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JohnOnKaui's avatar

Not directly a comment on Catlin's blog, I stumbled on to this article and found myself spending 3 hours reading what "The Sakar" had to say. I found this article on the coming war in Ukraine to be very persuasive so wanted to just pass it on. Hopefully others will read it.

https://thesaker.is/revisiting-the-basics-about-the-current-balance-of-military-power/

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Those in power today will never get bored with divide and rule politics, constantly dividing the people into smaller and smaller tribes until each individual is isolated and unable to communicate with others. Caitlin is correct that the leaders of the western empire are not communists, any more than Joseph Stalin was a communist. He didn't care about the individual people of the USSR any more than Bill Gates cares about individual lives in the west.

The issue is not communism or socialism versus capitalism or corporatism. These are just labels that are constantly redefined depending on the villain du jour. The issue is individual agency vs totalitarianism, grass roots vs hierarchy, mom and pop vs corporate bureaucracies and monopoly. If we allow those currently in power to completely shut down speech, to redefine science as consensus rather than argument in pursuit of Truth, to dictate to individuals what they must inject into their bodies at the pain of losing a livelihood for their families, to require social credit to shop for groceries or attend a play, then we are doomed. But we are also doomed if we allow another totalitarian cabal to gain such powers over individuals. Being flawed as humans are, Thomas Jefferson is currently out of favor, but he occasionally had wise words to say, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Caitlin is right that we must act collectively to defeat totalitarianism, but it must be a collective of individuals acting of their own free will. We must guard against any group attempting to take over the collective and dictate to individuals what they can or can't say, violating the natural rights of individuals: the right to life assuming you have not forfeited that right by killing, the right to be free from assault, the right to defend oneself if assaulted, the right to pursue happiness by peacefully acquiring, protecting and consuming the minimum resources necessary for sustenance of one's self and one's family.

Our natural rights are all being violated by the current globalist dominated system, and it doesn't serve freedom to single out Ted Cruz. There are plenty of people to convince. Most are redeemable. but there are those currently in control that must be held to account. Our primary goal at this point must be to defeat the evil that currently has all of western civilization in its grip. If Ted Cruz is useful for that purpose, we can accept his help while we convince him that imperialism is not the way forward, that our present predicament is imperialism come home to roost. If we lose the struggle to the totalitarians, they will redouble their attacks on the rest of the world once they have consolidated control over us. Besides, while we are struggling internally, other countries will be free from our bullying ways.

We have lost cabin pressure. We must don our own oxygen masks before we attempt to help others.

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