Declan Hayes
Although today's massive wealth disparities are plain as day, it is important to note that wealth is now generally accumulated not by adding material value but by financial sleights of hand and therein is the crux of the matter.
The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; Increased demand to live off the state.
Although the above quote is often erroneously attributed to Gibbon's seminal The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, it might more aptly be applied to the decay of the Anglo-American system which we are now living through in real time. If we sequentially go through them, we see social discourse being dominated by tittle tattle about celebrity nobodies and those nobodies often being elected to high office. What with Sir Keir Starmer having gangs of Ukrainian male prostitutes tailing him like he was a bitch in heat, degenerates like Jesuit top dog Fr Bill Currie being spit roasted on a nightly basis as top journalists dress in French maids' uniforms to kiss the boots of black transexual prostitutes, and all such nobodies being in Jeffrey Epstein's black book, their behaviour could just as well be from the set of 120 days of Sodom, which has been described as the sickest film of all time.
Le Soir, the liberal paper that spearheaded Belgium's collaboration during the Nazi occupation, provides us with another relevant example of NATO hoisting themselves by their own petard as any praise for their liberal credentials in republishing the Charlie Hebdo cartoons must be tempered by noting they hired Philippe Servaty, whose party piece was to ejaculate and and urinate into the faces of impoverished Moroccan women and post his "art" on the Internet before the women's incensed relatives put a bounty on his head.
Talking of these degenerates, although what passes for Hunter Biden-style art today is barely worth a mention, we must note that our aesthetic tastes are continually being shaped by Zelensky's Brownshirt enforcers, whose Pavlovian impulse is to swing a sledgehammer every time they hear Russian culture being mentioned. Whoever said that book burning had gone out of fashion?
Although today's massive wealth disparities are plain as day, it is important to note that wealth is now generally accumulated not by adding material value but by financial sleights of hand and therein is the crux of the matter. Historically, we had two forms of economies, the stock-driven one of the Netherlands, Britain and America and the debt-driven one of Germany and Japan, both of which have been thoroughly derailed by the Anglo Americans, whose stock market based system was supposed to fund relatively risky ventures unsuited to the more risk averse debt financing the main Axis powers typified.
That idyllic Wall Street sheen is no more and the emphasis is now on milking captive audiences through needless pharmaceuticals, narcissistic purchases and nihilistic wars: that is where the money is and, as the politicians have long ago been bought off, there is no real protection for the ordinary citizen against any of these 5G forms of draining their wallets dry. Instead of trying to add value, the emphasis is on wasting weapons in NATO's endless wars and knowing that the taxpayer will, at day's end, have to pick up the tab for their profligacy. It is a risk free scam. As Craig Murray has recently pointed out, Wall Street's hedge funds actually own the RAF's Top Guns, meaning, firstly, that it is in their profit maximising interests to charge top dollar for the under performing junk Russia is turning into scrap metal in Ukraine and, secondly, that all Starmer, Trump, Kallas and von der Leyen are left with are their hedge funds, who scam the RAF and whatever other rich NATO pickings that Halliburton, Blackwater and BlackRock have not yet picked bare.
As for the ordinary public, who are not members of NATO's self-selected elite, technology has made them largely irrelevant to the economy, except as unthinking consumers or, as is the case with Britain's abortion-up-to-birth laws, as raw inputs into cosmetics and some similar luxury goods products. As for euthanasia, well why not? If the ordinary public cannot add value to the elite, why not put them down? Maybe, in this brave new world, Hitler and the Anglo-Americans, who inspired his Austrian death factories, had a point in all of that.
As it was then with the the boys, and girls, from Brazil, so is it now. The latest resurrected Nazi is Blaise Metreweli, whose grandfather, Constantine Dobrowolski, aka The Butcher, was one of Hitler's chief Ukrainian collaborators, a notorious mass murderer and torturer for the Waffen-SS in Ukraine and the entire eastern front. Although the Waffen-SS still have their Russophilic critics, there is evidence galore that having friends and forefathers in that infamous group never did the careers of their families any harm in modern-day Blighty, or in Canada, the United States and Germany for that matter.
Although we are told the Waffen-SS are yesterday's men because the ideological sheens the Anglo Americans used to oppose them are things of the past, with no more ongoing relevance than whatever drove the Assyrians or the Carthaginians on their own conquests all those millenia ago, their Nazi networks remain there to be activated when needed. Even though the Anglo-Americans still have the world's most well-oiled and best performing propaganda industry, and even though they have the resources of Nazi families like the Butcher's to draw on, they are losing their lustre because they can no longer innovate or regenerate to the degree that is needed.
Take the recent Iranian-Israeli dust up, where the Iranian missiles performed as I predicted. There will be no Iranian Operation Paperclip and Iran (the land of the Aryans), Persia if you prefer, will no longer be the buffer state it once was following the 1856/7 Anglo Persian war. When Iran puts its formidable missile technological know-how up for sale, their main customers will be the Russians and the Chinese, who are no slouches at the hard sums themselves, and that is not good news for the Anglo-Americans or the rust buckets masquerading as aircraft carriers they pin their faith on to control the world's choke points.
And nor is it good news for the informal networks NATO uses as velvet handcuffs for the world's satraps. I am referring here to military academies like Sandhurst and to the public schools like Harrow and Eton Sandhurst draws its dullards from. Why, except to engage in their BDSM hazing rituals, ape NATO's toy soldiers when Iran and its allies are showing that victory in the Waterloos of the future will owe far more to the STEM researchers of China and Iran than they do to Paddington Bear and the playing fields of Eton?
The idea of giving Iran room to breathe or even having buffer states to stop the bigger elephants crashing into each other is now obsolete. The Baltic pimple states as well as Hitler's former Finnish allies are now but staging posts to attack Russia and to hell with any Russian nuclear or other response as, in a perversion of Pascal's wager, the risks of summoning Armageddon are well worth it for even the smallest chance of robbing Russia of its vast natural resources. Besides British guile and the long shot of dividing and conquering those who count, there seems no other way to dent Russia and those who stand with her.
If today's Great Game was only confined to Russia's southern and northern borders, then there might be hope. But look towards Africa and to the great Nile River where the intrigues of empire remain problematic. When Britain divided up the waters of the Nile between Sudan and Egypt, they omitted Ethiopia, which not only also needs that water but it is where the Nile actually begins its long march to the sea. As Ethiopia is now extending its own dam to the possible detriment of both Egypt and Sudan, expect more trouble in that volatile region, which, not so long ago, saw the Soviet Union fund Egypt's Aswan dam, a move which helped Nasser pivot towards the anti Anglo-American Soviet bloc, from which it was afterwards half-wrested.
As Israel has recently annexed Syria's water supply, just as it previously robbed the River Jordan from Jordan, expect all those postcolonial squabbles to come to bear when Russia and China become serious players in the region. And maybe even expect other countries to replace Israel as the area's key choke point. The historical tides are currently changing course and patch quilt dykes here and there will not change matters when those titans tag team their way into the ring.
Whatever about the rise of China and Russia, the Anglo-Americans, like the Romans before them, are suffering from the problems centuries of privilege bring. They have thinned out their economies and their people, who are no longer the stout hearted peasantry Oliver Goldsmith pined about in The Deserted Village but are, instead, a sordid gaggle of degenerates Chinese vloggers and anthropologists scratch their heads in baffled bemusement about.
Critical though the fate of the Western empire is, it would not be imminently fatal if the sort of urgent remedial action Japan undertook in the post-Wars years to steady its own ship was taken. Though these steps would include a massive streamlining of NATO's judicial and loan sharking systems, a massive crackdown on the drug and perversion industries and the mass internment of corrupt politicians and government functionaries, none of that can now happen as the West is on the different trajectory of robbing Europe of the last of its sovereign wealth and, as the ongoing Syrian genocide shows, to hell with the longer term consequences.
Far from being the idyll of liberal imperialism the West pretends to be, it is, in essence, a giant Ponzi scheme where the elite pick the pockets and, now, the vital organs of the rest, who no longer even have the right to decide how to dispose of their own bodies. Victor Hugo's Les Mis é rables and similar French, Russian and German classics of the Victorian era show us things were not that different then, the only cultural difference being, perhaps, that more of us can read and write, an almost now-obsolete skill that was necessary to impart to the working class because of the great demand for lowly clerks towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign.
Although there remains oases of goodwill throughout the Anglo American world, they resemble those Brideshead Revisited Catholic aristocrats of Olde Englande, who did not abandon their faith, mere puddles from the past, oddities of no greater strategic significance.
Instead of folk like Alexander Graham Bell, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Thomas Crapper, John Dunlop, Thomas Edison and George Stephenson, all we now have is NATO mob boss Mark Rutte flaunting his sociopathic daddy issues to the world, and Bonny Blue, a British slapper, who is hailed as a hero because her party trick is to lie down and think of England as 1000 losers use her as their collective sperm bucket.
Although, given her demographics, China probably has countless similar losers, her core engineering capabilities far outclass anything the Anglo American empire can currently muster and, as for Bonny Blue, she is not that very different from von der Leyen and Kallas, who likewise would better belong in San Fernando Valley. Though the Anglo American empire will hobble on with von der Leyen, Kallas and Bonny Blue doing what they do best, just as Rome hobbled along up to and even after the fall of Constantinople, it no longer calls the shots. All we are left with are its jagged pieces, epitomised by Bonny Blue, Kaja Kallas, Keir Starmer, Fr Bill Currie and their Ukrainian rent boys. And, as for China's future generations of anthropologists, vloggers and historians, they will wonder how these larpers ever took their ancestors for such an expensive ride.