Destruction of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria - and most recently massive support to the coup nazis in Kiev bringing the world on the brink of a nuclear war with Russia. Rule based world order?
It is a disaster for Europe and the world that Sahra Wagenknecht did not get in. That is the only factor worth noting in the German election, where the stage is now left exclusively to the war powers, secondarily the opportunistic AFD, which is labeled as an extreme right-wing party – although you can't get any further into the extreme right than the foreign policy of the "moderates" and the so-called left wing in Germany and the rest of Europe with their militaristic armament and massive support for the neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
Now only Trump can ensure peace in Ukraine and that the world thus avoids a third World Nuclear War with Russia. Who else? Europe, China, India, the working class, civil society/grassroots from
“below” (the latter has not even been able to mobilize a peace movement, i.e. it is solely Russian restraint in the form of failed retaliation/reciprocity towards NATO’s escalating violation of Russia’s red lines that has so far prevented a direct war between NATO and Russia. So who else but Trump can realistically prevent the continuation of war in Ukraine and even worse?
The hope of peace and the world therefore de facto stands and falls on whether a billionaire, Trump, can currently dismantle/deconstruct the war-promoting structures.
Trump and his circle do not primarily stand for “unpredictability”, as the Trump-hating war establishment and its media heap its ignorant, easily manipulated opinion with. In that case, unpredictability is a positive concept in this context, since the antagonistic forces predictably stand for war, death and destruction. As Peter Hegseth argues, it is the realistic position that is Trump- the government's theoretical basis.
This is in contrast to the liberal interventionists and the "left wing" theoretical basis, which is normative-idealistic value-based, such as liberal democracy, liberal human rights, etc. In accordance with realist theory, the Trump government thus appears to reject NATO membership for the EU's and the "left wing Kiev Nazis", and thus acknowledges that Russia, like the US and the EU, has a security need.
What is otherwise noticeable in the debate about Ukraine is the unique anti-intellectual obscurantism, support for the (EU) imperialist war powers, de-theorization, de-politicization and ahistoricity that characterizes the post-Cold War generation. Although it is of course the task of working class and not social movements such as the peace movement to confront the current EU imperialist war powers, it is thought-provoking that the Kiev-supporting post-Cold War generation generally does not seem to understand the background of the Ukraine war (NATO's expansion into the post-Soviet security sphere since the fall of the Wall), the context (the illegitimate seizure of power in 2014), and is also not able to logically put the war into perspective (which can only mean even more deaths on the battlefield and with the potential for escalation to nuclear war in Europe).
True about Wagenknecht. It's not hard to imagine there was deliberate vote-rigging in that result to keep her and her 'narrative' out.
There is no such thing as "Liberal Interventionalism", there was only corporate fascism and Empire-building by Western powers to expand their control. using 'spin' to hide their true intentions.
The Western populations are numbed by a process of careful education and media indoctrination for decades, and don't know their arses from their elbows.
Wagenknecht is a charlatan. Not a missed opportunity. Would not better the lot of the German masses and would continue the debased order of western colonial misrule.
People do not understand deeply German politics is riddled with varieties of poison, rather than cures.
Dear Glenn, good post (in relation with the other mentioned). Can I translate this article into Spanish with links to you and a description of your newsletter?
Glen Diesen provides a brilliant summary of the International law vs “rules based order” used by the neocolonial Western world to justify war crimes against disobeying countries. Thank you from the human beings who are proud of their “jungle” for being a dissident in the so called “free world” - no doubt it costs you in different ways.
When the State is sending in goons to crack heads, such as against Occupy and Anonymous, you know it is a vital force with honesty behind it.
When they stop, you know it has been infiltrated successfully.
SJW's are why your Western country was not already a brutal full-on dictatorship, and many paid with their physical and mental health, careers, and lives.
The ones who face no repercussions - those are the infiltrators.
SJW is a total lie. They're antisocial, unjust, and cowardly thugs who gang up on innocents, but only many-to-one. Raving lunatics who think their emotional incontinence justifies their criminal behaviour.
It doesn't.
The fact that the State prosecuted them is not evidence of their innocence or benevolence. That's a ludicrous non sequitur.
Destruction of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria - and most recently massive support to the coup nazis in Kiev bringing the world on the brink of a nuclear war with Russia. Rule based world order?
It is a disaster for Europe and the world that Sahra Wagenknecht did not get in. That is the only factor worth noting in the German election, where the stage is now left exclusively to the war powers, secondarily the opportunistic AFD, which is labeled as an extreme right-wing party – although you can't get any further into the extreme right than the foreign policy of the "moderates" and the so-called left wing in Germany and the rest of Europe with their militaristic armament and massive support for the neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
Now only Trump can ensure peace in Ukraine and that the world thus avoids a third World Nuclear War with Russia. Who else? Europe, China, India, the working class, civil society/grassroots from
“below” (the latter has not even been able to mobilize a peace movement, i.e. it is solely Russian restraint in the form of failed retaliation/reciprocity towards NATO’s escalating violation of Russia’s red lines that has so far prevented a direct war between NATO and Russia. So who else but Trump can realistically prevent the continuation of war in Ukraine and even worse?
The hope of peace and the world therefore de facto stands and falls on whether a billionaire, Trump, can currently dismantle/deconstruct the war-promoting structures.
Trump and his circle do not primarily stand for “unpredictability”, as the Trump-hating war establishment and its media heap its ignorant, easily manipulated opinion with. In that case, unpredictability is a positive concept in this context, since the antagonistic forces predictably stand for war, death and destruction. As Peter Hegseth argues, it is the realistic position that is Trump- the government's theoretical basis.
This is in contrast to the liberal interventionists and the "left wing" theoretical basis, which is normative-idealistic value-based, such as liberal democracy, liberal human rights, etc. In accordance with realist theory, the Trump government thus appears to reject NATO membership for the EU's and the "left wing Kiev Nazis", and thus acknowledges that Russia, like the US and the EU, has a security need.
What is otherwise noticeable in the debate about Ukraine is the unique anti-intellectual obscurantism, support for the (EU) imperialist war powers, de-theorization, de-politicization and ahistoricity that characterizes the post-Cold War generation. Although it is of course the task of working class and not social movements such as the peace movement to confront the current EU imperialist war powers, it is thought-provoking that the Kiev-supporting post-Cold War generation generally does not seem to understand the background of the Ukraine war (NATO's expansion into the post-Soviet security sphere since the fall of the Wall), the context (the illegitimate seizure of power in 2014), and is also not able to logically put the war into perspective (which can only mean even more deaths on the battlefield and with the potential for escalation to nuclear war in Europe).
True about Wagenknecht. It's not hard to imagine there was deliberate vote-rigging in that result to keep her and her 'narrative' out.
There is no such thing as "Liberal Interventionalism", there was only corporate fascism and Empire-building by Western powers to expand their control. using 'spin' to hide their true intentions.
The Western populations are numbed by a process of careful education and media indoctrination for decades, and don't know their arses from their elbows.
Wagenknecht is a charlatan. Not a missed opportunity. Would not better the lot of the German masses and would continue the debased order of western colonial misrule.
People do not understand deeply German politics is riddled with varieties of poison, rather than cures.
Thanks for your great work Glenn!
We've shared the link on our daily report.
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Dear Glenn, good post (in relation with the other mentioned). Can I translate this article into Spanish with links to you and a description of your newsletter?
Glen Diesen provides a brilliant summary of the International law vs “rules based order” used by the neocolonial Western world to justify war crimes against disobeying countries. Thank you from the human beings who are proud of their “jungle” for being a dissident in the so called “free world” - no doubt it costs you in different ways.
The rule of ScKamala Harris demoRats meant ....
Grasshopper Kaplan goes to jail , solitary isolation. She steals my taxicab. Gruesome Gavin Gruesome Newsom wins and rules the day of lawfare,
Grasshopper contemplates actually registering republiCat, he sure ain't no ScKamala demoRat.
"The “rules-based international order” does not contain specific rules, it is not internationally accepted, and it does not deliver order."
Every word is a lie.
Just like "Social Justice Warrior", huh?
When the State is sending in goons to crack heads, such as against Occupy and Anonymous, you know it is a vital force with honesty behind it.
When they stop, you know it has been infiltrated successfully.
SJW's are why your Western country was not already a brutal full-on dictatorship, and many paid with their physical and mental health, careers, and lives.
The ones who face no repercussions - those are the infiltrators.
Use your head.
Nonsense.
SJW is a total lie. They're antisocial, unjust, and cowardly thugs who gang up on innocents, but only many-to-one. Raving lunatics who think their emotional incontinence justifies their criminal behaviour.
It doesn't.
The fact that the State prosecuted them is not evidence of their innocence or benevolence. That's a ludicrous non sequitur.