A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – from the West down to the East | Strategic Culture

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Had some difficulty figuring out what forum I should put this in, come to the conclusion that this one is the best. It's a prediction on what's going to happen in the world in the coming years, while acknowledging that there are still some unknowns:

The article starts with the Trump/Putin phone call, segues into "a certain psychopathological entity in West Asia" and the forces there that I think is destined to stop it. Quoting: "There’s no way Russia will allow Israel – with crucial American backing – to wreak havoc on Iran. Even as Tehran is already capable to react to any attack, with devastating consequences. Without nuclear weapons – and even without Russian direct help."

Loved these snippets:
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While the self-proclaimed peacemaker was on the phone polishing the newest iteration of his Art of the Deal, genocidal psychopathological Zionists with hammers a-bleedin’ were unleashing wild wolves on displaced newborn babies – huddling in tents ablaze in Khan Yunis.

And ten thousand EUrotrash talkers with their tongues all broken were mute on genocide but ready to erupt in shrieking delight pledging loyalty – and billions in funds – to the envoy of the former self-proclaimed Emir of Al-Nusra, a moderate head-chopper turned Hugo Boss-clad President.


[snip]

In parallel the Exceptionalist “peace through strength” circus ringmaster – dubbed across vast swathes of the Arab street as “The Marmalade Moron” – brutally started bombing Ansarallah in Yemen, to force unbowed warriors to ditch their unwavering support for Palestine and wallow in submission.

[snip]

Compared to Yemeni courage, EUrotrash cowards might yearn, in their wildest dreams, to sound like thunder but are more likely to drown under a massive wave of irrelevance – to the sound of drummers whose hands are a-blazin’, bangin’ the Syria jihadi song. They shouldn’t even bother to whisper – because nobody is listenin’.

[snip]

Putin, Medvedev, Patrushev, Naryshkin, Lavrov, they all know that this war the current, breathless circus ringmaster is trying to end was always about breaking Russia, as well as containing China, and designed mostly as a Hail Mary pass to salvage the fast-declining Empire of Chaos.

And all that brings us to Spengler, as re-examined in this superb analysis, and to where Hard Rain is mostly gonna fall with no mercy.

When it comes to Europe, we are now dealing with Faustian men that don’t even qualify as T. S. Eliot’s hollow men, as “Europe has forgotten how to breed conquerors.” The Spenglerian metaphor for “the suffocation of a young civilization by the corpse of an old one” does apply. Yet Russian was never Faustian: more like Tolstoyan.

All of us who have been spending quality time in Russia after the start of the SMO do carry the feeling that it’s as if “the Third Rome was always waiting, biding its time, watching as Europe gutted itself on the altar of its own hubris.”

Now Russia seems to have shed “its Western skin”, turning to “its own roots – Eurasian, Orthodox, steppe-born.” I was personally overcome by this cultural/spiritual illumination not only in white nights in Moscow, Kazan or Vladivostok, but mostly while traveling in the black soil of Novorossiya – where the “rules-based international order” came to die.

The fragmented West is indeed trapped in a Baudrillard-style total simulation of its own making – while Russia is operating full tilt in objective reality. And indeed “this is why the West cannot win in Ukraine. It fights as a bureaucratic entity, not as a people. And Russia, for all its flaws, fights as a people.”

The current Hollow Men masquerading as Europe’s political “leaders”
[snip] should not be underestimated. They will get their revenge – over their own European fellow citizens.

Cue to Christine “Vuitton” Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB): “The digital euro is more crucial than ever.”

Translation: all European bank accounts will eventually be transferred to the ECB. Now couple that with the proclamation by the Toxic Medusa in Brussels: “This month [March 2025] the European Commission will present the Savings and Investment Union. We will turn private savings (italics mine) into much-needed investments.”

Extra translation: it’s the private savings of European citizens that will be stolen and invested in 800 billion warmongering euros for Europe’s “defense” against the perennial “Russian threat”. Hard Rain – on each and every European citizen.

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There is a link in the article I quoted above that I also thought was quite good in its predictions. It can be seen here:
 
Pepe Escobar is a major contributor to my grapevine.

I am too sleepy to get into this piece but Escobar has top level sources in Russia, China, and all through Asia....he is someone to pay attention to.

The big thing I dont know is what is going on inside of Iran...the Imperial Empire plan is to use sanctions to collapse Iran like we used sanctions to collapse Syria....to the point that our head choppers rolled in with almost no resistance after Assad repeatedly refused economic help from Iran and Russia. The Iranian Regime however is taking all the help it can get from Russia, so I tend to not think there will be a collapse.

As for the death of the West I have been talking about that for ages, and as well that it is way too late to do anything about the collapse of the American Empire....we have committed far too many crimes.....Trump is if anything speeding the process with his big swinging dick global policy.
 
A fun pithy read.

Pepe gets nothing really wrong, but I wish he had better communicated that the West to include the imperial Empire are exhausted, crumbling......that we are going to see (if we survive it) shifts in the world order more significant than has happened in over 500 years.

We are watching history, and it cant be stopped, something that Putin points out often.

The Chinese are sure too, but are more quiet about it.
 
A fun pithy read.

Pepe gets nothing really wrong, but I wish he had better communicated that the West to include the imperial Empire are exhausted, crumbling......that we are going to see (if we survive it) shifts in the world order more significant than has happened in over 500 years.

We are watching history, and it cant be stopped, something that Putin points out often.

The Chinese are sure too, but are more quiet about it.

I thought he communicated that well myself, but I think we can agree that the important thing is that the sentiment is there.
 
Putin believes in warning statements...."You were warned and yet you went on with your Evil....I will not feel sorry for you for what you are about to endure".

The Russians already went through it during the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Rape of Russia years, and the Chinese did as well during the Cultural Revolution...they know what is coming and as well that Americans are completely unprepared for the chaos and pain....it will be devastating.
 
The Russians are not going so slow and careful in Ukraine only to preserve Russian lives and Ukrainian civilian lives.....though that is important......the clock is on their side......the West is dying and the Imperial Empire is collapsing on its own.

They are supplying pressure to make it happen faster, but generally the mood is "Let it fall, and with as little damage to humanity as possible".
 
The End:

When it comes to Europe, we are now dealing with Faustian men that don’t even qualify as T. S. Eliot’s hollow men, as “Europe has forgotten how to breed conquerors.” The Spenglerian metaphor for “the suffocation of a young civilization by the corpse of an old one” does apply. Yet Russian was never Faustian: more like Tolstoyan.

All of us who have been spending quality time in Russia after the start of the SMO do carry the feeling that it’s as if “the Third Rome was always waiting, biding its time, watching as Europe gutted itself on the altar of its own hubris.”

Now Russia seems to have shed “its Western skin”, turning to “its own roots – Eurasian, Orthodox, steppe-born.” I was personally overcome by this cultural/spiritual illumination not only in white nights in Moscow, Kazan or Vladivostok, but mostly while traveling in the black soil of Novorossiya – where the “rules-based international order” came to die.

The fragmented West is indeed trapped in a Baudrillard-style total simulation of its own making – while Russia is operating full tilt in objective reality. And indeed “this is why the West cannot win in Ukraine. It fights as a bureaucratic entity, not as a people. And Russia, for all its flaws, fights as a people.”

The current Hollow Men masquerading as Europe’s political “leaders” tough should not be underestimated. They will get their revenge – over their own European fellow citizens.

Cue to Christine “Vuitton” Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB): “The digital euro is more crucial than ever.”

Translation: all European bank accounts will eventually be transferred to the ECB. Now couple that with the proclamation by the Toxic Medusa in Brussels: “This month [March 2025] the European Commission will present the Savings and Investment Union. We will turn private savings (italics mine) into much-needed investments.”

Extra translation: it’s the private savings of European citizens that will be stolen and invested in 800 billion warmongering euros for Europe’s “defense” against the perennial “Russian threat”. Hard Rain – on each and every European citizen.

You may be asking why a beat poem structured as a psalm, composed on a typewriter in Greenwich Village in New York City in 1962, slightly before the Cuban missile crisis, by a 21-year old recently arrived from an industrial belt in Minnesota is telling our big story today of hubris and deceit. That’s the unconquerable power of Art.

I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’
I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number


Pellets of poison will be flooding the waters; souls may be forgotten – especially those of the Hollow Men; some – across the Global Majority – may be even resourceful enough to emerge from the depths of the deepest black forest; but most of all, as the executioner’s face remains quite well hidden, many will finally be able to see who he really is.
 
The people who run America.....which is most certainly not the so-call elected representatives.....their identities we dont know for sure because we are never told.....that was to a great extent the purpose of blowing up journalism....have a plan for us.

And it is going to hurt.
 






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Czech President now admits it was evident two years ago that Ukraine could not win- They pretended for two years that Ukraine could win to keep the war going. Pretending that Ukraine could win was sold as "pro-Ukrainian" even as hundreds of thousands of their men died needlessly
 

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Trump and Putin’s Great Power Order. Alexander Dugin (@AGDugin) declares the Putin–Trump dialogue a civilizational turning point, heralding the dawn of a new great power order rising from the ruins of liberal unipolarity, with Putin embodying sovereign steadfastness, Trump breaking from the globalist yoke, and Zelensky flailing as the sacrificial puppet of a dying Atlanticist regime.

 
This thread reminded me to pick up wild bird seed this week. Thanks.

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This thread reminded me to pick up wild bird seed this week. Thanks.

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Whenever confronted with posts like this, I like to remind myself of something theologian David Ray Griffin once said:
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A myth is an idea that, while widely believed, is false.
In a deeper sense, in the religious sense, a myth serves as an orienting and mobilizng story for people.
The focus is not on the story's relation to reality but on its function.
A story cannot function, unless it is believed to be true in the community or the nation.
It is not a matter of debate if some people have the bad taste to raise the question of the truth of the sacred story.
The keepers of the faith do not enter into the debate with them.
They ignore them, or denounce them as blasphemers.

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