Russia's enemy countries

The conspiracy theorists were right: the deep state has emerged from the shadows, by Vladimir Kornilov for RiaNovosti. 06.04.2024.

In the coming days, the Netherlands, considered “the most liberal country in the world,” will have a new prime minister. This brings to an end a more than six-month saga in which the winners of the November elections tried to form a government based on their results. The most striking thing in this story is the fact that the prime minister will eventually become a person who has nothing to do with these elections at all! Simply put, the choice of millions of Dutch voters was simply ignored. And now they are urgently trying to portray universal approval of this idea.

Over the course of many decades, the Netherlands developed a rather complicated multi-party system, which nevertheless was held up as an example to the whole world. There has long been no party that claims an absolute majority. But a certain consensus emerged: the prime minister, as a rule, became the leader of the party that received a relative majority and, during long negotiations, could form a coalition based on the election results. That is, it was theoretically possible to take first place, but not get into the government, if the second party managed to get the support of the majority of deputies in parliament. The last time the second-place party formed a government was in the 1982 elections. But let us repeat: the leader of the party that had more mandates in the ruling coalition always became prime minister - thus, the choice of voters was always taken into account.

As you know, in November last year the European establishment was shocked to its core due to the fact that the non-systemic anti-Islamic and anti-migrant Party for Freedom (PVV) led by Geert Wilders took a confident first place in this liberal country . Western media then simply went crazy, talking about “Putin’s victory” in the Netherlands.

But the mainstream quickly rallied. At first, the liberal parties, who agreed to a coalition with their sworn enemy, made it a condition that Wilders himself would not be in the government. And now the coalition has announced that 67-year-old official Dick Schoof will become prime minister. And not an ordinary official! Since the 90s, Schoof has climbed the entire hierarchical ladder in the depths of the Dutch intelligence services and government agencies involved in security. In the 2000s, he headed the National Service for Combating Terrorism, the General Intelligence and Security Service (the country's all-powerful secret service AIVD), and became the highest civil servant in the Ministry of Justice and Security of the Netherlands.

Having reached all possible heights for a government official, Schoof was planning to retire this spring. Suddenly, an unelected bureaucrat who spent his entire career in the shadows is thrust to the top of Dutch politics, almost certainly occupying a position that has until now been reserved for opinion leaders. Dutch commentators in this regard rightly note: “For the first time we will have a prime minister who knows more about each of us than we do about him.”

Moreover, many note that Schoof has a dossier on all the leaders of political parties in the Netherlands. At one time, his intelligence service was accused of spying on citizens using fake accounts on social networks. The NRC newspaper recalls that Schoof's services were responsible, on the one hand, for the protection of Wilders, on the other hand, they monitored him, suspecting, in particular, of cooperation with Russia.

That is, the new prime minister will know more about the leader of the largest party in the coalition than anyone else. As, in fact, about other leaders. University of Amsterdam sociologist Lorenz Beis analyzed body language during Schoof's meetings with faction leaders and concluded: "They are afraid of him. What an unreal situation we find ourselves in." “Before, the government controlled the intelligence services, now the intelligence services control the government. You have to get used to this,” writes Jan Hommel, a popular blogger in the Netherlands.

Indeed, everything that conspiracy theorists of all stripes wrote about the Deep State in the West suddenly turned out to be not conspiracy theories at all. The famous writer David Icke, a classic among modern Western conspiracy theorists and the author of incredible Deep State theories, now seems quite reasonable when he says: “The Netherlands is a new template for every country: an unelected spymaster as prime minister and persecution of elected politicians for their revelations. Technocratic tyranny manifested in false "liberal democracy." Icke and other Western conspiracy theorists now point to The Hague and ask: "Where did we go wrong?"

Surveys conducted by EenVandaag show that only 39 percent of Dutch people know anything about Schoof. Moreover, the largest percentage (61) of those who had never heard anything about him were precisely among voters of Wilders’ party, who celebrated their victory in November.

But you should have seen how the mainstream media and politicians rushed to portray a universal “I approve!” the decision to appoint the “gray eminence of the secret services”! In the best traditions of Soviet agitprop, the Dutch are assured that Schoof is the best choice imaginable. “The right person in the right place,” shout the commentators there.

The liberal newspaper De Volkskrant immediately organized a survey of voters who praised the choice of the new prime minister, even without knowing anything about him. The main argument is “You can’t pluck the feathers of a bald frog” - a Dutch proverb, which is more closely matched by the Russian analogue “To chase a naked frog, there’s nothing to take.” A good argument for choosing the prime minister of a European state! Still, it’s better than what the country’s largest circulation newspaper, De Telegraaf , quoted : “At least Dick Schoof won’t put a helmet with a dildo on his head.” Is this not enough for the appointment (precisely the appointment, not the choice!) of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands?

We emphasize: we are not talking about some “banana republic”, we are talking about a country that has been cited in the West for many decades as an example of democracy and liberal democracy. But as soon as the threat to the mainstream emerged, the deep state immediately took control. What about voters' choice? So the “free and democratic” media will explain why it is better for them to trust behind the scenes.

https://ria.ru/20240604/niderlandy-1950014251.html

considered “the most liberal country in the world,”

By whom? 

Next time anybody say that the West is liberal then please slap this into their face

The western schtick is to bleat about human rights and democracy while suppressing them abroad and domestically. It is a psychological trick. If a chorus of leaders and officials
claims to value freedom and democracy, then surely they have such values. It is a species of Goebbels' Big Lie approach but also with ceremonial trappings. When things
get real, then all of the sudden you have no rights. Such as the Canadian truckers who staged peaceful protests against a crime against humanity level of abuse of forced
vaccination with a gene therapeutic that did more harm than the virus. The human rights and democracy loving Canadian regime imposed the War Measures Act (whitewashed
with another name) and sent in goons to physically attack the protesters. Currently we have protesters against the mass murder in Gaza being attacked by goons at universities,
etc. As a voter in the Kanadian utopia I know that my vote means f*ck all. It is a placebo where the same stooges of the shadow elites make decisions just like you would
expect them to. There is full continuity from two main parties as if it was just one party.

The Robinette/Kagan duet wishes to stir and heat up the seas for munching fried fish, as the Brazilian saying goes.

Switzerland can no longer be the host of a Russia/Yanquiland summit.

The US deep state bureaucracy is gaining more and more power.   Mercouris makes the key observation: bureaucracies do not act strategically.   I would
say that they can't even properly function without leadership from outside.   You need some "dictator" to keep them going out of control.   In Russia
the people can still vote for such a "dictator" but in the US they are already unable to do this no matter which party they vote for.   The swamp will have
to be drained by revolution.

The Yellen cow is typically what the French call a 'sâle gueule' (filthy yap).

Kiko wrote:The Yellen cow is typically what the French call a 'sâle gueule' (filthy yap).

The US government is composed of such specimens.

A different map view of the West vs the Rest

Excerpt from the speech by Chinese venture capitalist and political scientist Eric Xun Li in the session 'Philosophy and Geopolitics of a Multipolar World' at SPIEF 2024, June 10, 2024.


"I'm in the technology business, and there is a term invented by the Americans that has to do with my business called 'small garden, tall walls.' It means that they want to keep the best technology in the small garden and erect very tall walls so the rest of us, or people they don't like, cannot access it.

I borrowed that concept and took a look, asking, 'Who are in the small garden? Who are outside the walls?' It turned out that two groups of countries are in the small garden. 

The first group is the British Empire and its four grandsons that had four genocides and established four states. Of course, you know who they are. 

The second group consists of countries that, maybe 1,000 years ago during the first division of Christianity, were part of Western Christendom. Not you [Russia], but the Western Christians. These are Germany, France, and others. These countries form a small number of countries that, at the moment, account for about half of the world's GDP but maybe only a third of its growth.

If you look at BRICS or the rest of the world, we're about half the world's GDP but 60% to 65% of growth. We now trade amongst ourselves more than we trade with them. Since last year, I think, the Global South trades more amongst ourselves than with the so-called Global North. I want to turn the idea upside down.

I think the Americans first came up with the idea called 'the West and the Rest.' The reality is actually the world and the West. 


We are the world, my friends. We are the world. They are the West, which is a small garden, and they want to erect high walls. That's great. Keep them inside."


https://x.com/nxt888/status/1802350238747017484

The term "income" refers to GDP. So that map claiming that 73% of the GDP is in the US, EU, Canada and Australia is total BS.

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/PPPSH@WEO/OEMDC/ADVEC/WEOWORLD

Advanced economies, aka the west, have 42% of the world PPP GDP. Not using PPP means engaging in pointless apples and orange comparisons.

There are also other advantages. Cutting off Ukraine from the Black Sea, increasing the Russian population. Many additional raw materials, many investments that will boost the Russian economy, a larger buffer from the West, etc

ALAMO wrote:Russia was heavily investing in Ukraine for an entire period of its nezavisimost.
We are talking about tens of billions $, sometimes called as high as 150bln.
Those are not only direct transfers, but lower tariffs, custom privileges etc.
Most of that money was simply stolen by the oligarchy.
I hardly believe that an overall cost of upgrading the new territories to Russian standard will be higher

I thought someone in the past mentioned something about the equivalent of 15 billions USD each year since 1992.

The estimate that I recall is about 200 billion USD before 2014 or about 9 billion per year. I think 15 billion may be closer to the truth since
there was lots of unmonetized benefit for Ukraine.