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Once upon a time there was a declining world power. It had taken up the cause of democracy, freedom and human rights. At least, that’s what the spin-doctorswanted, who earned their money in glass palaces by leading people down the garden path. And the task was not easy, since the land of freedom was founded on the carcasses of millions of murdered natives, an indigenous population that had not invited the unsolicited immigrants from the 16th century onwards. The second stain that the spin-doctors knew how to whitewash was the deportation of millions of Africans who, as slaves, created the basis for the immense wealth of the immigrant Europeans.

By Tobias Salander

When the vastness of the prairies was “developed” and the freedom of the southern neighbours and islanders in Asia was prepared to be “protected”, one felt called by God himself to take on the burden of the world’s policeman – one had learned well from the former colonial power, which had previously taken on the burden of the white man and “pacified” half the world and all the oceans.

When the world was first tearing itself apart in the 20th century, people set out to give peoples the “right to self-determination” and make the world “safe” for democracy. The fact that they became financially healthy was not unintentional and was the basis for their rapid rise, which was not stopped by the further bloodshed of millions, but rather promoted it. The old colonial power was finally bankrupt, now only one adversary stood in the way, but it finally struck sail and imploded after decades of cold struggle.

Now history was declared to be over and one’s own way of life to be the finally victorious one. Then it went on in quick succession: in thirty years until today, one country after the other was invaded, millions of people were slaughtered, the world was covered with a carpet of propaganda that made people loose their sight and sound. There were also admonishing voices at home, but they were drowned out by the drums of war, which, however, came across like the sounds of a shawm: They were still fighting for freedom, for human rights, against terror, and they were trampling these very values underfoot in illegal torture camps, with illegal killings by drones, with illegal sanctions that let hundreds of thousands of children starve to death – but it was worth it to the only remaining superpower, as one brave lady let it be known – she, whose family had had to experience the Holocaust. One fought against rogue states and misjudged oneself. Who would dare to clearly point out their behaviour to the biggest villain? A band of robbers, as the Church Father Augustine would have formulated, who had the most powerful army, the world currency and countless European “vassal states”, as one of their Polish-born strategists never got tired of boasting? Who was tired of life? And wasn’t it all so bad after all? Did one still see the corpses of starving children, mutilated men and women in the media?

“Smart” was the new motto, “smart” was to be the “power” with which one made the world happy, as a combination of “hard” and “soft power”, as a foreign minister and later would-be president had put it.

And lo and behold, the roller suddenly came to a halt. It was like hitting a Chinese wall. There were, in fact, powers that would no longer put up with the game. Syria and Afghanistan were the beacon, the Anglo-Saxon pit bull had cut its teeth on it. Nevertheless, it continued with colourful “revolutions”, alleged popular revolts, but always made in the homeland of the actual terror.

The struggle for the heart of Eurasia had begun, the world island that could only be dominated, according to the strategic formulation of relevant ideologists, if Europe was dominated, and Europe could be dominated if Eastern Europe was dominated, and there was one country that played a central role – not because of its fertile black earth soils, that too of course, but because of its hinge between East and West: the Ukraine conflict was born. And what the world’s no. 1 power now offered was outrageous. Freud would have spoken of projection: suddenly the media were full of terms that had hitherto been kept quiet or dismissed as conspiracy theories. There was talk in the leading media of planned false-flag operations, of staged causes of war, of disinformation, of propaganda, of spin-doctoring. As if the world hadn’t seen it all before, only now it was screaming loudly from vassals’ and sovereigns’ mouths: “Stop the thief!” And what if the thief wasn’t a thief? And did not plan an attack? Then you yourself would be the hero who prevented a war that was never planned.

In which country was the film “Wag the dog” made? Where, in a fictional (?) story, a presidential hopeful call the master of spin-doctors, masterfully played by Dustin Hoffman, to distract because of a sexual affair. With what? With a war, of course, and then when it was exposed as a fake? With a hero, a forgotten hero. The script is familiar, the war rhetoric too. Will the hero come next now? Who selflessly goes into the field against evil? On a field that is not a field at all, in a war that is being propagandistically conjured up? In a world that was already on the brink when the two nuclear powers risked a showdown and a crisis of which the defence minister of the “good guys” said in his life confession that they had “lucked out”?

Does the world need that again? And what if luck is not on our side this time? If the rationality of individuals fails? When a chain reaction once set in motion can no longer be stopped? When will the European vassals finally shout the truth in the face of the half-naked emperor? And invite the power addict to withdrawal and to join the human family as an equal among equals? It is not yet too late for peace – if only one wants it.

Once upon a time … Don’t fairy tales have a happy ending? Modern fairy tales must have one. •

https://www.zeit-fragen.ch/en/archives/2022/no-5-1-march-2022/the-struggle-for-the-heart-of-eurasia.html

the spoils...

BY Vladimir Odintsov

It is no secret that members of the current US political elite and their closest relatives are fairly quick to gain business shares in all countries invaded by US occupation forces. This has been commonplace since the Iraqi wars and the destruction of Yugoslavia.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, for example, had a business in “independent Kosovo,” and a semi-clandestine one at that.

Many media outlets are still trying to find out how much former US Vice President Dick Cheney and his family managed to embezzle from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The role in US corruption history of this unscrupulous “businessman politician” who started the war in Iraq is quite truthfully depicted in Adam McKay’s Vice. He is like an octopus, running his tentacles across all key agencies, controlling the situation in the country through his lobbyists and proxies. At his instigation, they undermined unwanted journalists, created one of the world’s cruelest prisons, Guantanamo, tortured prisoners, illegally monitored the emails and phone calls of millions of Americans, falsified intelligence about Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s negotiations with terrorists to initiate war, created a myth about the alleged development of nuclear weapons in Iraq…

As for the Biden family, they have long been “in line” for appropriating the benefits of White House aggressive policies for themselves as well, with a particular emphasis on Ukraine, which objectively has many national treasures. Biden has long been one of the key figures in American policy towards Ukraine, dealing with, among other things, major personnel issues within the Ukrainian leadership. It could be said that he has long been the curator of the Ukrainian direction in the American establishment. However, due to his inability to be in Kiev all the time, he had already in 2014 concentrated the keys to the situation in Ukraine in the hands of US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, whom Biden trusted to tackle matters that were not too important.

As for the “family business” in Ukraine, back in 2014 it was entrusted to the son of the current US president, Robert Hunter Biden, who joined the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, the largest private gas producer in Ukraine, immediately after the then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted. Given that the company had been operating in Ukraine’s energy market since 2002, and that in 2013 its natural gas production figure of 1.8 million cubic meters per day was an outright tidbit generating good dividends, the Bidens decided to get their hands on the company. Meanwhile, one of Hunter Jr’s business partners was his uncle, James Biden, with many businessmen and investors having long accused his uncle and nephew of unfair play, resulting in several lawsuits filed against them at the time. After Hunter Biden became a board member of Burisma Holdings, numerous human rights organizations in the US and even White House staff claimed that the appointment could indicate a conflict of interest.

According to some reports, the US president’s son received a salary of $50,000 a month, and in just five years, Burisma Holdings transferred $3.1 million to an account he owned at a US bank, Peter Schweitzer, an associate of Donald Trump’s former political adviser, Peter Bannon, wrote in his book.

But the Biden family’s interests in Ukraine are not limited to energy alone. In Ukraine, for example, with Biden’s encouragement, large-scale production of genetically modified products (GMOs), which had previously been banned in the country and in the EU, has begun. Nevertheless, Kiev started to hand over Ukrainian precious fertile soil to Western multinationals that produce genetically modified products. One of these companies was, above all, Monsanto, a multinational corporation that produces GMO seeds for cereals and vegetables. Joe Biden’s son Hunter was already in 2015 chairman of the board of the US World Food Program and represented Monsanto in Ukraine. At the same time, the corporation has a controversial reputation for producing the deadly chemical agent Orange, which was used by the US military during the Vietnam War to drive Viet Cong guerrillas out of the forests, killing thousands of civilians along the way.

However, it should be remembered that the cultivation of GMOs in Ukraine was included, not without “Biden’s patronage,” in the country’s Euro-Association agreement: Article 404 of the agreement, which relates to agriculture, contained relevant information. It includes, among other things, a provision that has gone largely unnoticed by the general press, the gist of which is that “the two sides will cooperate to expand the use of biotechnology.”

As for the Monsanto Corporation, it has stepped up its activities in Ukraine with the construction of its plants, the first of which was planned for Vinnytsia. Although there is no exact data on how much land Monsanto already cultivates in Ukraine, nevertheless, back in 2014, Elena Fomina, head of the Seed Association of Ukraine, said that the corporation was already present in 11 regions of the country where it grows GMO products. In any case, the corporation, with Bidens’ active “interest,” was intent on flooding Ukraine, and thereafter a number of other Eastern European countries, with dangerous genetically modified products.

Realizing in recent months the damage to the Biden family business that could be inflicted if relations between Moscow and Kiev were to deteriorate, President Biden has stepped up his efforts to deploy all possible US and EU administrative resources to counter Russian policy towards Ukraine, including using the sanctions factor to put pressure on Russia to his advantage. Moreover, the damage to the people of Ukraine from Kiev’s blatant neo-Nazi policies, as well as from the use of GMO products, was blatantly disregarded by Joe Biden, overshadowing his purely personal interest in the sanctity of profits from his family business in that country. And pumping Ukraine full of loans, which Kiev and its people will objectively never be able to repay, leaving it with a foreign debt of over $57 billion, gives Biden confidence that his Ukrainian wealth will increase and can soon be sold off against the country’s debts to foreign buyers. For this reason, Biden’s zeal to “protect Ukraine’s interests” only increases every day, and his price will be known after the corruption investigations conducted by journalists.

Vladimir Odintsov, political observer, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

https://journal-neo.org/2022/03/05/biden-takes-advantage-of-the-levers-of-power-to-protect-his-family-business-in-ukraine/

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