Excellent analysis with a great deal to consider. I think I see the anarchist tradition shining through your conclusion.
So many good phrases: "liberal progressivism transmuted into the British liberal-left’s utopian vision of a world of several billions of people who could be managed into the lifestyle of a Bloomsbury salon. It is, in short, proof-positive that education and culture cannot be automatically equated with intelligence."
This hits the mark — Pan Pacific NATO is barely getting traction, but Japan is quite malleable and even NZ leaders like to 'play' with 'power politics' minus the now odiferous Manchurian WEF ploys...
"The situation is complicated to say the least but it is important to understand the environment in which NATO operates because NATO’s own existential survival is now at stake … but from the Right and in Europe rather than the Left or the Anglosphere (despite Trump’s assertions) and under conditions where NATO has psychological warfare skills to deploy and sufficiently close links to the liberal or centrist political class to turn inwards and become a serious threat to freedom within the West. This may give us the potential paradox of an organisation initially designed to defend the conditions for the survival of Western values being a potential agent for the destruction of those values in order to ensure its institutional survival as defender of the same values it may be unravelling. The current centrist attack on a free social media is only the beginning of a process that is the definition of ‘internal contradiction’."
Excellent analysis with a great deal to consider. I think I see the anarchist tradition shining through your conclusion.
So many good phrases: "liberal progressivism transmuted into the British liberal-left’s utopian vision of a world of several billions of people who could be managed into the lifestyle of a Bloomsbury salon. It is, in short, proof-positive that education and culture cannot be automatically equated with intelligence."
This hits the mark — Pan Pacific NATO is barely getting traction, but Japan is quite malleable and even NZ leaders like to 'play' with 'power politics' minus the now odiferous Manchurian WEF ploys...
"The situation is complicated to say the least but it is important to understand the environment in which NATO operates because NATO’s own existential survival is now at stake … but from the Right and in Europe rather than the Left or the Anglosphere (despite Trump’s assertions) and under conditions where NATO has psychological warfare skills to deploy and sufficiently close links to the liberal or centrist political class to turn inwards and become a serious threat to freedom within the West. This may give us the potential paradox of an organisation initially designed to defend the conditions for the survival of Western values being a potential agent for the destruction of those values in order to ensure its institutional survival as defender of the same values it may be unravelling. The current centrist attack on a free social media is only the beginning of a process that is the definition of ‘internal contradiction’."
An update on the Japanese NATO balloon...
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/08/japan/politics/japan-pm-ishiba-asian-nato/