When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, French economist
A community in society
Italy, as the political laboratory of the West, in which the strategies of the dominant powers are elaborated in advance in their extreme form, is today a country humanly and politically in disrepair, in which an unscrupulous and determined tyranny has allied itself with a mass in the grip of a pseudo-religious terror, ready to sacrifice not only what were once called constitutional freedoms, but even all warmth in human relations. In fact, believing that the greenpass means a return to normalcy is really naive. Just as a third vaccine is already being imposed, new ones will be imposed and new emergency situations and new red zones will be declared as long as the government and the powers it expresses consider it useful. And they will pay the price first and foremost the very ones who unwisely obeyed.
In these conditions, without putting down every possible instrument of immediate resistance, dissidents need to think about creating something like a society in society, a community of friends and neighbors within the society of enmity and distance. The forms of this new clandestinity, which will have to make itself as autonomous as possible from the institutions, will be meditated and tested from time to time, but only they will be able to guarantee human survival in a world that has devoted itself to a more or less conscious self-destruction.
September 17, 2021
Giorgio Agamben
And PCR writes: Do we assume that years of Kremlin subservience to the West under Yeltsin and years of Kremlin hesitation under Putin have convinced the West that there is no strength in Russia and that Washington can press on with the Wolfowitz Doctrine of Washington’s hegemony? Perhaps this is a safe assumption. After all Washington had three decades of Kremlin toleration of Washington-financed NGOs, media and subversive organizations operating inside Russia corrupting the youth and the disaffected. Elements of this ilk are even present in the Russian government.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/06/05/how-many-more-red-lines-can-be-crossed-before-armageddon-arrives/
First Russia does have as a nation state valid concerns about the Ukraine. However due to these concerns it is unpopular to suggest the Ukraine slug fest is almost Big Time wrestling when it really on TV resembles Roller Ball. Nothing about the war is sensible. Even the causus belli of pre-empting Ukraine attacks on the breakaway Republics makes no sense. Paul Craig Roberts consistently frets the Russian Federation by not going all in all at once is needlessly prolonging this war. I doubt this is true. Russia wants this war to last some duration necessary to destroy any power grouping capable of stopping Eurasian integration. Frighteningly the calculation may be that tactical nuclear weapons must be used by the West to create the necessary conditions for the Eurasian World Order. Western governments are puppets. Debrained by Ubu Roi they do as instructed.
Ukraine has 10% of the world's iron reserves, 6% of titanium and 20% of graphite. “In geology, this extremely flat region is called peneplain,” Andrea Dini points out, “because it is so ancient that it has been flattened by erosion. Many of the rocks are billions of years old and you don't see them on the surface because they are covered by layers of sediment.”
There are more than just minerals in Ukraine, however. In the north east, near the Russian border, there is a 400-million-year-old sedimentary basin filled with organic material and black shale rocks. “These are black slates with large amounts of coal and methane. For example, part of US energy independence is due to the extraction of methane (Shale Gas) from these rocks on US soil.”
There is also another sector that has a close link with Ukraine's resources: Italian ceramics. The ceramic industrial district of Sassuolo is one of the most important in the world and the quality of its tiles also depended on the importation from Ukraine of clay and kaolin, a mineral that is extracted from the quarries of Donbass. In the Italian ceramics industry, 25% of raw materials – including clay considered prized – came from Ukraine. After the Russian invasion, companies in the district will have to find compatible and competitive alternatives. According to insiders, first of all they need to find another recipe, that is, a new mixture of clays, kaolins and feldspars with material imported from other countries.
Lithium--Geologists call it the Ukrainian shield. That land in the middle which starts from the northern border with Belarus up to the shores of the Azov Sea, in the south of Donbass. According to the studies of the Ukrainian geological service, in the ancient rocks of this shield are hidden lithiumdeposits with great potential. Findings that have been identified mainly around the area of Mariupol, the port city of Donbass torn apart by Russian bombing.
For the sake of simplicity I take the view in politics, international politics between great powers and great power coalitions, accidents are uncommon and strategy does have a role. If then the Eurasian objective is not what is sold, if this conflict then has ingredients like our so-called vaccines, non disclosed, locked up for 40 years, then what we think we know is not even wrong. In the context of Dugin then, who cries for the multi-polar world, a question of Covid comes up. If it is true we are in a multi-polar world with no Hegemonic power bloc dictating policy to nation states why do all nations bow and scrape before the fake virus? Did a determination arise that the fast road to 2030 and a multi-polar world dominated by China passed through the “Pangolin” and mass vaccines and QR codes, and war, and famine, and supply chain collapses?
In other words suppose the owners of the governments of the collective West (perhaps excepting Sweden, but likely not) are in favor of totalitarianism with an A.I face. And to save the world the decision is made implode the West like the Twin Towers and this in turn slowly destroys the existing global order. Power and wealth are gushing up to the .0001% like an uncapped oil well.
A war in the Ukraine that is used to break the back of the West, defang it, leaves China and Russia with their fangs. From the ruins of the West the Eurasian Multi-Polar World emerges with decidedly different governance models which fit the global Sanitary State. The Globalist dialectic plays out: for the huddled masses of planet Earth, are blinded by their rage. Down with the wicked West! Death to the ogre! For many alive there is great reason to hope that the dynamics of Chinese, and even Russian, foreign engagement constitute a break from the extremely predatory lineage of western europe and the US. I say, no, this is a delusion, How does this happy outcome work? Ironies abound. China is a sweatshop run by the PLA and CCP. Russia internally Authoritarian and klepto-Capitalist. Cousins to the economic order built over a few centuries by the West.
I explore this idea as a writer of science fiction and student of history. Ronald Reagan once quipped that the right hand does not know what the far right hand is doing. We do. The Great Reset is underway. And maybe Agamben has the solution. Community.
A continuation of my Gedanken. https://lawliberty.org/the-free-man-is-unthinkable-for-the-chinese-political-culture/
What the West Got Wrong About China
Until recently, for the past four decades, the myth that helping China get rich would make it into a democracy was part of the everyday “wisdom” in the West. However, China—the second-largest economy in the world—continues steering a totalitarian course with a new “core leader” of the Chinese Communist Party at the helm who builds massive concentration camps in Xinjiang, throws human-rights lawyers and Christians into jail, aggressively brandishes its military force at Taiwan, and even harasses Chinese Americans living in the US.
It’s often said that those egregious transgressions are an indication of the CCP regime’s rejection of “fundamental freedoms, human rights, and democratic norms,” as FBI director Christopher Wray stated on January 31, 2022. Wray was speaking about the Party’s decades-long operation on American soil of targeting, threatening, or kidnapping former Chinese nationals or American residents who openly criticize the Chinese government or advocate democratization in China. They even went further to interfere with the U.S. congressional election by threatening a military veteran who once was a student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy protest in Tienanmen square.
But what’s been violated here is not so much Chinese Americans’ human rights but their political rights as American citizens. Liberties stipulated in the Constitution of the United States are not abstract human rights, but have a political nature. Freedoms Americans have enjoyed are a legacy bequeathed by their forefathers. Americans must understand that freedom in the Land of Free is a tradition, not a conventionally-assumed axiom—a “self-evident” moral truth—that is unproven and unprovable, and more importantly, nonexistent in other societies. American freedom is prior to the American republic.
The reason why China would brazenly “disregard the international law” that many other nations voluntarily abide by is that the rule of law is not, and has never been, a moral principle in Chinese society.
You write: “a community of friends and neighbors within the society of enmity and distance”. Yes that’s the only rational action I can see with any clarity. There are many interested in this. Start locally, begin community gardens, work within existing growers and ranchers. The Ice Age Farmer has amassed a wealth of information on these. Passive solar building construction if done well provides natural ventilation and cooling in warm months and heating during winter - even greenhouses for winter growing.