"Stockholm Syndrome"... a civilizational phenomena
The vacuous empire has overplayed its hand and is now in freefall
“Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological condition that occurs when hostages or victims of kidnapping develop positive feelings and emotional bonds with their captors. This seemingly paradoxical reaction can be seen as a survival strategy, as the victims perceive that cooperating and sympathizing with their captors increases their chances of survival and eventual release.”— Copilot
If you write long enough and often enough you will end up quoting yourself. Thus I find myself referring readers back to stuff I wrote six years ago. This becomes a necessary obligation as issues are in constant flux, changing for the better or the worse. As writers we must evaluate our writings as to how accurate our observations hold true to the times when written and thereafter.
When reading books and documents one of the first things I do is check the date of copyright— How long has the information therein been around? Has it been internalized and acted on? Are the ideas therein simply remaindered and relegated to the dustbin of history as the huge archive of great ideas and insights available to us. Living as we do in our post-literate mindless state of being hostages to a cabal of lawless thugs.
I will continue name-bombing writers like John Ralston Saul, C. Wright Mills, and Chalmers Johnson as these are among the true prophets we should be listening to as it is we are hostage to the slimy frogs who speak with forked tongues. We are without doubt the the children of adversity hostage to the agents of endless war and consumptive perversity.
History will show Ukraine as the war that brought down an empire exposing the sloth and rot at its core. For the cabal of zombie war mongers on the Potomac it was an act of self-incrimination, their rapacious greed for power and money was clumsy, confessional and utterly Pyrrhic.
The genocide in Gaza is a consequent spontaneous combustion of the endemic hate, racism and evil existing within the cabal; a victim of its insatiable megalomania and lawlessness.
It becomes masochistic to read books written fifty, sixty and a hundred years ago where the authors tell us who were really are, and where we are going well in advance of the calamities we create for ourselves. History is prophecy, it is the treadmill of human folly and grim reading at the best of times. We are the compulsive recidivists committing the same inanities over and over again and expecting different results.
Compliance, complicity, collaboration and willful ignorance are not survival strategies, but no more than a moribund limbo.
It is a sad comment on our decline when universities are complicit in the crimes of the empire and legislators give standing ovations to indicted practitioners of genocide.
It is truly a sad state of affairs when a whole civilization is hostage to a cabal of war mongering thugs more than willing to blow up the whole world to have their way. It appears the pathetic West is deathly afraid “of true freedom and the larger world.”
The vacuous empire has overplayed its hand and is now in freefall.
Six years later and the NATO vassal states are in economic ruin thanks to NATO:
NATO Vassal States Suffering Stockholm Syndrome
By Robert Billyard
July 16, 2018 "Information Clearing House" - Stockholm syndrome applies to individuals held in a hostage situation. After a period of time they become resigned to their captivity and go into an alliance with their captor. It is similar to prisoners incarcerated for so long they don’t want to leave prison. Prison becomes their “natural” home and they develop a fear of true freedom and the larger world.
So too is it with countries and it applies to NATO’s vassal states.
NATO was formed after WW ll as a defense alliance to counter the threat of the now defunct USSR. The Warsaw Pact was the USSR equivalent defense alliance and was disbanded in 1991 with the collapse of the USSR. NATO should have also been disbanded but in the spirit of American triumphalism it had a new role to play. It would continue to be dominated by the US and become part of its globalized war machine.
Europe was liberated from Hitler’s Germany only to be colonized by American imperialism. NATO was then, as it is today, an effective way for the US to control Europe. Controlling Europe also prevents it from forming a pact with Russia as this would constitute a power bloc and challenge to US dominance.
In Brussels PM Trudeau makes the pompous claim that NATO is as relevant today as it was when founded… “The meeting tomorrow will be an opportunity for all of our countries to rededicate ourselves to NATO, to demonstrate that it’s actually important, that it actually does important things, and that the collection of values and rules that it was brought in to defend 75-plus years ago are just as relevant today as they ever were,”
This is the same Trudeau who fired his most senior cabinet minister and former party leader. Global Affairs minister Stephane Dion was send packing as he had some ideas for a more independent Canadian foreign policy. With the arrival of Trump, Dion had to go to appease Washington. Dion was replaced with the hard-line Russiaphobic Chrystia Freeland. In step with the vociferous Western anti-Russian propaganda mill both Trudeau and Freeland take cheap shots at Russia on a regular basis.(“vociferous” is the operative word here as the vilification of Russia in the West is so pandemic as to be suspect- just fake news gone ballistic.)
As Trudeau marches off to Brussels he does so as a novice colonial manager in obedient service to the power elites. He is not a power broker but a power groupie. Like the leaders of other NATO vassal states he sacrifices the good of his country to the greater glories of a defunct and utterly corrupt Empire. They all suffer Stockholm syndrome.
Trump on the other hand is the ultimate power broker who glories in the bullying exercise of it all and he is utterly contemptuous of weakness in others-he feeds on it. The Empire practices the most invidious self-serving parasitism as it feeds off friend and foe alike. Trump is so brazen he is already threatening to raise defense spending for NATO members from the present 2% of GDP to 4%.
NATO is only relevant as a one-time defense alliance now serving the Empire as part of its global militarism. NATO is not a defender of countries but a destroyer. It talks defense but it is all offense. NATO vassal states are willfully ignorant of the existence of the Wolfowitz Doctrine and the Program for the New American Century. They ignore that the US has the entire globe divided into military command zones, that they have almost a thousand bases spanning the globe. The US and its NATO vassal states account for over 65% of global annual military spending.
Little wonder Trump is desperate to have his vassals cough up more cash. His country is in imperial overreach with big bills to pay.
NATO as a defense alliance is a charade. To play the game there has to be a designated villain and Russia fills the bill. As it did in Cold War l the US is playing the oldest and most tiresome of games again in Cold War ll- Divide and Conquer. The US is a warfare state, much like the Roman Empire. To sustain endless militarism there must be endless warfare and an endless supply of enemies- mostly concocted. The world must be divided into good and evil. There can be no detente, no genuine multilateralism. Progressive values are blocked and bled to death by the wages of war. We squander our futures to the craven stupidity of endless war.
For this craven stupidity to flourish there must also be a pandemic of Stockholm syndrome. Legions become afflicted. Starting with our politicos, it is scoured into the propagandist brains of the media, garnished with the gibberish of our stupefied intellectual elites, and drilled into an indifferent public.
This is the “psychological alliance “of doom. Left unchallenged it forecloses the future. The existence of NATO is all about very big lies, hostage taking and extortion with the death knell of Western civilization sounding in the distance.
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