Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "BBC News"
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@iCoolaxe I would have have all following a predetermined set of rules called "international law".
Unfortunately the "too big to care"-attitude problem means that "laws" are only there for the other guy, not for "me".
That then results in an international situation where nobody cares about "laws" anymore, because all one needs to ignore these laws is enough muscle.
Not followung mutually agreed upon laws, then creates tension.
May I remind you that in the post-Cold War era (say the 1990), that it was only the USA left over.
China was still weak.
The SU/Russia had collapsed.
Still, even without the "excuse" of needing to stand up to "evil", it was the USA which mainly created this "new normal".
Washington DC was still in "alpha"-mode, and couldn't step down.
The 1990s would have been the perfect opportunity to "release" Europe, and prod them on towards taking more responsibility for own defense and/or world affairs.
This was something I already critisized at the time (1990s). So this is no "hindsight" on my behalf.
I watched on while Turkey (under Erdogan) fulfilled every single requirement for EU entry, only to have more "catalogues" of "requirements" presented to them...until they gave up.
See the "sh*tholes" we create ourselves with an own attitude problem of wanting everybody to be like us?
It turns; 180 degrees.
Same with the USA "using" NATO" as a tool of own world domination.
I'll copy a seperate essay below, to explain what I mean.
There is no "innocence" here.
Only "powers" wishing to hang on to "power".
It never ends well.
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@iCoolaxe Re. NATO
Fact: By own admission, and known to all, the USA misuses NATO as a tool to ensure its global hegemony.
For that it needs "Euroweanies" that it can manipulate.
Just enough emotionally steered "Euroweanies" who are easily manipulated in a giant "divide and rule"-game, which uses a variety of emotionally-laden topics to incite outrage, tear open old wounds (history), and/or use negative human emotions like greed or the fear of losing out, etc. to stir up trouble.
"Trouble" can then be swum in, like a fish in water.
Beware of the dividers.
Age-old advice: "When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master."
Benedict de Spinoza
From wiki: "By mid-1992, a consensus emerged within the administration that NATO enlargement was a wise realpolitik measure to strengthen American hegemony.[20][21] In the absence of NATO enlargement, Bush administration officials worried that the European Union might fill the security vacuum in Central Europe, and thus challenge American post-Cold War influence.[20]"
Or as the old "insider joke" goes: NATO's "function" is "to keep the USA in, Germany down, and Russia out."
Nobody needs "friends" like that.
*When "mutual defence" becomes a secondary function, and is rated below "big power ambitions"...
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Don't become puppets.
Lots of "appeal to emotion" in the comments section.
Fact: By own admission, and known to all, the USA misuses NATO as a tool to ensure its global hegemony.
For that it needs "Euroweanies" that it can manipulate.
Just enough emotionally steered "Euroweanies" who are easily manipulated in a giant "divide and rule"-game, which uses a variety of emotionally-laden topics to incite outrage, tear open old wounds (history), and/or use negative human emotions like greed or the fear of losing out, etc. to stir up trouble.
"Trouble" can then be swum in, like a fish in water.
As soon as there is some signs of more unity, the various well-funded "think tanks" and "lobby groups" (aka "strategic studies"...ahem..."centers") remind the people how "evil" the "others" still are, what they did a hundred years ago, how they "wanted to kill your grand-dadda", whatever...
Beware of the dividers.
Age-old advice: "When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master" (Benedict de Spinoza).
From wiki: "By mid-1992, a consensus emerged within the administration that NATO enlargement was a wise realpolitik measure to strengthen American hegemony.[20][21] In the absence of NATO enlargement, Bush administration officials worried that the European Union might fill the security vacuum in Central Europe, and thus challenge American post-Cold War influence.[20]"
Or as the old "insider joke" goes: NATO's "function" is "to keep the USA in, Germany down, and Russia out."
Nobody needs "friends" like that.
When "mutual defence" becomes a secondary function, and is rated below "big power ambitions", it is time to think the unthinkable.
GB is no longer part of the "Three Musketeers" of Europe, so now it is up to France and Germany to get together and chuck the USA out, and create an own strong United States of Europe. My suggestion: Seperate economic issues completely (EU as a "pure" unemotional economic union), and then to start bundling political issues under a new umbrella called "The United States of Europe" to take the emotional flak off the EU.
The "EU" should only deal with economic issues, not political ones. All social and local issues should only be an internal concern of the nations and states, not outside meddlers. Political issues are a perfect target for outside "dividers", with their "divide and rule"-agendas.
Mr Spinoza again, speaking from the grave: "Reason cannot defeat emotion; an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion."
Will this ever happen?
Probably at some point. But not soon.
No matter how many truly good people there are, with truly good intentions, it is easier to divide people based on what makes them different, than to unite them based on what they have in common.
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We in the the West/NATO are not "free".
You and me are a victim of "divide and rule" Washington DC employing an age-old strategy.
Very simple strategy:
Keep the tension high.
An age-old political strategy. Old as the mountains...
Today everybody is afraid of the big bad wolf...
Of course the afraid little sheep will flock to the shephard (alpha).
The alpha has no interest in achieving lasting peace.
The alpha adores the dependency of the afraid sheep who flock around him...
And re. "strategies" and how "the truth is revealed on scraps of paper" (Roehl)
The USA has practically admitted that it misuses all small nations as "lightning rods" and "tools" to advance own global domination.
Adam Schiff, in 2020, two years before the war:
"Most critically, the military aid we provide Ukraine helps to protect and advance American national security interests in the region and beyond. America has an abiding interest in stemming Russian expansionism, and resisting any nation’s efforts to remake the map of Europe by dint of military force, even as we have tens of thousands of troops stationed there. Moreover, as one witness put it during our impeachment inquiry: “The United States aids Ukraine and her people so that they can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here.”
From a short ebook "Adam Schiff Impeachment an Opening Argument".
Note the use of "Russian expansionism", when it is actually the USA/NATO which has been acting as an icebreaker these last 30 years to create PNAC/EU markets in the traditional Moscow sphere if influence, the Black Sea region.
In other words, a typical attempt of "flipping the script".
Note also that this US policy regarding "tools to fight for US interests" was incidently revealed as a by-product of the probe into the alledged attempt by Trump to blackmail the Ukraine to dig up "smear material" on the Biden family for dirty domestic political games.
They say say "the devil is in the detail".
I say the details reveal the devils among us.
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I see.... The USA/NATO has the most powerful "weapon" on its side: feelings.
We in the the West/NATO are not "free".
You and me are a victim of "divide and rule" Washington DC employing an age-old strategy.
Very simple strategy:
Keep the tension high.
An age-old political strategy. Old as the mountains...
Today everybody is afraid of the big bad wolf...
Of course the afraid little sheep will flock to the shephard (alpha).
The alpha has no interest in achieving lasting peace.
The alpha adores the dependency of the afraid sheep who flock around him...
And re. "strategies" and how "the truth is revealed on scraps of paper" (Roehl)
The USA has practically admitted that it misuses all small nations as "lightning rods" and "tools" to advance own global domination.
Adam Schiff, in 2020, two years before the war:
"Most critically, the military aid we provide Ukraine helps to protect and advance American national security interests in the region and beyond. America has an abiding interest in stemming Russian expansionism, and resisting any nation’s efforts to remake the map of Europe by dint of military force, even as we have tens of thousands of troops stationed there. Moreover, as one witness put it during our impeachment inquiry: “The United States aids Ukraine and her people so that they can fight Russia over there, and we don’t have to fight Russia here.”
From a short ebook "Adam Schiff Impeachment an Opening Argument".
Note the use of "Russian expansionism", when it is actually the USA/NATO which has been acting as an icebreaker these last 30 years to create PNAC/EU markets in the traditional Moscow sphere if influence, the Black Sea region.
In other words, a typical attempt of "flipping the script".
Note also that this US policy regarding "tools to fight for US interests" was incidently revealed as a by-product of the probe into the alledged attempt by Trump to blackmail the Ukraine to dig up "smear material" on the Biden family for dirty domestic political games.
They say say "the devil is in the detail".
I say the details reveal the devils among us.
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