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title: The Imperial Myth of Canada’s National Policy... From Sir John A MacDonald to Mark Carney
author: ;Matthew Ehret
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<p>In response to Trump’s calls to turn Canada into the 51st state, a fierce nationalist revival has been set ablaze across this strange monarchy of the North.</p>
<p><span>Even radical eco-warrior</span> <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/mark-carney-technocrat-superstar" rel>Central Banker Mark Carney has capitalized on this fervor</a> <span>throughout his rhetoric of turning Canada into a productive nation once more, led by a new national policy. This ‘National Policy’</span> <a href="https://www.timeout.com/montreal/news/high-speed-rail-line-connecting-quebec-city-to-toronto-confirmedtwice-as-fast-as-via-rail-021925" rel>will be driven by high speed rail projects</a><span>, possibly an active</span> <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-infrastructure-bank-could-fund-high-speed-rail-in-alberta-ontario/article34962472/" rel>national infrastructure bank</a><span>, protective tariffs and a renewed orientation towards industrial growth.</span></p>
<p>But is this a genuine dynamic or is something much darker moving under the surface?</p>
<p>As I will showcase in the following essay, despite the objectively good mechanisms being brought into play, there is a top-down dishonest agenda at play which can only be understood when we shed the belief that Canada has ever been anything other than a pawn on a global chessboard.</p>
<p>In order to understand this current effort to renew a ‘National Policy’ in the 21st century, I will now demonstrate how the first 19th century ‘National Policy’ led by Canada’s founding father Sir John A. MacDonald was nothing but a dangerous hoax designed simply to keep this national trapped in England’s global cage.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post"><strong>The Myth of Canada’s National Policy</strong></h3>
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<p><em>The mythology of Canada’s National Policy is a multi-layered fallacy of composition which must be addressed from the standpoint of locating Canada’s struggle for nationhood as locked in the midst of a battle between two conceptions of man and law expressed in the British vs. American systems of political economy. Before entering into any proper analysis of this problem, it must be stated at the outset that the primary fallacy of the Canadian National Policy of 1878-1885 is simply that the policy neither had a national origin, nor was Canada ever permitted by the British Empire to become a truly sovereign nation.</em></p>
<p><span>Understanding the true agenda behind Canada’s origins are necessary to understand why it has been the curse of Canada to be endowed with the most bountiful resources and landmass on the one side and the most underdeveloped population with only thirty three million inhabitants, strung across a 8900 kilometer border on the other, while its cousin to the south has a population of over 320 million. The average density per square mile is a mere 3.75 people per sq. km for Canada compared with 34 people per sq. km for the United States. This low density of the Canadian population is in keeping with the deliberate policy of the financial oligarchy</span> <a href="https://orientalreview.org/2019/07/31/the-genocidal-roots-of-the-green-new-deal-the-limits-to-growth-and-the-unchaining-of-prometheus/" rel>to reduce the population of the globe</a> <span>from the current 7.6 billion to 1 billion people.</span></p>
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<p>Today, as the world is threatened by the two-pronged threat of a collapse of world population by the destruction of food and water availability on the one side and thermonuclear war on the other, it is of dire necessity that such large scale development projects as the Bering Strait tunnel rail corridor be commenced post haste in the context of the new multipolar system being led by Russia and China.</p>
<p><span>The Bering Strait tunnel involves a U.S.-Canada-Russia-China alliance for Arctic development that would extend China’s Polar Silk Road into the Americas and touches on a policy fight which stretches back over 150 years and which I’ve written on extensively</span> <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2020/07/13/tomorrows-arctic-theatre-of-war-or-cooperation-the-real-story-behind-the-alaska-purchase/" rel>here</a> <span>and</span> <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2020/07/13/the-russian-china-polar-silk-road-challenges-british-geopolitics/" rel>here</a> <span>and</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/CXKwyquIkbs?si=gHa-PtM6IbLODZn3" rel>here</a><span>. For this project to move forward however, it is imperative that Canada let go of its British imperial traditions.</span></p>
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<p><span>These traditions which must be abandoned have historically defined Canada’s interests around either its “right to be left alone”, or “right to export raw materials as a hewer of wood and drawer of water”[1] and instead apply the superior form of sovereignty defined in the</span> <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2020/07/01/the-harmony-between-tianxia-and-westphalia/" rel>1648 Treaty of Westphalia</a> <span>as “the Benefit of the other”[2].</span></p>
<p>Before this can be done, certain ghosts which now haunt the Canadian identity must be identified and then, promptly exorcised. These ghosts shape the cultural/political reflexes which prevent Canada from joining with its neighbours to the south and north in a common mission centering around large scale scientific and technological endeavours. This exorcism must begin with the true story of Canada’s origins and “National Policy” of 1878.</p>
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<p><span>Over the years, the Canadian “National Policy” has taken on various forms. At its origins, it received its name from the general policy applied by the Conservative Party platform beginning in 1878 under the administration of</span> <strong>Sir John A. Macdonald.</strong></p>
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<p>The policy again arose under significantly diluted forms with successive Conservative governments beginning with the 1911-1919 administration of Sir Robert Borden, followed by the 1930-1935 R.B. Bennett government.</p>
<p><span>The policy ended once and for all after the fall of the</span> <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/john-diefenbaker-and-the-sabotage-of-the-northern-vision/" rel>1957-1963 Diefenbaker government</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>The National Policy was the protectionist counter-program to the typically free trade policy represented by Canada’s other major party, the Liberals.</p>
<p>From the time of Wilfrid Laurier, to the rise of the “Laurier Liberals” (led by C.D. Howe, O.D. Skelton, Ernest Lapointe, the confused Prime Minister King and St. Laurent), the liberals tended to move towards an economic union of the Americas.</p>
<p><span>This was a policy denounced by the likes of the Round Table leader Lord Milner and his Fabian ally Lord Halford Mackinder as a death sentence for the world hegemony of the British Empire which had to be stopped at all costs. Early Roundtable/Fabian Society operations</span> <a href="https://risetidefoundation.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/laurier-and-1911.pdf" rel>resulted in the ouster of PM Laurier in 1911 who lamented during WWI</a> <em><strong><a href="https://risetidefoundation.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/laurier-and-1911.pdf" rel>that</a></strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>“Canada is now governed by a junta sitting at London, known as “The Round Table”, with ramifications in Toronto, in Winnipeg, in Victoria, with Tories and Grits receiving their ideas from London and insidiously forcing them on their respective parties.”</strong></em></p>
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<p><span>The great confusion caused by the dishonest application of the National Policy’s protectionist policies by the Imperial Privy Council and Foreign Office, is to be found in the fact that</span> <em><strong>rather than being applied by a sovereign nation striving for defense against imperial looting as the American republic had adopted similar measures after the 1787 framing of its Constitution, the Canadian example witnessed an empire’s use of the powerful tariff and associated investment program in order to keep its valuable colony under its iron grip</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p>By maintaining control of the vast territory above the United States, Britain could both subvert America’s institutions more easily, while ensuring that the unification of America with their historical allies in Russia could not occur.</p>
<p>Then, as today, the true value of a protectionist policy of America lay in the fact that, when combined with sovereign control over public credit and a commitment to internal improvements and the general welfare, it provided the best line of defence from rapacious imperial intentions on the one side, while providing a powerful instrument for nation building on the other.</p>
<p>The dishonest application of the protective system during Canada’s history have achieved none of these ends.</p>
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<p><span>This Conservative National Policy was entirely scrapped after</span> <strong>Prime Minister John Diefenbaker</strong> <span>attempted to apply it to develop the productive powers of the nation under an honest, but naive vision for the first time in history. Diefenbaker’s policy, which threatened the Empire’s control of Canada was named the “Northern Vision”, or “New National Policy”, and was based on not merely a stroke of genius that called for the opening up of the great Arctic territories to scientific and industrial development but a new system of funding</span> <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/how-the-deep-state-overthrew-the-last-nationalist-government-of-canada-in-1963/" rel>through the Bank of Canada</a><span>.</span></p>
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<p>Diefenbaker’s failure to achieve his objective not only arose from the active nests of Rhodes Scholars within and without his own cabinet who strove to sabotage it, but from his own inability to reconcile his love of progress and creative pioneering change, with his love for his British traditions, which were derived from an intrinsic antagonism to progress and creative change. This has come to be known as the “Diefenbaker Paradox”.</p>
<p>Diefenbaker’s ‘New National Policy” announced in 1957 took its inspiration from a popular misunderstanding of the first “National Policy” of his idol, Sir John A. Macdonald.</p>
<p>Although Macdonald’s policy involved the adoption of a protective tariff to favour local Canadian manufacturing and agriculture, and internal improvements vectored on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, this policy lacked substance as it was not applied against an Imperial intention, but was rather itself an Imperial policy which desired to preserve a strategic North American colony by a dying British Empire.</p>
<p><span>Although similar in outward form to the Hamiltonian American System adopted a century earlier by the founding fathers of the United States in order to achieve economic independence from the British Empire, the Canadian version</span> <em><strong>lacked all of the substance</strong></em><span>. It was rather the case that Macdonald’s “progressive” policy was nothing more than an illusion designed to break Canada off from any unification of mission with an America then being shaped by Abraham Lincoln’s nation building dynamic.</span></p>
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<p>The period of 1865-1871 remains one of the densest in terms of potential for the establishment of an evolutionary phase shift in human history that had begun with the success of the American Revolution and the Renaissance view of man over the bestial dark age view embodied in British imperial traditions.</p>
<p>A quick overview of a timeline of the sweeping events following 1865 will provide the historian a valuable reference point in which to expose the principled drama shaping those dates and events.</p>
<p><strong>April-May 1865</strong><span>: Lincoln’s victory over British sponsored Confederacy. Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth via an operation run out of British Canada [3].</span></p>
<p><strong>March 30, 1867:</strong> <span>Alaska is purchased from the Russians by Secretary of State William Seward, a firm believer in Manifest Destiny. The Russians had earlier saved America in 1863 by Czar Alexander II’s deployment of the Russian fleet to the coasts of America in San Franciso and New York. Major allies from both nations recognized the vital extension of rail between the continents even during the Civil War.</span></p>
<p><strong>March 1867</strong><span>: The first British Columbia annexation movement petition for leaving the British Empire and joining America is presented to Queen Victoria.</span></p>
<p><strong>July 1, 1867:</strong> <span>The British North America Act is established creating a federation of four Canadian provinces under a British-modeled constitution. B.C. resists joining due in large measure to the vast expanse of land separating it from the eastern confederated colonies.</span></p>
<p><strong>July 18, 1868</strong><span>: Rupert’s Land (the vast private territory separating B.C from the eastern colonies) is purchased from the Hudson’s Bay Company by an Act of Parliament in British Canada establishing this territory as “crown land”.</span></p>
<p><strong>May 10, 1869</strong><span>: The U.S. Trans-Continental Rail line is completed (begun by Lincoln in 1863) establishing the world’s first rail line crossing a continent and opening up both the middle of America to Manifest Destiny and providing a link to California from the Atlantic. The Colony of British Columbia benefits enormously from the increased access to trade.</span></p>
<p><strong>June 10, 1869</strong><span>: B.C.’s anti-Confederation Governor</span> <a href="https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/frederick-seymour" rel>Frederick Seymour dies</a> <span>under mysterious circumstances.</span></p>
<p><strong>December 10, 1869:</strong><span>a 2nd Annexation petition from B.C. merchants and politicians is delivered to President Ulysses S. Grant. Grant and his colleagues make their interest known to the public.</span></p>
<p><strong>July 20, 1871</strong><span>: Arrangements for B.C’s entry into Confederation are streamlined.</span></p>
<h3 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post"><strong>Penetrating Deeper into the Cause of Shadows</strong></h3>
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<p><span>By the time of Lincoln’s 1865 victory over the</span> <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/understanding-the-tri-fold-nature" rel>British-financed Confederate South,</a> <span>events were moving at great speed.</span></p>
<p>The continued application of Lincoln’s American System practices of protectionism, public credit and internal improvements was resulting in the greatest potential for growth in world history. British Canada’s failure to break free of the mother country almost 100 years earlier had resulted in a stagnant and underdeveloped economy which was both divided internally, and rift with annexation movements exploding from British Columbia to Nova Scotia in eastern Canada.</p>
<p><span>Former leaders of the Rebellion of Lower Canada of 1837 such as Louis-Joseph Papineau became ardent leaders in the</span> <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2019/12/08/unravelling-the-mystery-of-the-annexation-movement-of-1849/" rel>Annexation movement of Quebec that peaked with the Annexation manifesto of 1849</a> <span>and whose currents were still strongly felt across Quebec… especially among the Eastern Townships largely settled by Americans.</span></p>
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<p>In the United States America, awareness of British-Canada’s pro-Confederacy policy of terrorist operations, hosting the Confederacy Secret Service and even the assassination of Lincoln from Montreal were much better understood than they are today.</p>
<p><span>The Annexation Bill of 1866 introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives stated:</span><em><span>“from the date thereof, the States of</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Scotia" rel>Nova Scotia</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick" rel>New Brunswick</a><span>,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_East" rel>Canada East</a><span>, and</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_West" rel>Canada West</a><span>, and the Territories of Selkirk,</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan" rel>Saskatchewan</a><span>, and Columbia, with limits and rights as by the act defined, are constituted and admitted as States and Territories of the United States of America.”</span></em><span>[4]</span></p>
<p>The Bill also authorized $10 million dollars to be used to purchase the vast private territory of the Hudson’s Bay Company, known as Rupert’s Land and the North West Territories. Vast public improvement programs were also authorized in the bill centering around canal building, and rail through the Maritimes from New York.</p>
<p>The Hudson’s Bay Territory was a strange phenomenon in North America. From 1670 until 1869, the vast largely unexplored and undeveloped wilderness was the private property of the Hudson’s Bay Company, who, having received a Royal Charter under King Charles II, had the duty as a subsidiary of the British East India Company’s global operation, to maintain an operation of a vast corrupt fur trade on the one side while blocking American ventures into continental development on the other [see figure 1]. The Colonies still in the possession of Britain, north of the United States, had very little opportunity to develop into anything more than “hewers of wood and drawers of water” because of this fact.</p>
<p>The second important post-Civil War development took place on March 30, 1867 with the Alaska Purchase.</p>
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<p>Lincoln’s Secretary of State William Seward and his close ally Senator Charles Sumner, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, advanced a bill for the annexation of the Russian territory in North America for the fire sale price of $7 million dollars. It was after all, the Russian Navy under Czar Alexander II that had worked with Sumner and Seward to tip the balance of the Civil War in Lincoln’s favour, by extending their entire fleet to the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of America as a warning to European powers not to aid the Confederacy in the conflict [5].</p>
<p>This purchase (popularly called by modern fools as “Seward’s Folly”), suddenly made British Columbia very hot real estate. During this 1867 purchase, Lincoln’s Trans Continental Railway, begun in 1863 at the height of the Civil War was a mere two years from completion, linking the Pacific to Atlantic for the first time in history and thus destroying the British monopoly over maritime shipping routes.</p>
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<p>With students of Lincoln’s program to be found among the intelligentsia of Russia, led by Count Sergei Witte and Dimitri Mendeleev, the American modeled (and largely American-built) Trans-Siberian Railway’s construction was not far away, and the linking of rail across the two continents was discussed as a real possibility by republican visionaries the world over.</p>
<p>Although the annexation bill of 1866 had the support of men such as William Seward and his ally Senator Charles Sumner, it never entered the Senate and was not voted upon. This Bill’s appearance, combined with the Alaskan purchase, and the growing independence and annexation movements across Canada, did however give Britain the sense of existential urgency to consolidate its territories under some form of imperial federation beholden to the British Crown at all costs. The Colonies of Canada, so close to Britain’s mortal enemy were far too geopolitically important for the Empire to lose at this moment in history.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post"><strong>The Fraud of the BNA Act</strong></h3>
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<p>The first vital maneuver conducted by the British as a response to these developments, merely three months after the Alaska purchase, was the speedy completion of the confederation of the four easternmost colonies under the British North America Act of July 1, 1867 [6], renaming Upper and Lower Canada as “the provinces of Ontario and Quebec”.</p>
<p>The BNA Act was the consolidation of 72 resolutions hammered out in two 1864 conferences which were designed to thwart the dynamic of American Annexationists on the one side and honest Canadian Nationalists such as the President of the Executive Council Isaac Buchanan (under the Macdonald-Cartier government) who worked valiantly not only to unite Canada with Lincoln’s America, but also fought to keep Canada out of any further wars with Great Britain [7].</p>
<p>Buchanan had lost this powerful position by a coup inside of his party run by his nemesis George Brown and John A. Macdonald. While Brown and Macdonald appeared to public view as enemies, the reality was that they were both beholden to the City of London’s interests for the entirety of their lives, and chose to adapt themselves to a rigged game of free market “Grits” on the left (Brown) and “protectionist” Tories on the right (Macdonald). This is the root of the Liberal and Conservative parties of Canada.</p>
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<p>The fraud of the BNA Act merits a greater analysis, but for the present purposes, it suffices to demonstrate that it did not establish a “sovereign nation of Canada” as is popularly held. Rather, the architecture merely maintained a framework of pure British Privy Council control of Canadian affairs, permitting only an illusory degree of democracy. By establishing its foundations not upon a Principle of the General Welfare, nor acknowledging the existence of unalienable rights as embodied in Canada’s southern cousin, the Canadian Constitution is a very different beast. Its preamble literally states:</p>
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<p><em><span>“Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom:</span> <strong>And Whereas such a Union would conduce to the Welfare of the Provinces and promote the interests of the British Empire</strong><span>”</span></em><span>[8]</span></p>
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<p><span>According to this preamble, the</span> <em>“raison d’être</em><span>” of Canada is not the defense of the general welfare of its people, but rather the promotion of interests of the British Empire!</span></p>
<p><span>The BNA Act used the old British trick of the “fur blanket” bribe used first in</span> <a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/01/why-canada-failed-the-ben-franklin-challenge-in-1776/" rel>1774 to keep Quebec from joining the rebellious 13 colonies under the “Quebec Act”</a><span>[9]. The Act gave the Dominion of Canada increased legislative control over its local affairs by forming for the first time, a federal structure around a Parliament, Judiciary and Senate which would have the appearance of power only, while the true power always remained in the powerful office of the Crown and its agents in the Privy Council Office and Governor General. This fact is laid out in several sections within the act:</span></p>
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<p><em>“The Executive Government and Authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen.”</em></p>
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<p>Since the Monarch herself could not be in every Dominion at the same time, provisions were made to ensure that her absolute authority would be actively arranging the affairs of state modeled on the British Privy Council system:</p>
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<p><em>“There shall be a Council to aid and advise in the Government of Canada, to be styled the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada; and the Persons who are to be Members of that Council shall be from Time to Time chosen and summoned by the Governor General and sworn in as Privy Councillors, and Members thereof may be from Time to Time removed by the Governor General.”</em></p>
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<p>Peppered throughout the Act are ongoing references to the importance of the Queen’s Privy Council of Canada to “advise” the government under the absolute authority of the Governor General, who is still legally recognized as the only head of state and legal representative of the Crown. Responsibility to keep the individual provinces under coordinated control was left to the power of the Lieutenant Governors assigned to each province. The real seat of power ensuring optimal control of Canadian federal policy by its London masters, especially in the field of economic warfare has been from this time on, the Privy Council, of which every single Prime Minister of Canada has been a member [10]. And just in case one might think that the Canadian military would be exempt from this control, the Act goes on to read:</p>
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<p><em>“The Command-in-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia, and of all Naval and Military Forces, of and in Canada, is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen”</em> <span>[11]</span></p>
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<p>In order to ensure that Canada was to remain as fragmented as possible and no strong federal structure of checks and balances modeled on the American System could occur, the Act also laid out in Section 92, a framework which gave the largest possible power to the provinces to control their own resources, taxation and internal policy outside of any federal structure.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post"><strong>Sir John A. Macdonald, the Aryan Anglophile</strong></h3>
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<p><strong>Sir John A. Macdonald</strong><span>, the primary father of Confederation, was appointed Canada’s 1st Prime Minister by the Governor General and knighted on the day of its passage for services rendered to the British Empire. In his last election campaign speech before his death in 1891, Macdonald, now celebrated as the great nationalist, stated</span></p>
<p>“A British subject I was born; a British subject I will die”… strange words for the “founding father” of a supposedly “sovereign” nation.</p>
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<p>On closer examination, it may come as no surprise to some that this Anglophobe “father of Confederation” was little more than a racist bigot who also advocated for an ‘Aryan Canada’, cleansed of the Asiatic races, then being used as slave labour to build the Canadian Pacific Rail into the west [12].</p>
<p>A paradox is here presented. If Britain has traditionally kept its Colonies consciously underdeveloped in order to maintain fixed, and thus easy-to-control systems of equilibrium, then under what intention did the British Crown and Privy Council mandate the construction of a rail system from the east coast of Canada all the way to the coastal limit of British Columbia in the west unleashing vast rates of increase in prosperity of the nation? The opening up of the Prairies to development had been something which the Empire, using its Hudson’s Bay Company had been working for over 200 years to prevent… so why did this policy change during the period of Macdonald?</p>
<p><span>A clue to this question can be found in Macdonald’s famous 1867 quote:</span> <em>“I would be quite willing, personally to leave the whole country a wilderness for the next half century, but I fear if Englishmen do not go there the Yankees will.”</em></p>
<h3 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post"><strong>The Historical Dynamic leading up to B.C. Bribe of 1870</strong></h3>
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<p><span>Up until 1870, the fate of the new BNA Act was still highly questionable.</span> <a href="https://opentextbc.ca/postconfederation/chapter/2-2-nova-scotias-second-thoughts/" rel>The Nova Scotian annexation movement</a> <span>had risen to new levels of influence with the post 1867 collapse of their fisheries dominated economy. This collapse was shaped by 1) new binding free trade treaties with Britain which the new Confederacy was subject to and 2) the 1865 cancelling of the U.S.-Canada “Reciprocity Treaty of 1854” by the Americans in response to the British support for the southern rebels during the Civil War. No other path to survival could be seen by the republican Nova Scotians but changing its alliances and breaking out of the 1867 BNA Act. If they would do so, then it was all but guaranteed that New Brunswick would do the same. Meanwhile turmoil in the Red River Settlement (located in today’s Manitoba) had also imbued deep concerns in the British Empire.</span></p>
<p>Of far more strategic significance to the continuation of the British Empire’s interests than the Red River Settlement or east coast annexation movements, was the troubling developments occurring in the colony of British Columbia. After the 1867 American purchase of Alaska, British Columbia had become very hot real estate. Lincoln republicans in America led by William Seward and Senator Sumner, made their intention of annexation of B.C. well known.</p>
<p>Frustrating matters for the British was the reality that the deep economic depression in B.C. [13], combined with the colony’s vast geographical separation from of its confederated sister colonies on the east coast had resulted in a massive yearning in its inhabitants for annexation into the United States, some on principle and some simply for survival.</p>
<p>Out of sheer desperation, leading merchants and politicians of the colony sent the first Annexation Petition to Queen Victoria on July 2, 1867 which laid out a politely worded ultimatum:</p>
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<p><em>“Either, that Your Majesty’s Government may be pleased to relieve us immediately of the expense of our excessive staff of officials, assist the establishment of a British steam-line with the Panamas, so that immigration from England may more easily reach us, and also assume the debts of the colonies, Or that your Majesty will graciously permit the colony to become a portion of the United States”</em> <span>[14]</span></p>
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<p>In response to this petition, no formal response was given beyond an appeal for the colony to join the confederation. Knowing this was impossible, Governor of the Colony of B.C., Frederick Seymour, who was also a powerful opponent of Confederation, wrote to the Duke of Buckingham later that month describing the situation:</p>
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<p><em>“There is a systemic agitation going on in this town in favour of annexation to the United States. It is believed that money for its maintenance is provided from San Francisco. As yet, however, nothing else has reached me officially on the subject, and should any petition on the subject, I will know how to answer it before I transmit it to your Grace. On the mainland, the question of annexation is not moot.”</em> <span>[15]</span></p>
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<p>As the subsequent year passed, with still no traction on either side, the tension grew more feverish with greater quantities of British loyalists defecting to the annexation camp out of sheer despair. An April 20, 1869 Letter to the Editor of the British Columbian expresses this sentiment well:</p>
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<p><em>“With a depleted treasury, revenue falling off, and the Colony suffering from a depression beyond all precedent, with no prospect, either present, or remote, of immigration, what are we to do? … Were the inhabitants of British Columbia a thriving community, the question of annexation would not be popular; for the people are loyal and patriotic. The force of circumstances alone compels them to advocate a change in nationality… I am a loyal Briton, and would prefer living under institutions of my own country, were it practicable. But I, like the rest of the world of which we are each an atom, would prefer the flag and institutions of the United States with prosperity, to remaining as we are, with no prospect of succeeding as a British Colony”.</em> <span>[16]</span></p>
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<p>Such sentiment, resulted in a second, more powerfully worded petition signed by 100 influential leading citizens, now directed both to the Queen as well as the President of the United States. It read:</p>
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<p><em>“We are constrained by the duty we owe to ourselves and families, in view of the contemplated severance of the political ties which unite this Colony to the “Mother country”, to seek for such political and commercial affinity and connection, as will insure the immediate and continued prosperity and wellbeing of this our adopted home…</em></p>
<p><em>That we view with feelings of alarm the avowed intention of Her Majesty’s Government to confederate this Colony with the Dominion of Canada, as we believe such a measure can only tend to still further depression and ultimate injury for the following reasons, viz:</em></p>
<p><em>That Confederation cannot give us protection against internal enemies or foreign foes, owing to the distance of this Colony from Ottawa,</em></p>
<p><em>That it cannot open to us a market for the produce of our lands, our forests, our mines or our waters.</em></p>
<p><em>That it cannot bring us population, (our greatest need) as the Dominion itself is suffering from a lack of it.</em></p>
<p><em>That our connection with the Dominion can satisfy no sentiment of loyalty or devotion.</em></p>
<p><em>That her commercial and industrial interests are opposed to ours.</em></p>
<p><em>That the tariff of the Dominion will be the ruin of our farmers and the commerce of our chief cities.</em></p>
<p><em>… The only remedy for the evils which beset us, we believe to be in a close union with the adjoining States and Territories, we are already bound to them by a unity of object and interest; nearly all our commercial relations are with them; They furnish the Chief Markets we have for the products of our mines, lands and waters; They supply the Colony with most of the necessities of life; They furnish us the only means of communication with the outer world;…</em></p>
<p><em><strong>For these reasons we earnestly desire the ACQUISITION of this Colony by the United States.”</strong></em> <span>[17]</span></p>
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<p>A copy of the petition was given to Vincent Collyer, the great American painter and Indian Commissioner of Alaska which he personally delivered to President Ulysses S. Grant. The press dispatch from the office of the President printed in the British Colonist of January 11, 1870 read:</p>
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<p><em>“Washington D.C. December 30, Vincent Collyer yesterday handed to the President [Grant] a memorial signed by a number of property holders and businessmen in Victoria to be followed by another which will contain the names of all the British merchants and others at Victoria, Nanaimo and other places, in favor of the transfer of British Columbia to the United States. The President today returned Collyer a verbal reply that he had received it with great interest and sent it to the Secretary of State. Collyer also showed a memorial to Senator Sumner, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, who, after reading it, said the movement was important and could have but one termination. Meanwhile, the government waits to movement of England which is fast seeing the uselessness and impracticability of European Empire on this hemisphere. Both the President and Sumner desired their replies to be made known to the memorialists”</em> <span>[18]</span></p>
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<p>By now, it was a race against time. The colonists knew that Britain was preparing vigorously to regain control of their colony. In July of 1868, the Crown mandated that an Act of British Canada’s parliament allocate funds to purchase Rupert’s Land and the Northwest Territories from the Hudson’s Bay Company, which occurred that same month erasing one major obstacle to British negotiations. On the other hand, by May 10, 1869, the American Transcontinental Railway was completed, linking for the first time an entire continent by rail from coast. A ferry system already existed from B.C. to California, bringing a boom of prosperity to the poor colony and making the feasibility of a rail extension from America into the colony that much more realistic.</p>
<p>The deadly mistake made by the author of the press dispatch, including President Grant was their assumption that England’s intention could be accessed by the loud voices of some of its members of parliament calling for a release of British Columbia. It was and still is the case that the true seat of power of Britain is located far above the parliament in the form of the Queen’s Privy Council and Foreign Office which then had no intention whatsoever of losing this vital possession. Although Sumner and Seward were far less naïve on this matter, the majority of leading Americans, the President included, didn’t fully “get it”. The British Minister in Washington writing to his London associates is useful in providing insight into the British oligarchy’s perception of events:</p>
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<p><em>“The circumstance, the existing disturbance in the Hudson’s Bay Settlement [Red River Colony –ed], and the asserted disaffection in Nova Scotia, are much commented upon by the newspapers of this country, and are looked upon as the beginning of a separation of the British provinces from the mother country, and of their early annexation to the United States. This view of the matter is put in connection with the settlement of the differences with us arising out of the “Alabama Affair”, and senators are evidently indulging in the illusive hope that England has it in her power, and might not be unwilling to come to an amicable settlement of those differences on the basis of the cessation of our territory on this continent to the United States”</em> <span>[19].</span></p>
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<p>The greatest tragedy of patriots everywhere in dealing with the British have been their tendency not to look upon the true nature of its evil soul. This letter demonstrates clearly the disdain that British imperialists have felt towards the naïve idealism of the victims whom they intend to destroy. An evil intention animated by a passionate desire to destroy the good will go to any ends of deceit in order to turn any obstacle against their power into a weapon against their naïve enemies. A case in point can be found in the reference made by the British ambassador to the “Alabama Affair”.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post"><strong>The Alabama Claims Affair</strong></h3>
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<p>By the end of the Civil War, Sumner and Seward led American patriots to go on the offensive against the true instigator of the war… not the southern confederacy, but the British Empire. The powerful flank which they chose to use as their weapon was the open fact that Confederate Warships used against Lincoln’s forces were built and supplied by the British under direct orders of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell. The most famous and destructive of the British-made war ships was the “C.S.S. Alabama”.</p>
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<p>These American patriots began an international fight over Britain’s obligation to pay reparations for damages incurred during the war known as the “Alabama Claims”. Upon Seward’s purchase of Alaska, Senator Sumner began mobilizing for the demand of $2 billion from Britain or the annexation of its North American territories. Although Seward was highly favorable to the plan, British stalling tactics kept the Alabama Claims fight on hold for years. During these important years, America had lost much of its powerful bargaining chips and British control of its territories had advanced too far. By March of 1871, Grant’s appointed Secretary of State Hamilton Fish worked out an agreement with Britain on the Alabama Claims resulting in a mere $15.5 million dollars and an end to all similar disputes regarding Britain’s role in sponsoring the Southern Confederacy during the Civil War. This became known as “the Washington Treaty”. Much of the potential that was alive two years earlier had by then been sabotaged. It is of interest that one of the key arbitrators of the Alabama Claims was also Canada’s very active Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post"><strong>The Elimination of Governor Seymour</strong></h3>
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<p><span>During the months preceding the 2nd B.C. Annexation petition, a major tragedy befell the republican cause with the untimely death of Governor Frederick Seymour, who had been a long-time enemy of Confederation. In the short months before Seymour’s death on June 10, 1869, he had enraged the highest echelons of the Empire’s civil servants such as Sir Frederick Rogers, Undersecretary of State for the Colonies who, upon discovering that Seymour had suppressed information for months from the Colonial Office that a vote in favour of Confederation had occurred in the B.C. Legislature wrote</span> <em>“it appears that on March 28 last, the Council passed a Resolution in favour of admission which however Governor Seymour only now [November 4] sends through in his March telegram he said he would write.”</em> <span>[20]</span></p>
<p>What Sir Rogers is also revealing is that the British had two confederacy plans for the Continent of North America: one in the South of the United States and one in the North of the United States.</p>
<p>When the next opportunity to vote on Confederation occurred in February 17, 1869, Governor Seymour again sabotaged the pro-confederacy supporters and the British Crown, as he now convinced the legislature to postpone as no details were worked out on the settling of the Hudson’s Bay Company land purchase.</p>
<p><span>John A. Macdonald wrote in anger on May 15 to the Governor General of Canada saying</span> <em>“the first thing to be done will be to recall Governor Seymour if his time is not run out”</em> <span>[21], and on the same day he wrote to the pro-confederation Premier of New Brunswick, Sir Anthony Musgrave informing him that Seymour would be recalled:</span> <em>“as being perfectly unfit for his present position, under present circumstances. From all I hear, he was never fit for it”</em> <span>[22].</span></p>
<p>Within two weeks of Macdonald’s writing these two telegrams, Governor Seymour was dead. The official story holds that Seymour was sent to the harsh northern tip of B.C. to mediate a conflict between two warring native tribes. Upon his success, Seymour was struck with dysentery and died within days. Seymour was immediately replaced with Macdonald’s ally, Sir Anthony Musgrave, and the annexation movement lost its secret defender. Musgrave immediately set to work preparing for B.C.’s entry into Confederation with the March 1870 “Great Confederation Debates” begun in the legislature and culminated on April 6 with 16 clauses and Resolutions voted upon. Delegates were sent to Ottawa to negotiate these Resolutions while the republican movement in B.C. could only watch helplessly. Final appeals were made during this dark hour by leading citizens to the American Government, evidenced by the following letter of August 17, 1870 written by H.F. Heisterman [23] a leading merchant of the annexation movement:</p>
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<p><em>“Understanding that you are likely to have his Excellency President Grant among you some time this month and that you will likely have an opportunity, I herewith hand you a further list of names to the memorial presented in December 1869 by Vincent Collyer. It would have been sent then, but owing to the hostility shown to it by the Canadian newspaper here it was not sent. I therefore transmit it to you, to make whatever use of it you see fit in the premises. It is exasperating to me and my fellow citizens, to see a country aggregating 405 000 square miles, of which 11 000 square miles comes upon Vancouver Island and 6000 upon Queen Charlotte Island and the balance 388 000 sq. miles upon the mainland of British Columbia, shut out as it were from the prosperity around it. The people of the colony are too few to make an armed resistance to confederation which seems on all accounts intended to be forced on us unless some countenance were given to parties who desire annexation to the United States by the government of President Grant, in a proposal to settle the Alabama Claim by the transfer of this colony, I don’t see how we can move in the matter.”</em> <span>[24]</span></p>
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<p>Musgrave’s agents advanced negotiations at breakneck speed. Ottawa negotiations began on June 7, 1870 and within weeks nearly all resolutions and clauses were agreed upon. The two biggest impediments to B.C.’s entry into the Confederacy were dealt with by the payment of all of the colony’s debts by Ottawa and the promise made by Macdonald to construct a rail line linking the new province with Montreal and Quebec “within ten years”. This promised rail line was necessary in order to sabotage the intention of the American Manifest Destiny policy.</p>
<p>Sir Alexander Galt, a fellow father of Confederation and proponent of Canadian expansion, speaking to a crowd on May 22, 1867 in Lennoxville Quebec described his views on the need to extend confederation and rail to the Pacific:</p>
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<p><em>“We cannot close our eyes to what is happening in the West… I for one look upon the acquisition of Russian America by the United States as their answer to the arrangements we have been making to unite among ourselves… If the United States desire to outflank us on the west, we must accept the situation and lay our hand on British Columbia and the Pacific Ocean. This country cannot be surrounded by the Unites States- We are gone if we allow it… “From the Atlantic to the Pacific” must be the cry in British America as much as it has ever been in the United States”</em></p>
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<p>Another Father of Confederation George Brown, who ran the influential Toronto Globe and heavily promoted Canada’s trans-continental railway, wrote on July 10, 1867 that</p>
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<p><em>“Seward’s attempt to coerce Canada by the purchase of Walrussia [aka: Alaska] has brought down upon him the laughter of mankind and has not altered one white the determination of the people of British America from Prince Edward Island to Vancouver to stand by the old flag to the last man and the last cartridge”</em></p>
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<p><span>Sir George Etienne Cartier stated in 1865 dreaded the immanent annexation of Canada by saying</span> <em><strong>“We must either have a Confederation of British North America or else be absorbed by the American Confederation.”</strong></em></p>
<p>With these arrangements agreed upon (paralleling similar arrangements in the former Red River Settlement), British Columbia was admitted into Confederation as the 6th Canadian Province [25]. Within the coming decades, as Canada was increasingly turned into a wedge blocking US-Russian collaboration and arctic development. Saskatchewan and Alberta were formed as provinces where there had formerly been Hudson’s Bay land.</p>
<p><span>After eight years, still no progress had been made on the construction of the promised rail linking the Dominion and again, British Columbia continued to feel the painful grip and despair of isolation and economic depression. This pain was made that much worse, as the republican neighbour to the south was witnessing unheard of prosperity under the effects of Lincoln’s Trans continental Railroad and vigorous pioneering of the west. The American System’s continuation of</span> <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/the-principle-of-national-sovereignty-in-an-era-of-regime-change/" rel>John Quincy Adams’ Manifest Destiny policy</a><span>, led by Lincoln’s economic advisor Henry C. Carey had resulted in the greatest explosion of wealth in the United States, and become a model for the whole civilized world with the 1876 Centennial Celebration in Philadelphia.</span></p>
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<p>The superiority of the American System to the failure of the wicked British System of Free Trade resulted in America becoming the world’s leading productive power.</p>
<p>Converts to the American System were made by all lovers of progress from around the world who came to the Convention. Germany under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck vigorously applied American System practices of high protective tariffs and vast internal improvements. Czar Alexander II and his close circle of Russian advisors applied the American model for the vast modernization of Russia vectored around the Trans-Siberian Rail with the great scientist Dimitri Mendeleev chairing the Committee on Protectionism [26]. Even Japan under the Meiji Restoration applied the American model to escape feudalism and enter the modern age.</p>
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<p>In light of this dynamic, leading voices for progress in Canada again began to clamour for real independence from the trap of the British System that they had fallen into. Even some among the greatest enemies of the late Governor Seymour were gripped by this frustration of progress, exemplified by Amor De Cosmos, then a Liberal MP for Victory, who in May 1878 arose in parliament and warned that if rail development did not begin immediately, then British Columbia would annex into the United States!</p>
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<p>The threat of losing Canada to the United States having once again resurfaced, Sir John A. Macdonald was brought back into power after a five year role in opposition under a dysfunctional Liberal Government. The new platform which the Privy Council used to steamroll him back into office was called “The National Policy”. This program was based on a perverse copy of the American Policy of high tariffs, the speedy construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the creation of new agricultural zones, open immigration and other internal improvements, yet with one caveat… it’s governing intention was aimed not at building a sovereign nation of Canada, but rather the ultimate destruction of America and a reconstruction of global British imperial hegemony.</p>
<p>The National Policy featured a sweet deal with the Canadian Pacific Railway which was incorporated in 1881 and was granted a generous $25 million subsidy from Ottawa along with 10 million hectares of rich land. The CPR was also exempted from paying taxes for the next 20 years.</p>
<p>Five years later, on June 28, 1886, the first CPR train left Montreal and, like a slap on the face to all republicans in Canada, and at the same time demonstrating its true anti-American intention, was timed to arrive on July 4, 1886 at Port Moody in British Columbia.</p>
<p><span>Due to the inability of American System patriots to continue the trajectory of progress unleashed by Lincoln’s victory, the unification of intention of Russia and America was never finalized, the material division which fed a spiritual disease later capitalized upon by the British Foreign Office architects of the wars of the 20th century (including the Cold War</span> <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/2022/04/20/fdrs-anti-colonial-vision-for-the-post-war-world-as-he-saw-it-revisited/" rel>which was only unleashed over the dead body of FDR).</a></p>
<p>Similarly, Berlin to Baghdad rail developments as well as similar rail programs planned between Germany and France and both to Russia had resulted in a dynamic of division which the British capitalized upon to instigate the irrational meat grinders known as World Wars I and II. Due to similar frauds, the birth of a sovereign Canada was derailed, and a population, occupying one of the richest and largest territories in the world, was subject to a dynamic which has left it vastly underdeveloped, with the lowest population density in the world of 34 million for a land area of almost 10 million square kilometers. A single state of California alone sustains over 38 million inhabitants while most of that is desert!</p>
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<p><span>The paradox of “Canadian Nationalism” can only be efficiently addressed by first recognizing the power of progress as a universal phenomenon, expressed both in biological evolution of species, and human evolution of civilization which Lincoln’s advisor Henry Carey</span> <a href="https://archive.org/details/unitylawasexhib01caregoog" rel>referred to as the</a> <span>“increasing powers of association of labor, producer, and consumer”. This power towards increasing self-conscious creative thought actively with an intention to perfect the universe, is so powerful that even those regressive policies expressed by the oligarchical principle must submit and adapt to it.</span></p>
<p>The power of this anti-entropic capacity of human creativity to leap outside of closed systems of material/intellectual limits in order to discover a higher organizing principle and willfully act in conformity with it, is expressed most clearly in recent history by the American Constitutional System and its affiliated view of man as a creature made in the image of its Creator.</p>
<p><span>The adoption of momentary progress in order to annihilate a greater good was considered a necessary evil on the part of the leading strategists of the British Empire’s Privy Council, then centered around Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston of the powerful British Foreign Office. The influential pro-American System faction of Canadian patriots operating</span> <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/the-american-system-in-canada/" rel>under the leadership of Isaac Buchanan</a> <span>was removed from power with the full adoption of the “National Policy” which followed the British North America Act of 1867. These policies stymied the birth of a true sovereign nation.</span></p>
<p><span>To the horror of the British Empire in 1958, John Diefenbaker</span> <a href="https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/24/how-deep-state-overthrew-last-nationalist-government-canada-1963/" rel>and his collaborators were inspired</a> <span>by the progress achieved during this period of rapid Canadian development, and attempted to reproduce this process once again except with an important ingredient lacking in Sir John A. Macdonald… a devout love of unbounded progress without ulterior motive for destroying America. This approach of an active “nationalism” whose aim was to effect an increase of national power, was about to clash directly with the passive</span> <a href="http://thesaker.is/a-canada-day-surprise-how-a-synthetic-nationalism-was-created-to-break-the-us-russia-alliance/" rel>“New Nationalism”</a> <span>then being artificially crafted by the nest of Rhodes scholars working for the British Foreign Office’s Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) under the likes of Vincent Massey, Georges Henri Levesque, and</span> <a href="http://canadianpatriot.org/walter-gordons-cultural-engineering-global-governance-and-anarchism-in-canada/" rel>Walter Gordon</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>This perverted “Nationalism” was merely a conduit selected to promote cultural irrationalism, and the acceptance of fascism masquerading as “zero-technological growth”, otherwise known as the “New Cult of Eugenics” or “environmentalism” aimed at destroying the whole continent of North America.</p>
<p>Canada stands once again at a fork in the road of history. On the one side the forces representing authentic nationalism, cooperation, progress and peace are animated by such programs as the Multipolar Alliance, BRICS+ and New Silk Road. On the other hand, a neo-eugenic transhumanist Technate geering for world war and total enslavement is pushing on our destiny from another darker realm.</p>
<p>Which direction will Canadians choose remains to be seen.</p>
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<p>[1] This historic economic identity has been re-embodied in recent years with the nation-killing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).</p>
<p><span>[2] The Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 not only ended the 30 Years War that ravaged Europe, but also established the basis for the modern form of sovereign nation state defining international law for the subsequent 350+ years. The pre-amble of the Treaty read in part:</span> <em>“That this Peace and Amity be observ’d and cultivated with such a Sincerity and Zeal, that each Party shall endeavour to procure the Benefit, Honour and Advantage of the other; that thus on all sides they may see this Peace and Friendship in the Roman Empire, and the Kingdom of France flourish, by entertaining a good and faithful Neighbourhood.”</em> <span>And can be read as a whole here:</span> <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/westphal.asp" rel>http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/westphal.asp</a></p>
<p><span>[3] Anton Chaitkin,</span> <em>Why the British Kill American Presidents</em><span>, Executive Intelligence Review, December 12, 2008,</span> <a href="http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2008/2008_50-52/2008_50-52/2008-50/pdf/26-35_3548.pdf" rel>http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2008/2008_50-52/2008_50-52/2008-50/pdf/26-35_3548.pdf</a></p>
<p><span>[4] The full text of the bill can be viewed on</span> <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Annexation_Bill_of_1866" rel>http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Annexation_Bill_of_1866</a></p>
<p>[5] Known as “the Great Liberator”, Czar Alexander II was so inspired by Lincoln’s vision that he followed the American program of emancipation when he liberated the serfs in 1861. His life was cut short by an assassins’ bomb in 1881.</p>
<p><span>[6] The belief that the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms replaced the 1867 BNA Act is nothing more than a mythology. As section 60 of the Charter clearly lays out:</span> <em><strong>“</strong><span>This Act may be cited as the Constitution Act, 1982, and the Constitution Acts 1867 to 1975 (No. 2) and this Act may be cited together as the Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982”…</span></em> <span>meaning the 1867 Act is still in full force to this day.</span></p>
<p><span>[7] Buchanan’s famous December 1863 speech provides a clear insight into his principles:</span> <em>“The adoption by England for herself of this transcendental principle [Free Trade] has all but lost the Colonies, and her madly attempting to make it the principle of the British Empire would entirely alienate the Colonies. Though pretending to unusual intelligence, the Manchester Schools are, as a class, as void of knowledge of the world as of patriotic principle… As a necessary con-sequence of the legislation of England, Canada will require England to assent to the establishment of two things: 1st, an American Zollverein [aka: Customs Union]. 2nd: Canada to be made neutral territory in time of any war between Eng-land and the United States”.</em> <span>Cited in Isaac Buchanan’s</span> <em>Relations of the Industry of Canada with the Mother Country and the United States</em><span>, 1864, p. 9-22</span></p>
<p><span>[8] This is especially ironical since the United Kingdom does not have a written constitution. Such a document does not exist. See Professor Helmut Weber’s 1999 paper “Who Guards the Constitution?”, Center for British Studies of Humboldt University, Berlin</span> <a href="https://www.gbz.hu-berlin.de/downloads/pdf/WPS_Weber_Constitution.pdf/at_download/file" rel>http://www.gbz.hu-berlin.de/publications/working-papers/downloads/pdf/WPS_Weber_Constitution.pdf</a></p>
<p>[9] Pierre Beaudry, The Tragic Consequences of the Quebec Act of 1774, The Canadian Patriot Special Edition, 2012, www.committeerepubliccanada.ca</p>
<p><span>[10]Today the oath of office which every single Prime Minister has taken upon entering office reads:</span> <em>“ I, __________, do solemnly and sincerely swear (declare) that I shall be a true and faithful servant to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, as a member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council for Canada. I will in all things to be treated, debated and resolved in Privy Council, faithfully, honestly and truly declare my mind and my opinion. I shall keep secret all matters committed and revealed to me in this capacity, or that shall be secretly treated of in Council. Generally, in all things I shall do as a faithful and true servant ought to do for Her Majesty. So help me God.”</em> <a href="http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=316" rel>http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=316</a></p>
<p><span>[11] This 1867 mandate was re-affirmed in Section 14 of the National Defence Act of 1985 with the words:</span> <em>“The Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada and consist of one Service called the Canadian Armed Forces.”</em></p>
<p><span>[12] During the 1885 Commons debates on the Electoral Fran-chise Act, Sir John is quoted with the following racist state-ment:</span> <em>“The Aryan races will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics… the cross of those races, like the cross of the dog and the fox, is not successful. It cannot be and never will be.”</em> <span>He also went on to say that</span> <em>“if the Chinese were given voting rights then “the Aryan character of the future of British America should be destroyed”</em><span>. [citation from Tim Stanley’s Ottawa Citizen article:</span> <em>“John A. Macdonald wanted an ‘Aryan’ Canada”,</em> <span>August 2012]</span></p>
<p>[13] The depression then being suffered by B.C. was caused by the collapse of the speculative bubble of the 1857-58 gold rush wherein over 30 000 settlers stormed into town alongside 20 000 prospectors. Entire towns sprung up over night, and land speculation soared. The bubble popped in the mid 1860s leading to the deepest recession in the colony’s history.</p>
<p>[14] Annexation Petition, July 1867, enclosed in Allen Francis to F.H. Seward, July 2, 1867, Consular letters from Victoria to Vancouver Island, Dept. of State, archives, Washington D.C., vol. 1</p>
<p>[15] Letter of Seymour to Buckingham, July 26, 1867 cited in William Ireland, The Annexation Petition of 1869”, British History Quarterly, vol. 4 1940, p. 268</p>
<p>[16] Letter cited in William Ireland, Annexation Petition of 1869.</p>
<p>[17] Ibid. p.270</p>
<p>[18] The British Colonist, Jan. 11, 1870. Cited in William Ireland, Annexation Petition of 1869, p.271</p>
<p>[19] Minister Thornton to Clarendon, January 3, 1870, cited in Ireland’s Annexation Petition of 1869, p.285</p>
<p>[20] Sir John A. Macdonald to Sir John Young, May 25, 1869, PAC., Macdonald Papers, Letterbrook 12 972, cited in Frederick Seymour: The Forgotten Governor, Margaret Ormsby, B.C. Studies no. 22, Summer 1974, p. 20</p>
<p>[21] Ibid p. 21</p>
<p>[22] Heistermann was also the Grand Secretary of the Provincial Grand Lodge of British Columbia</p>
<p>[23] F.H. Heisterman to W.H. Oliver, Aug. 17, 1870, cited in William Ireland, The Annexation Petition of 1869, p. 274</p>
<p>[24] The Red River Colony became the Province of Manitoba on May 12, 1870 with the Manitoba Act.</p>
<p>[25] Both Saskatchewan and Alberta joined confederation as provinces in 1905</p>
<p><span>[26] This is the same Mendeleev who had recently discovered the ordering principle, now called the “Periodic Table of Ele-ments”. While Chairing the Commission on Protectionism, Mendeleyev astutely annihilated the argument for free trade ending with the following remarks in an 1891 Tariff paper: “</span><em>Belonging to the small circle of Russians who have given their entire lives to science, who own neither factories nor plants, and knowing that contemporary science has uncovered crude untruths and omissions in the “classical” and “orthodox” teachings of the free trade school, and, finally, seeing that the historical and experimental–that is the real–path of study of political economy leads to different conclusions than those of the free traders, which are taken on faith as “the last word in science”–I consider it my duty, partly in defense of truly con-temporary, progressing science, to say openly and loudly that I stand for rational protectionism. Free trad-ism as a doctrine is very shaky; the free trade form of activity suits only countries that have already consolidated their manufacturing industry; protectionism as an absolute doctrine is the same sort of non-sense as free trade absolutism; and the protectionist mode of activity is perfectly appropriate now for Russia, as it was for England in its time….”</em> <span>cited in Barbara Frazier,</span> <em>Scientist-Statesman Fought British Free Trade in Russia</em><span>, Executive Intelligence Review, Jan. 1992</span> <a href="http://members.tripod.com/american_almanac/mendel1.htm" rel>http://members.tripod.com/american_almanac/mendel1.htm</a></p>
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title: How do Wars Solve Problems?
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title: No to Canada Becoming Part of America
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<p>No to Canada Becoming Part of America</p>
<p>Canada has some good people but not enough to keep Woke tyrants such as Trudeau and Carney out of office.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>If Canada was part of the US Trump could not have been elected. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-to-double-canadian-tariffs-on-steel-aluminum-says-the-only-thing-that-makes-sense-is-to-make-canada-51st-state">https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-to-double-canadian-tariffs-on-steel-aluminum-says-the-only-thing-that-makes-sense-is-to-make-canada-51st-state</a></p>


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<p>Caitlin wonders how giving Israel precedence over the US Constitution makes America great</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/03/no_author/even-more-assaults-on-free-speech-to-silence-criticism-of-israel/">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/03/no_author/even-more-assaults-on-free-speech-to-silence-criticism-of-israel/</a></p>

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title: Chuck Baldwin Wonders Whether the Trump Government is American or Israeli
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<p>Chuck Baldwin Wonders Whether the Trump Government is American or Israeli</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/03/chuck-baldwin/if-only-trump-would-tell-netanyahu-what-he-told-zelensky/">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/03/chuck-baldwin/if-only-trump-would-tell-netanyahu-what-he-told-zelensky/  </a></p>

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title: USAID Officials Have Ordered the Evidence of Fraud, Theft and Money Laundering Destroyed
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<p>USAID Officials Have Ordered the Evidence of Fraud, Theft and Money Laundering Destroyed</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614056-usaid-shred-burn-documents/">https://www.rt.com/news/614056-usaid-shred-burn-documents/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Why hasn’t this been stopped and the officials arrested for their criminal action?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Is it because Trump is already drawn away from his domestic agenda to being the big man on the world stage?</p>
<p>Where are the JFK files, the Epstein files?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Did these files turn out to have Israeli connections that are “anti-semitic”?</p>
<p>Sergey Karaganov says Trump cannot be trusted.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Will Trump now prove it by being hard-nosed with Putin?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The years of teaching Russia that it is folly to trust Washington might yet demand a high price.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/614051-sergey-karaganov-russia-trump/">https://www.rt.com/russia/614051-sergey-karaganov-russia-trump/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138252
title: Free Trade was Ricardo’s Concocted Theory Used to Dispossess the British Aristocracy
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<p>Free Trade was Ricardo’s Concocted Theory Used to dispossess the British Aristocracy</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>In their book, <i>Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests </i>published in 2000 by The MIT Press, Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol proved that the free trade theory with which economists today are still indoctrinated<i> is false.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></i>Economists have done their best not to notice that a part of their repertory is invalid.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>A number of years ago I presented Gomory and Baumol’s analysis to libertarian economists at the Mises Institute.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They didn’t like it, but they couldn’t confute it.</p>
<p>Over the years I have called attention to the defective theory that economists hold close to their breasts, but it is unpleasant information that they don’t want to hear.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>With Trump’s talk of tariffs, the invalid free trade theory is being used as a weapon against Trump.  Those on Wall Street who are  indoctrinated with free trade have been driving down the Dow with their panic.</p>
<p>As for Trump’s tariffs, at the present time it seems that often they are threats leveled at specific countries to get them to do what they should be doing or to get them to give their help to Trump’s agenda.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>For example, the initial tariffs Trump announced against Mexico and Canada were withdrawn once the two countries agreed to police their borders with the US to help halt the flow of immigrant-invaders into America. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> It remains to be seen whether a full blown tariff system is put in place.</span></p>
<p>The American market is a large one, and although US consumer demand has been weakened by the offshoring of middle class manufacturing jobs, debt expansion has kept the American consumer market going, and the US remains a lucrative market for foreign produced goods.</p>
<p>It is possible that tariffs could recover their historic role in the financing of the US government.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The US government was financed over most of its history by tariffs.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It was not until 1918 that the income tax passed in 1913 affected the population, so the US government has been dependent on income taxation only for about a century.  As I have explained, the introduction of an income tax resurrected a form of slavery as it gave government ownership rights in our labor.  The definition of a free person is a person who owns his own labor.  Today people subject to an income tax are in the same position as medieval serfs who owed part of their labor to feudal lords.</p>
<p>Trump has spoken of substituting tariffs for the income tax. This is a brilliant thought.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The income tax taxes labor and capital, factors of production.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Thus income tax reduces GDP and living standards. Classical economists, unlike the present day “junk economists” as Michael Hudson correctly calls them, said, correctly, that consumption, not factors of production, should be taxed.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>That is what a tariff does. If you don’t consume goods produced in other countries, you pay no taxation.</p>
<p>Countries once understood that being dependent on imports of necessities, such as food, was a threat to national existence. A country could be subdued by the cutoff of food.</p>
<p>The British had the Corn Laws (corn was the term for all grains–wheat, barley, oats) that protected English farmers.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The Corn Laws  protected the incomes of the landed aristocracy, Britain’s leadership class during the years that Britain was the world power.</p>
<p>As income is a basis of power, the rising British middle class wanted the power that was in aristocratic hands.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>David Ricardo a bourgeois financier, attacked the incomes of the landed aristocracy with his concocted free trade theory.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> The repeal of the Corn laws shifted power from one class to another. The bourgeois gained and the aristocrats lost, and the British became dependent on food imports. </span>The repeal was followed by Death Duties that appropriated the estates of the aristocrats, thus destroying the leadership class of Great Britain.</p>
<p>Look at the post-aristocratic leadership of Britain. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>What do you see?</p>

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title: Demande de démolitions inscrites au CDD du 25 mars 2025
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Max Blumenthal tells RT that legacy media shows little interest in the reality of the brutal violence against minorities in Syria by the ruling military junta.

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Deuxième publication - Acquisition de voies publiques - Art. 72 - LCM - Rues Cadieux et Coulombe et partie rue Duquette Ouest

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Deuxième publication - Acquisition de voies publiques - Art. 72 - LCM - Rues Cadieux et Coulombe et partie rue Duquette Ouest

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title: Helter Skelter - Part Seven - Tate Murder Should Have Never Happened
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<p><strong>China’s foreign policy</strong> is evolving rapidly, and understanding its direction is crucial for everyone. In this engaging interview with <a href="http://en.taiheinstitute.org/Content/2022/03-25/1018399538.html" rel>Einar Tangen</a>, <strong>Hussein Askay</strong>, Vice-Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (<a href="https://brixsweden.org/" rel>BRIX)</a>, explores the motivations behind <strong>China’s global strategies</strong> and uncovers what they mean for the world. Join them to get a fresh perspective on a topic that affects us all.</p>
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<p>Hussein Askary presenting his book as a gift to Mr. Wang Yi on the sidelinesof the celebration</p>
<p><span>of the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence, June 2024.</span></p>

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<p>In an interconnected world, small businesses have a unique opportunity to leverage <strong>AI and technology </strong>for global trade. However, understanding the complexity of diverse markets is crucial. While AI can streamline processes and enhance sales strategies, <strong>entrepreneurs must remain cognizant of cultural, legal, and linguistic differences that can affect consumer behavior</strong>. Einar Tangen emphasizes that thorough market research is essential, particularly in unfamiliar regions. Businesses that adapt to local customs and consumer preferences are more likely to succeed, showcasing the dynamism of markets in a multipolar world. As China continues to expand its influence, this adaptability will be key for companies wishing to thrive internationally.</p>
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<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>Greetings. This is Mike Billington with the Executive Intelligence Review and the Schiller Institute. I’m very pleased to be today with Mr. M.K. Bhadrakumar, who had a 30 year diplomatic career for India. He was the ambassador to the USSR and also held leading positions within the Foreign Ministry. He had positions in Pakistan, in Iran, in Afghanistan. He is a prolific writer on world affairs. His blog is called India Punchline, which I encourage people to go to. Doctor Bhadrakumar, welcome, and thank you very much for agreeing to this discussion.</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>Mike, good evening. It is my privilege, entirely my privilege. I have known and I have read a lot about you in your distinguished career as an activist and a promoter of world peace. But I never had an opportunity to sit face to face with you, so it’s a privilege. I have a small correction. I was not ambassador to the Soviet Union. At that time in the diplomatic service, I served twice in Moscow, at the time of Brezhnev and at the time of Gorbachev. When I finished my second term, I was just becoming a minister counselor. I retired from Turkey as Ambassador.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>Let me begin by noting that your most recent essay on the India Punchline website was on the extraordinary re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the US and Russia, with the phone call between Putin and Trump and then diplomatic meetings between several of their associates. What are your thoughts on how that’s going so far?</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>I suppose I can see, in the limited time that President Trump has been in the Oval Office –he’s in the second month into his presidency. My feeling is that much ground has been covered, though it’s too early to say what the future trajectory is going to be, because there are very many variables in the situation. The Russian-American relations have a long history. If you go back to the time of President Eisenhower, there were very high hopes at that time that he and Nikita Khrushchev might work out an understanding for peaceful coexistence. But you know how abruptly it ended. On both sides, there are forces, as far as I can see, who may not be happy with what is happening today. But I trust President Trump to be assertive in his second term. He has a wealth of experience from his first term and would have held a perspective on why he couldn’t achieve what he had wanted, in foreign policy, how he got constrained. How he couldn’t proceed with that. I see traces of that already, the way he’s going about his second presidency. So I expect him to be assertive.</p>



<p>But a new factor has come in, which is this, that unlike in the Soviet times, the Soviet period, where the variables actually were with regard to the United States primarily, but here it is also with regard to the United States and transatlantic allies. It’s a   new factor. Britain apart, I think the other European powers were quite inclined to get on with the USSR, especially Germany, The gas pipelines were set up in the 60s, early 70s, despite reservations from the United States.</p>



<p>So there is now a kind of role reversal here. The United States is pushing for this cooperation with Russia, and from the statements in Moscow, I have come to a feeling that there is a level of transparency already existing in the dialogue, backchannel dialogue communications that are going on between the two sides. President Putin’s remarks last Thursday while addressing the Collegium of the FSB, which is the collegium of the top officials in foreign intelligence. He was optimistic, actually. I have never seen in the recent years such a ray of hope that he was holding out. Of course, he cautioned at the end, and he did so rightly, that there are forces who may be working to undermine this process, and therefore utmost vigilance is required. He was telling the Russian intelligence apparatus — we saw evidence of it already in the subsequent couple of days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, the dramatic events in the Oval Office when Zelensky came to Washington. then the meeting of 18 countries hosted by the UK, including Zelensky and their determination to pursue their own pathway in Ukraine, no matter the dialogue between Russia and the United States.  I find also that the American media is playing a very negative role.</p>



<p>The mainstream media — there are other voices, voices of reason. But I cannot understand, I cannot comprehend why there should be such a fear about dialogue. I saw an interview given by the Secretary of State [Mark Rubio] where he asked this, very directly, forthright, “what is wrong with dialogue? You engage even your adversaries in dialogue. Why should you be terrified about it?” But that is the way it is. The discourses in the US are going on.</p>



<p>We don’t know much about the discourses in Russia. I don’t think it will be coming out into the open, as assertive in the way that it is being asserting in the European capitals and in the United States. There are hard liners there also. But I think the Russians are more in control of the situation. And if Trump persists with this trajectory, I think there is a strong likelihood that it can gather momentum. Let us see how far the normalization of diplomatic relations go. The resumption of activities of the embassies, which is very important, because a sustained conversation, dialogue, is only possible if the embassies are functioning full throttle. It’s not simply a matter of consular services and so on. It’s a matter of vital importance at this time that both countries are able to optimally perform on the diplomatic track.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>Do you have an opinion on the Russian Ambassador who has been appointed?</p>



<p><strong><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar:</strong> </strong>The Russians, I think, have chosen a thoroughbred professional, with very deep experience in handling North America, North American matters [Ambassador Alexander Darchiev]. They proposed the name quite a bit earlier, about a couple of months back, and they were waiting for the agreement from the American side. And when the representatives met in Istanbul, the officials of the two sides last week, the agreement was formally conveyed to the Russian side. He’s a very solid professional diplomat, and is in a position to roll up his sleeves and work from day one once he arrives there. And I can understand that they have a lot of work to do, because they were denied any opportunity to communicate with the American public, at the people to people level. And that is very important, because a nonsensical narrative is there in America.  All kinds of things.   It’s almost like when George Orwell wrote about matters that he could have been referring to a situation like in the Western world today. A kind of contrarian view is blocked — it’s absolutely censorship — even American writers and thinkers, their point of view is not coming through. And a lot of people were actually writing to me and asking me whether I could communicate to them some Russian commentaries. Even the Russian point of view was not available to the American public. So reaching out to the American public will be a top priority for the new Ambassador. I’m sure about that.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>Let me ask you about the opposition to this process. I was quite impressed by the fact that you referred to both Obama and Joe Biden, you used the phrase that they were guilty of “wanton acts of motiveless, malignity and hubris.” Now, that’s quite a phrase. But what I’m interested in is to what extent you think there is a British hand behind those policies, and in general, those of the so-called “deep state.”</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>Oh, there’s no doubt about it. It’s not to what extent– It’s an all pervasive influence. The British influence on the American policy — and often I think from the American side, they were led to believe — and Britain has the skill to get the Americans to believe — that it is their own policy! But it is scripted and it is thought through first in London and handed over. It’s almost like leading from the rear. This has been a consistent characteristic of British diplomacy.  For Britain, the entire stature that it has in the world depends on its indispensability for the American policies and American foreign policy strategy. And therefore, you can see the centrality of it in the British side of things. America is a global power. There are many countries which are willing to work with it. But in the case of Britain, it’s not like that. It’s an obsessive thought. And this was very evident in the last week — the panic that is there.  It’s going to be a very major negative factor in the coming weeks and months because the British intelligence has a stranglehold on the regime in Kiev. And now France also joined there. I saw a commentary by CNN earlier today discussing the possibility of, the ouster of Zelensky. We are getting into very sensitive issues now, and British intelligence is doing a lot of havoc.  Most of these acts of terrorism on Russian soil were actually planned by British intelligence. And the Russians knew that also — the missile attacks, targets inside Russia, assassination plots, such other things. Since yesterday, there has been talk that that Ukrainian intelligence might have been involved in the second failed assassination attempt on President Trump, candidate Trump, during the campaign. This is something which was articulated by top senior Ukrainian politicians even at that time, that this is all a doing of these people. But who  trained the Ukrainian intelligence? The Ukrainian intelligence is completely in the hands of MI6, and therefore, Britain’s influence is not at all a positive factor in the situation today. It’s one of the single biggest negative factors, Britain’s, capacity to be a spoiler.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>We met Mr. Starmer’s visit to Washington this past week with a major flier, a four-page piece which basically called for an end to the “Special Relationship” between the U.S. and the UK. It reviewed the several hundred years-long role of the British in undermining the efforts of the American Founding Fathers, and then the intervention in the war in 1812, as well as in the Civil War, trying to disrupt and destroy the United States as a sovereign nation, and then trying to subvert it when they failed to do it militarily. And the subversion is what you’ve just described. It’s basically their ability to — I like the way you put it, to convince Americans that these policies are their own when they actually come directly from British Intelligence. So, of course, Mr. Starmer went back, acting as if it was a successful trip. But I think it was a failed trip. And then he embraced Zelensky and sponsored this meeting at 10 Downing Street, which also failed to achieve anything significant, especially since Europe itself is now crumbling economically and falling apart in terms of any kind of unity within the EU or within NATO even for that matter. So where do you see Europe going at this point?</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>Even Britain’s capacity to fill in if the United States drifts away, doesn’t have a role any longer in the Ukraine war, as it has had during the Biden presidency. Britain has no capacity to fill in. It has a standing army of around 60,000 soldiers. I read somewhere recently that its entire inventory of battle tanks works out to a mighty total of 25 tanks. So what kind of peacekeeping role can it perform in Ukraine? Within a week they will become victims of the meatgrinder. It has been a war of attrition. I don’t think that Europe can play a significant role, except if it realizes the wrong trajectory that it took in 2022, and played a happily subaltern role. Whatever Biden wanted, they did, and they have paid a very heavy price as a result of it. Germany is the biggest example. As I told you, I have lived in Russia, and have seen the kind of relationship that Germany had with Russia. Very frankly, Putin was discussing Germany as the next superpower. And where is it today?  Putin has stated publicly. There were some thousands of German companies who were operating there, and Germany’s export industry was very heavily dependent on the energy supplies from Russia. Putin once disclosed that the energy, the gas supplies, were given at subsidised prices to Germany.</p>



<p>The Russians knew that it was a subsidised price, and the Germans bought a lot of it and sold it in the European market at marked up prices. And the Russians knew that also! So you see such a close relationship was there.</p>



<p>Now, the entire production relations in the German economy is totally derelict. The export industry is not going to be competitive with the kind of prices they have to pay for importing gas and oil from outside. So I do not think that the new government that is coming into power in Germany after the recent elections to the Bundestag — I have lived in Germany. I know the potency of the constituency which rooted for the transatlantic relationship. But, today, the new chancellor designate, if he makes it as a CDU leader, he has spoken against the United States and he has spoken about a future for Europe that does not count on solidarity with the US, that does not count on support from the US and so on.</p>



<p>But I don’t think this is the final word, because Germany is in very serious trouble. From that high pedestal where it was four years, five years back, as more than half a superpower already. The economy is in recession, very deep recession.</p>



<p>I saw the FT, the Financial Times, had a report three days, four days back that already there is a talk about an American role in repairing the Nord Stream pipeline. I don’t know if you have heard about it or not — the pipeline which Biden had destroyed. If that comes, then it’s a very interesting proposition. Russia has abundant supplies and massive quantities of gas and oil can flow from there again. An American company managing that transaction on the ground, and the German economy again reviving, with plentiful gas supplies from Russia. So I don’t think Germany is going to be comfortable with the kind of trajectory that Britain and France are promoting. Italy is also, from what I see from odd statements here and there, one can always discern there that Italy is also very uncomfortable with this. What are the other countries which can play a role in replacing the United States, to mentor Zelenskyy and his people there? So I don’t think the Europeans are on the right track, I think they are on a very wrong track. And if you see the known unknown, there is also a factor there — that is, that a lot of it is a power struggle. There has been a power struggle in Kyiv. And if and when this comes out — people were holding back Zelensky’s rival camp, you know, holding back because they were nervous that any kind of effort to replace him would not have support from the United States.</p>



<p>But now, if the United States just cuts him loose and goes its own way, and says, “you manage,” then those forces will come up. And I don’t think the British intelligence can control that kind of a situation, because Russia has — I’ve lived in that country, I’ve traveled in Ukraine, and Russia knows that country like the back of its hand. Russia has its eyes and ears open there, even while the war is going on. If changes of that kind do take place, and I can only hope — I have written that also —  that it doesn’t take a violent turn.  But if that kind of a change takes place, then how does Europe address the situation, an emergency situation like that?</p>



<p>Whereas I think that both Putin and Trump are comfortably placed. They can build up the bilateral relationship between Russia and the United States. And I think Trump’s line, his political line is a very smart one. It’s based on smart thinking, that there is nothing to lose and everything to gain. So it’s a matter of sitting out, and that at some point some other side will give way. This is the way I see it.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>Let me go back to the US. You said in another one of your reports that I read that it was, in your words, that “it’s immaterial that the Trump administration is packed with pro-Israel figures and hard liners on China, for it is Trump that will be calling the shots.” What is your basis for that judgment?</p>



<p><strong><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar:</strong> </strong>I’ll tell you. I never believed in this “Russia collusion” thesis, hypothesis, during Trump’s first term. I don’t know, Mike, whether you have seen a paper which I have in my collection, a one page advertisement, a full page advertisement in The New York Times, a paid advertisement by a young man in his 30s by the name of Donald Trump. I don’t know if you’ve seen it. Dated 1980 or 81. When President Reagan was elected. You know what he had written there? We both have passed through that stage in life. And I’m sure you’ll agree with me that at that time when you were in your mid-30s, you know what you’re talking about, in your adulthood. Now, he has written there, strongly arguing, that this kind of a collision course with the Soviet Union is unwarranted, that Russia is not an enemy country, and peaceful coexistence is possible, and arms control is a necessity. It’s an imperative need, arms control. And he offered his own services. This young, obscure businessman from New York offered his own services to be an envoy, a presidential envoy, to work on this. I think you know, the Democrats have done a great injustice by caricaturing this man. He’s a man of convictions. I was stunned when I read it that he could have written this when he was in his 30s, you know, mid 30s.</p>



<p>And what he is saying today, it occurs to me, are almost exactly the same thing. No change in that. I can only conclude as an outsider who doesn’t have an emotional reaction towards him, that he is a rational thinker, and also that what he is saying is based on convictions. Putin said the other day that Trump is a “very transparent person.” Putin said it, and Putin said that it’s very difficult to be like that. Putin said it, but that’s what it is. So this camp of liberals, globalists, the neo cons in the American setup, who provided the political cover for the deep state, they have done a great injustice to the political discourses in the US. And they were singularly responsible for creating all these kinds of things — Ukraine, the expansion of NATO, starting from that time, from Bill Clinton’s time. All these are legacies of those people, that camp, and now they are hell bent, despite the mandate — a powerful mandate that a person has got — and he didn’t rig the election. He has a genuine mandate and a very strong mandate. And nonetheless, they are not giving up. They are trying to undermine it. What is it?</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>What’s your view of Putin in light of what you’ve said about Trump and Putin?</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>What I tell you may surprise you, Mike.  Putin in my assessment was a “Westernist” in the sense that, someone who believed that Russia’s interests are best served by having a very strong relationship with the Western world and a mutually beneficial relationship with the Western world, but with certain guardrails. Putin’s problem is also this, that Putin is a trained professional intelligence officer. He has said openly that he saw the evidence that the United States helped the insurgents in Chechnya. He leveled this allegation publicly, and the Americans failed to respond. He volunteered even that he could produce good evidence to show that there was direct involvement by American intelligence in the war in Chechnya. Despite that, he was willing to work for a stable, predictable, mutually beneficial relationship, because he was convinced that it is important for Russia’s own development, in terms of technology, in terms of trade, in terms of the standard of living of the Russian people, all that taken into account. So if he is replaced, it is going to be a tremendous loss of opportunity, actually, for the United States. While he is there, therefore, what I am recommending is that the Trump administration should make the fullest use of it, this period, and to go ahead, because you have an interlocutor in Moscow, a very powerful interlocutor in Moscow who can get almost any kind of decision taken there. He is not a dictatorial man. There is a collegial spirit in the Kremlin, and they are all people who are known to him, who formed the National Security Council — the present day Politburo. He can carry them along.  Therefore, this period should not be wasted, because, you may not have a person of this kind of stature, experience, who has handled so many presidents across the Atlantic, and, who is innately, intrinsically open to having a relationship with the West. I think that his assignment in Germany was a very formative experience for him. He is a fluent German speaker, so all this could be working to the advantage of Trump.</p>



<p>It will be somewhat audacious on my part to say this, but I have a feeling that Trump means what he says, that Putin can be an interlocutor for him. He believes in it, that there can be a partnership possible.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>Russia and India have had a long, very close relationship, maybe with some troubles here and there. But in both cases, relations between India and China and between Russia and China are extremely important in the current volatile situation that the world is in. What is your view about this three-way relationship between Russia, China and India, the three key countries in this new BRICS alliance and the leadership of the global South.</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>The troubled relationship with China is working to the disadvantage of India, especially in the present day times, because China is a huge reality, geopolitical reality, and it’s an immediate neighbor. Not having a conversation with China –the kind of line that India adopted in the most recent years, I think, was a very flawed policy. My personal opinion about it is that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, India could have taken a route like what Yeltsin took vis-a-vis China: China–Russia reconciliation. Russian Federation reconciliation came after China began to know that Russia has a strategic autonomy. If India also had behaved that way– the US–India relationship has been a very big handicap for India. There’s a contradiction there. The relationship with the United States is extremely consequential for India. And as far as the Indian elite is concerned, this is an indispensable relationship for India, and therefore in the post-Cold War era, right from the 1990s, India pursued a policy which was almost, one can say, US centric. But one template of it was that the United States gave an impression to India, and sections of Indian opinion also came to believe, that the United States is looking at India as a  counterweight to China.</p>



<p>I don’t think the United States had any illusions about India’s weaknesses, and that India could never be a counterweight to China, because there’s such a disparity in the comprehensive national power of the two countries. But a section of Indian elite believed that. Then, of course, the United States was an interested party, to kind of invidiously fuel the China-India tensions, mutual suspicions and so on. This became a very negative factor in China-India relations, because for China, any kind of tendency on the part of the Indians to align with the United States — though, of course, China has a very good, awareness that in the final analysis, India will follow an independent foreign policy. And India cannot in any way be regarded as an ally of the United States working against China. Chinese commentators openly write about it, but they had their own anxieties and concerns as the US-Indian relationship began to gather momentum. It’s a very strong relationship. There is a bipartisan consensus in the United States.</p>



<p>India is one of the few countries, perhaps, which can make a very smooth transition from the Biden presidency to the Trump presidency, and without any kind of hiccups. Even close allies of the United States, as we have seen in Europe or Japan or Australia, have problems in coming to terms with the Trump presidency, but we don’t have anything of that kind in India.</p>



<p>So you see, India is very well placed that way. But this has been a negative factor. But now, having said that, let me also add a caveat here, that I think that the Trump presidency will be good for India, because Trump has no reason, in fact, to  act as a spoiler in the India-Russia relationship, which is very vital for India. Biden tried it,            but that is not a worry that India has anymore. And similarly, Trump also, I don’t think he will work to fuel the tensions between India and China. Not openly, but even in a quiet way. I don’t think he will do that. So India, speaking that way for the first time, is in a position to pursue its relationship with Russia. And if the Russian-American relations improve, and there is going to be content in the relationship, especially on the economic side and so on, India may even try to get a share of it, may like to join that, because here the Indian’s focus is ultimately in terms of access to technology, trade, and the issues of development. There you see the predicament, which is this, that India doesn’t have a strong manufacturing industry. India’s growth is primarily in terms of the services sector. Infrastructure is developing. Infrastructure development is picking up momentum, but it’s a long way to go. So in these areas, United States cannot help India. It is the Chinese experience which will be relevant for India. I’ve been strongly advocating that no matter the differences with China, India must tap into China’s rise and create synergy for India’s development.</p>



<p>The border problem has to be set aside, Mike, what is often not understood is that this is not a territorial dispute between India and China. Why is it intractable? It is intractable because this is about the creation of a border where no border existed, either on paper or in political reality! So there are vast vacant spaces in the Himalayas, where, no one is in a position to claim that this has been part of India. So both sides are having their own claims, and it’s a question of agreeing to create a border.</p>



<p>You can imagine how difficult it is. And as now the countries have picked up momentum as regional powers, national prestige always comes into play, public opinion comes into play. So it’s going to be very difficult. India has to have a leadership which understands this, that the border dispute is not going to be settled easily, and it may take a long time. But meanwhile, mutual confidence and, in terms of India’s self-interest, it is useful to have a strong relationship with China.</p>



<p>One more point I need to mention is this, that in the   final analysis, the fact remains that there are common interests for India and China as rising powers in today’s international order. They both are staking claim to have a voice at the decision making level in the international financial institutions, for example. They have a common interest in that. So they are both ambitious about their role in the coming decades, well into the 21st century. The Chinese commentary is often right about this, that if we work together, it has a multiplier effect, and that can be a game changer for both. But if you do not work together, then both are losing.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>I’d like to ask you to address the situation in the Middle East, but I’d like to approach it through Iran. I think you were Ambassador in Iran, or you worked in Iran.</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>Well, Yes, I have. I have a long experience on Iran, right from the time of the Islamic revolution. Yes, I mentioned to you my postings at headquarters, I handled only Iran-Pakistan-Afghanistan. I had no other charge. It’s a very important division in the Indian Foreign Ministry. All very key relationships.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>But I think you’ve mentioned in other writings that you’re confident that Trump will not be drawn into Netanyahu’s effort to have a US-Israeli war on Iran. What do you think about Iran’s role today, not just in the Middle East, but their role internationally?</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>Iran is on the cusp of change.  Although there are, I know, people in the US who understand this, but the old stereotyped notions are still dominating in the US. I went to Iran as an observer during the 2024 presidential election. I met people whom I have known from earlier times –for a long time, I interacted with them and talked with them, and I came away distinctly with an impression that Iran is going to change, and since then there is much evidence pointing in that direction. The problem here is that, just as we spoke about Britain, a similar kind of a pernicious influence is there from Israel. Israel will not allow a kind of normalization, which would have been useful for both the United States and Iran. But in my opinion, there again, we could see some interesting changes. The bottom line there is, I think, Trump is genuinely averse to wars, especially getting involved in wars, deploying the United States forces in a war in an outside country to defend another country’s interests. So if that holds good through this next four year period, what is the way that it can develop if there is no war? Naturally, the United States will not decouple from Israel. Israel is hugely influential in the United States in terms of media, Congress, the political elite, think tanks and so on. So that will not change, the so-called Israel lobby — that relationship will continue. But, I have a feeling that at some point, if it has not already taken place during Netanyahu’s visit to the US, I think Trump will convey to him, someone will get them to understand that if they embark on something of an adventurous policy towards Iran, in terms of a conflict, then don’t count on him to step in and fight for Israel, fight Iran, for its interests. You see, a thing which is difficult for the Americans to understand is also this, that I have no doubt in my mind that Iranians are not interested in a nuclear weapon. And however much they try to say this, what option has been left to them in terms of when it comes to their enrichment? The United States pulled out of the JCPOA. Iran had fulfilled its obligations fully. Nonetheless, the United States did not deliver. Then it tore up the agreement and said that it will go for a “maximum pressure” policy. Sanctions remained. None of the sanctions were lifted.</p>



<p>So what is it that one could expect the Iranians to do? They went back to the drawing board and their enrichment continued. And they have now come up to a point that they are a threshold state. Now, still, I don’t think that they will go for — and it’s not a question of thinking. I know the Iranian mind on this. They do not think that nuclear weapons gives them any additional deterrent capability.  So they have developed their deterrent capability in other directions. We both can agree that that capability is very credible today, in terms of their missile capabilities and so on. A war means it will be to the detriment of Israel, which is a much smaller country ultimately. And unless the United States came into it, it’s a much smaller country. And I think Israel will be completely destroyed if there is a confrontation, military confrontation. And I feel that, Netanyahu is also ultimately a realist, and he should be knowing this. But the rest is a matter of rhetoric and grandstanding that is straining at the leash to go for a war and so on. But I don’t think it will happen because he knows it. He knows that Iran’s capabilities are today at such a level that there will be no winners in such a war, and Israel will be destroyed in the process.</p>



<p>Besides, I think that Trump definitely would have conveyed this to Netanyahu, if not directly then through others. Witkoff was there 2 or 3 times, he would have conveyed that: “Look, do not do anything.” And much of Trump’s own grandstanding with regard to the “Riviera of the Middle East” and so on in Gaza, I think it’s a matter of publicly posturing that the American backing for Israel is very solid. But that has its limitations. That cannot be logically taken to mean that the United States will align with Israel to fight a war against Iran. My understanding, after conversing with very influential people in Tehran during my last visit in June, is this: that they also do not think that there is going to be a war between the United States and Iran. Of course, the Iranians were all along contemptuous about the Israeli threats to attack because they know that Israel doesn’t have that capability without the United States. When you add up these tendencies, which are there for us to see, if you rationally look at the situation without Pride and Prejudice, then what is the result that you get out of it? That Iran can make an interlocutor for the United States.</p>



<p>And in the present situation, a new factor has also come in there, that the old American strategy of creating an anti-Iran front in that region, with Israeli participation in it, to isolate Iran, that is not going to work. You know, the Iran-Saudi rapprochement brokered by China has brought about a sea change in the regional climate, so much so that, it is doubtful if any of these countries would want to be seen as siding with Israel or the United States in the event of a war with Iran.</p>



<p>The third thing is this, that there is a Saudi factor. Saudi Arabia is also undergoing profound changes. And we must see that.  It continues to be an important ally of the United States. That is because it is playing its diplomatic cards very carefully. But it has diversified its relationships, and it has a very strong relationship today with Russia. It began with the creation of this brilliant idea of OPEC-plus, where they have aligned to influence the world market conditions, oil market conditions.  And with China, they have a strong relationship again.</p>



<p>So you see Saudi Arabia today is a very different Saudi Arabia. The most important thing about the Saudi approach to life now in regional politics is this: that the traditional attitude of using the militant Islamist jihadi forces as geopolitical tool, they have ended that, they are not in that business anymore. Now, this is a sea change. This has brought about a sea change in the situation in the Middle East. And this young man, the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, is genuinely a moderniser.  I know there’s a lot of demonizing going on about him in the US, in the Biden period. But I think that he is a moderniser. And he is, like the Iranians actually, what is happening,  that  they are now moving in the same direction, giving primacy to economic growth and development. Iran also has a serious problem, an economic crisis. So they want to move also in the direction of greater trade, greater regional cooperation and so on. So what does it mean? This means that there are no takers in that region, if you want to pursue an inimical strategy towards Iran, be it the United States or Israel. If they want to do that, they are on their own.</p>



<p>This was not at all the case in all these decades that we have passed through. So all this creates a very favorable setting. But let’s see, I have a feeling that there will be an engagement between Trump with Iran at some point, sooner rather than later. He’s only been there for a little more than a month. But this can happen. Maybe this can happen. That will be a very historic development in the Middle East situation.</p>



<p>You see, ultimately, your people do not understand that this is a self-made man, Trump. I am looking at it as an outsider. I’ve never met him nor have I ever talked to him or anything like that. But he is a self-made man, and such people, self-made men, are hugely ambitious. When they have made it big, they become hugely ambitious about their own legacy. This is particularly an American strain. He will be looking at these issues as legacy issues. Russia, Iran and so on. Now you may laugh at it. I can already see a smile on your face. But you know, the fact of the matter is that what he is doing is nothing really short of a revolution. Like Vladimir Lenin said, you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>We’ve reached our one hour. But if you don’t mind I’d like to ask you one further issue.</p>



<p><strong> Dr. MK Bhadrakumar:  </strong>Sure, Sure.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington:  </strong>And that is our Oasis Plan. I don’t know if you’ve looked at this, but this is a plan that Lyndon LaRouche authored way back in the 1970s, which was based on the idea that the real problem in the Middle East, if there was going to be peace, there had to be a concrete development policy which would address the water crisis as well as the energy and transportation and basic infrastructure. The Oasis Plan is a very ambitious idea of building canals, of building nuclear desalinization in order to create huge quantities of fresh water from seawater, and other kinds of infrastructure development, not just for Gaza, but for the whole region, extending out into Iraq and Iran and so forth. I’m wondering what your view of that is. We’re trying to intersect this policy debate now as powerfully as we can, into the discussions that are taking place because of the Gaza crisis.</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>I think Trump would be interested in this. Logically, Trump would be interested in this. The United States has a handicap. Why is it said that its influence is steadily draining, is losing its capacity in the region. It’s a paradox, but Iran is actually American’s natural ally in that region. The Iranian elite is, again, distinctly pro-Western, and that country is performing today much below its optimal level. It has a huge population, massive land mass and powerful agriculture, a well-developed agriculture base. If only it is allowed to bring out its LNG and gas to the world market, it has a huge reserve. So you see it can be of use and all these things become possible. But so long as that doesn’t happen — how do you realize these dreams? — they will remain on paper. Because I don’t think any country there has got the kind of intellectual resources, absorption capacity for technology, and the national will and purpose in this way that Iran has. Trump will certainly be attracted towards this if an engagement takes place. I strongly suggest that you should promote an engagement, a constructive engagement between the United States and Iran. And this would be in some ways, I tell you, this would be even, I would say, as significant as the normalization of the Russian-American relationship. It will be in America’s interests.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>Very interesting. And thank you very much. I appreciate your taking the time. Your views on these things are very stimulating and insightful, and I think it will lead to further discussion, within our organization and with our associates around the world. I thank you. Do you have any final words you’d like to say?</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>Mike, I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation. I have a sneaking suspicion that we are probably on the same page in the sense that you know you are. I didn’t expect that you would be so receptive to these thoughts, which I projected. So what does it mean? It means that there are thoughtful people in the US, who understand these things. And I think, therefore, you should use your influence, to work on some of these areas. And the Trump presidency, take it as a golden opportunity. And do not be misled by your own people there, your own think tanks and media, mainstream media and so on. He’s opened a gateway, a pathway, through which, if the country can travel, it will be transformed phenomenally. I had never thought that this slogan of MAGA, you know, Make America Great Again, that it is anything but a pipe dream. But now I am beginning to feel that if he proceeds — i saw this morning, for example, the press conference by Trump announcing the $100 billion investment to make chips in Arizona from Taiwan. How often did you see these kind of things during the Biden presidency? So he is working overtime and he has a hugely ambitious agenda. Please do not handicap him by creating the kind of digressions and distractions and so on, as it happened during his First Presidency. This is the essence of democracy, that when someone has earned a legitimate mandate from the people — and what a mandate it is, such a strong mandate from the people, the American people — he got.  Then he should be allowed to govern because the people are going to get an opportunity after four years to go on the same path, or take some other path, which is what democracy is about. A peaceful transfer of power is no longer possible in your country. I find it is extremely frustrating.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>It’s like what many people are now saying about Europe, I think it was Vance who said the problem in Europe is not Russia or China — it’s that they no longer believe in the voice of their own people, that there’s no democracy anymore. And he pointed to Romania and the AfD.</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>And I’m telling you, this is the problem in Europe — you hit the nail on the head. And this is also the problem in the United States. You see, this has to be like these people who are systematically undermining, decrying Trump. They should understand that to behave like adults and let the process of governance continue, discuss a policy but in objective terms, but leave it at that. Everything is not about winning elections. So now you see the plate is like this, that unless he is humbled and he is destroyed, the other side cannot hope to have a revival. It’s a zero sum mentality.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>Yes, exactly. The win-win idea, the idea of mutual collaboration and the respect of the other, from the Peace of Westphalia, is totally missing in this “unipolar” world mentality.</p>



<p><strong>Dr. MK Bhadrakumar: </strong>Let me thank you. And I wish you all success in your endeavors. You know, you have had a very eventful life and you aspired for things which were not even humanly possible. So you had such dreams in your life. I admire you, and therefore I feel greatly privileged, that you spent this one hour with me alone in a conversation.</p>



<p><strong>Mike Billington: </strong>Yes. Thank you very much. </p>


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<p>Wu Shicun, Chairman of the Huayang Research Center for Maritime Co-operation and Ocean Governance, exposes the core issue of the tensions over Ren'ai Jiao. He says the Philippines grounded an abandoned warship there, trying to permanently control the reef.  </p>
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<p>With the arrival of spring, blooming peach flowers and magnolias have added hues of pink and white to Jingshan Park in Beijing, highlighting the charm of this former ancient imperial garden, drawing residents and visitors to admire the floral scenery. Located north of the Forbidden City, the park boasts a 1,000-year history and offers breathtaking panoramas of the Forbidden City.</p>
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<p>"The 14th Dalai Lama is not merely a religious figure but a political exile engaged in separatist activities." This statement from a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson came in response to a question about his new book. This program presents rare historical archives of how the 14th Dalai Lama was chosen and officially recognized. This history affirms a key principle: he does not have the final authority in selecting his successor. The Golden Urn system remains the key to determining the legitimate reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.</p>
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<p>Americans who vote Democrat should first ask themselves if they want such crazed people in office</p>
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title: Is Putin Being Boxed In by Trump and Zelensky
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<p>Is Putin Being Boxed In by Trump and Zelensky</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>Trump and Zelensky have agreed on a cease fire, a pause in the conflict.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>How does this benefit Russia?</p>
<p>It doesn’t.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The Ukrainian military is collapsing on all fronts. 86% of the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk has been retaken, and the remaining Ukrainian forces are surrounded.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>What remains of the Ukrainian military is retreating from the few kilometers of Russian territory still occupied in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions that have been reincorporated into Russia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>A cease fire is the last thing Russia needs when Russia is on the verge of total victory.</p>
<p>Russia should be imposing surrender terms on Zelensky, Trump, and Europe.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Russia has won the conflict.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Why agree to a negotiation?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The victor dictates the surrender terms. If Russia’s surrender terms are not accepted, Russia should proceed with the conquest of the entirety of Ukraine and reincorporate Ukraine into Russia where it historically belongs.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It was Washington<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>taking advantage of the Soviet collapse that cut out Ukraine from its historic multi-century home as part of Russia.</p>
<p>Are Putin and Lavrov too besotted with good will toward the West, which has been trying to destroy Russia, to understand the basics?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Does Putin understand that Trump should first have come to him, worked out the terms of surrender between them, and imposed them on Zelensky, who in fact is not a legitimate head of government as his term in office has expired?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Putin is correct.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>There needs to be a Ukrainian election that installs a legal government  to whom to dictate the terms of surrender. What is the worth of a document signed by an illegal occupant of office?</p>
<p>If Putin agrees with the Trump-Zelenzky cease fire, will it obligate Putin to agree to a settlement that is less than victory?  A cease fire would halt the Russian advance, provide Ukraine with time to rebuild with the weapons now again supplied by Trump. Will negotiations be a repeat of Putin’s Minsk mistake which cost Russia so dearly?  If Putin denies Russia a victory, could he be removed from office?</p>
<p>Peace must be conclusive.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Cease fires never are.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>If memory serves, the Korean War in the 1950s is still governed by a cease fire, and antagonisms still exist between North and South Korea with Washington still adding to the confrontation.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>From what I know of Russia’s Westernized intellectual class that influences Putin and Lavrov, they are Westernized to the point of treason.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Putin needs a Russian government occupied and advised by Russian nationalists.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Otherwise Russia will remain a target despite its unrivaled weapons systems.</p>
<p>In my column on March 11, I asked, “What should Trump do about Ukraine?”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I answered: <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>“To end the conflict Trump doesn’t need to be holding meetings and talking about meetings with Putin, Zelensky, EU or anyone.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is extremely simple for Trump to end the conflict as far as the US is concerned. All he has to do is to make the hold he has put on delivery of weapons permanent and withdraw all US operatives in the proxy conflict with Russia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Without the US supplying weapons, intelligence, targeting information and money to keep the conflict alive, the conflict will quickly end. This is what Trump needs to tell Putin:  “I know Washington is responsible for this conflict.  I am withdrawing Washington’s participation. The conflict would not have happened if the Democrats had not stolen the 2020 election.  I am cancelling the sanctions.  I will be accused by the Democrats and the presstitutes of selling out Ukraine to you. Your job is to be merciful to Ukraine.  As the US is responsible for the conflict, the US will help you to rebuild a demilitarized Ukraine in which economic advancement takes precedent over war. You must not fail my good intentions, or the Cold War will resume.”</p>
<p>As I asked later in my column, can Trump’s ego permit him to allow the settlement on Putin’s terms?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>For three years Putin has been slowly fighting a conflict that a capable war leader would have ended in three weeks. Putin’s failure as a war leader is clear. Putin, being sufficiently Westernized, never realized that his never-ending war would result in negotiations <i>in which he was the last participant included.</i><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As Trump and the illegitimate Zelensky have arrived at a cease fire, the pressure is on Putin to join in, or Russia will be reviled for blocking a settlement with intentions of proceeding from the conquest of Ukraine to the conquest of Europe.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>If Putin joins in the cease fire, he risks Russia’s victory being watered down  by the terms of a negotiated settlement.</p>
<p>Russia has been in many ways an easy target for the West. Soviet Communism having bred distrust of Russian government, has left Russian intellectuals easy pickings for Western propaganda. Many Russian intellectuals represent the West, not Russia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>This Russian vulnerability  has been skillfully exploited by the West.</p>
<p>The question remains:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  How serious are </span> Putin’s mistakes in his dealings with Washington?   By permitting a conflict to continue until the initiative for its end passed into Washington’s hands, Putin has lost the initiative.  If Putin doesn’t agree to a cease fire, he risks offending Trump’s ego. Does Trump than become coercive because he is on the line with his promise to end the conflict? Does Putin submit to Trump’s coercion?</p>
<p>The outlook for this conflict being resolved is not as good as it seemed.</p>
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<p>In the 18th century, Arcadio Huang, from southeast China's Fujian Province, became the Chinese translator for King Louis XIV of France. With his groundbreaking <em>Chinese Grammar and Chinese-French Dictionary</em>, Arcadio Huang laid the foundations for early French sinology, offering Europe a gateway to understanding China.</p>
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title: The pandemic that wasn&amp;#039;t: A wide-ranging discussion with biologist Jonathan Jay Couey
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/FL9Gv2FsA0M" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><span>Jon Rappoport explains the fraud in his seminal blog. Subscribe to Jon's Substack.</span></p>
<p><span>The Pandemic Pattern—how the illusion is built</span></p>
<p><span>by Jon Rappoport</span></p>
<p><span>September 8, 2021</span></p>
<p><span>This article is based on my study and investigation of so-called epidemics over the past 30 years.</span></p>
<p><span>In the case of COVID-19, I’ve written at least one piece covering, in detail, each main element of the illusion. Here, I’m laying out the pattern. It is virtually the same for each fake epidemic.</span></p>
<p><span>ONE: Through many meetings, exercises, planning sessions, a structure is welded in place to promote and launch the IDEA of an epidemic. World Health Organization, CDC, influential public health officials attached to governments around the world, etc., participate in these meetings.</span></p>
<p><span>TWO: There is a purported incident. An outbreak. The most obvious cause is intentionally overlooked. For example, horrendous air pollution, or the grotesque feces and urine pollution on a giant commercial pig factory-farm. Instead, the world is told a new virus has been found. Local researchers, if any, are augmented by researchers from CDC, WHO.</span></p>
<p><span>THREE: There is no air-tight chain of evidence explaining exactly how the purported new virus was discovered. From details released, there is NO proof of discovery. Indeed, conventional methods of virus-isolation are bogus fabrications.</span></p>
<p><span>FOUR: But WHO/CDC tells the world this is an epidemic in the making, caused by the new virus. The promotion and propaganda/media apparatus moves into high gear. Ominous pronouncements.</span></p>
<p><span>FIVE: Diagnostic tests for the fictitious new virus are rolled out. They spit out false “proof of infection” like coins from a jackpot slot machine. These false-positives are an inherent feature of the tests.</span></p>
<p><span>SIX: Thus, all case numbers and death numbers, which are based on the tests, are rendered meaningless. And…they were already meaningless, because the supposed new virus “being tested for” was never discovered in the first place.</span></p>
<p><span>SEVEN: Nevertheless, these tests (plus useless eyeball diagnosis) are used to build official reports on case numbers. For the duration of the “epidemic,” reports keep coming, and escalating numbers are trumpeted. Within the basically meaningless structure of these reports, there is fiddling with totals, to make them more impressive and frightening.</span></p>
<p><span>EIGHT: Real people are really getting sick and dying, but for the most part, they are people who are dying from traditional and long-standing conditions—flu-like illness, pneumonia, other lung infections, etc. These people are “re-packaged” under the new epidemic label—e.g., “COVID”. The official description of the “new epidemic disease”—the clinical symptoms—is sufficiently general to easily allow this re-packaging.</span></p>
<p><span>NINE: If there is new illness, it can be explained by causes having nothing to do with the purported new virus. For example, a toxic vaccine campaign. A highly destructive drug. Highly toxic pesticides.</span></p>
<p><span>TEN: Over time, the definition of the epidemic is arbitrarily widened to include more symptoms and clinical features and test results, in order to inflate case numbers.</span></p>
<p><span>ELEVEN: Control of information about the “epidemic” is hardened at the top. The talking heads, from the press and public health agencies, know as much about actual science as rabbits know about drone strikes. But they are “in charge.” Dissident information is attacked and censored.</span></p>
<p><span>TWELVE: Medical drugs and procedures (e.g., ventilators) used to treat patients are devastatingly harmful. If a vaccine is rolled out, it, too, is toxic. Illness and death resulting from these and other medical attacks are counted as “epidemic cases caused by the virus.”</span></p>
<p><span>THIRTEEN: ABOVE ALL OTHER ILLUSIONS, the main deception is: “the epidemic is one disease or syndrome caused by one germ.” This is sold with unceasing propaganda. Most people fall for it. They will even argue among themselves about which “it” is the single cause of the “it” disease. There is no “it” cause or “it” disease.</span></p>
<p><span>FOURTEEN: The public is sold lie after lie about contagion and the “spread” of the “it.”</span></p>
<p><span>FIFTEEN: The public chants (as if no one has ever died before), “People are dying, it must be the virus.”</span></p>
<p><span>SIXTEEN: The virus fairy tale always functions as a cover story for government or corporate or medical crimes. It obscures and hides these crimes. For example, a large factory is spewing horrendous pollution into the ground and water of an area, and people are getting sick and dying? Wait, the researchers say, the cause is actually a new virus no one has ever seen before.</span></p>
<p><span>As I wrote at the outset of the COVID illusion, the only difference this time is the weight of the lies—because they led to the lockdowns and the economic devastation. This is West Nile, SARS, Swine Flu, Zika, writ large. And of course the COVID vaccine is massively destructive.</span></p>
<p><span>Needless to say, the persons and groups responsible for launching these illusion-operations must hide their crimes.</span></p>
<p><span>The criminals have their weapons. Among their most powerful: control of the press, and arcane technical language which pretends to relevance. This language is so dense, the uninitiated stand no chance of penetrating it.</span></p>
<p><span>For instance, researchers can babble for hours about their vaunted diagnostic test, the PCR. However, the simple truth is, the test has never been vetted. The test has never been tested in the real world outside the lab.</span></p>
<p><span>I have written about this extensively. Using a little guideline called SCIENCE, you would “test the test” by lining up, say, a thousand patients, some healthy, some sick from a supposed virus. Tissue samples would be taken from each patient.</span></p>
<p><span>PCR mavens would run these samples through their equipment, reporting which patients show what they call high “viral load.”</span></p>
<p><span>This means: these particular patients have millions and millions of virus actively replicating in their bodies, and they will be unmistakably and visibly sick.</span></p>
<p><span>The PCR princes would then announce, “Patients 3,45,65,76,132…are all definitely sick.”</span></p>
<p><span>Now we un-blind the study and see what’s what and who’s who. Are these designated patients ill or are they running marathons? That’s called simple scientific method. Not technical gobbledygook.</span></p>
<p><span>This chunk of research has never been done. It never will be done. It’s too real. Too naked. Proponents of the PCR would have too much to lose, if their assessments of who are healthy and who are sick turned out to be absurdly wrong, and their arcane technical rhetoric about the PCR ended up being useless gibberish.</span></p>
<p><span>I include this illustration to indicate there are, indeed, ways of exposing professional liars, if you change the venue on them, if you use common sense, if you stand outside their self-appointed temples of mystical pretense and observe what their lies look like when you boil them down to human terms…</span></p>
<p><span>COVID is a fraud from top to bottom. From beginning to end.</span></p>
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<p>Alex Krainer joins Gordon and I in this week's episode of Breaking History where we dive into the latest geopolitical shifts, analyzing Saudi Arabia’s growing role as a global power broker, the anomalous ceasefire talks between Ukraine and the USA which appear to be designed to fail, and what these moves mean for the future of the unipolar world order.</p>
<p>We also break down the real reasons behind MBS’s strategic alliances, the Western establishment’s desperate attempts to hold on to control, and why the multipolar system is no longer just an idea, it’s becoming reality.</p>
<p>Plus, an in-depth discussion on the battle over energy, nuclear power, cultural warfare, and the financial system that will shape the next era of human civilization. This one’s a deep dive into the forces shaping the world’s future.</p>
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poster="https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1900259623804035073/pu/img/jlXGmgppH8aVw1PV.jpg" preload="none"><span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900259623804035073/pu/pl/2R0hjEPyo3o_j7aY.m3u8?tag=12&amp;v=b9f&amp;container=fmp4" type="application/x-mpegURL"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900259623804035073/pu/vid/avc1/492x270/bnYcfD7iLgaQWwB4.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900259623804035073/pu/vid/avc1/848x464/k7SmW5TqhIcWCQ2d.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"></span></video></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="SputnikInt" data-tweet="1900260768055963659" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_3" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">(3/9) He believes that, given the situation in Kursk, a ceasefire would be beneficial for Ukraine, as without it, they risk being physically blocked and left with only two options: surrender or die. <span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><video controls="controls" poster="https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1900259804532084737/pu/img/6xTYL_3JTBF5S3Rl.jpg" preload="none"><span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900259804532084737/pu/pl/cnxJ8njyaWiK_EMK.m3u8?tag=12&amp;v=efb&amp;container=fmp4" type="application/x-mpegURL"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900259804532084737/pu/vid/avc1/492x270/J5JEOu3jSyjnPmxS.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900259804532084737/pu/vid/avc1/848x464/gE7sEtnq4dGdMDX9.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"></span></video></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="SputnikInt" data-tweet="1900260770832589106" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_4" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">(4/9) Putin raised concerns about how the situation would be monitored if a ceasefire were declared: "How can we be guaranteed that nothing like this will happen?" <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gl8UV3QWkAAK8Sk.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gl8UV3QWkAAK8Sk.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="SputnikInt" data-tweet="1900260773927997903" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_5" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">(5/9) He also highlighted other contentious issues along the front lines, where Russian forces are advancing on almost all fronts. <span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><video controls="controls" poster="https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1900260138373595136/pu/img/BIACnteHP8dtT1Mt.jpg" preload="none"><span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900260138373595136/pu/pl/RGaeCp_9CkIJXknI.m3u8?tag=12&amp;v=ace&amp;container=fmp4" type="application/x-mpegURL"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900260138373595136/pu/vid/avc1/492x270/Uf3ScvrWea8TzjJE.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900260138373595136/pu/vid/avc1/848x464/njgKyjpmQXBU5a9H.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"></span></video></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="SputnikInt" data-tweet="1900260776704651679" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_6" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">(6/9) Russia will negotiate the next steps for ending the conflict based on the situation on the ground. <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gl8UsEGXsAA00jH.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gl8UsEGXsAA00jH.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="SputnikInt" data-tweet="1900260779871363524" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_7" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">(7/9) The president also said Ukraine might use the 30 days to continue forced mobilization and replenish its weapon supplies. <span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><video controls="controls" poster="https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1900260412412596224/pu/img/BUTB33NHV9Z8CRLT.jpg" preload="none"><span data-sanitized-class="entity-video"><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900260412412596224/pu/pl/OHn5ufLfImyERphY.m3u8?tag=12&amp;v=2c0&amp;container=fmp4" type="application/x-mpegURL"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900260412412596224/pu/vid/avc1/492x270/dQlk1HpOrHeOusK6.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"><br><source src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1900260412412596224/pu/vid/avc1/848x464/9e1reYJzxwvesdMC.mp4?tag=12" type="video/mp4"></span></video></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="SputnikInt" data-tweet="1900260783822692372" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_8" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">(8/9) The cessation of hostilities in Ukraine must lead to long-term peace and the resolution of the root causes of the crisis. <span data-sanitized-class="entity-image"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gl8U-jKXYAAzqex.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gl8U-jKXYAAzqex.jpg"></a></span></div><div data-controller="thread" data-action="click-&gt;thread#showTweet" data-screenname="SputnikInt" data-tweet="1900260787454656665" dir="auto" data-sanitized-id="tweet_9" data-sanitized-class="content-tweet allow-preview">(9/9) Putin did not rule out discussing a ceasefire in Ukraine with US President Donald Trump, emphasizing that Ukraine should have urged the Americans to call for an end to 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title: The Intel Truth About Jeff Epstein - Part One
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title: Live: Witness canola flowers blooming in SW China – Ep. 3
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<p>Nearly 67,000 hectares of canola flowers in Luoping County, Qujing City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, are blooming. The sea of flowers, together with the rolling mountains and scattered villages, paints a pastoral spring landscape. This picturesque scenery attracts tourists from both home and abroad.</p>
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guid: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/rtf-invitation-henry-john-temple
author: ;Matthew Ehret
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<p><span>On Sunday</span> <strong>March 16 at 2pm Eastern Time</strong><span>, I am pleased to announce that Martin Sieff will be delivering a Rising Tide Foundation lecture on ‘Henry John Temple (aka: Lord Palmerston): The Man Who Raped the World and succeeded where Hitler failed.’</span></p>
<p><span>Martin Sieff’s former RTF lectures</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@RisingTideFoundation/search?query=martin%20sieff" rel>can be found here.</a></p>
<p><span>Click below to access the live presentation on zoom (</span><strong>on March 16 at 2pm ET</strong><span>):</span></p>
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<p>This Sunday March 16 at 11am ET, I will be hosting the 13th Peace Roundtable (sponsored by the American University in Moscow and Academy for International Cooperation) which will focus on identifying the causes and solutions to today’s chaotic world.</p>
<p><span>(The recording of the previous Peace Roundtable of March 2</span> <a href="https://youtu.be/fFqQq_h1pvc?si=YqGNwbMVIdoBkPo_" rel>is available here.</a></p>
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<p><span>This week’s expert panel will feature: former EU member of parliament/lawyer and peace activist</span> <a href="https://www.francescadonato.eu/" rel>Francesca Donato</a><span>, lawyer/activist/journalist</span> <a href="https://21stcenturywire.com/2024/06/25/interview-arnaud-develay-exposing-natos-role-in-crimea-dagestan-attacks/" rel>Arnaud Develay</a><span>, geopolitical analyst Joaquin Flores (</span><a href="http://t.me/NewResistance" rel>host of New Resistance</a><span>) and</span> <a href="https://russiahouse.org/american-university-in-moscow/" rel>American University in Moscow President</a> <span>Dr. Edward Lozansky.</span></p>
<p>I may say a word or two about the new viscount of Canada installed into power this week.</p>
<p>Click below to access the live broadcast at 11am ET (followed by the RTF weekly lecture at 2pm ET). Access the Peace Roundtable by clicking the zoom link below:</p>
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<p>As a UNESCO World Heritage site and a sacred peak in China, Taishan Mountain, located in Shandong Province, now embraces high-tech solutions for tourists! Join CGTN's Sean Callebs and Wan Hongjia as they test an AI-assisted exoskeleton that makes mountaineering effortless and unveil how robot dogs clear trash on the mountain.</p>
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<p>As spring blossoms, it's migration season for animals. During this time, livestock from various regions of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region gradually move from the north to the south. In the Ili River Valley, around 3.965 million head of livestock are transitioning after four months of living in winter pastures. Follow us to explore the spring pastures of Ili River Valley and learn more about the lives of herdsmen there.</p>
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/d7b9adaec4dc45907f5224b633e13351.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Interview with RT yesterday on the ongoing HTS (al-Qaeda in Syria) slaughter of Syrian civilians, primarily Alawites, possibly exceeding 10,000 civilians killed in less than 1 week"></p>Interview with RT yesterday on the ongoing HTS (al-Qaeda in Syria) slaughter of Syrian civilians, primarily Alawites, possibly exceeding 10,000 civilians killed in less than 1 week. <br><br>Civilians are being slaughtered at rapid rate by point blank executions, stabbings, slitting throats...<br><br>If the number 10,000 civilians killed in one week is accurate, that's the equivalent number of Damascus civilians killed by terrorists in 7 years. [ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/they-know-that-we-know-they-are-liars-they-keep-lying-wests-war-propaganda-on-ghouta-crescendos/]<br><br>However, sources with on the ground sources in Syria suggest the number of slaughtered civilians could be 20,000 or more--in 1 week!<br><br>Keep in mind, this doesn't include the Syrians who were being tortured and killed from December 2024 onwards, after HTS took Syria. <br><br>See: https://evakarenebartlett.substack.com/p/in-the-new-free-diverse-syria-minorities<br><br>Regarding terrorist massacres of civilians during the war on Syria (2011-2024), see: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/<br><br>Points I would've added had there been more time:<br><br>I want to emphasize that the most important thing to be discussing now is that ethnic cleansing, massacres continue at full pace in spite of promises otherwise and this needs to be front page around the world. <br><br> Al-Julani announced the end to the so-called 'military operation' (his HTS ethnic cleansing massacre) yes, but began the massacres elsewhere.<br><br>The killing has continued, every day throughout the day there are reports of new massacres.  <br><br>On March 10 it was reported that coinciding with the UN's visit to coastal areas, HTS terrorists took children hostage, sending a message to the parents that if  they say anything, or don't say what (the terrorists) want them to say, they will burn the children.  <br><br>People are literally trapped in their homes without food, no way to escape, literally awaiting death squads to break into their homes and gun them down, as has been the case all along the coast and into Hama, also in Aleppo, Damascus and elsewhere. <br><br>Some days ago, a Christian family was massacred, the parents &amp; their children. They were preceded &amp; followed by many more massacres of Christians.<br><br>The fact that these barbaric massacres are continuing unabated, not stopped by international institutions and Western states highlights their hypocrisy: They were the first to call for intervention for far far lesser accusations of wrongdoing by the Syria, or Russian, army. These accusations-- starving the people, chemical attacks--were false. It was in every case terrorists who starved civilians and hoarded food aid. But even these comparably far minor crimes, blamed on the Syrian government, were enough for international outrage &amp; calls for intervention.<br><br>But amply and continually documented mass slaughter of civilians, of children, that isn't enough?<br><br>Syrian lives, whether Alawite, Shia, Christian, Sunni or other are no less precious than our lives. If this was happening in a Western nation, people would be horrified.  <br><br>So, be horrified for Syrians and speak out.<br><br>**BTW:  I had a lot to say, sometimes things come out wrong ("fighting") on the spot. I'm VERY clear in my writings &amp; in general that this is a slaughter of innocent civilians.<br><br>Feel free to comment on RT's uploads of the interview:<br><br>https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/syria-war-israel:f?r=GSiy4sKoNdFjKycqZRUs4hRmZwjcuqon<br><br>https://rumble.com/v6ql0hs-media-severely-downplays-number-of-civilians-killed-in-syria-eva-bartlett.html

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<p><span>Already rising inflation is being anticipated by US consumers to rise even more leading to increasingly negative consumer confidence for the year. Bird flu has decimated roosting chickens that produce eggs whose price has risen to $6/dozen here in Oregon and similarly nationwide. Chickens bred for meat aren’t similarly affected, but egg-based ingredients go into many other products which has caused their prices to rise. The Atlanta branch of the Federal Reserve has released a GDP “growth” forecast for the 1Q of roughly negative 2.5% based on rapidly falling consumer confidence and inflation along with anticipated disruption of the industrial supply chain due to Trump’s tariff policies. When you look for news reports on this issue, you’ll see all sorts of gyrations. For example,</span> <em><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/3/2307615/-Atlanta-Fed-says-US-economy-will-shrink-2-8-in-Q1-2025-Trumponomics-what-did-you-expect" rel>DailyKos</a></em> <span>on 3 March cites it being -2.8% for the 1Q, with many other financial reporters predicting recession along with what is an increase in regressive taxation, which is what tariffs do. One result for the world’s #1 retailer is to try and strong-arm its Chinese suppliers into reducing their product prices so Walmart can continue to enjoy the same profit margin and not having to raise its prices to pay the tariff tax—the sort of bullying tactic it’s well known for: Walmart’s unethical business practices are well known yet people still patronize the business because of the lower prices it offers thanks to those practices. China, however, has a strong union of producers that’s integrated with the government and has the power to resist. What follows is a</span> <em>Global Times</em> <span>Editorial dealing with that issue, “</span><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202503/1330099.shtml" rel>Hopefully, Walmart will honor its words and work together to maintain a stable supply chain</a><span>” that lectures the business and also Team Trump since it’s the root cause of the disorder that has no logical basis:</span></p>
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<p><span>At a regular press conference on Thursday, a spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce of China responded to reports that "Walmart had been summoned for talks by China's Ministry of Commerce and other departments." The spokesperson stated that the relevant departments had inquired with Walmart about the situation and that Walmart had also provided an explanation.</span> <em><strong>Earlier, multiple media outlets reported that Walmart demanded significant price cuts from some Chinese suppliers, allegedly attempting to pass on the burden of the new round of US tariffs on China to Chinese suppliers and consumers</strong></em><span>. The China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textiles also responded on Wednesday, stating that</span> <em><strong>it had received complaints from its members that certain major US retailers were pressing Chinese suppliers to cut prices, and that it is verifying these claims and will take action to protect the legitimate interests of its members if the situation is confirmed.</strong></em></p><p><span>Last week, Bloomberg reported that due to the US imposing a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods twice,</span> <em><strong>Walmart demanded that its Chinese suppliers</strong></em><span>—including producers of kitchenware and clothing—</span><em><strong>accordingly lower their prices. This unilateral and sudden demand for price cuts may violate the price clauses in commercial contracts, constituting a breach of contractual spirit.</strong></em> <span>In the face of the US government's unilateral tariffs against China,</span> <em><strong>Walmart is also a victim</strong></em><span>; a more rational approach, however, would have been to engage in fair, reasonable, and amicable negotiations with Chinese suppliers to overcome difficulties together, rather than resorting to temporary price cuts aimed at shifting the entire tariff burden onto them. As a purchaser,</span> <em><strong>Walmart's actions have disrupted normal market order and may pose risks to the supply chain.</strong></em> <em><strong>The summoning of Walmart by the relevant Chinese authorities is intended both to safeguard the legal rights and interests of Chinese enterprises and to maintain a fair and just market environment.</strong></em></p><p><span>Walmart is the world's largest retail enterprise, and China is one of its most important markets and supply chain components. Having operated in China for over 20 years, Walmart, including Sam's Club, has expanded its business to more than 100 cities with over 300 stores.</span> <em><strong>In the past fiscal year, its sales growth in the Chinese market far exceeded that of the US market. More importantly, approximately 60 percent of the products in Walmart's global business are supplied by Chinese vendors. Without Chinese suppliers, more than half of Walmart's shelves would be empty.</strong></em></p><p><span>Walmart's experience in China reflects the objective reality of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation between China and the US in the supply chain. As a multinational corporation that has operated in China for many years, Walmart has fully enjoyed the benefits of China's economic growth and expanding consumer market. These achievements are not only the result of Walmart's sound management but also stem from China's world-class business environment, characterized by marketization, the rule of law, and internationalization. Reports indicate that Walmart will continue to increase its investment in China this year, with store expansion and local distribution cooperation projects underway. This demonstrates that its commitment to a sustained presence and long-term development in China has not changed.</span> <em><strong>We are pleased to see multinational companies like Walmart succeed in China, but such success must be based on compliance with market rules and valuing partnerships.</strong></em> <span>Since Walmart benefits from China's market environment, it has a responsibility to work with Chinese suppliers to cherish and maintain this environment.</span> <em><strong>Attempting to shift unreasonable costs onto Chinese suppliers is not only unethical but also unlikely to withstand the test of the market.</strong></em></p><p><span>Of course, the root of the Walmart issue lies in the US' misguided tariff policy. It is well known that Walmart's brand value is closely tied to its low-price strategy, making the company a direct victim of the US additional tariffs imposed on China. As the two largest economies in the world, China and the US have highly complementary industrial and supply chains.</span> <em><strong>The trade war not only weakens the space for bilateral cooperation but also poses a threat to global economic stability.</strong></em> <span>According to estimates by the Peterson Institute for International Economics,</span> <em><strong>approximately 90 percent of the cost of tariffs levied on Chinese goods is borne by American consumers and businesses</strong></em><span>. Another recent poll showed that nearly 60 percent of US adults expect the tariffs will lead to higher prices.</span> <em><strong>Neither Chinese suppliers nor American consumers should become victims of misguided tariff policies.</strong></em> <span>If the US truly wants to alleviate the burden on American businesses and consumers, it should promptly eliminate the high tariffs that contradict economic principles.</span></p><p><em><strong>Walmart is a beneficiary of global free trade and should understand that maintaining the free trade system is not only a corporate social responsibility but also a fundamental guarantee for its own development.</strong></em> <span>The two major economies, China and the US, play a crucial role in ensuring the stability and fairness of the international market and in promoting global economic recovery.</span> <em><strong>In the face of the current challenges, both sides should adopt an open and cooperative attitude, strengthen communication and coordination, resolve differences through dialogue and consultation, avoid unilateralism and protectionist measures, enhance the resilience and flexibility of supply chains, and create a fairer, more transparent, and predictable business environment for enterprises in both countries.</strong></em></p><p><span>According to foreign media reports, Walmart representatives said at the Tuesday meeting that China's supply chains were key to its global success and that they would work with Chinese suppliers to find ways to avoid damaging the interests of the parties involved.</span> <em><strong>Hopefully Walmart will demonstrate sincerity, follow through on its commitments, stop unilateral demands for price cuts, and work hand in hand with Chinese enterprises to tackle the headwinds of trade protectionism.</strong></em> <span>[My Emphasis]</span></p>
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<p>It’s really a hoot to read China lecturing Walmart and its Outlaw US Empire patron about free market enterprise and responsible business ethics. The large, emphasized portion of the second to last paragraph is directly aimed at Trump, but since he uses New York Mob Boss Bullying techniques without regard to whom he’s applying them to makes it very unlikely he’ll listen to reason and do the right thing. Why no more US-located factories produce the goods Walmart sells is directly related to the fact that Walmart operates in an oligopolistic market. Trump might try focusing on correcting that big problem first along with the vulture financiers that caused the situation in the first place. But since Mr. Trump comes from that faction of financiers, that’s very unlikely to happen. So, what we’ll see is a continuation of his Trade War against the World because his faction demands more rents, and to hell with the US Economy and its citizen consumers.</p>
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<p>In this interview with Professor Ding Yifan, we explore the economic outcomes of this year’s Two Sessions in Beijing, and what is there for the world in these plans. Professor Ding Yifan is Senior Fellow at the Global Governance and Development Institute at Renmin University and former deputy-director of the influential Institute of World Development under the State Council’s Development Research Centre.</p>
<p>Find his book here: <span><a href="https://www.peterlang.com/document/1296858">https://www.peterlang.com/document/1296858</a></span></p>
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<p>Chinese animated film "Ne Zha 2' has surpassed "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" with a global box office of over 15.02 billion yuan (about $2.07 billion), becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time.</p>
<p>Forty-six days after its release in China, the film continues to break records and climb charts. "Ne Zha 2" holds the title of China's highest-grossing film ever, surpassing "Wolf Warrior 2" and "The Battle at Lake Changjin," while also claiming the crown of the world's highest-grossing animated film (overtaking the $1.7 billion of "Inside Out 2").</p>
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<p>Chinese restaurants in Venezuela seem to be adding a new twist to traditional dishes, taking them to another level through a culinary mix that's blending these long-established recipes with typical South American flavors. It's a multicultural fusion that has resulted in what's become known as Venezuelan-Chinese cuisine.</p>
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title: How Taoist wisdom illuminates global dialogue
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<p>In an increasingly interconnected world, the ancient wisdom of Taoist philosophy continues to offer profound insights relevant to today's global challenges. The "Tao Te Ching", a classic text of Taoist philosophy, presents principles that resonate deeply with contemporary efforts to foster global harmony. Its timeless principles – harmony with nature, simplicity and inner tranquility – offer a compass to gracefully navigate complexities in modern life.</p>
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<p>Taoist philosophy, with its roots deep in Chinese heritage, holds significant relevance for contemporary international relations and intercultural exchange. Professor Misha Tadd, an American sinologist and associate professor at Nankai University's College of Philosophy, highlights the enduring relevance of Taoist wisdom in today's global landscape.</p>
<p>For instance, the Taoist concept of "the highest good being like water," which underscores flexibility and adaptability, can serve as a guiding principle for diplomats navigating complex international landscapes. Just as water flows around obstacles, cultural exchange has the potential to dissolve barriers that rigid policies cannot overcome.</p>
<p>Professor Tadd cites historical examples such as "ping-pong diplomacy" to illustrate the power of personal interactions in building bridges between nations. He emphasizes that direct human interaction is vital for cultural exchange, and that travel and cultural immersion can foster genuine connections. Professor Tadd himself explained that without encountering the "Tao Te Ching," he may have never set foot in China. This personal anecdote is a strong example of how cultural exchange can begin with a single point of interest.</p>
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<p>The widespread popularity of the "Tao Te Ching" globally, with translations in numerous languages, demonstrates the universal appeal of Chinese traditional philosophy. Western figures have invoked Taoist principles in their speeches and actions, highlighting the philosophy's relevance in the global arena. One notable example is when former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented President Obama with the Taoist concept "Shang Shan Ruo Shui."</p>
<p>Professor Tadd also explores the parallels between Taoist and Western philosophical traditions, noting the shared sense of humility and the quest for understanding the mysteries of existence. This convergence of ancient wisdom underscores the potential for cultural exchange to foster mutual understanding and respect.</p>
<p>As Professor Tadd points out, while the "Tao Te Ching" may not solve all global problems, its principles offer valuable guidance for navigating the complexities of international relations and fostering a more harmonious world.</p>
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/91b8c21b651b01311c5dcabe909c2eb4.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Clayton Morris tells Tucker Carlson about the " petal mines ukraine fired on the donbass></p>Clayton Morris tells Tucker Carlson about the "Petal" mines Ukraine fired on the Donbass. He mentions my work.<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2tzUhrW8e0<br><br><br>I was in Donetsk when Ukraine fired rockets containing hundreds of the mines, in late July 2022 (https://t.me/Reality_Theories/7881), &amp; went next morning to see Donetsk streets &amp; parks littered with them (https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1554034459980201985).  <br><br>Since then, 173 civilians have been maimed by the insidious mines, 11 of whom are children, including the latest victim, a teen from Makeevka (east of Donetsk). Three of the injured civilians died of their injuries. <br><br>It's uncomfortable, but do take a look at this (graphic) photo from July 2022 (https://t.me/Reality_Theories/23962) of what a foot looks like after stepping on one of these tiny, hard to see, mines.<br><br>Ukraine was obliged to destroy its ~6 million stock of them, but didn't, &amp; instead fired them on Donbass civilians. The West, ofc, looks away, so does HRW (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/human-rights-watch-deliberately-only-scratched-the-surface-in-exploring-ukraines-use-of-banned-petal-mines/). <br><br>My Related:<br><br>--The West is silent as Ukraine targets civilians in Donetsk using banned ‘Petal’ mines (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/the-west-is-silent-as-ukraine-targets-civilians-in-donetsk-using-banned-petal-mines/), Aug 7, 2022, RT.com (https://www.rt.com/russia/560020-donetsk-butterfly-mines-geneva-conventions/)<br><br>--In Just Under Three Weeks, Ukrainian-Fired Prohibited “Petal” Mines Maim At Least 44 Civilians, Kill 2, in Donetsk Region (https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/in-just-under-three-weeks-ukrainian-fired-prohibited-petal-mines-maim-at-least-44-civilians-kill-2-in-donetsk-region/), August 23, 2022, Covert Action Magazine<br><br>-Ukraine turns Donetsk into a minefield using banned ‘Petal’ mines (https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/ukraine-turns-donetsk-into-a-minefield:7?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs) [video]<br><br>–Donetsk Emergency Services &amp; Sappers Clear Residential Areas of Ukraine’s Mines (https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/donetsk-emergency-services-sappers-clear:2?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs) [video]<br><br>–Ukrainian Terrorism: Firing Munitions Containing Petal Mines On Donbass Orphanage, Another War Crime (https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/ukrainian-terrorism-firing-munitions:3?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs) [video]<br><br>–14 Year Old Is One of 87 Donbass Civilians Maimed By Petal Mines Fired By Ukraine (https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/14-year-old-is-one-of-87-donbass:2?r=EymDGnAtYEjvNCAh13tU3WL6QWGjETBs) [video] [on Telegram (https://t.me/Reality_Theories/10225)]<br><br>Links here too: https://t.me/Reality_Theories/8341<br><br>Further:<br><br>-What I’ve seen of Ukraine’s war crimes against civilians in the Donbass over the years<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/<br><br>-The Donbass: My Articles, Videos &amp; Interviews From/On the Donetsk &amp; Lugansk People’s Republics (2019-present)<br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/the-donbass-my-articles-videos-interviews-from-on-the-donetsk-lugansk-peoples-republics-2019-present/<br><br>-JACQUES BAUD: NATO THREATENED RUSSIA DECADES BEFORE 2022 <br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/JacquesBaudNATOThreatenedRussia:5<br><br>–“She’s exposing the TRUTH in Ukraine and they dont like it Redacted Conversation with Eva Bartlett”, May 29, 2022, Redacted with Clayton Morris<br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/shes-exposing-the-truth-in-ukraine-and:3<br><br>–“NBC News just SMEARED real journalists in shameful hit piece, Redacted with Clayton Morris” (June 11, 2022)<br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/nbc-news-just-smeared-real-journalists:3<br><br>-Eva Bartlett Describes Ukraine's Unspeakable Genocide of Donbass (graphic content warning), Redacted with Clayton Morris, September 2022 <br>https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/eva-bartlett-describes-ukraine's-2:1

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<p>On Sunday, local media reported that a fire at a nightclub in Kocani, North Macedonia, had claimed the lives of at least 51 people and injured more than 100. According to the state-run Media Information Agency, approximately 1,500 people were at a concert in the nightclub when the fire erupted. The report stated that the blaze rapidly spread to the ceiling and roof of the nightclub, engulfing the entire building. Authorities are still assessing the total number of casualties.</p>
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<p>What Are the Prospects for an End to the Ukraine Conflict?</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>The prospects are not good as it seems the negotiations have already failed.  Putin was excluded from participation in the agreement that Trump is threatening to shove down Putin’s throat with threats.</p>
<p>On March 13 Nima hosted on Dialogue Works a discussion between myself and Professor Geoffrey Roberts of the prospects for negotiations ending the conflict between Washington, NATO, and Ukraine on one side and Russia on the other.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/VSnRCWBuF20">https://www.youtube.com/live/VSnRCWBuF20</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Geoffrey is optimistic about the prospects, whereas I emphasized the realism of the situation.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Whereas I sincerely hope Geoffrey’s optimism is justified, I introduced the many overlooked problems that might stand in the way.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> A major challenge to ending the conflict is the pretense that it is a conflict between Russia and Ukraine whereas in fact the conflict is Washington’s proxy war against Russia.  It is difficult to resolve a conflict when the reality of it is denied.  </span>Essentially, I think Trump blundered by not first working out the terms of settlement with Putin and then taking them to Zelensky who would have had no alternative but to accept them.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I was also concerned that having coerced Zelensky into agreeing to a cease fire, Trump would get pushy with Putin, and Trump has. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Another major concern is that the Americans do not understand that they have much more to gain from ending the conflict than Russia and Ukraine together. An important result of ending the conflict would be the removal of sanctions.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Washington in its characteristic stupidity thinks the sanctions harm Russia, whereas the sanctions have severely impacted the European economies, denying them business deals and cheap energy, and could yet wreck the dollar as world reserve currency, which is the basis of American power. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>By weaponizing the dollar with sanctions and by stealing Russia’s central bank reserves held in US Treasuries, Washington made central banks around the world aware that should their governments get on the wrong side of Washington in some way, they could lose their reserves.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>This realization led to growing interest in BRICS and an alternative means of settling international balances.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>BRICS is Putin’s response to the West’s hostility toward Russia. If central banks move away from dollar reserves, Washington’s ability to finance its budget and trade deficits diminishes.</p>
<p>Russia has won the conflict, and the West and Ukraine have lost.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is not Russia that needs a cease fire.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is not clear that Trump understands this. Trump enjoys being <i>the</i> player on the domestic and world scene.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is possible that what I said was Trump’s blunder in working out a cease fire deal with Zelensky instead of with Putin was actually a calculated move to box Putin in. Trump can say only Putin’s agreement is needed for peace and put Putin on the spot for dragging his feet in reaching agreement. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> French President Macron has joined Washington in taking this line.  Putin must stop making “delaying statements,” commands Macron. “Russia must now accept the US-Ukrainian proposal for a 30-day ceasefire.”  The British foreign secretary adds “a ceasefire with no conditions.”  In other words, Putin must immediately accept a deal made by Trump and Zelensky.  Putin got himself in this situation because of all his stupid talk about his commitment to negotiations.  Putin should emphasize nothing but military victory, and he should have produced one long ago. Instead, Putin has set himself up for blame for blocking a negotiated peace.  The only way he can avoid this is by not capitalizing on Russia’s military victory.</span></p>
<p>Putin wants to know the details of the cease fire, such as:</p>
<p>How can the cease fire be prevented from being used as a recovery and rearmament opportunity for retreating Ukrainian forces?</p>
<p>How can the cease fire be made permanent when Ukraine is full of neo-Nazi elements antagonistic to Russia?</p>
<p>What are the guarantees and how are they enforced that keep Ukraine neutral and not another base for American missiles like Poland and Romania?</p>
<p>It is unclear at this time whether Trump is sympathetic with these and other questions or whether he sees them as foot-dragging on Putin’s part. On the morning of March 13 prior to the exchange of views between Geoffrey and myself, the London Times headline read: “Back peace or I’ll ruin you, Trump tells Putin.”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Twenty-four hours before our discussion the London Daily Mail reported “breaking news”:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>“Trump threatens Putin with devastating punishment and sanctions if he does not accept the 30-day ceasefire deal agreed with Ukraine.”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Of course, this could just be the Western whore media determined to ruin the settlement to Trump’s discomfort, but Trump himself actually said in response to a reporter’s question: “I can do things financially that would be devastating for Russia,” which sounds like a veiled threat. In another likely ill-fated statement, Trump’s Treasury Secretary said that the Trump administration, if necessary, will coerce Russia into a settlement with “the toughest sanctions.”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Putin must wonder about the origin of the settlement into which he is going to be forced.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Whose settlement?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Trump and Zelensky’s?</p>
<p>Trump and his advisors don’t seem to understand that Washington and Ukraine have lost the war.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Russia dominates the battlefield.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is Russia’s prerogative to dictate the terms of the West’s surrender.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As Putin doesn’t know what the settlement is, he doesn’t know what, if anything, Russia is getting out of it. As it is not Russia that needs a settlement, why should Putin give up anything in order to get one?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  In place of acknowledging the reality of the situation, idiot questions such as this one are being asked:  “What does Putin want and will Trump give it to him?”  It seems that mindlessness in the West knows no limit.  The appropriate question is, “What does Trump want, and will Putin give it to him?”</span></p>
<p>It seems clear to me that Putin’s idea of what constitutes a settlement is entirely different from Zelensky and Trump’s.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Perhaps Trump will realize his blunder in making a cease fire deal with Zelensky before clearing it with Putin.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>If not, Trump faces the failure of his boast that he will immediately end the conflict, and he will move into the coercive mode to force an agreement and thereby further erode any Russian faith in negotiations. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>I think the danger remains of this ending in a bad way.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I have always thought that Putin’s decision to have a war without really fighting a war would end badly. As I said it would, it led to increasing Western involvement in the war which widened the conflict.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Putin and Lavrov’s sophomoric calls for negotiations have now led to the losing side taking control of the negotiations.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Putin and Lavrov now find themselves boxed in by their own unwillingness to win a conflict that they let drag on for three years, longer than it took the Red Army to clear the Wehrmacht out of Russia and Eastern Europe and arrive in Berlin.</p>
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https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/16/what-are-the-prospects-for-an-end-to-the-ukraine-conflict/


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<h3 data-sanitized-class="header-anchor-post">Canadian Border Agents may be raiding packages from India looking for Ivermectin, but soon it will available Over the Counter across the entire United States.</h3>
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<p>I share Gilbert Doctorow’s wonder. What has turned Europeans into warmongers?</p>
<p>“Today’s session opened with a discussion of the warlike positions that have taken hold among all strata of the Belgium population. Parents want paramilitary education added to the curriculum in the last year of secondary school. They want a military draft to be introduced and they say they are ready to send their sons to war against Russia! In a country which has no military parades, which has no military valor to celebrate since several of their generals participated in Napoleon’s wars and invasion of Russia, this is striking. I think the country’s armed forces held out for a week or two at the start of WWII, and more than 150,000 Belgians fled to England in the opening days. And yet, today they are all lions! But then no one seems to have asked the 18 year old boys how they feel about it…”</p>

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title: Hubris Drenched
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<p>China's State Council Information Office (SCIO) holds a press conference on the topic of boosting consumption. Li Chunlin, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission and officials from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Commerce, the People's Bank of China and the State Administration for Market Regulation are expected to meet the media and answer questions.</p>
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<p>Nearly 67,000 hectares of canola flowers in Luoping County, Qujing City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, are blooming. The sea of flowers, together with the rolling mountains and scattered villages, paints a pastoral spring landscape. This picturesque scenery attracts tourists from both home and abroad.</p>
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<div><img src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/screenshots/thread/1901455346822246778.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div>This is an absolutely fascinating interview - maybe one of the most thought-provoking I've read so far this year - of @kejimao, one of China's upcoming scholars and a Research Fellow at the International Cooperation Center of China's powerful National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC, the top organization for China's economic planning and policymaking).<p>A summary of the best takes from the article which you can find in full here: <a href="https://thechinaacademy.org/starting-the-trade-war-the-best-thing-trump-did-to-china/" data-sanitized-class="entity-url multilink">thechinaacademy.org/starting-the-t…</a></p><p><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">1)</span> On Trump's reforms and actions</p><p>Mao Keji says Americans voted for Trump because "America’s problems— social, economic and political—had become so entrenched that they could no longer be fixed by politics as usual."</p><p>He argues however that the actions of the new administration remind him of those of Khrushchev in the Soviet Union "who, in his secret speech at the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, exposed many of Stalin’s dark deeds. Although this consolidated his political position in the post-Stalin era, it permanently damaged the Soviet Party’s domestic authority and international moral standing, with the Sino-Soviet split being the most direct result. [Similarly,] Musk and Trump’s tireless efforts to expose the so-called 'deep state' are certainly beneficial to the new administration, but the damage they are inflicting on America’s institutions and moral authority is irreversible and incalculable."</p><p>He also says he has "serious doubts about [Trump's] radical reforms", and he also question whether "they are truly motivated by America’s interests or just the self-interest of these individuals." Although he does recognize that "the fact that an unconventional reformer like Trump could emerge suggests that the American system does indeed possess a strong capacity for self-correction," and that it's a safer bet to "overestimate [the impact of] Trump’s reforms than risk underestimating them."</p><p>He makes the parallel between Trump's approach to reform and China’s Cultural Revolution in the sense that "a small group of political outsiders, with the tacit approval of their leader, has gained access to the core of government and power and is exploiting widespread social dissatisfaction to rally large numbers of ordinary people—especially those from the lower rungs of society and young people with little experience of the world—to launch a fierce assault on the existing system. At the moment, it seems that much of what DOGE is doing—exposing shocking 'dirt' on social media—is less about genuinely pushing for reform and more about maintaining the 'revolutionary legitimacy' of this movement, ultimately creating a cycle of self-reinforcing and escalating fervor."</p><p>Lastly he says that in his view the Trump administration is, contrary to popular belief, less arrogant than "many establishment think tanks and media outlets in the US" because, contrary to them, he doesn't automatically assume "that their values are superior." Which matters because, as per a quote of the Three-Body Problem Trilogy that he really likes: "Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is."</p><p>All in all he says that "predicting what will happen in the four years of Trump’s second term is extremely difficult, but for now, one thing seems certain: the US’s global influence will shrink significantly. This is perhaps the clearest trend to emerge so far from Trump’s second term. If Trump’s policymaking continues at its current pace, then by the end of his four years, the US alliance system, the dollar’s status as a global currency, America’s influence over multilateral institutions, its military presence across the world, and even its ideological and media dominance will all be significantly diminished. This is a deliberate choice by the Trump administration, most likely based on the belief that the costs of maintaining these global arrangements outweigh their benefits to the US."</p><p>This doesn't mean however that America will be isolationist as Trump may "revive the 19th-century doctrine of spheres of influence. That means a return to an era akin to that of the warring states period, in which great powers can simply draw circles on a map to determine the fate of smaller nations."</p><p><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">2)</span> On how countries should deal with Trump</p><p>He says that "the best strategy for responding to [Trump's] pressure is to demonstrate that you are both able and willing to impose costs [on him]. At the same time, showing weakness or displaying anxiety in front of him will not get you any sympathy. On the contrary, it will only invite further aggression. [...] Surrendering just invites further humiliation; only by resisting to the very end can one turn the situation around."</p><p>He argues that "Canada, Denmark, Germany and Ukraine have all proven this point. As obedient allies who have always followed Washington’s lead, they trusted the US too much and never had a strategy for counteracting or resisting it. In the face of Trump’s threats, they were helpless and ultimately suffered humiliating blows."</p><p><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">3)</span> On Trump's impact on China</p><p>Fascinatingly he says that Trump "is only a marginal variable for China." This is because "China is a vast country with a large population and a massive industrial base. In many cases, so long as its domestic affairs are well managed, there is no need to fear a volatile international situation."</p><p>In fact he argues that Trump's first term was very helpful for China because his "trade and tech war was a wake-up call that made China realize the urgency of developing independent and controllable technological pathways and accelerating its transition towards smart technologies. Without Trump’s policy of extreme pressure, no Chinese government department or domestic enterprise would have been able to drive the transition to domestic alternatives." Thanks to this China is now in a strategic place where "there is no need to fixate on Trump."</p><p><span data-sanitized-class="nop nop-start">4)</span> On India-US and India-China relations</p><p>His view (India and Sino-Indian relations is actually his core area of expertise) is that "US-India relations are likely to cool during Trump’s time in office" because Trump doesn't "particularly seek to rely on India to counterbalance China" and therefore "India does not hold particularly high [strategic] value for Trump."</p><p>Instead Trump seems to be very transactional in his approach, seeking to "extract tangible financial gains from India through the export of arms, energy and technology."</p><p>He believes this may induce a change of strategy for India which had so far "sought to leverage its future great-power status and its strategic potential to counterbalance China in exchange for free strategic resources." If Trump now seeks to "put an explicit price on these strategic resources and force India to accept the full terms, Modi would definitely not just obediently comply."</p><p>In turn this may lead India to "restore engagement with China," if only as a "facade of Sino-Indian friendship [to] help India increase its value in the eyes of the US."</p>


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Spenglerian Analysis by Constantin von Hoffmeister: "The West Lives in a Simulation While Russia is Shaping the Real World

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<p>Constantin von Hoffmeister</p>
<p><span>Having produced several new translations of Oswald Spengler’s work, Mr. Hoffmeister is certainly well versed in his philosophy and historiographical ideas, which are part of a school of thought shared by a very notable few. Some will have heard of his</span> <em>Decline of the West,</em> <span>if they’ve heard of him at all</span><em>.</em> <span>Mr. Hoffmeister is editor-in-chief of</span> <em><a href="https://arktos.com/" rel>Arktos</a></em><span>, which is an anti-globalist website, and has his own substack,</span> <em><a href="https://www.eurosiberia.net/" rel>Eurosiberia</a></em><span>. The essay that follows includes some of those ideas and was</span> <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614311-west-russia-simulation-reality/" rel>published by</a> <em><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614311-west-russia-simulation-reality/" rel>RT</a></em> <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614311-west-russia-simulation-reality/" rel>here</a><span>. It appears to be a reworked and shorter version of “</span><a href="https://www.eurosiberia.net/p/dugin-and-the-decline-of-the-west" rel>Dugin and the Decline of the West</a><span>” that was published at his substack. I’m pleased to note his substack is free.</span></p>
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<p><span>The conflict in Ukraine is not about Ukraine.</span> <em><strong>It is the West’s last delirious attempt to exert control over a world that no longer needs it.</strong></em> <span>The West, lost in the labyrinth of its own technocratic nightmare, flails like a dying beast, mechanized and blind. The German historical philosopher Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), in ‘Man and Technics’ (1931), wrote of the Faustian civilization’s ultimate downfall, where technology, once an extension of organic culture, becomes an iron cage, trapping its creators in a world they no longer understand. The Western response to Ukraine is precisely this: Drones, sanctions, media narratives manufactured in real-time, an illusion of omnipotence maintained by algorithms, and artificial intelligence. But reality is slipping through the cracks.</span> <em><strong>The more the West mechanizes, the more it loses its ability to perceive the living, breathing cultures it seeks to control.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>A ceasefire? A negotiation? The West proposes them like a bureaucrat offering a new tax code,</span> <em><strong>as if war were a spreadsheet that could be adjusted to fit quarterly projections</strong></em><span>. US President Donald Trump’s emissaries meet with Russian officials, not because they believe in peace but because the old America-–his America-–has sensed the shift. A world order of raw power is replacing the West’s dream of digital hegemony, and Russia, China, and a thousand-year-old history stand against it. Spengler saw it coming: The machines would overtake the soul, and the West would become incapable of organic thought. This is why they cannot understand Russia–-not because they lack intelligence, but because their intelligence has been reduced to an algorithmic process,</span> <em><strong>stripped of cultural depth</strong></em><span>. The West is thinking in the way that a machine thinks, and Russia, still a creature of history,</span> <em><strong>is thinking like an empire</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Russian President Vladimir Putin dismisses the ceasefire offer because he knows it is a mirage. He speaks of root causes, of history, of a world that is not reducible to transactions and diplomatic maneuvers. The West recoils in horror. This is the fundamental difference: Russia still understands what war means, while the West sees only an endless data stream of casualties, arms shipments, and strategic objectives. Spengler called this the tragic turn of Faustian civilization–-when man, having created his machines, no longer controls them.</span> <em><strong>The West does not wage war for power or territory but to maintain the facade that it is still in control.</strong></em> <span>War as process. War as algorithm. The end goal is never victory, only perpetual management of crises.</span></p>
<p><span>Meanwhile, the financial technocrats of the G7 conjure $50 billion from thin air, leveraging interest from Russia’s frozen assets, a sleight of hand that Spengler would recognize as</span> <em><strong>the final stage of Western decay–-economic manipulation replacing genuine production, artificial wealth replacing true cultural strength.</strong></em> <span>The West no longer builds. It merely extracts, redistributes, and sanctions,</span> <em><strong>hoping that the machinery of global finance can replace the natural momentum of a rising civilization.</strong></em> <span>Russia, in contrast, returns to the old ways: Industry, military strength, self-reliance. The difference is stark. One civilization grows more entangled in its own mechanical hat tricks, the other returns to the fundamental logic of history.</span></p>
<p>Spengler saw technology as both the great achievement and the final undoing of the West. It began as a tool, an extension of man’s will, but in the late stages, it turns against its creators, reducing them to mere components in a system that no longer serves them. The West’s obsession with sanctions, surveillance, and narrative control is not an expression of power. It is a sign of weakness. True imperial civilizations do not need to micro-manage the world; they shape it through sheer will. This is why Trump, despite his flaws, represents the only real possibility for a Western resurgence. He rejects the managerial ethos. He understands power instinctively, like the rulers of old. The new Conservative Revolution in America is not about ideology. It is about reclaiming agency from the machine.</p>
<p><span>And yet, the media apparatus, a monstrous organism birthed by technics, continues its relentless march,</span> <em><strong>shaping reality through distortion</strong></em><span>. Spengler wrote that the press, in the late stages of Western civilization,</span> <em><strong>ceases to inform and instead dictates what must be believed.</strong></em> <span>Ukraine is reduced to a symbolic battlefield in this grand narrative.</span> <em><strong>Russia is the villain because the system requires a villain. The truth is irrelevant.</strong></em> <span>The headlines are written before the events occur. The war exists less as a physical struggle and more as a media spectacle, a grotesque ritual in which Western leaders play-act as warriors while ensuring they remain far from the consequences of their own actions.</span></p>
<p><span>But while the West is trapped in its simulation, Russia operates in the real. The battlefield is not a metaphor. It is a place where men kill and die. Spengler warned that the civilizations of the late stage would become incapable of true war–-they would engage in conflicts but only as technocratic exercises, devoid of the deep, existential struggle that defined the great wars of history. This is why the West cannot win in Ukraine.</span> <em><strong>It fights as a bureaucratic entity, not as a people.</strong></em> <span>And Russia, for all its flaws,</span> <em><strong>fights as a people. The difference is everything.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>So here we are, watching the end of an era. The West’s technics cannot save it. The more it relies on technology, the weaker it becomes. The West’s technocrats believe they are guiding history, but history is slipping from their grasp. Ukraine is just a chapter in a much larger story–-</span><em><strong>the story of the old world returning, of empire reclaiming its place over the managerial state.</strong></em> <span>And Trump? He is not the solution, but he is a symptom. A sign that somewhere, buried beneath the layers of bureaucracy and digital wallpaper, the West still remembers what power looks like.</span></p>
<p>This war is not about Ukraine. It never was. It is about the final struggle between technics and history, between the machine and the soul. And in the end, the machine will fail. Spengler saw it. We see it now. And Russia, whatever else it may be, understands it better than the West ever will. [My Emphasis]</p>
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<p>I don’t know, but it seems safe to bet that Orwell read Spengler as did Asimov and a few others like Huntington. I saw that Spengler was a student of Vico and both molded my conception of how history operates in both a cyclical and linear manner, some of that finding expression above. I must admit great disagreement with, “The new Conservative Revolution in America is not about ideology. It is about reclaiming agency from the machine.” Fortunately, Trump is declared to not be the solution. Musk is clearly the machine, the technics component of Team Trump. However, I would also say the technology can also be the undoing of the East as the West has no monopoly on making wrong choices. The condemnation of Neoliberalism is very well aimed along with the reduction of living to financial outcomes and little else. An interesting question is what does it mean to think/act like an empire as Russia is according to the author? I see it being very much a “managerial state” but working with a completely different aim than Western states: It’s all about supporting all the people and settling the vast regions of Russia that have lain vacant for so long. And then there’s the internal culture that makes Russians Russian which was shaped by external actors and Russians’s adaptations to their actions that were repetitive to a degree that lends powerful credence to the idea that history to some extent in circular.</p>
<p>I again find myself wanting to restudy Spengler and think I can do so by further investigating Mr. Hoffmeister’s substack. Those visiting the Arktos website and his substack will quickly see the promotion of Alexander Dugin’s work and that of other philosophers. I trust this stimulated readers’s brains and increased their curiosity.</p>
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