The Liberal World Order
-Bill Bonner
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No surprise. Reporters go to the same schools, read the same newspapers, and believe the same things as Washington’s movers and shakers. They are not intentional propagandists; they just see the world in the same way. So,
they generally accept the whole agenda – equity, de-carbonization, racism, financial manipulation, military adventurism, neutral pronouns etc. – of the ‘liberal world order.’ In other words, they become cheerleaders for the powerful EEE, not critics of it.
Never has this been clearer than reporting on the war between Russia and the Ukraine. The war in itself is nothing remarkable. Russia insists that Ukraine remain a neutral buffer between itself and NATO. Ukraine – lured and spurred by the US – doesn’t want to do that.
The whole brouhaha should be of little interest to the average American. His problems are here at home – such as $5 a gallon gasoline – and they are being made worse by the US sanctions.
But every headline insists that he take an interest. And they tell him which side to support. Ukrainians are noble freedom-lovers (rarely are its neo-Nazis mentioned) and the Russians are brutes. Putin is compared to Hitler. The Russian army is accused of dastardly war crimes, etc. Last week, one ‘news’ item even featured an adorable stray puppy that had attached himself to a Ukrainian military unit. Are there no puppies among the Russians? Apparently not.
Much of the coverage is just puffery and claptrap. Some stories are actual lies – the Russians did not attack a nuclear reactor… Miss Ukraine is not actually fighting for her country. And some delicious details are hardly noticed; Zelensky really is a former clown/comedian who got elected after playing a teacher on TV who got elected president! Life imitates art… especially when the art is (allegedly) funded by George Soros.
But little attempt is made to observe, study or understand. Instead, the ‘liberal world order’ is on the field itself. Zelensky leads the home team. And the American media… along with the public, as gullible as ever… puts on its jerseys and flies its colors.
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Meanwhile, the Chinese look on. Tom Friedman believes they have a simple choice. They can stick with Putin. Or they can join the ‘western’ coalition against him. Seeing the awesome firepower of our weaponized money system, he thinks they will buckle under:
There are signs that China recognizes some of these new realities — that no country is too big to be canceled in the wired world.
Get it? The end of history. No country can stand against the ‘liberal world order.’ The wired world has been leveled after all.
And yet, the media never even asks the basic question: what does the fight between Ukraine and Russia matter to Americans? Why are we so keen to expand the ‘liberal world order’ onto the Eurasian steppes? What’s it really all about?
Or, to put it more provocatively, and borrowing from Country Joe and the Fish who asked the same question about the War in Vietnam, “it’s one, two, three…what are we fightin’ for?”
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