Reflections
on Woke, War and Multipolarity
In the following article, as its title suggests, I would
like to put down some of my thoughts on the current war that is still ongoing
in Ukraine and other closely related issues such as the culture war in the
west, the so -called phenomenon of “Woke”, and the rise of what the realists
would call as the transition from a unipolar moment, basically US hegemony since
the collapse of the Soviet Republic which symbolically can be represented by the
fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, and the end of US hegemony and the rise of
multipolarity and which could be signalled by the Russian take-over of Crimea
in 2014 and which was then totally consolidated by the Russians when Russian
tanks rolled into Ukraine on multiple fronts in 2022. Now, as I write, the
current PROTUS, Donald J. Trump, (2025) who has once again been elected is in
the process, along with the billionaire Elon Musk, of dismantling the so called
‘deep state’; US bureaucratic institutions such as USAid, which have mainly
been involved in the origins of the current war as one of the main reasons for
the Russian takeover of Crimea was a response to US led interference originating
in Maidan, Kiev, ( 2014) the so called “Revolution of Dignity”, when, with the help
of US billions the democratically elected pro-Russian president Vicktor
Yanukovych was ousted and the puppet pro-western government led by Volodymyr
Zelenski ( 2019- present) took over and which, according to the Russians, is
the main reason for the Russian ‘Special Military Operation.’ The Russian
president, Vladimir Putin, as far back as 2008, ( Berlin), accused the west of
NATO expansionism, which had been floated by the then US president George W.
Bush to include Ukraine.
Now, the problem would seem to be doubly compounded by
the fact that so called mainstream western media, which has largely been in the
paybook of politically lobbying, something American governmental institutions
in the past noticed about the war in Vietnam, without public support it was
impossible to achieve military victory, an incredibly vast pro-NATO propaganda
policy has played out in the west, and continues to do so, so that anyone who
dissents, at least during the Biden-Harris administration, was seen largely to
be a pro-Russian dissenter and subject to cancellation, one of the great
hallmarks of the so called cultural revolution that was also taking place with
the financial backing of NGOS and so called quangos whose financial backing was
simply limitless. The extent and nature of which is only becoming apparent now
with the daily revelations by Musk’s DOGE team, it is now becoming abundantly clear
how USAid was behind so many ‘regime change’ operations such as most recently
the events in Georgia and Romania and which were clearly being alluded to by the
current Vice President of the USA, J.D. Vance, when he addressed European leaders
for the first time in Munich, February, 2025, accusing them, not Russia, of
being the ‘real enemies of Democracy’ referencing cancelled elections and
censorship.
Such events are truly revolutionary. As a sign of just
how revolutionary they are, the current bilateral talks that are being held by
the Russians and the Americans in Riyadh in Saudi-Arabia, are the first talks,
a diplomat made mention to,[1] which have taken place
outside of Europe, and which is a sign of Europe’s declining influence on the
world stage, which has, of course, infuriated the leaders the UK, France and
Germany. Indeed, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, both highly unpopular
leaders in their respective countries and Olaf Scholz in Germany, as I write elections
are taking place in Germany and the AFD, a the so called ‘far right’ alternative
party, have been doing extremely well in the polls and who could cause a
massive upset[2].
Indeed, so critical are the current German elections,
they are actually taking place this morning ( 23/02/2025) as I write, that for
the first time in my adult life I can actually say, without any fear of error,
that I believe that this is the first time in my life that I am taking an
interest in German political elections, as the repercussions of what will
happen if the AFD are elected will mean the possible eventual demise of the EU,
as it is one of the clear mandates that Alice Weidel and the AFD are going to
the German people with. “Bureaucracy as opposed to democracy,” this has been
one of the great slogans of Elon Musk over the past few days, as he wielded a
chain saw at C-Pac, which had been given to him as a present from the Argentinian
‘far -right’ president, Javier Milei.
Of course another crucial figure to mention in all of
this is the Hungarian populist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who has been
campaigning tirelessly for peace much to the annoyance of Ursula von der Leyen,
President of the European Commission, indeed when Orbán, in his role of President of the Council of the European
Union, went to Moscow to meet with the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, he
was met with absolute condemnation in the entire western mainstream press,
which only goes to show how much they were in the hands of the powers that be.
Now that the Biden Harris administration, a hawkish neo-liberal administration
that followed neo-con policies almost to the letter through mainly the guidance
of former Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, former National Security Advisor,
Jake Sullivan and in particular former Spokesperson for the United States
Department of State, Victoria Nuland who will be forever remembered for her “Fuck
the Eu” comment in relation to the whole Project Ukraine.
Well, Nuland’s sentiment, apparently, has been totally
realised as they now face the embarrassment of being totally sidelined while
negotiations take place outside the continent of Europe on the fate of a mainly
European issue but which has of course world wide repercussions. As an Irish
citizen, and so a citizen of Europe, I have been watching the events since February
22nd, almost three years to a day, with, as I say, a very keen eye
on what will be taking place in Germany today as the effects, whatever the
outcome may be, will have massive repercussions. On the one hand, if the current
status quo is re-elected, what could the future bring, a possible prolongation
of the Russian Ukrainian war with EU troops getting involved! This is a very
real possibility and without US backing, Starmer in the UK is already talking
about British troops on the ground and he is still guaranteeing Zelensky of
NATO backing which US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has utterly rejected as
the Russians conducted their whole ‘Special Military Operation’ in order to
prevent such a thing form happening.
A final word on EU so called policy. It seems to me
that the current situation of European leaders what could be described as a
product of the whole ‘Woke’ phenomenon, that is to say entirely based on completely
subjective notions of what in fact ‘Reality’ is, in other words ideological
brainwashing, subjugated to some kind of unrealistic idealistic dream, rather
than for realpolitik, that is to say, facing up to reality and what realist
historians like John Mearsheimer would describe as ‘Spheres of Influence’. We
all know that if the Russians had tried a similar stunt that the Americans
instigated in Kiev in 2014, say in Mexico City, there would most certainly have
been an American ‘Special Military Operation’ very similar to what has now
tragically been going on in Ukraine for the last three years. My final
assessment, I only hope that the whole Eu experiment, that started really in
earnest with the introduction of the Euro on 1/01/1999, will come to an end
soon and that Elon Musk, will do the same job that he is doing on the former US
bureaucratic system to the current disaster in Brussels as a continuation of
the current EU regime, as deeply corrupt and blind sighted, is simply
unthinkable.
[1] Most of the information that I have
gathered together here is coming from a network of independent sources which I
have found on non-traditional media outlets and in particular YouTube. Please
see the bibliography that I will attach at the end of this article for a
comprehensive list of my main sources.
[2] Alice Weidel, the Alternative for
Germany leader, and Chancellor candidate, in a recent interview for Bloomberg,
see link below, on multiple occasions interrupts the interviewer when he labels
AFD as a ‘far right’ party, by emphasising, as a former employee of Goldman
Sachs, she is, rather, a ‘sensible conservative’ echoing Donald Trump’s ‘common
sense’ approach to public policies, and particular when they are talking about
energy, immigration and identity politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeYB_Hmsu84&t=573s
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