theduran--2020-01-30--A Pax Americana or a Republic If You Can Keep It?

Authored by Cynthia Chung via The Strategic Culture Foundation : “ Fortune thus blinds the minds of men when she does not wish them to resist her power.
” It seems quite evident to many that the United States has been consumed by the same ambition and thus fate with that of the Roman Empire .
That one of the most notorious periods in history for its extensive imperialism , corruption and barbaric slavery are the blueprint for what the founding fathers used in forming the moral constitution of the United States , and thus it has been rotten to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There is no doubt that the United States is acting in accordance with that of an empire presently .
However , from this alone , we can not confirm whether it is in fact her founding constitution which is at fault or rather , her abandonment of her constitution which has led her to this monstrous outcome .
It is true that the founding fathers of the United States were very much influenced by Rome , but for those who have some knowledge on the history of that titan of an era , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of three phases ; that of the kingdom , the republic , and the empire .
The period of empire was its most corrupt and malevolent , but what defined Rome ’ s characteristics before this ?
Was Rome actually something noble and honorable once ?
Which period were the founding fathers influenced and inspired by ?
Is the United States doomed to repeat the collapse of the Roman Empire ?
We will discuss all these questions here .
What Defined Rome before it Became an Empire ?
Rome was founded in 753 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the details around this partake in legend , it suffices for our purpose here that she was founded by Romulus who ruled until 717 BC .
Numa Pompilius who would rule as king for the next 43 years , was a very wise king and founded the laws and governmental institutions that Rome would use for most of her existence .
It should be noted that during this period , the kings were not chosen by bloodline but rather through a voting process by the senate , yes , there was already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kings .
Servius Tullius would become Rome ’ s 6th king and would rule 43 years until the day that his own daughter , whom he had marry to one of Tarquinius ’ sons ( Superbus ) , conspired together to brutally murder Servius in his elder years in a terribly bloody public spectacle and usurp the throne .
Servius ’ body would then be run over by his daughter by horse carriage causing an even further grisly scene , and the street would be known afterwards as Vicus Sceleratus ( street of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ earn his nickname , meaning ‘ proud ’ or ‘ arrogant ’ due to his refusal to bury the body of Servius .
And Servius would be known as the last of the benevolent kings .
Tarquinius Superbus would rule for 26 years and would be the last of the kings .
He , not surprisingly , was very unpopular with the Roman people and senate , ruling as a cruel despot .
This hatred for Superbus would find its snapping point when one of Superbus ’ sons , Sextus raped a nobleman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lucretia was so humiliated and felt so dishonored by this act that once she had relayed the message to a group of four high-ranking men she stabbed herself in the heart with a dagger .
Junius Brutus was one of the men present during this scene , and Livy writes that as soon as Lucretia had committed suicide , Brutus rushed over to her , plucked the dagger out of her breast and raised it , swearing the end of the Tarquin kingship .
Junius Brutus was able to quickly organise a gathering @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Roman people to rise up against the tyrant king .
The people would support this and vote for the deposition of Superbus and the banishment of him and his entire family .
Junius Brutus then gathered the people of Rome to swear an oath that they would suffer no man to rule Rome ever again , and as per Livy , the Roman people desirous of liberty would vow from that point on no longer to be swayed by the entreaties or bribes of kings .
If Superbus had been a just king @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been presented to him to act as judge over and he would not have been punished for the crime of his son , but this was not done .
It was not done because it was known that Superbus had no respect for a law benefitting the general welfare of the people but rather only knew his own personal law , and this is what the people could no longer suffer under .
The largest change which transformed Rome from a kingdom into a republic would be the replacement of the king with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in by the Roman citizenry and would only have a one year term .
This was done to dissuade anyone from desiring to rule indefinitely and from abusing their powers for personal gain and thus was to protect against the corrupting lust for unbounded power seen during the age of kings from their sons .
Junius Brutus would be one of the first consuls of two , in replacing the king of Rome .
During his term , Brutus had to act as judge over his sons who had committed treason and sentenced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ witnessed their executions , something that was expected of the consul .
This is not to say that Brutus was a cold man , but rather that he treated his sons with no additional favour , and judged their punishment for their crimes as he would have done for anyone else .
It was because of this reputation for upholding honor that Brutus became a hero in Roman history ; that he not only overthrew a tyrant king and helped establish the republic , but that he embodied the noble qualities it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the law for the general welfare of its people .
The Roman Republic would exist from 510 BC to 27 BC , however , before we go further I would like to point out a few parallels from another time .
His Majesty Hath Cast Them Off On June 12 , 1630 , after a voyage of 76 days , four ships with 800 passengers , under the command of John Winthrop , anchored in Massachusetts Bay .
With more ships on the way , he was soon to preside over nearly 20 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were so many Europeans willing to take the risk of such a long voyage to a land that they knew hardly anything about and with no assured prospects ?
A major factor was that Europe had been experiencing almost ongoing warfare since the hundred years war and was presently experiencing the thirty years war , thus poverty , famine and pestilence ran rampant and the death rate was horrifying .
There was no future for most people in Europe , which had descended into such chaos that its continued existence was really not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the core reasons for Europe ’ s descent into madness was the unreliability of its kings , being concerned more for their personal welfare than that of their people .
Faced with constant threats by King Charles I of England to remove the rights he had accorded the colonists under the Massachusetts Bay Charter to establish a town , Winthrop replied back that if such a thing were to occur , “ the common people here will conceive that his Majesty hath cast them off , and that hereby they are freed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Crown ] , and thereupon will be ready to confederate themselves under a new government.
” The New England Confederation would be established in 1643 and John Winthrop was elected its president .
Its Articles of Confederation served as the first step toward realizing a new nation under constitutional rule .
Historian Graham Lowry recounts in How the Nation Was Won : America ’ s Untold Story ( 1630-1751 ) that Benjamin Franklin would later cite these articles to the French government during the American Revolution for their support .
The Massachusetts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the British Monarchy and were ready to face the consequences , from this point on , they would be the shapers of their own destiny .
A Republic if You Can Keep It For a little less than 300 years ( 5th to 2nd century BC ) , the Roman Republic had succeeded in upholding the oath that the people swore with Junius Brutus .
And though it would be confronted with challenging times , additional heroes would follow after , such as Quinctius Cincinnatus , who became a legend not only in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ representation of the ideal Roman virtue ; as a man who had received absolute power in order to defend Rome at a time of crisis , and when his duty was complete and Rome was saved , returned the pre-existing political order and resumed a life as a citizen farmer .
Though Rome was in warfare for most of its existence , it should be noted that everyone was in warfare and to not be at war was not an option during these times .
However , during this period , Rome treated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well and formed a sort of commonwealth to which their citizens , as Livy confirms , had pretty much equal rights to those in Rome , in fact they were called Roman citizens which was not a term taken lightly .
Slavery also existed in Rome , however , slavery unfortunately was prevalent in every major civilization of the time , including within Sparta , Athens , and Egypt .
The point being that Rome , unlike its counterparts , did offer its citizenship to foreigners rather than death or slavery .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BC that Rome started to develop core fundamental problems that would lead to extensive corruption and civil unrest .
They would never fully recover from this and it would spell the end of the republic in 27 BC .
One factor to this , were that militaries were led by their generals for longer periods of time as military campaigns became longer distances from Rome , and elite military groups started to form who held more allegiance to their General than to the Republic .
This is what made the power of Caesar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possible .
In addition , slavery became much more prevalent , the treatment of their slaves much more barbaric , and thus the gladiator games became popular ( which only started end of 3rd century BC ) .
The gladiator games would be a terrible corruption on the people , and Spartacus would lead a successful rebellion for two years in response to this inhumanity in 73-71 BC .
Despite this fall from grace , many Roman heroes fought against this trend of corruption , such as Cato the Elder , Scipio Africanus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Marcus Brutus thought it was in his destiny to return Rome to a republic when Caesar had seized it and crowned himself a king , just as his ancestor Junius Brutus did .
However , Marcus did not learn from Junius ’ example .
The death of Caesar did not return Rome to a republic but rather sealed its fate to be ruled again by the whim and folly of kings , and the age of empire was born .
The people of Rome had forgotten their liberty and thus foolishly forsook it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the monstrous tyrants they would unleash on themselves , such as ; Tiberius , Caligula , and Nero , they would have shuddered at the thought and done everything in their power to fight and return the republic to its original principles .
Their folly would not only prove to be the doom of Rome but that of much of the world for centuries after .
Ben Franklin would state at the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 in response to a question as to what form of government had been formed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can keep it.
” Franklin was entirely aware of the failure of Rome as a republic and it was never meant to be a literal model for the American Republic .
However , that said the upholding of any republic would ultimately be subject to the moral condition of that society .
The right of sovereignty meant the responsibility to uphold its integrity , the people would no longer have a king to blame but themselves if they were to squander this freedom .
So what are we to take from all of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ too large to cover within this one paper , if you read either Livy or Machiavelli ’ s review of this history , it is undeniable that the Roman Republic did originate from an honorable and noble view of mankind , its execution was left wanting at times but it strove for most of its earlier existence for these ideals .
In addition , the Roman influences that inspired the founding fathers of the American Republic were based on these very evident principles to uphold liberty above all else .
The Americans wished @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the subjugation of monarchical rule and were willing to go to war with the most powerful empire in the world to win their liberty from it .
Though slavery was a mark that the United States had to battle with , it is important to acknowledge that this did not originate from within its self-conceptualisation but rather was a mark that was carried forth from Europe .
A whole book could be written debating whether the founding fathers truly meant all men were born equal and free , suffice to say that when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s time and a civil war erupted , there was a stand for the liberty of all .
For those who are uncertain whether the origin of the U.S. is indeed a noble and good one , I would bring forward that the Russians deemed it so .
It would be stated by Czar Alexander II that if Britain and France would have intervened in America ’ s civil war for the side of the Confederates , that Russia would have considered this a casus belli and was willing to go to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ matter .
For the reason why , refer to my paper on this .
It is thus undeniable that Russia deemed the continued existence of an intact United States rather important .
Though the U.S. would be in an internal conflict with itself as to which identity it would ultimately choose , it is important to recognise that there were indeed many engaged on the side for the emancipation of all people and access to a decent standard of living .
Frederick Douglass , born a slave but amongst the most free as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the country during the civil war needed to occur before and not after equal rights and became opposed to the Abolitionists over this matter .
He saw what the power of the machine tool industry in Massachusetts could accomplish in comparison to the brute slave labour of the south and understood that slavery would not be able to compete with the North ’ s offer and economic boom .
Lincoln had succeeded in preserving the country , however , he would not be allowed to continue into a second term and was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by a number of additional assassinations of American presidents : Garfield in 1881 , McKinley in 1901 , and Harding in 1923 ( from a very suspect food poisoning ) .
FDR would pass away in office in 1945 , and after a questionable decision to replace his former VP Henry Wallace with cardboard cut-out Truman , the United States was set on a course that caused her to abandon what she had first set out to accomplish .
By 1961 , President Eisenhower would warn of a lagoon creature that had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the military industrial complex , as something that had gotten out of control and would threaten the liberty of Americans and the world .
That the United States , who had before then a citizens army , had now elite full-time military units that were only growing in size , who only knew the life of a soldier opposed to a constant enemy .
The United States would suffer one more assassination of a president in 1963 , and now here we find ourselves today , in perpetual war .
Is it too @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , that if a system is corrupt it depends on two things as to whether it will be doomed to collapse or not , firstly whether it was always corrupt or had become corrupted and secondly if the people were past a point of salvation .
If the system was good at its origins , and the people had some imprint of that remaining , there would be hope that that system could still turn itself around .
And therefore I say , there is still a chance .
A chance not just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as something good but that the rest of the world need not risk getting pulled down along with it in the case of a collapse .
There is a stirring amongst a number of people within the United States , they have had enough with war .
There is growing disdain for the present corrupt structures of their system and a growing support for those who wish to enforce peace .
Tulsi Gabbard is an inspiring response to this corrupt age , and she has been succeeding despite the sabotage and attacks she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very own political party .
The predictable rise and fall of empires is not based off of a cyclical formula that we are condemned to repeat for the rest of our existence .
We do have the capability , if we have the will , to break out of this shrinking room and enter a new paradigm , namely , the Eurasian Economic Union and the New Silk Road .
“ For where men have but little wisdom and valor , Fortune more signally displays her power ; and as she is variable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her influence also fluctuate , and will continue to fluctuate until some ruler shall arise who is so great an admirer of antiquity as to be able to govern such states within a republic so that Fortune may not have occasion , with every revolution of the sun , to display her influence and power .
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Authored by Cynthia Chung via The Strategic Culture Foundation:
“Fortune thus blinds the minds of men when she does not wish them to resist her power.”
Livy
It seems quite evident to many that the United States has been consumed by the same ambition and thus fate with that of the Roman Empire. That one of the most notorious periods in history for its extensive imperialism, corruption and barbaric slavery are the blueprint for what the founding fathers used in forming the moral constitution of the United States, and thus it has been rotten to its core from its very inception.
There is no doubt that the United States is acting in accordance with that of an empire presently.
However, from this alone, we cannot confirm whether it is in fact her founding constitution which is at fault or rather, her abandonment of her constitution which has led her to this monstrous outcome.
It is true that the founding fathers of the United States were very much influenced by Rome, but for those who have some knowledge on the history of that titan of an era, they would know that Roman history consists of three phases; that of the kingdom, the republic, and the empire. The period of empire was its most corrupt and malevolent, but what defined Rome’s characteristics before this? Was Rome actually something noble and honorable once? Which period were the founding fathers influenced and inspired by? Is the United States doomed to repeat the collapse of the Roman Empire? We will discuss all these questions here.
What Defined Rome before it Became an Empire?
Rome was founded in 753 BC as a kingdom, though much of the details around this partake in legend, it suffices for our purpose here that she was founded by Romulus who ruled until 717 BC. Numa Pompilius who would rule as king for the next 43 years, was a very wise king and founded the laws and governmental institutions that Rome would use for most of her existence. It should be noted that during this period, the kings were not chosen by bloodline but rather through a voting process by the senate, yes, there was already a senate formed during the period of kings.
Servius Tullius would become Rome’s 6th king and would rule 43 years until the day that his own daughter, whom he had marry to one of Tarquinius’ sons (Superbus), conspired together to brutally murder Servius in his elder years in a terribly bloody public spectacle and usurp the throne. Servius’ body would then be run over by his daughter by horse carriage causing an even further grisly scene, and the street would be known afterwards as Vicus Sceleratus (street of shame, infamy). Superbus would earn his nickname, meaning ‘proud’ or ‘arrogant’ due to his refusal to bury the body of Servius. And Servius would be known as the last of the benevolent kings.
Tarquinius Superbus would rule for 26 years and would be the last of the kings. He, not surprisingly, was very unpopular with the Roman people and senate, ruling as a cruel despot. This hatred for Superbus would find its snapping point when one of Superbus’ sons, Sextus raped a nobleman’s wife, named Lucretia. Lucretia was so humiliated and felt so dishonored by this act that once she had relayed the message to a group of four high-ranking men she stabbed herself in the heart with a dagger. Junius Brutus was one of the men present during this scene, and Livy writes that as soon as Lucretia had committed suicide, Brutus rushed over to her, plucked the dagger out of her breast and raised it, swearing the end of the Tarquin kingship.
Junius Brutus was able to quickly organise a gathering within the city where he exhorted the Roman people to rise up against the tyrant king. The people would support this and vote for the deposition of Superbus and the banishment of him and his entire family. Junius Brutus then gathered the people of Rome to swear an oath that they would suffer no man to rule Rome ever again, and as per Livy, the Roman people desirous of liberty would vow from that point on no longer to be swayed by the entreaties or bribes of kings.
A Republic is Born
If Superbus had been a just king, the crime against Lucretia would have been presented to him to act as judge over and he would not have been punished for the crime of his son, but this was not done. It was not done because it was known that Superbus had no respect for a law benefitting the general welfare of the people but rather only knew his own personal law, and this is what the people could no longer suffer under.
The largest change which transformed Rome from a kingdom into a republic would be the replacement of the king with two consuls, who would be voted in by the Roman citizenry and would only have a one year term. This was done to dissuade anyone from desiring to rule indefinitely and from abusing their powers for personal gain and thus was to protect against the corrupting lust for unbounded power seen during the age of kings from their sons.
Junius Brutus would be one of the first consuls of two, in replacing the king of Rome. During his term, Brutus had to act as judge over his sons who had committed treason and sentenced them to death, for which he witnessed their executions, something that was expected of the consul. This is not to say that Brutus was a cold man, but rather that he treated his sons with no additional favour, and judged their punishment for their crimes as he would have done for anyone else. It was because of this reputation for upholding honor that Brutus became a hero in Roman history; that he not only overthrew a tyrant king and helped establish the republic, but that he embodied the noble qualities it was to represent and that nobody was above the law for the general welfare of its people.
The Roman Republic would exist from 510 BC to 27 BC, however, before we go further I would like to point out a few parallels from another time.
His Majesty Hath Cast Them Off
On June 12, 1630, after a voyage of 76 days, four ships with 800 passengers, under the command of John Winthrop, anchored in Massachusetts Bay. With more ships on the way, he was soon to preside over nearly 20, 000 colonists by 1650.
Why were so many Europeans willing to take the risk of such a long voyage to a land that they knew hardly anything about and with no assured prospects? A major factor was that Europe had been experiencing almost ongoing warfare since the hundred years war and was presently experiencing the thirty years war, thus poverty, famine and pestilence ran rampant and the death rate was horrifying. There was no future for most people in Europe, which had descended into such chaos that its continued existence was really not certain.
It was recognised that one of the core reasons for Europe’s descent into madness was the unreliability of its kings, being concerned more for their personal welfare than that of their people.
Faced with constant threats by King Charles I of England to remove the rights he had accorded the colonists under the Massachusetts Bay Charter to establish a town, Winthrop replied back that if such a thing were to occur, “the common people here will conceive that his Majesty hath cast them off, and that hereby they are freed from their allegiance and subjection [to the Crown], and thereupon will be ready to confederate themselves under a new government.”
The New England Confederation would be established in 1643 and John Winthrop was elected its president. Its Articles of Confederation served as the first step toward realizing a new nation under constitutional rule. Historian Graham Lowry recounts in How the Nation Was Won: America’s Untold Story (1630-1751) that Benjamin Franklin would later cite these articles to the French government during the American Revolution for their support.
The Massachusetts Bay colonists had made their stand against the British Monarchy and were ready to face the consequences, from this point on, they would be the shapers of their own destiny.
A Republic if You Can Keep It
For a little less than 300 years (5th to 2nd century BC), the Roman Republic had succeeded in upholding the oath that the people swore with Junius Brutus. And though it would be confronted with challenging times, additional heroes would follow after, such as Quinctius Cincinnatus, who became a legend not only in Roman but in American history as a representation of the ideal Roman virtue; as a man who had received absolute power in order to defend Rome at a time of crisis, and when his duty was complete and Rome was saved, returned the pre-existing political order and resumed a life as a citizen farmer.
Though Rome was in warfare for most of its existence, it should be noted that everyone was in warfare and to not be at war was not an option during these times. However, during this period, Rome treated for the most part its captured cities well and formed a sort of commonwealth to which their citizens, as Livy confirms, had pretty much equal rights to those in Rome, in fact they were called Roman citizens which was not a term taken lightly. Slavery also existed in Rome, however, slavery unfortunately was prevalent in every major civilization of the time, including within Sparta, Athens, and Egypt. The point being that Rome, unlike its counterparts, did offer its citizenship to foreigners rather than death or slavery.
It was only by around the 2nd century BC that Rome started to develop core fundamental problems that would lead to extensive corruption and civil unrest. They would never fully recover from this and it would spell the end of the republic in 27 BC. One factor to this, were that militaries were led by their generals for longer periods of time as military campaigns became longer distances from Rome, and elite military groups started to form who held more allegiance to their General than to the Republic. This is what made the power of Caesar and the existence of the two triumvirates possible. In addition, slavery became much more prevalent, the treatment of their slaves much more barbaric, and thus the gladiator games became popular (which only started end of 3rd century BC). The gladiator games would be a terrible corruption on the people, and Spartacus would lead a successful rebellion for two years in response to this inhumanity in 73-71 BC.
Despite this fall from grace, many Roman heroes fought against this trend of corruption, such as Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus, Cato the Younger and Cicero. Marcus Brutus thought it was in his destiny to return Rome to a republic when Caesar had seized it and crowned himself a king, just as his ancestor Junius Brutus did. However, Marcus did not learn from Junius’ example. The death of Caesar did not return Rome to a republic but rather sealed its fate to be ruled again by the whim and folly of kings, and the age of empire was born.
The people of Rome had forgotten their liberty and thus foolishly forsook it. If they could have only foreseen the monstrous tyrants they would unleash on themselves, such as; Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero, they would have shuddered at the thought and done everything in their power to fight and return the republic to its original principles. Their folly would not only prove to be the doom of Rome but that of much of the world for centuries after.
Ben Franklin would state at the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 in response to a question as to what form of government had been formed, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” Franklin was entirely aware of the failure of Rome as a republic and it was never meant to be a literal model for the American Republic. However, that said the upholding of any republic would ultimately be subject to the moral condition of that society. The right of sovereignty meant the responsibility to uphold its integrity, the people would no longer have a king to blame but themselves if they were to squander this freedom.
Fortune favours the….
So what are we to take from all of this? Though Roman history is much too large to cover within this one paper, if you read either Livy or Machiavelli’s review of this history, it is undeniable that the Roman Republic did originate from an honorable and noble view of mankind, its execution was left wanting at times but it strove for most of its earlier existence for these ideals.
In addition, the Roman influences that inspired the founding fathers of the American Republic were based on these very evident principles to uphold liberty above all else. The Americans wished nothing more than to be free of the subjugation of monarchical rule and were willing to go to war with the most powerful empire in the world to win their liberty from it.
Though slavery was a mark that the United States had to battle with, it is important to acknowledge that this did not originate from within its self-conceptualisation but rather was a mark that was carried forth from Europe. A whole book could be written debating whether the founding fathers truly meant all men were born equal and free, suffice to say that when it came to a head during Lincoln’s time and a civil war erupted, there was a stand for the liberty of all.
For those who are uncertain whether the origin of the U.S. is indeed a noble and good one, I would bring forward that the Russians deemed it so. It would be stated by Czar Alexander II that if Britain and France would have intervened in America’s civil war for the side of the Confederates, that Russia would have considered this a casus belli and was willing to go to war with Britain and France over the matter. For the reason why, refer to my paper on this. It is thus undeniable that Russia deemed the continued existence of an intact United States rather important.
Though the U.S. would be in an internal conflict with itself as to which identity it would ultimately choose, it is important to recognise that there were indeed many engaged on the side for the emancipation of all people and access to a decent standard of living. Frederick Douglass, born a slave but amongst the most free as a man, understood that the preservation of the country during the civil war needed to occur before and not after equal rights and became opposed to the Abolitionists over this matter. He saw what the power of the machine tool industry in Massachusetts could accomplish in comparison to the brute slave labour of the south and understood that slavery would not be able to compete with the North’s offer and economic boom.
Lincoln had succeeded in preserving the country, however, he would not be allowed to continue into a second term and was assassinated in 1865. This was followed by a number of additional assassinations of American presidents: Garfield in 1881, McKinley in 1901, and Harding in 1923 (from a very suspect food poisoning). FDR would pass away in office in 1945, and after a questionable decision to replace his former VP Henry Wallace with cardboard cut-out Truman, the United States was set on a course that caused her to abandon what she had first set out to accomplish.
By 1961, President Eisenhower would warn of a lagoon creature that had been created in the post WWII world, the military industrial complex, as something that had gotten out of control and would threaten the liberty of Americans and the world. That the United States, who had before then a citizens army, had now elite full-time military units that were only growing in size, who only knew the life of a soldier opposed to a constant enemy.
The United States would suffer one more assassination of a president in 1963, and now here we find ourselves today, in perpetual war.
Is it too late to turn around?
Machiavelli said, that if a system is corrupt it depends on two things as to whether it will be doomed to collapse or not, firstly whether it was always corrupt or had become corrupted and secondly if the people were past a point of salvation. If the system was good at its origins, and the people had some imprint of that remaining, there would be hope that that system could still turn itself around. And therefore I say, there is still a chance. A chance not just for the continual existence of the U.S. as something good but that the rest of the world need not risk getting pulled down along with it in the case of a collapse.
There is a stirring amongst a number of people within the United States, they have had enough with war. There is growing disdain for the present corrupt structures of their system and a growing support for those who wish to enforce peace. Tulsi Gabbard is an inspiring response to this corrupt age, and she has been succeeding despite the sabotage and attacks she has undergone from mainstream media and her very own political party.
The predictable rise and fall of empires is not based off of a cyclical formula that we are condemned to repeat for the rest of our existence. We do have the capability, if we have the will, to break out of this shrinking room and enter a new paradigm, namely, the Eurasian Economic Union and the New Silk Road.
“For where men have but little wisdom and valor, Fortune more signally displays her power; and as she is variable, so the states and republics under her influence also fluctuate, and will continue to fluctuate until some ruler shall arise who is so great an admirer of antiquity as to be able to govern such states within a republic so that Fortune may not have occasion, with every revolution of the sun, to display her influence and power.”
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Read the Testimonies of Residents Living In or Near the Douma Apartment Building (Location 2) Where 3 Dozen Bodies Were Photographed Several Floors Below a Chlorine Canister

These testimonies were presented July 12 , 2019 , at a press conference held by the Russian Embassy to the Netherlands .
They were presented in the form of English-language slides that you can read here : The key findings are these : Residents of the apartment building at Location 2 , where up to 3 dozen people were alleged to have been killed by chlorine canisters on the top floor , stated : They had been there every night for years , including the April 7th night of the alleged attack – yet they experienced no adverse symptoms .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ bodies photographed in the bottom floors by the White Helmets ; they recognized NONE of the dead people who had been photographed.Some 300 people from the immediate neighborhood were interviewed .
None of them claimed to recognize any of the dead bodies .
A resident of the 1st floor of the building , as well as a resident of the next-door building , indicated that they had seen fighters and White Helmets delivering dead bodies in a caravan of cars , and carrying them into the building .
The man who lived on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the building while this was going on .
A man not from the neighborhood indicated that his brother had been killed in a shelling attack and taken to the hospital , but that his body was one of the ones photographed among the dead people in the basement of Location 2 .
He evidently had been brought there for use as a prop .
One of the two men testifying about the car caravan indicated that they were bringing bodies from Al Thoba prison .
This suggests that the majority of the victims @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been women and children prisoners held at Al Thoba prison , who were murdered there for the express purpose of serving as props in the jihadis ’ presentation for Western audiences .
Experts analyzing the photos of the victims have suggested that they were hung upside down – wearing goggles , for some reason – and exposed to a poisonous gas .
Their bodies were then driven to Location 2 in a caravan of cars .
The victims are likely to have been Alawites , whom the jihadis would hold in cages for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ view Alawites as heretic sub-humans .
It was always absurd on its face to conclude that the large number of victims photographed at Location 2 could have been killed by a single chlorine canister several floors above , as I have noted previously .
But , for those too dense or prejudiced to have appreciated this , these new findings should be definitive .
The OPCW readily could have interviewed these people , as they continue to live at Location 2 .
Either the OPCW failed to do so – or they failed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is a grave dereliction on their part , and lends credence to the notion that their intent was to cover up the mass murder which the jihadis had committed .
And you can be sure that Western MSM will remain entirely silent regarding these findings , and will make no independent effort to confirm them .

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These testimonies were presented July 12, 2019, at a press conference held by the Russian Embassy to the Netherlands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNLErw2MsQ&t=7260s
They were presented in the form of English-language slides that you can read here:
https://netherlands.mid.ru/en_GB/web/netherlands-en/-/presentation?inher…
The key findings are these:
Residents of the apartment building at Location 2, where up to 3 dozen people were alleged to have been killed by chlorine canisters on the top floor, stated:
They had been there every night for years, including the April 7th night of the alleged attack – yet they experienced no adverse symptoms.
They also were shown photos of the bodies photographed in the bottom floors by the White Helmets; they recognized NONE of the dead people who had been photographed.Some 300 people from the immediate neighborhood were interviewed. None of them claimed to recognize any of the dead bodies.
A resident of the 1st floor of the building, as well as a resident of the next-door building, indicated that they had seen fighters and White Helmets delivering dead bodies in a caravan of cars, and carrying them into the building. The man who lived on the first floor was forced to vacate the building while this was going on.
A man not from the neighborhood indicated that his brother had been killed in a shelling attack and taken to the hospital, but that his body was one of the ones photographed among the dead people in the basement of Location 2. He evidently had been brought there for use as a prop.
One of the two men testifying about the car caravan indicated that they were bringing bodies from Al Thoba prison. This suggests that the majority of the victims at Douma Location 2 appear to have been women and children prisoners held at Al Thoba prison, who were murdered there for the express purpose of serving as props in the jihadis’ presentation for Western audiences. Experts analyzing the photos of the victims have suggested that they were hung upside down – wearing goggles, for some reason – and exposed to a poisonous gas.
https://libyancivilwar.blogspot.com/2018/04/doumas-mask-of-death-part-1….
Their bodies were then driven to Location 2 in a caravan of cars. The victims are likely to have been Alawites, whom the jihadis would hold in cages for use as human shields. The jihadis view Alawites as heretic sub-humans.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syrian-rebel-group-appears-use-alawit…
It was always absurd on its face to conclude that the large number of victims photographed at Location 2 could have been killed by a single chlorine canister several floors above, as I have noted previously. But, for those too dense or prejudiced to have appreciated this, these new findings should be definitive.
The OPCW readily could have interviewed these people, as they continue to live at Location 2. Either the OPCW failed to do so – or they failed to report whatever they had learned. This is a grave dereliction on their part, and lends credence to the notion that their intent was to cover up the mass murder which the jihadis had committed.
And you can be sure that Western MSM will remain entirely silent regarding these findings, and will make no independent effort to confirm them.
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theduran--2020-01-30--How Obama’s Mid-East Policy Led to Nazi Rebirth in Today’s Germany

On January 12th , Deutsche Welle ( Germany ’ s public broadcaster like BBC , PBS , NPR , and RT ) headlined “ Mayor ’ s resignation highlights threat to German leaders : Arnd Focke , the Social Democratic mayor of a town in Lower Saxony , was regularly threatened by nationalists .
Now he has resigned .
Regional officials have repeatedly faced threats across Germany.
” He quit for his safety , because carrying out Germany ’ s compassionate policies toward the flood of mainly Middle-Eastern refugees has produced a backlash that is becoming increasingly organized and dangerous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Barack Obama ’ s policies in support of overthrowing secular governments in the Middle East ( such as in Libya and Syria ) , and his attempts to install there new governments — which were planned to be allied with the Sharia-law , fundamentalist-Sunni , Saud family , who own Saudi Arabia — caused the exodus , from those secularly-headed U.S.-attacked Middle-Eastern countries , of millions , some of which refugees live now in Germany and are not accepted there , for many of reasons , some valid and some invalid .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ markedly different people has given rise to a rebirth of Germany ’ s Nazi movement .
Whereas Obama ’ s U.S. , and especially now Trump ’ s U.S. , has refused entry of refugees from these countries , Europe ( and especially Germany ) has been compassionate toward them and allowed them in , and are now experiencing the political blowback , at home , from their admission of refugees from America ’ s invasions to overthrow secular governments in the Middle East .
How and why did this happen ?
Much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gaddafi was a socialist who believed in spreading to the masses ( instead of to foreign investors ) the wealth from the nation ’ s oil and who consequently was rejected by the U.S.-and-allied aristocracies who control the private oil companies .
Gaddafi was demonized by their governments and their media .
After extensive planning by the CIA and associated coup-organizations , he was finally overthrown in an “ Arab Spring ” in 2011 and replaced by what they expected to be a reprivatization of Libya ’ s oil , which would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proudly proclaimed , “ We came , we saw , he died !
Ha , ha , hah !
” Europe gets the refugees .
As of yet , there is no clarity on who will get to sell Libya ’ s oil .
Bashar al-Assad was similar , in those basics .
During 2012 , Obama was well-warned by U.S. intelligence — and even by the anti-Assad ‘ rebels ’ themselves — that if he tried to overthrow Assad , then the U.S. would need @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , jihadists , under the direction of Al Qaeda ’ s Syrian branch al-Nusra , and he chose that option and left to the Saud family to choose whom to rule Syria in the aftermath .
Consequently , the Saud family selected the individuals who were to ‘ represent the rebels ’ at the U.N.-sponsored ’ peace ’ -talks to end the Syrian ‘ civil ’ war .
It was all a set-up deal , by Obama and his foreign allies .
Even the pro-Obama New York Times reported on 27 April 2013 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there a secular fighting force to speak of.
” But still , Obama insisted that “ Assad must go.
” ( Though that was a common headline on news-reports about Obama ’ s position , he was too slick ever to utter that clear phrase .
in his rhetoric he was the exact opposite of his successor , who continued Obama ’ s Syria-policy , but more bluntly . )
Conquering Syria for the Sauds to control was the aim .
It was a large operation .
It was done by means of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jihadist proxy-forces from around the world , and by far the largest number of them came from Tunisia .
Europe has received the refugees from that U.S. decision regarding Syria and Libya — to replace their governments with Saudi allies .
By Europe ’ s siding with the war-crazed post-9/11 United States , it has opted to side with the Sauds , and with jihadists , and , now , even with Nazis and other Western-style racist-fascists .
Trump has gone so far as to terminate Obama ’ s only good foreign-policy action @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and to opt instead for war against Iran .
He is pushing even beyond what the Sauds and other royal families in Arabia want .
Perhaps Israel ’ s Government wants it , but America ’ s other allies in the region ( who previously — along with Israel — urged a U.S. invasion of Iran ) now don ’ t .
Domestically , Trump ’ s policy is supported only by his base of Evangelical Christians , and by the Israel-lobby .
The dangers to democracy in Europe could escalate farther @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Nazism in Germany might be enough of a reason for Europe to reverse its foreign policies in fundamental ways .
This should have happened back in 2012 — if not when U.S. and UK invaded Iraq on 20 March 2003 , based on lies .
But late would be better than never .
If a long-time NATO member were to quit that anti-Russia military alliance , it would set all of the other needed changes into motion , on a new path , and could thereby salvage the future .
Investigative historian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recently , of They ’ re Not Even Close : The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records , 1910-2010 , and of CHRIST ’ S VENTRILOQUISTS : The Event that Created Christianity .

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
On January 12th, Deutsche Welle (Germany’s public broadcaster like BBC, PBS, NPR, and RT) headlined “Mayor’s resignation highlights threat to German leaders: Arnd Focke, the Social Democratic mayor of a town in Lower Saxony, was regularly threatened by nationalists. Now he has resigned. Regional officials have repeatedly faced threats across Germany.” He quit for his safety, because carrying out Germany’s compassionate policies toward the flood of mainly Middle-Eastern refugees has produced a backlash that is becoming increasingly organized and dangerous to Germany’s democracy.
U.S. President Barack Obama’s policies in support of overthrowing secular governments in the Middle East (such as in Libya and Syria), and his attempts to install there new governments — which were planned to be allied with the Sharia-law, fundamentalist-Sunni, Saud family, who own Saudi Arabia — caused the exodus, from those secularly-headed U.S.-attacked Middle-Eastern countries, of millions, some of which refugees live now in Germany and are not accepted there, for many of reasons, some valid and some invalid. The resulting influx of millions of culturally markedly different people has given rise to a rebirth of Germany’s Nazi movement.
Whereas Obama’s U.S., and especially now Trump’s U.S., has refused entry of refugees from these countries, Europe (and especially Germany) has been compassionate toward them and allowed them in, and are now experiencing the political blowback, at home, from their admission of refugees from America’s invasions to overthrow secular governments in the Middle East.
How and why did this happen? Much of the motivation was economic.
Muammar Gaddafi was a socialist who believed in spreading to the masses (instead of to foreign investors) the wealth from the nation’s oil and who consequently was rejected by the U.S.-and-allied aristocracies who control the private oil companies. Gaddafi was demonized by their governments and their media. After extensive planning by the CIA and associated coup-organizations, he was finally overthrown in an “Arab Spring” in 2011 and replaced by what they expected to be a reprivatization of Libya’s oil, which would be of benefit to U.A.-and-allied investors. Obama’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proudly proclaimed, “We came, we saw, he died! Ha, ha, hah!” Europe gets the refugees. As of yet, there is no clarity on who will get to sell Libya’s oil.
Bashar al-Assad was similar, in those basics. During 2012, Obama was well-warned by U.S. intelligence — and even by the anti-Assad ‘rebels’ themselves — that if he tried to overthrow Assad, then the U.S. would need to be using proxy-fighters to do it, jihadists, under the direction of Al Qaeda’s Syrian branch al-Nusra, and he chose that option and left to the Saud family to choose whom to rule Syria in the aftermath. Consequently, the Saud family selected the individuals who were to ‘represent the rebels’ at the U.N.-sponsored ’peace’-talks to end the Syrian ‘civil’ war. It was all a set-up deal, by Obama and his foreign allies. Even the pro-Obama New York Times reported on 27 April 2013 that “Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of.” But still, Obama insisted that “Assad must go.” (Though that was a common headline on news-reports about Obama’s position, he was too slick ever to utter that clear phrase. in his rhetoric he was the exact opposite of his successor, who continued Obama’s Syria-policy, but more bluntly.) Conquering Syria for the Sauds to control was the aim. It was a large operation. It was done by means of bringing into Syria tens of thousands of jihadist proxy-forces from around the world, and by far the largest number of them came from Tunisia. Europe has received the refugees from that U.S. decision regarding Syria and Libya — to replace their governments with Saudi allies. By Europe’s siding with the war-crazed post-9/11 United States, it has opted to side with the Sauds, and with jihadists, and, now, even with Nazis and other Western-style racist-fascists.
Trump has gone so far as to terminate Obama’s only good foreign-policy action, the JCPOA or Iran nuclear agreement, and to opt instead for war against Iran. He is pushing even beyond what the Sauds and other royal families in Arabia want. Perhaps Israel’s Government wants it, but America’s other allies in the region (who previously — along with Israel — urged a U.S. invasion of Iran) now don’t. Domestically, Trump’s policy is supported only by his base of Evangelical Christians, and by the Israel-lobby. The dangers to democracy in Europe could escalate farther. For some people, the rebirth of Nazism in Germany might be enough of a reason for Europe to reverse its foreign policies in fundamental ways. This should have happened back in 2012 — if not when U.S. and UK invaded Iraq on 20 March 2003, based on lies. But late would be better than never. If a long-time NATO member were to quit that anti-Russia military alliance, it would set all of the other needed changes into motion, on a new path, and could thereby salvage the future.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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theduran--2020-01-30--Consortium News Strikes Back: London’s Five Eyes & Freeland’s Nazi Roots Stand Exposed Once More…

A David vs. Goliath battle between the independent Virginia-based online journal Consortium News and the gigantic Security Communications Establishment of Canada has begun this week .
As Consortium News ’ Editor-in-Chief , Joe Lauria wrote in his recent press release : “ Consortium News has sent libel notices to the Communications Security Establishment ( CSE ) , Canada ’ s version of the US National Security Agency , and to a major Canadian television network , Global News , for a report that said Consortium News was “ part of a cyber-influence campaign directed by Russia.
” To the knowledge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instance of such a lawsuit has ever occurred and the subject of this lawsuit will undoubtedly bring to light some of the ugliest skeletons in the Canadian establishment ’ s closet that many powerful forces would prefer remain obscured and forgotten .
The Gist of the Fight On December 10 , 2019 , Global News ran a widely circulated story citing a classified CSE report which claimed that the Russian Government had used proxies to spread anti-Christia Freeland slander in order to “ undermine western democracies ” .
The CSE report cited by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a leading protagonist used by the Russian Government in this endeavor was Consortium News which had run a story on February 27 , 2017 entitled the ‘ A Nazi Skeleton in the Family Closet ’ which explained how Freeland had knowingly covered up the fact that her grandfather Mykhailo Chomiak was a high level Nazi collaborator during WWII .
Since the publication of this 2017 article and the work published even earlier by John Helmer , an fuller picture of Freeland ’ s Nazi family history and broader post-WWII use of Nazi-affiliated Ukrainian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Freeland and the broader deep state/Five Eyes Intelligence conglomerate trying to run the world .
This history is even more awkward since the use of hives of second and third generation descendants of these Nazi collaborators both in Canada and Ukraine resulted in the toppling of the pro-Eurasian Yanukovych government in 2014 .
After decades of myth-making and spin-doctoring , the Canadian spy agencies managing mass perceptions of the population have developed more than a little hubris as their lies have too often passed unchallenged by their victims , making this situation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so much has already been written on the issue of Canada ’ s Nazi problem ( namely here , and here and here and here ) , I would like to do something a bit different and address the deeper question : What is the Canadian Communication Security Establishment exactly , and from where did the Five Eyes arise over the course of the previous century ?
” Getting at the Heart of the Five Eyes To properly answer this with a full appreciation into the historic forces at play , it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the founder of the Rhodes Scholar program that birthed the Freeland phenomenon in our modern age ( Freeland after all a leading Rhodes Scholar and it would do us well to fully understand what that means ) .
This exercise will take us to Cecil Rhodes , Governor of Rhodesia , father of systemic colonial rape of Africa and all around degenerate .
Here we shall find ourselves looking at this imperialist ’ s 1877 will and testament .
It was here that the self-described “ race patriot ” and “ priest of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called for a re-organization of the decaying empire when he said : “ I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race… Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilized world under British rule , for the recovery of the United States , and for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire… ” Upon Rhodes ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a manifesto or “ guiding spirit ” underlying the formation of the deep state and later Five Eyes throughout the 20th century .
Rhodes ’ followers and upper level financiers of London like Lord Nathaniel Rothschild and Lord Milner established a scholarship in his name to indoctrinate talented youth from around the world in the halls of Oxford in order to be redeployed back into their home countries in order to infiltrate all branches of influence public and private with a focus upon departments of Foreign Affairs .
As the late Georgetown Professor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , an international group was created by Rhodes ’ disciples named The Round Table led by Milner , Lord Lothian , Leo Amery , and Lionel Curtis who created branches in all Anglo-Saxon nations to coordinate this new British Empire under the banner of “ Round Table Movements ” .
This group found an early opponent in the form of a Lincoln-admiring Canadian Prime Minister named Wilfred Laurier who had then been striving for deeper cooperation with a USA and independence from Britain ( the USA at this time still had a very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 1911 , Laurier ’ s government was taken down by a Roundtable-steered coup resulting in the defeated Prime Minister famously stating : “ Canada is now governed by a junta sitting at London , known as ‘ The Round Table ’ , with ramifications in Toronto , in Winnipeg , in Victoria , with Tories and Grits receiving their ideas from London and insidiously forcing them on their respective parties.
” That comment was made in 1915 .
By 1916 , the Group , under Milner ’ s leadership initiated a soft @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Herbert Asquith in order to shape the terms of the post WWI order .
The CFR and Death of the League of Nations During the Versailles Process of 1919 , the Round Table Group then firmly in charge of the British Government and Foreign Policy infrastructure created a powerful new think tank called the Royal Institute for International Affairs ( aka : Chatham House ) which set up sister branches in Australia , Canada and New Zealand .
The American branch of the RIIA took the name Council on Foreign Relations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fully staffed with indoctrinated Rhodes Scholars and Fabians all loyal to Rhodes ’ vision .
This was the group that attempted to impose world government under the League of Nations throughout the 1920s-1930s until it was finally killed by American ( and Canadian ) nationalists who preferred not to sacrifice their sovereignty to a bankers ’ dictatorship .
If you want to know what caused the Five Eyes to come into being and how the USA lost its core anti-imperial character during the 20th century , you would have no satisfying answer if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are in the habit of doing .
In spite of resistance from Laurier ’ s leading anti-Round Table allies who took back power in 1921 and anti-imperial forces in American who resisted Round Table control over the U.S. State Department under President Harding , the British/CFR problem only became more pronounced by the end of WWII as FDR stated to his son in a moment of frustration in 1943 : “ You know , any number of times the men in the State Department have tried to conceal messages to me , delay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just because some of those career diplomats over there aren ’ t in accord with what they know I think .
They should be working for Winston .
As a matter of fact , a lot of the time , they are [ working for Churchill ] .
Stop to think of ’ em : any number of ’ em are convinced that the way for America to conduct its foreign policy is to find out what the British are doing and then copy that !
I was told six years ago , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s like the British Foreign Office….
” FDR ’ s son ominously recorded his father saying : “ I ’ ll take care of these matters myself ’ was Roosevelt ’ s now usual response on matters of crucial policy .
‘ I am the only person I can trust ’ .
” [ Elliot Roosevelt , As He Saw It ( 1946 ) ] The Five Eyes grows over FDR ’ s dead body Even though American-British coded signal sharing began in 1943 , no institutional takeover of American intelligence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Services ( OSS ) was still firmly under control of American nationalists loyal to FDR ’ s anti-colonial philosophy .
All of that changed with FDR ’ s April 1945 death and the Round Table groups embedded throughout America ’ s bureaucracy quickly took over as an Anglophile puppet named Harry Truman became president .
Under Truman , the OSS was disbanded , and a new order was installed with the Anglo-American Special Relationship , the UKUSA Signal Intelligence Agreement of March 5 , 1946 and the September 8 , 1947 formation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Patriots loyal to FDR ’ s post-war vision like Henry Wallace , Harry Dexter White , and Paul Robeson were torn down under the FBI dictatorship known as McCarthyism .
The policy of cultivating useful Ukrainian intelligence agents who had been loyal to Hitler ’ s agenda and could again be useful in the new war against the Soviet Union in the newly emerging Cold War was hatched in the dirty basement of this post-OSS intelligence complex .
This new order of integrated intelligence saw the birth of the NSA in America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and sister organizations in Australia and New Zealand- all coordinating closely with the Royal Institutes/Round Table groups located in each Anglo Saxon nation .
This was the fulfillment of Rhodes ’ vision and the origins of the Five Eyes .
Approaching modern history from this standpoint allows the mind to see clearly that while the American NSA/CIA hand certainly played a dirty role in the post-WWII order , the true guiding mind has always been found an ocean away from America .
The Cat is Stuffed Back into the Bag Throughout the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Five Eyes remained a total secret even to elected politicians .
Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was so shocked to discover the existence of covert intelligence connections between the Australian Security Intelligence Organization ( ASIO ) alongside its American and British counterparts that he fired its director in 1975 .
In response to the Prime Minister ’ s defiance of imperial policy , Sir John Kerr ( Australia ’ s Governor General and actual Head of State ) sacked Whitlam in 1975 , proving that contrary to popular belief , the Crown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the symbolic image which today ’ s perception managers wish us to believe .
In America , a decade of assassinations as well as blatant CIA-run coups abroad resulted in a popular indignation and demand for justice resulting in the famous Church Committee hearings on CIA abuses .
In response to this exposure , upper level Deep State assets like Sir Henry Kissinger , Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski conducted two purges of the CIA ( 1970 and 1978 ) , abolished what little remained of the Board of National Estimates in 1973 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s international covert operations to a new organization which came to be known as the National Endowment for Democracy as outlined in my previous article on the subject .
An important fact to keep in mind here is that Kissinger and Brzezinski were proteges of Rhodes Scholar William Yandall Elliot who trained a generation of anglophile deep state agents from his post in Harvard .
In Canada a documentary aired on the Fifth Estate entitled ‘ The Espionage Establishment ’ in 1974 exposing the public to the Five Eyes and shed light for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Establishment of Canada resulting in hearings in the House of Commons and Senate and a modest restructuring of the organization .
While nothing systemic was ultimately addressed , lipstick was put onto the pig as the newly renamed Communications Security Establishment absorbed into the Department of Defense .
When CSIS was created in 1984 ( after the RCMP ’ s Intelligence branch was caught red handed organizing the FLQ terrorist cells one too many times ) , the CSE and new spy agency began coordinating closely with each other and today occupy adjacent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The natural righteous indignation felt by the masses petered away under a culture of consumerism , cynicism and conformism resulting in a slide into decay which no patriot of FDR ’ s generation could have imagined possible .
Occasional bursts of angst and rage in the popular zeitgeist were absorbed and redirected by Hollywood films like Soylent Green ( 1973 ) , The Network ( 1976 ) and 1984 ( 1984 ) ( to name a few ) .
Rather than empower the population such films were designed to amplify impotent cynicism , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corporate forces ( Soylent Green ) , Saudi oil barons ( the Network ) , or human nature itself ( 1984 ) .
With the belief that the causes of injustices could either not be understood , or were supposed to be intrinsic to the human species , the population went to sleep and dream walked into the New World Order .
Those core moral principles which leaders like John Kennedy or Martin Luther King fought to awaken in the nation were rejected by the majority of baby boomers as mere naïve fantasy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as they were told it to be .
But sadly , without core principles , post-truth liberalism found fertile soil to spread its roots .
It is this post-truth order which serves as foundation of today ’ s liberal order which Freeland has chosen to champion on behalf of those forces and heirs of Rhodes ’ vision who wish to become the lords of a uni-polar world .
At this point , you might be asking me : what was the point of writing all this ?
Wasn ’ t this article supposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suite against the Communications Security Establishment ?
Wasn ’ t it just about exposing Freeland ’ s Nazi pedigree ?
While that is true , as I also said at the beginning , this article is also about David vs. Goliath .
David could not defeat Goliath physically under any circumstance that muscle ruled the fight , but David understood his opponent even better than his opponent understood himself .
The fact is by taking on the Canadian branch of the Five Eyes ’ protection and use of bonafide Nazis past and present @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an infected wound which has nearly brought our civilization to gangrenous levels of decay .
By really understanding the nature of today ’ s enemy in the same manner as David understood Goliath , and then recognizing a few tiny weaknesses visible in its armor , even a small stone can accomplish miracles .
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , BRI expert correspondent on Tactical Talk and has authored 3 volumes of ‘ Untold History of Canada ’ book series .
His works appear regularly on The Duran @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russ , Zero Hedge , L.A. Review of Books , LeSaker.fr , Vigile Quebec , and South Front .
In 2019 Matthew co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation .
He can be reached at [ email protected ]

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
A David vs. Goliath battle between the independent Virginia-based online journal Consortium News and the gigantic Security Communications Establishment of Canada has begun this week. As Consortium News’ Editor-in-Chief, Joe Lauria wrote in his recent press release:
“Consortium News has sent libel notices to the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s version of the US National Security Agency, and to a major Canadian television network, Global News, for a report that said Consortium News was “part of a cyber-influence campaign directed by Russia.”
To the knowledge of this Canadian-based writer, no analogous instance of such a lawsuit has ever occurred and the subject of this lawsuit will undoubtedly bring to light some of the ugliest skeletons in the Canadian establishment’s closet that many powerful forces would prefer remain obscured and forgotten.
The Gist of the Fight
On December 10, 2019, Global News ran a widely circulated story citing a classified CSE report which claimed that the Russian Government had used proxies to spread anti-Christia Freeland slander in order to “undermine western democracies”. The CSE report cited by Global News asserted without any evidence that a leading protagonist used by the Russian Government in this endeavor was Consortium News which had run a story on February 27, 2017 entitled the ‘A Nazi Skeleton in the Family Closet’ which explained how Freeland had knowingly covered up the fact that her grandfather Mykhailo Chomiak was a high level Nazi collaborator during WWII.
Since the publication of this 2017 article and the work published even earlier by John Helmer, an fuller picture of Freeland’s Nazi family history and broader post-WWII use of Nazi-affiliated Ukrainian nationalists has become a thoroughly documented embarrassment for Freeland and the broader deep state/Five Eyes Intelligence conglomerate trying to run the world. This history is even more awkward since the use of hives of second and third generation descendants of these Nazi collaborators both in Canada and Ukraine resulted in the toppling of the pro-Eurasian Yanukovych government in 2014.
After decades of myth-making and spin-doctoring, the Canadian spy agencies managing mass perceptions of the population have developed more than a little hubris as their lies have too often passed unchallenged by their victims, making this situation a nice slap of reality.
Since so much has already been written on the issue of Canada’s Nazi problem (namely here, and here and here and here), I would like to do something a bit different and address the deeper question: What is the Canadian Communication Security Establishment exactly, and from where did the Five Eyes arise over the course of the previous century?”
Getting at the Heart of the Five Eyes
To properly answer this with a full appreciation into the historic forces at play, it is vital to jump back in time to the founder of the Rhodes Scholar program that birthed the Freeland phenomenon in our modern age (Freeland after all a leading Rhodes Scholar and it would do us well to fully understand what that means). This exercise will take us to Cecil Rhodes, Governor of Rhodesia, father of systemic colonial rape of Africa and all around degenerate.
Here we shall find ourselves looking at this imperialist’s 1877 will and testament. It was here that the self-described “race patriot” and “priest of the Church of the British Empire” called for a re-organization of the decaying empire when he said:
“I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race… Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilized world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, and for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire…”
Upon Rhodes’ 1902 death, his will served as a manifesto or “guiding spirit” underlying the formation of the deep state and later Five Eyes throughout the 20th century. Rhodes’ followers and upper level financiers of London like Lord Nathaniel Rothschild and Lord Milner established a scholarship in his name to indoctrinate talented youth from around the world in the halls of Oxford in order to be redeployed back into their home countries in order to infiltrate all branches of influence public and private with a focus upon departments of Foreign Affairs. As the late Georgetown Professor Carrol Quigley documented in his Anglo-American Establishment, an international group was created by Rhodes’ disciples named The Round Table led by Milner, Lord Lothian, Leo Amery, and Lionel Curtis who created branches in all Anglo-Saxon nations to coordinate this new British Empire under the banner of “Round Table Movements”.
This group found an early opponent in the form of a Lincoln-admiring Canadian Prime Minister named Wilfred Laurier who had then been striving for deeper cooperation with a USA and independence from Britain (the USA at this time still had a very strong anti-imperial political culture). Sadly in 1911, Laurier’s government was taken down by a Roundtable-steered coup resulting in the defeated Prime Minister famously stating:
“Canada is now governed by a junta sitting at London, known as ‘The Round Table’, with ramifications in Toronto, in Winnipeg, in Victoria, with Tories and Grits receiving their ideas from London and insidiously forcing them on their respective parties.”
That comment was made in 1915.
By 1916, the Group, under Milner’s leadership initiated a soft coup in Britain unseating the Labour Party’s Herbert Asquith in order to shape the terms of the post WWI order.
The CFR and Death of the League of Nations
During the Versailles Process of 1919, the Round Table Group then firmly in charge of the British Government and Foreign Policy infrastructure created a powerful new think tank called the Royal Institute for International Affairs (aka: Chatham House) which set up sister branches in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The American branch of the RIIA took the name Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in 1921 and was fully staffed with indoctrinated Rhodes Scholars and Fabians all loyal to Rhodes’ vision. This was the group that attempted to impose world government under the League of Nations throughout the 1920s-1930s until it was finally killed by American (and Canadian) nationalists who preferred not to sacrifice their sovereignty to a bankers’ dictatorship.
If you want to know what caused the Five Eyes to come into being and how the USA lost its core anti-imperial character during the 20th century, you would have no satisfying answer if you avoided this fact as too many are in the habit of doing.
In spite of resistance from Laurier’s leading anti-Round Table allies who took back power in 1921 and anti-imperial forces in American who resisted Round Table control over the U.S. State Department under President Harding, the British/CFR problem only became more pronounced by the end of WWII as FDR stated to his son in a moment of frustration in 1943:
“You know, any number of times the men in the State Department have tried to conceal messages to me, delay them, hold them up somehow, just because some of those career diplomats over there aren’t in accord with what they know I think. They should be working for Winston. As a matter of fact, a lot of the time, they are [working for Churchill]. Stop to think of ’em: any number of ’em are convinced that the way for America to conduct its foreign policy is to find out what the British are doing and then copy that! I was told six years ago, to clean out that State Department. It’s like the British Foreign Office….”
FDR’s son ominously recorded his father saying: “I’ll take care of these matters myself’ was Roosevelt’s now usual response on matters of crucial policy. ‘I am the only person I can trust’.”[Elliot Roosevelt, As He Saw It (1946)]
The Five Eyes grows over FDR’s dead body
Even though American-British coded signal sharing began in 1943, no institutional takeover of American intelligence had yet occurred and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was still firmly under control of American nationalists loyal to FDR’s anti-colonial philosophy.
All of that changed with FDR’s April 1945 death and the Round Table groups embedded throughout America’s bureaucracy quickly took over as an Anglophile puppet named Harry Truman became president. Under Truman, the OSS was disbanded, and a new order was installed with the Anglo-American Special Relationship, the UKUSA Signal Intelligence Agreement of March 5, 1946 and the September 8, 1947 formation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Patriots loyal to FDR’s post-war vision like Henry Wallace, Harry Dexter White, and Paul Robeson were torn down under the FBI dictatorship known as McCarthyism.
The policy of cultivating useful Ukrainian intelligence agents who had been loyal to Hitler’s agenda and could again be useful in the new war against the Soviet Union in the newly emerging Cold War was hatched in the dirty basement of this post-OSS intelligence complex.
This new order of integrated intelligence saw the birth of the NSA in America, the Communications Security Establishment in Canada and sister organizations in Australia and New Zealand- all coordinating closely with the Royal Institutes/Round Table groups located in each Anglo Saxon nation. This was the fulfillment of Rhodes’ vision and the origins of the Five Eyes. Approaching modern history from this standpoint allows the mind to see clearly that while the American NSA/CIA hand certainly played a dirty role in the post-WWII order, the true guiding mind has always been found an ocean away from America.
The Cat is Stuffed Back into the Bag
Throughout the first three decades of the Cold War, the Five Eyes remained a total secret even to elected politicians. Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was so shocked to discover the existence of covert intelligence connections between the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) alongside its American and British counterparts that he fired its director in 1975. In response to the Prime Minister’s defiance of imperial policy, Sir John Kerr (Australia’s Governor General and actual Head of State) sacked Whitlam in 1975, proving that contrary to popular belief, the Crown’s powers are much more than the symbolic image which today’s perception managers wish us to believe.
In America, a decade of assassinations as well as blatant CIA-run coups abroad resulted in a popular indignation and demand for justice resulting in the famous Church Committee hearings on CIA abuses. In response to this exposure, upper level Deep State assets like Sir Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski conducted two purges of the CIA (1970 and 1978), abolished what little remained of the Board of National Estimates in 1973 and moved many of the CIA’s international covert operations to a new organization which came to be known as the National Endowment for Democracy as outlined in my previous article on the subject.
An important fact to keep in mind here is that Kissinger and Brzezinski were proteges of Rhodes Scholar William Yandall Elliot who trained a generation of anglophile deep state agents from his post in Harvard.
In Canada a documentary aired on the Fifth Estate entitled ‘The Espionage Establishment’ in 1974 exposing the public to the Five Eyes and shed light for the first time to the Communications Security Establishment of Canada resulting in hearings in the House of Commons and Senate and a modest restructuring of the organization. While nothing systemic was ultimately addressed, lipstick was put onto the pig as the newly renamed Communications Security Establishment absorbed into the Department of Defense. When CSIS was created in 1984 (after the RCMP’s Intelligence branch was caught red handed organizing the FLQ terrorist cells one too many times), the CSE and new spy agency began coordinating closely with each other and today occupy adjacent buildings from each other in Ottawa.
The natural righteous indignation felt by the masses petered away under a culture of consumerism, cynicism and conformism resulting in a slide into decay which no patriot of FDR’s generation could have imagined possible. Occasional bursts of angst and rage in the popular zeitgeist were absorbed and redirected by Hollywood films like Soylent Green (1973), The Network (1976) and 1984 (1984) (to name a few). Rather than empower the population such films were designed to amplify impotent cynicism, defeatism and misdirect anger towards un-nameable shadowy corporate forces (Soylent Green), Saudi oil barons (the Network), or human nature itself (1984).
With the belief that the causes of injustices could either not be understood, or were supposed to be intrinsic to the human species, the population went to sleep and dream walked into the New World Order.
Those core moral principles which leaders like John Kennedy or Martin Luther King fought to awaken in the nation were rejected by the majority of baby boomers as mere naïve fantasy with no connection to “reality” as they were told it to be. But sadly, without core principles, post-truth liberalism found fertile soil to spread its roots. It is this post-truth order which serves as foundation of today’s liberal order which Freeland has chosen to champion on behalf of those forces and heirs of Rhodes’ vision who wish to become the lords of a uni-polar world.
At this point, you might be asking me: what was the point of writing all this? Wasn’t this article supposed to be about Consortium News’ legal suite against the Communications Security Establishment? Wasn’t it just about exposing Freeland’s Nazi pedigree?
While that is true, as I also said at the beginning, this article is also about David vs. Goliath.
David could not defeat Goliath physically under any circumstance that muscle ruled the fight, but David understood his opponent even better than his opponent understood himself. The fact is by taking on the Canadian branch of the Five Eyes’ protection and use of bonafide Nazis past and present, Consortium News has potentially opened up an infected wound which has nearly brought our civilization to gangrenous levels of decay.
By really understanding the nature of today’s enemy in the same manner as David understood Goliath, and then recognizing a few tiny weaknesses visible in its armor, even a small stone can accomplish miracles.
Originally Published on the Strategic Culture Foundation
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review, BRI expert correspondent on Tactical Talk and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. His works appear regularly on The Duran, Strategic Culture, Sott, Fort Russ, Zero Hedge, L.A. Review of Books, LeSaker.fr, Vigile Quebec, and South Front. In 2019 Matthew co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation. He can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com


theduran--2020-01-30--Erdoğan’s Outburst Against Russia Reveals Frustration

Submitted by InfoBrics , authored by Paul Antonopoulos , Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies… Back in November 2015 , a Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M near the Syria–Turkey border on the allegations that the Russian warplane had violated Turkish airspace for 17 seconds – an interesting casus belli considering that Turkey violates Greek airspace thousands of times a year , occupies large swathes of northern Syria in defiance of international law , and continues to rebel against United Nations resolutions by illegally occupying northern Cyprus .
Russian President Vladimir Putin in December @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” being responsible for the death of Russian pilots .
Although rumors circulated of a first Russo-Turkish War since World War I , the only reaction Russia made against Turkey were sanctions .
But rather than a deterioration of relations , the exact opposite has happened with an acceleration of bilateral relations , so much so that Turkey even acquired the lucrative Russian-made S-400 missile defense system , in addition to the two countries opening the Turkstream pipeline earlier this month and cooperating on Syria through the Astana and Sochi formats .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would inflict on Turkey has not even remotely come to fruition and rather Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been rewarded for his insolence , especially as there has been at least 116 Russian military deaths , most of them killed by Turkish-backed terrorists groups in Syria .
Putin has caused havoc in NATO by giving Turkey the confidence to act in its own interests , despite Erdoğan ’ s own imperial ambitions .
This sense of self-confidence in Turkey has allowed the country to pursue its Neo-Ottoman dreams that has antagonized all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , NATO and all regional states with the exception of Qatar , which unironically was one of the last countries to get independence from the Ottoman Empire .
By instilling a self-confidence in Turkey , a confidence that pushes for an ambition it can not meet , Putin turned Erdoğan into an ally and a friend .
However , when we look at the long game that Putin has played , Russia has been using Turkey for its own interests .
Turkey ’ s Libya gambit has once again shown that it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interested party in the conflict .
At a time when Turkey is becoming increasingly isolated but still confident in its relations with Russia , Moscow condemned Turkey ’ s decision to increase its military assistance to the Tripoli government .
Despite the increasing isolation and memories of the crippling Russian sanctions on Turkey in 2015 , Erdoğan appears to be frustrated and lashed out against Moscow yesterday saying : “ Currently , Russia is not abiding by Astana or Sochi [ peace formats on Syria ] .
If we are loyal partners with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ put forth their stance… Our wish is that Russia immediately makes the necessary warnings to the [ Syrian ] regime which it sees as a friend .
The Astana process has fallen into silence now .
We need to look at what Turkey , Russia and Iran can do to revive the Astana process.
” It certainly can not be denied that Erdoğan is frustrated and is now falsely claiming that Russia is not adhering to the deals made in Astana and Sochi .
The deals allow for the Syrian government and its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , such as the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front and the Turkestan Islamic Party , with the former being the most dominant and powerful militant group in the Syrian province of Idlib .
Russia ’ s assistance in fighting Al-Qaeda in Idlib prompted Erdogan ’ s outburst , where he also said “ Russia tells us they fight against terrorism .
Who are terrorists ?
The people fighting to defend their own lands ?
” This once again shows Turkey ’ s complete defense and apology for terrorist organization operating in Syria , unsurprising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroyed the lucrative ISIS-Turkey oil trade in 2015 with surgical airstrikes against convoys that were ignored by the U.S. air force .
So not only has Turkey revealed its frustrations against Russia for its own failures in Libya and Syria , it is now reverting to lies and contradictions that it usually reserves for using against Greece , Cyprus , Syria and Armenia , by deceitfully claiming Russia is “ not abiding by Astana or Sochi.
” With increasing of anti-Turkish sentiment in Washington , Europe and the wider region Turkey has become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as well as completely isolated – effectively destroying all ambitions for a Neo-Ottoman Empire .

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Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Paul Antonopoulos, Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies…
Back in November 2015, a Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-24M near the Syria–Turkey border on the allegations that the Russian warplane had violated Turkish airspace for 17 seconds – an interesting casus belli considering that Turkey violates Greek airspace thousands of times a year, occupies large swathes of northern Syria in defiance of international law, and continues to rebel against United Nations resolutions by illegally occupying northern Cyprus. Russian President Vladimir Putin in December 2015 promised Turkey they “will regret” being responsible for the death of Russian pilots. Although rumors circulated of a first Russo-Turkish War since World War I, the only reaction Russia made against Turkey were sanctions.
But rather than a deterioration of relations, the exact opposite has happened with an acceleration of bilateral relations, so much so that Turkey even acquired the lucrative Russian-made S-400 missile defense system, in addition to the two countries opening the Turkstream pipeline earlier this month and cooperating on Syria through the Astana and Sochi formats. It appears that the “regret” Putin would inflict on Turkey has not even remotely come to fruition and rather Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been rewarded for his insolence, especially as there has been at least 116 Russian military deaths, most of them killed by Turkish-backed terrorists groups in Syria.
Putin has caused havoc in NATO by giving Turkey the confidence to act in its own interests, despite Erdoğan’s own imperial ambitions. This sense of self-confidence in Turkey has allowed the country to pursue its Neo-Ottoman dreams that has antagonized all of its neighbors, the European Union, NATO and all regional states with the exception of Qatar, which unironically was one of the last countries to get independence from the Ottoman Empire. By instilling a self-confidence in Turkey, a confidence that pushes for an ambition it cannot meet, Putin turned Erdoğan into an ally and a friend. However, when we look at the long game that Putin has played, Russia has been using Turkey for its own interests.
Turkey’s Libya gambit has once again shown that it is isolated, finding no support from any interested party in the conflict. At a time when Turkey is becoming increasingly isolated but still confident in its relations with Russia, Moscow condemned Turkey’s decision to increase its military assistance to the Tripoli government.
Despite the increasing isolation and memories of the crippling Russian sanctions on Turkey in 2015, Erdoğan appears to be frustrated and lashed out against Moscow yesterday saying:
“Currently, Russia is not abiding by Astana or Sochi [peace formats on Syria]. If we are loyal partners with Russia on this, they have to put forth their stance… Our wish is that Russia immediately makes the necessary warnings to the [Syrian] regime which it sees as a friend. The Astana process has fallen into silence now. We need to look at what Turkey, Russia and Iran can do to revive the Astana process.”
It certainly cannot be denied that Erdoğan is frustrated and is now falsely claiming that Russia is not adhering to the deals made in Astana and Sochi. The deals allow for the Syrian government and its allies to conduct operations against terrorist organizations, such as the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra Front and the Turkestan Islamic Party, with the former being the most dominant and powerful militant group in the Syrian province of Idlib.
Russia’s assistance in fighting Al-Qaeda in Idlib prompted Erdogan’s outburst, where he also said “Russia tells us they fight against terrorism. Who are terrorists? The people fighting to defend their own lands?” This once again shows Turkey’s complete defense and apology for terrorist organization operating in Syria, unsurprising since it was Russia who revealed and destroyed the lucrative ISIS-Turkey oil trade in 2015 with surgical airstrikes against convoys that were ignored by the U.S. air force. So not only has Turkey revealed its frustrations against Russia for its own failures in Libya and Syria, it is now reverting to lies and contradictions that it usually reserves for using against Greece, Cyprus, Syria and Armenia, by deceitfully claiming Russia is “not abiding by Astana or Sochi.”
With increasing of anti-Turkish sentiment in Washington, Europe and the wider region Turkey has become militarily, diplomatically and economically weaker, as well as completely isolated – effectively destroying all ambitions for a Neo-Ottoman Empire.
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