Why would the UK be fighting and killing Palestinian civilians in their thousands. Is that just to sell weapons Components. Are they fighting jihadis? They shouldn't bomb their funking countries of they're afraid of terrorism ffs. The brits caused all this. Abject c**ts.
Racial and gender equality has been achieved at last, it would appear from Kemi Badenoch's interview, when a young black woman, who has risen to a position of political prominence, demonstrates that she is as ignorant, arrogant and corruptible as white men. Good for her!
“Who funds Hamas? Iran, an enemy of this country.”
Weird how western leaders don’t remember that Israel was attacking Gaza long before Hamas took power.
Or that just 3 years after international laws were written so that another genocide couldn’t happen Israel started its genocide of Palestinians and killed or cleansed 750,000 Gazans.
Or that Israel is doing the same thing in the West Bank where there is no Hamas.
Didn’t the Balfour declaration and the acceptance of Israel by Roosevelt make Israel a proxy for western governments? And remember that Biden said that if Israel wasn’t there America would have to create it? I took that as meaning that America wanted Israel as an ally to keep the Middle East in turmoil and to do our bidding.
Trump keeps saying that the Ukraine war isn’t his war. Bull. He sent lethal weapons to Ukraine and helped train its military forces and built them up from 200k to over a million.
Funny how silent he’s been since the Ukraine attacks. Didn’t Zelensky go crazy, Donald?
Thoroughly researched analysis exposing the truth about western hypocrisy on its barbaric proxy wars in Ukraine and Gaza.. although it seems in both cases, the US led western war machine is a proxy for the full spectrum dominance the Zionist lobby now has in US politics. The roots of the current Ukraine conflict lie in the Nuland/Kagan supported terror campaign to Balkanise Russia that started in 2014.
I'm going to say it for the hundredth time: Russia invaded Ukraine after breaking dozens of treaties over the years, and Russia can end the war by just going home. Ukraine can't settle - it would've been erased from the world. They, so utterly unlike Israel, are fighting for survival.
One month after Russia invaded Ukraine to protect the people in the Donbas who Ukraine had been killing for 8 years, Putin offered Zelensky he would remove his troops and Ukraine could keep the 4 oblasts that are now part of Russia.
Just imagine a hostile country invading the country next to yours after overthrowing the president and putting nukes in it and then training troops to invade your country. The nukes could hit your capital in 5 minutes. What do you think your leaders would do to protect their country?
I have given you a public example of the playbook, published in 2019. If you think NATO has not had this strategy for ecen longer, yiu have no business duscussing intl affairs, or as you newbs call it "geopolitics".
So, zero evidence, just a retrospective and "trust me, bro" from you. And 60 years of Russian interference in Ukraine on the other side... Once again: Ukraine has to fight to survive, Russia can just go home.
Are you a child? Do some actual reading into the endless Russian attacks on the entire former Soviet bloc. This has been going on since the end of the second world war. Read up on the CCCP/USSR, perhaps, and the Berlin Wall. You have no sense of history, at all. Do you even know about the Cold War?
What else happened in 2014? Obama overthrew Ukraine’s president and wanted NATO to take over the Russian naval base in Crimea. Btw the people in Crimea voted to rejoin Russia. That was legal because America set the precedent after bombing and destroying Yugoslavia.
What? There was already a civil war in Yugoslavia before nato went in! Nato went in to stabilise the situation and prevent the war crimes and ethnic cleansing!
Brilliant, brilliant article, Jonathan. Imho, you've really nailed it with this piece. It chimes with so much of what I've thought, read, heard and experienced over the past decade.
In some ways, we're very fortunate that the current quality of UK (indeed, Western) politicians is so universally poor and now apparently driven, primarily, by careerism, with ideology and even class-loyalty a distant second. The term "useful idiot" is often used to target dissenters, but the likes of Fox and Badenoch give new meaning to the term and I absolutely love it, despite what petty evils they might otherwise succeed in achieving, before the inevitable fall-from-grace into a comfy directorship or role at the IMF ...
It's also difficult to think of a single UK PM of any substance since the likes of Blair and Major (and Brown, if I'm being charitable).
Perhaps it's no wonder that smart operators like Farage are beginning to sound more like Melenchon than Le Pen, lol! He's got a good nose for politics, I'll say that (and nothing else good, ever, I imagine!).
We're in a pivotal moment, it seems. If the West fails to a) break Russia economically or militarily or b) fails to oust indigenous "extremists from Palestine whilst, simultaneously, China continues to erode the US' advantages in technology, I think that the next few decades will begin to look a lot different from any since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Your use of the term "the Dark Ages" is apposite. The West's economic superiority is built on the historic (and unchecked) funnelling of the wealth of entire globe into the coffers of a very select few nations, a process which has been going on for, what, 5-6 centuries? As the developing (and criminally under-developed) world gains parity (see, f. ex. China's work on infrastructure projects throughout Africa), traditional economic and technological advantages will further decline. The SU used to do a similar thing with medicine and education, even where it perhaps lacked the economic and technological means to do then what China is doing now.
It's no coincidence that Cuba has such a brilliant health system!
I fear that, for the West, it already too late. It's economies are hollowed-out shells (thanks, asset-strippers and financialization!) and it's structures are too unwieldy and decadent to achieve anything over a short enough time frame other than lighting up civic buildings in the colours of Ukraine (take that, Putin!).
I was talking to someone the other day about EU versus US regulation of emerging technologies such as AI. The EU adopts a centralized approach: the US has a scattergun method made up of a myriad of executive, state-level and other legislation. Which one is the more agile and easily revised?
I think it's also telling that both Ukraine and Israel are facing crises of man-power. With the sudden technological shifts seen with things like drones, modern armies are no longer guaranteed of technological superiority in a modern (often asymmetrical) context. So simply providing more and bigger, better weapons isn't enough anymore. Also, people are needed to operate and maintain any and all weapons systems, otherwise, they end up like so many T-26's during the early months of Barbarossa. Who trains them? Where do they come from? How do you ensure the necessary logistics before you even think about fighting someone who is already a lot more experienced at war?
This isn't the Matrix: skills need to learned and developed, armchair-fantasy-generals!
And our own militaries are currently barely fit for purpose. I know long-term military personnel from the UK. Our systems and hardware are simply no longer fit for purpose. We can't decide how best to equip our limited numbers. Our ground forces would be of little use in a battlefield like Ukraine, even if we were willing to commit to an actual war. And we don't even control our nuclear dterrent, anymore, no matter its strategic value.
All this can be very difficult to hear, but it's true and our politicians appear to be unable to act on it with any degree of competence or practicality. Frankly, they're mostly just dishonest, delusional or pathetic, sadly.
Badenoch is telling a lie typical of zionist apologists. Instead of saying the U.K. is fighting a proxy war for Israel, she inverts cause and effect to insulate Israel from criticism. Better to betray your own country than speak honestly.
Badenoch actually blatantly told a lie: claiming that "Israel is fighting for 58 hostages - that is what this is all about". So several decades of Israel colonising Palestine and killing the inahbitants and stealing their land, and UN findings of exactly that, and the ICC and ICJ indictments of the Israel government for genocide....she attempted to lie away: and entire decades long war of Israel brutalising Palestinians to colonize their land.
The irony could not be greater: Badenoch, with her roots in Yorubaland in Nigeria where the people were subjected to first slave trading by the British empire and then outright slavery onsite ("colonialism") at the hands of the British......is now the chief apologist for what will go down in history as the worst and most vile western colonial massacre of all time. A real "team" job by the west.
Her ancestors must be rolling over in their graves and flinging a hail of curses at her by now.
Translated in French here https://zanzibar.substack.com/p/la-grande-bretagne-au-cur-de-la-guerre
Dear Jonathan, this is one of your best articles. Many thanks for it.
Why would the UK be fighting and killing Palestinian civilians in their thousands. Is that just to sell weapons Components. Are they fighting jihadis? They shouldn't bomb their funking countries of they're afraid of terrorism ffs. The brits caused all this. Abject c**ts.
Racial and gender equality has been achieved at last, it would appear from Kemi Badenoch's interview, when a young black woman, who has risen to a position of political prominence, demonstrates that she is as ignorant, arrogant and corruptible as white men. Good for her!
What intellect you have. I’m afraid unable to read for long but skimmed through.
Another beauty. Good on you Jonathon
“Who funds Hamas? Iran, an enemy of this country.”
Weird how western leaders don’t remember that Israel was attacking Gaza long before Hamas took power.
Or that just 3 years after international laws were written so that another genocide couldn’t happen Israel started its genocide of Palestinians and killed or cleansed 750,000 Gazans.
Or that Israel is doing the same thing in the West Bank where there is no Hamas.
Didn’t the Balfour declaration and the acceptance of Israel by Roosevelt make Israel a proxy for western governments? And remember that Biden said that if Israel wasn’t there America would have to create it? I took that as meaning that America wanted Israel as an ally to keep the Middle East in turmoil and to do our bidding.
Trump keeps saying that the Ukraine war isn’t his war. Bull. He sent lethal weapons to Ukraine and helped train its military forces and built them up from 200k to over a million.
Funny how silent he’s been since the Ukraine attacks. Didn’t Zelensky go crazy, Donald?
It is truly a pity that American taxpayers are in denial of their money used to murder babies mothers sons
Thoroughly researched analysis exposing the truth about western hypocrisy on its barbaric proxy wars in Ukraine and Gaza.. although it seems in both cases, the US led western war machine is a proxy for the full spectrum dominance the Zionist lobby now has in US politics. The roots of the current Ukraine conflict lie in the Nuland/Kagan supported terror campaign to Balkanise Russia that started in 2014.
I'm going to say it for the hundredth time: Russia invaded Ukraine after breaking dozens of treaties over the years, and Russia can end the war by just going home. Ukraine can't settle - it would've been erased from the world. They, so utterly unlike Israel, are fighting for survival.
One month after Russia invaded Ukraine to protect the people in the Donbas who Ukraine had been killing for 8 years, Putin offered Zelensky he would remove his troops and Ukraine could keep the 4 oblasts that are now part of Russia.
Just imagine a hostile country invading the country next to yours after overthrowing the president and putting nukes in it and then training troops to invade your country. The nukes could hit your capital in 5 minutes. What do you think your leaders would do to protect their country?
This isn’t rocket science.
You know Ukraine gave up their nukes for (yet more fake) promises of peace from Russia, right?
It could be millionth time you said it and it would still be a lie. Repetition does not validate the lie.
Here is the playbook for what is going on - the US baiting Russia into defending itself against proxy attacks:
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
Overextending and Unbalancing Russia
Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options
James Dobbins, Raphael S. Cohen, Nathan Chandler, Bryan Frederick, Edward Geist, Paul DeLuca, Forrest E. Morgan, Howard J. Shatz, Brent Williams
RESEARCH SUMMARY Published Apr 24, 2019
2019? When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014? Are you having a laugh? Russia started the war 5 years before that was published.
I have given you a public example of the playbook, published in 2019. If you think NATO has not had this strategy for ecen longer, yiu have no business duscussing intl affairs, or as you newbs call it "geopolitics".
So, zero evidence, just a retrospective and "trust me, bro" from you. And 60 years of Russian interference in Ukraine on the other side... Once again: Ukraine has to fight to survive, Russia can just go home.
The US coup in Ukraine a decadec ago is....public record.
The fact of Ukraine being armed and weaponised by the CIA and pentagon as an anti russian attavk force..public record in the New York Times. Twice.
So much for your lies then. Really poor attempts at it. Laughably poor.
This is a US-waged proxy war on the Russian border. Always been.
Who needs to go home is the US and tgeir needless wars pf agression to destabilize the whole world.
Are you a child? Do some actual reading into the endless Russian attacks on the entire former Soviet bloc. This has been going on since the end of the second world war. Read up on the CCCP/USSR, perhaps, and the Berlin Wall. You have no sense of history, at all. Do you even know about the Cold War?
What else happened in 2014? Obama overthrew Ukraine’s president and wanted NATO to take over the Russian naval base in Crimea. Btw the people in Crimea voted to rejoin Russia. That was legal because America set the precedent after bombing and destroying Yugoslavia.
What? There was already a civil war in Yugoslavia before nato went in! Nato went in to stabilise the situation and prevent the war crimes and ethnic cleansing!
Brilliant, brilliant article, Jonathan. Imho, you've really nailed it with this piece. It chimes with so much of what I've thought, read, heard and experienced over the past decade.
In some ways, we're very fortunate that the current quality of UK (indeed, Western) politicians is so universally poor and now apparently driven, primarily, by careerism, with ideology and even class-loyalty a distant second. The term "useful idiot" is often used to target dissenters, but the likes of Fox and Badenoch give new meaning to the term and I absolutely love it, despite what petty evils they might otherwise succeed in achieving, before the inevitable fall-from-grace into a comfy directorship or role at the IMF ...
It's also difficult to think of a single UK PM of any substance since the likes of Blair and Major (and Brown, if I'm being charitable).
Perhaps it's no wonder that smart operators like Farage are beginning to sound more like Melenchon than Le Pen, lol! He's got a good nose for politics, I'll say that (and nothing else good, ever, I imagine!).
We're in a pivotal moment, it seems. If the West fails to a) break Russia economically or militarily or b) fails to oust indigenous "extremists from Palestine whilst, simultaneously, China continues to erode the US' advantages in technology, I think that the next few decades will begin to look a lot different from any since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Your use of the term "the Dark Ages" is apposite. The West's economic superiority is built on the historic (and unchecked) funnelling of the wealth of entire globe into the coffers of a very select few nations, a process which has been going on for, what, 5-6 centuries? As the developing (and criminally under-developed) world gains parity (see, f. ex. China's work on infrastructure projects throughout Africa), traditional economic and technological advantages will further decline. The SU used to do a similar thing with medicine and education, even where it perhaps lacked the economic and technological means to do then what China is doing now.
It's no coincidence that Cuba has such a brilliant health system!
I fear that, for the West, it already too late. It's economies are hollowed-out shells (thanks, asset-strippers and financialization!) and it's structures are too unwieldy and decadent to achieve anything over a short enough time frame other than lighting up civic buildings in the colours of Ukraine (take that, Putin!).
I was talking to someone the other day about EU versus US regulation of emerging technologies such as AI. The EU adopts a centralized approach: the US has a scattergun method made up of a myriad of executive, state-level and other legislation. Which one is the more agile and easily revised?
I think it's also telling that both Ukraine and Israel are facing crises of man-power. With the sudden technological shifts seen with things like drones, modern armies are no longer guaranteed of technological superiority in a modern (often asymmetrical) context. So simply providing more and bigger, better weapons isn't enough anymore. Also, people are needed to operate and maintain any and all weapons systems, otherwise, they end up like so many T-26's during the early months of Barbarossa. Who trains them? Where do they come from? How do you ensure the necessary logistics before you even think about fighting someone who is already a lot more experienced at war?
This isn't the Matrix: skills need to learned and developed, armchair-fantasy-generals!
And our own militaries are currently barely fit for purpose. I know long-term military personnel from the UK. Our systems and hardware are simply no longer fit for purpose. We can't decide how best to equip our limited numbers. Our ground forces would be of little use in a battlefield like Ukraine, even if we were willing to commit to an actual war. And we don't even control our nuclear dterrent, anymore, no matter its strategic value.
All this can be very difficult to hear, but it's true and our politicians appear to be unable to act on it with any degree of competence or practicality. Frankly, they're mostly just dishonest, delusional or pathetic, sadly.
Sorry, that turned into a proper wall of text!
Again, Jonathan, thanks for the article!
I despise what my country is & has became under these weak minded easily corrupted excuses for leaders.
Badenoch is telling a lie typical of zionist apologists. Instead of saying the U.K. is fighting a proxy war for Israel, she inverts cause and effect to insulate Israel from criticism. Better to betray your own country than speak honestly.
BP are sitting back waiting for the Resources.
Badenoch actually blatantly told a lie: claiming that "Israel is fighting for 58 hostages - that is what this is all about". So several decades of Israel colonising Palestine and killing the inahbitants and stealing their land, and UN findings of exactly that, and the ICC and ICJ indictments of the Israel government for genocide....she attempted to lie away: and entire decades long war of Israel brutalising Palestinians to colonize their land.
The irony could not be greater: Badenoch, with her roots in Yorubaland in Nigeria where the people were subjected to first slave trading by the British empire and then outright slavery onsite ("colonialism") at the hands of the British......is now the chief apologist for what will go down in history as the worst and most vile western colonial massacre of all time. A real "team" job by the west.
Her ancestors must be rolling over in their graves and flinging a hail of curses at her by now.
Yeah, it's kind of sickening, but I don't think she's your typical human being, let alone West African.