Eurasia note #53 - 100 Days & 8 Years Of War In Ukraine

It looks more like foreign meddling, the longer the perspective you take

Outsiders exploit divisions, as in so many countries before.
Fanatics, fascists and fundamentalists may be authentic; but just as likely not.
No reason to take at face value a boogeyman whose existence suits our government.

War abroad is a pretext to militarize society at home, like sanctions’ dual-edged sword.
Modern military doctrine sees civilians as a threat and voters as domestic terrorists.
Everything suggests Western military adventures are a means to a contrary end.

Russia controls 1/5 of Ukraine, Zelenskiy admits; and it’s the best bit of the country.
U.S. to send 4 HIMARS mobile rocket launchers in $700 million military assistance.
Moscow threatens to attack “decision-making centres” if Kyiv strikes Russian land.

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U.S. will supply the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System

Tbilisi, Jun 4, 2022

It is not the 100th day of war in Ukraine. It is eight and a half years since the country’s divisions, exploited by outside forces, erupted in violence.

Those doing the beating and ethnic cleansing are driven or fanatical, depending on perspective: nationalists or adherents of a warped ideology kept alive, by Western intelligence, since the Second World War.

Since taking power they have made a target of Russian speakers in a country where most people use it as their main or second tongue — the Svoboda party in 2012 urged Ukrainians to fight a “Muscovite-Jewish mafia.” [1]

The story of the Maidan coup in 2014 is told on this site and elsewhere. This is not the time to retell it, save to say that an elected president was overthrown with blatant foreign involvement. [2]

Today’s issue concerns the fact that these Azov Battalion, or whichever name you give to Nazi-venerating fanatics, would not have seized power — and would not even have survived since WW2 — if they did not serve the purpose of the Western intelligence agencies who work for finance capital.

See Moneycircus, Mar 18, 2022 — The West's Hypocrisy On Ukraine: White refugees, white supremacists and whitewashed wars

Like Yugoslavia, the Middle East and by some accounts Rwanda, it takes a lot of effort to divide people, who have lived together for centuries, to the point of blood lust.

When it suits somebody’s purpose to undermine rivals or destabilize countries on behalf of oil tycoons, mining conglomerates or fruit companies, any vehicle will do, and the examples are numerous.

Fascists and fundamentalists are not necessarily organic products of their society, or even authentic. They may be doing the bidding of an outside force and accepting their money and training.

They use nods and winks, gestures and references to appeal to that part of the population which they aim to mobilize, be it Puritans, Hindu nationalists, or conservative Catholics or Muslims — and not just those groups, which are purely examples and by no means exclusively vulnerable to this kind of manipulation.

Massaging the psychology of a target population can bring into play other behaviours. Fear of infection is one of the origins of xenophobia according to biological psychologists, which is why the imagery of parasites is so often used.

These psych games are required not to manipulate democracies but something even deeper: the exploitation of humanity in which most of what passes for news and events, politicians and leaders, is play-acting.

To see through this drama and hysterics, we must concede that it’s not just a case of a democratically-elected leader being overthrown in a coup by an imposter, for that previous election itself was likely rigged.

Rather it is a kaleidoscopic light show on a the wall of a cave, choreographed to elicit a response from the audience; to keep our minds operating on a level of endorphins and emotions and thus easier to control.

Fidel Castro was helped to power by the CIA. The Ayatollahs were in touch with the self-same agency. And the mujahideen credited with taking down the Soviets we are told took down the Twin Towers.

You may ask why the focus on British and American destabilization efforts and not those of China or the Soviet Union or Russia. The reason is that we in the West are not surprised if a rival seeks to undermine us. We don’t expect our own Western deep state to do it.

We owe the Vietnamese a debt of honour for being the guinea pigs for much of the poisonous surveillance being imposed on the West today.