I misjudged the true British reason behind Brexit. On the surface, the immediate motivation seemed to be stopping of the immigration, but from the perspective of those 8 years I realised that it was just the pretext. Looking back into the events of 2008 and 2014 I realized that the British were probably horrified by the Russian military aggression: an incursion against Georgia resulting in carving out about 1/3 of the Georgian territory. Absence of any major political resistance form the EU (except isolated protests of Poland and the Baltics). I think British probably knew that the real reason behind a non-reaction from the EU has been a deep Russian (from the Soviet days) infiltration by agents and capture of an entire German political leadership by Russia. We know from Snowden leaks about a massive surveillance program of the German elites by the CIA. A question nobody has been asking is the reason behind that surveilliance. Perhaps CIA had a good reason to tap their phones?
A lack of substantial retaliation by the EU for the annexation of Crimea and Donbass by Russia in 2014 should not not come as a surprise given a degree of German infiltration by Russia who was able to subtly squash all retaliatory attempts against itself. In addition, acceptance of 2M of refugees into Germany around the same time, followed by German government attempts ar dumping them to other countries, created a convenient political crisis and distraction. Distracting the EU away from a much more pressing issue - of stopping Russian millitary expansion and agentural infiltration of the EU.
An almost simultaneous preparations of the British to exit the EU become now totally understandable, the economic cost notwithstanding.
Last but not least, when one looks at the past, British interests were never aligned neither with Russia, nor with any German-Russian alliance or pipelines. Germany are Britain's biggest competitors, while Russia doesn't have anything that Britain can't get anywhere else for less money and with less risk. It is interesting to notice how the British investment in Russian oil and gas fields were confiscated by Russia around that time! They haven't forgotten haven't they?
It is not in the British interests to help or be part of neither German sphere, nor Russia's nor facillitate any alliance between those two! Also, it is not now (nor in the 1850-ties!) in the British interests to allow turning the Black Sea into a Russian controlled zone.
No wonder that come 2022 the UK was already prepared and must have pre-planned well in advance repel Russian military attack and help Ukraine from day 1. So were some other governments of the EU, most notably Polish government and the Baltics. Basically looks like many of the EU + UK governments must have been preparing for the Russian military atack for some time accumulating enough supplies as well as placing military orders, to be able to immediately send huge arms supplies to Ukraine. All except German government.
When the "fog of war" settles we are going to learn some amazing stories.
Reference:
http://bleszynskimainstream.blogspot.com/search/label/Brexit
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Thursday, June 2, 2022
Individual freedom of choice, why Ukrainians are socially ahead of Poles!
Interesting discussion between Gary Kasparov and Alexy Arestovich
(see the references below) on the subject of free individual choice as the
chief value of the society. Discussing why is the Tatarian/Mongol idea
of "Russian-order" (Русский мир) completely unattractive to almost
everybody in Europe, especially to Ukrainians.
Tragedy of modern societies is that the people may become better informed
while their value system is being stuck in the Middle Ages or worse.
Typically people rally around the ideas that they were inculcated with during the past
centuries such as loyalty towards the ruling royal family, loyalty to the ruling religion
or loyalty to the state. Ukrainians represent us with a unique opportunity to observe
one of the most advanced societies in Europe where none of the traditional crippling
loyalties survived as the chief values. Instead, Ukraine became a society of escaped
farmers seeking individual freedom from the feudal system reigning elsewhere in
Europe, exactly like the United States.
From the value system Ukrainians fighting for individual freedom of choice
"how to live", have progressed since the 17-th century much farther than Poles
who got stuck on the idea of fighting for the "free country".
Poles have failed to consider that the free country, though important, is nevertheless
a secondary construct that results from free citizenry not the other way around.
Had Poles utilized the destruction of the Rzeczpospolita by 1790-ties as an opportunity
to abolish feudalism and grant "szlacheckie" privileges to all citizens,
peasants and merchants, who were culturally and mentally all ready for that, then
- freedom would have come much sooner!
Stan (Heretic) Bleszynski
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Short 1.5 minute version
Арестович, Каспаров: Новое цивилизационное предложение для мира
835,265 views May 28, 2022 В первой беседе с Гарри Каспаровым на канале
«Форум свободной России» обсудили развитие человеческой истории:
что послужило началом и что может стать итогом русско-украинской войны:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4wq30PHuc
Full version:
Арестович, Каспаров: Новое цивилизационное предложение для мира
835,265 views May 28, 2022 В первой беседе с Гарри Каспаровым на канале
«Форум свободной России» обсудили развитие человеческой истории:
что послужило началом и что может стать итогом русско-украинской войны:
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