Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "Richard J Murphy"
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The powerful have used the strategy of divide-and-rule for thousands of years to drive a wedge between peoples.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noted back then: "Divide and rule, calls the politician; unite and lead, is the slogan of the wise."
Some politicians and rulers may do this innocently and without thinking, but most know exactly what they are doing with their divisive tongues and their line-drawing divisions. It is their most successful technique that allows them to rule over us by preventing greater unity among people. This allows them to skim off enormous wealth from the gross national product that actually belongs to all people. If it is important to you, forward this message to others. Unite with those you are ordered to hate, according to Goethe because this is the counter strategy of "the wise". We should not allow them to continue winning in the same way for the next thousand years.
Divide-and-rule.
Draw lines, then set the people up against each other.
If there is a problem, blame somebody else.
That is the historical Albion's way.
Incredible how many can be deceived for so long.
In the age of European imperialism before 1945 it was mainly the British- and French Empires which kept global conflicts alive by drawing lines in favor of one group over the other. Previously it had been the "fading" empires or the "sick men" of Europe, like Portugal, Spain, or the Ottoman Empire. Later they were joined by others, in a long list: the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Russia (only bordering regions), Belgium, Italy, the USA, etc. The lines were often randomly drawn through tribes, through religious- or ethnic groups, to favor either the one, then the other. This created volatile hot spots of ethnic conflicts to use as pretext for intervention and occupation as the moral "rule maker". After 1945 the USA simply took over as global hegemony, but practising the same strategy of rule and domination as all the others before: divide-and-rule.
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"Divide and rule" (or "divide and conquer") is a political or strategic strategy used to gain or maintain control over a region of the planet by causing division and fostering internal conflict. The idea is to weaken opponents or rival factions, preventing them from uniting against the DIVIDING power. The strategy is based on the principle that a divided enemy is easier to manage, control, defeat or destroy.
Here’s how the strategy typically works:
Creating Divisions: Those in power may intentionally exploit existing differences or create new ones—such as between ethnic groups, social classes, religions, political factions, or other groups within a population. By emphasizing these differences, the leadership makes it harder for these groups to cooperate or form alliances.
Fostering Competition and Distrust: The ruling power might manipulate one group to distrust another, using propaganda, misinformation, or manipulation of resources to create rivalries or tensions.
Maintaining Control: With internal divisions, the groups are less likely to pose a unified threat to the ruling power. Any resistance is weakened by competing priorities, distrust, or fragmentation.
Historically, divide and rule has been used by empires and colonial powers to maintain dominance over colonized regions. For example, the British Empire used divide and rule in India, exploiting divisions between various religious and ethnic groups (e.g., Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs) to prevent them from uniting against British colonial rule. Similarly, European powers used the strategy in Africa, creating borders and fostering divisions that continue to impact the region’s stability today. The technique is exposed via the events and actions, and can be hidden behind MSM steered smokescreens of manipulation and storytelling, creating false narratives favouring the DIVIDING power, or claiming these actions to be favouring peace, favouring conciliation, favouring unity, favouring economic progress, favouring trade, or other, whereas in reality the attempt is the exact opposite. Not every single group or power involved necessarily has to understand their role within the divide-and-rule strategy, which is why it persists eternally.
The effectiveness of divide and rule lies in its ability to prevent the emergence of collective opposition by exploiting or manufacturing internal conflicts, making it a powerful tactic for maintaining control over diverse populations or competitors.
SETTLER COLONIALISM
The last 500 years of European/white settler colonialism as a subsection of the divide-and-rule technique. The strategy was "farms/forts" of the stronger power and using "might is right" as guiding principle to a systemic, slow advance into the lands of ingenious peoples all over the world. Same happened in North America, Australia, New Zealand, the Levant, South America, Southern Africa, etc.
Broken promises, broken treaties, looking for excuses to make the next 'step' (ratchet principle). The only places the strategy of slow ponderous expansion failed was where the local systems were too numerous or organized (East Asia). The "template" might have various regional differences, but the end effect is always the same. Slow, step-by-step advance of the own ideology, economic systems, corporations and political power.
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The cover-ups of the American century go deep.
George Kennan was one of the prototype globalists, back in the 1940s. Of course, previously morphed out of internationalism in combination with imperialism. The proven "good cop/bad cop"-game, for example as played on Colombia when the USA wanted the Panama Canal. First the "good cops" (internationalist) come with the "carrot" of deals and co-operation. If that doesn't work, the "bad cop" (imperialist) comes with the "stick" (Marines) of threats and the regime change operations or simply invasion. Nothing has changed yet in 100 years, incl. their favourite techniques of power: the divide-and-rule strategy of power, as comprehensive set of tools. This set of tools included men like George Kennan, a prototype globalist "good cop" who appeared, miraculously out of the blue just in time as WW2 was playing out in Europe...
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 burned in order to achieve primacy for the USA after 1945, 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 in a (quote) "pattern of relationships."
Look for the patterns, and see the technique.
Internationalism has morphed into globalism, and imperialism never died.
The "playbook" of Great Britain and the USA for more than 100 years. Read Mackinder (Pivot of History, 1904) and Brzinzki (Grand Chessboard, 1997) with regards to what they wished to avoid.
Your "friends" are scam artist pushing the biggest con the world has ever seen: Divide-and-rule.
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