Geopolitics: a discussion between two Australians

[Wayne Hall]

Geopolitics: a discussion between two Australians

The U.S. Constitution was supposed to secure the right balance between the one, the few and the many.

What has remained today is "the many" (hoi polloi). The one and the few have been suborned and co-opted and so cannot and do not protect hoi polloi.

It would not be good for what is beginning to happen at the level of the states in the U.S. (disintegration) to be followed in Australia. Federation in Australia is the counterpart of the War of Independence in the U.S. Canberra's historic role seems to be a matter for the future, not the past, as is arguably the case for Washington D.C.

The following discussion, focused on Ukraine, is conducted between two Australians, female and male, friends and antagonists all our lives since our early twenties.

W.: What if Russia wins this war with NATO? And what if it doesn't?

J.: Putin won't win and needs to stay in his box. Expansionism is not viable in this day and we can only hope physical illness catches up with his mental illness, much as one shouldn’t think that way however gross the person might be. He doesn’t look well. Other than that, his circle of wealthy acolytes need to turn on him - another revolution maybe. So far everyone who’s tried that is dead of course. Rather like Hitler. Nobody could pull it off despite the desire.

W.: I think you are wrong about this. I think he is going to win. I am not sure, of course, and I can be philosophical because like you I am close to the end of my life, though perhaps not very close. But I wonder what it is about the prospect of Russia being defeated and broken up that you find encouraging. This will mean that the World Economic Forum's and Klaus Schwab's "Great Reset" is not the provocation that I judge it to be and is seriously intended as a future for the world. I judge that the logic that underlies it is like the logic that underlay Capodistrias' method for getting Greeks to eat potatoes. They were not willing to do something so unfamiliar unless they thought the authorities didn't want them to. So a potato plantation was started here in Aegina (just a stone's throw from our house) and put in an enclosure and guarded by armed sentries threatening anyone who came close. So of course the Greeks started stealing them and they became a staple in Greek diet, as they had been elsewhere and became almost everywhere, or at least everywhere European.

But in any case apart from thinking you are wrong I also hope you are wrong and wonder how much you have thought about the implications of being right. There is an Australian called Robert Burrowes who has been working with us (the World Freedom Alliance Activist Group) though he recently left. He clearly does not think we accord him enough respect. He has an analysis which depicts the consequences of your being right and he retains a following in the World Freedom Alliance, which is split. The WFA Activist Group are those he regards as unhelpful and to me this view is a symptom of his having a salesman's mentality rather than an activist's. He has his product (We are Human, We are Free) and the desideratum is that it be sold. He is not alone in this, of course. Nearly all activists are vulnerable to the fate of degenerating into salesmen (metaphorically speaking). I might point out that Robert's family history is the exact opposite of mine. All of my relatives avoided involvement in the British and American Empire's wars, for various reasons, whereas most of Robert's forebears were killed in the First and Second World Wars. Like me he evaded Vietnam and he has been an activist since then, but he has avoided politics, not tried to find a way to involve himself in it as I have.

But Robert is right about "The Great Reset" being a horrifying prospect. It is not a world I want my son Jimmy to have to prepare my grandson Stavros for. Last night we had some friends to dinner and after the dinner the conversation drifted on to a number of subjects, including Australia. I found myself motivated to sing "Land of Hope and Glory", an indication of the kinds of content of our primary school education in the fifties in Australia. I had to translate the words for some in the group but they were all interested. One of the women said that all empires have been activated by the same violence as the British Empire. Including the Athenian and Macedonian Empires. Aegina was an early victim of Athenian imperialism and sided with the Spartans (and so with the Persians) for that reason. I judge that "The Great Reset" is a provocation and that what is going to happen, along with a Russian victory in the confrontation with NATO, is strengthening of the Anglo-American hegemony, but now with Russia allied with the US, on something like its own terms, and Europe on the other side. The central Asian geopolitical alternative will be hegemonic. Canada may become a republic, obliging the US, in order to preserve solidarity with Canada, to join the Commonwealth as the republic that it already is, becoming like other Commonwealth republics such as India and South Africa. Greece could come into the Commonwealth to join Cyprus, and possibly in this way achieve the Enosis so much desired by Greeks in the past. A united Ireland could also come into the Commonwealth as a republic. Australia will not become a republic: the Windsors will remain head of state in Australia as insurance against China. A second more democratic pole will be generated in the European Union, focused on Romania.

So here is a certain alternative scenario. Will one of us or both of us live long enough to see which of us is right?

J.: Why you want Russia to expand again like past imperial empires I can’t imagine. And how redefining borders again and again, with cold or hot wars, can possibly be a step forward in geopolitics, defies logic on your part! You are thinking in polarities which is what is wrong with everything at the moment. I’m not encouraged by the idea of Putin (Russia) being ‘defeated' because that’s not the point. It’s Russia that is trying to expand, not hold itself together. An old colonial ploy! Russia is Russia is Russia. The USSR was an expansion that thankfully has ended. Putin is trying to reinstate Russia's borders back to the ‘glory’ days of the USSR. So this is not about Putin being ‘defeated” - it’s about keeping him from expanding, keeping him in his box. The Ukraine, and all the other countries that were for decades under Russia’s sway, now have their sovereignty back and that’s as it should be.

You rail against the expansionism of the USA and the old British Empire etc etc. Why support expansionism of Russia and perhaps China in the future - they are pushing their boundaries as you know? It's nonsensical.

Land of Hope and Glory! Why would you be motivated to sing and interpret an old British Empire trojan horse anthem like that. For Gods sake! It has nothing to do with the Australian psyche and I certainly hope you don't suggest to your Greek friends that it does!

W.: If Russia is expanding it is through influence with Christians. More and more people are voluntarily coming to subtitle Russian videos with a Christian religious message. The second coming of Christ! As you know, I participate at the equinoxes and solstices in ceremonies in honour of the gods of Olympus. I am a pluralist! And I judge, as a hypothesis, that "Putin winning" will mean a new lease of life not for a post-Soviet sphere but for the Anglosphere, with the U.S. and the U.K. more as equals but also with an upgraded role for former dominions such as Australia. Federation was Australia's counterpart to the American War of Independence, and Canberra's historic role is something for the future, not the past, as Washington D.C. is: the past. Coudenhove-Kalergi wanted English as the language of the European Union, but also he didn't want the UK to be a member (nor the U.S. or, of course. Russia, for that matter). A bit like Greece's relationship with the Western Roman Empire. We take your language but not your population. He also saw the British dominions as an impediment to European integration and, like Hitler, he wanted to co-opt them. And he was one of the architects (pretty much forgotten) of today's European Union.

Your idea that Russia is trying to expand, not hold itself together is just a regurgitation of mainstream ideas for people stupider than you. Putin regrets the passing of Communism, but he regrets with his heart, not his mind. He makes that distinction clear, always, if you follow what he says to people who are sympathetic to him, and not just listen to mendacious enemies.

J.: How Russia colonising the Ukraine gives a new lease of life to the Anglosphere is beyond my ken. And Putin doesn’t have a heart does he? I think this is all in your imagination. Would you put your life in Putin's hands?

W.: My life is (our lives are) already in Putin's hands if there is a nuclear war. But when the Soviet Union disintegrated I did everything I could publicly to advocate unilateral Soviet nuclear disarmament. What did you do at that time to ensure that "our lives are not in Putin's hands"? Of course Putin was not on the international public scene in 1991 but the relevant parameters of the present situation were all there, particularly in relation to nuclear weapons.

This is what I wrote then: 1. againstthecurrent.org/wayne-hall/

And this is what I wrote a little later: 2. www.globalresearch.ca/nuclear-weapons-and-representative-democracy/1806

So do you know what you are talking about?

Are you familiar with the Khazaria factor? www.haaretz.com/jewish/2014-03-19/ty-article/.premium/when-ukraine-was-jewish/0000017f-ea19-d4a6-af7f-fedf24430000

J.:That has to do with the Russian invasion precisely what?

W.: A motivating factor. Zelensky doesn't hide it, any more than Klaus Schwab hides The Great Reset.

J.: A motivation for Putin to invade??

W.: A motivation to try to prevent Russians from becoming the new Palestinians. For years after the 2014 coup in Ukraine Putin evidently acted on the basis of a hope that Zionists could be contented with a role for Jews in Ukraine comparable to what the role of Jews in the United States is supposed to be constitutionally. After all, Zelensky was elected as the peace candidate. But this Russian policy was unsuccessful. And the latest biblical disaster in a place called Palestine in the U.S. will encourage the notions of "conspiracy theorists". Isn't that natural? Is there something intentional behind all this? After all, you have heard the saying: "Just because you are paranoid that doesn't mean they are not all against you."

J.: None of this makes any sense to me. Russia becoming the new Palestine?? Since when has the Ukraine threatened to take over any part of Russia. And Jewish or not, the Ukraine was never part of Russia, just the USSR wasn’t it?

W.:Yes. The USSR was called "The Soviet Empire" by its detractors and there was a logic to that name. There was a logic to the name "The British Empire" also, and it is now called simply "The Commonwealth". The way that Ukrainian nationalism survived the downfall of Bandera and his Nazis is tracked in this article: www.fullrio.com/news-28796 Don't be put off by the Cyrillic script at the beginning. The article is in English. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera

The Russian state was founded in Kiev. Russians have a sentimental attachment to Ukraine for the same reasons that many Greeks are sentimental about Istanbul/Constantinople.

Terrorist attacks by Ukraine have already started inside Russia. They often go without retaliation because of the Russian government's fear of unleashing/reluctance to unleash.... all-out war with NATO

We are Human, We are Free We are Human, We are Free

[Wayne Hall]

The diabolical is all around us now. Stay awake. Steel your resolve. And yes, I'm sure that just as with Paradise, California, this town called East Palestine was partially chosen for sacrifice due to its name.

Jim Shepard
February 17 at 10:19 AM ·

One of my favourite DVD’s has been the Tony Scott thriller, 2010’s “Unstoppable” starring Chris Pine and Denzel Washington. This fine little movie is about two heroic railroad employees who, in defiance of a corrupt and incompetent company management, stop a runaway train before it would have derailed, spilling and burning its explosive cargo of poisonous chemicals. In the movie the town of Stanton is saved from being nuked and made uninhabitable and untold numbers of conscientious, decent, hard-working Americans with their kids and their modest homes and unpretentious lifestyles are saved from being destroyed by the inhuman greed of heartless company owners who have nothing but contempt for the people whose work and whose honesty make their business, and indeed the very economic livelihood of America, possible.

Before bedtime last evening I tried to relax by watching “Unstoppable”. I couldn’t bear to watch it. I don’t know if I could ever watch it again without being reminded of the deliberate destruction of East Palestine Ohio by the orders of a railroad company management whose inhuman, heartless and apathetic greed – perhaps even their conscious and deliberate hatred of their own countryfolk – so far exceeds the evil of Unstoppable’s fictitious company management that I find in myself a new depth of heart-sickness to see it.

An expert in chemical hazards who followed closely the events of the February 3 derailment disaster in East Palestine Ohio came on Tucker Carlson’s show yesterday. So I finally learned why a whole town and the entire area was “nuked”, poisoned and made uninhabitable by chemical fallout such as to deserve the title of America’s Chernobyl.

Company employees had been keeping the derailed, but not yet breached, tanker cars full of deadly, explosive Vinyl Chloride cool by playing cold water over them while the fires burned themselves out. There would have been no danger of these tankers exploding.

But I’m presuming that once the fires were out the rail line couldn’t have been repaired and opened without the expensive and time consuming task of repairing these fallen tanker cars and hauling them out. The damage from the fires and even the toxicity of the products that burned would have been limited in scope. The town and the surrounding country, the farmland and the modest homesteads where families were living and raising their chickens and cows and vegetables and their sweet country kids would have been relatively unharmed.

But the water which was cooling those fallen tanker cars was ordered to be turned off. The chemical hazard expert of 30 years experience testified to that on Tucker Carlson’s show.

That’s why the recorded temperature of the Vinyl Chloride in those cars was allowed to climb to a dangerous level. The company could then plead necessity. They had to let that liquid Vinyl Chloride spill into a long ditch the crews had dug and then they set it on fire. A video shot from overhead as this chemical burned was played by Carlson as the man testified and for the first time I saw that indeed it was a long trench of liquid on fire that had produced that huge black mushroom cloud full of deadly Phosgene gas. That’s the gas that is produced when you burn Vinyl Chloride. It’s the same gas that killed and maimed soldiers in 1916 in World War One.
As the cloud drifted downwind, expanding into a wider and wider swath of horror, it was seen to drop fallout, a black snowfall of chemical poison onto the soil of acres and square miles of farmland and country homesteads.

And an extremely slimy columnist from Greenpeace jumped in and enforced the scenario, saying that the company had to release and burn this chemical poison or the tanker cars would have exploded. And anyway, wrote this columnist – a man named Hind who advertises himself as an environmentalist and Greenpeace co-founder – this chemical spill has a bright side to it. So he wrote.

Here’s where you laugh and then vomit: Greenpeace – GREENPEACE! – says this disaster offers an opportunity, AN OPPORTUNITY, for Joe Biden to “advocate" for chemical hazard legislation!

Go forth and ADVOCATE for the ENVIRONMENT, heroic President Joe! Greenpeace loves you! Ride on the wave of enthusiasm you will generate among the Woke Elite of Environmentalist Saints. Get yourself and your fine BIPARTISAN Congressional supporters RE-ELECTED.

I’m going to make some assumptions at this point. I wondered why FEMA officials did not descend like rappelling commandos onto the East Palestine Ohio disaster and take charge. I wondered why President Joe did not declare the derailment to be a federal environmental emergency so authority for the cleanup would be taken out of the hands of the company management whose malfeasance caused it. Now I think I know why that was never done.

Cooling those fallen tanker cars while the relatively small fires burnt out would have meant that they survived intact. But they needed extensive and expensive and time consuming repairs before they could be re-railed and carefully hauled away. That would have cut into company profits and, even worse, the delay would have meant that the malfeasance and neglect of proper maintenance that caused this derailment would have been kept in the public eye.

And far worse than that! Joe Biden would have been subjected to questions about his management of the disaster. All sorts of Democrat political and business cronies in the railroad industry and the political machine in Ohio and beyond would have looked dirty. The Optics were not good.

Whereas if we just burn the stuff and then declare the area and its water and air just as sweet as it ever was the publicity will fade in mere days. We can control the media. Hell, the media and railroad owners and congress people are all in our pocket. Sure. We’ve got it under control. Let’s do it! Fuck those little people in East WhoCares, Flyover Ohio. They are a bunch of poor White Trash Trump supporters anyway. Fuck ‘em.

In the complete and deliberate depraved indifference of federal authorities which President Biden alone could have, should have, called in, it was the railroad company employees who were ordered to and allowed to release the Vinyl Chloride and burn it which produced the cloud of phosgene chloride which has turned the disaster into something like a fallout cloud to contaminate hundreds of square miles.

These rural people are poor. They have no other place to go but back to their contaminated homes. This horrible disaster has not even begun to do its evil work. How much farmland and how much watershed in how many states now carry vicious chemical poison?

This was a management decision, right down from the very top, from the White House, carried out in the spirit of not giving one damn about the people. I notice that the tracks are cleared and functioning yet the debris is piled alongside and left with nobody in sight even working on it as if the area was a garbage dump. The pure hatred against these inhabitants of this area is sickening, depraved, inhuman beyond belief or comprehension. It is treasonous.

America does not exist as a coherent nation anymore. Not when FEMA can ignore this. Not when the Americans who live there need to be treated as refugees from their own country and yet there is nothing offered.

This criminal scum, this gangster, who got himself installed as president by means of a phoney election needs to be put on trial for treason. But will there be the slightest possibility of justice?

I had an American friend my same age, a former peace activist in the 60s in Philadelphia who refused to look at the evidence for the obvious election fraud of 2020 – fraud attested by eye witnesses in their dozens in front of three State legislatures. My friend is a naturalized Canadian but at heart is still an old school Democrat of course. I’ve got relatives back in New York State just like him. So I know well that no amount of evidence will penetrate the wilful blindness of people like this.

This filth Biden, this kiddy sniffing, God-knows-how-perverted creep! His own daughter left her diary behind so people would pick it up and expose it and she'd escape responsibility for exposing it – and the diary contains her account of Joe making her shower with him when she was a little kid, "probably inappropriate" she wrote. My Canadian Prime Minister's chief fundraiser is Stephan Bronfman, brother of confessed and convicted torturers, branders and sex traffickers of girls and women, his sisters Clare and Sarah Bronfman formerly of NXIVM – so I will be so bold as to assume that my PM is also a gangster and God knows what else he’s into. There isn't a level of hell low enough for these creeps.

These rural people of East Palestine Ohio are poor. They have no other place to go but back to their contaminated homes. This horrible disaster has not even begun to do its evil work. How much farmland and how much watershed in how many states now carry vicious chemical poison?

Where is the law? Where are the honest people with any political power who will stand up for these American people? If there are no such people left in the USA there is no longer any such thing as the USA.

There’s a facade, sure, there’s a show. There’s a sick circus of hypocrites fattening on the rotten political machines run by gangsters with badges and stars on their shoulders.

But as for America, some outside force is going to have to intervene. The criminals laugh now but the handwriting is already on the wall. The phoney facade of the American economy is already drowning in unpayable debt – sovereign, corporate and consumer debt – and its productive industry has been eaten hollow by human termites like Biden.

Lies and crime do not long sustain an empire, not when the corruption entirely drives out patriotic and honest people and liberty can find no refuge in the land. The will of God works in us all, the evil and the righteous.

Bow down thy heavens, O Lord. And come down and touch the mountains and they shall smoke.