June 5, 2024
The St Petersburg Economic Forum (SPIEF) takes place
this week. It’s one of the go-to annual meetings across Eurasia. The overall
theme in 2024 is “multipolarity,” quite fitting considering this is the year of
the Russian presidency of BRICS. The BRICS summit next October in Kazan will be
crucial in drawing the contours of the road map towards multipolarity going
forward.
Ay, there’s the rub. Taking us to arguably the key
question facing the Global Majority: How can we afford to dream about
multipolarity when we are plunged into The Unthinkable, reduced to the role of
mere spectators, watching a genocide broadcast 24/7 on every smartphone on the
planet?
The – avowedly imperfect – International Court of
Justice (ICJ) at least ordered the biblical genocidals to stop bombing Rafah.
Israel’s response? They bombed Rafah. Worse, they burned children alive in
refugee tents. With American missiles.
And the genocide will continue at least until the
end of this multipolar year, as boasted by Israeli intel. The Global Majority
at least clearly sees how the “rules-based international order” works. Yet
that’s not much of a comfort.
The ICJ order to stop the carnage in Rafah, plus the
ICC drive to seek warrants for the arrest of top Israeli leaders for serial war
crimes in Gaza, predictably sent the Israel–US joined at-the-hip combo into a
hysterical frenzy.
The heart of the matter concerns the real masters
and managers of the Empire of Chaos and Plunder – much more than their lowly
emissaries. The masters cannot allow any institution to loosen their grip on
the official narrative.
The official narrative is “there’s no genocide in
Gaza” and no “red lines” have been trespassed. This is the official diktat of
the collective west. No breaches are allowed. They will go to unconstitutional
extremes to enforce total narrative control, with an ironclad public relations
operation to envelop the whole planet in layer after layer of propaganda
stupor.
Slightly contradicting Mao Zedong, real power does
not come from the barrel of a gun (or from a hypersonic nuclear missile); it
comes from narrative control, or what we used to call “soft power.” The
difference now is that the Hegemon does not control soft power anymore. The
Global Majority is perfecting, in real-time, its own soft power counterpunches.
A systemically sociopathic society
The narrative controllers may still be able to
obliterate key facts from western public opinion, for instance, on ethnic
cleansing. Christian Arabs have been systematically ethnic-cleansed in
Palestine. In the early 1950s, Bethlehem was 86 percent Christian, a figure
that has since plummeted to a dismal 12 percent today. The biblical psychopaths
built a wall around Bethlehem, annexed land for the benefit of armed Jewish
settlers, and ethnically cleansed Christians.
Serious studies on hyper-ethnocentrism or the
systemically sociopathic character of Israeli society do not offer much solace
when it comes to stopping a genocide.
Because the wound is much deeper. Alastair Crooke, a
former diplomat with vast on-the-ground experience, is peerless among
westerners when it comes to understanding the intricacies of West Asia.
In his columns and podcasts, he touches on the major
wound laid bare by the war/genocide in Gaza: the schism, at the heart of the
west, between an “illiberal social engineering project” posing as liberalism
and a project to “recover the ‘eternal’ values (however imperfect) that once
lay behind European civilization.”
Adding to the problem, the US–Israel power
structures are joined at the hip. And they work under a sort of complementary
logic. While Israel’s version of plunder is embodied in settler colonialism,
the Hegemon – as brilliantly explained by Michael Hudson – has been on an orgy
of rent-seeking financialized colonialism since the end of WWII.
And what Michael Hudson qualifies as the FIRE
(finance–insurance–real estate) racket has calcified, as Alastair notes, into
“a permanent framework to the Western political and geopolitical system.”
Thus, it’s no wonder that the Global Majority
instinctively sees the Israel–US combo – bearing different forms of
exploitation/plunder all the way to genocide – as the epitome of colonialism,
now “softened” by a narrative control op into a meaningless “rules-based
international order.”
It’s also no wonder that the Gaza genocide has
sparked a renewed Global Majority-wide, anti-colonial wave.
Still, that’s not enough. No one is actually
stopping the genocide. That would only be practically possible by inflicting a
devastating military defeat on Israel – with the victors dictating the terms of
capitulation. That’s not feasible – at least not yet – and contributes to the
biblical psychopaths believing they can get away with anything.
‘A new horizon of human sacrifice’
Andrea Zhok is a professor of Ethical Philosophy at
the University of Milan and one of the foremost independent Italian
intellectuals. Zhok takes us further into the – appropriately tragic – dead-end
now contemplated by the collective west.
The west under the Hegemon, he says, only ever had a
Plan A. There was no Plan B. That implies the west will continue to apply all
forms of Divide and Rule against the major Eurasian powers – Russia, China, and
Iran. Zhok notes, correctly, that India is substantially under control.
That’s the crossroads scenario we’re in right now.
Looking ahead, it’s either an Open Hot War or an array of Hybrid Wars between
major powers and their vassals – essentially, the Third World War.
Zhok shows how the west under the Hegemon is now
obsessed with creating “systemic wounds” capable of cyclical destruction. To
open these “wounds,” there are two main procedures: war and pandemics.
He argues that only “a new horizon of human
sacrifice” is capable of allowing the west’s “Ultimate Truth” to continue
standing on its clay feet.
In fact, it is this “new horizon of human sacrifice”
that is conditioning the west’s non-response – or worse, legitimization – of
the Gaza genocide. And that is inexorably corroding the European psyche from
the inside. What used to be called European civilization – now completely
vassalized by the Hegemon – may not ever be cured of the cancer.
If these trials and tribulations were not enough,
irrational messengers – under orders – are busy bringing us closer day after
day to a nuclear war.
And some lowly functionaries even admit it, point
blank.
It’s all here, in a conversation between Judge
Andrew Napolitano and analysts Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern, during which the
former refers to an email he received from a military/intel source. This is
what the source told him:
Today, I listened to an extensive
interview with an IDF ex-intelligence officer. His position was clear: ‘We
are,’ he said, ‘aiming towards a world war’
(italics mine). Israel, therefore, shouldn’t stop itself from implementing
some of the most radical measures because its actions will be measured
retroactively in the context of the brutal world conflict to come.
This should be seen as the ultimate explanation for
the Hegemon/Vassals’ nonstop frantic escalation in the intertwined Forever Wars
front – from Gaza to Novorossiya.
That includes genocide – and genocide spin-offs,
such as the $320 million ‘aid’ pier scam now turned into junk on the Gaza
shore, bringing it all back to genocide all over again as the breadcrumb ploy
of expelling/shipping Palestinians abroad has miserably failed.
“Aiming towards a world war” makes it all so clear
who’s really running the show. And the whole multipolar world is still being
held hostage.
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