What if the same puppet-master(s) control(s) both Putin, his presidential administration and the Federal Assembly in Russia (Russia’s legislative body), as well as Biden, his administration, and the Congress of the United States?
Let me elaborate and elucidate: nothing is more profitable for the big dominant financier international banking cabal than war. Why? The U.S. central bank, deceptively termed the ‘Federal Reserve’ (‘the Fed’) bank, is a privately owned corporation exempt from Congressional oversight. It does not comprise a part of the Federal Government as many believe. The asymmetrical relationship with Congress and Treasury is that the Central Bank sets interest rates, controls the expansion and contraction of the money supply, as well as the discretionary power over issuance of the line of credit extended to the U.S. government for public projects. Herein there are two disingenuous features. I need to do more research on the first of these features, however it seems to be apparent that private interests in the Fed ultimately control which public projects they deem worthy of backing through their discretion to supply or withhold credit in the form of purpose-specific loans at interest to the U.S. Federal Government for these public projects (not simply elected officials representing the public at large). Secondly – money is created out of loans to the U.S. Government as debt charged with interest. Inherent in this fraudulent asymmetrical design and relationship are inflation – flushing more money into circulation the more loans are facilitated, and bankruptcy – only the principal loan money exists in the money pool at any given time and thus not enough money exists to repay the interest on these loans. The (central) Bank of England was once controlled by private interests but has since been nationalised. So nowadays, the international central banking cabal uses the Fed as its main front for financier capital accumulation. This included the GFC in which the U.S. taxpayer bailed out hundreds of foreign banks that were a part of, or linked into, the Federal Reserve System.
The international banking cabal, probably primarily led or spearheaded by the Rothschild’s international banking dynasty, has setup as a beach-head, a private/corporate monopoly over money creation and its ensuing rigged system for promulgation of its selfish interests, usurping legitimate democratic power from Congress and constitutional rights and political designs, in today’s geopolitical super-power – U.S. As I will meticulously argue elsewhere – cabals of geopolitical elites conspiring for world domination of which the financier class is a strong element has in its effect furthered U.S. led (neo)imperialism with the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. This has been actuated through acute perversion of the democratic functionality of Congress. The Fed, Wall Street, the military, homeland security, and greedy corporations that have grown wealthier in this system of political lobbying and financier manipulations converge on ‘a war consensus’. This is because, in times of war, the Federal Government via the Treasury must procure loans from the Fed at interest for military spending or military aid to other countries. The U.S. taxpayer is now paying for this military aid to Ukraine and the interest on the loans made by the Fed to the U.S. Government for ‘defence’. The national debt for the U.S. is over $31 trillion, which is obscene and insanity. In the Fed’s own terms – the U.S. government has procured the money in the form of loans from ‘private investors’. I would add that the jargon of finance capital is intentionally opaque in order to hoodwink the public so that they will not pose a threat or challenge to their disingenuous and social and economic parasitical machinations. But that is another whole blog post topic for another day!
It’s not that I don’t believe in military aid to help stop a geopolitical aggressor – the Russian army and ruling class in this case, and to provide military and social assistance to a victim state – Ukraine in this instance. It’s that a tiny elite – supranational mega financier capitalists as well as arms dealers – get richer by the day as afflicted and involved countries become poorer and many pay with their lives as a result of psychopathic elitist manipulations.
It is incumbent to point out the injustice and economic inefficiency of imposing blanket sanctions on an entire country! It is a disgusting and primitive form of indiscriminate punishment. It is a collective punishment and not an individualizing (more humane) one. The vast majority of the Russian people should not be considered complicit in the war – by their actions. They did or do not invade Ukraine – they are working to feed themselves and their families. To pinpoint those complicit in the imperial invasion of Ukraine from Russia are Putin, his administration, the state controlled media that is pro the invasion, and the Russian military and soldiers deployed in Ukraine. Sanctions also mean wider economic instability and inefficiency in the international economy causing the wastage of tax money and contributing to rising prices in energy and essential goods and products. This contributes to the austerity capitalism we are currently enduring – hurting middle and lower classes even in First World nations.
Is NATO partly at fault? Ukraine is a NATO partner country. This signals a strong cooperative pledge and intention with NATO. However, this does extend to invoke the security guarantee in the alliance’s founding treaty. Since Ukraine is not a nuclear power, without invocation of the security guarantee of NATO, it leaves itself vulnerable to geopolitical aggressors like Russia, in this instance. If Ukraine had its own nuclear weapons, then it would have made the cost of war mutual obliteration, therefore acting as a deterrent.
Note: I am ultimately for global nuclear disarmament, but this must be done very carefully and be synchronous with genuinely politically progressive parties seizing nationalist power the world over with rank and file self-organised workers’ councils.
See my other blog post below on graded and measured political transitions to lib-com society/societies:
From a participatory economics model in the vein of Albert and Hahnel’s writings thereon, we could explore technocratic lib-com ideas as advanced and synthesized by the late Jacque Fresco. See my blog post which covers his contribution to political thought called Resource Based Economy:
Also find a Fresco synthesis congruent with determinism’s equality principle:
An informative, incisive and candid appraisal of war is in the following quote from Smedley Butler, a former Major-General for the U.S. military, from his book War is a Racket (1935), on ‘the nature of war’:
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/115545.Smedley_D_Butler
This racketeering nature of warfare, as Smedley Butler surmised, may be at least partially applicable to the current conflict in Ukraine – certainly there is at least some profiteering and state capitalist imperialism. Without doubt, the vast economic inequality in global capitalism – including both liberal capitalism and state capitalism – lays the bedrock for and causes perpetual war.
There are many more revelatory quotes from Butler on the nature of warfare and its corruption that can be found at the above linked website, quoting much from his infamous book.
Whilst, we need to deconstruct war politics, we must treat veterans with respect, as they had the courage to put themselves into harm’s way, and often have horrific memories and/or physical and/or mental disabilities from experiencing the atrocities of war first-hand.
For my concluding remarks, and possibly my most pertinent statements for this blog entry, is a more foolproof targeted way of getting passed this conflict1: to support with funds, materials, political and defensive military aid, to assist in generating, edifying and mobilising the working class, working class rank and file organising, and uniting progressive factions and forces within Russia capable of effectively opposing Putin’s murderous and extralegal regime2 from within – to topple Putin’s corrupt criminal warmongering and geopolitical state aggressor oligarchy. You will not hear this most effective, targeted and holistic strategy from any of the elitist war-brokers of NATO, as they simply do not represent the working class – neither respectively nationally nor internationally. Instead of mass mobilisation of the working class as an antidote to imperialism, leaders of ‘the free world’ generally prefer geopolitical perpetual war3; I wish this was just a sick joke, but that is the hard, cold, unadulterated truth of the matter. How many more lives will be destroyed, if capitalism, and state capitalism, is allowed to continue running rampant?
Cheers, folks!
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- Aside from the moral impetus of Russian soldiers choosing suicide over the killing of innocent Ukrainian children, women and men. ↩︎
- “Because it violates the UN Charter, and is more than a minor border incursion, Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine has been qualified by legal experts as a crime of aggression under Article 8bis(1) of the Rome Statute”. Wikipedia, ‘Legality of the Russian invasion of Ukraine’, last accessed 4 December 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#cite_note-:5-62 ↩︎
- Even so-called well-meaning elites, that is if at the level of their unconscious they are seeing working class, both within capitalism and in post-capitalism, power as unachievable, it is just totally inexcusable and irresponsible political apathy. There is already a comprehensive social philosophy, in which all people need to contribute to, in technologically reified knowledge, to tangibly bring about more humane progressive politics. No excuse, just humane and nuanced self-fulfilling prophecy, please! ↩︎
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