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How Do You Defend Against an Army of Assassins?

by Jason Ross (EIRNS) — Sep. 16, 2024

Why settle for one assassin, when you can have dozens or hundreds?

The hyperbolic, emotion-laden, dichotomous language assaulting us from governments, major media, think tanks, academia, NGOs and other sources is creating an environment that spawns a ready supply of terrorists and zealous wackos willing to commit violence to achieve their ends. The case of Ryan Routh—the peculiarly incompetent yet well-traveled and broadly ambitious activist for Ukraine and other causes, who was lurking in the bushes outside Donald Trump’s golf course for 12 hours before being caught by an observant Secret Service agent—has bubbled to the surface.

How many still lurk below?

Is he the only person susceptible to (or promoting) the mind-rotted views of the Ukrainian and other maniacs committed to dealing a resounding defeat to nuclear-armed Russia?

The situation is dire, and nearing a point of no return. The U.K. establishment continues its leading role in promoting an escalation of direct NATO hostilities with Russia, in the form of half a dozen former foreign ministers and one former prime minister demanding that Prime Minister Keir Starmer immediately send long-range Storm Shadow missiles to Russia. Even if such a missile is launched from the territory of Ukraine, NATO itself would plainly be the aggressor, because the armaments cannot be used without satellite and other ongoing technical support from their providers, as the Russian leadership has stated quite clearly. (Russia has also announced it is increasing the size of its army.)

General Harald Kujat (ret.) of Germany, former chief of staff of that nation’s armed forces and chairman of NATO Military Committee, and now a leading critic of Western escalation strategies, says “If far-reaching weapons are delivered now, then Ukraine’s ability to attack targets that are of existential importance to Russia will increase—and with it the risk that this war will spread.” Attacks on military sites deep within Russia could, by targeting Russian early warning radar and related systems, prompt a devastating nuclear response.

How to gain support for a policy as insane as baiting the Russian bear? Terrorizing political and social opponents is one technique, well known since the 1960s. Banning the spread of alternative views is popular today, as seen in legislation now proposed in Australia. Driving people mad by destroying classical culture and promoting a “critical” view that upends the very idea of knowable truth in favor of all manner of identities is also effective, by excising thought while exercising the emotions. We should not be surprised to learn in greater detail how the flurry of investigations in New York City against Mayor Eric Adams and his administration are an expression of a form of control.

But this control is weakening. India, for example, is disregarding the importunate demands from the U.S. and U.K. to join them in suppressing the reporting of Russia Today, the way those ostensible bastions of freedom have done. And Chile has joined South Africa’s case against Israel at the UN’s International Court of Justice.

The most powerful tool in overcoming the Anglo-American forces hurtling humanity towards its potential extinction, is the creation of a new paradigm of international and social relations, based on the uniquely creative capabilities of our beautiful human species.

That approach has been demonstrated for many months in the meetings of the International Peace Coalition. It has been put into practice, in concentrated form, in the Schiller Institute NYC Community Chorus 9/11 memorial concert “Restoring America’s Classical Tradition.”