Washington’s proxy war in Ukraine is the globalist scheme to transcend the continuity of history, culture, and geography embodied in the nation-state.
During the 1999 Kosovo air campaign, President Bill Clinton told1 Americans, “That’s what this Kosovo thing is all about. […] It’s globalism versus tribalism.”
In 1999 very few Americans paid attention to Clinton’s remarks. Kosovo was yet another conflict on someone else’s soil with little or no relevance to daily life in America. Frankly, Clinton’s use of the word “tribalism” probably confused many Americans. To most Americans, nationalism means2 devotion to the country, the U.S. citizen’s readiness in crisis or conflict to place the needs of the country above the citizen’s own. American nationalists aren’t tribal. They want to protect and defend the United States, its historic institutions and the rights embodied in its laws, not start wars.3
BY Colonel (ret.) Douglas Macgregor
The term “globalism” has since evolved to mean much more than free trade and comity between nations.4 Today, the Western nation-state5 and the nationalism it inspires are condemned by globalists as the sources of prejudice, exclusivism, and war. In retrospect, Clinton’s use of the term “globalism” is in continuity with the Biden administration’s proxy war against Russia.
To Washington’s contemporary ruling political class, globalism involves more6than purchasing products manufactured by cheap labor in non-Western countries. Washington-led globalism now promises the dissolution of traditional political and social forms of human organisation – national governments, borders, identities, cultures – and replaces them with a world of consumers united only by their dependence on amorphous corporations, unaccountable non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and supra-national institutions.
Put another way, globalism is now synonymous with the progressive left’s view of the postwar liberal international security order that must expand to survive. Washington’s proxy war in Ukraine is the globalist scheme to transcend the continuity of history, culture, and geography embodied in the nation-state, to homogenise disparate peoples in the process of assimilating rapid social and technological change. In this sense, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent call7 for Washington and its strategic partners to establish global control of Russia’s nuclear weapons aligns nicely with the Biden administration’s progressive globalist vision.
And therein lies the problem. Nations and their peoples do not evolve in a vacuum, nor do they surrender their existence without a fight.
Russian national identity and culture challenged
These points should alert Washington to the fact that its proxy war for globalism in Ukraine involves national identity8, a dynamic force that stirs the deepest human emotions. Yet it is not just two kinds of nationalism, Ukrainian and Russian, rooted in language, culture, and history, that are in conflict. Washington’s brand of globalism, dressed in the guise of NATO expansion, directly challenges Russian national identity and culture. It is Russia’s unique geographic role in linking European and Asian civilization, as well as its Orthodox Christian culture – a belief system enshrined in Russia’s current state ideology, foreign, and security policy – that are imperiled.
In light of U.S.-led NATO military interventions in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq, it is fundamentally dishonest to pretend that NATO’s encroachment on Russia’s western border is benign. But it is far more dangerous to ignore the truth that, in Moscow’s view, NATO expansion into Ukraine is inextricably linked with the extension of globalism to Russia.9
Statements by the U.S. Secretaries of Defense and State that Washington wants to “weaken”10 Russia make it clear that Washington’s allegedly benevolent “rules-based order” is of no benefit to Russia. In fact, the statements simply confirm in Russian minds the belief that the U.S. is a co-belligerent in Ukraine’s war for NATO expansion.
Perhaps even more important is the suggestion that Poland, NATO’s proverbial wild child, would provide so-called “peacekeeping forces” to Ukraine.11 It’s no secret to Europeans that Poland dominated most of Ukraine for nearly 400 years, or that Moldova, though technically Romanian, spent 300 years as a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. Washington’s apparent readiness to introduce revanchist Polish forces12 into Western Ukraine and, potentially, revanchist Romanian forces13 into Moldova suggests that Washington’s globalists will do anything to harm Russia14 even if it involves advancing the territorial ambitions of Russia’s historic enemies.
War still tests the legitimacy of those who govern inside the warring states, as well as the resilience of their societies. This observation applies to the Biden Administration as much as it does to the governments of Zelensky and Putin. As he presides over fiscal crisis, scarcity, and rising criminality in America, and displays his willful ignorance of Eastern Europe and its peoples, President Biden and his supporters on the Hill are stirring a regional pot that could quickly boil over with dangerous consequences for Washington and its NATO partners. As Sigmund Freud wrote15 of Biden’s “internationalist” predecessor Woodrow Wilson, Biden “has a marvelous ability to ignore facts and believe what he wants.” However, it’s much tougher now than it was in 1917 to pull the wool over Americans’ eyes.
Washington actively cultivated16 Ukraine’s war with Russia for many years, harnessing Ukrainian nationalism—the incendiary force globalists claim to loathe – in service to their cause. It worked. Now the same globalists are prolonging the war17 with arms, advice, and encouragement, even though Ukraine is being destroyed.
In the last 30 years, Washington’s overemphasis on military assistance and intervention in the pursuit of regime change has drawn the U.S. into conflicts and crises in the Balkans, the Near East, North Africa, and Southwest Asia. American nationalists18 are not responsible for the current war in Ukraine or the last three decades of Washington’s self-defeating wars. But American nationalists are needed now more than ever to stop the globalist war to destroy Russia19 before that war spreads like a cancer across Eastern Europe. •
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completely mad hypocrite…...
Chilton Williamson Jr. is down from his monkey-tree when he tries to tell us that the regime of Vladimir Putin is "fragile" in order to let us know that the USA is fragile too, but less so.... It's ugly thinking with no sense of history nor of reality, and even if "Putin was sick" Putin is 100 per cent sane, unlike that deluded demented vacuously insane Biden who can't remember where the toilet bowl is — nor for what it's for.
"Whatever else is wrong with Vladimir Putin besides an evil heart—psychosis, incipient madness, some unrevealed terminal illness—the man plainly suffers from a keen awareness of the fragility of his regime, which causes him to perceive dangers that do not exist and to magnify those that do. His enemies in the West have insisted for years that this constitutes “paranoia” on his part, proof of a psychologically ill person to whom political systems other than the one he has created appear as mortal threats to the Russian nation and his own imperial project. They are correct about that—but they fail to recognize that Putin’s neurotically suspicious mind is in this respect a reverse image of their own."
Chilton Williamson Jr
Hello? Had other nations SHOVED AS MUCH SHIT against the USA, as the US has shoved against Russia, the world of humans would have disappeared in nuclear smoke — in a moment of stupidity-plus by the ALREADY completely mad hypocrite Joe Biden and the brainless US neocons.
No, Chilton Williamson Jr, there is no mirror... The present US president is certifiably mad and according to some people he is madder than his predecessor... Meanwhile, Putin is NOT ACTING ON AN IMPERIAL PROJECT — UNLIKE THE USA that are hell-bent to destroy Russia and China for WORLD DOMINATION....
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resolving peacefully…..
Ukraine could disappear from the map unless the conflict with Russia is resolved peacefully, former Trump military adviser Colonel Douglas Macgregor said in an interview with Sky News Australia on Wednesday.
When asked what more could be done to help Ukraine in the ongoing military conflict, Macgregor stated that “the longer this lasts, the more people are going to be needlessly slaughtered, the more damage will be done to Ukraine,” adding that it is now “effectively a failed state, it could be erased completely from the map.”
Noting that Ukraine’s military has suffered enormous losses during the conflict and that Russian forces were “by no means overstretched or hurting at this point,” Macgregor argued that “we need a ceasefire” and that countries like Australia should be pushing for it since “no one in Washington is going to do it.”
“We can’t afford to fight this until there are no longer any Ukrainians left,” he insisted, noting that he has heard from people in Berlin, Paris, and London that there is growing support for a ceasefire or coming to “some sort of an arrangement” between Moscow and Kiev.
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Colonel Douglas Macgregor's position should be adopted by the West to ACHIEVE PEACE. Our litle mongrel Albo doing impressions of little shit turdy Abbott (please albo, don't be daft like turdy abbott….) isn't going to solve anything. Yes we know Colonel Douglas Macgregor was admired by Trump.... Meanwhile we prefer to prolong the agony of a country that was not united, but is about to vanish to "THE LAST UKRAINIAN" — read Galician because the Russians in the Donbass region are "back to normal"....
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