Hours after an alleged chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria, long before any investigation into the matter could have possibly even begun much less been completed, the US State Department declared that "the Assad regime must be held accountable" and Russia "ultimately bears responsibility" for it. Anyone who questioned such proclamations was branded a delusional conspiracy theorist.
Days after an alleged poisoning of an ex-spy in Salisbury, the UK's Foreign Office was telling reporters that the Kremlin would be held responsible. Anyone who questioned such proclamations was branded a delusional conspiracy theorist. Weeks later, we learned that laboratory forensics had still determined no such culpability, and crime scene forensics were all over the map positing many contradictory theories about what happened and how.
Isn't it interesting how just as its data begins warning that the western empire is approaching post-primacy and will likely lose its dominant position in the world if it doesn't take drastic action, all this information begins pouring out about a longtime rival of that very empire? It's almost as if there is a preexisting vendetta to cripple oppositional governments, and then crimes are being discovered which just so happen to advance that preexisting agenda.
How wild is that?
Hey everyone! You know that WikiLeaks drop everyone's talking about? Turns out it was Russia. No we can't show you the evidence. It's secret evidence.
Oh hey, the election didn't turn out how it was supposed to, but guess what? Turns out it was Russian Facebook ads that definitely made that happen. No we can't show you evidence of it. It's secret evidence. Shut up and give us our sanctions.
Look! Russian propaganda! Russian propaganda everywhere! We need to increase internet censorship against dissenting narratives, report every inconvenient social media trend as a Russian plot and shut down RT! No we haven't wanted to do that all along, what are you talking about?
Poisoned ex-spy in the UK? Russia! No, no time for an investigation! Russia, Russia, Russia! Throw out those diplomats and rally Europe into taking a more aggressive stance against Putin!
Gas attack in an area crawling with known terrorists being reported by the Al Qaeda-affiliated White Helmets? Let's issue a State Department press release that spends literally half its space talking about Russia! Russia Russia Russia! No time to investigate! Russia!
Russia Russia everywhere! Ignore all those false reports and retractions coming from the mainstream media about Russia! Russia!
If there's one thing we've learned from the Skripal case and the alleged Douma attack, it's that when a government demands new cold war escalations with a longtime rival before an investigation can be carried out, it's because there's a preexisting agenda.
And we should never fall for it. There is no valid excuse for refusing to allow a full neutral investigation to run its course before plunging into world-threatening escalations with a nuclear superpower. By refusing to do so, the western power establishment is already admitting that it is lying to us.
In a post-Iraq invasion world, it is our duty to demand copious amounts of evidence from our governments before consenting to any dangerous military agendas, whether for hot war or cold. In the case of Syria, statements from the US president seem to indicate that we may well be looking at hot warfare in an area full of Russian forces, which means we could well be staring down the barrel of a third and final world war right now.
But no time for an investigation, right?
Wrong.
Of course it's wrong. These depraved, power hungry sociopaths don't get to imperil our lives without even providing us evidence for their claims about why it is necessary for them to do so.
Iraq happened. Libya happened. These are not conspiracy theories. These are facts. We know for a fact that these people will lie to us to advance preexisting agendas against noncompliant governments. It's not our job to roll over and let them do whatever they want to us, it's their job to convince us that the actions they're demanding are completely necessary.
So far the only evidence they have given us is evidence that they are afraid of evidence. There is a reason for that. Don't be taken in. Keep fighting.
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Sadly, 95% of the population are lazy minded sheep, and they easily believe most of the propaganda.
Why should they provide us with evidence, when they can just call you names like little schoolyard bullies? It's worked forever...
Shut Up, Conspiracy Theorist!!!
It's truly ironical, since it is their "theories" that are the far fetched "conspiracies".
Excellent article, very organized
Thank you very much for putting this truth and logic onto the blockchain! #HandsOffSyria!!
Caitlin's articles are my favorite, always a solid base of information and links to all the claims that the MSM would deem a conspiracy theory, keep it up!
it may even be worse, as in, believe the mainstream lie that the image above is not a fact.
You posit that it is a western empire that is entering post primacy. Although looking at the U.S. and NATO as an empire may be helpful in some analyses as a rubric, a clear-eyed rebel recognizes that this supposition is itself a bit fanciful, as there is no empire, per se. Perhaps a small mistake, and not an important one given the rest of your argument. But small mistakes, especially in fundamental thinking, can add up, and become larger faults.
Keep fighting, you counsel, but against what and against whom; and for what and for whom? The main focus of your piece is on the injustices done to Russia and Russians, with an emphasis on recent false allegations. Animus against Russia in Europe and in the U.S. is long standing and has been seeded over many generations. These latest developments rely on those historic prejudices. “Fighting” against them is going to be tough.
Who in the U.S. represents a responsible attitude toward Russia? Who has taken leadership to champion a more comprehensive assessment of shared Russian and U.S. interests, and proposed that our two countries and civilizations work together for mutual benefit. As a nationally prominent figure, Trump gets that mantle. Schizophrenic though he may be, and despite his recent disparagements in the wake of the still unconfirmed chemical weapons attack in Duma (which was very likely a cock-up); and the UK spy poisoning case (also almost certainly a cock-up, with seafood poisoning now the likely culprit) he remains the most nationally prominent figure in favour of rapprochement. I wish there were an alternative — present them if you have them — but the strategy for fighting seems like it should include some support for Trump on this plank. You may not be a Republican — I certainly am not — nor a Democrat (the Democratic Party has been more hawkish of late than the Republicans), to realize that if your goal is rapprochement, Trump is a potential tactical ally.
You speculate about a, “ preexisting vendetta to cripple oppositional governments” with regard to what happened in Iraq and Libya, and put that forward as the general theory under which we should mobilize ourselves in support of Russia and against the U.S., the E.U., and individual NATO governments, now conveniently labeled collectively as, “the Western Empire”.
Iraq was a great tragedy, but we now know a more proximate reason for its decimation. The Greater Middle East Strategy holds that the countries bordering Israel need to have their secular governments destroyed and replaced by Sectarian Statelets which will share Tel Aviv as their entrepôt. The thing about Israel’s right to exist is that it can’t exist profitably enough for the appetites of its oligarchs without functioning as such. Hence, the need for the destruction and mayhem, first by destroying and destabilizing Beirut and Lebanon, the region’s historic entrepôt, and then by taking out the countries which emerged in the wake of the Ottoman Empire. Divide and conquer; and then divide up again so the resulting entities are too small, too weak, and too sectarian to pose a mortal threat to Israel.
Nascent Revolutionary sentiments have a history of being harnessed for what could politely be termed as distractions from what ought to be their actual targets. While the concept of a Western Empire advancing preexisting agendas against noncompliant governments may be a helpful way of organizing opposition to the bad and support of the good, I worry that it may skip over more parsimonious explanations and miss logistic opportunities because of its abstract nature. Support for Syria, Russia and Iran seems more proximate and urgently needed. Stop the war now, and rebuild relations with Russia.