What Is To Be Done?

When I first started professionally covering the US-Soviet superpower relationship and thermonuclear strategic balance of terror in the mid-1980s for The Washington Times, tensions were already unbelievably improved between Washington and Moscow. The crucial lessons of coexistence, cooperation and communication had been well-learned by the government bureaucracies and even the mass media, as well as the leaders on both sides.

From that perspective, the vast, gaping crevasse potentially far greater and more deadly than the Grand Canyon that has opened up since between Washington and Moscow, East and West was inconceivable then.

When the Soviet Union was in terminal decline, both its peoples and its leaders – to their everlasting credit – shunned the easy escape route apparently offered by foreign adventurism and imperialist expansion.

I traveled widely in the Soviet Union in those years and can testify that people of every race and background, especially Russians harbored no hatred or fear towards Americans and only wanted prosperous, ideology-free open interaction with America and the other Western democracies.

Today, however, the ceaseless ideological interventions, subversions and open funding of violent revolutions and violent protests to topple even democratically-elected governments across Eurasia has already had its backlash and unintended consequences.

Western publics have allowed themselves to be rounded up like brainless passive sheep to unquestionably swallow the narratives they have been fed in their stables on Russia, the conflict in Ukraine and much else besides. 

The United States and British governments, with their castrated European puppet-state regimes led meekly in tow, continue to open up one new front of violence, civil war and social collapse across the world from Bosnia and Kosovo to Libya to Yemen to Syria to Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine, with Georgia now being lined up fast. 

Based on now long past experience, they are confident there will be no outraged mass protests at their systematic subversion and toppling of secure, safe and stable societies. Therefore they will continue to inflict monstrous hardship, suffering and death on hundreds of millions of people.

To use the hair-splitting obsessive grammatical distinctions that characterized Abraham Lincoln, we can easily see WHAT needs to be done. But we are blocked on every side and at  a complete loss on HOW to do it.

WHAT needs to be done is two-fold. First the stranglehold of the dead, corrupt, corporate, micro-controlled mass media across the West needs to be broken and the mainstream populations of the West exposed immediately to alternative media, views and dissident perceptions and to open, different perspectives on reality.

Second, the old elites need to be voted out of power by lawful constitutional political action wherever possible, and assailed by public protest and private dissidension from their own oldest friends and closest family members at the same time. 

Nothing less direct can challenge and break the Pavlovian conditioning and extraordinary sleep walking ignorance that the ancien regimes in London, Washington and their allies still indulge in.

The time is short. The work is great. The obstacles deliberately made impossible to overcome.

But we still have got to try.