I suppose my title might have been couched within the singular type, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel Prize profitable German/Swiss creator, did along with his assortment of anti-war essays about World Conflict I (the conflict to finish all wars that didn’t), If The Conflict Goes On . . .
Or extra appropriately, I might need eradicated that conditional “If” because it appears Pollyannish.
It’s a protracted laborious highway, this anti-war enterprise. In the course of the first Chilly Conflict and the 1962 Cuban Missile Disaster within the early sixties when Kennedy and Krushchev narrowly prevented blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it proper in his fierce track, Masters of Conflict:
(Verse 1)
Come, you masters of conflict
You that construct the large weapons
You that construct the demise planes
You that construct all of the bombs
You that conceal behind partitions
You that conceal behind desks
I simply need you to know
I can see via your masks(Verse 3)
Like Judas of outdated
You lie and deceive
A world conflict may be received
You need me to imagine
However I see via your eyes
And I see via your mind
Like I see via the water
That runs down my drain
Certainly there’s a system of conflict that ensures that the varied wars go on and on advert infinitum, and they’re linked. It’s why the warfare state has killed our anti-war leaders, at the start JFK for turning in opposition to conflict within the final yr of his presidency. Then in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy in fast succession. It’s why in case you dare to look around the globe right now, you will notice that there’s a collection of wars taking place, not solely within the apparent locations like Ukraine and Gaza, however in locations that you could be by no means have heard of, and in case you peek a bit additional into their causes, you’ll uncover {that a} acquainted offender with 750 plus navy bases around the globe has its hand in most of them – america of America.
These wars have their cold and warm phases. There are days when the company media allow them to sleep and different instances when the identical media wake them a bit, however by no means sufficient to wake their readers as much as the truth of the lethal recreation. That’s the media’s job as stenographers for the warfare state. Wars being basically the well being of the state, as Randolph Bourne wrote way back, they supply huge earnings for the military-industrial complicated/Wall St., whether or not they’re in preparation or in operation, awake or asleep, scorching or chilly. Ray McGovern, the previous CIA analyst with an ethical conscience, has aptly named this huge interlocking propaganda equipment the military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academia-think-tank complicated, MICIMATT. It’s a complicated that blatantly serves the pursuits of the masters of conflict who “ain’t definitely worth the blood/that runs in [their] your veins,” in Dylan’s phrases.
The preparation for conflict is conflict. What is ready have to be used up, so different weapons may be ready for use up, so different weapons may be ready for use up, and on and on till in the future nobody is left to make use of something, for the world will probably be used up in a nuclear conflagration. These weapons are produced in good clear factories that pay good wages to individuals who take their pay and go their approach, giving their souls to the killers. For the U.S. financial system is constructed on the waging of wars so steady that it’s practically unimaginable to discover a break between its cold and warm phases, or what looks as if respectable employment and the diabolic. They’re so intertwined. It’s a system of capitalistic finance, a revolutionary system that builds to destroy.
The usspends practically $900 billion {dollars} yearly on “protection” spending; that is greater than China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, the U.Okay., Germany, France, South Korea, and Japan mixed. The usA. is a warfare state; it’s so simple as that. And whether or not they select to pay attention to it or not, the overwhelming majority of Individuals help this killing machine by their insouciance and silence. That their nation is spending as much as 2 trillion {dollars} on modernizing its nuclear weapons disturbs them not. It’s a demise cult. Some – as I actually have completed mistakenly – speak in regards to the “deep state” or another misleading phrase that conceals the reality that the official state is the “deep state.” It stares us within the face, however many refuse to stare it again down. It’s too apparent, standing, because it does, in the way in which of a lifetime of illusions.
And what’s equally obvious right now – or needs to be if one will not be asleep – is that due to the conflict insurance policies of the U.S., the possibilities of one other world conflict and the usage of nuclear weapons is rising by the day. Regardless of all its denials on the contrary, the US/NATO is pushing for open warfare with Russia that can contain the usage of nuclear weapons.
Our masters of conflict are pushing us towards a nuclear abyss.
In a current perceptive article, “Russia and China Have Had Sufficient,” Pepe Escobar writes truths many want to not hear. That there isn’t a cut up between Russia and China however the reverse – a rock stable Russia-China strategic partnership and a dedication to oppose and defeat the U.S./UK/NATO hybrid conflict ways throughout Eurasia and the Center East. That the extra these U.S.-led forces try and destroy Russia, the extra the increasing alliances concerned within the Shanghai Cooperative Settlement (SCO) and the increasing BRICS partnerships of rising economies (initially simply Brazil, Russia, India, after which South Africa; now additionally Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, United Arab Emirates, with many extra nations ready to hitch) will achieve in energy. In Escobar’s phrases, “. . . the World Majority is on the transfer: Russia is carefully cooperating, more and more, with scores of countries in West Asia, wider Asia, Africa and Latin America.”
Regardless of this reality, america and its allies blithely proceed as if their management of the world order is safe. That they will butcher and badger the world into submission. The insane are often deluded, however once they management nuclear weapons, the folks of the world have to awaken.
Ray McGovern, a Russia skilled, (see raymcgovern.com) has echoed Escobar on the absurdity of the Russian China cut up; has emphasised how Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians has made it an remoted however determined pariah state; and the way the U.S. conflict in opposition to Russia in Ukraine is resulting in the elevated use of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons that would result in full-scale nuclear conflict. He isn’t alone on this warning.
There are various indicators that we’re shifting towards a nuclear conflict with requires U.S./NATO to help extra strikes inside Russia, crossing a really harmful Russian purple line. Russia has made it very clear they’ll reply. As politicians of assorted stripes – French President Macron, NATO Secretary Basic Stoltenberg, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, et al. have ecstatically been urging the Biden administration, who wants no urging, to escalate the conflict in Ukraine by attacking Russia correct (“The time has come for allies to contemplate whether or not they need to elevate a number of the restrictions they’ve placed on the usage of weapons they’ve donated to Ukraine,” Stoltenberg informed The Economist.), Mike Whitney has written a few current such assault that ought to ship chills down everybody’s spines – “Washington Assaults Key Components of Russia’s Nuclear Umbrella Threatening Whole World Safety Structure.” – however for the reason that company media ignore it, most will dream away and get their barbecues prepared for Fourth of July celebrations. They and the flag-dressed Dolly Parton can sing all they need about when Johnny comes marching house once more, however Dolly and nobody will probably be jolly if there are not any houses to march to, no Johnnies marching wherever however to demise, no something. Only a wasteland.
Michel Chossudovsky, Ray McGovern, Eva Bartlett, Craig Murray, Patrick Lawrence, Vanessa Beeley, Pepe Escobar, Oliver Stone, Andrew Napolitano, Craig Paul Roberts, Scott Ritter, Chris Hedges, Alastair Crooke, Caitlin Johnstone, Peter Koenig, Finian Cunningham, Diana Johnstone, Lew Rockwell, and so many different sane however marginalized writers whose names I’m omitting as I write rapidly, are warning us of our closeness to nuclear annihilation. Cassandras all, I worry. Marginalized prophets resembling author and antinuclear activist James W. Douglass (Lightning East to West, JFK and the Unspeakable, and so on.) have been issuing such warnings for many years. It’s comprehensible that so many flip away from such warnings, for the considered a nuclear conflict induces deep nervousness laborious to regulate. However until the overwhelming majority can break via such reticence and see via the official propaganda, the world will probably be destroyed by madmen in the end. The indicators right now all level to sooner, for we’re on the sting of the abyss.
Former British diplomat Alistair Crooke, in a current article – The brink of dissolution: Neurosis within the West because the levee breaks – writes about how the Biden administration’s coverage towards Russia-China, to not say Israel-Palestine, being nothing greater than extra of the identical, is silly, self-defeating, and really harmful. Moderately than accepting that its proxy conflict in opposition to Russia in Ukraine is a catastrophe, the U.S. is escalating the battle to a terrifying degree. Moderately than accepting the plain deep alliance between China and Russian exemplified within the current hug between Putin and Xi and their joint 8,000 phrase joint assertion, Biden has stated, “Russia is in a really, very troublesome spot proper now. They’re being squeezed by China.”
It doesn’t get any stupider. However when extra of the identical doesn’t work and you’ll’t settle for the truth of a altering world order, you do extra of the identical. Crooke, writes :
The paradox is that Crew Biden – wholly inadvertently – is midwifing the start of a ‘new world’. It’s doing so by dint of its crude opposition to parturition. The extra the western élites push in opposition to the birthing – via ‘saving Zionism’; ‘saving European Ukraine’ and by crushing dissent – perversely they speed up the foundering of Leviathan.President Xi’s double farewell hug for President Putin following their 16-17 Might summit nonetheless sealed the start – even the New York Occasions, with customary self-absorption, termed the nice and cozy embrace by Xi as ‘defiance of the West’.
The foundation of the approaching dissolution stems exactly from the shortcoming that the NY Occasions headline encapsulates in its disdainful labelling of the seismic shift as base anti-westernism.
Extra of the identical, sure, that’s Biden’s method, infected often by the anti-Russian hatred spewed by The New York Occasions and its ilk. It’s an obsession bordering on full-fledged insanity, but it’s integral to the assumption that the U.S. is an empire and can stay one whereas the remainder of the world can go to hell. Such a mindset is behind the U.S.’s abrogating all of the nuclear weapons treaties that offered a semblance of safety that nuclear weapons wouldn’t be used.
Crooke ends his piece with these sobering phrases:
Put plainly, with the U.S. unable to exit or to average its dedication to protect its hegemony, Lavrov [Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister] sees the prospect for elevated western weapons provision for Ukraine. The discourse of navy escalation is in style in Europe (of that there isn’t a doubt); however each within the Center East and Ukraine, western coverage is in serious trouble. There have to be doubts whether or not the West has both the political will, or the interior unity, to pursue this aggressive course. Dragging wars will not be historically regarded as ‘voter pleasant’ when campaigning reaches its peak.
Let me repeat that final understated sentence: “Dragging wars will not be historically regarded as ‘voter pleasant’ when campaigning reaches its peak.” And so? Extra of the identical?
Ray McGovern counsel what’s extra probably:
Israel [is] turning into a harmful pariah; Ukraine/US/NATO a harmful loser. As Israel defies the UN, and because the “distinctive” geniuses round Biden ignore Kremlin warnings relating to provocations re Ukraine, the probability will increase for US use of tactical nukes.
Desperadoes do determined issues. In Biden and Netanyahu now we have two blood-thirsty nihilists on the finish of their ropes. These masters of conflict make me suppose that a greater title for this piece would have been:
If the World Goes On.
