German war journalist Patrik Baab exposes how Europe’s leaders, blinded by ideology and allegiance to Washington, are driving the continent into political, economic, and moral collapse.
Thank you. A relief to read something apart from the cowboys vs baddies account.
I'm also suspecting a trade-off in all this. Russia to regain its icon/resort, Catherine's Odessa, while the US and partners make more than just a resort of Gaza. The rehearsed debasement of Zelensky was as convincing as the paragliders invading Israel.
So, Russia takes all the Black Sea coast to Transnistria (and maybe including Transnistria), US and Israel take more and more of Eastern Med coastline. The diff is that more of those Russophone people along that Black Sea coast would be happy with the arrangement than not. Not so for those Gazans (even though they really belong in Dublin or Melbourne).
And will the peace-loving Yanks decide to enter a European conflict after, say, two years of those Europeans exhausting themselves in disastrous warfare? Nah, stuff like that never happens, does it?
We will be in Europe with a stronger peace-keeping force and a few thousand banksters, economist grifters and financiers to get every thing straightened out for ya'all.
I'm in Australia, alphabetical leader of the Five Eyes. We've got your backs in the Golden Crescent or Golden Triangle or wherever opium needs liberating!
Still waiting for a colour revolution to liberate Greenland. Where's Victoria Nuland and her cookies when you need 'em?
We are trying to get more of our poppy plantations, opium and heroin production done in Mexico to shorten and simplify the supply chain and of course, create jobs! Progress!
I think Cookies is still teaching her crafts class at Columbia University. Her baking class is all the rage I hear. Who knew fat rendered from babies was the secret ingredient in all her recipes?
It ain't gonna be easy liburatin' Greenland, Canada and turning Gaza into the Las Vegas East Club Med, but we are AmeriCANs, not AmeriCANTs!
Always glad to have the other 5 Eyes with us while we gallivant around the globe destroying evil where we find it and liburatin' countries we didn't even know needed liburatin', never heard of, and still can't find on a map, until the MSM told us so.
I also recommend Glenn Diesen's latest conversation with Col. Larry Wilkerson, who rather stunningly outlines USA's 1990's Deep State and ruling class history of meddling in Europe and around the globe. He was there. He knows whereof he speaks.
Any thoughtful Americans with the least interest can find our gorious historical details on the internet - if they cared to look. I went seeking the link for this -
More should be detailed with regards to the issues that begins to be discussed around 26th or 27th minute, on the European media and how they, as Pastrick noted, automatically align like by magnetic force around US neocon propaganda.
My observation is it's not a mystery . Within what you called the "Atlanticist" think tanks there are actually mechanism, and projects by which they basically brainwash or detail the media including Europeans ones, what to think and very precisely what to say.
One example of this is Foundation for Defense of Democracies , which operates an innoucously named "Barish Center for Media Integrity.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies itself, is a US govt funded "think" tank that designes these narratives to turn Russia, China, Iran etc into fiends, and they constantly come out with storylines about this. For example they are the ones who manufactured this Uighur genoide story, and they are also the ones who spread the false narrative about Iran supposedly trying to interfere with the past US election.
Inside FDD, their orwellian-named Barish Center For Media Integrity, is in fact a program for ensuring LACK of integrity in the media:
"....A key part of the Center’s activities is a Media Fellowship for mid-career journalists, social media content creators, and strategic communications professionals. The fellowship provides educational programing and professional development opportunities to help media professionals gain a deeper understanding of the intersection between media, strategic communications, public diplomacy, misinformation, disinformation, and national security. Upon joining the program, Media Fellows join FDD’s National Security Network of more than 600 mid-career practitioners....."
What this program does is cultivate cohorts of western media that they have seminars and courses for to brainwash them and tell them who in the warmonger think tank world that they should look to as "reliable insights" and to insert them as "expert commentators" in their article and on their news shows. The Barish Center also has a YouTube channel targeted at the media, where the deliver these narratives including a "Morning Brief": https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/
So basically they create a NATO warmonger propaganda bot army out there in the US and Euroepan media.....and they update their programming of those bots, on a daily basis!
And its very clever, because what they are doing is targeting the managerial/editorial class in the media: people who are invested in climbing up the greasy pole. They offer them basically a networing opportunity and priviliged access to "sources", and they basically know what they storyline is that they must follow in order to stay inside the warmth. As these are the editors and publishers, they are also the ones in the media that commission stories, edit the headlines, cut out parts not convenient to the propaganda, decide who is a guest expert on TV, hire and fire journalists and freelancers. Its basically a great way to soft control the entire media on a string, like a puppeteer.
It is through these type of mechanism that you find so magically that the media disseminates not only the war monger and hatrred narratives (for example Russia wants to recreate the Soviet Union and invade Europe) but even these detailed manipulative and deceptive catchphrases that they very deliberately spead e.g. ("Unprovoked invasion", "Israel has a right to defend itself") etc.
In the last few days, I have spoken to some people who volunteer in facilities where hundreds of Ukrainian refugees live. In Germany and France. In Italy where many have been taken in by people privately. All these volunteers said that the refugees all speak Russian and not “Ukrainian”.
Think about why these Ukrainians became refugees. What danger did these people really flee from? Since the “EU Maidan 2014”, these people have seen Ukraine become a semi-fascist state. To be a real fascist regime then from February 22. They don't want to lose their lives and die on a frontline for these Azov criminals.
It is even clear to all the people who appoint each other as EU "commissioners" why these people have become refugees. These scoundrels know the reality very well and know that the Ukrainians living here in Europe have fled from the Banderist Nazi regime and not from the Russian army. That's why these oh-so-clever EU clowns can't give up their narrative of the evil Putin. They're filling their pockets now with contracting arms purchases like they did before with vaccine tendering.
Regarding the absence of mass protests: since the brutal crackdown by para-military police units, especially in France ("yellow vest" movement or Greece in 2013 & '14) and the cameras on helmets in conjunction with facial recognition software, the spying of all private data from “social” websites, the population of Europe now lives in pre-fascist societies. The far-right in the form of the FN/RN and AfD etc will definitely do the rest. Europe is lost once again. Who still can better packs up now before it is too late like for the one million Ukrainians or 300.000 Palestinensians from Gaza...
European countries were too keen to keep "good relations" with Moscow. One silver lining to Russian aggression and American betrayal is that Europeans are starting to wake up to the serious danger we're in.
Your last sentence looks somewhat hopeful, despite all disasters…. “Europe is not just losing a war; it is losing its soul” — if Europe is *losing its soul*, there is still hope that it is not completely lost.
I'm sorry, but I do not agree. It is better for humanity for Europe to lose its current evil incarnation and for it to be reborn - hopefully in a better version. The current one stinks.
We are of course talking metaphorically. In the physical world however, I see a European flock of sheep happily led to inoculation (literally the vaccine); led by a ferocious cabal of leaders. I do not see a European people rising up and shouting 'we will not send our children to die in the wars of Texan tycoons'. I guess the real test (of resisting or not) is yet to come. But currently, we ARE sending OUR money to kill people and to make tycoons and warlords richer.
What?! I thought Europeans were more stand-uppy than Americans - they seem to whip out bigger and more lively demonstrations. And aren't you more deeply informed of and generally involved in politics than US?
I am not talking metaphorically. I am talking about our Western tradition reaching back to Socrates and his questioning of the dying tradition, of what some call the care for the soul. Only by questioning our presuppositions we can start to think differently. And that is what we should revive. As for political cabal rulling Europe — not even metaphors can help there.
Who is studying Socrates, Plato and Aristoteles any more? Who is studying Greek or Latin? We are all walking dead - happily looking at our screens and taking selfies.
Thank you. A relief to read something apart from the cowboys vs baddies account.
I'm also suspecting a trade-off in all this. Russia to regain its icon/resort, Catherine's Odessa, while the US and partners make more than just a resort of Gaza. The rehearsed debasement of Zelensky was as convincing as the paragliders invading Israel.
So, Russia takes all the Black Sea coast to Transnistria (and maybe including Transnistria), US and Israel take more and more of Eastern Med coastline. The diff is that more of those Russophone people along that Black Sea coast would be happy with the arrangement than not. Not so for those Gazans (even though they really belong in Dublin or Melbourne).
And will the peace-loving Yanks decide to enter a European conflict after, say, two years of those Europeans exhausting themselves in disastrous warfare? Nah, stuff like that never happens, does it?
We will be in Europe with a stronger peace-keeping force and a few thousand banksters, economist grifters and financiers to get every thing straightened out for ya'all.
We got yer back!
I'm in Australia, alphabetical leader of the Five Eyes. We've got your backs in the Golden Crescent or Golden Triangle or wherever opium needs liberating!
Still waiting for a colour revolution to liberate Greenland. Where's Victoria Nuland and her cookies when you need 'em?
We are trying to get more of our poppy plantations, opium and heroin production done in Mexico to shorten and simplify the supply chain and of course, create jobs! Progress!
I think Cookies is still teaching her crafts class at Columbia University. Her baking class is all the rage I hear. Who knew fat rendered from babies was the secret ingredient in all her recipes?
It ain't gonna be easy liburatin' Greenland, Canada and turning Gaza into the Las Vegas East Club Med, but we are AmeriCANs, not AmeriCANTs!
Always glad to have the other 5 Eyes with us while we gallivant around the globe destroying evil where we find it and liburatin' countries we didn't even know needed liburatin', never heard of, and still can't find on a map, until the MSM told us so.
Stand Strong Together!
'Murica-
Luv it! I'm with you all the way. :-)
Thanks, Pascal.
I also recommend Glenn Diesen's latest conversation with Col. Larry Wilkerson, who rather stunningly outlines USA's 1990's Deep State and ruling class history of meddling in Europe and around the globe. He was there. He knows whereof he speaks.
Any thoughtful Americans with the least interest can find our gorious historical details on the internet - if they cared to look. I went seeking the link for this -
https://www.archives.gov/files/declassification/iscap/pdf/2008-003-docs1-12.pdf
- and you'd nearly not believe what even my little browser turned up.
Original source docs are the cat's meow . . .
More should be detailed with regards to the issues that begins to be discussed around 26th or 27th minute, on the European media and how they, as Pastrick noted, automatically align like by magnetic force around US neocon propaganda.
My observation is it's not a mystery . Within what you called the "Atlanticist" think tanks there are actually mechanism, and projects by which they basically brainwash or detail the media including Europeans ones, what to think and very precisely what to say.
One example of this is Foundation for Defense of Democracies , which operates an innoucously named "Barish Center for Media Integrity.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies itself, is a US govt funded "think" tank that designes these narratives to turn Russia, China, Iran etc into fiends, and they constantly come out with storylines about this. For example they are the ones who manufactured this Uighur genoide story, and they are also the ones who spread the false narrative about Iran supposedly trying to interfere with the past US election.
Inside FDD, their orwellian-named Barish Center For Media Integrity, is in fact a program for ensuring LACK of integrity in the media:
https://www.fdd.org/projects/barish-center-for-media-integrity/
"....A key part of the Center’s activities is a Media Fellowship for mid-career journalists, social media content creators, and strategic communications professionals. The fellowship provides educational programing and professional development opportunities to help media professionals gain a deeper understanding of the intersection between media, strategic communications, public diplomacy, misinformation, disinformation, and national security. Upon joining the program, Media Fellows join FDD’s National Security Network of more than 600 mid-career practitioners....."
What this program does is cultivate cohorts of western media that they have seminars and courses for to brainwash them and tell them who in the warmonger think tank world that they should look to as "reliable insights" and to insert them as "expert commentators" in their article and on their news shows. The Barish Center also has a YouTube channel targeted at the media, where the deliver these narratives including a "Morning Brief": https://www.fdd.org/fddmorningbrief/
So basically they create a NATO warmonger propaganda bot army out there in the US and Euroepan media.....and they update their programming of those bots, on a daily basis!
And its very clever, because what they are doing is targeting the managerial/editorial class in the media: people who are invested in climbing up the greasy pole. They offer them basically a networing opportunity and priviliged access to "sources", and they basically know what they storyline is that they must follow in order to stay inside the warmth. As these are the editors and publishers, they are also the ones in the media that commission stories, edit the headlines, cut out parts not convenient to the propaganda, decide who is a guest expert on TV, hire and fire journalists and freelancers. Its basically a great way to soft control the entire media on a string, like a puppeteer.
It is through these type of mechanism that you find so magically that the media disseminates not only the war monger and hatrred narratives (for example Russia wants to recreate the Soviet Union and invade Europe) but even these detailed manipulative and deceptive catchphrases that they very deliberately spead e.g. ("Unprovoked invasion", "Israel has a right to defend itself") etc.
Fascinating. Always suspected something like this. Your post is hugely informative. Thank you.
In the last few days, I have spoken to some people who volunteer in facilities where hundreds of Ukrainian refugees live. In Germany and France. In Italy where many have been taken in by people privately. All these volunteers said that the refugees all speak Russian and not “Ukrainian”.
Think about why these Ukrainians became refugees. What danger did these people really flee from? Since the “EU Maidan 2014”, these people have seen Ukraine become a semi-fascist state. To be a real fascist regime then from February 22. They don't want to lose their lives and die on a frontline for these Azov criminals.
It is even clear to all the people who appoint each other as EU "commissioners" why these people have become refugees. These scoundrels know the reality very well and know that the Ukrainians living here in Europe have fled from the Banderist Nazi regime and not from the Russian army. That's why these oh-so-clever EU clowns can't give up their narrative of the evil Putin. They're filling their pockets now with contracting arms purchases like they did before with vaccine tendering.
Regarding the absence of mass protests: since the brutal crackdown by para-military police units, especially in France ("yellow vest" movement or Greece in 2013 & '14) and the cameras on helmets in conjunction with facial recognition software, the spying of all private data from “social” websites, the population of Europe now lives in pre-fascist societies. The far-right in the form of the FN/RN and AfD etc will definitely do the rest. Europe is lost once again. Who still can better packs up now before it is too late like for the one million Ukrainians or 300.000 Palestinensians from Gaza...
BSW not BSV
That's a great account of the history...if you believe Kremlin propaganda.
https://valeriiterentev.substack.com/p/generic-lies-from-moscow
https://snyder.substack.com/p/ukraines-maidan-revolution
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/false-flag-fantasies-in-ukraine
https://www.persuasion.community/p/russia-empire-of-lies
https://stevenmoore.substack.com/p/no-nato-expansion-did-not-provoke
European countries were too keen to keep "good relations" with Moscow. One silver lining to Russian aggression and American betrayal is that Europeans are starting to wake up to the serious danger we're in.
https://nomadicmind.substack.com/p/the-war-we-pretend-not-to-see
https://hanschristensen.substack.com/p/russian-hybrid-warfare-on-eu-intensifies
https://europewithoutamerica.substack.com/p/an-american-cuckoo-in-europes-nest
https://james1940.substack.com/p/make-europe-strong-again
https://minnalander.substack.com/p/an-action-plan-for-europe
To "Kojo", you are very quick to dismiss points that contradict your preferred narrative.
As for propaganda bots, you should look elsewhere for those.
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global
https://joecirincione.substack.com/p/what-putin-wants-you-to-think
https://yoursukrainian.substack.com/p/why-russian-disinformation-is-so
https://beefeaterresearch.substack.com/p/africa-the-russian-and-chinese-disinformation
https://enlightentheday.substack.com/p/the-russian-orthodox-church-roc-and
https://sharpenyouraxe.substack.com/p/divide-and-weaken
Propaganda bot alert...
Hahaha... So who was the first King of Ancient Ukraine? The lineage of that ancient house seems to have been forgotten.
You wilfully ignored the points while attempting to make a "gotcha".
Russians still invaded Ukraine and they still lie about Ukrainian history as well as their own.
https://sites.tufts.edu/ukraine/timeline/
https://youtu.be/B6b7WQy1Y3Q
Your last sentence looks somewhat hopeful, despite all disasters…. “Europe is not just losing a war; it is losing its soul” — if Europe is *losing its soul*, there is still hope that it is not completely lost.
I'm sorry, but I do not agree. It is better for humanity for Europe to lose its current evil incarnation and for it to be reborn - hopefully in a better version. The current one stinks.
Oh, I have no quarrel with that claim. But I do think that European soul is much much older.
And darker.
If Europe rearms, Europe will go to war. In Europe. Again.
We are of course talking metaphorically. In the physical world however, I see a European flock of sheep happily led to inoculation (literally the vaccine); led by a ferocious cabal of leaders. I do not see a European people rising up and shouting 'we will not send our children to die in the wars of Texan tycoons'. I guess the real test (of resisting or not) is yet to come. But currently, we ARE sending OUR money to kill people and to make tycoons and warlords richer.
What?! I thought Europeans were more stand-uppy than Americans - they seem to whip out bigger and more lively demonstrations. And aren't you more deeply informed of and generally involved in politics than US?
Well, perhaps that is the problem.
I am not talking metaphorically. I am talking about our Western tradition reaching back to Socrates and his questioning of the dying tradition, of what some call the care for the soul. Only by questioning our presuppositions we can start to think differently. And that is what we should revive. As for political cabal rulling Europe — not even metaphors can help there.
Who is studying Socrates, Plato and Aristoteles any more? Who is studying Greek or Latin? We are all walking dead - happily looking at our screens and taking selfies.
A great summary and discussion of the conflict.
NO SELF-DESTRUCTION !!
DAVOS TROYAN HORSES are not what you can call self-destruction !!
I will have to skip this interview. All the guests I have watched on your vids have been excellent.
Who knew that Marci Shore is Snyder's wife, and why didn't they reveal such in the ...uhh...interview?