar world that they can still " build back better " a bankrupted EU and US.
Therefor the East must start NOW to treat the petro dollar like " worthless dirt " that it really is. In this way the Rothchilds et all won't be able to build back better because they won't be able to use the dollar other than the places that they just destroyed, rendering their Trillions worthless.
Have a blessed day and as Sundance over at theconservativetreehouse.com says " In the mean time, live the Best Life that you can !!
Simplicious like your work . The CFR is not the Brainchild of Woodrow Wilson and I repeat NOT It is the US branch of the Royal Institute of International Affairs . The Brainchild of Cecil Rhodes and Lord Milner To appreciate and better understand what the CFR is and what role it plays for the Globalist agenda read the Anglo American Establishment written by Carol Quigley
Nature cycles by the old getting crusty and peeling away, as the new grows up through the cracks in that old world. As such it is dynamic, but formed by the efforts and challenges it faces.
Often reflecting and absorbing the old world and the lessons it passes down. Yet also rebelling against the presumptions expected to be respected.
So the bigger the crash, the greater the opportunity for real change.
What should be at the forefront of this coming wave is public banking.
Government, as executive and regulatory function, amounts to the nervous system of the state, while money and banking function as blood and the circulation system. With public government and private banking, finance rules. The banks are certainly having their, "Let them eat cake." moment.
The main job the flunkies allowed in office have, is creating the debt the banks need to function. "The real money is in bonds." Public debt backing private wealth. Eventually they own the country. Making public banking the core principle of the coming revolt will be the greatest shock to these bacteria anyone could ever imagine.
Consider that Russia and China have effectively gone back to private forms of government, with Putin and Xi as respective CEO's. Specifically because the oligarchs were starting to get out of control. That is why our oligarchs hate them with such passion.
The point is to recognize that as a medium, money is a quintessential public utility, like roads, or blood. In which case, it becomes a function of what the system needs and regulating it as such.
Our problem is that as these linear, goal oriented creatures, we see it as signal to save and store, but since we exist in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, markets need it to circulate, so Econ 101 says it's both medium of exchange and store of value, but one is dynamic, while the other is static. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. What if your body tried storing blood? What if we just paved everything over?
What if the heart tried telling the hands and feet to go suck dirt, because it's keeping all the blood for itself?
As a medium we own money like we own the section of road we are on, or the air and water passing through our bodies. We need to recognize value has to be stored as a function of a vital society and not have everything reduced to some bottom line scrap value. A social Ebola virus. The medium has become the message, the tool has become the god.
That's why I refer to these people as bacteria, as they do function as a parasitical infection, but even parasites need and healthy host and when if it totally crashes, it won't be the bankers in charge, but the warlords and the rich will just be pinatas for those that follow. Think angry, armed Ukrainians scattered across Europe.
I go into some of the more basic physiological and cultural issues and distortions in the several essays I've put up on Substack.
Good riddance though I don't suppose the next person will be any more reflective nor question war as a vehicle of foreign policy. Your most important line I believe is "Now, alarmed by what’s become of the country his own outfit contributed to destabilizing, Haass declares that the next phase of his life will be devoted to spreading awareness of ‘civic virtues’. "
This is no different from all Neo-cons or Atlanticists, heavens even McNamara recanted/regretted. Too little too frigging late. The dogs of hell are unmasked and unleashed.
At least they are "unmasked and unleashed"-- this simplifies dogcatchers' job.
the Council is the arm of the military-industrial complex, the enormous war toys industry whose interests are so zealously guarded by such institutions as the Wall Street Journal. It is where our disastrous destructive foreign policy has been forged.
I think the CFR is more the arm of the international banks. David Rockefeller was one of its progenitors. The banks and international businesses like GM, Boeing, Microsoft, Google. These are the folks who want an international rules based order that will allow capitalism to dominate the planet.
The "international banks" are just the forces of corporate capitalism and the rich everywhere on Earth. They're just one wing of the capitalist apparatus. There's nothing special about them. Also "international bankers" is a well-known rightwing populist and even fascist dog whistle.
I may be misunderstanding you, but my impression is that "the forces of corporate capitalism" are not as homogeneous as you might think. The finance wing of capitalism has interests that conflict with manufacturing or research or technology companies. International capitalist enterprises -- those with important investments in other countries -- have interests that differ from those of, say, a large dairy that does not export its products. Obviously, all capitalists have certain interests in common -- the sanctity of private property and contract, for example. But there is also a lot of struggle and contention between various types of capitalist enterprises to control policy. For example, America's big banks and multinational corporations like GM, Standard Oil, Freeport McMoran, Boeing and Eli Lilly had major investments in Europe. After WWII they had an interest in keeping Europe from being taken over by Communism. They wanted rapid economic recovery so they could make money in Europe. So they applauded measures to make investments abroad safer. Measures like the Marshall Plan and the Bretton Woods Institutions. Small town and regional bankers, car dealers. ranchers and construction companies were virulently opposed to the Marshall Plan, the IMF, the UN and the World Bank. All were capitalists but they only shared some, not all, interests. The struggle between these two broad currents of American capitalism, and the compromises that used to be made, are what shaped the broad contours of American foreign policy. There's less room for compromise these days.
The military-industrial complex is the same thing as US capitalism. How many corporations or banks do you see going up against the military-industrial complex? Anyway the MIC is just the armed wing of US imperialism.
Haass is a disgrace to humanity, along with his ilk.
And just who is this globalist snake who has slithered around the planet promoting the Worst of All Possible Worlds?
"Haass was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, the son of Marcella (née Rosenthal) and Irving B. Haass."
I mean, it's just a joke at this point. An ever-returning joke. And obviously, his replacement is from the Our Gang crowd as well, because what else?
"Froman grew up in a Jewish family in San Rafael and graduated from the Branson School."
But Simplicius, I assure you, Froman does not consider himself an "old white man" at all.
Anyway, what is this obsession with "democracy"? Why do I give two flips if Nation A is a democracy or not? Are they reasonable? Can I engage with their leadership in a sensible and mutually beneficial way? Then who cares! Though of course, "democracy" is just a cover word for all the joys of GloboHomo moral degeneracy they seek to impose everywhere. Because really, nobody cares if you're a dictator, as long as you're a PRO GAY dictator.
It's a scam! It's the "democracy," scam. Capitalist rats can always buy their way into power in a bourgeois democracy. That's why they favor that form.
Also, they make up a lot of stuff. The US goes in and does all this scurriilous illegal and insurrectionary stuff and if the government tries to crack down on the riots, treason, coup and assassination plots, contras, or whatever, we scream DICTATORSHIP. It's the "democracy" scam. Just another sleazy scam like everything Uncle Scam does.
I would venture that France is burning this very day from fires that the U.S. is responsible for instigating
Check this, and you'll know: https://open.substack.com/pub/alexkrainer/p/france-under-attack?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5h0pv
Checked with Whoopi Goldberg, she ruled Froman is not an "old white man".
Interestingly enough ,one does not see anymore anybody of certain ethnic group in the government of modern Russia.
How does Schwabs WEF fit into all this?
Haas means Hate in German.
No, Haas does not mean hate in German. Instead of two a's it has two s's: hass (formerly (prior to 1996 Rechstschreibung) spelt haß - ß this symbol is called a sharp s, and is pronounced as a double s.)
But yes, I do also wonder how Schwab's WEF fits.
I stand corrected 😁
When the WEF took over the Dem Party (along with the Republican Party it had in its pockets) and our country went full rainbow, eco-global and fixed the elections with Hillary and Soros and Gates money and influence, the CFR became irrelevant because it requires a sovereign United State acting in its on interests for the CFR to represent. What amazes me is the world wide depth of the conspiracy and how otherwise intelligent people keep believing nonsense.
"the CFR became irrelevant because it requires a sovereign United State acting in its on interests for the CFR to represent"
Does it now.....its interests are and always have been global, not 'American' even though its image, as just about everything in America is/has been image, was always 'American'. It is another Jewish-led organisation among many others directed towards establishing a world order with but one sovereign, nation with national borders - that of Israel. Americans would do well to look at the incredible influx of Jewish influence into its many institutions at all levels of government and non-government agency, far exceeding any semblance of population proportion. To understand where that ends, simply compare to Weimar Germany in the 20s and early 30s.
I know this sounds 'anti-Semitic' but the truth is that it needs to be discussed and the fact that it isn't allowed to be discussed publicly is surely indicative of a deep-seated problem in the Western world.
The CFR is playing second fiddle to the Gates/WEF/ Reset w/ Vaccine/ Take over of the Dem Party vote-rigging conspiracy that dominates our cultural, political, and social lives. I don't regard "It" as "Jewish" or "Israeli," just Caucasian, British Financial Imperialists of the tradition of Alexander the Great whose tradition was woven into the Pentateuch in the conquest of the Holy Land, which never occurred. They really aren't "Jews" in the Biblical familiar sense. They can be better compared to "the Scribes and Pharisees," than any "people." There is little discussion of the human soul, or God's love for all His children, in the Pentateuch. A slave is property, and of no value in and of itself. That is where they come from.
"how otherwise intelligent people keep believing nonsense." People have a war instinct that goes back a long ways. Even ants and bees have it.
Actually a Haas is a rabbit. He's Richard Rabbit.
Thought Rabbit was Hase?
Long ago met a Swiss woman named Haas and she told me it meant rabbit.
Influential clan, the Haases seem to be…
https://www.historylink.org/File/5632
The family owned (and may still own) the Levi Strauss company and the Oakland A's baseball team.
OK, now we have to delve into Rammstein's music catalog.
Making a career in this way within “think tanks” feels a very odd thing to do, for anyone “normal”.
I was just on a plane flying to an Eastern European city from London. A number of people near me seemed to be associated with Chatham House, the British semi official think tank. These are people I would normally go a long way to avoid. One of them was brandishing a paper from June 2023: “How to end Russia’s War on Ukraine: Safeguarding Europes future and the dangers of a false peace”. It is worth checking out on their website but seems to be saying that only total Ukrainian victory over Russia is acceptable and anything else is a sell out. It has multiple authors who clearly make money by fomenting war, one of whom happens to have been a tutor of mine in Soviet Studies many years ago at Oxford. At that time I thought he was sensible but he is now funded to work for some Baltic States think tank (as well as Chatham House, it seems) and spouting pro war, anti Russia propaganda is presumably part of the deal.
These people were quite open in their conversation. At one point they discussed the Ukraine counter offensive and the “dangers” of peace negotiations. One of them then said that it needs to be seen as a series of offensives! That could go on for months, They also expressed indignation that Russia has any valid security concerns with respect to Ukraine and one of them said that nobody has ever articulated what they are. Clearly, these people want never ending war. It pays them and let’s them feel relevant, I guess.
I think they were traveling to a conference. It is nice work if you can get it. What tickled me most was that at one point we had minor turbulence. One of those people shrieked when it happened. Clearly, she has never been under artillery fire and has no idea what real war means. Richard Haas and all of these characters seem to live in an unreal bubble where they just write reports and exchange intellectual ideas with zero understanding of reality. Sorry for the rant but their conversation was appalling. Obviously, on a plane one does not choose to tell them their fortune but in a bar I would have seriously let fly. Of course, our taxes pay for this nonsense too. They also ought to be more discreet and professional on planes.
Richard Haas may in some ways now have seen the light but there is still plenty of delusion about amongst his ilk.
Nice to be a fly on the wall. What is truly missing is an honest debate on the topic. Something that these ticks would avoid like the plague...
Exactly. They were discussing who to have as a moderator for some overblown conference and were rejecting names of people who might not be 100% on “their” side. That meant anyone who thinks there might need to be negotiations at some stage. Of course, they did not at any point wonder whether Russia has any incentive to negotiate given western perfidy and the fact they are winning. It is all about what these people want. Such characters will propel us to WW3 if they are left unchecked.
I had a similar experience once in Athens. I was waiting in the airport listening to these American high rank officer old witch wives talking about the defendability of Montana's capital from a ground attack. They wanted to show off how smart they were after having spent their lives listening to their husband club conversations. Its all about status, social position and prestige. As the Chatham house Oxford ghouls they dont know what war is. However, facts are stubborn and at some point reality will bite this delusional murderous scum
"It's all about status, social position and prestige."
They are like actors who have memorized the lines they have to say to survive and prosper under US imperialism. Serving the Empire pays very well. Opposing it pays not in zero dollars but in negative dollars.
The Red Army Faction used to shoot some of those types. I supported them then and I support them now.
Also, this is where the money is, bro. I know people going into careers in this scamdustry, and they barely even believe in this crap. They know exactly what's going on. They just know what lines they have to say to get the MONEY, so they brainwash themselves into believing it's true. There are ZERO DOLLARS to be made voicing yours and my POV.
Haass had not "seen the light". As Simplicius notes, he is off to swat the American citizens who believe they should rule themselves (not by Haass' people) and that America should focus on their interests and welfare and not the interests of the globalists, including Haass and Froman.
“May in some ways have seen the light” is kind of damning him with false praise….
Anyone that supports "Global Warming" is supporting WEF "rule the world" idealogy. GW is the best red pill subject for many reasons, as its age and history enable underdstanding the politics behind it, and the failed science is readily available to anyone willing to look.
This one post was written for any family or friend that only has heard the legacy media presentation, but still may respect you. It has proven very effective.
https://open.substack.com/pub/anderdaa7/p/global-warming?r=slvym&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Always free, not a news feed.
Incidentally, 'Chatham House' was formed as an offshoot with the post-Inquiry CFR crowd meeting together to form one US/UK organization, but ultimately decided to split it into two separate ones which became CFR & Chatham.
Thanks. I did not know that.
From the conversation I heard the Chatham House types are equally delusional and impractical. For allegedly such well traveled people, for example, they had no idea that they needed to stow hand baggage in the first row of the plane and one character used his mobile when we were waiting to take off. They gave a super bad impression of being entitled people.
They then even criticized Hungary because hardly any women there show up to conferences and praised Ukraine for the opposite. It was an interesting thing to worry about in the context of a war. Never at any point in their dialogue did I hear any concern for the death and suffering that people like this encourage through their writings. That was the most shocking element.
Thank you for this report on the Chatham House people – for it is hard to imagine what or how they think and do beyond reproducing the fixed banalities of the opinions they, as the CFR, re-publish
So much so it is difficult to understand how they might have anything to discuss, except for observations on correct degrees of orthodoxy, as per the moderator and percentages of women attendees– their opinions having been pre ordained and not arrived at individually or independently, but the result of merged groupthink
I have little idea as to how this orthodoxy has been imposed, apparently to the public extinction of any dissent, within EU and NATO, within the last generation or so, and how it has come to be so far removed from any observable reality
Can you explain?
I suspect it goes much deeper into the psyche, as well as physics, than we are currently looking.
As I see it, synchronization is inherent to structure. Signals from the noise. So there is a gravitational effect in any large system, pulling into a collective point of reference.
The opposing factor is the the ecosystems in which these organisms exist are essentially infinite, so the individual entities coalesce and dissolve. The positive feedback turns negative at the crest of the wave. So those riding it cannot look outside this box to which they have devoted their lives and can only draw the wagons ever tighter.
The effect is that it becomes disconnected from the soil in which it grew and can only grow harder and crustier, like a scab, slowing dying and peeling away. As new forms start to grow in the increasing space.
Safe to say, I've spent more time studying nature, than culture, but culture is the subset.
Thanks for this reply – which, although vast, can not be wrong – any glance at the instantaneity with which the crassest of ‘social media’ permanently monopolises everyone, from the cradle to the deathbed, is enough to indicate that nature has evolved
I think I was looking for a bureaucratic or political economy explanation and time line – how the ‘west’ was governed by certain practices of reason, distinction and independence, so of culture, only to pivot very quickly 360 degrees as the saying goes
Whereas it appears that other parts of the world still adhere to culture and tradition; very superior as to political economy and bureaucratic efficiency- as witnessed in the current war- with accompanying worldwide formal alliances and technical industrial progress
Western culture tends to focus on the node, from individualism to atomism. While Eastern culture tends to be more about the network, the ecosystem, in which all the various organisms are waves rising and falling.
Which makes Western culture focused and concentrated, but short sighted.
The bull is power. The matador is art.
Toward the end of World War II my aunt Kathy was in a movie theater. She overheard someone say that it was too bad the war was ending as they were making so much money off of it. Kathy was so appalled she left and went home.
The day the war began I knew Ukraine would lose. I knew the recent offensive would go nowhere. I even knew that the USA would love to blow up that pipeline (though I didn't believe they would ever do that). I'm nowhere near an expert, but this is basic military knowledge. How can these people not know this stuff? In my experience think tankers are just salesmen. It's no different from Glengarry Glen Ross.
The true goal of the war is to maximize the sale of expensive weapons systems. Though it is not a sale in the sense that Ukraine will never be able to pay for it at all. All the money is printed. The US citizen pays by way of the resulting price increases on basic goods. To pursue maximal sales the war will be continued indefinitely. The only thing that will stop it is if the Ukrainians rebel. That won't happen soon.
Maybe these airplane guys really believe this stuff, maybe it's all games, who knows? And it makes no difference, so who cares?
Consider that more tonnage of bombs were dropped on Korea, than Germany and Japan combined. War is not just a racket, it's an industrial and labor policy. In fact, the only public works project this country can agree to.
It is the weapons sales that feed the bigger machine with all its meshing cogs that create the wars. : propaganda media, politicized government, politicized and badly weakened US military, Big Money, Big Industry, Big Pharma. Overall the mad belief that a country as weakened domestically as we are could ever rule the world. And corruption on every side. In Ukraine, as elsewhere, It just takes enough dead bodies of 18 year olds going home to Mom to turn the tide.
Since US media prints the opposite of the truth it can be quite revealing. If they say Putin has a mad plan to take over the world you know that the USA has a mad plan to take over the world. And so forth.
Excellent comment. The chattering class of self-important warmongers can only get to the point of total absolution for the West by avoiding reflection more assiduously than the most timid vampire. Vampires are fiction. Unfortunately these bloodsuckers aren't and they are in dire need of a mirror. The essay and the Conclusion written in response is void of historic context.
Such willful amnesia will get us all killed. They will likely miss it because their own blissful blindness to reality. We have a serious short supply of wooden stakes.
Thank you for the insight. The fact that they were so indiscrete shows 1. Their total sense of security (they truly believe that their final victory is inevitable), and 2. An appalling lack of professionalism.
foggy Pocomo mists
some good looking, old world girls,
that bna'brih wailing early
through the hills
; ) ye'll get it or not, just for fun.
well said simplicius! i liked this quote especially : "during which America enjoyed the fruits of sole ‘superpower’ status, but squandered them with its bloodthirsty and immoral pursuit of total subjugation." and they are still squandering them in the same bloodthirsty and immoral way..
AMERICA (ie its people) never enjoyed those fruits. The fruits were entirely enjoyed by the people who control America and have despoiled its culture, economy and society, as they have done to many countries around the world, Ukraine being one.
that is an important consideration to keep in mind.. i would say that is true for all the poor leadership of other countries.. it can't be blamed on the people generally speaking..
Then maybe these people should stop claiming they live in a democracy?
American/UK doublethink gives any outsider a whiplash.
With one corner of the mouth they say: "yeah, we didn't want this and this what our politicians did, like - nuh-uuuh, no responsibility", and out the other "muh dEMocrAci and freeeeDoms that cant be found anywhere else!".
Like chose one. Either your leaders answer to you, and you're therefore complicit in all the shit the state does, or you aint - but then you're an authocracy like the "bad guys".
I don't know why you have to be so nice to these vermin.....But then again, Mr. Bnai Brith may turn out to be another Thomas Jefferson for all we know....
The usual world of Princelings and Paupers.
"Everything I have worked for has turned to dirt."
CFR, an arrogant, monied gathering of leeches. No more, no less.
"Removing all possible borders to international capital" and the "commodification of all possible values" (including your precious borders and democracy) is what this guy and his ilk "globalists" are all about.
The commodification of everything and everyone, including our bodies and the air we breathe. No fun allowed on that reservation.
A community college history course that I took flat out celebrated America's colonization as a joint stock venture which culminated in the abolition of slavery as the second founding and the groundwork for the exceptional basket of shining awesomeness and democracy that we have today. Of course the Patriarchal sins of our forefathers were a little rough (according to the bombastic professor's text. He performed a spoken word "Emancipation Proclamation" that was amusing to watch. Very emotional.), but with a sense of optimism and exceptionalism, "Well kids, it's you're country..."
Inculcating the idea that it's "Our Country" has been the bedrock of those kinds of classes and will probably persist in the classroom up to and maybe beyond the physical dissolution of "Our Country".
"Removing all possible borders to international capital" and the "commodification of all possible values" (including your precious borders and democracy) is what this guy and his ilk "globalists" are all about.
There's no such thing as "globalism." This is what the CORPORATE CLASS in US MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS want. Those are your globalist enemies. As are the richest people in the US. The villains here are the usual, the corporations and the rich. "Globalism" is a smoke screen because all the rich and all the corporations are effectively "globalists" because this is how you maximize profits and pad your bank account most effectively.
I enjoyed your writing for this excellent read. Thanks my friend.
Is this gonna be the last July 4th?
What is there for Americans to celebrate?
I celebrate Russia.
Praise God for Putin .
Russia has turned into what America was supposed to become.
That's perhaps the greatest irony of modern history. We didn't defeat Communism; we imported it. And they took on at least many of the aspects of liberal, market democracy that we now despise.
I wonder if NATO Summit boys will discuss Hass's article and the what's happening in France.
Wow. Simplicius is really hitting his stride with this piece.
The Rothchilds et all put the chips " all in " finally to try and steal the 8 time zone Russian resources. There " ace in the hole " is that even if the west loses to a multipolar world that they can still " build back better " a bankrupted EU and US.
Therefor the East must start NOW to treat the petro dollar like " worthless dirt " that it really is. In this way the Rothchilds et all won't be able to build back better because they won't be able to use the dollar other than the places that they just destroyed, rendering their Trillions worthless.
Have a blessed day and as Sundance over at theconservativetreehouse.com says " In the mean time, live the Best Life that you can !!
"In the mean time, live the Best Life that you can !!"
Carpe diem.
Simplicious like your work . The CFR is not the Brainchild of Woodrow Wilson and I repeat NOT It is the US branch of the Royal Institute of International Affairs . The Brainchild of Cecil Rhodes and Lord Milner To appreciate and better understand what the CFR is and what role it plays for the Globalist agenda read the Anglo American Establishment written by Carol Quigley
Part of the English getting the Americans to take over their empire or at least the risks and downsides of it.
I love simpicius' articles!
I think eventually, everyone on the sinking ship wil realize the ship is sinking
Haass is a great example.
Should he be punished for past crimes?
Is he in a mood of desperation, not for the loss of our nation, but for his crumbling power structure falling around him?
Eventually, every woke person will become an awake person. But with less time to prepare for the inevitable destruction.
Couldn't agree more with this:
"I believe in many ways that America’s time on top is up for good"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Froman
God he's so inclusive. We need more Jewish liberal lawyers making decisions. Bet some in his family even survived the holocaust.
Great piece as always bring clarity to a world gone mad.
Nature cycles by the old getting crusty and peeling away, as the new grows up through the cracks in that old world. As such it is dynamic, but formed by the efforts and challenges it faces.
Often reflecting and absorbing the old world and the lessons it passes down. Yet also rebelling against the presumptions expected to be respected.
So the bigger the crash, the greater the opportunity for real change.
What should be at the forefront of this coming wave is public banking.
Government, as executive and regulatory function, amounts to the nervous system of the state, while money and banking function as blood and the circulation system. With public government and private banking, finance rules. The banks are certainly having their, "Let them eat cake." moment.
The main job the flunkies allowed in office have, is creating the debt the banks need to function. "The real money is in bonds." Public debt backing private wealth. Eventually they own the country. Making public banking the core principle of the coming revolt will be the greatest shock to these bacteria anyone could ever imagine.
Consider that Russia and China have effectively gone back to private forms of government, with Putin and Xi as respective CEO's. Specifically because the oligarchs were starting to get out of control. That is why our oligarchs hate them with such passion.
Looks like a global fight over two diametrically opposing models:
The State controls The Banks
The Banks control The State
But:
Who controls the money?
The point is to recognize that as a medium, money is a quintessential public utility, like roads, or blood. In which case, it becomes a function of what the system needs and regulating it as such.
Our problem is that as these linear, goal oriented creatures, we see it as signal to save and store, but since we exist in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, markets need it to circulate, so Econ 101 says it's both medium of exchange and store of value, but one is dynamic, while the other is static. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. What if your body tried storing blood? What if we just paved everything over?
What if the heart tried telling the hands and feet to go suck dirt, because it's keeping all the blood for itself?
As a medium we own money like we own the section of road we are on, or the air and water passing through our bodies. We need to recognize value has to be stored as a function of a vital society and not have everything reduced to some bottom line scrap value. A social Ebola virus. The medium has become the message, the tool has become the god.
That's why I refer to these people as bacteria, as they do function as a parasitical infection, but even parasites need and healthy host and when if it totally crashes, it won't be the bankers in charge, but the warlords and the rich will just be pinatas for those that follow. Think angry, armed Ukrainians scattered across Europe.
I go into some of the more basic physiological and cultural issues and distortions in the several essays I've put up on Substack.