Hello,
Thank you Prem for an extremely timely analysis and overview connecting
a lot of dots that are often discussed or viewed in isolation from one
another. I think in one of his last books John Le Carré plants a
narrative in which British and American intelligence services conspire
to cause rifts within the EU. Place this stoking of geo-political fires
within the context of Brexit and a larger scenario becomes apparent; a
scenario with substantial historical roots beyond the more visible
conflicts of the Cold War.
So it is impossible to think of NATO as a benign political entity
disconnected from the geo-political interests of the U.S. nor to ignore
the intrinsic evolving tensions between the EU and the U.S. especially
when the evolution of the EU itself is placed in a geo-political context
that now includes Russia and China. Point being that there is a complex
of historical dynamics that have surfaced now; whether in the Ukraine or
Afghanistan or Iraq these states are transformed into tragic
battlefields; they become the brutalised benefactors of imperial
puppeteers. And while people angrily point their fingers at the
complicity of Russian oligarchs what about Jeff Bezos trying to get his
mega-yacht under a bridge in Rotterdam while war wages to the east. Is
he and his cronies less complicit?
When you connect the dots there is a surreal reality being orchestrated
by a global cast of unimaginably corrupt and avaricious oligarchs; yes,
it sounds like a cliche but how else can you described these people? And
so our present reality is no longer surreal but actual; a reality in
which over recent decades hundreds of thousands of people have been
murdered and driven into exile.
allan
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