Thread by @SimonElmer2022

On this day in 1933, Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler announced to his Cabinet, which like him had not been elected by a majority vote in the Reichstag but appointed under emergency powers, that he would pursue the goal of complete rearmament of Germany within five years.

I’ve argued that, although many aspects of historical fascism have returned today, the figure of the Führer or Duce has not. But looking at the comic figure of Zelenskyy, who is fêted in the West as a hero of democracy while presiding over a neo-Nazi state, I’ve changed my mind.

Like Mussolini and Hitler, Zelenskyy always appears in military uniform, even though, unlike them, he was never a soldier or even completed military service, having earned his living since the age of 17 as a professional comedian, his most famous role being the Ukraine President.

And like Mussolini and Hitler, who were chosen by Italian landowners and German industrialists to defeat the threat of the workers’ movement, Zelenskyy’s elevation from preening dance-show contestant to butch President is serving the financial interests of Western capitalists.

Just as Western capitalists supported and funded fascist movements in the 1920s and 30s, so too the West has so far handed over €100 billion in arms deals and aid to the Ukraine’s US puppet Government, while inviting Zalenskyy to perform to the legislatures of Western nations.

And just as Western capitalism found that, once the communists had been defeated, there was no one left to control Hitler, so Zelenskyy’s call to start World War III has the support not only of the US hawks intent on Russia’s oil and gas reserves, but on their UK lapdogs.

With the eyes of Western journalists focused on important issues like pronouns, they missed the fact the war in Ukraine began in 2014, not 2022, and it was started by the USA, imposing the same practices of neoliberalisation used in Chile and Argentina.

Under Zelenskyy, opposition political parties, workers’ unions and independent media platforms have all been banned in the Ukraine, and hit lists have been issued against journalists and academics denounced as ‘enemies of Ukraine’ for criticising his fascist government.

Among other criminal acts committed by UK forces on the directions of our colonial master, the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline increased UK and European dependence on US energy reserves, further entrenching US political hegemony over the West.
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Zelenskyy’s announcement that BlackRock will ‘coordinate’ investment in the Ukraine and its natural resources — oil, gas and the lithium that is the primary component of electric batteries — should make clear what interest the West has in this manufactured geopolitical crisis.

Zelenskyy is a puppet President who only speaks when someone’s hand is up his arse, and he has handed over the economy, assets and resources of the Ukraine to US asset managers, with arms deals, money laundering and sabotage financed by UK taxpayers. geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/07/28/wes…

That this perfoming puppet has the unrestrained admiration of the Conservatives, Labour, the Greens, the Left, the Woke and every other idiot in the UK and across the West shows just how little we have learned from history, how ripe we are for the return of fascism.

If you’re someone who has obediently waved your blue-and-yellow flags for a year and denounced the unsaluting as ‘Putin apologists’, it’s not too late to open your eyes to the political economy of stakeholder capitalism: it’s fascism for the 21st Century.
scheerpost.com/2023/01/27/ukr…

If you’re worried about the return of fascism to the political economy, laws and culture of the West and the rise of a Führer figure like Zelenskyy, you may be interested in my book, The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State.
architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk/2022/09/28/the…

This level of servility in Parliament, propaganda in the press and eagerness of the public to believe Government lies hasn’t been seen in the UK since March 2020, and in a military context since March 2003. This can only mean one thing: the UK is going to declare war on Russia.

RUSSIA MILITARY STRENGTH, 2023

Personnel: 1,330,900
Aircraft: 4,182
Fighters: 773
Attack helicopters: 537
Tanks: 12,566
Artillery: 10,911
Rocket launchers: 3,887
Aircraft carriers: 1
Destroyers: 15
Submarines: 70
(Ranked 2nd in world)
6,255 nuclear warheads
(Ranked 1st in World)

USA MILITARY STRENGTH, 2023

Personnel: 1,832,000
Aircraft: 13,247
Fighters: 1,914
Attack helicopters: 983
Tanks: 5,500
Artillery: 2,339
Rocket launchers: 1,716
Aircraft carriers: 11
Destroyers: 92
Submarines: 68
(Ranked 1st in world)
5,550 nuclear warheads
(Ranked 2nd in world)

CHINA MILITARY STRENGTH, 2023

Personnel: 3,135,000
Aircraft: 3,284
Fighters: 1,199
Attack helicopters: 281
Tanks: 4,950
Artillery: 4,229
Rocket launchers: 3,145
Aircraft carriers: 2
Destroyers: 50
Submarines: 78
(Ranked 3rd in world)
350 nuclear warheads
(Ranked 3rd in world)

INDIA MILITARY STRENGTH, 2023

Personnel: 5,132,000
Aircraft: 2,210
Fighters: 577
Attack helicopters: 36
Tanks: 4,614
Artillery: 3,411
Rocket launchers: 1,500
Aircraft carriers: 2
Destroyers: 11
Submarines: 18
(Ranked 4th in world)
156 nuclear warheads
(Ranked 7th in world)

UK MILITARY STRENGTH, 2023

Personnel: 231,000
Aircraft: 663
Fighters: 119
Attack helicopters: 33
Tanks: 227
Artillery: 215
Rocket launchers: 29
Aircraft carriers: 2
Destroyers: 6
Submarines: 10
(Ranked 5th in world)
225 nuclear warheads
(Ranked 5th in world)

PAKISTAN MILITARY STRENGTH, 2023

Personnel: 1,704,000
Aircraft: 1,413
Fighters: 363
Attack helicopters: 58
Tanks: 3,742
Artillery: 4,570
Rocket launchers: 1,838
Aircraft carriers: 0
Destroyers: 2
Submarines: 9
(Ranked 7th in world)
165 nuclear warheads
(Ranked 6th in world)

FRANCE MILITARY STRENGTH, 2023

Personnel: 415,000
Aircraft: 1,004
Fighters: 266
Attack helicopters: 69
Tanks: 222
Artillery: 102
Rocket launchers: 13
Aircraft carriers: 1
Destroyers: 10
Submarines: 9
(Ranked 9th in world)
290 nuclear warheads
(Ranked 4th in world)

UKRAINE MILITARY STRENGTH, 2023

Personnel: 500,000
Aircraft: 312
Fighters: 69
Attack helicopters: 33
Tanks: 1,890
Artillery: 1,842
Rocket launchers: 647
Aircraft carriers: 0
Destroyers: 0
Submarines: 0
(Ranked 15th in world)
0 nuclear warheads

ISRAEL MILITARY STRENGTH 2023

Personnel: 646,000
Aircraft: 601
Fighters: 241
Attack helicopters: 48
Tanks: 2,200
Artillery: 950
Rocket launchers: 300
Aircraft carriers: 0
Destroyers: 0
Submarines: 5
(Ranked 18th in world)
90 nuclear warheads
(Ranked 9th in world)

As it did with the equally manufactured war on Iraq, HM Governments like to declare war in March, as it gives the military the maximum time before winter. If I were a betting man, I’d have a flutter on the most servile Parliament in UK history declaring war on Russia next month.

As in 2003, the UK will be at the rear of a long coalition led by the US, endorsed by the UN, financed by the arms dealers and energy companies and paid for by us. When the UK dusts off the stained-glass windows and gets its monarch out of mouthballs, you know it means murder.

At which point, the UK will be placed in another legally undefined State of Emergency justifying (‘for reasons of national security’) Digital Identity and Smart Cities, which in turn will prepare the ground for the rollout of Central Bank Digital Currency in a few years’ time.

By then, it won’t matter who wins the war, because we will be slaves in a totalitarian system of surveillance and control under a technocratic global government modelled on the WEF’s COVID-19 Action Platform, a coalition of 1,100 of the world’s most powerful companies and banks.

‘The war, by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. Its eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs.’
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‘War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.’ jrf.org.uk/report/uk-pove…

‘War hysteria increases in intensity as one rises in the social scale. Those whose attitudes towards the war is most nearly rational are the subject peoples of the disputed territories.’
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‘To these people the war is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies like a tidal wave. They are aware that a change in overlordship means simply that they will be doing the same work as before for new masters.’

‘The more favoured workers we call “the proles” are only intermittently conscious of the war. When it is necessary they can be proded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting that war is happening.’ theweek.co.uk/todays-newspap…

‘It is in the ranks of the Party, and above all the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.’
— George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four