Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "Thinkers Forum" channel.

  1. Excellent geopolitical analysis....
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  2. The USA/collective Western plot is always the same. The people of the Greater Middle East, including the Levant (most of whom are Semites, and the followers of Abrahamic religions) have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common. Strategically ambiguous outsiders make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople, then during WW1 the seat of POWER playing these games changed to London/Paris (Sykes-Picot/Balfour Declaration/WW1), then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, starting around the time a bark by Washington DC in 1956 (Suez Crisis/War) showed who the new boss was, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC (the entire ME was the playground during the Cold War). Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the ME, in order to rule over the dissent which is classical divide-and-rule. Today, their leaders are ALL tools. Draw lines on the map without asking any of those affected. Exploit and foster endless wars, meddle for constant dissent. Divide-and-rule connects the dots on the timeline of history. Who has had (in all historical cases in the ME/Levant) the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of distance from the events resulting out of the own meddling and political activities, being able to reach all the other regions, but could not be reached itself as hegemony, at any given point of a historical timeline? Pax Romana, Rome. Pax Britannica, London. Pax Americana, Washington DC. All they ever wanted was pax, because they said so, but who picks up the pieces of great wealth and the systemic gains when all the others can be avoided from uniting? Different Empires. Different era. Same games... ------------------------------------- The people of the Africa have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. Tribalism makes it easy to divide people, then keep them poor under the "kind foot" of exploitation. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople in North Africa, then during the era of Western imperialism the seat of POWER playing these games changed to the USA/Europe, then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, Africa was the playground during the Cold War. Once the dividers had reached peak power for themselves, by simply drawing lines on the map without asking any of those affected (Congo Conference/1884) the own systems of gain could siphon off wealth like a giant vacuum cleaner. The intention was simply to avoid unity in Africa, in order to rule over the dissent which is classical divide-and-rule. During the Cold War, Moscow took on the role of arming the resistance to the colonial dividers. Today, all African dissenters fighting against unity, including some of Africa's own greedy corrupt leaders, are ALL tools. Endless wars, constant dissent. Give the weak mind money, and they will dance for the outside dividers... Divide-and-rule. Oldest trick in the book... Different people and systems. Different places on the map. Same games. -------------------------------------- The people of the Americas, including the USA, have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. In the beginning stages of era of European Imperialism, first Spain and Portugal entered the Americas, employing the divide-and-rule technique of top-down power on the local systems (Aztecs/Incas), and as European colonial powers' influence decreased during the 19th century, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC. As the own power increased incrementally, the entire world became the playground after around 1900. Today, it is the globalists who employ imperialist tools to play divide-and-rule games on their neighbours. Forget nukes. The divide-and-control/rule/conquer strategy is the most powerful force on the planet, because it can be employed equally in times of peace to CONTROL, in times of crises to RULE, and in times of war to CONQUER. Ever since the two-faced snake slithered down that tree of unity (fable), speaking out of both sides of the mouth (lies, deceit), the wisest human beings have fruitlessly warned, and the easily divisable have continuously been warned against divisions within a peaceful status quo. When you bow to the division caused by deception, you will lose the good life..."and much that once was, is lost; for none now live who remember it." Such divisions create GAIN for OUTSIDERS (Eden as a system divided by lies and deceit). Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the Americas, in order to rule over the dissent which is classical divide-and-rule. Endless wars on anything and everything from "drugs" to "terror" (sic.), constant dissent with everything's a war war war... Insert levers of lies, mistrust. The two-party-duopoly is two cheeks of the same golden hind which set out to create favourites: Favouritism, by granting access to the own POWER/WEALTH, to those who volunteer to act as proxies and extensions for the own power projection. The small picture lives of domestic political chaos, of the big picture reality of international insanity. Point the systemic (MSM) finger, everywhere else, by use of the own paid stooges of power by presenting their deep state-orchestrated three-letter-agency astroturfed violence on multiple tiers as being the reactions of "the poor oppressed people, who need our help for freedom and democracy" (sic.). Liars, deceivers, creators of the BLACK LEGEND for the "other side". In February 1948, George F. Kennan's Policy Planning Staff said: "[W]e have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. ... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity." Kennan: A prototype GLOBALIST. And that is what they did to increase their own wealth. Set up people against each other, then siphon off the wealth of entire regions of the planet. And that is what you are fighting for. That is what the hegemon has always done, pretending to be the "good pax", but playing "good cop/bad cop" with the world, from a position of power. In the past, the "good cops" were the INTERNATIONALISTS, and the "bad cops" were the IMPERIALISTS. In the present that has morphed into the "good cops" being the GLOBALISTS/NEOLIBS, and the "bad cops" being the NEOCONS. Name-branding and doublespeak for the slumberland plebs, enchanted by their "bread-and-circuses"-existences. America's friends and self-proclaimed default rivals in Eurasia are still being burnt to ensure this disparity continues, with a (quote) "pattern of relationships" which are beneficial to the own rule. Set up European and Eurasian nations (including the Middle East/North Africa) against each other. It is how divide-and-rule is implemented. The imperialist playbook of Great Britain and the USA for more than 100 years. Read Halford Mackinder (Pivot of History, 1904) and Zbigniew Brzezinski (Grand Chessboard, 1997) regarding Eurasia for the template. Read W.T. Stead (Americanization of the World, 1901) for the guideline of political-, cultural- and economic capture. Read Smedley-Butler (War is a Racket) for the modus operandi of imperialism/militarism. Some say Europe is a divine goddess. I say, it is a humble apple tree, from an allegory as old as modern civilizations, because it is easy to divide. Divide and Rule. Oldest trick in the book... Four corners of the globe. Different cultures and religions. Same games. THE LINK OF THE WORLD. The entire system they favor in the USA/collective West is based on a pre-set managed and moderated division, for the benefit of a very few at the top of the pyramids accompanied by the often-repeated nice-sounding storyline. Create the script of the own heroes. Their entire scripted money-funded history sounds like a Hollywood superhero movie that sounds too good to be true. Guess what? It is. It is what they are NOT telling you, that they try to hide. Who wields the POWER? Who has had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all the other little buck catchers (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be reached itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organizational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline? Create the default rival/enemy on their own marching routes. It is usually the power most likely to succeed which is determined as the default rival/enemy. Notice how, as soon as a rival starts mass-producing products high up in the value chain of capitalism, and starts vying for markets, and becomes successful, it immediately becomes the systemic rival, and is then geopolitically encircled by the greater empire. It happened around 1900, as Germany started building high-value products, and it happened around 2000, as China started moving away from building cheap toys and labor intensive kitchen appliances... The games start on the home turf. The first victims are their own people in the USA/collective West, locked in the eternal struggle for wealth and personal gain which they have been deceived into thinking is "good greed", but which WILL be exploited by the snakes who deceive them on the domestic tier of the divide-and-rule system of power. Because ..."most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place." - Walter E. Williams War is a great divider. It goes straight through the heads of millions and billions of people from the very top tiers, right down to the individual level. War divides alignments and alliances, goes straight through organizations, divides political parties, tears through families, and finally at the very bottom tier, goes straight through individual hearts and minds as individuals struggle with themselves.
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  3. In poor countries with a high child mortality rate and poor social services (countries with no or little unemployment benefits, health care, etc.) will naturally think that if a large number of my kids die or end up poor, the chances of having "at least one successful child increases if I have a lot of kids," and that one can then take care of them when they get old.
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  4. Europeans crying about being left outside the door whilst others are determining issues which concern their future, must be history's ultimate "up yours". Congress of Berlin (1884): Treaty of Versailles (1919): Not so great, if the shoe is on the other foot?
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  5. In February 1948, George F. Kennan's Policy Planning Staff said: "[W]e have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. ... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity."[end of] America's allies and foes in Europe are still being burnt to ensure this disparity continues. It is how divide and rule is implemented. Set up European and Eurasian nations against each other. The "playbook" of Great Britain and the USA for more than 100 years. Read Mackinder (Pivot of History, 1904) and Brzinzki (Grand Chessboard, 1997).
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  6. The elites have trained the plebs to think, "if I don't have kids, I can buy more goodies for myself", then after a few hundred years act surprised... Now the threat by the elites is "if you don't make babies as the pool of cheap labor for us then, we will replace you with robots and AI". Then if none of the plebs have bread, we shall "eat cake".
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  7. Why "start" with "since WW2"?
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  8. The people of Eurasia, including Western Europe (most of whom are Christians and linguistically related) and West Asia (most of whom follow Abrahamic religions and are linguistically related) have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common. Strategically ambiguous outsiders make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of European Imperialism, first London dragging along her junior partner Paris, then after 1945 as European colonial powers' influence decreased, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC (the entire world was the playground during the Cold War). Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in Eurasia, in order to "rule" over the dissent which is classical "divide and rule". "The primordial interest of the United States – over which for a century we have fought wars (the first, second, and Cold War) - has been the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united they are the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn't happen. … For the United States … the primordial fear is German technology, German capital, and Russian natural resources, Russian manpower as the only combination that has for centuries scared the hell out of the United States. So how does this play out? Well, the US has already put its cards on the table. It is the line from the Baltics to the Black Sea." - George Friedman, Stratfor, Feb 2015 Today, Eurasian leaders are too weak to unite. Too stupid to avoid disunity. Endless wars, constant dissent. Insert "levers" of lies, mistrust using POWER PLAYERS. Create favourites: favouritism for the PROXIES who bow down. Point the finger, everywhere else using the POWER of the MSM. Divide and Rule. Oldest trick in the book... Who wields the POWER? Who has had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all the other little buck catchers (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be reached itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organisational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline? Divide-and-rule connects the dots on the timeline of history. Who has had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of distance from the events resulting out of the own meddling and political activities, being able to reach all the other regions, but could not be reached itself as hegemony, at any given point of a historical timeline? Pax Romana. Pax Britannica. Pax Americana. All they want is peace, and because they say so it must be true. But who picks up the pieces of great wealth and the systemic gains when all others failed to unite? Today we see millions of followers of Islam, praying in their mosques in West Asia, being set up against each other by the clout of OUTSIDERS, and 125 years ago we saw millions of followers of Christ, praying in their churches, being set up against each other by the clout of OUTSIDERS. Oh, wait...we didn't see it... We, the people, were enamored by the story the dividers told us, of "good guys" vs. "bad guys", and "as seen on TV." Different Empires. Different eras. Same games. The "empire" and "divider" is ALWAYS the "good guy". The opposition which want unity in a region are the "bad guys". We are not outnumbered. We are out-organized. Out-powered. Out-monetized. Out-narrativized... PIC: Political Industrial Complex FIC: Financial Industrial Complex NIC: Narrative Industrial Complex MIC: Military Industrial Complex CIP: Cultural Industrial Complex Forget "3D-chess". Everything you know is a "spin" on reality. They play "5D-chess" with the minds of 2D-checkers players who think they are "smart". Also it only works within a technological timeframe: for the British Empire it was while naval power "ruled the world", and the own core heartland was "unreachable", and from this unbreakable fort, could "divide" all others, avoiding them from uniting. After WW2 and today, it will only work for as long as the combination of political clout, nuclear weapons, and cultural hegemony can overpower all others, and avoid all others from uniting. The American "heartland" is already not unreachable anymore, so the USA is playing a dangerous game. Intentions to divide others, might just achieve the opposite effect.
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  9. Another apologist for Western imperialism. Who held the decision in their hands, not to expand NATO, if it caused tensions in Eastern Europe?
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  10. The Chinese (a variety of ethnic groups, religions and linguistically related peoples in East Asia) were collectively wise enough to wake up out of their own CENTURY OF HUMILIATION and create a strong unity, as a balance of power with a single front door for own interests (Beijing). CHINESE CENTURY OF HUMILIATION For that historical analysis, one must first become realistic about the forces which were imposed on the Chinese ruling systems from OUTSIDE. During these roughly 100 years, OUTSIDERS used China as playground and a battlefield of systems/ideologies. After China started rising in power again after the 1970s, the OUTSIDERS (imperialist powers not from this region) intended to REPEAT their previous "success" of rule by division. Break up China, into smaller administrative regions, surround and encroach on them with military bases in neighbouring states like Vietnam (admitted by Robert McNamara), and become yet again easy to rule, dominate and use as steered TOOLS from outside by a variety of means (money, ideology, etc.). Forces of OUTSIDE division, do not DIVIDE other regions of the planet because they care about the "locals" living on the territories they wish to squeeze the resources from. These OUTSIDERS divide others because it reduces their collective power, and for own interests of gain models (cyclic dynamical systems of gain). One must also first become realistic with regards to what strategies of powers were employed by the "sides". DIVIDE-AND-RULE ELABORATED AS IMPOSED ONTO CHINA DURING THIS ERA "The policy which Britain has been pursuing for the last two centuries has brought her prosperity and greatness. After each victory, Britain seems, on the surface to have gained for herself no advantage whatever; all she did, she claimed to be an act of international chivalry and justice but a deeper analysis of British statesmen's claims reveals that they never speak the truth. Britain's key policy is to attack the strongest country with the help of weaker countries and then to join the weakened enemy in checking the growth of other countries and so on, and so on. British foreign policy has remained basically unchanged for two centuries. When Britain befriends or colonizes another country, the purpose is not to maintain a cordial friendship for the sake of friendship but to utilize that country as a tool to fight all threats to her supremacy. Therefore Britain always remains in a commanding position by making other countries fight her wars while she herself reaps the fruits of victory." Taken from The Vital Problem of China by Sun Yat-Sen, 1917 Virtually a template that describes every aspect of the divide-and-rule strategy, and that Europeans could have learned from, but never did, until all went down. Unlike the Chinese, Europeans didn't learn the lesson. THE EUROPEAN CENTURY OF HUMILIATION (1914 - today/ongoing) The above template can be juxtaposed onto Europe (a variety of ethnic groups, religions and linguistically related peoples in Europe/Eurasia). Just like in China during its "Century of Humiliation" (1839-1947), in Europe, the local political forces which strove to put Europe First, as balance to the Wilsonian "America First" had to compete with outside dividers which had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of POWER during the 20th and 21st centuries. A union which could be free of outside meddling, completely independent and which was there for European interests first and foremost, and not at the behest of outside imperialist powers and their proxy domination. During these roughly 100 years after the 1890s, the European playgrounds were a battlefield of systems/ideologies.
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  11. Geopolitics links what he states here, to the big picture. There is a fracture zone between the big global players (USA/EU, Russia, China) running from the North Pole, through the Baltic States, Poland and Ukraine, via the Caucasus, Iran, and towards Israel. Another fracture zone is the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa (incl. Israel), from there through India, SE Asia (incl. Vietnam), through Taiwan, the Koreas, Japan, Taiwan, back up to the North Pole. Expect Washington DC, either in collaboration with a NATO state, or tacidly nodded off by the EU, to instigate crises and wars EVERYWHERE on these "fracture zones," because it is the only way they can hang on the the good ol' days a bit longer: their role of the hegemon of the world, and that of the American Century.
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  12. Because the intention was from the outset to weaken Russia, by using the Ukraine/Kiev as a tool, and Ukrainians' lives as "expedient" expendable pawns....
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  13. Post-WW2 US dollar, Washington DC steered debt-trap diplomacy.
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  14. Thirty years too late. Taiwan need never have become a global issue. It should have been resolved alongside Hong Kong, as signalling the end of the Imperialist Age, and returned to China where it belonged. The USA played the "long game", raising the level crisis and fearmongering to turn the people against each other.
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  15. Palestinians never said no to a "2 state solution".
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  16. For the same reason they "shook in their boots" when Japan rapidly rose in economic power in the 1970s and 1980s. Throughout history the hegemony hates a level playing field and fairness. So they destroy the opppisition.
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  17. MIMAC is already an old Roman strategy of subverting other states from inside, via the population. "Do as the Romans do" is far more than a simple idiomatic expression, it is an actual strategy which Washington DC and several NGOs fund with millions every year, in the effort to first infiltrate, then subvert and then subject...
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  18. Lies and hypocrisy are a dead giveaway of a divide-and-rule strategy. A strategy of divide-and-rule does not intend to be "fair", but sets out to impose unfair "rulings" top-down... The USA/collective West can only "win" if the rest of the world "loses" (zero sum reality of the globalized world). The group that can divide all other groups, and avoid them from uniting into larger entities, will rule over all the others. Such "rulings" like the order to "arrest Putin" while Netanyahu walks free is a clear indication of "favoratism," and favoratism another dead giveaway of an active policy of divide-and-rule.
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  19. Hamas, just like every single "terrorist" organisation ever, at any point in history ever, in any geographical location ever, by any religion ever, are always an effect of oppression. The USA/collective West is "classifying" the terrorists they created themselves with own previous political actions, as terrorists... Terrorism/Freedom fighting (POV) is always an effect not a cause. If you live in the west, then you (personally), or your parents, grandparents or previous generations have never ever ever fought anybody your own leaders have not personally set you up against.
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