Thanks for bringing attention to the Alice Schwarzer piece! And also the interviews with the generals though FAZ is pay-walled - any workarounds?.
I confess a fondness for such old-school lefty hippy types who aren't afraid to still criticise the regime even if it means being disowned and even denounced by their onetime allies.
I don’t believe there will be too many Americans dying in the East. Most will be European. Americans will die elsewhere in larger numbers. The West must be destroyed for the final Oligarchical Synthesis. Oligarchy grows not by territorial expansion but by incorporating other oligarchies. For this to happen, we must first have wars, chaos, poverty, in which millions must perish. I was hoping Germans, of all people, would be smarter but I was wrong. I guess in addition to writing history, victors also setup schooling (not education) systems in conquered countries.
As to the dying, well, I don't think the US 'geopols' expect a lot of 'faith' from the Europeans; after all, it was mainly the US that, for the decades since 1945, domesticated 'us'. It's not all bad, you know (and, yes, Soviet domination would have been arguably worse; just ask any Eastern European…), but we're homing in on the point of no return, it seems.
It increasingly looks like we must go through whatever they cook up. Tragic! Most Europeans have been domesticated. I doubt they will be willing to die for powers which wish them dead, as it should be. There may yet something good come out of all of this. At least I hope.
Agree, worse than the covid shenanigans, as in most “corners” or on most flanks things are rapidly escalating with the propaganda machine spinning on high gear.
I find it curious not more “common people” stop and find it odd that there are hardly any calls for peace!?!
Good on her (and colleagues) for writing a manifesto.
The Swedish MOD party (small) did similar and organised a Stockholm meet up for peace and standing clearly against NATO and war. I’ve not seen much resistance in the UK…
In May 2022, I gave a talk to high school students about the conflict (I was one of two of our 40+ faculty members who volunteered to talk to prospective students), and while the talk was fine--there was also a Ukrainian student among the audience who had come to Norway in 2015, according to his comments who did not object--the most interesting thing was their teacher's face: it grew ever longer the more I talked about the origins.
I'm not stupid, I think, for I was using only 'legacy media' sources (Le Monde, NYT, WaPo) and 'Western' organisations (UN, OSCE, European Parliament, etc.), and she told me afterwards that she learned to much because she 'never heard anything like that about the conflict'.
Our 'Western' world is quite far gone down the proverbial rabbit-hole, hence we now have a thoroughly infantilised population of 'voters' who are staggeringly uninformed. And since being uninformed doesn't come with any 'penalty', let alone shame, this is where we are.
Thanks for bringing attention to the Alice Schwarzer piece! And also the interviews with the generals though FAZ is pay-walled - any workarounds?.
I confess a fondness for such old-school lefty hippy types who aren't afraid to still criticise the regime even if it means being disowned and even denounced by their onetime allies.
Oh, yes, there's a certain quality to doing so, same as with Jürgen Habermas:
https://fackel.substack.com/p/cancelling-habermas
As to the paywalls, well, I haven't really looked for 'workarounds' (yet)…
Russians come here to make war, I'm all for killing them. Russians don't do that, no beef.
The above is a completely uncontroversial thing to say in Sweden.
Arabs coming here to commit crimes, I'm all for killing them. Arabs don't do that, no beef.
While that is seen as extremist, horrible and criminal.
Where's the logic?
Well, the Biblical version would be something like 'render unto Caesar', isn't it?
What a clusterf*** 'our' side decided to ditch it-all, and I'm honestly wondering if that (Westphalian) 'system' can, in fact, be salvaged.
They’re certifiable
Exactly.
I don’t believe there will be too many Americans dying in the East. Most will be European. Americans will die elsewhere in larger numbers. The West must be destroyed for the final Oligarchical Synthesis. Oligarchy grows not by territorial expansion but by incorporating other oligarchies. For this to happen, we must first have wars, chaos, poverty, in which millions must perish. I was hoping Germans, of all people, would be smarter but I was wrong. I guess in addition to writing history, victors also setup schooling (not education) systems in conquered countries.
A well-observed point.
As to the dying, well, I don't think the US 'geopols' expect a lot of 'faith' from the Europeans; after all, it was mainly the US that, for the decades since 1945, domesticated 'us'. It's not all bad, you know (and, yes, Soviet domination would have been arguably worse; just ask any Eastern European…), but we're homing in on the point of no return, it seems.
It increasingly looks like we must go through whatever they cook up. Tragic! Most Europeans have been domesticated. I doubt they will be willing to die for powers which wish them dead, as it should be. There may yet something good come out of all of this. At least I hope.
'Imagine there's a war and no-one will show up', a popular anti-war quip used to go.
Problem is, there are no more moral or other obstacles that will prevent these evildoers to not just randomly kill civilians.
Hope rests with the sane leaders, a segment we're crucially lacking in 'the West' at this time.
Agree, worse than the covid shenanigans, as in most “corners” or on most flanks things are rapidly escalating with the propaganda machine spinning on high gear.
I find it curious not more “common people” stop and find it odd that there are hardly any calls for peace!?!
Good on her (and colleagues) for writing a manifesto.
The Swedish MOD party (small) did similar and organised a Stockholm meet up for peace and standing clearly against NATO and war. I’ve not seen much resistance in the UK…
In May 2022, I gave a talk to high school students about the conflict (I was one of two of our 40+ faculty members who volunteered to talk to prospective students), and while the talk was fine--there was also a Ukrainian student among the audience who had come to Norway in 2015, according to his comments who did not object--the most interesting thing was their teacher's face: it grew ever longer the more I talked about the origins.
I'm not stupid, I think, for I was using only 'legacy media' sources (Le Monde, NYT, WaPo) and 'Western' organisations (UN, OSCE, European Parliament, etc.), and she told me afterwards that she learned to much because she 'never heard anything like that about the conflict'.
Our 'Western' world is quite far gone down the proverbial rabbit-hole, hence we now have a thoroughly infantilised population of 'voters' who are staggeringly uninformed. And since being uninformed doesn't come with any 'penalty', let alone shame, this is where we are.
Sigh.