Video: Empires, the West, Russia and Theology
A theological foundation for understanding International Relations begins with the Tower of Babel and the Beasts of Daniel 7.
A theological foundation for understanding International Relations begins with the Tower of Babel and the Beasts of Daniel 7.
1 August 2022
Vienna, VA
(MPR)
Former Intelligence Officer Gloria Pendragon, and Professor Tomas Klimacek, Professor of National Security Studies at Saint Anne’s University in Glasgow, Scotland, appeared on MPR to discuss Fifth Generation Warfare.
Pendragon: Here is Fifth Generation Warfare — you create a problem. You create a solution. You create opposition to the solution. Since you created the opposition, or co-opted the opposition, you use them. An insider, say, or a whistleblower, comes out with a story about how the opposition is controlled, and voila, no one knows who to trust. It works every time, especially with a controlled press. We just brought it home to the U.S.A.”
MPR: Why would you tell us this? Are you controlled opposition?
Pendragon: Exactly. You cannot know. So what do you do? What can you do?
MPR: Professor Klimacek, your thoughts on Fifth Generation Warfare?
Klimacek: This is how it works. You screw with their heads so much no one knows who to trust and the opposition just fades away, or better yet, goes after each other.
MPR: Is there a risk of undermining our institutions? Our democracy?
Klimacek: That’s the point — you don’t want them to trust. You want them to be afraid and not trust any leader. That leaves only one trusted source — whoever is in power.
MPR: Are you for or against this type of social control?
Klimacek: Neither.I’m just telling you how it works. And because you cannot know how it works, you are trapped because you can’t trust anyone. So it doesn’t even matter when people say “the government lies,” because if the government lies and your professors lie, and your politicians and preachers and parents lie . . . You are kind of helpless. Which is the point.”
MPR: Is there anything that can be done to get around this trap?
Klimacek: It our culture, in the advanced western diverse and secular culture? Not really. I mean, the twentieth century say some pretty horrific dictators — that would be a most unwelcome solution.
Less advanced societies can resist this, those who have direct blood allegiances and a strong core of beliefs. This is why we could never civilize or democratize the Afghanis. Their tribal structure — based on race and kinship — was virtually impenetrable. Layered with this was their fath in Islam. All of our modern conditioning techniques failed to pierce that cultural shield.
MPR: What do you see for the future?
Klimacek: It is hard to say. Are the people of the future content to live this way? My gut says ‘yes,’ as long as they are comfortable — bread and circuses, the old Romans would say. But in economic collapse? Not so much.
MPR: What would that look like?
Klimacek: Well, as always, it is a resort to blood and tradition, kinship and faith. The secular liberal order has nothing to offer other than materialism. Once that goes away, people will be forced into more organic forms of social organization just to survive, forms that have withstood the test of time. At the core of it, people have to trust others in order to survive in the pre-modern world. The modern world designed a system that obviates trust and replaces it with things. Once things go away, people will be forced to find those they can trust again, and that will mean a return to blood, and faith. Your race, your language, your land, your gods, etc. All pre-modern tools of survival. The tribes that have that core will survive. Those that don’t, won’t.
MPR: Thank you, Professor Klimacek.
Klimacek: Thank you for having me on.
War becomes increasingly unpleasant for me to mention because it is scary as it moves from the historical into a realm of closer proximity. If you want to know what war looks like, look at some of the images from the war in Ukraine. I talk about these wars because I sense them coming and I have been warning my own family about it since about 2015. Who tells me war is coming? My gut.
Experts like Robert Pelton describe the gut as your subconscious arranging facts that you already have, in a logical manner, and presenting them to your conscious mind.
I have gobbled up anything to do with world affairs and wars since I was old enough to read US News & World Repost back in the 1970s. I have forgotten more than I remember. But I do remember in late 2016 after studying Russia’s history in the Crimea, the US intervention in Russia’s Civil War in 1917, and the four conflicts Russia experienced from the West in the last two hundred years, saying out loud in my office: “we are going to war with Russia.”
In 2015 I concluded we would have another civil conflict in the U.S. Many publications, right and left, have written of a coming Civil War in the U.S., there are too many to list.
Events over the last year, domestically and internationally, unfortunately do no dissuade me from my assessments.
I’m far from alone in my pessimism.
Readers of this site need no introduction to Niall Fergusson.
Michael Yon is a long time war correspondent.
And from the CJCS: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/politics/mark-milley-ukraine-reaction-international-conflict/index.html
Either will be a bad outcome for me personally: where I live is close to ground zero in a war with Russia, and my views have put me in the cross hairs of our local Anti-Fa militants with my face and home adorning one of their web sites.
In any civil war or global war, both sides rage and blame the other.
Does it matter?
It matters every bit as much as it matters who is a fault for the war in the Ukraine, the War Between the States, the War for Independence, and every other war mankind ever experienced. Readers of this site will come to their own opinions — opining on it is irrelevant at this point.
And I guess that sums up my thoughts — it is too late for reason.
And boy do I hope I’m wrong.
But Easter is coming soon — love those around you.
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Those who believe in Matthew 28:18-20 should be masters of 5G warfare.
Christians swore an oath to change the narrative, to demand that the world consider that Jesus Christ is Lord. Our job is to invade their minds, and undo the damage caused by the lies of the Evil One. Let’s get to work!
We are already at war — the losers are those who don’t realize we are at war.
Neutrality does not exist.
There is no third path.
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11:00 Governments Lie, Question Science and the Bureacrats
13:00 Practicing Liberty Means Using Your Voice
17:20 Realistic Expectations for the Next Five years
20:30 Change is Here
24:45 Fundamentally Rethinking the Assumptions of Society
27:35 Impossibility of “Tolerance”
30:15 Ancient Hebrews (No relation to modern Jews) as a Model
33:20 Seeking an Organic People
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00:00 The pre-Speech control regime
09:00. Mixing religion and politics
10:30. Courage and the Cowed.
17:00. They Need the Big War
18:30 War is Revolution
19:15 War will be an opportunity for us, as well
20:00 Requirement to reject their rules and live by our own
Now that America has officially favored dogma (boys can be girls) over science (there are two sexes and human life cannot exist unless they unite heterosexually) I’m wondering of this insanity is enough to wake us up on 2022.
Transsexualism is the most in-your-face rebuttal of science that I can imagine. Yard signs promote “science” as if it were a candidate running for office. “Questioning science” is forbidden by the Cult that runs our culture.
Breaking the grip on the mind of America requires questioning everything we have believed in recently. The cabal at the top still perceives that power rests in maintaining this twisted world view. The bankers, billionaires, and hangers-on continue enriching themselves while midde-America rots and our country is flooded with non-productive “diversity,” creating downward pressure on wages and increasing scarcity on social services. Inflation means our ability to purchase goods decreases over time. Prosperity becomes an illusion for more and more Americans.
Our votes have not mattered for generations now. If we vote wrong courts or bureaucrats overturn our decisions. Justice jails average Americans (January 6) for political acts and pretends the crimes of the favored elites do not happen. The press covers for all of it.
Everybody knows this yet nothing changes. …