Opinion: Globalists Shift To A War Footing
Israel-Iran is the latest; don't be distracted from the game
Escalating conflict is big money business
Born of desperation, history and bad blood
Europe with its centuries of genocide is egging it on
It could stop conflict but it chomps at the bit
Normalising the bloody anomaly, the gory irregularity of war
Military Keynesianism perpetuates austerity for the majority
Oil futures jump as Iran retaliates with missile strikes on Israel
It comes as California shuts oil refineries - because Net Zero
The big picture is that war feeds into the globalist agenda
U.S., UK always planned to join war on Iran
As with Russia, the attack forestalled negotiations
While you pick a side, remember that neutral money doesn't care for nations
Related:
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Belt And Brace - War jaw is a distraction from reshaping politics and trade (Dec 19, 2021)
Europe, Gas And The Endgame - Switching the energy axis from East-West, to South-North (Sep 30, 2022)
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June 14, 2025
It's easy to shut one's eyes. To say there's a bunch of people who don't get along, and to let them sort it out.
Alternatively, to lament that foreign policy is chaos and 'twas ever thus.
Or to go out on a limb of the alt media and argue that war’s not real; they’re all in this together.
There’s an element of truth to all the above.
Most important, is to note we are urged to pick a side, to back this nation or that. Remember, globalism — call it the money power, the owner investors, the oiler bankers, transnational capital, or the self-replication of hyper-financialisation — doesn't give a fig for nations; it profits from demolishing borders.
So much for the reds and the blues.
The Fabian Guardian would have you believe: "Israel’s strikes on Iran show Trump is unable to restrain Netanyahu as Middle East slips closer to chaos."
If The Guardian says it, you may feel confident in suspecting otherwise.
Much as I dislike blood feuds declared by men reciting thousand year-old curses from parchment... the wolf in sheep's clothing is not Israel nor Iran.
As with the Ukraine war, nothing is independent of the old Europe-centered money power for whom politicians are puppets on a string.
The money moves both ways. Israeli, American and European institutions depend on each other financially. As for every outcast state or non-state actor, you can find links to Western intelligence agencies.
Yes, there are lobbies and vested interests, but the ethical void is more toxic than money.
Europe is cheerleading and assisting the slide to war in south west Asia (Mid East) as in Ukraine. Its reason for doing so is rooted in failure: the failure of its would-be elite.
Europeans carried out genocides in Africa, the Americas and Australasia, and slaughtered each other in two world wars. When it was founded (by the USA and the OSS/CIA and borrowing from the ideology of the Reich) the European Union claimed to have changed its spots: Europeans would give up sovereignty in return for peace.
Eurasia Notes #10 - Belt And Brace
Europe’s institutions, from the European Union to NATO are rooted in outdated social structures, which we ignore at our peril. We struggle in economic and perceptual rivalry with countries like Russia and China that we imagine are fossilized but may be more nimble because they have been through transformation more recently than we.
Yet Europe's rulers continued to yearn for the profits of empire, joining their paymasters in the U.S. for wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon, Libya, Yemen and Syria, in an echo of their adventures a century earlier in Namibia, South Africa and the Congo.
A historian would say Europe is rooted in mercantilism. Fortress Europe does not even have free trade within its border — it is a cartel of big business which makes the laws at the unelected European Commission.
Organised crime can deliver an order of sorts. As Orson Welles is said to have written in The Third Man:
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Europe's leaders have failed to produce either. Now they want to put the continent on permanent war footing.
Weapons manufacture will, they say, revive the economy, while military service or conscription will fill the gap caused by austerity and falling living standards; it will instil a sense of purpose in people who puzzle at the import of low-skilled migrants for jobs that don't exist.
And so war is being normalised.
War is never normal; it is a bloody anomaly, a gory irregularity, to which the state resorts for the restoration of rights and security, owing the prime duty of care to it its citizens (that's not what is happening).
The absolute number of war deaths declined for most years since WW2 but the number of armed conflicts has increased, according to the Peace Research Institute Oslo. 2023 turned out to be one of the most violent years since the end of the Cold War. [1]
Europe's remilitarisation is envisioned as, and amid, a rise of austerity, in response to crisis.
Worse still, it has brought back the totalitarianism against which our forebears fought.
"Economic stagnation in Europe begets warmongering, which begets a revived European settler mentality. This Europe has fallen so far into a moral crevice that it cannot easily climb out of it," said former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis in a speech to the European Parliament this week.
"Europe's liberal totalitarianism, which we in Greece experienced first hand 10 years ago, is now everywhere, and is throwing open the gates [to] the xenophobic ultra right form of totalitarianism."
We'll return to Varoufakis' analysis below.
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