Declan Hayes
Welcome to our brave new and somewhat terrifying world, where Trump plays nuclear chicken with both Russia and China, and Israel threatens Yemen with biblical plagues.
Welcome to our brave new and somewhat terrifying world, where Trump plays nuclear chicken with both Russia and China, and Israel threatens Yemen with biblical plagues. On the positive side, I guess, Europe has been down this road before when Herr Hitler, with the help of legions of seen but especially unseen enablers, led Europe into the abyss, to where our leaders, both seen and unseen, wish us to return if that is what it takes for them to retain control and thereby further enrich themselves.
Tiny Ireland is chomping at the bit to stick their bayonets into the Ivans, so much so that the Russian Ambassador to this tiny imperial outpost has had to advise our wanna be Napoleons regarding the folly of their ways. Though Ambassador Filatov has thereby done the Irish people some service, he might have been better off reacquainting himself with the St Petersburg Paradox if he wants to understand the jokers who form the Irish government and the other sub-offices of Ursula von der Leyen's European Union empire, as it posits the paradox of how much one should gamble to win an infinite amount, the vast natural resources of the Russian Federation in this case.
And, though Ambassador Filatov might chuckle to himself that it will be quite a while before the tiny Irish Army has a victory parade through downtown Moscow, that is to miss the point. The gangsters who control Ireland are placing their puny chips and our punier necks on a NATO victory and, not unlike Herr Hitler's fantasies before them, they hope their latest gamble will pay off in spades. Though I personally don't want to finish my days freezing my nuts off in some Eastasian foxhole, plebs like me don't get to vote on such matters, which are for our leaders to decide on, just like they decided to flatten Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and a number of other small fry nations on cocktails of self-serving lies that need not detain us here.
If Ireland does not deserve to be taken seriously, Finland, which placed St Petersburg, Leningrad as it was then called, under a brutal siege as part of their so-called Continuation War 84 years ago this month, is a very different matter. President Alexander Stubb's recent "defence" treaty with Ukraine is Finland's first military treaty with a nation at war since the 1944 end of Finnish hostilities against the Soviet Union where, all things considered, Finland got off relatively lightly when compared to their Wehrmacht buddies, who are again raring to kick some serious Russian butt.
Finland (population 5.6 million) is now expanding her army from 325,000 to 1 million men under arms, she is expanding airfields along the 1,340 km Russian border and, with her Wehrmacht and Yankie buddies, thereby directly threatening Russian strategic defences on the Kola peninsula and therefore inching us all closer to a High Noon nuclear shoot out. When we consider that NATO and China have also put the Arctic into play, best to give Santa Claus in Lapland a miss this year, and every following year until our nuclear winter ends in a few thousand years or so.
Not that it will come to that, at least for now. From Armenia and Azerbaijan in the south to Finland's frozen north, NATO is simply putting Russia under what it hopes is unsustainable pressure and also hoping that Russia does not call its bluff, at least for now.
Far from being another June 1941 when the Finns goose stepped their way to St Petersburg, this is, instead, a glacially moving blitzkrieg, where Israel visits all the plagues of ancient Egypt on Yemen, and Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Baltic pimple states play their equally ignoble part in laying waste to northern Europe by invoking Article 5 or some such bottom of the deck card to please Zelensky and whoever else they snort their coke with.
To properly appreciate how we embroiled ourselves into this latest round of Finland's Continuation War, start by reading Eric Kurlander's Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology to get a feel for some of the madcap ideas doing the rounds both during Weimar and right now. If that is too much, go watch Cabaret, which is set in Weimar and which shows how Hitler's madcap ideas and black and brown fashion sense glacially gained the ascendancy during those impecunious years, delivering Germany from Weimar's evil to the horrors of Bandera, Dotrščina and East Karelin, which NATO has more recently replicated in Eastasia as well as in theatres further south.
Now read Bruna Frascolla's recent bullseye, where she recounts how Brazil's faux black lives matter movement has replicated the Zionist scam in demanding privileged positions for themselves at the expense of everyone else. The overall objective of this plan through the entire NATO empire is not to promote liberty, equality, fraternity or any such nonsense for some artificially concocted minority group but, war of the flea style, to destroy the fabric of society by slowly undermining and atomising society's sinews. As I write this, the World Cup matches are in full flow, with Irish, English and Israeli (wtf?) fans sporting their national flags, with naughty Belarus banned for some spurious reason but with Irish and English fans being told their flags are supremacist symbols, the display of which in their own countries should land them in jail, just as it lands their wrongthink comedians in the slammer.
Although I could try to argue that the Irish stood up to much worse from the Anglican cultists during the Penal law era, things are, in some ways, much worse today where wrongthink Russian writers Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are haram and Zelensky, playing piano with his penis, is treated as the cultured voice of reason and sanity.
Frascolla's recent article on the cul de sac of the prevailing Western liberal orthodoxy is another gem, where she posits that liberalism's proponents are stuck in an almost eternal, autistic loop that reminds the most cynical of us of Dustin Hoffman in Rainman . Whereas Frascolla may stand on the shoulders of the intellectual giants of Western thought who preceded her, all they have is the hackneyed cliches of Diderot, Voltaire and Karl Marx who is, by far, the modern era's most one dimensional intellectual clown for, according to that broad brush imbecile and his child-exploiting mate, "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles", and not of a myriad of conflicting forces and personalities that not even Euclid could properly map out or Newton himself could model.
Consider Europe's Wars of the Reformation which are, by far, the most complicated and intricate wars in Europe's long and convoluted history, and ask yourself why Catholic peasants fought for Protestant princes, why Protestant peasants fought for Catholic princes, why France played both sides of the coin, why the mercenary Swedes, with their Finnish serfs dutifully in tow, fought for anyone who would pay them, and why the entire schmozzle was supposedly about the right to read the Bible, even though over 95% of Europeans, princes included, were functionally illiterate at the time. No doubt, Marx, not unlike Cinderella's ugly sisters, could shoehorn his threadbare thesis into that elastic pseudo intellectual slipper of his.
We cannot afford that luxury, because European salvation is impossible unless and until its current status quo, its pseudo intellectuals and sundry other gatekeepers especially, is uprooted root and branch and, with the ordinary person firmly gagged by a million and one binds and just about every politician, cleric, intellectual poseur and "influencer" of standing in NATO's pocket, we are powerless to frustrate the hi tech plans von der Leyen, Stubb and the rest of them have to ensure we are always at war with Eastasia and whatever remains of the better angels of our nature as well.