Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "Dwarkesh Patel"
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@dreasbn Most peoole who have imperialist inclinations will never admit it because they are too cowardly to be honest.
And most Westerners who are ideologues don't even know they are ideologues.
The biggest danger to the world are ideologically indoctrinated systems, filled to the brim with "usefull innocents/idiots" which have always wanted to rule the world.
Search the term ideology in a dictionary.
It is a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
ALL of these, need vast amounts of support in order to break out of the theory level of things, towards a real existing form of POWER.
It is is easy to become the tools, of ideologues.
These power players preach from their "soap boxes" called "TV" and millions bow down to them, and these power players have got millions to believe they should lie and kill for their ideology, and become ideologically indoctrinated warriors. When the ideology they openly and proudly flaunt kills millions, their leaders say that the death of 500,000 children was "worth it" (Madeleine Albright), and there are no repercussions at all. Millions look at such deaths, and don't even bat an eye. They carry on with their lives. Millions cheer and cherish their ideologues and dear leaders. The ideology their ideologically indoctrinated leaders openly state they should send soldiers to kill for, is democracy in marriage with corporatism, and the slogan they have chanted since World War 1 is "Make the world safe for democracy". The greatest example of doublespeak ever: it was actually always the intention to "make the world safe for corporations" as Smedley-Butler already revealed 100 years ago.
Strange, that the Bible these ideologues hold dear, says not to "lie, steal, and kill", but their leaders call upon them to kill to spread democracy.
One of these axioms, must be wrong.
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China is the center of the new "Axis of Evil" (lol) because it uses its power to try to create international unity amongst the weaker states (aka global south), to stand up to the division poured upon the world`s less well-off by the rich collective West. These "rich" preach with one hand, and sow division with the other, to siphon off excessive gains to themselves. 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]
The Global North, which has siphoned off more than 50% of the world's wealth and resources for centuries, are of course the "Axis of the Goody Two Shoes" (lol again).
And that 50% as "my cut" is what they did (one hand/one half of the "forked tongue"). Of course, that was also nothing new: it was simply the statement to keep up the systemic exploitation of weaker systems, to rule by division, wherever these weaker systems were, to uphold the power of the top tiers, hidden behind the nice-sounding stories of always just wanting to "help". Really? After 500 years of so-called "just helping out", there still isn't a just global balance of power? How long until the effects of "helping" come trickling down?
In case this essay raises any questions, please answer. If not, any critical questions are most likely already addressed, in one or more of the more than 100 essays in the below comments section. It does not only state "what happened" as so many of our history books inform us (effects), but more vital, how these "Global North Goody Two Shoes" actually implements eternal exploitation, per strategy (causes). The "critique" below has of course, also already been answered, and the critic simply "forgot" as he intends to gish-gallop into eternal dissension which is a strategy of distraction (and the affiliated deception/misdirection). Just scroll down, already answered.
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China's Century of Shame: 2024 Version.
If one understands what happened to China during their "Century of Humiliation," means that one then already has the template to understand what is happening today. One can use the historical "template" and apply it in the same manner. What happened to China during that era, is how "divide and rule" worked in the past, and still works today. Create or deepen a political problem, and then wait for the local little minions benefiting from the outside POWER of imperialism, who had been given gifts and promises, to come asking for "help." Use their "plight" (artificially enhanced) to meddle, or "leverage" (power dynamics) crises into "eternal problems," sit by and do nothing as problems foment into violence, revolutions, and wars, or carry out other forms of privatized interference (corporatism) under government protection, or without. Whatever works, details really REALLY DON'T MATTER. Once "fomented troubles" rise out of hand, claim to "just want peace." Then use the little minions as favourites (favouritism = a technique within the "divide and rule" strategy of power) to destabilize an entire region, steer them against other weaker entities, and/or employ them as instruments of power (the "tools" of power dynamics), or create overseas regions as a staging area far from the home base (the "unsinkable aircraft carriers"/like colonial-era Hong Kong), etc. In case of war, try to delay getting involved until an opportune moment, them sweep in a gain advantages, often obscure ones in strategy not immediately clear to the unconnected base of the pyramids...
See the footnote, for an independent analysis of the strategy, from another era, and different set of "interacting powers." Whatever works for the desired region to be divided/conquered or where CONTROL and domination is required for the favoured economic systems of gain will be implemented. There is no way that current day Chinese leaders will not have learnt their very own historical lesson, and allow their very own history to repeat/rhyme, and allow such outside meddling in the own systems to gain traction, AGAIN for a second time. Every nation or state has its own "Never again!" European citizens today are still suffering from the hegemonic ambitions of some of their leaders, teaming up with Washington DC/the Pentagon. These citizens, usually around 50% of entire populations, suffer directly (the "heating or eating"-crowd last winter), or indirectly (soaring inflation), and therefore simply not having enough money to save to cover a sudden emergency. These are all "effects," not to be confused with "causes" (see concept of retro causality, one of the most easily misused ways to skew a timeline of events). Some eventually even end up in the muddy trenches.
If you live in the West, and don't know any of this history, or don't care what 1.4 BILLION Chinese think, or intend not to "get involved": it doesn't matter what YOU think.
See the essay in this comments section, about 7-8 years ago, as the "encirclement of China, as history rhyming" as the strategies are repeated. It was originally written about 10 years ago, as a short comment based on the observed reality at the time.
Read Washington chief strategist Brzinzki's "grand plan", or Mackinder before that (1904). The aim was always to drive a rift between Europeans/Eurasians by using entire groups/nations/countries as proxies, to avoid greater European/Eurasian (geographically incl. the ME) co-operation and trade. Once that has been achieved, keep all the little minions "down," and grow off their weaknesses in the zero-sum reality of the temporary status quo. Note that "resources" cannot be produced with the snap of a finger. Creating new resources, are long-term effects of strategies, steered by the same powers. It is the CONTROL these control freaks want and steer towards, using their (temporary) GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION of POWER.
With re. to how tools are used: Robert Dickson Crane served as foreign policy advisor to President Richard Nixon from 1963 to 1968: "At that time I had read a little about Islam, because I thought Islam would be the strongest and most durable ally of the United States against Communism. Because both of us, Nixon and I, saw Communism as a world threat ..."
Note how they openly admit how they use "tools" (strategy) to "steer" (plan) against others, when it is useful to themselves.
No, this is not just some or other random anecdotal evidence, but an age-old strategy of power. Note also, that a "plan" and the strategy to effect the plan, are two different things. Note also how your "enemies today," as a collective (Islam) were the systemic "good guys" in a different past. They were the "good guys" because they (Muslims as a collective) were useful at the time, as the USA implemented "dissent by other means" (Clausewitz), to goad the SU into invading Afghanistan, where they could then be "combated by proxy" similar to the Ukraine post-2022 and today. MORE than sufficient evidence for this, in the below comments section. Outsiders intent on playing the game, use the revolutionary spirit, in order to hop onto useful dissent, strengthen it, and insert levers which they can pry open to gain own advantages. Beijing is certainly 100% aware of this, so everything you are witnessing today is a political EFFECT, not a political "cause" as some leaders wish to mislead us towards.
Everything you are being told about Berlin, in stages after 1894, 1904, 1907, and 1912, with gathering momentum, were EFFECTS, not CAUSES. That was, based on observation, outside powers with the intention to "divide and rule" Europe, by encroaching/encircling the major continental power, which has never changed throughout recent modern history. It started with the encirclement of Germany (by Russia/France) and continued with the encirclement of Austria-Hungary, nodded off politically/strategically by London in 1904, and 1907. The strategists in Washington DC would have been surely extremely pleased by these unfolding events (see the comment below this one). The ONLY factor which changed over the last few centuries, was the "major continental power" which had to be CONTROLLED by the outside power who wanted a competitive advantage. It continued after WW2, and the main thing that saved the planet from WW3, was the fact that nukes (MAD) meant that those used to push and push until something snapped, had to be more cautious this time.
The historical parallel, as the "Chinese Century of Shame"-historicity, and is well-known at least to the 1.4 billion inhabitants of China today. The template therefore predicts a similar outcome, that of the more encroachment/encirclement, the more likeliness of the "breakout attempt" in some possible future.
Obvious solution for a more stable world, stop the encroachment/encirclement, and stop the use of people caught within lines drawn on the map, as instruments of power.
Both historically (post-1900) as well as our recent history (post-2000) there seems little incentive for those with the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE to do so, but rather the repeated attempts to search for tools to do such encroachment/encirclement FOR the outside power/s intent on gain.
(Footnote: For more information on this technique of top-down power aka divide-and-rule/conquer, go to the Sowell vid on YT about how Rome conquered Britain. History rhymes, because the strategists repeat the strategies of power, which are limited in number. That might have been a looooong time ago, but the strategies are still being applied proactively today, meaning that YOU (the reader), your family and friends, are being set up again. Voltaire — "History never repeats itself. Man always does.")
Personal advice: Try to "get it." Ignore the dissenters.
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