Ukraine has been the perfect powder keg on the geopolitical board favorable to the West: kyiv puts the dead and NATO, the weapons and the money. Nothing new. Since 2014 there has been a struggle in the Donbass region, which is historically an industrial heartland with a pro-Russian population both ethnically and culturally; but the United Nations and the entire globalist conglomerate refused to see it. The massacre of civilians and the rise of neo-Nazi fundamentalist groups were also not headlines in the world press. Even now, the bombing of Yemen by Saudi forces (allied with the Americans) continues, but no one denounces it, cancels Riyadh’s economy, denies its culture or blocks its presence at international events. On the contrary, while the Zionist forces crush Palestine, Zelensky appears before the Israeli parliament to ask them to support him by donating an anti-missile shield. The Ukrainian president compared the events of the war with Russia with the Jewish holocaust, which generated protest from an important sector of Jewish society. Morality and its folds reign in the midst of events.
What the most recent history has shown is how some dead are more mediatic than others, more condemnable than others and, ultimately, more valuable. This cynicism practiced by Western globalists is based on the expansionist economic interest in search of markets and natural resources. The engine that drives the events is far from being merely ideological, although Biden tires of repeating the mantra that Ukraine was an unprovoked invasion. In other words, there is nothing to say about the events in Donbass, according to the White House’s point of view. Those dead are erased from history, as something that is not convenient. To make matters worse, NATO knows that this war could unleash something bigger, that endangers our species, but the power of business lobbies and the factual financial center is such that not even something so delicate has stopped the provocations and the reckless nature of Western militarists. Zelensky, after swearing a thousand times that he would join NATO and being emboldened by the Europeans, has realized that this process may not be so fast. The price everywhere is being paid by the people, as both the Russians and the Ukrainians have been suffering significant casualties. However, US contractors are already grinding their teeth for post-war reconstruction investments.
The peace agreements, although necessary, are torpedoed by the interests of the West, which require a constant hypothesis of conflict to stay in the region. European leaders, dragged along by the United States, have the double task of fulfilling the NATO mandate and containing their countries, whose inhabitants are protesting the rise in the price of life due to the blockade of Russian fuels. It seems that humanity has gotten into an absurd alley, with no way out. The North American decadence, the kicking of the fallen superpower, is generating chaos and this could be expensive for the entire international community. Post-1945 treaties continue to favor the White House, as do geopolitics, but the economy and markets are already elusive. On the other hand, Biden must fulfill the commitments with the expansionist lobbies that financed his electoral campaign. War has many faces.
What lies ahead? Western expansionism will not have a foreseeable brake, but will be emboldened by the results of the tie in Ukraine (in the event that a peace agreement is reached). The media machine is already trying to establish that the Russian army is not as advanced and powerful, which is a fallacy considering that it is superior in technology and number of warheads to its North American counterpart. Everything seems to indicate that they are preparing public opinion to: 1- continue to demonize Russia, 2-justify further war escalation and arms sales by arguing continental European security, 3-add more nations to NATO, which consolidates Russia’s position the White House as the world’s military leader and therefore political in the face of its own decline as an imperialist economy. The rise of far-right and even neo-Nazi and racist governments in the Old Continent is foreseeable. This will coincide with fundamentalist militarism and a revival of the cold war, the consequences of which could get out of hand.
Internally, the globalists have tried to isolate Putin, generating divisions in the oligarchy to force a possible transition. The West plays at weakening Russia and opening its market without restrictions to business lobbies. This partly explains the policy of suffocation and blockade, which is also applied to China, with the aim of breaking up the Eurasian alliance. In the 80s of the 20th century, the United States was about to be displaced by Japan as the first economy, but then came the fight against Islamic terrorism and expansionism in the Middle East, which gave resources to the Americans to continue their reign. Now, the confrontation with Russia is serving a similar function. The West needed the cultural other, a conflict hypothesis, to justify its expansionism and its diplomatic and geopolitical exclusivity. How much longer will this tension last? As far as humanity can endure. The peoples lack organizations and de facto powers that defend their interests, in an arena as aggressive as today’s international politics. In 2001, the dead were put by the Iraqis, the Afghans, the Kurds. Today it’s up to the Ukrainians. The question works as an investment fund and as a creation of market opportunities. The victims don’t care. The military industrial complex is a dragon generating hypotheses of conflict and driving them to their limits, in order to be able to sell and keep up with the unstoppable pace of marketing development.
The other great Western gain is isolation from all things Russian. Another one has already been created, an enemy to blame, against whom Americans will feel more united internally and will be able to settle their immense differences in domestic politics. Zelensky’s image at a congressional conference served as a pretext for Republicans and Democrats to show cohesion on foreign policy. All that show is also an image whitewash of a discredited system, which hit rock bottom with the assault on the Capitol last year. The political class takes its profits from the conflict, placing it at the center of the debates and leaving other issues out, such as the immigration issue, health, the pandemic or the growing poverty and deindustrialization of the country with the consequent unemployment. The failure of the establishment’s efforts is buried in applause, histrionic performances and mediocre calls from parliamentary chairs. They have managed to resurrect the ghost of the cold war and even of communism to reissue a global paranoia that allows globalism to continue imposing its arbitrary and criminal vision of plundering resources and trampling on the sovereignty of peoples through the absolute power of the organisms financial, military and diplomatic. Biden has managed to rescue the Empire, that is, the external interest structure of North American power, which had been lost during Donald Trump’s mandate, more protectionist, less prone to Western alliances and, paradoxically, less militaristic. The background of everything that is happening today must be seen in the interest of Western circles in maintaining the status quo after 1945 in the face of the advance of other emerging powers.
Putin is a stumbling block and at the same time a pretext, the first because he exercises anti-hegemonic influence in the world, the second, because he serves as a spearhead to justify the hardening of European and North American warmongering. He is an “with me or against me” that will leave the international community very divided and that only favors businessmen in the struggle for markets and resources. Africa, for example, today is under the aegis of China, after the retreat of the European Union, for which the United States will have to consolidate itself in the Old Continent, in the face of the Asian advance in industries in the north of Italy, in Germany and in Spain. The board works like a cake that is constantly distributed and whose opportunities are limited. The West needs the conflict, it is oxygenated by it, it is cohesive before its existence. Peace and open economic competition disadvantage the globalist business community, at a technological disadvantage and outright downfall. Only chaos can delay the new world order.
In addition, for the United States, the Empire is a matter of life or death, since it is what keeps the internal and federal republic cohesive. There are states that would not bear the cost of living of less solvent ones, if they stop parasitizing the world and the country has to live off what it produces. The fall of the Empire would force these cuts, since it would have as a direct consequence the end of the dollar, with which the United States would stop exchanging the world’s paper with ink for manufactured products and raw materials. So, for the political class there is too much at stake and they are not going to let it go to waste. A civil war would be the result of the end of global hegemony. Ukraine is being the scapegoat for everything, it has put its territory, economy and lives so that the North American and global project continues to exist for a little longer.
To sustain the Empire, humanity will pay a cost. Social and cultural engineering is carried out at the media and symbolic level, through social networks and propaganda platforms. The single thought has succeeded in imposing a single idea on Russia and the Ukraine conflict. It is true that we are facing a new era, marked by the chaos of the decline of the United States, but that could not necessarily move to another stage, but could have an apocalyptic and nuclear end.
Zelensky’s image in the US congress resembled that of Big Brother in the novel 1984: giant and totalitarian, military and extremist. Perhaps there is the symbol of this era, although it is a bad symbol after all.
