Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)"
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Divide and conquer works because not everyone involved knows that they are taking on a role in a power game. That's how the strategy works. Very few people really need to understand it. In English, the principle is called "Useful Innocent/Useful Idiot." From a position of power, you can animate people (usually through money, or ideology) who play a role, but they know not what they do.
The peoples of Eurasia and the world, including Western Europe (most of which are Christian) and Western Asia (most of which are Semites), have been divided and ruled by foreigners for centuries.
Because it's easier to divide people based on personal differences than to unite them based on their similarities. Strategically ambivalent foreigners use this to their own advantage. In the era of European imperialism, London initially dragged along its junior partner Paris to meddle here, and after 1945 as the influence of European colonial powers declined, Washington DC simply took on the role of divider (during the Cold War, the whole world was the playground). Now the intention is simply to avoid the unity of Eurasia in order to "rule" over the dissenters, which is the classic "divide and conquer" principle. This strategy is kept under wraps, due to a systemic desire to be "good", and on the "right side of history", and therefore overemphasizing the actions of philanthropists, political doves, peace activists, religious leaders, etc.
At the same time the activities of political hawks sowing divisions are downplayed, relativized, apologized for, mostly by politicians and strategists as the "story tellers" of history. But also by commoners, who simply parrot the stories without thinking them through, and who are NOT privy to the overall strategy (divide-and-rule in all its intricacies and nuances).
"The main interest of the United States - for which we have been fighting wars for a century (the First, Second and the Cold War) - has been the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united they are the only power that could threaten us. And we must make sure that does not happen. ... For the United States ... the greatest fear is German technology, German capital and Russian natural resources, Russian labor as the only combination that has frightened the United States for centuries. So how does this play out? Well, the US has already put its cards on the table. It is the line from the Baltic to the Black Sea." - George Friedman, Stratfor, February 2015
Today their leaders are too weak to unite, to avoid their "friends" simply drawing lines on the map, which they cower down to and must obey.
Like a ratchet, one click at a time, the "marching empire."
Endless wars, constant disagreements, using imperialism to stay on top.
Using "levers" of lies and distrust, via power players.
Creating favorites: favoring the proxies who bow down and sacrifice themselves for the mastah.
Pointing fingers, everywhere else, using the POWER of the mainstream media.
Divide-and-rule/conquer.
The oldest trick in the book...
Who has the POWER? Who (in all historical cases in Eurasia) had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all other "buck catchers" (tools and other instruments of POWER in the Roman era style), but could not be reached themselves at any point in a historical timeline due to a geographical-, technological-, organizational-, military-, strategic- or political advantage?
“Divide-and-rule/conquer” as a standard strategy of power and thus the cause of nearly all conflicts in the world connects the dots on the timeline of history. Who (in all historical cases in the Middle East/Levant) had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being far from the events resulting from their own meddling and political activities and being able to reach all other regions, but could not be reached themselves as a hegemony at any point in a historical timeline? It only works within a technological window of opportunity: for the British Empire, it was when naval power “ruled the world” and its own heartland was “unreachable” and from this impregnable fortress it could “divide” all others and thus prevent unification elsewhere. After WWII and today, it will only work as long as the combination of political influence, nuclear weapons and cultural hegemony dominates all others.
Pax Romana. Pax Britannica. Pax Americana. All they want is peace, they say. Who gathers the pieces of the great wealth and systemic gains when everyone else has failed to unite?
Different empires. Different era. Same games...
Once the Albion, always the Albion.
In their own narratives, the "empire" and "divider" is ALWAYS the "good guy."
The opposition that wants unity in a region is the "bad guy."
We, who seek true peace and harmony, are not outnumbered. We are out-organized.
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 "variation" of reality. They are playing “5D chess” with the minds of 2D checkers players, within the rains of people who think they are “smart”.
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@ Here is a guideline on how to recognize any hidden attempt of top-down divide-and-rule by dividers.
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 powers, states, empires and corporations to maintain dominance over regions they wished to control and dominate. 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.
The whole thing is then maintained by a house of cards made of lies and deceit, with billions of fiat currency.
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@halo3zocker N ew
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Systemic/ideological expansion into, as concerted effort.
- Eastern Europe.
- Balkans.
- Caucasus region/Black Sea (southern pincer of advance).
- Baltic/Scandinavia (northern pincer of advance).
Keep on marching, marching, and when there is a reaction or resistance (aka "defensive realism") by those being encroached upon or encircled, get the propagandists to start "pointing fingers" (narrative control) at those being encircled or encroached upon.
This type of imperialist behaviour as evident by Washington DC, and their current subservient "collective West/NATO", did not only start after WW2. Ask the First Nations, or Mexico.
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The bigger picture can be distorted, and the strategy of divide-and-rule hidden behind narratives of benevolence...
For the dividing power, it does not matter how the division is implemented, or how existing divisions are deepened, or who is helping for whatever reasons, or whether those who favor and abet the division even know that they are supporting the division: what matters is that it is implemented (de facto reality). For the outside divider with a geographical advantage of distance from violent events, it is not important why the chosen tools choose work together for the gains of the empire, but the fact that the chosen tools work together to create division and overwhelm a part of the planet somewhere.
"How" and "that" are different premises.
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@genenaroditsky3477 Divide and conquer works because not everyone involved knows that they are taking on a role in a power game. That's how the strategy works. Very few people really need to understand it. In English, the principle is called "Useful Innocent/Useful Idiot." From a position of power, you can animate people (usually through money, or ideology) who play a role, but they know not what they do.
The peoples of Eurasia and the world, including Western Europe (most of which are Christian) and Western Asia (most of which are Semites), have been divided and ruled by foreigners for centuries.
Because it's easier to divide people based on personal differences than to unite them based on their similarities. Strategically ambivalent foreigners use this to their own advantage. In the era of European imperialism, London initially dragged along its junior partner Paris to meddle here, and after 1945 as the influence of European colonial powers declined, Washington DC simply took on the role of divider (during the Cold War, the whole world was the playground). Now the intention is simply to avoid the unity of Eurasia in order to "rule" over the dissenters, which is the classic "divide and conquer" principle. This strategy is kept under wraps, due to a systemic desire to be "good", and on the "right side of history", and therefore overemphasizing the actions of philanthropists, political doves, peace activists, religious leaders, etc.
At the same time the activities of political hawks sowing divisions are downplayed, relativized, apologized for, mostly by politicians and strategists as the "story tellers" of history. But also by commoners, who simply parrot the stories without thinking them through, and who are NOT privy to the overall strategy (divide-and-rule in all its intricacies and nuances).
"The main interest of the United States - for which we have been fighting wars for a century (the First, Second and the Cold War) - has been the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united they are the only power that could threaten us. And we must make sure that does not happen. ... For the United States ... the greatest fear is German technology, German capital and Russian natural resources, Russian labor as the only combination that has frightened the United States for centuries. So how does this play out? Well, the US has already put its cards on the table. It is the line from the Baltic to the Black Sea." - George Friedman, Stratfor, February 2015
Today their leaders are too weak to unite, to avoid their "friends" simply drawing lines on the map, which they cower down to and must obey.
Like a ratchet, one click at a time, the "marching empire."
Endless wars, constant disagreements, using imperialism to stay on top.
Using "levers" of lies and distrust, via power players.
Creating favorites: favoring the proxies who bow down and sacrifice themselves for the mastah.
Pointing fingers, everywhere else, using the POWER of the mainstream media.
Divide-and-rule/conquer.
The oldest trick in the book...
Who has the POWER? Who (in all historical cases in Eurasia) had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all other "buck catchers" (tools and other instruments of POWER in the Roman era style), but could not be reached themselves at any point in a historical timeline due to a geographical-, technological-, organizational-, military-, strategic- or political advantage?
“Divide-and-rule/conquer” as a standard strategy of power and thus the cause of nearly all conflicts in the world connects the dots on the timeline of history. Who (in all historical cases in the Middle East/Levant) had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being far from the events resulting from their own meddling and political activities and being able to reach all other regions, but could not be reached themselves as a hegemony at any point in a historical timeline? It only works within a technological window of opportunity: for the British Empire, it was when naval power “ruled the world” and its own heartland was “unreachable” and from this impregnable fortress it could “divide” all others and thus prevent unification elsewhere. After WWII and today, it will only work as long as the combination of political influence, nuclear weapons and cultural hegemony dominates all others.
Pax Romana. Pax Britannica. Pax Americana. All they want is peace, they say. Who gathers the pieces of the great wealth and systemic gains when everyone else has failed to unite?
Different empires. Different era. Same games...
Once the Albion, always the Albion.
In their own narratives, the "empire" and "divider" is ALWAYS the "good guy."
The opposition that wants unity in a region is the "bad guy."
We, who seek true peace and harmony, are not outnumbered. We are out-organized.
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 "variation" of reality. They are playing “5D chess” with the minds of 2D checkers players, within the rains of people who think they are “smart”.
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