1. The historical omission
2. Authoritarian pressure of expectations blocks rationality
3. The boarded superpower and its values
4. The unsuccessful commitment to peace, freedom and democracy
5. Respect as a precondition for the non-violent path
6. Mislabeled disintegration
7. Being defended to death or suicide by appeasement
8. Ukraine and the Great Task
1. The historical omission
With the military intervention in Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian government exchanged its moral position as the beleaguered victim of aggressive NATO expansion for that of an aggressor - and in doing so it did the greatest possible favour to influential militarists and anti-Russians in the West. The other countries of the cultural continent didn´t react less irrationally and self-destructively to this clumsy military operation. While they alone have a mediating role in this fratricidal war, sanctions (which under international law “actually” only the UN Security Council is authorized to carry out) and arms deliveries to the crisis area (which in principle should be avoided out of responsibility) are carried out by the EU and NATO countries unnecessarily and make them a war party. As in the two world wars of the last century, a manageable regional conflict is inflated into a major European fratricidal war, this time with 32 states involved from the start.
For the people in the war zone, the insensitive intervention in a centuries-old regional power structure brings an intensification and prolongation of the fighting instead of the necessary relaxation. While the escalation spiral turns in automatic mode without recognizable rational influenceability, it should be clear that without fundamental correction this path leads to the apocalypse.
But a major psychological obstacle stands in the way of this much-needed correction, with the Russian guilt diverting attention away from notably influential pro-war forces in the West. These have absolutely excellent worldwide experience in fomenting disunity, in escalating, in endlessly expanding military operations, in causing the greatest possible collateral damage and civilian casualties, and bringing about violent "solutions" that only ever know one winner - the empire of really big money.
"Capitalism needs war," Pope Francis said in June 2014. This courageous statement by no means stands for an extremist position that ignores the complete failure of Leninism, but instead for the neutral, correct analysis of an insincerely camouflaged system. This already has been subtly undermining liberal democracy and fair market economy for around 200 years. In the political field, this domination of big business systematically delays and thwarts an authentic integration of the European peoples as well as all non-violent approaches to international conflict settlement.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, there were excellent chances of reintegrating Russia, which was no longer communist, into a solidary European family of nations. There was no lack of corresponding Russian efforts until well into the new century, but there was certainly a lack of attention in the Western media and of courageous political action.
Instead, since 1999, the eastward expansion of NATO, which long since had to be dissolved, and which has been directed with increasing clarity against Russia, has created an artificial field of tension. This divisive course is part of a long russophobic tradition stretching back at least to the Crimean War (1853-1856). It was then that the first major punch against pan-European solidarity was struck when Britain and France intervened in a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and Russia on the side of the Turks. Since then, a defining leitmotif of western politics has been to prevent a large-scale integration of the European peoples, including the Russian nation - see analysis of the causes of the Ukraine war, Chapter 2 at www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com
While the unholy alliance from the Crimean War included only four countries (TR, GB, F and Savoy/ I) against Russia, today there are 30 NATO countries and Ukraine. Even then, it was about power interests far remote from the idea of European unity and not about the people affected in the war zone or about the defence of ideals and values. It's no different today, even if the media and politicians announce in unison that free democracy is being defended in Ukraine. This democracy, in which the parliamentarians of the ruling party check each other's voting behaviour via an app, is hardly less deficient and in need of reform than that in Russia. Both countries head the list of the most corrupt in Europe and both of them practice massive interventions in the freedom of the press - Russia with a state television and Ukraine with the closure of politically undesirable television channels and with the "merging" (read: censorship) of information flows.
This also means that so-called “embedded journalists” selected by the military are assigned to selected combat units. Alone for psychological reasons, these reporters cannot, of course, provide impartial reporting, since living with the soldiers of "their" unit inevitably brings about solidarity effects. This procedure aimed at manipulating the citizens was already "successfully" tested during the Iraq war from 2003 to 2011.
However, the manipulative influencing of public opinion, which violates the principle of free journalism, goes back at least to the Spanish-American War (1898 – 1899). (see comment D 1., chapter 2. on www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com). During WW I and WW II, a special war propaganda agency was set up, namely the Creel Committee (1917-1919) and the Office of War Information (1942-1945), respectively. These institutions unhesitatingly sacrificed the ideals of the free and fair press for their unconstitutional task, namely to instill in the population the politically desired willingness to go to war. Accordingly, reporting from the combat zone was subject to targeted censorship with embezzlement, distortion and, in some cases, fabrication of facts as well as “naturally” with biased comments.
The undermining of press freedom has, to this day, evolved into a definitive information war “thanks” to the gigantic investments in media and communications technology by some of the ultra-wealthy. This is not being conducted against external opponents, but against the own Western citizens - by generating acceptance for military actions that clearly run counter to their interests and against the principles of free democracy.
While an essential part of militarist propaganda during the past 77 post-war years has consisted of keeping itself out of the consciousness of citizens and politicians, it is now necessary to start a catch-up learning process immediately.
In this process, it becomes clear that the most targeted measure against the escalation spiral is to present and tackle a constructive alternative draft. Specifically, it is about the long overdue project of a large pan-European community of solidarity. This potentially includes all countries of Christian-Jewish civilization, i.e. apart from Europe including Russia, the entire American double continent, Australia/New Zealand and Israel.
People from all parts of Europe creating new nations overseas, such as those of the USA or Brazil, proved their excellent willingness to integrate and their tension-free compatibility. This grouping of culturally European countries thus forms the historically predetermined core from which harmonious global integration can take place. As the last two world wars have shown, any hindrance to this non-violent process takes free democracy, the European family of nations and the entire civilized world a further step towards the graveyard of history.
According to the proclamation of Pope Francis in 2014, there can be no sustainable peace without a thorough systemic correction in the West. Putting an end to the obvious excesses of capitalism, however, does not mean suppressing creative entrepreneurship, as the Leninists did with disastrous consequences. On the contrary, it means freeing the fair market economy from the accumulated privileges of corporations and thus from the undemocratic power of big money. As a consequence, this means an end to the extortionate prices of the oligopolies and also to inflation in the economic area - see Chapter A 2. and A 9. In the political area, the polarizing influence of a tiny, ultra-rich, all-round non-solidary minority, which has long been playing off against each other and raising people of different nations and religion .
The great danger threatening the free order that emerges from money power has already been recognized by the founders of the USA. "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies". / Thomas Jefferson
It is one of the greatest historical tragedies - which can be attributed solely to the lack of vigilance on the part of citizens and politicians - that this unofficial power has continued to exist over the past 200 years and has been able to expand gigantically and almost unnoticed.
2. Authoritarian pressure of expectations blocks rationality
Politicians and other representatives of the social establishment are, however, subject to subtle influence on another level, namely via tribalistic mobbing effects, which actually have no place in a democracy. By means of this, the political arena continuously rids itself of all persons who dare to form a rational judgment outside of the currently valid "political correctness". The social philosopher Noam Chomsky, in particular, has illuminated in numerous books these mechanisms that threaten democratic principles.
In the current initial phase of the Third World War, the supposedly correct policy consists above all in arms deliveries (without the rational condition that the Ukrainian government is actually showing willingness to negotiate) and thus in servicing the escalation spiral already running. Even many of the formerly outspokenly pacifist left-wing politicians are heeding calls across the media and politics to stand up in what is supposed to be European solidarity and what is supposed to be the protection of democracy. Rational arguments from concerned and level-headed citizens, which clearly refute the suicidal, militaristic approach, come up against a wall of resistance to insight among the responsible politicians - despite "actually" existing intelligence.
The sober conclusion is: The European community of nations follows - without recognizable learning from history - even in its third fratricidal civil war, an irrational escalation cascade, which, either immediately or later, can only lead to the mass destruction of human lives.
In order to stop the militaristic excess, there is an urgent need for the immediate detection and targeted switching off of the decisive psychological mechanism with which citizens, but even more so politicians, are kept in the mode of resistance to insight, i.e. in the state of a selectively blocked mind.
In behavioural experiments in the early 1960s, the American psychology professor Stanley Milgram identified this key mechanism, through which the judging mind can be blocked and released again, as authoritarian expectation pressure – see Chapter A 1. at www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com
Parliamentarians are also exposed to such pressure of expectations, but this usually remains unconscious. This also applies to the influence of the relevant phenomenon of ranking, more precisely the subjective perception and acceptance of a ranking.
In the area of the Ukraine war, the pressure of expectations comes from a hard core of militarists, namely from leading military and politicians of the US and Great Britain, who are regarded as higher-ranking allies. Their higher ranking position is claimed through a concentrated triple signal, firstly through the participation of the military, an institution in which strict hierarchies have always been the defining structural feature, secondly in the form of the leadership positions of its proclaimers and thirdly through the great power image of the represented states, namely the USA and the UK.
The rejection of this claim of the militarists in politics and security establishment to a higher rank forms the psychological switch, the correct actuation of which slows down the pre-programmed apocalypse and instead opens the way to sustainable peace, far beyond the current trouble spot in Ukraine.
Accordingly, the following six sections of this peace scripture are about identifying the claim of Western militarism to authentically represent the free-democratic community of values as factually unjustified and replacing it with the identical but factually correct claim of rational pacifism.
3. The boarded superpower and its values
Like the noble lords of the Middle Ages, big capital also knows how to play all its rivals off against each other. In accordance with the enormous – by far underestimated - financial resources available, this rivalry is no longer played out in a league for individuals, for groups or companies, but in that for states and nations. This has actually been the case since the days of the East India Company (1600-1858), which at times maintained a larger army than the English and later the British state. At this level of rivalry, however, "capitalism needs war," as Pope Francis rightly observed.
In fact, many findings show that in the historical past, emerging or already large nations were perceived by big capital as their main power rivals, played off against each other, systematically fought and ultimately all subjected to their money empire. These were mainly Spain, France, Russia, Germany and Japan.
The unmistakably militaristic course of the USA, at least since the Spanish-American War (1898-1899), meant a momentous departure from its peaceful and integrative position in the decades after the declaration of independence in 1776, when the up-and-coming country was still the free-democratic model par excellence.
As seen above, the American founding fathers had already recognized the threat emanating from the political power of big money. Tragically, their warnings have been forgotten, or rather, systematically erased from the public's consciousness. The extent of the omissions that have accumulated for almost 200 years becomes clear the moment one takes some time to reflect on the basic ideas, values and liberal principles of America's founding decades - see Chapter A. 31. Already a single fundamental thought of Thomas Jefferson makes it clear to what an incredible degree the non-solidary, disintegrating power of big capital has managed to turn these values and principles upside down under ever new pretexts: "I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us , that the less we use our power the greater it will be." / Thomas Jefferson
At the same time, fortunately, it turns out that a very large part of the accumulated distortions can be cured according to very simple principles, namely by restoring honesty, responsibility and fairness.
This begins with the restoration of a true market economy. What most people don't realize is that the western economy has long since moved further and further away from the balancing forces of the fair market, giving way to a system of unilateral privileges in favour of international corporations, big banks, foundations and multi-billion dollar tax-exempt organizations. On the contrary, the masters of big business, e.g. through their power in the media, encourage the citizens in the mistaken belief that new government interventions would be necessary to "regulate" the market (the most recent example being gas prices). In fact, such interventions distract from the real causes of the problem, lead away from the interests of the citizens and divert money from the state treasury into the coffers of large corporations – of which, however, the politicians involved are not aware at all – see Chapter A 5.
The privileges granted to an ultra-rich minority for more than 400 years bring them an almost magical carousel. This is based on extra profits, which can be achieved in a non-competitive space and which create even greater political influence and thus further privileges, which in turn secure additional extra profits, etc. - see Chapter A 9. A central result of this collaboration between the state and big capital consists in holding down smaller market participants through a tangle of bureaucratic obstacles, requirements and tax disadvantages.
In this unfair, non-solidarity system, which constantly generates new privileges through lobbying, the above-mentioned "self-purification" of the political arena from free-thinking people inevitably becomes a boomerang. This precisely is the case when only a few members of the establishment begin to see through the facade-like, contradictory-accumulating character of the system. Because once the spirit of freedom has been awakened (just like the disappointment about the abuse of trust suffered) is absolutely contagious, it can tip the system, which has been hollowed out by insincerity, like a house of cards via the domino effect, absolutely non-violently. This works in particular as soon as people realize that the dynastic representatives of big money wear out literally all people either as willing subjects and tools and sacrifice them to their (only supposed) interests, or know how to turn their rivals against each other.
The restriction "supposed" means that the course pursued by the financial magnates also and especially for them leads into a historical dead end - see Chapter B 8. The apocalyptic perspective that opens up there gives the term "deep state" used in freethinker circles a "deeper “ Meaning – as a synonym for the abyss. "Hell" is a little more apt, for rational pacifism's emphatic claim can be none other than to embody the good that asserts its legitimate right to protect itself against evil - namely, against insincerity, against the use of violence, against passing on one's guilt, against the unfair advantage of people and against their transfer into dependencies - in addition to many other questionable profile characteristics.
Just as automatically, a market economy that has been consistently freed (from state privileges for corporations on the one hand and from bureaucratic and tax law obstacles for their smaller competitors on the other) can automatically put a stop to the brazen price dictates of the large international oligopolies - also to the advantage of smaller companies and independent market participants who have been discriminated against by the system up to now - see Chapter A 2. and A 29. In this way, the inflation that started in the wake of (and under the pretext of) the Ukraine war can also be brought under control.
With the prospect of a freer, more liveable future in mind, the correct path will largely find itself. The disintegrating energies set in motion under the rule of big money can then be redirected in the constructive direction without great effort - see Chapters A 21. and A 26. Jefferson had already recognized the fundamental weakness of insincere concepts: “It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself”. / Thomas Jefferson.
4. The unsuccessful commitment to peace, freedom and democracy
While freedom represents an automatically stabilizing, harmonious principle, the diverse forms of open or hidden oppression can only be maintained with the permanent use of power. Therefore, oppression fundamentally and always leads to bloody historical dead ends in order to make way for renewed freedom - unfortunately only temporarily so far - see Chapter B 8.
On the internal and international level, it is therefore important to free the forms of coexistence from the hidden constraints, avoidable dependencies and bureaucratic patronage that have accumulated over the course of 77 largely meaninglessly wasted post-war years under capitalist influence.
However, this does not work according to a make-a-wish procedure. A fixed requirement is the contradictory double positioning of people among themselves as their most important cooperation partners and at the same time their toughest rivals. Since the earth, with its resources such as water, mineral resources and above all land, is of a strictly limited size, the fundamental phenomenon of rivalry for access to these resources will remain unchanged in the future – only the way this rivalry is regulated can be changed.
With the beginning of the technological age, a second requirement was added, which gives extreme urgency to the establishment of peaceful forms of conflict resolution: since the Stone Age, in addition to their own biological evolution, people have maintained a development of their utensils, tools and weapons, which since the advent of modern production methods experienced an enormous acceleration.
Since this super-fast evolution of ideas can potentially continue until the end of time, it brings not only the fantastic perspective of unlimited growing technical and medical possibilities, but also the downside of an equally unlimited progress in weapon technology and an unlimited increasing potential for destruction. Already today, after only around 250 years in technical civilization, mankind is faced with the vital decision to abandon its previous militaristic path, as this must end in the dead end of self-destruction within a very foreseeable time. Non-violent forms of settlement must therefore be developed for the disputes that inevitably arise from rivalry.
A half-hearted initiative already existed in 1945 shortly after the Second World War. At that time, the stability-relevant principles of self-determination and sovereignty were declared valid in Articles 1 and 2 of the UN Charter, but without supplying the necessary application regulations. To date, this unfinished approach has not been progressed, although since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 there has been no opposing superpower that could have blocked a harmonious set of rules for international disputes.
The inaction of missing the chance and leaving the construction site suggests completely different political goals of influential forces. – These true goals are encountered in the form of the real results of American military policy over the past 150 years. Actually, the US military was supposed to be an ambassador for the freest system in the world, but in the post-war decades in particular, it had hardly managed to appear anywhere with the profile of authentic liberators and helpers, who were enthusiastically received by the people and also in the subsequent period as Role models, advisors and friends are valued.
The almost endlessly dragged out Vietnam War (1955-1975) began with the support of a dictatorship, namely that of the South Vietnamese ruler Ngo against the local communists and communist North Vietnam. But it was Ngo who called off the all-Vietnamese elections that had already been prepared, firstly sealing the split in the country and secondly denying the residents the right to self-determination.
Instead of providing tribal armed assistance in an avoidable conflict, it would have been appropriate on the part of the USA to support South Vietnam and the Ngo-R government (as well as backward countries in general worldwide) in the development of a fair market economy well in advance of the rise of tensions - and thus one Guarantees for general satisfaction. For a population that - like the Germans from 1945 to 1960 - can achieve a visible increase in their prosperity year after year will never decide in democratic elections in favor of Leninism, which suppresses all economic initiatives. Another very manageable task for the USA would have been to ensure that the election process ran correctly. Otherwise, nothing more was asked of the United States than simply being itself and thus setting a free, democratic example.
Instead, the superpower engaged in a 20-year war that desecrated its reputation as “enduring” and ended up being defeated – not by North Vietnam and the communist guerrillas, of course (what a ridiculous idea!). Because the real victor, as in every significant conflict, was the power of big money with its investments in the armaments industry and its true aspirations that disintegrated the big nations - see Chapter A 26th, last quarter.
. The result of the war was a Vietnam as a whole, permanently wrested from free democracy but incorporated into the money empire as a cheap producer. Consequently, the alleged ex-enemy is now also (again) being supplied with American weapons – against the last major rival of big business – China, which has meanwhile had a fair market economy and is therefore extremely successful – see Chapter A 29.
At the time of the Vietnam War (1955-1975), the representatives of big money had had a decisive influence on the foreign and military policy course of the USA for many decades. To be more precise, this has been the case since the Spanish-American War (1898-1899) at the very latest – see comment D 1., Section 4. Since then, the course that has been emphatically militaristic (and manipulating public opinion in this direction) ignorantly avoids the right to self-determination and leads, via dangerous detours, further and further away from peaceful, compensatory solutions based on clear international rules. The military interventions, which were instead initiated under inconsistent justifications (more correctly, under pretenses), show tendencies in their approach that are in no way compatible with free-democratic ideals, including the protraction of military operations over many years, the involvement of the civilian population with high numbers of victims and extensive refugee movements , a remarkable lack of political success and a systematic policy of disinformation, which artificially maintains the acceptance of actions that are in fact completely unacceptable.
For example, in 1954 the President-elect of Gutemala, Jaobo Árbenz, was overthrown by a CIA-led force and replaced by a dictator. The anti-democratic intervention had been prepared since 1951 by agents of the United Fruit Company, which operates plantations in the country, and the CIA. Intrigues were made against the more conservative Árbenz and he was portrayed as a dangerous communist in an absolutely untruthful way. This massive encroachment on Guatemala's sovereignty and the destruction of its inhabitants' right to self-determination has destabilized the formerly peaceful country to such an extent that, after 1960, it plunged into a bloody civil war that lasted 36 years.
In sharp contrast to this inglorious profile of American military policy - which recurs worldwide - in 1967 Israel alone carried out a preventive attack against a superior force of Arab neighbouring countries, which was necessary for survival and which was victoriously completed within only 6 days. The fact that this lightning-fast clarification of the regional hierarchy of powers was politically absolutely undesirable was shown shortly afterwards by various counterproductive influences by the capitalist center of power, the UN, which prevented a final peace order based on the actually clarified hierarchy of powers. This deflected the 6-day war into a permanent crisis that has now lasted 55 years. The smoldering conflict is currently threatening the existence of the Jewish state more massively than ever before. Among many others - see Chapter B 10 - these circumstances show that Israel in particular and Judaism in general, like all other civilization-leading, outstandingly successful groups and nations, are regarded as their rivals by the all-around non-solidary family dynasties of the financial establishment and on hidden but effective way be disadvantaged. After thorough historical research and with some psychological understanding, the narrative of the "Jewish world conspiracy" turns out to be - albeit remarkably elaborately staged - a fairy tale farce and perfidious diversionary maneuver by all around non-solidary forces - see Chapters B 7., B 8., B 10., B 11. and Appendix C 7.
5. Respect as a precondition for the non-violent path
The claim to hierarchy and the authoritarian pressure of expectation of militarism, which is both enormously expensive and politically unsuccessful under the influence of big money, can be rejected across the board as factually and morally unfounded. The overdue clarification of the actual ranking position is tantamount to the claim of an unquestionable moral superiority of rational pacifism over any form of militarism.
Any drift into uncontrolled power and any deviation from the system of the fair market economy by suppressing economic initiative means, firstly, that social tensions accumulate and, secondly, that the masses of citizens are prevented from developing their full creative potential. Thirdly, this slows down technical progress, so that fourthly, historically, sooner or later the authoritarian society will be overtaken by freer societies in competition - see Chapter A 28., last 2 pages and Chapter A 30., last third.
As the example of the Roman Republic has shown, the competitive advantage for a freer and thus technically (automatically also militarily) leading society brings the possibility of expanding its sphere of influence. In principle, this can take place non-violently, namely through the effect of a role model that automatically falls to the leading power. This ambience favours integration processes in the border regions, with entire neighbouring peoples integrating into the leading nation, which they perceive to be higher in rank. Historical examples are the linguistic-cultural Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula and that of France. In this way, the Roman Empire was able to remain on an expansion course for centuries, and as the term "pax romana" - Roman peace - indicates, military efforts were kept at a moderate level.
The decisive stabilizing factor was and is respect. This peace-keeping psychological phenomenon always occurs in dealings between different nations and cultures when there is a clear gap in performance, i.e. when there is technical and/or military superiority, when there is a higher standard of living, when there is a leading level of education and when there is a freer way of life – see Chapter B 4. Automatically, the more efficient civilization takes on the role of a model from which elements of life, science, technology and language are adopted.
Since the end of the war in 1945, the elementary importance of the factor respect has been kept completely out of focus by Western politics and media reporting. As a result, the growing disrespect towards European civilization in general and the USA in particular could hardly reach the consciousness of the citizens. Under the influence of big business, the profile of a clumsy, militaristic world policeman has replaced the once brilliant image of the United States as a liberal-democratic idol. Its fundamentally wrong approach of wanting to use armed force to spread its - in its pristine state far superior - free social model finally failed with the embarrassing withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 - which also had the characteristics of a fairy tale farce staged by the security establishment and humiliating the USA as a world power.
The dismantling of the USA as an idealistic-democratic leading power turns out to be a remarkably systematic process, the origins of which go back at least to the American Civil War (1861-1865). The liberation of slaves in the renegade southern states, which was then pushed to be the war motive, in reality turned out to be a transfer of the Afro-Americans into new dependencies, namely into those of big capital in the industrial areas of the northern states.
By the time of the Spanish-American War (1898-1899), the erosion of the authentic liberation idealism of the American founding decades had already progressed far. In this war, the residents of the hitherto Spanish Philippines were outright cheated by the US military in order to be transferred from one dependency to a new one, similar to the African slaves, this time a much tougher one – see comment D 1., Chapter 4. on www. Frieden-freiheit-fairness.com. The insensitive, clumsy, militaristic profile that is typical to this day was formed in the actions, which lasted for several years. Historically, for the first time, the information censorship, which was handled by the military itself occurred in addition to the authoritarian, non-solidary and brutal behaviour towards the population, resulting in a concealment and whitewashing of the inhuman actions in the media comments.
This profile of a destructive conqueror rather than an idealistic liberator has been 'refined' ever further. Under genuinely liberal conditions, the growing destruction would have encountered a growing problem of acceptance and would soon have been stopped with a democratic vote.
But the financial aristocracy succeeded, “thanks” to their expanding financial power, to improve considerably the efficiency of influencing the masses via a technically well-equipped media network. With sometimes unconstitutional support from politicians (e.g. with the Creel Committee and the Espionage Act of 1917), they were able to disguise, sugarcoat and twist in the overall anti-freedom and counterproductive character of the worldwide military operations.
A "master peace" in this area was the Iraq War, which was "justified" with outright lies and began in March 2003 against the veto of the majority in the UN Security Council. Any effort was made (involving a "coalition of the willing" from 36 states) to give the military operation the misleading guise of liberation. The "documentary" footage presented to the television audience was partly promotional material from the arms industry and partly carefully selected footage from the battlefield, impressively showing the precise destruction of military targets while ruined houses and suffering people were kept out of view.
However, the favourable psychological conditions created by the rapid victory for the immediate creation of a new and stable order were not used. Instead, in the more than 8 years that followed, until 2011, a non-solidary occupation regime that was far removed from the citizens brought freedom restrictions, humiliation, economic misery and ongoing violence to the Iraqi population. The predictably growing hatred towards the insensitive occupiers spawned the emergence of brutal militias, including the notorious IS. This militarist-ridden environment divided society, with Shias and Sunnis notably antagonizing one another, and the non-Islamic Yazidi minority in northern Iraq becoming the victims of systematic genocide.
This inhuman treatment of the "liberated" population could only continue for so many years because the psychological effectiveness of the measures used to maintain acceptance among the American public had also been "improved" in comparison to previous military operations.
In the third world war that has already started, it is a matter of survival to identify the information war being waged by insincere militarist circles against their own western nations. The hitherto insufficient vigilance has made the contrast between the cruel reality left behind in the "liberated" countries (and perceived there as such) on the one hand and its filtered and embellished presentation in the Western media on the other hand grow into the grotesque.
This is the moment when the statement by Pope Francis (see above) inevitably finds an avalanche-like response and must lead to comprehensive system corrections. The open question is whether this will happen in time before the full escalation of military violence - which in the pre-programmed cascade of violence threatening even the mere existence of the USA in a very concrete manner - Chapter A 31.
6. Mislabeled disintegration
The contradictions between the free-democratic claim of a liberator and the actual appearance of the US military as a brutal conqueror who shows no solidarity with the population concerned runs like a red thread through countless military operations around the world. (The individual soldiers are not to be blamed for this, because their training is not aimed at psychologically sensitive and responsible cooperation with the encountered civilian population, but at carrying out orders in an emotionally dead manner and brutal submission.) Even common sources of information such as articles on Wikipedia and Informationen für politische Bildung on the Iraq war provide a multitude of alarming information that is being withheld by the mainstream media.
These show that not only is there something wrong with the interventions and invasions carried out on behalf of the US, but that the entire militaristic and highly disingenuous approach is diametrically opposed to the interests of the American nation and to the ideals of liberty and democracy. The "value" bought at the costs of thousands of domestic deaths and hundreds of billions of dollars consists in continuous dismantling of the respect and trust placed in the United States.
Since the real actions of the security forces have been systematically kept secret or falsified since 1898 (see above), their anti-liberty character regularly only comes to light with a time lag - and thus too late to receive due attention between what are actually third-rate daily reports. As a result, the long overdue initiative that would have to remedy the double system deficiency is never triggered - the counterproductivity of the security apparatus and the failure of actually free journalism to guard the authentic implementation of free democratic principles. The root cause is the same in both cases.
This cause is of a psychological nature and consists in the attitude of the money aristocracy towards civilized nations, which lacks solidarity and is geared towards exploitation - see Chapter A 18., points 8.1 to 8.11. Just like the old nobility, the lords of big business also sacrifice their subjects without hesitation in wars they foment to expand their spheres of influence. During the colonial period these were in particular the British Crown Colonies. These territories, like the vast majority of the rest of the world, became part of the global big money empire long before they gained formal independence. This is the political sphere of influence of a gigantic collection of financial institutions, various media, lobby groups, large corporations, foundations, tax-exempt NGOs and other organizations. But in contrast to the earlier nobility, the financial aristocracy knows how to present their egocentric motives and actions in a wrongly labeled idealistic packaging (e.g. by giving NGOs an officially charitable status).
There is always an inherent tendency to self-reinforcement in power. The old concept of autocratic rulers controlling all other persons in a hierarchical order has also undergone a remarkable development in the current rule of big business. From their point of view, this was necessary, since an undemocratic power such as that of big money must assume an unofficial character in a democratic environment, which requires secrecy at various levels. It´s perfection by using the latest information technology is guaranteed as a result of the constantly growing financial resources.
The effects are socially destructive and threatening to peace. Simple concealment was "developed" into targeted disinformation in order to be able to pursue completely different goals behind it - namely to make countries more and more dependent on the empire of big business, while sustainable democratization, respect for liberal principles and development of independence are directly or indirectly prevented behind a false facade - see Appendix C 6. on www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com.
The “Arab Spring” of 2010/2011 saw a whole series of such developments, during which pro-democracy movements in North Africa and the Middle East were immediately hijacked and falsified by remarkably well-prepared militant and undemocratic Islamists. As a result, the ideological compatibility between the European and the Arabic as well as more broadly the Islamic cultural area was permanently damaged.
However, long before this Arab disaster, the targeted disinformation practiced by the American security establishment for more than 120 years had been escalated to a dangerous level, namely to the point of manipulative disorientation in the core question of every fierce rivalry - namely the question of who is friend and who is foe .
The above Guatemala example shows the result of the efforts of United Fruit agents and the CIA, which is the fatal misorientation of the American public with regard to the respective classification of President Árbenz and the dictator who replaced him as friend or enemy of the USA. It corresponds to the legitimate task profile of a secret service to manipulate opposing powers into disorientation. However, to mislead one's nation about its friend and foe relationships is to deny it solidarity and instead treat it as an external adversary.
The persecution of freedom heroes like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, who uncover such machinations, reveals the existence of an alarmingly advanced erosion of the rule of law. Because the justification put forward by the US government that the revelations of the two would endanger national security not only goes nowhere, it turns the facts upside down - see also Chapter A 23. Because the priceless high value of these revelations for the national security would outweigh any possible blunders by the security forces that might result from leaking information about military action that may not yet have been completed.
The unprincipled secondary aspect of a possible disclosure of individual secrets for enemies distracts from the enormous danger that emanates from a security apparatus made up of the military and secret services that stubbornly evades it´s urgently needed democratic control - see Chapter A 23. at www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com. This lack of control, which has existed at least since the Spanish-American War (see above), has inevitably led to tribalistic "self-cleansing" (according to the pattern explained in Chapter 2 of this peace scripture) within the strictly hierarchically structured security facilities.
7. Being defended to death or suicide by appeasement
By presenting the democratic nation with individual actions and even complete military operations in a demonstrably falsified form, while the security establishment regularly refuses to provide information about them even after they have been completed, wrong conclusions and wrong political decisions must inevitably come up – see Chapter A 23.
On closer inspection, the perfidious confusion about false friendship and artificially suggested enmity turns out to have been practiced for a long time and secondly to be of gigantic proportions.
Third, this perfidious disinformation has been combined with the medieval strategy of sacrificing one's subjects into a new, surreal weapon that can be called defend-to-the-death. One of the oldest and most serious examples is the relationship of the forces of big business to Judaism, especially to Zionism and the State of Israel - see Chapter B 10. Thousands of narratives are circulated across the media, organizations are founded and actions are started that convey the image from a solidarity between high finance and Judaism. Also, Jewish organizations, institutions and projects all over the world have been receiving billions in donations for a very long time - which makes them controllable.
In this context, two extremely worrying circumstances stand out. First, the number and level of activity (and the disrespect) of completely different, namely flagrantly anti-Israel organizations and movements, which also receive gigantic donations from big business (and even state funds as in the case of the radical UNRWA schools in Palestine), are currently inflationary. Their narratives, taken out of historical context, threateningly damage the legitimate legal position and moral reputation of the Jewish state by accusing it of apartheid politics and imperialism.
Second, the activities of many (mostly US-based) Jewish organizations that pose as emphatically pro-Israel are proving to be self-defeating in their overall effect. Since these are becoming more and more clearly committed to a militaristic line and are at the same time gaining influence on Israel's political course, the Jewish state is exposed to the same damage of its international reputation since the Six-Day War of 1967 as the USA are exposed since the end of World War II.
In this blitzkrieg, Israel had proved that it could very well defend itself. But just as in the case of the two extremely unequal periods in the USA's Iraq war (see above, Chapter 5.), the initially clear military winner was prevented from quickly establishing a stable order and then artificially manipulated over many years to become the moral loser.
The "heartfelt" brotherhood in arms which is offered to the State of Israel by American militarists thus stands for the forgetfulness of values lived out by the "big brother", for guaranteed failure, for damage to one's own reputation and for the abandonment of legitimate legal positions - in order to change it for the law of the stronger in a moment, in which the regional hierarchy of forces has been finally clarified for 55 years, see Appendix C 7. first half www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com.
A look at the hostility to Iran that has been fuelled for more than 40 years makes it clear that this course is predestined to lead to self-destruction even in the very short term. In addition to the armaments that went to Iran (around 1985) as part of the Iran-Contra machinations, much more effective weapons have gotten into their hands - and in this case, too, with a polarizing effect directed against both sides involved. These are various writings that deny the Holocaust and thus accuse the Jewish side of forgery, so that their moral reputation is eroded in this perfidious way.
In the case of events that are recent in history, the reconstruction of the true course of events usually does not pose a problem, but in the case of the genocide of the Jews one was created artificially. This happened in particular by “defending” the historical fact "to death", among other things by the criminal prosecution of its denial. This dangerously pushes the level of superior argument and clear evidence out of focus and unnecessarily provokes distrust. Since from the point of view of the citizens the actually correct historical explanation can allegedly only assert itself against a then assumed different truth with criminal pressure, it is exposed to artificially generated doubts - see Chapter B 11. at www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com.
For Judaism in general and for Israel in particular, the manipulative damage to their reputation in the Holocaust issue, especially in the context of the tensions with Iran that have been going on for more than 40 years, represents a time bomb that does not have much time left to be defused.
The underlying causes are the same that were and continue to be effective behind the disorientation and polarization between Jews and non-Jews in Europe that has been generated for more than 100 years - see Chapter B 11.
The result is the subtly continuous dissolution of the solidarity that has grown over many centuries within the Christian-Jewish cultural area. The stubbornly spread narrative of a mysterious alliance between Judaism and political money power turns out to be a particularly perfidious means of breaking out the integrated Jewish element from the European family of nations. A closer look reveals the "brotherly" solidarity that the Jewish community experiences from this side as impressively expensive, but inauthentic. Because the moneyed aristocracy owes a huge part of their success to the ingenious use of the many human weaknesses, they must have absolutely excellent knowledge of psychology. Therefore it can by no means be a case of unintended collateral damage that Judaism exactly as well as the European-American culture - that has been subtly alienated from it - is led into self-destruction in two perfidious ways.
What both disastrous paths have in common is that they lead away from clear principles, from legitimate legal positions and from a long-established hierarchy and thus also away from any politically stabilizing respect. In concrete terms, the hierarchy between the Christian-Jewish and the Arab cultural area, which was finally clarified more than 200 years ago in the Berber wars, is being eroded in various morally questionable ways. The disastrous consequences are terrorism, refugee movements, demographic imbalances and growing tensions, especially between Jews and Arabs - see Appendices C 6. and C 7. on www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com.
If one's own morally correct legal position is manipulatively erased from the collective consciousness, this leads people into a psychological dead end. Anyone trying to escape from this is currently faced with two self-destructive options.
One consists in activating the psychological defence mechanism of "identification with the opponent". This path (chosen by the more anxious natures) expresses itself in inflationary appeasement and culminates in submission to the supposedly morally superior foreign power. Harder characters tend to seek a way out by using physical and structural means of force.
But in Israel's case, the continued use of force against what are in fact ethically unjustified claims by the other side, specifically the Arab side, is irrationally undermining their own moral position, which is actually clearly superior.
The correct way out of the psychological impasse, begins with restoring the original solidarity within the Christian-Jewish cultural area. In concrete terms, this means, firstly, that Israel will once again receive the moral support it is objectively entitled to from Europe and America, and secondly, that the absurd anti-Semitism will not be "fighted" but rather dried up - actually expediently - on the emotional and on the rational-argumentative level.
A solidary Christian-Jewish community restored in this way can literally change everything for the better, necessarily first of all restoring its own moral legal position.
Because the representatives of big political capital, the actual capitalists, not only knew how to disguise themselves behind Judaism and how to damage it physically and morally with perfidious means - as in reality their power rivals. They also carried, with insincere means, the exploitative and inhuman practices with which their ancestors and/or ideological predecessors founded their immeasurable wealth and political influence into the era of technical civilization and free democracy. With their inflationary growing means of manipulation, they have also succeeded in projecting the historical guilt, which they bear as a group that only shows solidarity with one another, but with no solidarity towards all other humans, onto the peoples and nations of the European civilized countries - a scapegoat projection from the psychological textbook - and a historical falsification without precedent.
This falsification, which was served with countless artificially pushed half-true and invented narratives, formed the basis for breeding an ever growing moral guilt complex after the end of World War II, and since 1967 also in Israel.
The suggested guilt damages the historically long-established ranking position of the Christian-Jewish cultural area in relation to the Islamic one, and in a broader framework also the ranking position of the highly developed countries in relation to the less developed ones. - With the restoration of the true moral legal position, however, the incorrectly deposed guilt becomes a boomerang, in that the bill goes to the ideological and legal successors of the unscrupulous trade monopolists of the colonial era - see Chapter A 4.
8. Ukraine and the Great Task
In the Jewish tradition, the idea of a special role for the religious community in regulating the coexistence of people of different origins and cultures has been carried on for a long time. The diaspora, the dispersal over the countries of the world after the expulsion from Palestine in 70 AD, as a great challenge, also brought with it the opportunity to explore the possibilities of the balance between the two positions of people towards each other as explained in Section 4 to test their fiercest rivals and most important cooperation partners at the same time.
Extensive integrative developments were set in motion, especially on the Europeanized American double continent, in which people of Jewish and various Christian and denominations from all over Europe formed new nations, above all those of the United States of America. Under the conditions of freedom, a fair market economy and democracy, a successful model has been formed that not only guarantees widespread progress and prosperity, but also sustainable stability based on the Roman model - as a pax americana.
The excellent conditions could have marked the start of an authentic global integration, namely as a peaceful propagation of advanced life forms according to the model principle. Corresponding to an increased solidarity gradient (see Chapter B 6. on www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com), the creation of a large federation of states in the world of European Civilization should have formed the spatial and temporal starting point of this historically preordained development. However, this community, which encompasses the countries of Europe including Russia, Israel, Australia/New Zealand and the American double continent, was prevented from realizing by a serious historical accident, namely the impact of capitalism, i.e. the unofficial rule of money within the framework of a democracy which it oppressed, as well as true market economy.
The disruption is currently threatening to cause a fifth fratricidal war in the European cultural area, cynically under the sign of European solidarity. The four previous ones, in addition to the two world wars, had been Lenin's October Revolution of 1917 (overthrowing an emerging democracy) and the Crimean War (1853-1856). In the latter, a historically "pioneering" punch was struck against European solidarity - with devastating long-term consequences for the Greek and Armenian nations, among others.
Overall, it becomes clear:
1. The Ukraine War is the initial phase of World War III if it cannot be ended by a rational and integrative counter-concept.
2. The group of NATO and EU states, which mistakenly thinks they are helping Ukraine with sanctions and weapons, has little to do with an authentic community of solidarity and values.
3. Rather, the constellation corresponds to that in the Crimean War from 1853 to 1856, except that the grouping set up against Russia no longer includes just 4 states (GB, F, TR and I/ Savoy), but 31 - a consequence of the expansion of the empire of big money.
4. Instead of pan-European solidarity, the provocation and escalation course of the western states only serves the interests of big business without solidarity, and that on several levels - in favour of the armaments companies, in favour of the energy companies as well as through further mutual weakening of the nations of the Christian -Jewish cultural area.
5. Since the war reporting does not meet the requirements of real press freedom, neither on the Russian (state television) nor on the Ukrainian side (see above, section 1.), an information war is taking place, the manipulative component of which supports the militaristic emotionalization and escalation and erodes the willingness to communicate.
6. Since both warring parties also represent highly imperfect democracies, their dispute is just as little about the defence of liberal-democratic principles as, for example, in the Iraq war of 2003.
From this sober perspective, one can see that Putin and his government live in a psychologically very different world from Western politicians and citizens. Far removed from reality, the Russian President believes that the polarization between the Ukrainian and Russian language groups, which has been brought to Ukraine by big business since 2014, can be resolved with military force and referendums that are not internationally certified. In doing so, he has thrown his country and the Russian-speaking Ukrainians from the position of being attacked with structural violence to that of aggressors and lawbreakers - and doing the mighty empire of big money the greatest possible favour.
This maximum damage to Russia by its own president has a symmetrical counterpart in Ukraine, where the historically developed harmonious coexistence between the Ukrainian and Russian language groups has been eroded for nationalistic motives since the change of power in 2014, which already led to the secession of Crimea and later that of the regions Donetsk and Luhansk. Instead of ensuring harmony between the language groups again in line with the Minsk Agreement of 2015, Kyiv is relying on discriminatory laws (education law 2017 and language law 2019) and on supposedly friendly forces in the West, which are working towards the historically grown regional to question or even reverse the hierarchy of power.
Before his election as President of Ukraine, Zelenskyijwas the hero of a TV series, in the role of a teacher who, thanks to his idealism, is elected President. The script dates back to 2014. Zelenskyj's selection for this role was, of course, a matter for the TV station in question, or to put it more clearly, for media power. The question arises whether it is really pure coincidence that Zelenskij is characterized on the one hand by a decidedly charismatic, people (and therefore elections and aid promises) winning psychological profile - but on the other hand shows exactly zero compatibility with that of Putin. Both believe they were idealists and authentically serve the interests of their respective nations. The result so far is a deepening of the emotional rift between the population groups, millions of people fleeing, a large number of fatalities – which cannot be precisely quantified due to the lack of independent reporting – and the prospect of a now fully automated escalation up to the worst case scenario.
In this extremely muddled situation, Western politicians must finally find their inner-European role as mediators, freed from any authoritarian pressure of expectations according to Chapter 2. of this peace scripture.
1. All arms deliveries to Ukraine must be stopped and, at the same time from both warring parties, with UN support, must be demanded an unconditional immediate ceasefire. Because on May 17, 2022, the Ukrainian side broke off the negotiations and made the resumption subject to unacceptable preconditions. - The predictable response to this, and to the continued arms shipments, was the Russian partial mobilization of late September 2022.
2. If the ceasefire is accepted, Russia is offered by the EU (along with its military alliance PESCO) to exclude Ukraine and all countries further east from membership for as long as Russia's membership also remains excluded. A corresponding proclamation by NATO is promised as a bargaining chip.
3. The rational peace movement gets access to the negotiations as an observer and moderator.
4. For the constructive counter-proposal to World War III, some governments from the European, Christian-Jewish cultural area set up a council of qualified idealists, which is given the task of drafting plans for the creation of the large confederation of states defined above, which includes democratization and reform of the soulless, capitalist-devoted EU.
5. Russia and Ukraine are equally offered participation there. In the medium term, it should make no significant difference to live on the Russian or Ukrainian side of the border or in whatever area defined as autonomous.
6. Organisations, politicians and other personalities from Israel and from the Jewish faith community in general (for various reasons exclusively to them - see Chapter B 7.) have a special task, namely contacting representatives of big political capital.
Because the perfectly harmonious transition from the demonstrably future-unsuitable system of unofficial monetary power (see Chapter B 8. on www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com) to an era of sustainable peace will take place precisely when that tiny group of ultra-rich - which have been exempted from any efforts to achieve a fair balance of interests with other humans for many generations - are reintegrated into civil society. At that point, at the latest, the wider sense of Martin Luther King's thoughts will become apparent who reminded that one must understand sensitively one's enemies, both perceived and actual. – The same sensitiveness and open-mindedness is also a precondition for being able to identify false friends - and to develop the strength to bring them back on the correct course.