You cannot say that without repercussions. You cannot say to a person in charge of our NATO-supervised world that they cannot invade a country, or support Al Qaeda, or ISIS-affiliated groups to topple the government, because you will only encourage them. In your own perception there will be this moment where you are vindicated. With the entire country in ruins, and the people in refugee-camps, on life support, you might be tempted to say: ‘See?’ But they don’t ‘see’ a thing. No regret.
If you are tempted to say that it is because the ‘Military Industrial Complex’ is leading, and since these wars, and supporting terrorists, is a boon for their ‘bottom line’, there will be war, you are missing the point. Yes, those people exist. But it is the ‘us’ who vote in favor of the political parties who release these ‘Dogs of War’. Why are we doing that? On the Dutch-language part of this blog I explained why I regretted voting for the party I did vote for last time around, because it is in the forefront of those political parties begging for more war in Ukraine. But at the time, when we were asked to go to the polls and vote, I was looking at this ‘Last of the Mohicans’ type of politician, this Christian Democrat with remarkable integrity, number two on the list of his party. And we were still dealing with ‘Everything Covid’, and various scandals involving the Dutch IRS, in which he was leading the cleanup. I knew that, sooner or later, Ukraine would be ‘on the agenda’ again, but when, and how? Well, as it turned out, it was not later, but sooner, and right after the Christian Democrats purged the party, immediately after the elections, to get rid of two ‘dissidents’, among which their own ‘Number Two’, the guy I had voted for.
In fact, during the negotiations after the elections, in order to form a government, which dragged on forever, one of the issues on the table was that the Christian Democrats, if they wanted to have a seat in the coalition which would rule the country, they would have to get rid of their ‘Number Two’. And I’m grateful that this politician did in fact leave the party, but decided to stay as a representative, in opposition to the ruling government, which includes those Judases. Even so, he is not in opposition to supporting this NATO-effort to blow up the entire world by confronting Russia through Ukraine. In a debate in parliament about some other topic, he admitted that he never saw this war coming, like many of us. But I did. Only, I did not know when, and how it would play out. Or rather, let me amend that: I did not see this war coming, in this form, but I knew that to prevent it Europe would have to find a way to make Ukraine live up to this ‘Minsk Accord’. In private discussions in the months ahead of the ‘Special Military Operation’, as Russia was pulling out all the stops to prevent it by urging the ‘west’ to talk shop, and design a workable European Safety and Security architecture, which would not be malleable, I was still confident that Germany and France would preclude the outbreak of war. Like the Russians, I had been foolish enough to think that the signature of those two countries under that ‘Accord’ meant anything. But by late January of last year, as the ‘west’ simply failed to respond to the Russian requests, I understood that the new German government, and Macron in France, were not addressing the subject in a way which might save us from war. They appeared weak and giving in to American and British pressure. Now we know that Merkel and Hollande were very much part of it from the very beginning. Anticipating another deception for NATO, I predicted that if Russia was made to go to war, they would take ‘Donbas’, and the Southern part of Ukraine along the Black Sea, leaving Ukraine ‘landlocked’ and bankrupt. Which is what happened. My vote would not have altered the outcome. But why were all those people in the ‘House of Representatives’ asleep at the wheel?
Part of the explanation is that a politician cannot handle each and every subject in sufficient detail. This politician which attracted my vote has picked a limited number of ‘Dossiers’, and he is doing an amazing job on those ‘Dossiers’. With the past and present government making a mess of it, which will keep a large part of the ‘Representatives’ busy chasing their own tail, while the ‘incrowd’ of ‘Experts’ prepared the country for yet another war. Making everything extremely complex, and ‘debating’ stupid things, which shouldn’t be on the table at all, keeps the more serious ‘Representatives’ distracted, while the ‘Connected Experts’ with their ‘Security Clearance’, meeting in ‘commissions’, are ‘nudging’ us from one war to the next.
For this reason I’m a fierce proponent of a small government, with a limited mandate. Allowing the ‘Free Market’ to run its course. But contrary to people cheering for ‘Financial Capitalism’, I do not root for trading in ‘Rights’ and printing money to simply buy the entire world with ‘Mickey Mouse Money’, or ‘Fiat Currency’. And my assessment of this latest armed conflict is that it has to result in a return to ‘Industrial Capitalism’, but with a ‘twist’, because robots and automation are going to replace us. This is not really contested, and even companies which were considered ‘safe’ are dumping employees by the score. Countries like Russia, China, India, and other countries in the ‘Global South’ still have potential for human workers, but in the ‘Financial Capitalist’ world things are looking pretty bad. We will not be able to hold on to ‘Rights’, less so since we are now openly robbing various countries blind through ‘sanctions’. This war has exposed our ‘soft underbelly’, since we lack the capacity to produce anything ourselves, which now includes weapon systems and ammunition, and we’re scrambling to find forgotten stashes in countries like Israel, Japan, or Korea. The ‘Rand Corporation’, previously instrumental in the run-up to this confrontation with Russia, has changed tack. Now they are sounding the alarm. (See the link above). A prolonged war was not envisioned, as I stated in other contributions to this blog, and it is going to sink our economies. But there is no ‘off-ramp’, because we blew up all the bridges, and pipelines, confident that NATO would win ‘hands down’.
So, now what? What happens when you tell them ‘No!’? Invariably they do it anyway. And we’re obviously still on that trajectory, slowly but without thinking, we escalate, ‘boxed in’, and we pressed the button for the highest floor. It is going to be a long way down if we step over the railing in a panic. It may not feel unsafe as we ride the elevator, but once the door opens, we will notice the height. No penthouse suite awaiting us, I’m afraid. More something like a plank, and pirates prodding us to end it. May I propose to leave this bad dream, before it becomes all too real? Wake up now!