Nazi party membership in Germany was about 10% and yet not only were the German people controlled by and motivated to supporting fascism, this 10% led an aggressive imperialism to point of imposing will on their neighbors. With the European Union dominated by today’s Germany, there is a rather shocking comparison when we examine the ‘grand coalition’ of Angela Merkel’s expired political deal:
Rough party membership math:
Social Democrats 420,000
Christian Democrats 406,000
Christian Social Union 140,000
Total ‘grand coalition’ party members had been about 966,000, which applied as a percentage of approximately 60,000,000 (sixty million) eligible voters in Germany equals 1.6% (one point six percent) party members or less than 2% of Germans were making and driving policy for 60,000,000 (sixty million) German voters.
The new ‘traffic light’ coalition using the 2019 statistics (they won’t have changed radically)
Party membership:
Social Democrats 420,000
Greens 97,000
Free Democrats 66,000
Total party membership 583,000
Total voters 60,000,000
Or in the 21st Century ‘liberal democracy’ Germany, in its dominate position within the EU, the new coalition determines about 1% of Germans will enforce the ideology, policies and direction that not only Germany, but all of the European Union (and more) will be subjected to.
400,000,000 (four hundred million) European Union voters having policy made for them by the new German ‘traffic light’ coalition = 0.145% (not even two tenths of one percent), deciding the direction and fate of approximately one half of Europe. But it is more than that. It is as well about the European Union expansion, a de facto German imperialism imposing its will much more effectively that the Nazis had, with so-called soft power, normally enhanced-enforced on the dark side (blackmail, assassinations) by the relevant intelligence agencies:
Soft power in politics (particularly in international politics), is the manipulation or operation of a reward and punishment system in the absence of (obvious) physical violence. Soft power involves shaping the preferences of others through appeal, attraction and (covert) threats or unpleasant consequences. The currency of soft power includes culture, political values, attraction and rewards
The new boss of the German soft power imperial project:
Since his attendance at the 2010 Bilderberg as mayor in Hamburg, Scholz’ career has experienced a Bilderberg boost, advancing to the Social Democrats’ 2020 candidate for German Chancellor at the 2021 German parliamentary election
✓ supports a ‘sovereign’ European Union
In the new German ‘traffic light’ coalition it is the ‘green light’ will run the foreign policy. New foreign minister Annalena Baerbock (a naif ripe for manipulation by Bundesnachrichtendienst intelligence briefings) brings an Atlanticist orientation that is second to none when it comes to an Anglo-American trained German imperialist:
Annalena Baerbock was selected as the Green Party candidate for Chancellor in the 2021 German parliamentary election, when the Alliance 90/The Greens achieved their best ever result at 14.8% of the votes, winning 118 seats, and coming third behind the SPD (206 seats) and the CDU/CSU (196 seats)…
✓ supports the eastward expansion of NATO
✓ supports a more aggressive European Union foreign policy
Then, we have a ‘green’ nobody novelist-provincial politician becomes vice-chancellor, basically he is assigned a role of lobby for the green party line in formulating policy at the chancellery:
Robert Habeck is a German writer and politician. He has served as co-leader of Alliance ’90/The Greens since 2018 alongside Annalena Baerbock. Habeck passed his final secondary-school examinations in 1989 at the Heinrich …
✓ supports the neonazi regime in Kiev
But it is this guy holding the Ministry of Agriculture that people had better watch out for, because his behind closed doors role & influence will certainly be out-sized in the ongoing 21st Century’s German imperialism project when it comes the Greens holding the foreign ministry:
Cem Özdemir is a German politician of the German political party Alliance 90/The Greens. He is of part of the carefully nurtured party fraction that brought The Greens from a pacifist party to a strongly militaristic (‘olive green’) stance, stating that “we Greens have lost our fear of departments that deal with security issues”
✓ founding member, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
Recalling the present ‘liberal democracy’ iteration of German imperialism arrives on the scene at Strasbourg & Brussels with less than two tenths of one percent of the European electorate (Germany’s policy making front or the traffic light coalition determining future EU policy) the ‘green light’ also holds the right to appoint Germany’s next member (when von der Leyen’s term is expired) to the European Commission and it should be a no-brainer to assume this would be the European Union’s ‘green’ Special Rapporteur to the Western Balkans, the impeccably German imperialist who is on record stating “The Western Balkans is not our neighborhood, it is our inner-yard” … with a résumé which profiles as having Bundesnachrichtendienst asset (German CIA) written all over it:
In August 2018, von Cramon announced that she would run for a parliamentary seat in the 2019 European elections. Since becoming a Member of the European Parliament, she has been serving on the Committee on Foreign Affairs. In this capacity, she is the Parliament’s rapporteur on relations to the Western Balkans. In 2020, she also joined the Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union
✓ opposes the right of self determination of peoples
✓ sleeps with Zelensky’s warmongers in Kiev
✓ furthers the ongoing NATO encirclement of Russia
In circumstance of ‘liberal democracy’ where in the European Union, less than two tenths of one percent make and drive policy, there must be factored in the additional structural phenomenon; the 583,000 Germans having captured the 400,000,000 voting EU citizens doesn’t change the nature of the hierarchy wherein it will be a handful of the 583,000 at the top, with lateral associations (intelligence agencies, corporate lobbies), will determine direction. Just one more unfortunate equation.
21st Century Imperial Germany’s Bundesnachrichtendienst ‘soft power’ project not only has played the Kremlin a fool in the ‘chancellor to president’ presumably peer-to-peer relationship, but moreover, in the trans-Atlantic dealings, Germany makes today’s USA look like the handicapped IQ, thug-enforcer-bodyguard it actually has become; a thick-skulled goon basking in a self important delusion of grandeur when manipulated on a world stage play strategized & energized by a thinly concealed central European imperial meme laundering its’ agenda.
People should stop a misdirected obsessing with the Americans and start examining the Germans.
A postscript would be, in this case where a short research determines the ‘pacifist’ aspirations are contradicted by the militarist associations and actions, I really would prefer there were some intelligent, ecosystem preserving policies and relevant laws with teeth. But I certainly wouldn’t welcome the 21st Century German imperialism into my parlor; to go about discussion in regards to arriving at positive outcomes in the case where an imperial German ‘liberal democracy’ determines the reality of ‘green’ refers to a case of gangrene as much as anything.
A former Sergeant of Operations and Intelligence for Special Forces, Ronald Thomas West is a retired investigator (living in exile) whose work focus had been anti-corruption. Ronald’s formal educational background (no degree) is social psychology. His therapeutic device is satire.
“we make sure that we pray and stand and fight and make sure that we know that Jesus Christ is our savior is truly the only solution for our world” -Mike Pompeo
The Israeli Zionists and Christian Zionists have both; common and opposed motivations for war with Iran. The Israelis well know the Christians fully intend all Jews will either convert or die at the Battle of Armageddon according to their perverted theology but meanwhile the two sleep together, the Israelis self-destructively milking the USA war machine to realize the Yinon Plan (Greater Israel in a ‘Balkanized’ Middle East) while the Christian ‘Dominionists’ ‘prayerfully’ support these endeavors in pursuit of what will amount to Götterdämmerung for both.
Relevant to this preceding, a present conundrum of evil is not who and whether, but when, to make war on Iran. Who are the American shadow government players? We begin with looking into what Mark Gorton calls “The Enterprise”…
“The tools of the cabal include domestic [and foreign] death squads, political prisoners, Orwellian control of the media, domestic spying and domestic (and international) terrorist attacks. The cabal has partnered with some of the worst people on earth including, Nazis, drug dealers, terrorists, the mafia, cults, mass murderers, child molesters and pedophiles” [1]
…and comparing it to what Jeff Sharlet describes as ongoing in “The Family”…
“One needn’t be a Marxist to find fault with the Family’s mash-up of New Testament and unfettered capitalism — Adam Smith himself would have recognized that theology as a disingenuous form of self-interest by proxy. Such interests have led the Family into some strange alliances over the years. Seduced by the Indonesian dictator Suharto’s militant anti-communism, they described the murder of hundreds of thousands that brought him to power as a “spiritual revolution,” and sent delegations of congressmen and oil executives to pray to Jesus with the Muslim leader. In Africa, they anointed the Somali killer Siad Barre as God’s man and sent Sen. Grassley and a defense contractor as emissaries. Barre described himself as a “Koranic Marxist,” but he agreed to pray to Grassley’s American Christ in return for American military aid, which he then used to wreak a biblical terror on his nation. It has not yet recovered” [2]
…followed on with with a comparison to Wayne Madsen’s research…
“By 1957, ICL [International Christian Leadership, a ‘Family’ corporate euphemism or front] had established 125 groups in 100 cities, with 16 groups in Washington, DC alone. Around the world, it had set up another 125 groups in Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Northern Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Ethiopia (where Emperor Haile Selassie gave ICL property in Addis Ababa to build its African headquarters), India, South Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Guatemala, Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Bermuda. ICL’s international activities coincided with activities in countries where the CIA was particularly active – an obvious by-product of the close cooperation between [founder Abraham] Vereide and the CIA’s Allen Dulles and James Jesus Angleton. Angleton and his close associate, Miles Copeland, favored using private businessmen to conduct operations that the CIA was barred from conducting statutorily [lawfully.] The ICL fit the bill very nicely” [3]
…these preceding are clearly the same organization. Whether you call them affiliates or fronts, The International Christian Leadership (ICL), The Navigators and The Family amount to a single talent pool from which cells are built, along the line of intelligence agency organizations. GHW Bush, although it did not originate with him, was at the nexus of welding this pseudo religious crime organization into the USA government over decades, where it has consequently spread throughout the NATO hierarchy (and elsewhere) via the USA military. This is what L Fletcher Prouty was writing about 50 years ago with his description of ‘The Secret Team’
“For all its fabrication and apparent unreality, especially in this open society, the ST [Secret Team] machine does have a central soul or brain… or perhaps… holy spirit. It is the evidence of a form of new religion. It has its secrets. It has its divine and unquestioned rights and obligations. It has self-righteous power over life and death. It does not believe in anything. It does not value anything. It is utterly ruthless” [4]
When George H.W. Bush had become the executive officer, it was Vereide’s heir, Doug Coe, had been the captain who delegated authority and ‘blessed’ GHW Bush into the driver seat not long after the death of Abraham Vereide (d.1969.) Preceding Bush having consolidated control over the executive arm in 1970 (with Coe’s ‘blessing’, like a mafia godfather) Allen Dulles (d.1969) had been the previous undisputed ‘executive officer’ of this ‘Christian mafia.’ Dulles had been a WWI military intelligence officer, a Nazi sympathizing traitor throughout WWII, ran the CIA over the majority of the Opus Dei (Vatican) ‘rat line’ years (cooperating with Opus Dei rescuing Nazi war criminals from justice) and was ultimately responsible for subverting the CIA, the operations sector particularly, into a tool of ‘The Family’ which had itself been organized into cells on intelligence agency model.
Insofar as what’s happening now, I suspect the other criminal heavy-weight in the ring, MOSSAD, is aiming at Trump to get a more pliable Mike Pence finger on the USA trigger re Iran. Then, it gets complicated (just a little bit.)
The recalcitrant wheeler-dealer Trump, whose stubborn inclination is to follow his own reasoning, as opposed to obeying the treasonous war-mongers surrounding him, has become a mythical hero in the American conservative religious and alt-right communities, as well picking up the support of a large block of independent voters thoroughly disgusted at the corrupt antics of the Democratic National Committee and associated liberal ‘identity’ politics; in circumstance where disposing of him would be a delicate business in relation to social unrest. As well, Mike Pence needs Donald Trump as a figurehead as it is a fairly clear-cut thing ‘family man’ Pence can’t do without Trump in the next election cycle. Pence won’t want ‘The Donald’ disposed of prior to the 2020 election cycle; but the Israelis have no such compunction; they want a war with Iran -ASAP- considering there’s no certain promise the next election cycle will deliver the USA’s armies as proxy. In a cold calculation, the Israelis understand, with ‘The Donald’ disposed of, Pence will need war with Iran as a political necessity.
Meanwhile, figures like Bolton simply can’t say no to the Israeli war hawk line, whether for personality defect or for other reason ‘yet’ to be determined.
Now, to the Epstein issue. Almost no one knows the intelligence agencies have a designer drug that both; breaks down the will and super-enhances sexual acts via a distorted sense of time (not only heightened sensuality.) Most blackmail targets who’d been unwittingly drugged wouldn’t care in the moment of sex with underage kids provided to them, even if they knew they were being recorded. Think Homer’s Odyssey and the sirens where Odysseus was tied to the mast of his ship and his crews’ ears plugged with beeswax. Only the USA’s ship of state (and ultimately, the NATO nations and more) had no captain the equal of Odysseus and no beeswax for its crew. The only question (in my thinking) is who has recordings of who.
Certainly ‘The Family’ would have been a target of MOSSAD for decades and when it comes to certain ‘advances’ in designer drugs, it would appear the traditionally right-wing, nationalist MOSSAD would discover fertile ground in the ‘family’ environment:
“he asked a young man who’d put himself, body and soul, under the Family’s authority, “Let’s say I hear you raped three little girls. What would I think of you?” The man guessed that Coe would probably think that he was a monster. “No,” answered Coe, “I wouldn’t.” Why? Because, as a member of the Family, he’s among what Family leaders refer to as the “new chosen.” If you’re chosen, the normal rules don’t apply” [5]
Had Epstein been a pawn of MOSSAD? Former CIA officer Phil Giraldi believes it could easily be so:
“Selective inquiries into wrongdoing to include intense finger pointing are the name of the game in Washington, and the affaire Epstein also has all the hallmarks of a major espionage case, possibly tied to Israel. Unless Epstein is an extremely sick pedophile who enjoys watching films of other men screwing twelve-year-old girls the whole filming procedure smacks of a sophisticated intelligence service compiling material to blackmail prominent politicians and other public figures. Those blackmailed would undoubtedly in most cases cooperate with the foreign government involved to avoid a major scandal. It is called recruiting “agents of influence.” That is how intelligence agencies work and it is what they do” [6]
Plausibly we are (in the present moment) looking at the symptoms of a developing underground war between Zionist camps; ‘The Family’ Christian Zionist centered crime organization versus Bibi’s nationalist coalition, not so much as for the fact of upcoming war with Iran but the WHEN.
Insofar as MOSSAD’s organizational ability and influence in the USA, there are two documents come to mind to refer those reading here to, 1) the CIA assessment of MOSSAD that came into the public domain when the Iranian students took over the USA embassy in 1979 (subsequently published as a paperback one could purchase at nearly any newspaper kiosk in Tehran)…
“There are numerous persons in Israel who have a thorough area and language knowledge of any area of interest to the intelligence services. These area experts can render extremely valuable assistance in analyzing intelligence information and formulating country requirements, thus contributing to the total operational potential since they enable Israeli intelligence officers to estimate rapidly the efficiency and reliability of their agents and informants. These persons are also useful for their ability to pass completely for a citizen of the nation in question. The Israeli talent for counterfeiting or forging passports and documents ably supports the agent’s authenticity. [bold RTW; per the pervasive habit of Israeli-American dual citizenship]
“The Israeli intelligence service depends heavily on the various Jewish communities and organizations abroad for recruiting agents and eliciting general information. The aggressively ideological nature of Zionism, which emphasizes that all Jews belong to Israel and must return to Israel, had had its drawbacks in enlisting support for intelligence operations, however, since there is considerable opposition to Zionism among Jews througout the world. Aware of this fact, Israeli intelligence representatives usually operate discreetly within Jewish communities and are under instructions to handle their missions with utmost tact to avoid embarrassment to Israel. They also attempt to penetrate anti-Zionist elements in order to neutralize the opposition” [7]
…and 2) Ron Unz’s recent American Pravda piece (short history) detailing a ‘higher order’ of Jewish organized crime in California centered out of Chicago. Although the Unz piece does not deal with consequent MOSSAD activities, it certainly paints a picture of an environment ripe for exploitation. [8]
Meanwhile here is a fairly contemporary thumbnail of ‘The Family’ influences surrounding Trump excluding the Pentagon which is touched on in this author’s immediate preceding article “Pentagon Pedophiles” [9]
Who was Doug Coe? (d. February 2017.) The spiritual guru of MIKE PENCE. What is Doug Coe all about? In his own words:
“You know Jesus said ‘You got to put Him before mother-father-brother sister? Hitler, Lenin, Mao, that’s what they taught the kids. Mao even had the kids killing their own mother and father. But it wasn’t murder. It was for building the new nation. The new kingdom” –Doug Coe [10]
It was Mike Pence attended the meeting where Donald Trump was introduced to Doug Coe [11]
“Every president since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 has spoken at the breakfast, a point made at the meeting to Trump by the evangelical lay minister Douglas Coe, a leader in The Fellowship religious organization, according to Coons. Also attending the meeting with Trump was Boozman, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and several of Trump’s faith advisers”
Here is Doug Coe in his own words, the spitting cobra speaks for himself [12]
Beginning at minute 5:30 of the above video:
“Jesus said you have to put me before other people. And you have to put me before yourself. Hitler, that was a demand to be in the Nazi Party. You have to put the Nazi Party and its objectives ahead of your own life, and ahead of other people”
Coe goes on to say:
“I’ve seen pictures of the young men in the Red Guard… They would bring in this young man’s mother. He would take an axe and cut her head off. They have to put the purposes of the Red Guard ahead of their father, mother, brother, sister, and their own life. That was a covenant. A pledge. That’s what Jesus said”
And then:
“If you’re going to have any movement that moves men and nations, you have to have that kind of commitment”
Yep. Pence’s guru just stated you need make a commitment to following the principles, and emulating the behaviors of, History’s biggest mass murderers, to move their ‘Christian’ agenda forward. If you keep listening, it doesn’t get any better.
Who are the ‘Navigators’ Pence’s long time spiritual guru had been addressing? An elite right-wing (actually Nazi) international Christian proselytizing organization with a 100 million dollar (+) annual budget. Probably it should come as no surprise the Navigator organization Coe preached to has for its registered symbol a neo-Nazi cross that also features in the Klu Klux Klan decor kit [13]
“Each part of The Wheel® Illustration represents a crucially important component of a vibrant violent Christian life” [quote correction RTW]
Compared to the contemporary neo-nazi decor at duck-duck-go:
Is the on again, off again CIA-MOSSAD collaboration a case of the ‘Anti-Semites Who Loved Jews…And the Jews Who (Sometimes) Loved Them Back’ ? [14]
Not really. The CIA/MOSSAD bad marriage is more a case of an exclusive ‘serial-killers only’ swingers’ club where everybody is tired of the limited opportunity at couplings, yet their sex addiction requires everyone screwing everyone out of habit and everyone hates everyone’s guts. At some point, the entire crew will resort to the new mass murder, initiating the upcoming war with Iran, to get it all back on track. It’s only a matter of when.
And then we have:
“These cells operated, as many of the Family’s projects do, through God – “the Catholic generals and colonels who rotated coup by coup through the leadership of Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador … consented to the Protestant ministrations of the Fellowship in return for access to American congressman”” [15]
The Opus Dei Catholic branch figures in Steve Bannon’s plausible ‘girlfriend’ hard-right-closet-fag-cum-homophobe Cardinal Raymond Burke (a deserving sobriquet as contrasted to those naturally inclined to be gay but are honest, modest, and demonstrably ethical) [16]
…who profiles as identifying with the present day Catholic Church Nazis the open and honest gay theologian David Berger had blown the whistle on and I somehow (sense of smell) strongly doubt you’re going to find any sincere friendliness towards Jews in this next mix [17]
“Hitler was praised for having interned and murdered homosexuals in concentration camps
“They talk about a supposed Jewish global conspiracy or about how to keep emancipators, freemasons and gays out of the church
“The fiercest homophobia in the Catholic Church comes from homophile clerics who desperately suppress their own sexuality
“the Vatican is .. relying increasingly on reactionary troops. It is closing ranks with evangelists, bible fundamentals and extremely reactionary forces”
This last, preceding quote then brings us to closet fascist Mario Bergoglio’s meeting with Doug Coe [18], [19]
At the end of the day, pedophilia enabled blackmail seems evident in every direction; ‘The Family’ will have opportunity at the Catholic church, the Israelis will have it over both and The Family’s CIA should have it on the MOSSAD assets in the USA (Epstein.) Where does it begin and where will it end? We all should know soon enough, depending on who gets the upper hand on the 2020 election cycle (that is when the bombs start dropping.)
For years informed people (includes myself) had been pointing out a known principle of social physics in relation to the western democracies aggressions abroad; ‘force escalates violence’ also known as ‘blow-back.’ In the military application of this principle, if you are a line officer, you are well aware when increased force is committed to assaulting an enemy position, the cadence or pace of firing increases. The immediate effect will be increased destruction & casualties, and the aftermath will be either control of the enemy position or having been repulsed. In either case, the attacking force might then see a counter-attack, depending on the battlefield resources and one side’s superior ability to recover manpower and munitions (logistics) in relation to the other. In past times, this micro-cosmic battlefield phenomena reflected a larger social reality in outcomes; States and societies enforcing one’s will upon another. The evolution of the resultant laws of war is primarily based in European history and can trace its roots to Imperial Rome and beyond, to the time of Plato and Alexander.
The larger European culture had exported this social aggression to the world abroad, to feed its own intra-cultural aggressions via the wealth exploited from the so-called ‘uncivilized’ or ‘undeveloped’ world (colonialism), such as the silver mines of Peru funding the Spanish Armada. Colonies funding European cultural aggression has been their primary function despite self-justifications such as bringing ‘civilization’ to those (Europeans historically presume) less culturally developed than themselves. Such attitudes are not far beneath the surface as cultural driving forces to this day and we see it not only in the Euro-centric history our children are taught but also in the images and rhetoric. Whether in the inter-cultural aggression monument to Columbus at Barcelona:
Or the intra-cultural aggression in a monument to the defeat of Napoleon at Leipzig:
Or Napoleon’s so-called ‘burial’:
Or Germany continuing celebration of historical warmongers such as Prussian King Frederick II who put Germans on the path to become the nastiest regime in modern history:
Or ‘American exceptionalism’ where Obama states: “I believe that America is exceptional. In part because we have shown a willingness, through the sacrifice of blood and treasure, to stand up not only for our own narrow self-interest, but for the interests of all.” The NAZIs believed they were exceptional as well:
All of these elements celebrate European cultural aggression, whether inter or intra-cultural aggression, in a sense portrayed with pride. What is missing from the imagery and rhetoric in the European (includes USA) cultural experience is the utter lack of any examination of repeated and compounded consequence of pursuing empire:
Whether a ‘Reichstag fire’ or an event manipulated to same effect by perpetrators of imperialism, ‘blow-back’ is real, from reactions to war-profiteering enterprises (Lockheed-Martin, General Dynamics, JP Morgan, et al) capitalizing on 9/11 to an Afghan national who only the other day put his finger in my face and stated “I have a problem with you” because I’m an American and Americans are unnecessarily blowing up women and children in Afghanistan with airstrikes and drones.
So, what is imperialism? It is a concept central to European mentality in ways they are not even aware of. I don’t agree with every motive for and proposed solution to imperialism in this following video but I do agree with the fact imperialism is the most destructive force on earth, that it is Euro-centric cultural mentality and that it must be contained, reversed and ended. I do not believe Euro-centric mentality is race based White Supremacy, I believe this is only one self-justifying rational for manifestation of a cultural mentality that employs religion, science and more, to justify an infectious, ego-based narcissism and attending aggressive, violent greed that ultimately transcends race. North Korea’s Kim, as well the Black kleptocrats who’ve hijacked South Africa, or for that matter, Obama, are little different to any European Whites in their narcissistic motives and behaviors in my view. Kim would probably join the capital club tomorrow if the USA would give up hypocritical demands of democracy & human rights and pull the war games out of North Korea’s face, and South Africa’s new Black oligarchs seem to believe they can snooker South Africans indefinitely with the USA turning a blind eye because they have become ‘players.’ Obama’s policies look like the policies of George Bush on steroids, except covered up by media allowing Obama to be a convincing liar and Obama can actually speak decent English, two things Bush could never really master. But it is easy to see how White Supremacist motive would be interpreted as the progenitor of imperialism, because imperialism as we know it in these modern times not only originated with, but has been largely sustained by Europe and consequent aligned Euro-centric cultures and mentality, particularly the USA. We know from history that White captive children raised Native American never wished to return to the White community (mentality.) It’s just White people’s (and consequently the world’s) bad luck the mentality behind imperialism took root in Europe, in my estimation.
All that said, I challenge everyone who has read this short essay to watch this video in its entirety. It is multiple voices hammering on a single theme … attempting to define imperialism. I know some of these people and respect them a LOT. Not because we always agree (we don’t always agree) but because they care immensely about pulling our world out of its downward spiral and that is a noble goal we all should share:
Note on the video: The included ‘double tap’ footage from Wikileaks is the only leak of Private Manning (as an armed forces member) I feel was legally justified, because it is a war crime of murdering people who’d arrived to evacuate the wounded, on top of it is obvious from the voice recording the attack helicopter crew had no clear knowledge of who they were firing on. For the record, I am a staunch supporter of Snowden.
Afterthought: The USA and Western Europe aggressively pushing Russia into a corner with the destabilization of Ukraine (latest in a long list of provocations) on behalf of present (Yulia Tymoshenko, example given) and future oligarchs in a push for world-wide American corporate ‘manifest destiny’, may become the case of intra-cultural European aggression that forces Russia, with a LOT to lose, to end the ‘great game’ once and for all.
Something to think about in a nuclear armed world…
A former Sergeant of Operations and Intelligence for Special Forces, Ronald Thomas West is a retired investigator (living in exile) whose work focus had been anti-corruption. Ronald’s formal educational background (no degree) is social psychology. His therapeutic device is satire.
Ronald Thomas West 