All-in Last week, I wrote that Russia was “on the offensive and impatient” and would “act very soon.” It did, but in a way that far exceeded my expectations.
Who would have imagined that 20 months after you wrote this essay, the unvarnished evil of the US empire would be let loose in Gaza, for all the world to see. It will take some heavy lifting on our part, to rid this country---and the planet---of this monster.
Thanks for the sub! And for you message. You're the first one to praise my four-syllable online handle, which I think has not helped my self-promotion. I guess it was inspired by my classical education--Greek and Latin in high school, Iliad, Odysssey, and Caesar's Wars in the original. I appreciate the support.
The other thing that is interesting is that Polish and Ukrainian nationalists have allied themselves with the entity (the US and its satellites) that is most ideologically opposed to nationalism and sovereignty and against the one really significant world leader that is accepting of it. And in so doing, they have nonetheless sacrificed their sovereignty in pursuit of what exactly, the restoration of some dreamt-of past glory?
Jim, I was expecting to come up with a few cavils--that you'd overlooked that the skein of post-Westphalian laws, treatises and norms had become so rotted with the absolute power of the unipolar moment by an Empire arbitrarily invoking and ignoring its own principles, that eventually a countervailing power would claw that mask of legitimacy away by force. But your 'there is no table' and if you want to bring others to the table, a new one will have to be built is well expressed. Anyway. kudos. @EmpireInWinter
Whitney Webb's latest on the CIA creating a new Nazi International, a new Al Qaeda in the heart of Europe, this time as a catspaw for a domestic (intra-Occidental) war on terror is very good.
Chewing over the deNazification agenda, in this context, I've begun to think that the real target of Russia's deNazification plan (esp. after the Nazis w/ nukes theme having emerged) is to deNazify not just Ukraine but NATO, the EU and Davos / WEF.
The wider the scope the more likely a world war becomes...
Thanks, Empire. And thanks for the link to Whitney Webb. She is good and dives deep. They will build a new Fascist International as the #Resistance to Russia. It's sooo dangerous.
I'll say that i don't think Putin wants to go after institutions like Davos/WEF. He has been friendly to them. But their reactions may change that radically. The West is forcing him out of his wishful thinking about "partnership," and it may lead to significant changess in Russian domestic socio-conomic policy, per my references to Helmer and Bezrukov (check out those links).
This is a fantastic article, saying exactly what every socialist ought to be saying - but, unfortunately, is not.
A major request: can you make your links go to the actual source articles on the web? At the moment, clicking on a link requires a sign-in to some Google app, something many of us would very much like to avoid. None of your other posts worked like this.
Second, minor point: it's John, not Walt, Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer co-wrote a book with Walt.
Thanks, Jim. Glad you found it so cogent. I hope it gets through to some...
Thanks also for pointing out the glitches. I fixed the links and correced the name. (Do let me know, please, if any of the links still don't work.) Just carelessness in editing on my part.
Who would have imagined that 20 months after you wrote this essay, the unvarnished evil of the US empire would be let loose in Gaza, for all the world to see. It will take some heavy lifting on our part, to rid this country---and the planet---of this monster.
Yup. It's been a helluva downslide into disaster.
Thanks for the sub! And for you message. You're the first one to praise my four-syllable online handle, which I think has not helped my self-promotion. I guess it was inspired by my classical education--Greek and Latin in high school, Iliad, Odysssey, and Caesar's Wars in the original. I appreciate the support.
Excellent, in every way. Can we reprint and of course give the Polemicist credit?
Of course. With attribution and link, as you say. Share widely, in any manner you wish.
Excellent piece. Many seem not to be aware that this is only the most recent front in a larger conflict. I particularly like your "there is no table" and that, in effect, without reciprocity there is no law. I raised this in a Twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/StinsonAnalytic/status/1498414609040031748?s=20&t=se5MaKSUZGJEt4jSnyFxcw
See Margaret Kimberley's article on "whataboutism" : https://blackagendareport.com/praise-whataboutism
The other thing that is interesting is that Polish and Ukrainian nationalists have allied themselves with the entity (the US and its satellites) that is most ideologically opposed to nationalism and sovereignty and against the one really significant world leader that is accepting of it. And in so doing, they have nonetheless sacrificed their sovereignty in pursuit of what exactly, the restoration of some dreamt-of past glory?
This is about the best I've read on the issue so far. Thanks. Will share in my networks.
Thanks, Johan. Please do share widely!
Jim, I was expecting to come up with a few cavils--that you'd overlooked that the skein of post-Westphalian laws, treatises and norms had become so rotted with the absolute power of the unipolar moment by an Empire arbitrarily invoking and ignoring its own principles, that eventually a countervailing power would claw that mask of legitimacy away by force. But your 'there is no table' and if you want to bring others to the table, a new one will have to be built is well expressed. Anyway. kudos. @EmpireInWinter
Whitney Webb's latest on the CIA creating a new Nazi International, a new Al Qaeda in the heart of Europe, this time as a catspaw for a domestic (intra-Occidental) war on terror is very good.
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/ukraine-new-al-qaeda/
Chewing over the deNazification agenda, in this context, I've begun to think that the real target of Russia's deNazification plan (esp. after the Nazis w/ nukes theme having emerged) is to deNazify not just Ukraine but NATO, the EU and Davos / WEF.
The wider the scope the more likely a world war becomes...
Thanks, Empire. And thanks for the link to Whitney Webb. She is good and dives deep. They will build a new Fascist International as the #Resistance to Russia. It's sooo dangerous.
I'll say that i don't think Putin wants to go after institutions like Davos/WEF. He has been friendly to them. But their reactions may change that radically. The West is forcing him out of his wishful thinking about "partnership," and it may lead to significant changess in Russian domestic socio-conomic policy, per my references to Helmer and Bezrukov (check out those links).
This is a fantastic article, saying exactly what every socialist ought to be saying - but, unfortunately, is not.
A major request: can you make your links go to the actual source articles on the web? At the moment, clicking on a link requires a sign-in to some Google app, something many of us would very much like to avoid. None of your other posts worked like this.
Second, minor point: it's John, not Walt, Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer co-wrote a book with Walt.
Thanks, Jim. Glad you found it so cogent. I hope it gets through to some...
Thanks also for pointing out the glitches. I fixed the links and correced the name. (Do let me know, please, if any of the links still don't work.) Just carelessness in editing on my part.