...History may eventually register, 77 years after the end of WWII, that neocon/neoliberalcon psychos in Washington silos instigating an inter-Slavic war by ordering Kiev to launch a blitzkrieg against Donbass was the spark that led to the Fall of the U.S. Empire.
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After careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the “indispensable nation”.
But it’s our fate / To have no place to rest, / As suffering mortals / Blindly fall and vanish / From one hour / To the next, / Like water falling / From cliff to cliff, downward / For years to uncertainty.
Holderlin, Hyperion’s Fate Song
Operation Z is the first salvo of a titanic struggle: three decades after the fall of the USSR, and 77 years after the end of WWII, after careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the “indispensable nation”. No wonder the Empire of Lies has gone completely berserk, obsessed in completely expelling Russia from the West-centric system.
The U.S. and its NATO puppies cannot possibly come to grips with their perplexity when faced with a staggering loss: no more entitlement allowing exclusive geopolitical use of force to perpetuate “our values”. No more Full Spectrum Dominance.
The micro-picture is also clear. The U.S. Deep State is milking to Kingdom Come its planned Ukraine gambit to cloak a strategic attack on Russia. The “secret” was to force Moscow into an intra-Slav war in Ukraine to break Nord Stream 2 – and thus German reliance on Russian natural resources. That ends – at least for the foreseeable future – the prospect of a Bismarckian Russo-German connection that would ultimately cause the U.S. to lose control of the Eurasian landmass from the English Channel to the Pacific to an emerging China-Russia-Germany pact.
The American strategic gambit, so far, has worked wonders. But the battle is far from over. Psycho neo-con/neoliberalcon silos inside the Deep State consider Russia such a serious threat to the “rules-based international order” that they are ready to risk if not incur a “limited” nuclear war out of their gambit. What’s at stake is nothing less than the loss of Ruling the World by the Anglo-Saxons.
Mastering the Five Seas
Russia, based on purchasing power parity (PPP), is the 6th economy in the world, right behind Germany and ahead of both the UK and France. Its “hard” economy is similar to the U.S. Steel production may be about the same, but intellectual capacity is vastly superior. Russia has roughly the same number of engineers as the U.S., but they are much better educated.
The Mossad attributes Israel’s economic miracle in creating an equivalent of Silicon Valley to a base of a million Russian immigrants. This Israeli Silicon Valley happens to be a key asset of the American MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academia-think tank complex), as indelibly named by Ray McGovern.
NATOstan media hysterically barking that Russia’s GDP is the size of Texas is nonsense. PPP is what really counts; that and Russia’s superior engineers is why their hypersonic weapons are at least two or three generations ahead of the U.S. Just ask the indispensable Andrei Martyanov.
The Empire of Lies has no defensive missiles worthy of the name, and no equivalents to Mr. Zircon and Mr. Sarmat. The NATOstan sphere simply cannot win a war, any war against Russia for this reason alone.
The deafening NATOstan “narrative” that Ukraine is defeating Russia does not even qualify as an innocuous joke (compare it with Russia’s “Reach Out and Touch Someone” strategy). The corrupt system of SBU fanatics intermingled with UkroNazi factions is kaput. The Pentagon knows it. The CIA cannot possibly admit it. What the Empire of Lies has sort of won, so far, is a media “victory” for the UkroNazis, not a military victory.
Gen Aleksandr Dvornikov, of Syria fame, has a clear mandate: to conquer the whole of Donbass, totally free up Crimea and prepare the advance towards Odessa and Transnistria while reducing a rump Ukraine to the status of failed state without any access to the sea.
The Sea of Azov – linked to the Caspian by the Don-Volga canal – is already a Russian lake. And the Black Sea is next, the key connection between the Heartland and the Mediterranean. The Five Seas system – Black, Azov, Caspian, Baltic, White – enshrines Russia as a de facto continental naval power. Who needs warm waters?
Moving “at the speed of war”
The pain dial, from now on, will go up non-stop. Reality – as in facts on the ground – will soon become apparent even to the NATOstan-wide LugenPresse.
The woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Mark Milley, expects Operation Z to last years. That’s nonsense. The Russian Armed Forces may afford to be quite methodical and take all the time needed to properly demilitarize Ukraine. The collective West for its part is pressed for time – because the blowback from the real economy is already on and bound to become vicious.
Defense Minister Shoigu has made it quite clear: any NATO vehicles bringing weapons to Kiev will be destroyed as “legitimate military targets”.
A report by the scientific service of the Bundestag established that training of Ukrainian soldiers on German soil may amount, under international law, to participation in war. And that gets even trickier when coupled with NATO weapons deliveries: “Only if, in addition to the supply of weapons, the instruction of the conflict party or training in such weapons were also an issue would one leave the secure area of non-warfare.”
Now at least it’s irretrievably clear how the Empire of Lies “moves at the speed of war” – as described in public by weapons peddler turned Pentagon head, Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin. In Pentagonese, that was explained by the proverbial “official” as “a combination of a call center, a watch floor, meeting rooms. They execute a battle rhythm to support decision-makers.”
The Pentagonese “battle rhythm” offered to a supposedly “credible, resilient and combat-capable Ukraine military” is fed by a EUCom system that essentially moves weapons orders from Pentagon warehouses in the U.S. to branches of the Empire of Bases in Europe and then to the NATO eastern front in Poland, where they are trucked across Ukraine just in time to be duly incinerated by Russian precision strikes: the wealth of options include supersonic P-800 Onyx missiles, two types of Iskander, and Mr. Khinzal launched from Mig-31Ks.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed Moscow is perfectly aware the U.S., NATO and UK are transferring not only weapons but also loads of intel. In parallel, the collective West turns everything upside down 24/7 shaping a new environment totally geared against Russia, not caring for even a semblance of partnership in any area. The collective West does not even consider the possibility of dialogue with Russia.
Hence talking to Putin is “a waste of time” unless a “Russian defeat” in Ukraine (echoing strident Kiev P.R.) would make him “more realistic”. For all his faults, Le Petit Roi Macron/McKinsey has been an exception, on the phone with Putin earlier this week.
The neo-Orwellian Hitlerization of Putin reduces him, even among the so-called Euro-intelligentzia, to the status of dictator of a nation chloroformed into its 19th century nationalism. Forget about any semblance of historical/political/cultural analysis. Putin is a late Augustus, dressing up his Imperium as a Republic.
At best the Europeans preach and pray – chihuahuas yapping to His Master’s Voice – for a hybrid strategy of “containment and engagement” to be unleashed by the U.S., clumsily parroting the scribblings of denizens of that intellectual no-fly zone, Think Tankland.
Yet in fact the Europeans would rather “isolate” Russia – as in 12% of the world’s population “isolating” 88% (of course: their Westoxified “vision” completely ignores the Global South). “Help” to Russia will only come when sanctions are effective (as in never: blowback will be the norm) or – the ultimate wet dream – there’s regime change in Moscow.
The Fall
UkroNazi P.R. agent Ursula von der Lugen presented the sixth sanction package of the Europoodle (Dis)Union.
Top of the bill is to exclude three more Russian banks from SWIFT, including Sberbank. Seven banks are already excluded. This will enforce Russia’s “total isolation”. It’s idle to comment on something that only fools the LugenPresse.
Then there’s the “progressive” embargo on oil imports. No more crude imported to the EU in six months and no more refined products before the end of 2022. As it stands, the IEA shows that 45% of Russia’s oil exports go to the EU (with 22% to China and 10% to the U.S.). His Master’s Voice continues and will continue to import Russian oil.
And of course 58 “personal” sanctions also show up, targeting very dangerous characters such as Patriarch Kirill of the Orthodox Church, and the wife, son and daughter of Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
This stunning display of stupidity will have to be approved by all EU members. Internal revolt is guaranteed, especially from Hungary, even as so many remain willing to commit energy suicide and mess up with the lives of their citizens big time to defend a neo-Nazi regime.
Alastair Crooke called my attention to a startling, original interpretation of what’s goin’ on, offered in Russian by a Serbian analyst, Prof. Slobodan Vladusic. His main thesis, in a nutshell: “Megalopolis hates Russia because it is not Megalopolis – it has not entered the sphere of anti-humanism and that is why it remains a civilization alternative. Hence Russophobia.”
Vladusic contends that the intra-Slav war in Ukraine is “a great catastrophe for Orthodox civilization” – mirroring my recent first attempt to open a serious debate on a Clash of Christianities.
Yet the major schism is not on religion but culture: “The key difference between the former West and today’s Megalopolis is that Megalopolis programmatically renounces the humanistic heritage of the West.”
So now “it is possible to erase not only the musical canon, but also the entire European humanistic heritage: the entire literature, fine arts, philosophy” because of a “trivialization of knowledge”. What’s left is an empty space, actually a cultural black hole, “filled by promoting terms such as ‘posthumanism’ and ‘transhumanism’.”
And here Vladusic gets to the heart of the matter: Russia fiercely opposes the Great Reset concocted by the “hackable”, self-described “elites” of Megalopolis.
Sergey Glazyev, now coordinating the draft of a new financial/monetary system by the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) in partnership with the Chinese, adapts Vladusic to the facts on the ground (here in Russian, here in an imperfect English translation).
Glazyev is way more blunt than in his meticulous economic analyses. While noting the Deep State’s aims of destroying the Russian world, Iran and block China, he stresses the U.S. “will not be able to win the global hybrid war”. A key reason is that the collective West has “put all independent countries in front of the need to find new global currency instruments, risk insurance mechanisms, restore the norms of international law and create their own economic security systems.”
So yes, this is Totalen Krieg, Total War – as Glazyev spells it out with no attenuation, and how Russia denounced it this week at the UN: “Russia needs to stand up to the United States and NATO in its confrontation, bringing it to its logical conclusion, so as not to be torn between them and China, which is irrevocably becoming the leader of the world economy.”
History may eventually register, 77 years after the end of WWII, that neocon/neoliberalcon psychos in Washington silos instigating an inter-Slavic war by ordering Kiev to launch a blitzkrieg against Donbass was the spark that led to the Fall of the U.S. Empire.
Thanks! nm
Posted by Tomski on May 7, 2022, 6:00 pm, in reply to "Full text by Pepe"
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Re: Full text by Pepe. Thanks Mike---utterly brilliant as always.
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I particularly like this section, which is a combination of laugh-out-loud hilarious and trenchantly analytical....
... UkroNazi P.R. agent Ursula von der Lugen presented the sixth sanction package of the Europoodle (Dis)Union.
Top of the bill is to exclude three more Russian banks from SWIFT, including Sberbank. Seven banks are already excluded. This will enforce Russia’s “total isolation”. It’s idle to comment on something that only fools the LugenPresse.
Then there’s the “progressive” embargo on oil imports. No more crude imported to the EU in six months and no more refined products before the end of 2022. As it stands, the IEA shows that 45% of Russia’s oil exports go to the EU (with 22% to China and 10% to the U.S.). His Master’s Voice continues and will continue to import Russian oil.
And of course 58 “personal” sanctions also show up, targeting very dangerous characters such as Patriarch Kirill of the Orthodox Church, and the wife, son and daughter of Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.
This stunning display of stupidity will have to be approved by all EU members. Internal revolt is guaranteed, especially from Hungary, even as so many remain willing to commit energy suicide and mess up with the lives of their citizens big time to defend a neo-Nazi regime.
Alastair Crooke called my attention to a startling, original interpretation of what’s goin’ on, offered in Russian by a Serbian analyst, Prof. Slobodan Vladusic. His main thesis, in a nutshell: “Megalopolis hates Russia because it is not Megalopolis – it has not entered the sphere of anti-humanism and that is why it remains a civilization alternative. Hence Russophobia.” ....
Here is the interview with Slobodan Vladusic about his book
Personality against Megalopolis SLOBODAN VLADUŠIĆ, INTERVIEW
"I think that this book, in terms of quality, is something that belongs to the domain of my intellectual ID card. So, when someone asks me what I did in my life, I tell him, in the first three sentences, that I wrote Literature and Comments . Here, that's what this book is for me. " With these words, Slobodan Vladušić (1973), associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, writer, literary theorist and publicist, welcomed the publication of his new book. A real opportunity for Novi Polis to request an insight into the ID card.
Your new book, entitled Literature and Comments , contains travelogues, biographical records, scientific texts from the field of literature, but also essays. Can you tell us what caused such a mixed structure of the book?
Although it seems very heterogeneous at first glance, Literature and Comments is actually a very homogeneous book. The different types of texts represented in it correspond to the content of the book and its basic idea. And that idea is simple. There is a Megalopolis ...
Just a moment. You said Megalopolis ....
Yes, Megalopolis. In my book, that word means not only a big city, but also a type of organization of life in which economic totalitarianism reigns. Economic totalitarianism means a situation in which the economy governs all other spheres of society. For example, most scientific institutes are not engaged in research, but primarily in making money (therefore, they are ready to falsify the truth, if they can make money that way); most medical institutions do not treat people, but make money (therefore, they are willing to sacrifice human lives if they can profit from it); large universities no longer serve to reveal the truth and convey the truth to students, but to make money (therefore, a student is not someone who acquires knowledge, but buys a diploma, and the buyer is always right); systemic political parties do not care about the general interest, but about the division of the spoils won in the elections;public relation service of those who pay or own them, and they are not readers or viewers, much less employed journalists.
Economic totalitarianism is, therefore, an extremely antihumanist state of society, because in it the survival of the individual depends on its presence in economic flows, which are increasingly narrow and in which it is increasingly difficult to survive. Of course, in such a social system, there is a minority government that directs and determines the flow of money, and that is the financial elite, ie bankers . The rest are the slaves of the Megalopolis, the slaves of that elite. Modern society, therefore, is no longer civil, much less democratic. If we had to describe it somehow, then we would say that it has impurities of neo-feudal and neo-slave-owning society.
Does your book only diagnose such a condition?
Diagnosis is necessary and should not be underestimated. For example, it is no coincidence that there is a shortage in Megalopolis, not in money, but in everything else that is not money: no love, no friendship, no parts, no courage, no solidarity, nothing that opposes the rule of money. It is no coincidence that where the Megalopolis is the densest, there are the most cases of death from antidepressant overdose. The pressure of Megalopolis is therefore general, but you will not see that pressure on TV screens, or in newspapers, and even less in series, movies or videos. However, that pressure exists and it kills people, it damages them, it reduces human life to a mere economic function. How does this domestication of slaves take place? No more whipping, imposed by the organization of private life. So, whether you become a slave to the Megalopolis depends on the way you live. The fight against Megalopolis begins at the level of private life.
Your basic vocation is literature: you have a doctorate in Crnjanski. I hope you won't misunderstand me, but do you feel that you have somehow deviated a little from your core business of researching the Megalopolis phenomenon?
I understand your question and I do not misunderstand it. It makes sense. When a person is engaged in literature, and when he teaches it, then he must ask himself what that knowledge about literature is for.
I understand: it is said that literature makes people people ....
Yes, it is said, but it is a phrase, a phrase, which no one believes anymore, because it is not known how literature does it.
Well, how does literature do that, if it does?
The answer to your question requires a slightly broader perspective. I said there are slaves to the Megalopolis. These are people who are reduced to bioparticles that function within economic flows, but have no influence on those economic flows, that is, on the Megalopolis itself. That is why they are slaves. They work and spend and that's it. However, there is one type of man, or rather, one figure who opposes the Megalopolis. That's a person.
What is the difference between a slave and a person?
In a few things. First, a slave lives only in one time: in the present. A person lives in the past, present and future. Second, the slave is doomed to the present because he does not have his own life story that connects the past, present and future. The person has that life story. Third, since he does not have his own life story, the slave is doomed to Megalopolis since he buys experiences that pass through him, leaving no trace. That is why the slave of Megalopolis always returns to Megalopolis to buy a new dose of experience. For a slave, a megalopolis is the same as a drug dealer. Personality, as opposed to slavery, has a life story composed of sequences of experiences. Unlike experiences that are temporary, experiences are permanent over time. If they are written, they can also search the person who created them. This means that the person is, in a way, full, while the slave is empty. Possession of experiences and life stories creates the possibility for a person to be to some extent independent of the Megalopolis: that is why a person can understand it ironically, that is why he can look at it from the side, which a slave is never able to do. Personality does not depend on the Megalopolis, that's the point.
I guess personality and literature are connected in some way ....
They did. The essence is that man creates his own life story, because that is the only way he can oppose the Megalopolis. And he can create it only by turning what is temporary and those are experiences into experiences, and that is what is permanent, what can be apologized for. In my book, I list certain life techniques that turn experiences into experiences. This is the place where literature enters the scene: namely, literature is the sphere where one gets acquainted with these life techniques. The study of literature thus acquires a new role: to enable man to master the techniques for producing experience from experience, in order to enable man to become a person and thus to oppose the Megalopolis.
How did the idea of personality influence the mixed content of your book?
Simple: Literature and commentary are theoretical prose about what a person is, how he emerges, what threatens him, and who are the other people with whom he forms a community of people connected in time and space. Something more can be seen in the accompanying texts about the book that are on my site. Personally, I experience this book almost as a special type of novel in which the role of the hero is played by some ideas. That's why I like to call it theoretical prose, theoretical novel. And the novel, as you know, absorbs different genres, so it happens here as well: my book gives examples of experiences, my personal experiences, which, however, can become everyone's, since experiences are exchanged. These are, for example, a travelogue from Malta, a short passage dedicated to Crnjanski and Rome, or an interpretation of a photograph from Zejtinlik. In addition, it presents examples of reading and interpreting the texts of other personalities, other writers: Crnjanski, Andrić, Krakow, Vinaver, among others. Then, examples are given of how Megalopolis wants to subordinate the study of literature to its interests, that is, to separate them from the creation of experiences and life stories. You know personality is a version of Renaissance man adapted to the 20th and 21st centuries. A book about a person must be as diverse as a person.
At the end of this interview, I would like to ask you a question about the origins of the ideas in your book: how did you come up with them in the first place?
In two ways. First, it seems to me that the good side of dealing with literature is that the world in front of you is shown as a text. And that means as a very interesting thing in which you do not only follow the plot, although you do that, but you also interpret certain scenes that are not particularly important at first glance. The source of knowledge is life itself, everyday life, but also extreme, epochal events. For example, NATO bombing.
Secondly, you read various books, various texts. Other people's ideas become yours, not because you learn them by heart, but because you begin to feel them as your own. For example, this book is based on Guy Debord when I first came across the idea of a life story disappearing in the company of a spectacle. Then, there are a few texts by Hannah Arendt, which for me had the power of intellectual consolation and encouragement, so that one can think and write differently than, say, Foucault.
Of course, the background of all that is Serbian literature of the 20th century, which I love and which means a lot to me.
on May 7, 2022, 11:56 am