Fascinating. Why are factions most supportive of Ukraine also those most supportive of Palestine/Gaza? The rest of your analysis makes perfect sense, but I can't get my head around that one.
Dear Mr Davidson, thank you for reading and commenting. I would hazard the following A to your Q: that both factions, at least as far as they are not direct stakeholders, are concerned with power play and virtue signalling rather than with seeking the truth - truth is doomed to please none and leave all disappoingted. For my part, I encourage respect for the true sentiments found on both direct stake-holding sides of both conflicts. No matter how much 'Ukraine' is on the wrong side of history, who would deny the authentic sentiment and courage of those fighting for that side? And no matter how much 'Israel' is on the wrong side of history, who would deny the cruel-but-real dedication of those advocating its doomed-but-consistent cause? 'God is happy, msabu. He plays with us.'
I'm not sure I follow. I'm not referring to people with a direct personal stake on either side of either conflict. Their motivations are not difficult to understand. My sympathies extend to all of them--particularly in light of the fact that, at least in the Israel/Palestine conflict.
My confusion has more to do with the factions within the Unipolar hegemon itself. But I believe your response may have helped me answer my own question. The Unipolar hegemon, while certainly unipolar, is not homogenous. It does, in fact, contain factions. All of those factions appear largely aligned behind Ukraine against Russia, one of the leading exponents of a Multipolar alternative. But those factions are very much at odds with each other about Israel and Palestine/Gaza, probably because the Unipolar hegemon actively funds both sides of that conflict.
The apparent factional fault-lines within the power sphere of the Unipolar Hegemon are a logical consequence of the ideological and ethical void that is at its heart - what I call cultural nihilism or globalist nihilism. Basically, any narrative that serves the ruling Combine (basically an amorphous 'blob' combination of usury-based high finance banksters, bio-leninist media-academic activists and transhumanist FAANG technocrats) is pursued in simultaneous fashion, irrespective of policy contradictions or lack of overall strategy. On the contrary: the cognitive dissonance resulting from obviously mutually incompatible narratives (arrest warrant for Vladimir, but not Bibi; sanctions on Russia, but not Israel; encouragement of BLM, but not BDS; totalitarian surveillance of 'Covid' suspects, but not illegal aliens, etc.) serves the Neo-Orwellian regime by confusing and weakening the masses and allowing for the manipulation of part genuine/part artificial protest movements. A major example is the way in which our own Dissident Right movement has been divided into artificial and now irreconcilable factions over the various Great Reset narratives of the last years. The Dissident Right missed many real-power opportunities by failing to simply rally around the truth as a policy standard. It failed to unite with 'wappie' and 'leftie' dissidents over the 2020 lockdowns and the 2021 poison-shots, it failed to unite with 'q' and 'trumpist' civnats over the 2020 election steal and the 2021 J6 affair, it failed to rally around Russia over Ukraine in 2022 and it now fails to rally around Palestine over Gaza in 2023. Our movement failed in principle as well as expediency because of its lack of coherent vision and authentic leadership. It is as you said: the Combine wants all sides to lose. All it is concerned with is keeping and expanding its own power base, by playing off its domestic and foreign enemies against each other and by laying the groundwork for techno-totalitarian end-control. But while it may - for now - have defeated the Dissident Right domestically, it will find Eurasianism and Multipolarity a much harder nut to crack externally.
"[P]ursued in simultaneous fashion, irrespective of policy contradictions or lack of overall strategy." Indeed. Not only does the left hand not know what the right is doing, the right hand is pretty fuzzy on the actual details. Which is fine, if you're a nihilist, but not so much if you want to build anything.
To the extent that the DR is made up of disaffected Regime washouts, that's going to be true for it as well.
Fascinating. Why are factions most supportive of Ukraine also those most supportive of Palestine/Gaza? The rest of your analysis makes perfect sense, but I can't get my head around that one.
Dear Mr Davidson, thank you for reading and commenting. I would hazard the following A to your Q: that both factions, at least as far as they are not direct stakeholders, are concerned with power play and virtue signalling rather than with seeking the truth - truth is doomed to please none and leave all disappoingted. For my part, I encourage respect for the true sentiments found on both direct stake-holding sides of both conflicts. No matter how much 'Ukraine' is on the wrong side of history, who would deny the authentic sentiment and courage of those fighting for that side? And no matter how much 'Israel' is on the wrong side of history, who would deny the cruel-but-real dedication of those advocating its doomed-but-consistent cause? 'God is happy, msabu. He plays with us.'
I'm not sure I follow. I'm not referring to people with a direct personal stake on either side of either conflict. Their motivations are not difficult to understand. My sympathies extend to all of them--particularly in light of the fact that, at least in the Israel/Palestine conflict.
My confusion has more to do with the factions within the Unipolar hegemon itself. But I believe your response may have helped me answer my own question. The Unipolar hegemon, while certainly unipolar, is not homogenous. It does, in fact, contain factions. All of those factions appear largely aligned behind Ukraine against Russia, one of the leading exponents of a Multipolar alternative. But those factions are very much at odds with each other about Israel and Palestine/Gaza, probably because the Unipolar hegemon actively funds both sides of that conflict.
Thoughts?
The apparent factional fault-lines within the power sphere of the Unipolar Hegemon are a logical consequence of the ideological and ethical void that is at its heart - what I call cultural nihilism or globalist nihilism. Basically, any narrative that serves the ruling Combine (basically an amorphous 'blob' combination of usury-based high finance banksters, bio-leninist media-academic activists and transhumanist FAANG technocrats) is pursued in simultaneous fashion, irrespective of policy contradictions or lack of overall strategy. On the contrary: the cognitive dissonance resulting from obviously mutually incompatible narratives (arrest warrant for Vladimir, but not Bibi; sanctions on Russia, but not Israel; encouragement of BLM, but not BDS; totalitarian surveillance of 'Covid' suspects, but not illegal aliens, etc.) serves the Neo-Orwellian regime by confusing and weakening the masses and allowing for the manipulation of part genuine/part artificial protest movements. A major example is the way in which our own Dissident Right movement has been divided into artificial and now irreconcilable factions over the various Great Reset narratives of the last years. The Dissident Right missed many real-power opportunities by failing to simply rally around the truth as a policy standard. It failed to unite with 'wappie' and 'leftie' dissidents over the 2020 lockdowns and the 2021 poison-shots, it failed to unite with 'q' and 'trumpist' civnats over the 2020 election steal and the 2021 J6 affair, it failed to rally around Russia over Ukraine in 2022 and it now fails to rally around Palestine over Gaza in 2023. Our movement failed in principle as well as expediency because of its lack of coherent vision and authentic leadership. It is as you said: the Combine wants all sides to lose. All it is concerned with is keeping and expanding its own power base, by playing off its domestic and foreign enemies against each other and by laying the groundwork for techno-totalitarian end-control. But while it may - for now - have defeated the Dissident Right domestically, it will find Eurasianism and Multipolarity a much harder nut to crack externally.
"[P]ursued in simultaneous fashion, irrespective of policy contradictions or lack of overall strategy." Indeed. Not only does the left hand not know what the right is doing, the right hand is pretty fuzzy on the actual details. Which is fine, if you're a nihilist, but not so much if you want to build anything.
To the extent that the DR is made up of disaffected Regime washouts, that's going to be true for it as well.
Thanks!