Has the world gone mad?
I intend to make no effort to understand or offer explanation or any form of regular update as to what is going on in the world in the most recent of days. To do so would entail joining or entwining myself within the madness which has overtaken global affairs. I will simply state what I see, as an observer. The whys and wherefores I leave to personal judgement.
September came and went, seemingly in a flash. Who can even remember things that happened back then – without recourse to diaries/journals. October has just ended and we can close and bolt the doors on both of those months. Forget it, it’s gone. It is in the past – even though some things are still ongoing. Those things have lost our focus and therefore any relevance they might have had to today. We know how they are going to end anyway. And so we move on. November will develop its own story, and we need to concentrate on the imminence of what is happening right now.
As usual, much of the world, the western world anyhow, is shuffling around in a grey fogbound unreality, waving flags of different colours as the news dictates. Gone are the blue over yellow (except among the Bidens). For a very short while it was all blue and white, but now has transformed, as if some form of magical dust was sprinkled by the news fairy, to be now a blood-spattered black, white and green, with a red triangle. Who knows what it will be tomorrow?
I am still trying to put something together on the last part of my climate catastrophe debunking treatise, but that has also gone out of the window (though I know where it rests, and will pick it up again soon). What place has climate concerns anyway among the maelstrom of current events? You do see this I hope? Don’t you? Have you not caught the zeitgeist yet? We are at what someone else has called an ‘inflection point’ and it is critical that we pay attention.
I want to get this post out quickly since ‘the present’ occupies an ever diminishing ‘space’ in ‘time’, and will, fleetingly, be gone also. But I do want to lay down something of the flavour – as I see it – of what it actually is that we are all stumbling around in the middle of. You will have formed your own picture, I expect, and hope. To be milling around completely blind right now, to have no clue that things are awry and to not know why, must be terribly stressful and worrying. If you have some image to cling to, even if it is incomplete or erroneous, that is better than nothing and infinitely better than blind ignorance or some idea that all is mostly still right in the world, simply because you can still go about your daily business, encumbered only by the pressure those increasingly disturbing new ‘rules’ for public order and the expected submissive compliance imposed with impinging strictness of their application in recent times. Together with the constant worry about how your income seems to always be less than your growing needs, and nobody seems to care any more – but as long as you keep your head down and you continue to toe the line, you think you will be all right. And surely it must get better, some time? Mustn’t it?
All is not right, allow me to tell you, in as matter of fact way as I can. In fact very little remains of what could have been described as good and hopeful and beneficial ion days gone by, perhaps for ever.
Let me float some ideas your way…
The world is in a mess. But not all the world. The world has gone mad. But not all the world. In fact it is, for now at least, not very much of the world that is effected by either the madness or the mess. It is almost exclusively only where the western world is involved. And ultimately, when under fine focus, it is only where the United States and its satellite states place their grubby, interfering hands that the madness and the mess are most evident. All else, taking the general shape of mayhem, flows outward from those points.
But all is not yet lost. Though it could be …if things take a turn that way. November is, I think, the staging post for such a turn. It is a now thing. I can’t see it dragging out to be a 2024 thing, although the effects will likely be with us for a very long time, into whatever future remains. And yes, make no mistake, that future is in the firing line. No future is either guaranteed or plannable*.
*Contrary to what many online forums may say, or dictionaries omit to define, ‘plannable’ is actually a valid word which is in common use these days. It is a fine example of an adjective formed from a base verb, ‘plan’, correctly suffixed with ‘-able‘ (and following the normal rules for doubling certain final consonants before a vowel in such joinings). The ‘-able’ appendage is an example of a ‘live’ suffix which may be added to a great many words (without hyphenation), resulting in mostly undefined words (in dictionary terms), as legitimately formed new and perhaps previously undefined words. See this explained in Grammarist. Live a little. Go wild. Make your own words if you can’t find the one you need. Dictionaries are not the final arbiters of what is right or wrong linguistically. They are, after all, just a compilation of someone’s opinion. But stick to the rules of the language.
Note: In what follows, I will be imputing actions to sovereign nations (not individuals). I have no given right to do that of course (although it is the bread and butter – or bread and lard, depending on where you come from, of online comment). And so I make it clear beforehand that any such imputed activity is merely my own opinion of a given situation. I don’t express opinion lightly of course, or without due consideration and much research, but it is up to the reader how they view my comment and no mentioned nation is bound in any way to follow my stated lines of suggested activity. There are also a great many external factors I have not taken into consideration here. Which means the end result may turn out to be something else entirely. But since this is an area of thought which is of extreme importance to the future of humanity, it is something to which we should all give careful consideration, don’t you think?
Sage heads of rational adults are working to lead many nations in the right direction for a brighter future, separately and outside of any intersection with the murky sphere of western influence. Which sphere is thankfully seen now to be diminishing, in both its relative power and circumference of control. All dreams of US’ global dominance are even now being smashed under the weight of its own imploding and debt-bound economy and irretrievably decayed social structure. The impotence of its armed forces (all arms) and the infeasibility of its best armaments, as possessing any value in modern warfare, laid bare on the fields of battle in Ukraine (or in fact by the complete absence of any direct involvement of their regular military forces in that affair) which was meant to be the ‘showcase’ piece and stepping stone for their long dreamed of advancement in pursuit of the destruction of Russia. Any military reputation the US and its tame satellites may have previously enjoyed (though always mostly fictitious) now lies in tatters under Russian boots and under the umbrella of uniquely advanced Russian weapons. The entire combined West dare not face Russia in open warfare today. And when Russia’s loose but expanding and deepening principles of cooperation with other emerging nations is taken into account, any authority the West thinks it had in the past to control world affairs, shrinks into irrelevance.
The US has nothing left with which to wage warfare of any kind, anywhere. The world they for a short while (must be the shortest lived empire ever) so dominated – mostly by bluff – is now coming together in strength with powerful allies in Russia, China and Iran. And, if there is any sense of national pride left in India, in that nation also. And that is just the core, around which much of the world’s once subdued but freshly emerging ‘global South’ is forming. Their is no place for Western dominance or authority of any kind remaining in this world. That is something of which the west is only just beginning to gain some astonished understanding.
Satellite states of the US are done for. There is no rescue on the cards for Europe – unless they are prepared to beg forgiveness and offer reparation for their crimes. Canada is likely to face the same fate as the US, crumbling into ruins – their best hope. The UK will die, I feel sure. Stubborn and stupid as they are, they will never voluntarily turn – although they may be overrun and destroyed by other peoples. Australia, I hope, will, as a young state with little relevant history, also grovel for acceptance by new authority – whether that be China or Indonesia or a mixture of Asian peoples with the ability to make the place bloom – or even as a refuge for Pacific Islanders threatened by rising waters. The alternative course would be to truly earn the already postulated nomenclature of ‘the white trash of Asia’. As the population of English speaking Caucasians rapidly dwindles within Australia – followed by the potential ‘rescue’ of the continental land-mass from its current indolent and incompetent hierarchy and the removal of even the faintest trace of US occupation, the country will become a truly multicultural centre, firmly embedded into and an essential component of the greater Eurasian conglomerate. Complete with full integration within the Belt and Road trade structure and the more general Eurasian integration. That is a pretty bright outcome compared with what the US and its other satrapies may need to contemplate.
Forgetting Japan, Singapore, and a few other, I suspect, mostly disinterested US Asian conjoins – many of which are now drifting away from US influence – the odd one out among them, as it always has been, is Israel. That may or may not be a problem. There may not, in some potential futures, be an Israel to consider – depending on the zeal or anger of whoever takes on the task of reining-in that nation. My own opinion, which I have previously given elsewhere, is that this nation should never haver been brought into existence. Again we have the interfering Brits to thank for that mistake (the US also, as its chief benefactor). If Israel survives the change of ownership – actually the reversion of ownership to the real peoples of Palestine – in an agreed area of land which will not necessarily be given nation status but probably act as a separate, self-governing religious community, then the Jews – not settlers – could quite easily live harmoniously among their Islamic neighbours if they choose to remain there. Remembering that they were ejected multiple times and for longer periods than they actually dwelt in those lands, due of their abrasive attitude and general ‘pain-in-the-neck’ obnoxious behaviour towards their neighbours. Islamic peoples are generally peaceful and forgiving. That is the basis of their religion. It is entirely possible that peace and harmony could eventually prevail. Especially since there could be no possible further external interference from over-privileged and self-appointed masters of the universe from across the waters.
I need to wrap this up soon, but first let me say what I think is the real situation today.
We have wars. We have always had wars of course but, of the current conflicts, two stand out as being decisive as drivers of the future of mankind. And, as such, nothing else really matters outside of where they take us and how we handle the inevitable outcome. I don’t believe the two are connected, other than superficially, and both have different purposes. Purposes which are not necessarily inherent in what brought them about.
The first is the struggle in what used to be Ukraine, between Russia and NATO (as representing the combined military forces of the western allies). It can be described no other way. It is not about Ukraine. That just happens to be the unfortunate land on which the struggle has been forced to be situated. It has no other significance. It is a struggle to determine the future of the whole world. It is being fought to determine whether that future is one of cooperation or domination. The result is pre-determined and will bring an end to any future major disagreements among peoples of the world.
The second is the termination of decades of impasse over the narrow strip of land, known by various names and owned by various peoples over the years since the beginning of human civilisation at the eastern boundaries of the Mediterranean Sea. It is not about Israel, or Palestine, their peoples or even the history of the land on which it must take place. There are far bigger issues at stake. This is a conflict of the gods, and chiefly the three religions of monotheism. The result may be pre-determined, but I have no idea what it will be. The end of religion? The end of monotheism? An age of freedom of thought and a liberation of the spirit and endeavour of mankind? Or an ongoing, festering struggle for those hearts and minds? Or even the end of the human race.
No-one is going to end the world over Ukraine, or Israel, or Palestine. But as for revenge for the loss of control of hearts and minds and their worldly wealth, and the power that encompasses? Who knows?
There is actually no struggle for Ukraine. That so-called nation, loosely thrown together at the end of WW2, mostly from unwanted remnants of earlier European wars together with some very useful land which was always part of Russia, in order to give some hope that the citizens of the new country could make a real go of becoming a real nation. That citizenship failed to become a nation. Instead turning into a corrupt criminal organisation which gradually sank to be the poorest community on Europe’s periphery. Ripe for takeover by the biggest corrupt criminal organisation on the planet – the United States of America. That happened in the years leading up to 2014, with the express object of using those unfortunates to fulfill the vile US plans to utterly destroy the Russian nation and steal their extensive lands and voluminouis resources. Many tens of thousands (up to possibly half a million) of those unfortunate Ukraine citizens, whose torn and shredded bodies now lie in the bloody fields of what Russia has now taken back, quite legally, to be restored to full Russian ownership. Many more tens of thousands now lie in the overflowing cemeteries of what may not for too much longer be called Ukraine.
The struggle is almost over. Russia, a result never in doubt from the very start, is winning hands down. Ukraine has nothing left to oppose them, and increasingly fewer ‘friends’ left to attempt or pretend to support their efforts. To all intents and purpose it is all over. There will be no ceasefire. No peace agreements. Only full capitulation by both Ukraine military and the NATO forces will be accepted by Russian authorities. And justly so. Western capitulation is the only possible end-state to this affair. I feel sure this was not Russia’s intent at the start. They just wanted peace and security for their Russian speaking peoples in Eastern Ukraine. It could have all been kept ‘in-house’ and settled as such. But the stakes were raised as the struggle progressed to be something that no simple peace agreement would satisfy. Who raised the stakes? The West/US/NATO of course. They had something to prove. They thought they could beat Russia easily, and they had their ultimate goal in mind also. It all looked very feasible. But they didn’t count on the true strength of a sanction-constrained Russia rising to prove the west’s inadequacy of preparation. Western forces were simply not prepared to face a reinvigerated Russian military with its brand new range of superlative weapons. Weapons for which the West has no defence. The US in particular but also its allies have emptied their stores of their own ‘super weapons’, gifted (sold) to a bankrupt Ukraine. All of those weapons, every single one, now rests in rusting ruin on those battle fields. Western hopes for victory now dead and gone. With no hope of ever catching up with Russian strength due to the weakness and imminent collapse of their own ailing economies.
Russia could, if she wished, and she is now backed by most nations of the free world (that part of the world not under western influence), including the now strongest of the world’s nations in all fields, take over and subjugate the whole Western sphere of influence. But that is not on Russia’s agenda. At least not if the west acknowledges this situation and capitulates to occupy a secondary role in world affairs until whatever period of probation has passed which will recognise their full acceptance as equals with others rather than the superior race theory they have heretofore espoused.
Those are the stakes underpinning the importance of this sad and costly for all period of conflict. It was absolutely necessary for this to have taken place. The world could no longer go on grudgingly accepting a world bully overseeing and taking advantage of all human endeavour. The war has now been won, apart from the final act, and the world can proceed to a better place of peace and harmony. Of course the final act is still not a given. A stubborn West may choose to die rather than give up its receding power position in world affairs. That course of action is theirs to choose. At least the choice of the few who have the power still to make that decision. The peoples of the West may wish to exercise their own choices. Whatever happens, the rest of the world could carry on without them if necessary and they cannot, they do not posses the weapons or the power, to hurt or destroy the majority of the world’s peoples. Either way, the world wins.
So, that is one thing which is about to be settled. The world can progress, even if it must do so minus a few hundred million or up to a billion once over-privileged folk.
The second, and I hope the final thing, will be settled largely in West Asia. The catalyst is the current war in Palestine, resolving into what for a short while used to be Israel. It is turning out to be a bloody inferno of death and destruction. Not so far on the scale of that which we have seen in Ukraine but it has only just begun. We can not expect the usual pleas for ceasefires to be given any more attention than in they received over Ukraine, even though there are many more deaths among innocent civilians and, sadly, children.
I admit to having begun this final section of the messy story I feel obliged to put out here, not knowing what I was going to say. Knowing there was something to be said but bereft of ideas as to what that might be. I have had much to say about Zionists in the past and had already, only two weeks ago revealed all that is close to my heart in this post: An “I” For An “I”. But that wasn’t enough. I knew there was more to say. But it was not to be my voice which would say it. As is often the case when we are lost for words, something comes along at just the right time. Only published today, November 3, during a normal browsing session I came across this piece on the Moscow based news platform, VZGLYAD. I am going to leave you with this fortuitous statement which is actually a fine piece of reporting of a history which will be largely unknown to many people, including myself. I hope you will find it to be both illuminating and intriguing. It is in Russian (of course) but my Yandex browser automatically translates this site to English for me. It is an exclusive story so I am not going to copy it here, apart from a few introductory paragraphs. Any decent online translator can be utilised to read the whole thing on the original site.
My own final words – Judge for yourself where this is going to lead.
One more thing… I put this together quite quickly and have not re-read or corrected much that was not obvious during the writing. Please make some allowance for that.
There is only one place on Earth on which either the Al-Aqsa Mosque can stand, or the Third Temple – an uncontested shrine of the Jews, where the Mashiach – the Jewish “king of peace” – will sit. This means that this war will be fought either to the last Jew or to the last Arab.
And three thousand years of war – by Vladimir Mozhegov – publicist. Story exclusive to VZGLYAD
NOVEMBER 3, 2023, 09: 38
And three thousand years of war
There is only one place on Earth on which either the Al-Aqsa Mosque can stand, or the Third Temple – an uncontested shrine of the Jews, where the Mashiach – the Jewish “king of peace” – will sit. This means that this war will be fought either to the last Jew or to the last Arab.
Vladimir Mozhegov publicist
The war between Israel and Palestine is already three thousand years old, and this conflict, alas, has no acceptable solution. There is only one place on Earth on which either the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third most important shrine of Islam, or the Third Temple – an uncontested shrine of the Jews, where the Mashiach – the Jewish “king of peace” – will sit. This means that this war will be fought either to the last Jew or to the last Arab – the third is not given.
The modern secularized consciousness will call this obscurantism. But the situation is such that this obscurantism has to be reckoned with. Moreover, against the background of 3,000 years of obscurantism, the” shrines ” of modernity – human rights and LGBT people-look rather pathetic, and modern people simply do not have the mechanisms to stop it.
But a Jew will open a couple of nice pages of the Torah without emotion to read: “But in the cities of these nations, which the Lord your God is giving you to possess, you shall not leave a single soul alive, but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, and the Jews. The Girgashites, as the Lord your God has commanded you” (Deuteronomy 20: 16-17). And he will have no doubt that the instructions of Yahweh must be obeyed. And the Palestinian (descendant of the Philistines) – that the Jew will fulfill them one way or another. And both of them will click the automatic shutters. This is the logic of a 3,000-year history.
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