Empire Update

Last year I wrote articles about Empire, the general strategy and tactics and I’d like to revisit two of these.

Discussion: The problem of the pigeon

Empire: the strategy, the tactics

I mentioned tactics:

• regime change operations,
• destabilization operations,
• threats to others and their own allies, propaganda operations,
• open terrorism,
• CIA type operations,
• financial and economic pressure,
• false accusations on human rights,
• political show trials,
• attempts to simply appoint presidents for other countries,
• geopolitical intrigues in order to undermine the influence and power of the country
• open, visible blackmail.

I thought that the list was fairly complete, and every single one of those happened, but now I have to add and update:

The Empire is so deranged that they would let fly with a nuke or two in a delusionary thinking spiral that this will not affect them and that only ‘the other guy’ will be shot at.  They don’t seem to understand that if you shoot, you’re going to be shot back at.   They are pushing the issue with Russia to the end of the measuring tool.  This is not playing with a red line, this is playing with the lives of people but then again, they think it is our lives, and not theirs.  These are depictions of raving unsound minds.  The insanity red line has long since been passed.

They are keeping two hopefully (for them) perpetual wars going on.  And we, we sit and we take it.

They are threatening the complete Eastern and South China Sea Basin to the extent that the Chinese professionals are losing it and spitting with anger.  (This is clear with the latest Shangri-La Dialogue).   The latest words that I picked up from there from the professional cadres, and it does not matter in which context exactly, what matters is the expression because this is widespread over all segments of necessary interaction, and the unnecessary get drawn in as well. They talk about malicious smear and blatant interference. Then, in the ordinary conversational circles, we get idiotic, feckless, dumbed-down, smug nincompoops.

They are so nasty that nobody can abide them in decent conversation because it hurts!

The most depressing part though, thinking about this last year since I wrote those two articles, is that the RoW seemingly have not fully learned their lessons.  Evidently the period under hegemonic control has affected people in such a severe manner that they have forgotten to 1) be human and 2) to say no. Negotiation is a lost art and I cannot even talk about diplomacy. We’re looking at India, where Modi is by the looks of things, falling down in the traces and losing his decided majority.  We’re looking at South Africa where the discussion of a coalition government has just started and it is very clear that they have few constitutional scholars with the depth of knowledge that can help with this.  They should get help, but oh no, they keep talking and horsetrading for their own benefit.  First out of the ANC is that the President will not resign – OK, laying down hard lines already! You’ve just lost 17 percent of your voters – get with it already!

Brazil is moving along and doing their best under difficult circumstances and LULA is doing better than what I envisaged.  China and Russia are making changes not seen in a hundred years and evidently doing them a little slower than initially envisaged.  Of the new members, I see that Iran is a serious power and sovereign civilizational state. The others are quite quiet (Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates).  Nothing much can be said.  There is not even one that is dancing down the street and having an iota of fun.  I think of Mr Lavrov when he visited China and hammed it up on the street with a t-shirt Fck the IMF.

Lordy, lordy, we have to have an iota of fun!