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Do We Really Want A War With Russia?
Because we're in danger of getting exactly thatby Chris Martenson
Friday, October 7, 2016 This report was initially written for our premium subscribers. But given the significance of the topic, we're making a rare exception and releasing it to the general public.
I wish I could say things were improving between the US and Russia but they aren't. They're rapidly worsening.
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A No Fly Zone...
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Prepping for War...
The Russian Mindset...
ConclusionRussia and the US are edging ever closer to armed conflict in Syria. We can hope and pray for our own selfish purposes that the conflict remains confined to Syria but it may not.
I cannot find any particularly good reason to be demonizing Russia at this point. From my perspective all Russia has done is react to the circumstances presented to it by the west. Russia did not destabilize Ukraine, the US and the EU did. By reacting to that and protecting the Russian speaking people on it’s own borders, Russia has committed some sort of sin to the power players in the US.
Similarly, by legally responding to a request to help by the government of Syria, Russia has done something unconscionable…namely, resisted the wishes of the necons and likuds.
Let’s be perfectly blunt, innocent civilian lives mean nothing to those people. They never have and they never will.
What matters to people who regularly transgress other people’s boundaries is that they themselves are not resisted. Have you ever noticed this in your own life? I have. When someone who violates my boundaries is met with any sort of resistance at all, they experience it as me attacking them.
I remember well being yelled at by someone who did that a lot to people in their life and when I’d had enough an exactly matched their intensity to simply say “Stop! This is where I begin and you end!” they recoiled and told everyone that I had attacked them.
Where we could analyze the Russian-US situation from a variety of directions – political, historical, etc. – I am going to do it from the psychological perspective.
I see the neocons and likuds as very damaged and traumatized individuals. They carry a set of internal wounds that express on the outside as a very belligerent and hostile set of postures and actions.
If I were to guess at their internal wound, it might be something along the lines of “I was really hurt as a child and nobody will ever hurt me again like that.”
The best way to not be hurt is to lash out as fiercely and as rapidly as you can, in every circumstance. The motto is “Do one to others before they do one to me.”
The mistake you and I could make would be to assume on any level that these people share our world view and will not “go all the way” before turning back. They are not built the same. The ends always justify the means to these people. They do not rationally calculate outcomes because they are operating from a very wounded and highly irrational spot.
Have you ever tried using logic on someone who is in a full emotional meltdown? How did that work out? Not well, right? In fact, it almost certainly made things worse.
Well even though the neocons who have inserted themselves into every crevice of power in the US seem cold and rational, they are not. They are driven by demons that came to them early in life, perhaps handed down as a part of their culture, which taught them that the world was a very hostile place always looking for a reason to kill them.
That’s the nature of all childhood wounds. Delivered early enough they all come down to survival. If you are told directly or covertly over and over again that you are defective, unloved and unlovable, then the early innocent mind goes to insane lengths to wrap itself around that harsh reality.
Inner contracts are written, and they inform that person’s outlook and actions for the rest of their lives or until they are healed, whichever comes first.
The colossal mistake being made in the US is failing to recognize that people carrying such childhood wounds really cannot ever be trusted to act rationally. In a healthy culture we’d be able to detect these people early in life and usher them either into harmless yet worthy jobs or get them the treatment they need.
Instead, they roam the halls undetected and because they crave the power that they lacked in childhood they become over-represented in the halls of power. Once they achieve critical mass in any institution they take over the entire machinery of that organization.
That is where the US is now. This (next) rush to war is not a matter of anything rational or explicable, it is a function of having too many damaged and wounded people in charge operating from deeply unconscious levels.
And here’s the thing; they will not stop, ever, unless stopped by circumstances. They will never achieve enough power. The void they seek to fill cannot be filled from the outside. Nothing will ever ‘be enough.’
There’s no end, but a violent one.
And this is why I am warning you to prepare for war. Whether it happens now with Russia or later with someone else, it will happen. The only thing that will stop these neocons is if they are exposed and flushed from the system or if their power is stripped away by losing a war.
By failing to understand the wound dynamics at play we are all being held hostage to a drama being scripted by very old and unhealed wounds.
Nothing about this circumstance can ever be solved on the outside; only inner healing can shift any of this.
It is deeply telling that the two main party candidates for the US presidency are each poster-children for wound-driven egos run amuck. Both are obviously fragile and unable to handle anything but fawning admiration, neither seems capable of honest introspection or real empathy.
They are, literally, the direct manifestations of a nation that has yet to confront its own inner demons. And until it does there will always have to be some sort of external bogey man that it can project its on worst traits upon as it desperately avoids asking the most important question of them all; “Hey, what if my troubles are because of me and my actions?”
In our report How To Prepare For War, we explain how conflict can take many forms: trade wars, energy wars, financial wars, cyberwar, shooting wars, and nuclear war. We lay out in great detail the steps we, as individuals, can do to prepare for each.
And fortunately, this preparation comes with an upside: as many of these precautions will be life-enhancing steps even if -- hopefully, if -- tensions de-escalate from here.
So, sadly, please follow the actions of the German and Russian governments and prepare yourself for war. While we can all hope this too blows over and cooler heads prevail, hope alone is a terrible strategy.
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