1914 has never been a bigger shit show

 

So the pro-Ukrainian leftists have to demand more US/EU/NATO aid to Ukraine, while the pro-Russian leftists are on the same page as Donald Trump and J D Vance? While both factions oppose aid to Israel...

1914 has never been a bigger shit show. (Signed: The Kaiser) 

Krigskrediter

 

Okej, min rubrik är "click bait", men jag kunde inte låta bli. Dock lite överraskad över att La France Insoumise tillhör den anti-ryska vänstergruppen i EU-parlamentet. Trodde de var pro-ryska?

Europas radikala vänster splittras

Krigskrediter

 

Jag stödjer som bekant svenskt NATO-medlemskap. Måste ändå säga att anhängarnas pekpinnar mot V och MP efter att DCA-avtalet röstats igenom är rätt så töntiga. Tänker närmast på Aftonbladet här. 

Jag antar att det har något med svenskt koncensustänkande att göra. Alla ska med. Eller rättare sagt sitta ner i båten. V och MP fick sitt lilla roliga när de röstade mot NATO-medlemskapet förra året. Nu ska alla rösta för allt NATO-relaterat. För vi är ju redan medlemmar. Så det så!

Fast ur en viss synvinkel har AB faktiskt rätt. Jag är tillräckligt gammal för att komma ihåg när V och MP var EU-motståndare. MP var först med att ge upp EU-motståndet efter att Sverige väl blivit medlemmar. De insåg nämligen att EU:s byråkrati kan användas för att driva igenom miljöregleringar i Sverige. Och i praktiken gav V också upp EU-motståndet några år senare. Minns en ganska bisarr debatt mellan Gudrun Schyman och Jan Guillou på den punkten...

Så varför skulle inte samma sak kunna gälla NATO? Varför skulle inte MP och V kunna sluta oroa sig och lära sig älska bomben? Det kan hända. Och då kommer MP att vara först. De kanske kan intala sig själva att NATO försvarar den där EU-byråkratin? Och V har redan röstat för svenskt bistånd till Ukraina. Fast ärligt talat har jag svårt att se hur *det* partiet någonsin ska kunna bli NATO-vänligt.

Om det inte får ministerposter, förstås. 

För nog är det väl *det* som får AB att bli riktigt irriterade på sina tjäbblande tvillingpartier? Socialdemokraterna behöver Miljöpartiets och Vänsterpartiets mandat för att komma tillbaka till regeringsmakten. Och det vore lite penibelt att regera med stöd av två USA-kritiska partier i DCA-tider. 

Så det handlar alltså inte alls om svenskt koncensustänkande. Utan om de sedvanliga inrikespolitiska apspelet. Om sanningen ska fram! 

I am the destroyer of worlds

 

"Have you heard, My Lady, those weird mlecchas
who claim to be Aryas actually want the Drona weapon!"

A German Social Democratic MEP wants the European Union (or is it really Germany) to get some new trinkets...

EU may need its own nuclear weapons 

Redefining success in Ukraine

 

The new US strategy for Ukraine is completely compatible with the secret Russian "peace plan" reported earlier. If Ukraine is no longer trying to retake occupied territory, it will become easier to sign a "peace deal" in which said territory is formally ceded to Russia. 

Unless the "peace plan" is Russian disinfo, "leaked" in advance of the US change of strategy, precisely in order to make the Biden admin look weak!

Two other (not unrelated) things also struck me. 

First, note that Ukraine is completely dependent on US (and more broadly, Western) military and financial assistance to fight the Russians. I suppose this could be a problem for those leftists who support Ukraine, while still pretending to be against NATO and the US. How is Ukraine *not* an "imperialist stooge" fighting a NATO proxy war against the Russian Federation? I support Ukraine, but logically that means that you can´t just "dissolve NATO". That would be like biting the hand that feeds you! 

Second, it´s perfectly possible that the new strategy is necessary, not simply because the famed Spring Offensive was a failure, but precisely because the West no longer has the capacity to arm Ukraine to the extent necessary. But the reason for *that* must be that the *Western arms industry* is lagging behind schedule. It´s not "Ukraine" (such as it is) that is loosing its war with Russia (with our friendly support), it´s *the West itself* failing to fight Putin´s advances. 

But that, in turn, means that NATO can essentially never be dissolved, since the only way to stop Russia is a NATO re-armament. Therefore, the leftists who support Ukraine are faced with a stark choice in the years ahead. 

OK, let me guess. Most of them will dump Ukraine and pivot towards supporting Gaza and mass immigration? Or defending Iran...   

Biden admin working on new strategy to support Ukraine

Det befästa folkhemmet

 

"OK, guys, time to defend the Scandinavian welfare state"

NATO:s befästa folkhem, närmare bestämt. Suhonen goes full SKP i denna debattartikel. Alltså 70-talets SKP. Välkommen i gänget. 1914 har aldrig känts skönare än idag! 

"Svantesson agerar nyttig idiot åt Putin" 

1914 är redan här

 

Vänsterpartiet har säkert en poäng här, men visst är det lustigt att de låter som hycklande kväkare? Ni vet, pacifister som egentligen stödjer krig indirekt genom att vårda skadade soldater. V stödjer indirekt Sveriges försvar (och snart NATO?) genom att "satsa på civilförsvaret". Som är en del av totalförsvaret. 

Det var det.  

"Högerns vårdpolitik klarar inte kristider"

Stridspitt

 

Alltid lika roligt när en sosse låter som en stridspitt. Och inte ens vill höja skatterna. Men visst, han har en viss poäng. Problemet är förstås att det Lindberg vill försvara inte är "Sverige". Vilket framgår av resten av hans ledarartiklar...

Dessutom verkar han tro att den internationella finansmarknaden fortfarande kommer att fungera, även om den politiska splittringen i världen ökar. Eller vill han låna pengar inom Sverige? 

"Därför bör vi låna till högre försvarsanslag"

"Vi är överens om det civila försvaret"

 

Ha ha ha.

Några citat:

"Vänsterpartiet har inte bara tonat ner kritiken mot Nato i den nya rapporten. Partiet ser även vissa fördelar med det svenska Natomedlemskapet. Satsningar på infrastruktur, främst tågräls, kan behöva göras och då kan Nato vara med och finansiera investeringarna, påpekar Hanna Gunnarsson.

– Det kommer att krävas mer järnväg och bättre infrastruktur för att, i en situation av höjd beredskap, kunna ta emot militärpersonal, säger hon.

– Vänsterpartiet skulle inte säga nej till att Nato ger oss bättre järnväg i norra eller västra Sverige. Vi får se det som att något gott kanske kommer från det här medlemskapet."

V och MP tonar ner NATO-kritiken

Från landsförräderi till global-patriotism

Från Kuusinen till Queer, snyggt jobbat! 

Diverse sosse- och vänsterdebattörer har blivit "omvända" till svenskt NATO-medlemskap. Något de inte ens förespråkade under kalla kriget. Orsaken sägs vara "den nya säkerhetspolitiska situationen" som uppstått i och med att Ryssland attackerat Ukraina.

Vilket givetvis är skitsnack.

Varför det? Jag återupprepar: för att dessa politiska krafter *inte* krävde NATO-medlemskap under kalla kriget. De ansåg tvärtom att Sverige skulle *avbryta* det halvhemliga NATO-samarbete som fanns redan då.

Men observera att Ryssland då kontrollerade Baltikum, Polen och halva Europa. Finland var finlandiserat. Ryssland var en global motståndare till västblocket. De invaderade Ungern, Tjeckoslovakien och Afghanistan, och fixade en illa beryktad militärkupp i Polen. 

Varför var detta *mindre* hotfullt än Putins försök att ockupera östra och södra Ukraina? 

Låt oss tala klarspråk. Ett: Vänstern vill visa det västerländska etablissemanget att de är "pålitliga". Två: Anledningen till detta, är att västvärlden numera ser ut ungefär som vänstern vill ha den. Mer vänsterliberalism, massinvandring, vindsnurror, och så vidare. Det stora problemet med Puttes Gårdarike verkar vara att de förbjudit Pussy Riot och bombar våra mångkulturella allierade i Syrien. Ja, al-Qaida, ni vet...

Det är därför vänstern sluter upp bakom NATO. Den är systembevarande. Detta förklarar också den ständiga oron för att Trump ska bli president i USA. Vilket verkar vara det enda som kan få en vänsterlök att ifrågasätta medlemskap i militäralliansen. "Då riskerar NATO att kollapsa". Eller användas till att försvara ett helt *annat* etablissemangsprojekt...

Vänstern vill ha ett vänsterliberalt NATO med Biden, Zelenskij och Macron. Och Walt Disney, förstås. Det vore väldigt ironiskt om den till slut fick ett NATO med Trump, Pompeo, DeSantis och Azov istället. Men okej, Macron sitter kanske kvar på sin olympiska empyré?

Som sagt, ironiskt. För jag misstänker att det finns ännu en anledning till den motsägelse jag nämnde ovan. Någonstans i bakhuvudet uppfattar även dagens vänster Ryssland som "vänster" före 1991. Ja, just det. Sovjetunionen. Vem vet, det kanske är därför dagens global-patrioter var söta små landsförrädare på 1980-talet...   

Split the vote, endorse a bourgeois

Jean-Marie Le Pen laughing 

I admit that I don´t understand French political culture. Why on earth does every obscure political formation in the Hexagon insist on fielding candidates of their own in the first round of the presidentials? 

Judging by the prognosis for the recent presidential elections, Marine Le Pen has a narrow lead over leftist candidate Mélenchon. Which means that the left must vote Macron to stop Le Pen in the second round. 

*But if the Communists, New Anticapitalist Party and Lutte Ouvrière had voted for Mélenchon in the first round, he would have defeated Le Pen*. 

I can´t say that I give much damn, but it does show the sectarian idiocy of these people (by their own standards). In 2002, the left split their votes so badly that Jean-Marie Le Pen (the real fascist) defeated them, presumably forcing the leftists to vote for regular rightist Jacques Chirac in the second round.

Or am I missing something somewhere? Maybe the French left wants excuses to form popular fronts?   

1914 har aldrig varit så färsigt

 

Klassförräderi har aldrig varit så färsigt. Den fantastiska bilden här ovan är saxad från Internationalen, som inte riktigt gillar Nooshis folkfrontspolitik, but there you go! 

Not a workers´ government, but a Czar?!

The weird, sinister, shadowy and utterly erratic US pseudo-Trotskyist groupuscule "Spartacist League" pretends to be dual defeatists in the war between Russia and the Ukraine, but look at the fine print!

>>>To present the war as imperialist is to throw sand in the eyes of the workers. Should NATO or any imperialist power directly enter this war, it would be an obligation for any revolutionary to side militarily with Russia for the defeat of the imperialists, the main bulwark of capitalist reaction internationally. This is precisely the task which is rejected by those who agitate about “Russian imperialism.”>>>

There it is, after all these years. Not a workers´ government, but a Czar! Or at least a president for life...

"NATO/EU aggression provokes war in Ukraine"

The COVID Consensus

I can´t stop linking to this rather obvious Communist front group...

Note the irony that Max Blumenthal (who seems to be pro-Chinese) is also anti-lockdown, while the dogmato-sectoid-Trotskyite World Socialist Web Site (linked to elsewhere) is anti-Chinese...except on lockdowns, where it recommends that all the world follows China´s so-called Zero COVID policy! 

OK, I admit I was a left-watcher in my sadly misspent youth. 

That being said, Blumenthal´s and Stavroula Pabst´s article *is* a good criticism of the lockdowns and the pro-lockdown "left". The lockdowns have hit the working class and the Global South particularly hard, while being used to "lockdown" democratic debate in the Western nations. Critics have been branded "Nazis" or "fascists". Blumenthal hints at the left´s middle class social composition as the explanation for their (indeed bizarre) support for what amounts to a bourgeois-imperialist (by their own definitions) global emergency. Note also that this supposedly "woke" left supports measures that increase domestic violence against women, mental health problems among youth and young adults, and more IMF control over "BIPOC" nations in the Third World. 

A quote from the essay:

>>>For many among the urban laptop class, including a large swath of the hyper-online Western left which still clamors for national school closures and demands lockdowns in the face of a handful of new cases (while crudely painting critics of official Covid policy as Nazis), quarantine orders merely enforced an already sedentary lifestyle that revolves around Zoom meetings, ordered food and Amazon deliveries. The restrictions further eliminated tedious commutes to work while providing those able to work remotely with the satisfying sense that staying home was a bold act of social solidarity.  

>>>Under this spectacular arrangement, which assumed individual behavior could slow down or contribute to the spread of a virus, isolation was framed as a moral choice that led many of those willingly confined to their homes to fear or vilify a working class that frequently provided them with vital services. And while non-pharmaceutical interventions have generally proven futile against COVID-19, the stentorian demands to socially distance and attendant shaming of those who fail to obey has done little more than generate hostility between friends, families, and communities.

>>>“Lockdowns are a luxury of the rich,” Bhattacharya said, “and affect a certain class of people at the expense of others. A lockdown doesn’t mean all of society stops and we all sit in cages alone while we wait for the fires to go away. The poor and working class, many of them vulnerable and older, are asked to risk themselves, while another class of people stays at home protected.”

>>>This was particularly true in the Global South, where class divisions are clearly drawn and most people live dangerously close to the poverty line.

I said this before: I expected the "new 1914" of the left to be something dramatic, say a "military bloc" with the US army as they bomb the hell out of rogue Trump supporters marching on some state capital. I couldn´t imagine in my wildest fantasy that it would be uncritical support for misguided lockdowns (and even more misguided vaccine mandates?) during a flu pandemic...

The dialectic works in mysterious ways.  

Flattening the curve or flattening the global poor?

Something´s missing

Happy boy with no worries!

Supply crisis. Galloping inflation. Workers killed by rapacious employers. Workers on strike. You know the drift. 

United States fall - winter 2021.

However, there is one thing missing from this picture.

Exactly.

Where are all the left-wing radicals? Shouldn´t they be rioting in the streets against the "capitalist", "imperialist", "bourgeois" administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris? Shouldn´t close to a hundred American cities by now be engulfed by "fiery but mostly peaceful" protests? Where are the autonomous zones? Where is the Antifa snack van? Hell, where are all the trans-people?!

Nowhere to be seen. Weirdly, they don´t even riot in support of the migrants at the southern border! Or in support of unvaccinated Blacks who risk their jobs (or can´t enter shops and cafés) in places like New York City... 

The American left is obviously a *huge* fraud, even worse than I imagined. I suppose the White trust fund kids are imbibing Critical Race Theory or postmodernist philosophy at some Ivy League college somewhere, rather than risk a riot that´s *not* underwritten by the globo-liberal establishment... 

2021? Or just another 1914? 

The Austrian abyss

UnHerd is an independent British news outlet. It sent its correspondent to Austria in November, after that nation had just implemented a lockdown of the unvaccinated, while people with vaccine passports and ID cards can do pretty much what they like. The unvaxxed, by contrast, are confined to their houses for most of the day. Since one third of the Austrian population is unvaccinated, this essentially means an apartheid system segregating a very large minority of the population. 

So what do ordinary Austrians think of this? Or, say, human rights lawyers?

At least in the "good" part of Vienna, the Austrian capital, UnHerd´s reporter can´t find a single person (except a guy who obviously doesn´t live there) that opposes the measures. Quite the contrary. People seem to positively relish the fact, accusing the unvaccinated of being "crazy", "Flat Earthers", and so on. Then it gets really chilling. UnHerd interviews a long-standing human rights activist who calls for mandatory vaccinations (i.e. an even harsher measure), since he believes the partial lockdown is in some sense "hypocritical"?! The lawyer also accuses the far right party (the FPÖ) of "creating divisions in society" by opposing lockdowns and mandatory vaccines. 

Ahem, what? *Who exactly* is tearing society apart here? In an unguarded moment, the lawyer admits that mandatory vaccinations probably can´t be implemented, but if so, what´s the point of the measure in the first place? And if vaccine mandates fail, what should the Austrian state do? Strap everyone to a chair and force him to take the damn jab...?

The short docu ends with UnHerd´s reporter (who is vaccinated himself) entering a Christmas market in Vienna after showing his ID and vaccine passport. Then something remarkable happens. Once inside the parameters, *almost everyone removes their masks, without the police intervening*. And yet, chances are that *somebody* in that huge crowd carries COVID! So why do people suddenly relax once inside the parameter, as if it was somehow full proof from this apparently super-lethal plague?

UnHerd suggests that there are two reasons for the widespread support for the repressive measures. One is that a certain segment of society positively wants to repress certain "undesirable" groups, perhaps working class people. The other is that the matter is one of social control and psychological safety.

I never imagined that the New World Order would crumble because of a disease which, while serious, is much less dangerous than the Spanish Flu (the most obvious metric). Nor did I imagine that liberals would give us basic democratic rights, and leftists enact another 1914, over a flu vaccine. This world really is cursed.  

Coming soon to a supermarket near you...

PS. Recently, the Austrian government has changed its policy to an even more repressive one. From February 2022, vaccination will be mandatory and anyone who can´t pay the steep fines will be jailed. 

 

4D Chess

It seems Russia's and China's gamble on Joe Biden didn't pay off. Unless they are playing some kind of 4D chess. After all, nobody's afraid of Old Uncle Joe, Kamala or Mama Pelosi.

I'm sure the Biden-endorsing "Revolutionary Communist Party" and "League for the Revolutionary Party" are happy, though.

Or no?

Admiral says nuclear war with Russia and China possible

Democracy dies in the dark

The link below goes to a recent article in Time, revealing the "shadow campaign" which defeated Trump in the recent elections. Of course, the globo-liberal propagandists who wrote it claim they "saved democracy", but other interpretations are possible...

Here are some of the things that stand out.

The opinion polls underestimated Trump's support. This was known to the "shadow campaign". Strangely, the pollsters were not part of the campaign. (That's very hard to believe.)

The "shadow campaign" was spearheaded by the AFL-CIO bureaucracy. It also included, in various capacities, the Chamber of Commerce, anti-Trump Republicans, liberal millionaires, activist groups and the BLM. No mention is made of journalists and news anchors (again, hard to believe).

The electoral apparatus recieved millions of dollars in private donations from wealthy donors. In this way, the entire election system could be overhauled, supposedly to "adapt to the COVID pandemic".

The overhaul made it easier to vote early and/or vote by mail.

The "shadow campaign" actively tried to censor major social media platforms, and even held a private meeting with Mark Zuckerberg to that effect.

The BLM are controlled by the Democrats. Many of their activists were members of the secret AFL-CIO network. There were 400 planned postelection protests in the case Trump wouldn't concede. "The left was ready to flood the streets". Translation: the Democrats were behind the riots!

The mass protests were cancelled by the Shadow Campaign at the last moment. They also deliberately didn't show up in Washington DC on January 6. I find this interesting, since the activists mobilized on several other occasions: at polling places to confront Trump election observers, at meetings of certification boards, etc. What did they know?

Some of the facts in the Times article have been known before (such as the private donations to "blue" election districts). The new revelation is that the anti-Trump campaign was a tightly organized and yet broad coalition of a "popular front" character. What's especially interesting is the connection to BLM.

Of course, the full story will never be told in self-congratulatory articles like this. Time doesn't mention any links to the Biden campaign, to the media, or the Deep State. However, what they *do* say is very, very interesting indeed...

Conclusions have been drawn. 

The secret campaign to save American democracy

"Impeachment is more dangerous than Donald Trump"

Michael Tracey on the bullshit "impeachment" of Donald Trump.

Will the left finally embrace "the guns of August", I wonder? 

Impeachment is more dangerous than Donald Trump

"Kärleken till Biden är blind bland politiker"

Vem var det egentligen stora delar av "vänstern" stödde mot Trump i den amerikanska valskandalen?

Aftonbladet behövs, om sanningen ska fram!

Kärleken till Biden är blind bland politiker