<nettime> The war that arrived

[Allan BP <allansiegel@internet-mail.org>]

Hello,

Thank you Prem for an extremely timely and continually evolving analysis 
and overview connecting a lot of dots that are often discussed or viewed 
in isolation from one another. I think in one of his last books John Le 
Carré plants a narrative in which British and American intelligence 
services conspire to cause rifts within the EU. Place this stoking of 
geo-political fires within the context of Brexit and a larger scenario 
becomes apparent; a scenario with substantial historical roots beyond 
the more visible conflicts of the Cold War.

So it is impossible to think of NATO as a benign political entity 
disconnected from the geo-political interests of the U.S. nor to ignore 
the intrinsic evolving tensions between the EU and the U.S. especially 
when the evolution of the EU itself is placed in a geo-political context 
that now includes Russia and China. Point being that there is a complex 
of historical dynamics that have surfaced now; whether in the Ukraine or 
Afghanistan or Iraq these states are transformed into tragic 
battlefields; they become the brutalised benefactors of imperial 
puppeteers. And while people angrily point their fingers at the 
complicity of Russian oligarchs what about Jeff Bezos trying to get his 
mega-yacht under a bridge in Rotterdam while war wages to the east. Is 
he and his cronies less complicit?

When you connect the dots there is a surreal reality being orchestrated 
by a global cast of unimaginably corrupt and avaricious oligarchs; yes, 
it sounds like a cliche but how else can you described these people? And 
so our present reality is no longer surreal but actual; a reality in 
which over recent decades hundreds of thousands of people have been 
murdered and driven into exile.

allan
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