Russia has no future. The British Isles do. Long before the last serving of fish and chips has passed into gastronomy history, Blinis and Pelmeni will have been stricken from all the languages of Earth. At least, this is what Owen Matthews, the author of the book Stalin’s Children, believes. Sadly, he is not alone in his ludicrous and addictive hate of all things Russian.
Spectator’s View
Somebody, please stop me! This morning's research has inextricably led me to another media analysis—this time of the weekly British newspaper The Spectator. The title of author Owen Matthews’s story will help you understand how this geopolitical analyst can’t seem to get off of Western news. “Putin may seem confident – but Russia’s future is bleak,” is problematic because it is entirely based on a dark fantasy. Matthews, after whining about Mr. Putin running things in Russia some more, launches into a spew about the Ukraine military operation. In his vent, the British son of Ukrainian S.S.R. parents belches a familiar Western strategy burp – the idea that Ukraine ever had any chance of winning a conflict against Russia.
Like all the other stories we’ve read about Putin, the Euromaidan, Ukraine, Russia, and the state of West-East affairs, all the familiar bell tones are there in The Statesman's latest Putin hate spill. Ideas like new Russian imperialism, Russia’s weak army, Putin’s destroyed economy, and even a Russian brain drain exodus are there to rivet the willing idiots tuned in. I assume the Russian mafioso, former Yukos oil boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and other Western-backed privateers are the “best and brightest” to whom the Statesman story refers. The magazine’s paywall prevented me from diving deeper into this latest Russophobic rant. Still, the exciting thing here is the question that arises from observing so many talented writers being sucked into the dark wormhole of elitist illusion. Aha! You say? We are onto something much more profound than painting paid propagandists.
Long Live the King
You see, almost all of these Putin haters and China worriers are convinced of their correctness by a system that rewards outcomes. Or, at least, the outcomes those who control the system desire. Every level of society is “led” toward one desirable outcome – profit in America and other Western alliance countries. And this form is not simply ordinary profit but an economic system that makes tribute to a French, Spanish, or English king look like alms for the poor. It’s all very refined, you see. It’s cloaked in ideas like “democracy” and injected into our veins like a serum called “freedom.” Owen Matthews is not the only Brit who believes in his ideas. He’s just got one of the best jobs as dope dealer for the susceptible masses. Ironically, he probably does not know it. Some CIA-groomed tech Titans or Pulitzer winners do understand from whence their fame and fortune is derived. Those lizard people are clutching the half-filled glass of single malt before or snorting a line during and after lunch. For justice's sake, there is a point when even people like the notorious Victoria Nuland end up looking in the mirror and seeing a son or daughter of Satan himself. Stop and think.
Now, apply your vision of a face wrenched by hate, lies, power struggles, ruined relationships, and way too many chocolates and other sweets. The faces you may visualize are the “little” Victoria Nulands in our society. Or, perhaps, you’re conjuring mental imagery of your next-door neighbor! You know, the one with the big Putin hate. The one who could not find Ukraine on a map with countries named in bold. Interestingly, or poetically, I taught geography for a bit. That was until I realized that one child in 100 cared a lot more about Ma and Pa, a ballgame, or a trip to Walmart than their world. What's even sadder is the act that even Ma and Pa America think the United States is twice as big as Africa. As for you reading this, you have the beginnings of a window out right here in this paragraph. Yes, they want us stupid as hell.
Americans, Brits, and most people are brought up to “know” only what is necessary to keep the profit machine working. I speak with friends from America all the time. They are satisfied that Vladimir Putin is Genghis Khan, even though few know who the Mongolian conqueror was. They are wrapped up and and finally discontented to realize their president is senile and in control of much of nothing. And some pray on their knees that another geriatric puppet named Trump will prevail over a man who waves at invisible people. Some Americans may have a son or daughter who’s been in prison, on the hardest drugs, or just shit out of luck for a multitude of reasons. And then there are those few of my countrymen whose kids seem like they are on the Yellow Brick Road. Yes, for the upper-middle-class elite few, Emerald City and the land of the Mighty Oz are just over the hill. And no, none of them know where Zanzibar, Albania, India, or Indonesia is.
The truth shines. The people who own The Statesman and other key U.K. publications are irrevocably tied to the British treasury. There’s no space here to get into the Barclay brothers, Crown Agents, Boris Johnson, and a laundry list of other elitist rogues. Still, those brainwashed, groomed, or with simple greed stamped into their foreheads cling like refrigerator magnets to institutions like The Statesman, The New York Times, and the mainstream media. Ironically, we mice follow them like zombies, with our arms outstretched, plodding along in our daily blood ritual called life. Impervious, most people are to the fascist horrors inflicted on Palestinians, starving Yemenis, or even the unstoppable desertification blanketing our planet. Climate change is a corporate hoax. COVID will or will not kill us! And our classification of humanity still boils down to white, black, brown, yellow, or red-skinned people. As for Russians, or in fact, all Slavs, they are inhuman barbarians - mobsters - insects to be nuked. But there's a huge problem there: Tsar Bomba has gone hypersonic.
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And now you understand why I cannot get off the subject of Western media propaganda. It’s all advertising, you see. I know this from a professional perspective. I once owned the most influential PR news outlet in Europe. I have emails from almost all of the world’s most famous and successful public relations and marketing executives. We interviewed the movers and shakers who transform reality. What began with the TV soap opera in the 1950s has metastasized into nearly complete mind control. Factor in a few hundred million iPhones, a billion or two Facebook accounts, Super Bowl Sunday, and voilà! Once the dopamine hits the inner nine-year-old and that narcissistic chromosome – God could end up being the enemy. Hell, he already is for just about everyone in Hollywood.
So, is this report be about just another Soros, Walton family, or Rothschild minion? No, the revelation is more powerful than the Soviet Union’s 50-megaton Tsar Bomba. The nuclear radiation spread out over our world is deadlier than gamma rays. You see, Owen Matthews is not the enemy. Full-asleep Joe Biden isn’t either. Even the frozen brain of Adolf Hitler running the EU is not responsible, and neither was Joseph Stalin. The Disney conglomerate and Comcast are not the ultimate evil. We are.
Instead of stepping outside the bubble, and rather than snatching a drop of courage and fortitude from our lazy and easily corruptible existences, we always do the easy thing. We follow. Human rats traverse the ship’s mooring lines, seething to get to that hidden cargo that will grow our bellies bigger. All those unarmed and defenseless Palestinians the lunatic Israelis are eradicating - we could care less really. We’re standing by just like we did when the Nazis gassed men, women, and children to death like pests in the death camps.
And there’s your hard truth, the tough love, straight from this SPECTATOR of it all.
An earlier version of this report appeared in New Eastern Outlook
