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An essay on Teflon leadership

Though I’m under no obligation to serve my fellow man, as they dig ever deeper holes for themselves, this blog is my honest attempt to save them from disaster. I do not want the Ukrainian people to suffer. Not even those in that country who wanted this war, for whatever reason. The horror is that people who are planning these wars nearly always get away with it. And not only if they are victorious. They designed multiple pathways to make it look as if they are not involved. ‘Scientists’ and lawyers get involved to find ways to deflect responsibility in case things go sideways. Nobody in NATO, or its formal leadership in member countries, faced the music for the horrendous loss of life, and eye-watering amounts of money which went into all those NATO-wars since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. 

 

Not this ‘Wag the Dog’-war the Clintons used to withdraw attention from Bill’s interest in real young women, subsequently used by Hillary during her aborted run for ‘Office’ as she lied about visiting the war torn Balkans and she had to take cover from shells being fired at her position. NATO using our friend bin Laden in that war to fight the Serbs on their behalf, to ‘defend Bosnia’, while letting the Muslim population down spectacularly in Srebrenica, where they were guarding a camp with male prisoners, who were taken from that camp and shot, without NATO lifting a finger. Not the war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or Libya, Somalia or whatever. Western leaders can lead us to war with impunity, whether or not they got the ‘Green Light’ from a supposedly representative body chosen by the people, but owned by the ‘Military-Banking’-complex, in one way or another, and whether or not they lied to the people in the run-up.

 

A wide range of techniques to ‘find’ excuses for war, and to avoid responsibility, have been fine-tuned over the past couple of decades. We in the west grew accustomed to this ’Teflon Leadership’. One leader hiding behind the other, with none of them in charge, except during the ‘Photo Opportunity’ at their inconsequential ‘Meetings’, where their ‘position’ in the ranks is everything. I was led on this rant by an article from a British Newspaper Colonel Lang posted on the Turcopolier website, which envisioned Putin at a Tribunal in The Hague. It is certainly true that Putin doesn’t suffer from this ’Teflon Leadership’-illness, but he is no dictator. He is an ‘Old School’-leader, and he went to war in February in an ‘Old School’-fashion, declaring his motives and objectives openly, after giving advance warning if the west continued to ignore his plead for a security agreement in Europe. But leaving the various areas that were put to the test to carefully selected experts in their field. Yet not afraid to admit mistakes were made in cases where that was obvious, and inviting the people to come forward when that was the case, in their opinion, as long as they didn’t protest the need for war itself, as that would tarnish his leadership, and a country engaged in an existential war can’t afford it. 

 

Some changes made at the managerial level were in response to failures, while other changes, highlighted in the western media as signs of failure, were merely the result of ‘planned escalation’, requiring organizational adaptation, and promoting people with another expertise and skills so as to make sure the goals would be met. In a previous contribution I gave as my opinion that in the west, military staff promoted because they know their way around in political circles, and can be trusted to cover for their ‘Teflon Leaders’, finding them ‘Fall Guys’ in case things go sideways, or serve as such if the buck cannot be stopped in time, degraded the entire military system. Instead of planning for war in a professional way, our military got involved in the race for ‘costly gadgets’ and securing ‘funding’, while laying the groundwork for future high-paying ‘gigs’ for themselves. 

 

NATO-countries wanted this war with Russia, planned for it, and funded the military build-up in Ukraine after placing a coup to end democracy, with massive fortifications from which they fired into the Donbas region for eight years, killing a total of around 14.000 people, the bulk of them civilians. Ukraine was ideal, exactly because it was not a NATO-member, while our ’Teflon Leaders’ called the shots in that country at every turn. Moreover, the Ukrainians were ‘Hot’ for war, or so it seemed. I have no way of knowing how many Ukrainians were truly in love with the prospect of their country going to war with Russia, and how many feared that outcome, or opposed it vehemently, as they see the Russians as their ‘brothers’ in a cultural sense, while being distrustful of how the ‘Teflon Nations’ conduct themselves. Nor do I have any idea how many blame us for ruining their country and their lives, by tapping into war-hungry extremists over the past eight years, providing them with weapons and money, and training them to die in the trenches, and how many now hate Putin with a vengeance. But either way, they cannot be satisfied with their own leadership by the time this war ends. It really doesn’t look good for Ukraine. Or, as I said before, they were thrown under the bus in a game of geo-strategic chess which shouldn’t have been. 

 

Nobody in the west will be responsible. But that may change if the full impact of this adventure hits home. When Zelensky sends up to eight million additional displaced Ukrainians into Europe, because he can’t feed them, or provide shelter, heating and care, while the European economy itself falls apart at the seams. The result of years of neglect by ’Teflon Leaders’ looking after their own best interests, assuming the people would adopt to changing circumstances imposed on them in order to pay for their scheming and wars in far away countries to serve the ‘PetroDollar/Euro’-driven Casino. I do not welcome tribunals or revolutionary mayhem, because the system is corrupt to the very core, and having some scapegoats being sentenced will only cause even more disruption and waste. We need to rethink our concept of government, and architecture of services, and we need to do it real fast, or we’ll be kissing Putin’s shoes. And to avoid being misunderstood, I would like to emphasize that I do not want the west to appoint an ‘Old School’-leader in a hurry, who will take our childish little hand, and lead us into nuclear Armageddon. We simply need to grow a spine and come to our senses as a collective. Sit down, and talk. Don’t waste any more blood and money on pet-projects of globalists in the employ of this ‘Military-Banking’-complex, and restore what has been destroyed as we went off-script, wandering around this fairy tale built on stories about money for nothing, and your chicks for free. Grow up.

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