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Review of Critical Daze: The No College Club – Book 2

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Spencer J. Quinn
Critical Daze: The No College Club – Book 2
San Francisco: Counter-Currents 2024

Critical Daze follows on Spencer J. Quinn’s No College Clubreviewed at TOO by F. Roger Devlin. As Devlin notes, there is probably no area in greater need of pro-White messaging than fiction aimed at young adults (aged 12–18). And, although it is aimed at this age group, I found it to be a riveting page-turner in which I became immersed in the characters both good and bad. Throughout I was curious how it would all play out, and was quite satisfied by the ending.

There are three main characters—pictured above on the cover, two of whom are transformed in the story. At the outset, the protagonist Will is a tall, decidedly overweight 18-year-old high school student with the nickname Willrus (Will + walrus). He is something of a social reject, into comic books and video games, and he is an unmotivated, undistinguished student.

Will’s best friend is JD, described as unusually short in stature and with the ambition of becoming a videographer. Like Will, JD is a social reject but he is more aware of the changes wrought in recent decades as a result of reading Will’s father’s collection of comic books of the 1980s, peopled with square-jawed White males and pretty White women—quite a descent from contemporary examples promoting racial diversity, homosexuality, and leftist political messaging.

Will joins the Critical Theory Club because, as happens so often to teenagers, he has a romantic interest in one of its members, his “tall, smart, and pretty” classmate Connie who presents herself as half-Indian (feather variety). The Critical Theory Club naturally focuses on the leftist anti-White mantras that Will had long been inundated with from television, movies, comic books, and the internet—to the point that he was rather bored with hearing them again. But Will had no reason to question them. After all, these mantras have become part of the furniture of American life. Revealingly, Connie becomes an enthusiastically applauded star at the meeting simply because of her claim that she is a person of color.

The speaker for the meeting is one Nadine Alterman, a self-described
“white person” studying for a Ph.D. in Critical Studies at the nearby state university. She tells the assembled (mostly female, virtually all White) students that White supremacy and racism are everywhere and that the “colorblindness” so loved by conservatives is nothing more than a “subterfuge” and a subtle form of racism.

Later at a meeting in her office with Will, she rejects the objectivity of academic tests because she claims that such tests “dehumanize people of color” by not taking into account the racist environment Blacks must live in—a ridiculous (but depressingly common) argument to say the least. And when Will innocently asks why Asians do so well, Alterman rejects his “Enlightenment rationalism,” apparently because it makes people prone to making what she regards as evil inferences. Enlightenment rationalism, after all, “is steeped in a European tradition that historically has been violent to people of color and produces a race-based hierarchy of knowledge.”

As Will continues to ask difficult questions, the meeting ends with a thinly veiled threat: stop asking such questions or your life will be ruined, just like the No College Club that is being “sued out of existence”—the first mention of the club that will figure prominently in the second half of the book. It’s no surprise that she is horrified that some very bad people have the temerity to believe that it’s possible to be racist against Whites! Will leaves the meeting quite confused and wondering how she could talk to him like that since she was “white—like him.”

Alterman is of course a common Jewish name, although the J-word never appears in the book and Alterman claims to be “white”. But in any case, it’s not surprising that an important element of the plot is that much later, in a conversation with Connie, she lets out that she hates Christians and White people, and in the conference with Will she refers to the Tulsa race riot as a “pogrom,” a common term for the anti-Jewish riots in nineteenth-century Eastern Europe.

Another hint that Jewishness is a major—if submerged—theme is that of the eight judges for the critical theory scholarship essay competition (which Connie enters), two are Black, one is named Johnston and presumably White, and, besides Alterman, the other four are named Cohen, Silver, Rothstein, and Cantor respectively. (All of the judges except one of the two Black judges are female). Much later in the book, having been enlightened about the fraud of critical theory and its basis in promoting power over Whites, Will asks himself how so many “white” people can subject themselves to what amounts to hatred against Whites. He never figures this little puzzle out.

I suspect that Quinn is raising the Jewish issue subtly in case some readers already have their J-dar activated but without needlessly putting off those (perhaps readers with a strong Christian background) who would be repelled by the very thought that Jews, the eternal victims, could possibly have such hateful thoughts.

Chapter 3 introduces Andrew, Will’s father who is hyper-politically correct and has an “awkward” relationship with his son. He gushes about a Chinese student of his wife and he worries that Will is racist because he had overheard JD commenting that, unlike the 1980s, in today’s comics “every other hero is black. And if he’s an old hero, they replace him with a black.” And he remains aggressively anti-White even after he is fired from his librarian job because an “overweight,” “dreadlocked,” “heavily perfumed” Black woman complained that he didn’t promote her, even though she was clearly unqualified.

So JD seems a bit skeptical of the political correctness around him, and he is quite perceptive about people’s character. He sees Connie as a “faker,” a manipulator and a leech—with an alcohol problem to boot. JD sees Connie as trying to get Will to do most of the work for their joint critical theory scholarship essay project.

Try to imagine that a person who identifies as a person of color is not a perfect person in a novel directed toward young people. Impossible! But I guess it requires suspension of disbelief.

Nevertheless, Will remains attracted to Connie and willing to cooperate on the project despite the fact that Connie already has a boyfriend and shows little sign of reciprocating in the romance department—apart from some flirting when she wants to get Will to do what she wants. Will is a super nice guy and therefore a bit gullible and open to being exploited. One can easily imagine that a low-status person like Will would be easily manipulated by an attractive high-status girl who gives off even a hint of sexual interest.

Will’s mother, Melissa, seems less naturally inclined to be politically correct but goes along with it, even displaying platitudes like “Hate has no home here” in her living room. Her main motive seems to be fear of the consequences if one gets out of line on race. She is quite aware that truth is irrelevant when it comes to accusations of political incorrectness, telling Will to watch what he says “because it doesn’t matter if you are innocent”—while looking to make sure no neighbors are watching. For Melissa, the informal mechanisms of thought control are quite enough to keep her in line.

You can buy Spencer J. Quinn’s young adult novel The No College Club here.

It’s the same with JD’s mom. It’s all about fear. JD: “My mom is a public school teacher, Will. She’d lose her career and her pension if she were caught being racist. She is terrified of black people.”

The turning point of the story is when JD and Will visit JD’s uncle Gus, a 90-year-old retired college professor who is quite versed in the origins of critical theory in the 1950s. On their journey it’s apparent that Will is having doubts about critical theory from his own reading as well as JD’s cogent criticisms. For example, he notes that critical theory is massively funded while pro-White organizations like the No College Club are getting sued out of existence and prevented from getting donations via credit cards. Not exactly “white privilege.”

So they were not blank slates when they encountered Uncle Gus, but the visit turns out to be a crossing of the Rubicon for their racial thinking. Gus’s analysis is spot on—not surprising since he has publications like Wilmot Robertson’s The Dispossessed Majority and Instauration in his collection. (Perhaps Will eventually will come to understand the significance of the Jewish names among the critical theory judges when he absorbs Robertson’s work.)

Uncle Gus states baldly that critical theory is a “cult” that actually comes down to “tribalism,” and he notes that they are “clannish”—another not-so-subtle hint that we are dealing fundamentally with a Jewish movement. It’s a tribalism dedicated to destroying whatever is blocking their total power, whether it’s over kings, tsars, or nations—a tribalism that abandoned the Marxist vision of a proletarian revolution because the working class was not acting according to theory because it didn’t rise up against the capitalist class (and many of them even voted for Hitler). This tribal cult, sounding very much like the Frankfurt School, therefore switched strategies and began blaming everything on White people. They attempted to control how people think by “pathologizing everything that was natural and healthy”—”everything that made Western culture great”). The White working class was now part of the problem because they were far too dedicated to religion, patriotism, and healthy family life.

This tribe is impervious to criticism. It “forgets when they do evil things that kill millions.” But if there’s a backlash, “ya never hear the end of it.” Critical theory was never an attempt to find the truth. It’s all about the tribe’s self-interest, controlling how people think, and obtaining total power. And now that they have power—now that they have become a hugely influential component of Western elites because of their position in the media, academic, and political arenas—they silence all criticism. In fact, they ruined Uncle Gus who lost his professorship because he opposed the “anti-white-ism” of this very powerful group. So believable.

But back to Will. As has happened to so many of us, after being aware of the history and the lies behind his oppressive, politically correct environment, Will starts losing friends and becomes even more of a social outcast. It starts with trusting, gullible Will naively telling Connie that critical theory is really all about power, resulting in an argument overheard by many of his schoolmates, including Connie’s screams that Will is a “racist” and a “Nazi.”

After this outburst, his only friend—the only fellow student who would talk to him or return his texts—was JD, and they continued to discuss Uncle Gus’s treasure trove, including JD informing a skeptical Will about the biological reality of IQ and how biological differences between the races result in the obvious racial differences in academic performance on display in their high school. Here Quinn does a masterful job of providing a research-based introduction to the IQ issue comprehensible to young readers unfamiliar with the issue.

Then come the presentations for the critical theory contest. Quite surprisingly, Connie begs Will to give the presentation despite their previous argument about critical theory—a development that only makes sense because Connie got embarrassingly drunk at a party with heavily tattooed, nose-ringed college students. Because she would be in no shape to give the presentation, the ever-manipulative Connie gets Will to give the presentation by flirting with him. So, despite JD’s warnings, Will, the ever-gullible nice guy, agrees to read Connie’s contest entry to the assembled leftists, including the “diverse” group of judges who decided that Connie is a winner of the contest even before the presentations.

But then, perhaps because she is still a bit drunk, Connie claims that she hates critical theory and that her mainly plagiarized, cliché-ridden essay only won because “they just want some pretty Indian girl to be the face of the future.”

In other words, she is gaming the system even at the tender age of a high school student. This is a girl that could definitely go places! And the Nadine Altermans of the world are more than willing to make that happen. After all, Alterman later proclaims that critical race theory is the only thing standing between America and Nazism: “We can’t let our youth be radicalized into fascism. This what happened in Nazi Germany and we can’t let it happen here. Critical race theory is the key pedagogical bulwark against the repeat of history. We must never forget that.”

Will, perhaps thinking that it would be okay with Connie to say what he really thinks given that her expressed attitudes are in sync with his, discards her vapid essay and lets it rip, stating, among other truths, that “what they really want it to destroy the identity and culture of the white majority.” Exactly.

Needless to say, the result of his temerity is a complete blow up at the competition and, soon thereafter, banishment from his home and disavowals from Connie. And of course there was a media firestorm, including another hint of Jewish angst on TV: “‘This young man is no better than Hitler youth!’ warned an incensed woman with a thick New York accent. … ‘He violates all the tenets of the Civil Rights Movement and what it means to be an American.’”

This claim about what it means to be an American is another favorite move by Jewish activists, framing what they don’t like in terms of violating deeply held ideals that appeal to wide swaths of the population. As holocaust activist Deborah Lipstadt said recently in “explaining” anti-Semitism: “Jews become stand-ins for “anti-democracy, anti-capitalism, [and] anti-Western values,” values the great majority of Westerners endorse. To criticize Jewish power is to put oneself outside the moral universe accepted — whether because of fear, ambition, or lack of information — by the great majority of Westerners.

I see it a bit differently. As always, conflicts of interest are at the root of serious outbreaks of anti-Semitism, but Jewish activists frame their interests as a moral crusade in an effort to persuade the gullible and uninformed — and to provide talking points for the ambitious and a sense of moral superiority to be fearful. Here the conflict is between the legitimate interests of the White majority as exemplified by the No College Club and perceived Jewish interests in lessening the power of the White majority—indeed, as Will phrased it, “to destroy the identity and culture of the white majority.”.

At this point we are about halfway through the book. Since the No College Club figures prominently in the title, it’s not surprising that it is a central theme in the second half of the book. I will say only that the ending is quite is satisfying.

Finally, one more theme should be explored. Throughout the book, women are portrayed as generally more accepting of critical theory. Women are the great majority of the Critical Theory Club and of those in the media going off on Will after he got real about race in a very public forum. The portrayal of Will’s mother Melissa gets at the greater fear that women in general have over being ostracized and subjected to social opprobrium. Not all women in the book are like this—there are several heroic women in the No College Club.

But the general portrayal of women is quite accurate. Women in general are higher on the personality system underlying fear and they tend to be more conformist partly as a result. Being high on fear leads to conformity because in the contemporary West there is much to fear if one fails to conform to the attitudes of the mainstream moral community—loss of job, loss of friends and family, and general ostracism. It’s much safer to remain within the confines of the moral community.

As emphasized throughout my Individualism and the Western Liberal Tradition, moral communities are the social glue of Western societies whereas kinship relationships are the social glue of the other culture areas of the world. Moral communities based on a reputation as capable, honest, trustworthy, and fair are a fundamental aspect of Western individualism and have been a big reason for the historical trajectory that led to Western dominance of the planet—a dominant position that may well end as the European peoples who created it are energetically replaced by people who hate them as the result of the activism of the clannish, tribal people referred to here. In the environments that Western peoples evolved in, major departures from the moral strictures of the community would result in ostracism. Whereas in the contemporary West, people like Will can survive such ostracism by finding a new niche of like-minded friends, in prehistoric Europe ostracism would have certainly resulted in death.

So in conclusion, a major plus is that the reader instinctively feels sorry for the White people victimized by the current regime or cowering in fear of what will happen to them if they get out of line. Empathy for the pantheon of the supposed victims of White racism is constantly preached from all the moral high ground in the West—the media, academia, K-12 educators, politicians, and religious authorities. Indeed, it is virtually mandated, as for example, in requirements that prospective faculty at many universities must write statements not only on their support for diversity, equity and inclusion, but also on what they have personally done to advance these goals. Only activists need apply.

But presenting sympathetic characters who suffer greatly from the regime of political correctness and anti-White hate is nonexistent in the mainstream culture of the West. I even felt sorry for Will’s father because his life is being destroyed because he did the right thing in not promoting an incompetent Black woman while still saluting the flag of political correctness and coming down hard on Will for crimethink.

This is a book that should have wide appeal well beyond its target audience of young adults. Even at well over 200 pages, it’s a quick, entertaining read because you want to find out what happens to the characters, so even people who are entirely on board with the ideas of the dissident right will enjoy it. And it’s a book that could quite possibly red pill many White people, especially if they haven’t thought deeply about the issues raised or if they have not personally been subjected to an environment of fear for expressing forbidden thoughts. People who are aware of the reality of the very sad state of affairs depicted in the book should think of people who would benefit from getting it as a Christmas present.

Jews and the The First New Deal, 1933-1934, Part 1

During the occasional tumult that accompanied adjustment to a new order beginning with Franklin Roosevelt’s election in 1933, not a few opponents of his administration over the following years charged that his New Deal recovery program of the 1930s was a “Jew Deal” (or the related charge that it was a way for Jews to force communism on America).[1] This three-part series will address the accuracy of this charge by looking at the activities of Jews vis-à-vis the New Deal.

The New Deal, FDR’s somewhat revolutionary, somewhat reformist program to pull America out of the Great Depression and institute progressive change, dealt with a vast firmament of issues that affected the nation and brought changes to the state and its relationship to American society. It is much too complex a phenomenon to discuss in its entirety or to examine any part of it in great detail, so I have chosen some major features and programs from it to the exclusion of more minor ones, a strategy that makes no great sacrifices. I will not discuss Jewish involvement in affairs outside of the New Deal, most notably non-monetary international issues including World War II, Hitler’s Germany, or the Holocaust.

I will also limit myself to the New Deal through 1936, here organized into two periods, what scholars identify as the First and Second New Deals. The First New Deal covers 1933–1934 and the Second New Deal covers the period between 1935–1936.[2] After 1936, the New Deal underwent an eclipse as Roosevelt passed fewer bills against powerful business headwinds that began in late 1935 after a legislative flurry that summer. In 1937, Roosevelt experienced a political setback with his failed “court-packing plan” and later that year a major recession hit the country, while conservative opponents of the New Deal won the midterms of 1938.[3] Following 1938, the administration’s attention was rapidly moving to Europe. Therefore, the most significant period for the New Deal was overwhelmingly in Roosevelt’s first term.

In part one, I will talk briefly about Franklin D. Roosevelt and his relationship to the Jews, the Democratic Party, and the 1932 election, along with a look at two First New Deal agencies, with some accompanying sideline discussions including the nature of managerial and corporate changes. It will take an extended look at Jerome Frank, Bernard Baruch, and Gerard Swope. Part two will examine the relationship between Jews, banking and money during the New Deal with an extended look at Henry Morgenthau Jr. (with some info on others as well, including Jimmy Warburg, Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter). Part three will look at the Second New Deal period (1935–36) including agencies and programs, a profile of the Jews who entered public service (with a focus on lawyers), the question of socialism and labor, more information on Brandeis and Frankfurter, and conclusions regarding the reputed “Jew Deal.”

THE MANAGERIAL SYSTEM AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BY 1932

Roosevelt’s triumph in 1932 saw the Democratic left come to power with the full force of its epoch-creating liberal managerial ideas — central planning, the public good over private interest (and the blurring of these distinctions), forms of collectivism over individualism, the rights of labor, from an “age of production … to an age of redistribution,”[4] etc. In meeting the exigencies of the Great Depression, in the view of many conservatives, the left dealt brusquely with the once revered monuments of the country enshrined in the Constitution,[5] such as the American mythos of laissez-faire and small government, the sanctity of private property rights and the natural rights of man.[6]

This new great river flowed from many tributaries and White male gentiles were overwhelmingly the font for these intellectual currents. For instance, there had been anticipatory ideas about the expansion of governmental administration in the nineteenth-century progressive political theories of the administrative pioneers Woodrow Wilson and Frank Goodnow.[7] The progressive intellectuals John Dewey, Charles Beard and Thorstein Veblen sought reconstructive change through their contributions to the new schools within psychology, history, and economics, and had called for new institutional arrangements in the construction of a democratic order.[8] They would count as their disciples many future New Dealers, like Frances Perkins and Rexford Tugwell. The progressive and sociological jurisprudence of men like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Louis Brandeis, and Roscoe Pound would become important for the New Deal and the liberal democratic state with their pronouncements that the study and adjudication of the law ought to incorporate social and pragmatic considerations that could be used to elevate the societal good.[9]

There had been a precedent before FDR’s state expansion that served as a forerunner to New Deal innovations. Upon entering World War I in 1917, President Wilson’s administration oversaw the greatest effort at state-run collectivism the nation had ever witnessed, involving the creation of numerous emergency government agencies.[10] As Sam Francis says about this, “The increase in the size of the state consisted not only in larger budgets and more personnel but also in the proliferation of its functions in regulating the economy, supervising and engineering social institutions, and preparing for and conducting the total mobilization of natural, human, social, economic, psychological, and technological resources for mass warfare [i.e., World War I, briefly discussed below],” although the wartime agencies were rolled back after the emergency was over. “These new functions were highly technical in nature and required the application of the physical and social sciences, the techniques of administration, and the skills of mass communication to the goal of what McNeill has called ‘human engineering’,” that this was first pioneered beginning in the late nineteenth century across the West.[11]

The wartime measures under Wilson and the New Deal under Roosevelt meant that this private-public fusion of the economy and state took place under the stewardship of the Democratic Party. For generations, the party had had almost as many partisan perspectives as national regions eager to move it in one direction or another during its bid to become nationally competitive again since the end of the Jacksonian era. By 1932, what Joseph Huthmacher called the “urban industrial Newer American” population (i.e., urban immigrants), was the “backbone of the New Deal voting coalition.”[12] Once elected in 1932 with a mandate to end the Depression, FDR had the responsibility of confecting a workable amalgamation of ideas for the New Deal’s agenda during the managerial state’s birth. To rule over a heterogenous democracy required being less dogmatic and more practical. Accordingly, Roosevelt himself has been characterized by scholars across his career as either having no real ideological commitments and as being a “pragmatic opportunist.”[13]

During the 1932 presidential campaign, he wafted from one end of the Democratic political spectrum to another. He both endorsed the need for administrative planning in one speech and in another pleased the conservative Democrats with calls for balanced budgets. Overall, Paul Moreno says that FDR “followed Wilson in conducting an ambivalent, often apparently conservative campaign to win the nomination and election, and then becoming more thoroughly progressive to win re-election.”[14] That spectrum was no less important during the days of the new administration. Conservatives with “Bourbon” democratic leanings, trust-busting and inflationist agrarian radicals, urban Jeffersonian opponents of the behemoth Gilded Age industrial corporations, and Hamiltonian large government progressive planners all jostled for Roosevelt’s attention.

Schlesinger uses three categories for the Party by 1932. The conservative Democrats, believers in laissez-faire economics, sound money (i.e., the gold standard), low-tariffs, a balanced budget, and states’ rights, were represented by figures like Al Smith and Maryland governor Albert Ritchie, and in FDR’s presidential administration by budget director Lewis Douglas and southern congressman Cordell Hull. The legacy of the older progressive tradition, having its roots in the agrarian “Populist” movement (associated with William Jennings Bryan) had divided into a western and southern camp of populists (e.g., Robert La Follette, Huey Long) and an eastern-intellectual camp (Louis Brandeis). Finally, the newer progressivism of the left Democrat administrative government planners — the authors of the administrative state — was a recruited Columbia University professoriate that represented the core of the first “Brain Trust” of Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, and Adolf Berle, who, “accepting the drive of modern technology toward [corporate] bigness, [sought] to reorganize the chaotic business order into a system of national integration”; that is, unlike many of the older progressives who wanted to apply anti-trust laws to restore a nineteenth-century economic order, they accepted the inevitability of large corporate business entities but looked for balance through an expanded centralized regulatory state.[15]

This pluralism would be tested under the constraint of shifting circumstance and expediency. For Roosevelt, the more leftist experiments were in keeping with his progressive record as governor (1929–1932), when he advocated planning schemes including recommending moving populations out of the city into the countryside to correct imbalances.[16] FDR had been a Democratic Party booster during the Republican business decade of the 1920s; he had often been vocal about his convictions that his party was the party of progress.[17] As president during the Great Depression, he sanctioned many new functions of government.

This Brain Trust circle would change over the years. The Columbia circle of Tugwell-Berle-Moley, originally recommended by Jewish advisor Sam Rosenman, another Brain Truster who first proposed assembling a group of academic advisors,[18] did not remain a team after the election.  Economist Raymond Moley would still be an insider. He moved to the State Department,[19] as would fellow economist Rexford Tugwell, who was sent to the Department of Agriculture to help oversee the planning schemes in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration where he would attempt to boost farm prices. Harvard Law School professor Felix Frankfurter was influential from the opening of the administration and would exert influence from behind the scenes using his protégés, a similar strategy to that of Bernard Baruch as we’ll see.[20]

Frankfurter had been important since FDR’s inauguration, acting as a “one-man recruiting agency,” both recommending personnel when asked by New Deal leaders and recommending them on his own initiative, thus exerting his influence towards building the modern state.[21] In the middle of 1935, Frankfurter was at the White House more than at any other time and became part of FDR’s inner circle, despite having a teaching career. During this period, the press claimed Frankfurter was the principal advisor, pushing out Moley.[22] Over the years, Frankfurter and Brandeis also “stood out among [FDR’s] closest advisors on governmental policies.”[23]

In FDR and the Jews Breitman and Lichtman note that Roosevelt, first as governor and later as president, chose his advisers and staff according to “experience, brains, and liberal values.”[24] Roosevelt’s most “trusted advisor among the professional politicians” had been the lawyer and politician Edward J. Flynn.[25] Others include Louis Howe, Roosevelt’s long-time political operative who laid the groundwork for his election and without whom, “FDR might have faded from history at the age of 30.”[26] Another, James Farley, was commonly referred to as a political kingmaker, as he was responsible for Roosevelt’s rise to the presidency. The previously-mentioned aide Sam Rosenman was “the major figure in the executive chamber” in Albany when Roosevelt was New York governor;[27] he worked for Roosevelt’s presidential campaign of 1932 and would be a close adviser of FDR for the rest of his life.[28] Rosenman was responsible for using the phrase “New Deal” for a 1932 Roosevelt speech. The phrase was borrowed from the progressive, technocratic authoritarian writer Stuart Chase in an article for the New Republic.[29] Like others profiled here, Rosenman was a strongly identified Jew: “By the mid-1930s, Rosenman had emerged as a leading spokesman for the New York Jewish community.”[30] 

FUNDING FOR FDR’S 1932 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

The Democrats were assigned to oblivion after the collapse of progressivism and the left in 1919, leading to the Republican business-oriented rule of the 1920s.[31] After the 1928 presidential election that put Republican Herbert Hoover in office, the Democratic Party’s woes were complicated by the financial position of the National Committee, and two men, DNC chairman John Raskob (a Catholic like Al Smith who backed Smith in his loss to Hoover in the 1928 presidential election) and Bernard Baruch were benefactor millionaires who were determined to keep the party afloat despite its string of presidential losses since 1920. However, in doing so, they expected influence in the party. However, Schlesinger notes that Raskob, who was past head of Du Pont, found politics “difficult and unattractive” but that Baruch was “infinitely more skilled in political operations.”

In March 1931, Schlesinger lists three men as having donated the largest amount to Roosevelt’s presidential campaign, including Henry Morgenthau Sr. whose famous son would become the United States Secretary of the Treasury during most of the FDR administration.[32] Morgenthau, Jr.  would play a lead role in financing the New Deal. Herbert Lehman, who was a major Jewish Democrat in New York State and who was Roosevelt’s lieutenant governor and would follow Roosevelt as governor, instituting a “little New Deal” there, donated a smaller amount.[33]

During the campaign in the election year of 1932, Schlesinger also identifies numerous gentiles giving to Roosevelt’s campaign, including Raskob, industrialist William Hartman Woodin, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, investor Joseph Kennedy, and Boston politician James Michael Curley, yet Bernard Baruch stood out as the largest donor.[34] In his decision to support Roosevelt for president, Baruch was influenced by Morgenthau Sr., who told Baruch in 1932 “That’s my candidate!”[35] During the nominating convention Al Smith refused to relinquish his votes to Roosevelt, deliberately stonewalling a unanimous nomination, which was ended only with the personal intervention of three Jews who pressured him over lunch: (the ubiquitous) Baruch, Herbert Bayard Swope, and Felix Frankfurter.”[36]

Breitman and Lichtman note that “Although Republicans collected a larger share of business dollars during FDR’s presidential campaigns, Jewish businessmen primarily supported Democrats,”[37] and that “shortly after his nomination, FDR selected Henry Morgenthau Sr. as vice chairman of his Executive Finance Committee. Six other New York Jews also served on the committee: Bernard Baruch, Herbert Bayard Swope, Jesse I. Straus, Sidney Weinberg, Walter Weinstein, and Laurence A. Steinhardt.”[38] Their job was to raise over a million dollars at a time when a million dollars was worth about 23 million in 2024 dollars.[39] When we talk about the National Recovery Administration (NRA), we’ll encounter Herbert Bayard Swope’s brother Gerard Swope, whose planning scheme had the backing of a critical portion of Wall St. interests to help FDR’s win the presidential election.[40]

Furthermore, Sidney Weinberg, who was a partner at Goldman Sachs, raised more money for Roosevelt’s 1932 campaign than anyone else on the Democratic National Campaign Finance Committee. From Wikipedia: “Since many on Wall Street had opposed Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, Weinberg stood out as a prime candidate for the new president’s liaison to Wall Street. Indeed, in 1933, Roosevelt assigned Weinberg the task of organizing a group of corporate executives — called the Business Advisory and Planning Council — to serve as a bridge between the government and the private sector during the economic upheaval of the New Deal. Weinberg handpicked executives with whom he wanted to develop business relationships, and deliberately invited no other investment bankers to join the Council, putting himself in the perfect position to network. Roosevelt admired Weinberg’s work greatly, nicknaming him “The Politician” and offering him numerous federal appointments, all of which Weinberg refused.”[41] 

ROOSEVELT AND THE JEWS

Roosevelt won by a landslide in 1932 carrying almost every state, beginning the New Deal Coalition where Jews played an important role.[42] The Jews certainly felt victorious from the Roosevelt triumph if historian Arthur Hertzberg’s statement that “the Jews loved Franklin Delano Roosevelt with singular and unparalleled passion” is an indication.[43] Roosevelt received 70 to 80% of the Jewish vote in 1932,[44] a figure that would grow to 90% in the 1936 election.[45]  Dinnerstein notes that many Jews were motivated to vote for Roosevelt because of similarities between Judaism and the values and aims of the New Deal, including the intellectuality of its policies along with the desire to help the marginal, and that Jewish upbringing prepared them for these roles.[46] “Jewish values.”

Roosevelt had more Jews around him than any previous president[47], which was consistent with his appointments as governor.[48] Dinnerstein mentions that “Roosevelt worked comfortably with Jews.”[49] Around 15% of his appointments were Jews, who “held middle-level positions in the economic agencies and departments of government.”[50] A source from 1942 wrote that, although “the number of Jews in [the entire] government didn’t exceed their percentage in the population [4 percent], “it is also my observation that men who are Jews occupy very influential positions.”[51] Hertzberg’s opinion is that Roosevelt was not influenced by Jews any more than anyone else. Roosevelt was known for being extremely guarded about what he was thinking underneath an oftentimes agreeable exterior,[52] and that he played advisors off against each other.[53] Many Jews, nonetheless, believed that Roosevelt had a “special love” for them — their protector and “benevolent king”[54] in a world in which Hitler had just come to power, and where Roosevelt was the only world leader who wasn’t hostile to Jewish interests[55] — a role Roosevelt loved to play.[56] He had been the first major presidential candidate in American history to condemn anti-Jewish attitudes.[57] This was indeed a breakthrough for the Jews, as a 1938 poll taken showed a substantial number of Americans felt Hitler’s anti-Semitism was the Jews’ fault. American Jewish leaders even believed it a possibility that given a choice between European Jews and Nazism, the American public might not choose the Jews.[58]

Roosevelt of course came from American royalty, a class that generally not only paid attention to breeding and caste but was one which existed in the heyday of racial thinking.[59] Roosevelt himself claimed his “membership in the ‘Aryan races’,”[60] and during a 1912 speech in Troy, New York, he claimed that civilized progress and the struggle for freedom was associated with them.[61] So, what was the source of this apparent “special love” for Jews? Roosevelt’s father James had had business dealings with Jews. Breitman and Lichtman report that he “counseled his son about the immorality of anti-Semitism and his contempt for it.” His mother Sara, despite having an “acute sense of class,” made friends with Jews and contributed to Jewish causes.[62] As a result, his father, like his son, maintained amicable business relationships with Jews during his adult life.[63]

Baltzell is important in providing the concept of the “affirming aristocrat,” an establishment figure who rejected the exclusive class caste system they were born into in favor of supporting the integration of minorities into society and into the elite.[64] With his election, Franklin Roosevelt was the man who led Jews, both the Jews who originated in Germany and the descendants of the Eastern European Jews, into the functional elite. Also, the Roosevelts, a Dutch colonial “Knickerbocker” family from New York, eschewed the Upper Ten Society in their rejection of “ostentation and frivolity.”[65] It’s then no wonder Roosevelt was called a “traitor to his class.”[66]

It’s worth noting the role of Caesarism within the managerial state, with the political Caesar who, according to Max Weber, “often grows out of democracy.” Such a leader bases “his power on his personal competence and charismatic appeal, uses the mass population to undermine the institutions, traditions, and power of an existing elite, and elevates a section of his mass following to the position of a new elite.[67] To this, we can add the following by Kevin MacDonald, that Jewish “elites are unlikely to identify with the interests of the society as a whole, and they are relatively eager to agree on arrangements that are personally beneficial, even if they negatively impact other groups of the society.”[68] Thus, it’s worth exploring to what extent Roosevelt played a key role in bringing about a miracle for the Jews in America by exploiting a civilizational crisis, defying his genteel bourgeois roots, and gaining votes from and rewarding this “elevated section”.

While the German Jews had been here since the mid-nineteenth century, the immigrants from Eastern Europe had mainly come during the post-1880 immigration flood. They were encouraged to immigrate to meet the needs of rapid industrialization by the nouveau riche captains of postbellum industry, but this immediately led to exclusionary behavior that began in the 1880s — which was manifested in the appearance of the patrician summer resorts, country clubs (the first in Brookline, MA in 1882), and the sudden preoccupation with one’s roots, in such organizations as the Sons of the Revolution, founded in 1883.[69] After this, the newcomers from Eastern Europe would be battling the patricians to make room in the establishment, and in a stunning reversal of fortune, by the end of the 1960s, those old-line patricians would be made déclassé. This transition would take place less than a century after the post-1880 immigration wave.


[1] Brad Snyder, Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment (W.W. Norton and Company, 2022), 237. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Politics of Upheaval (Boston Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, 1960), 27. Leonard Dinnerstein, “Jews and the New Deal,” American Jewish History 72, no. 4 (June, 1983): 461, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23882507. Myron Scholnick, The New Deal and Anti-Semitism in America (Garland Publishing, 1990), 62;73.

[2] “New Deal,” Wikipedia, last modified October 25, 2024, accessed October 27, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#Summary_of_First_and_Second_New_Deal_programs.

[3] William Dudley, The Great Depression, Opposing Viewpoints (Greenhaven Press, 1994), 205. See also, “Recession of 1937-1938,” Wikipedia, last modified June 6, 2024, accessed October 27, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession_of_1937-1938.

[4] Paul D. Moreno, The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal (Cambridge University Press, 2013), 225.

[5] E. Digby Baltzell, The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America (Random House, 1964), 165.

[6] Ronald J. Pestritto, American Transformed (Encounter Books, 2021), 71. See also William Leuchtenburg quote in Sam Francis, Leviathan & Its Enemies (Washington Summit Publishers, 2016), 222.

[7] Pestritto, 200-219.

[8] Baltzell, 162. See also Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Crisis of the Old Order (Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, 1957), chapter 17.

[9] Stephen M. Feldman, American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism (Oxford University Press, 2000), 108-109. See also Moreno, 54-58.

[10] Hugh Rockoff, “U.S. Economy in World War I,” Economic History Association, accessed October 27, 2024, https://eh.net/encyclopedia/u-s-economy-in-world-war-i/. See section titled ‘The Government’s Role in Mobilization’.

[11] Francis, 44.

[12] J. Joseph Huthmacher, “Senator Robert F. Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism,” American Jewish Historical Quarterly 58, no. 3 (March, 1969): 343. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23876008.

[13] Moreno says this works because progressive liberalism is based on pragmatism anyhow (i.e., based on rational, scientific decision-making and is supposedly or ideally post-ideological). In Moreno, 220. Baltzell says that the ideas of John Dewey, who “socialized William James’s [Pragmatist] ideas,” were perfect for the “experimental, rather than dogmatic, political reformers who filtered into the Democratic Party under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.” In Baltzell, 167.
This pragmatic approach was found within individual departments. Agricultural expert M.L. Wilson insisted in 1932 that a variety of approaches be included in the Ag. Bill (and not just his own domestic allotment program) and that the secretary should decide on an ad hoc basis which to use. The resulting bill (Ezekiel, Wallace, Lee, and Frank) was probably the most inventive bill in U.S. history. In Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Coming of the New Deal (Boston Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, 1959), 38-39.

[14] Moreno, 220.

[15] Schlesinger, TCOTND, 18-20 and TCOTOO, 416-20. For general info on the planners’ philosophy, see TCOTOO, 190-198. Moley, Tugwell, and Berle were gentiles. Berle was a Bostonian former student of Frankfurter who had supported Brandeis against the Brahmin establishment in 1916. In Arthur Hertzberg, The Jews in America: four centuries of an uneasy encounter: a history (Simon and Schuster, 1989), 221.

[16] Moreno, 222.

[17] Schlesinger, TCOTOO, 103.

[18] Ibid., 398-399.

[19] Ibid., 473.

[20] Ibid., 451-452.

[21] Snyder, 224. See also Leonard Dinnerstein, Antisemitism in America (Oxford University Press, 1994), 108.

[22] Snyder, 251-252.

[23] Dinnerstein, 108.

[24] Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman, FDR and the Jews (Harvard University Press, 2013), 34.

[25] Schlesinger, 278.

[26] Breitman and Lichtman, 13.

[27] Dinnerstein, J&TND, 471. Dinnerstein in his article also mentions that, among his advisors, Rosenman was the closest to Roosevelt over the longest period. Dinnerstein, 470-1.

[28] Breitman and Lichtman, 32.

[29] Schlesinger, TCOTOO, 403. Chase was influenced by anti-capitalist economist Thorstein Veblen, and The New Republic was started in 1914 by Herbert Croly, Walter Weyl (Jewish), and Walter Lippmann (Jewish).

[30] “Samuel Rosenman,” Wikipedia, last modified October 17, 2024, accessed October 27, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rosenman.

[31] Schlesinger, 43-45.

[32] Ibid., 280.

[33] Ibid., 273-274. The “little New Deal” is mentioned in Daniel Ernst, Tocqueville’s Nightmare (Oxford University Press, 2014), 80.

[34] Schlesinger, 421.

[35] Ibid., 288.

[36] Leonard Baker, Brandeis and Frankfurter (Harper & Row, 1984), 277.

[37] Jews had supported Hoover as well, with Sutton listing Jews as contributing more than half the funds to the RNC among contributors giving more than $25,000 in 1928, including the Guggenheims, Eugene Meyer, Otto Kahn, and Mortimer Schiff. In Sutton, 315. Jews had contributed heavily to many prior campaigns, including Wilson in 1912: “Cooper remarks that his “big contributors” included the likes of “Henry Morgenthau, Jacob Schiff, and Samuel Untermyer, as well as a newcomer to their ranks, Bernard Baruch.” In Thomas Dalton, “The Jewish Hand in the World Wars, Part 1,” CODOH, July, 2013, https://codoh.com/library/document/the-jewish-hand-in-the-world-wars-part-1/.

[38] Breitman and Lichtman, 39.

[39] “Seven Jews on Finance Committee of Democrats,” Jewish Daily Bulletin, September 18, 1932, 2, http://pdfs.jta.org/1932/1932-09-18_2357.pdf. Also, “A political ally of New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, in March 1931, Jesse Straus funded a poll of the delegates to the 1928 Democratic Convention to assess Roosevelt’s chances in the race for the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination.” In “Jessie I. Strauss,” Wikipedia, last modified October 24, 2024, accessed October 27, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_I._Straus.

[40] The election claim is according to scholar Anthony Sutton.

[41] “Sidney Weinberg,” Wikipedia, last modified August 26, 2024, accessed October 27, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Weinberg.

[42] “New Deal Coalition,” Wikipedia, last modified October 25, 2024, last modified, accessed October 27, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal_coalition.

[43] Hertzberg, 282.

[44] Breitman and Lichtman, 43.

[45] Hertzberg, 285. Many of the socialist readers of the Communist Morgen Freiheit gave Roosevelt their vote over Earl Browder.

[46] Dinnerstein article, 462-463.

[47] Hertzberg, 282.

[48] Breitman and Lichtman, 65.

[49] Dinnerstein, 108.

[50] Breitman and Lichtman, 65.

[51] W.M. Kiplinger, “The Facts about Jews in Washington,” Reader’s Digest, September 1942, 2.

[52] Breitman and Lichtman, 9.

[53] Hertzberg, 282.

[54] Ibid., 284.

[55] Dinnerstein, 104.

[56] Hertzberg, 286.

[57] Breitman and Lichtman, 42.

[58] Hertzberg, 289.

[59] Kevin B. MacDonald, “Eric Kaufmann’s The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America,” The Occidental Quarterly 15, no. 4 (Winter 2015—2016): 22, http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/Kaufmann-final.pdf.

[60] Breitman and Lichtman, 8.

[61] Ibid., 13.

[62] Ibid., 8. In the same section Breitman and Lichtman also say that FDR’s parents inculcated compassion for the less fortunate. In Ibid., 9. Also, sociologist E. Digby Baltzell notes that class can trump ethno-religious identity. In Baltzell, 63. At least this can be said about White Europeans.

[63] Breitman and Lichtman, 8-9.

[64] Baltzell, 28. For speculation on Roosevelt’s reputed Jewish ancestry: Thomas Dalton, “The Jewish Hand in the World Wars, Part 2,” July 1, 2013, https://codoh.com/library/document/the-jewish-hand-in-the-world-wars-part-2/en/.

[65] Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2005), 36.

[66] Consider the book title of: H.W. Brands, Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Knopf Doubleday, 2008), https://books.google.com/books?id=bmKMa_y3hh0C.

[67] Francis, 55. Francis also says that managerial elements encourage the extension of the franchise to groups that the bourgeois elite cannot discipline. In Ibid., 56.

[68] Kevin B. MacDonald, A People That Shall Dwell Alone (Writer’s Club Press, 2002), 173. This statement is made within the context of a discussion about the relationship between the Jews and gentile elites.

[69] Baltzell, 113. See also Howard Sachar, A History of the Jews in the Modern World (Vintage Books, 2006), 384-385, and Dinnerstein, 41.

The Woke Right

A new metaphor is stalking the internet. It is promoted by the writer James Lindsay and by Konstantin Kissin of the popular anti-Woke podcast “Triggernometry.” It is called the “Woke Right.”

By implication, those who are to the right of these people – those who are intellectually consistent and are consequently prepared to explore such issues as the ethnic and genetic foundations of culture, genetic racial differences in key psychological traits, dysgenics, and other crucial issues that attempt to understand the causes of our current situation – are the “Woke Right.” If you go beyond merely stating that Wokeness is bad for civilization and you attempt to examine how a civilization is maintained (because this might offend current mores, and your sources of income, slightly too much) then you are “like the Woke, but right wing.”

There’s a very clear sign that a person is losing an intellectual battle: the fallacies of “appeal to insult,” appeal ad hominem and “connotation fallacy.”

If you cannot successfully logically argue with the less intelligent or more emotional, you may yet win them to your cause by emotively insulting your opponents or attempting to connect them to something viscerally wicked. If you – the one subject to this tactic – point this out, your opponent may accuse you being “hyper-sensitive” or “pearl clutching,” but this is just further appeal to insult and further emotional manipulation. They are employing these methods to manipulate the feelings of others and, hopefully, to shut you down, because you fear being ostracised.

Why are they so emotional? Very possibly because they are experiencing “cognitive dissonance.” The “Woke Right” confronts them with the fact that they are mere “Bravery Signallers.” They present themselves as fearless fighters, against Woke ideology, for the truth . . . but they’ll only take this battle so far, because they also desire a certain degree of comfort and respectability. Thus certain areas of discourse – those that the Woke Right explore – are forbidden. The Woke Right, therefore, confronts them with their own intellectual cowardice: a highly emotional reaction is the result.

Konstantin Kissin deploys not only the term “Woke Right” for these people but also, just as emotively, the “Barbarian Right,” though, more sensibly, also the “Dissident Right.” In effect, his argument is that “Woke Right” is an appropriate term because there are a number of superficial points which the “Woke” and the “Dissident Right” share. These are, he avers, as follows:

(1) Thinking the West is bad and siding with its enemies; by implication Russia.

(2) Playing identity politics on the basis that their group is oppressed by a secret invisible force controlled by another group/groups; by implication the Jews.

(3) Having an obsession with group-based victimhood and grievance; in other words two-tier policing and other examples of discrimination in favour of minorities.

(4) Seeking to revise and pervert history to fit its ideological narrative. I assume this is a reference to Holocaust Revisionism.

(5) Reacting to disagreement with name-calling, ostracism and bullying.

(6) “Creating a culture of fear among more centre-leaning people on their side to prevent criticism (you should see how many people message me privately to say they agree about the Woke Right but don’t want to say anything).”

Kissin is correct that, very broadly, there are some superficial points of commonality between the Woke and the Dissident Right. For example, as I have discussed in my book Woke Eugenics: How Social Justice is a Mask for Social Darwinism, being Alt Right is associated with psychopathy whereas being Woke is predicted by Narcissism and Machiavellianism. These three personality disorders have much in common – they intercorrelate at about 0.5 – so we can conceive of the “Dark Triad.” Most of Kissin’s criticisms of the Woke Right – name-calling, intimidation and so on – reflect the behaviour of people like this; not of those who are simply “red pilled” on assorted important social and scientific issues.

Overall, these people – the “red-pilled” – are completely different from the Woke. They are high in mental and physical health, low in mutational load, high in pro-social traits and strongly desirous to have children and to pass on their genes. They are, in evolutionary terms, adaptive, where the Woke are the opposite. We have, then, a completely hollow metaphor at a crucial level; like comparing a hover-fly to a wasp.

Indeed, as a metaphor, it quickly falls apart on many other levels as well. Firstly, Kissin seems to characterise here the absolute extreme of the Dissident Right; the kind of people who, whenever I publish anything on any subject, respond, “Why don’t you name the Jew, Ed?! Why don’t you name the Jew?!” Clearly, this is a straw man argument; a completely unfair characterisation of those whom he opposes.

Secondly, the Dissident Right think the West is bad because it is dysgenic, maladaptive and decadent. The Woke think it is bad because it isn’t dysgenic, maladaptive and decadent enough. They have in common the fact that are both critiquing the kind of traditional liberal conservatism for which Kissin stands, but their critique is completely different. You might as well argue that Kissin is “Woke” because, like the Woke, he criticises the Dissident Right.

Thirdly, the grievance of the Dissident Right is adaptive in an evolutionary sense; it is looking out for the interests of their group. The grievance of the Woke is maladaptive; it is looking out for the interests of other groups, though it is adaptive in the selfish, individualistic sense that so-doing is a way of virtue signalling your way to power.

James Lindsay has effectively argued that “Woke Right” is a synonym for Fascist, which makes even less sense than Kissin’s idea. As I noted in Woke Eugenics, the left are concerned with the moral foundations of harm avoidance and equality whereas the extreme right are highly group-oriented: concerned with obedience to authority, traditional sanctity and in-group loyalty. They are fundamentally different.

Also, “Fascist” tends to have a fairly clear meaning, beyond being a political insult. In his essay “On Defining the ‘Fascist Minimum,’” political scientist Roger Eatwell maintains that Fascism is “‘an ideology that strives to forge social rebirth based on a holistic‐national radical Third Way, though in practice fascism has tended to stress style, especially action and the charismatic leader, more than detailed programme, and to engage in a Manichaean demonization of its enemies.” Is this what all those to the right of Lindsay are doing? Clearly it is not.

People like Lindsay have eked out a specific niche as the edgy critics of Wokeness; but not so edgy that they are ostracised from many of the good things in life. Those who are prepared to go beyond bravery-signalling and to seriously logically critique current taboos, taking their analysis to its logical conclusion, threaten those in this semi-comfortable niche and confront them with what they are. This explains their attempt to shut them down with the very emotional and very unpersuasive metaphor of “Woke Right.”

Who is behind the successful jihadist attack in Syria?

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After a four-year freeze in the conflict established as a result of negotiations between Turkey and Russia, the situation in Syria has changed dramatically. Within ten days of a rapid offensive, the fighters of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group established control over most of the country, forcing the government troops to retreat.

On the morning of December 8, armed opposition forces led by the HTS captured the capital of Damascus, thereby formalizing the fall of the Assad clan, which had been ruling Syria for more than 50 years. According to the latest information, former President Bashar Assad left the country and requested asylum in Russia.

The day before three guarantor countries — Turkey, Iran, and Russia — met in Qatar’s capital of Doha and stressed the need for political dialogue between the parties of the conflict to peacefully transfer power in the country and prevent bloodshed. In turn, the HTS command guaranteed the security of state institutions, diplomatic missions, and military facilities, including Assad’s allies — Russia and Iran.

Currently, due to the rapid changes taking place in Syria, it is difficult to predict how the situation in the Arab country will develop. However, the factors and circumstances that ensured jihadists’ success on the battlefield and their quick rise to power can already be studied in detail.

The new tactics of using small mobile groups on light automotive equipment, the use of reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles and strike first-per-view drones, as well as the timing suggest that the HTS could not organize an operation of such range alone. In this case, the question arises: who helped the HTS or at least played into its hands?

The role of Turkey

Answering this question, it is fair to say that Damascus and its allies, Russia and Iran, have closely watched the threats posed by the HTS. For the past three months, local media have been full of circulating reports of an impending attack by militants.

After establishing the ‘Idlib de-escalation zone’ as part of an agreement between Russia and Turkey in 2020, the HTS was able to get the most out of the calm at the front. This faction, formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, was previously part of Syria’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization but then distanced from it and emerged as one of the dominant forces in the northwest of Syria.

Since the observation points of the Turkish Armed Forces were deployed along the front line, they served as a kind of shield, behind which the HTS was able to hide and calmly build up forces without fear of a possible attack from Damascus and its foreign backers. Therefore, it is safe to say that Ankara’s diplomatic and military patronage directly contributed to the strengthening of the HTS stance, not to mention economic assistance and the supply of electricity and fuel to Idlib through Turkish umbrella companies.

Taking advantage of the fragmentation of other opposition groups, the HTS, led by its leader Abu Muhammad Al-Julani, managed to consolidate power in the rebellious province of Idlib. It completely captured the economic sector and has been ruling the so-called last bastion of the Syrian opposition through the puppet Syria Salvation government. Militarily, the HTS has also greatly strengthened, uniting under its banners many independent groups and foreign fighters from among Caucasians, Turks, and Uyghurs.

All these factors allowed the HTS to accumulate a sufficient margin of safety to make constant raids against government forces and even claim to expand the zone of influence in northern Syria. At the same time, its status as an independent group also provided it with additional opportunities, without limiting freedom of action to agreements with third countries.

Thus, Ankara de facto helped to nurture the HTS military machine, but de jure can avoid responsibility for its actions, as the HTS does not obey it entirely like the Turkish-affiliated Syrian National Army.

The role of Ukraine

It is not an exaggeration that any HTS activity was constantly the focus of attention of the main actors in Syria, especially Russia. Recently, Moscow has repeatedly stated that there is close cooperation between the HTS and its geopolitical adversary — Ukraine.

The Turkish newspaper Aydynlyk reported that Ukrainian instructors were training Syrian militants in the production and use of FPV drones to strike at military facilities of the Russian Armed Forces in Syria. It also said that in exchange for drones, Kyiv asked the HTS to allow its foreign militants, mainly immigrants from Caucasian and Central Asian countries, to reach Ukraine and fight against Russia.

Ukrainian media have also repeatedly published videos in which Syrian rebels in cooperation with Ukrainian intelligence hit Russian targets in Syria with strike drones. In one of these videos, the opposition fighters struck the facilities of the Russian Armed Forces at the Quwayres air base, east of Aleppo.

Notably, until the last HTS offensive, Ukrainian officials preferred to ignore the media claims about cooperation with Syrian rebels. However, after the capture of Aleppo, Kyiv finally made a sincere confession and said that the “Khymyk” group of Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence was preparing the HTS militants to use attack drones against Russia.

The role of the US

But if cooperation with the Ukrainian special services can explain the increased combat capabilities of the HTS in terms of the use of unmanned technologies, then the start time of the jihadists’ offensive indicates possible coordination with the United States. While the US has officially denied any involvement in current developments in Syria, there is direct and indirect evidence that suggests otherwise.

Firstly, the launch of the HTS offensive on Aleppo suspiciously coincided with the entry into force of the US-initiated peace treaty between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah on November 27. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to assume that the Syrian opposition waited for Israel to defeat Hezbollah to begin a campaign against the regime forces without fear that Lebanese fighters would come to help Assad.

Thus, it is clear that the United States played a major role in weakening Assad’s allies, which directly led to the HTS decision to attack.

Secondly, it should be noted that although the United States recognized the HTS as a terrorist organization, it did not interfere in any way with its trade ties with Turkey, also contributing to the economic strengthening of the HTS. This approach to the terrorist organization was in stark contrast to Washington’s unprecedented sanctions pressure on Damascus.

In addition, the United States and its allies in the International Coalition maintained close ties with the HTS. In particular, they exchange information in order to launch air strikes against field commanders of some independent armed groups active in Idlib province. Syrian opposition fighters on social networks repeatedly accused the HTS of providing the United States with accurate data on the whereabouts of the fighters hiding in the rebel-held areas. According to them, the US UAVs hit them almost immediately after meetings with the leaders of the HTS.

In addition, the United States and the EU over the past years have unofficially worked to “whitewash” the reputation of HTS to exclude it from the list of terrorist organizations. To present him as a leader of moderate opposition, several American publications conducted interviews with Abu Muhammad Al-Julani, in which the jihadist leader appeared in a business suit, and also abandoned his characteristic fanatical slogans in favor of more secular and pragmatic rhetoric. During the last offensive, Al-Julani also made some demonstrative statements in which he warned his fighters against illegal actions against civilians and their property, and also called for respect for the cultural diversity of Aleppo”.

Given the covert interaction between the United States and the Al-Julani group, there is reason to believe that after the end of hostilities in Lebanon, the Biden administration could initiate another escalation in Syria, using the HTS militants as a proxy. Thus, the White House probably planned to weaken the position of its geopolitical rivals, Russia and Iran, before the imminent transfer of power to the newly elected president Donald Trump. Judging by his pre-election statements, the latter would hardly agree to such an adventure and would prefer to deal with domestic problems, rather than create the next hotbed of tension in the world or a particular region.

But Joe Biden’s foreign policy staff, finalizing the last two months of his term, could decide differently, especially when all the necessary conditions were ripe for the Syrian militants to attack. Russia withdrew the main troops from Syria and is fully focused on the war with Ukraine; another main ally of Damascus — Tehran is weakened as a result of constant attacks by Israel and threw its main forces to support affiliated formations in Palestine and Lebanon; and Hezbollah, which also played an important role in establishing the former status-quo in Syria, suffered significant losses during the IDF operations and can no longer help the Assad government.

Given the acute contradictions between the two political camps that emerged during the last elections in the US, it is not difficult to assume that the Democrats wanted to make it as difficult as possible for Trump upon entering office. They sought to shackle opportunities to later accuse him of failing to fulfill the promises he gave to American voters. Therefore, the new round of escalation in Syria can be seen as a desperate attempt by the current US administration to influence Trump’s future policies, to force him to wallow in endless conflicts and rivalries with other countries instead of solving more important problems related to domestic policy.

The large-scale HTS offensive has already dealt a heavy blow to civilians throughout Syria, significantly exacerbating the migration crisis and increasing the suffering of ordinary Syrians from renewed clashes and shelling. At the same time, regardless of the further development of events in the Arab country, the United States, as the main international actor, has done nothing to prevent the strengthening of the HTS. Moreover, Washington purposefully encouraged the HTS to use it as a counterweight to Damascus and its rivals in the region — Russia and Iran. And while the winners in this geopolitical game are unclear, the loser is already obvious: this is the Syrian people, who once again became a “bargaining chip” and are paying with blood for other states’ ambitions.

James Edwards Interviews Co-Host Keith Alexander

What follows is an interview conducted by James Edwards with TPC co-host Keith Alexander. It was originally published by The Barnes Review.

James Edwards: You grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, which was a different world than those born into today’s multicultural hellscape have experienced. For the benefit of readers who weren’t around to experience it, what did they most miss out on?

Keith Alexander: The existence of a vast blue-collar middle class, for starters. A guy with a high school education could get an industrial job that paid enough for him to get married, buy a modest home, have kids, and give his family a middle-class life on one income. This was standard across the United States in the 1950s and ‘60s. It lasted into the ‘70s in Southern cities like Memphis because the South was about 10 years behind liberal bastions like California. But even rural towns usually had at least one local factory that could provide such employment. Culturally speaking, marriage was the norm and divorce was rare and usually considered scandalous when it occurred. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood and each Sunday morning all the fathers, dressed in coats and ties, loaded up their wives and children and headed to church. Wives might have a seasonal or even a part-time job, but their primary job was raising the children and keeping house. Families had dinner together most evenings. It was wonderful.

Edwards: What is radical egalitarianism and what have been some of the stops along its destructive path?

Alexander: Radical egalitarianism differs from mere egalitarianism when it refuses to be tempered by common sense and obvious empirical evidence of human differences. For instance, when Leftist ideologues refuse to acknowledge the scientifically quantified studies confirming differences in average IQs between the different races, they have crossed over the frontier from egalitarianism into the realm of radical egalitarianism, which degrades and destroys order and proper societal functioning. Radical egalitarianism must be resisted if we are to maintain a fair and efficiently functioning society. Surrendering to radical egalitarianism will transform America into a third-world nation. Some of the stops along the road to radical egalitarian decline and degradation were feminism, no-fault divorce, the sexual revolution, the so-called Civil Rights movement, drug culture, the homosexual/LGBTQ movement, and the “transgender” movement, among others. The woke agenda and all of its manifestations are intended to marginalize, ostracize, and eventually destroy the founding stock of Europe and America.

Edwards: The left has been engaged in a tireless “long march through the institutions,” as mentioned by paleoconservative thinkers like William S. Lind. What does he mean, and which institutions have been targeted?

Alexander: This is a term derived from Cultural Marxism. It is one of three key concepts defining the methodology of Cultural Marxism, the other two being “Critical Theory” and “Cultural Pessimism”. In the Civil Rights movement, for example, Critical Theory analysis was applied to public primary and secondary education, higher education, state governments, and voting procedures. The “theory” was to subject the institutions to a barrage of relentless, destructive criticism in a completely negative manner while never admitting any goodness or benefits in them. The “Long March” went through the media, academia, the government, the courts, the prosecutorial system, the arts, the private sector, and even the churches. The desired result of this drumbeat of criticism was the inducing of “Cultural Pessimism” in whites who were thereby convinced of their inferiority and evil by their authority figures. Cultural Marxism is important because it is the template for all the destructive societal change we have experienced in America since the early 1930s and in Western Europe since the end of WWII. These changes are celebrated by the left as the triumph of liberalism, which has greatly diminished our quality of life in the West. All the societal institutions that contributed to setting Western cultural, moral, and ethical standards have been targeted, and have been taken over.

Cultural Marxism is a variant form of Marxism developed in 1920s Germany by Marxists disappointed by the failure of Communism to take over all of Europe as predicted after WWI. How did Marx and Engels get it wrong? A think tank called “The Frankfurt School” located within the University of Frankfurt concluded that Marx and Engels were wrong in assuming that the major fault line in human society was economics. Instead, they concluded that race was much more significant, and revolutions should be targeted at aggravating racial animus. This was the blueprint for the Civil Rights movement in America and the current immigration crisis in America and Europe.

Edwards: You have often pointed out that America’s hard turn to the left noticeably began on May 17, 1954. Why was the Brown v Board of Education decision such an ominous event in American history?

Alexander: The Brown decision was a milestone for radical Leftist change in America. The Civil Rights movement created the blueprint for change followed by successive waves of radical egalitarian movements that followed. Brown established the use of “lawfare” as the most effective way to make sweeping societal change that circumvented the will of the people. In practical terms, it undermined the existence of the blue-collar middle class in America and the reliable path it provided for upward social mobility. This was done by ruining the quality of public education through racial integration. The key to sustaining a blue-collar middle class with realistic prospects for upward social mobility was easy access to high-quality, free public education. This prospect was destroyed by the racial integration decreed by Brown, which was undemocratically forced on Americans by an oligarchy of unelected judges.

When Brown really began to gain traction with court-ordered bussing, the newly integrated public schools were a disaster. Conscientious parents realized that consigning their children to such schools was the equivalent of casting them into a danger zone. The alternative was to send your children to private schools, a massive unbudgeted expense. The days of having large families were over and many blue-collar white families began only having the number of children they could afford to send to private schools. This led to the phenomenon of “white flight,” or whites moving to newly created suburbs with schools far away from the dangerous social experiments. This led in turn to orderly neighborhoods in the city being turned into ghettos. Those who moved to the suburbs often sold their homes at a loss, and bought their new homes at a premium, thereby depleting their resources and wrecking their retirement plans. The blue-collar middle class was under assault and quickly evaporated. While the prospects for working and middle-class whites were diminishing, black prospects were on the rise due to affirmative action policies which gave them unmerited access to selective colleges, universities, and professional schools. All of this was a radical change from the bucolic days of 1950s America when the streets were safe, and crime was rare. Life was good – much better than now for everyone – even blacks. When I was a child, everyone from the children of millionaires on down attended public schools. If you went to a private school that meant you were either a Roman Catholic or a problem child. This interaction lessened class divisions among whites and promoted upward social mobility. That’s all gone now.

Edwards: In what ways were the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 harmful to the interests of founding stock Americans?

Alexander: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has led to a massive Leftist transformation of our laws and government that, if not stopped, will result in irreparable changes that will permanently cast whites into the role of a persecuted minority in a nation founded by their ancestors. The legislation was advertised by the Left as safeguarding the so-called sacred principle of “One Man, One Vote”, but what if the man can’t be bothered to vote? This was the problem the Left encountered. It was assumed that black interests in the South would transform the politics of the South if only they were allowed to vote. The problem liberals failed to acknowledge was that blacks were already voting freely in most of the South at that time. Blacks in places like Memphis had been voting since the early 1900s but often had to be bribed with concessions to do so. The problem of blacks not voting required a new system that at least tacitly allowed “proxy voting” on behalf of reluctant black voters. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, wrapped sanctimoniously in “One Man, One Vote” rhetoric, eventually allowed for expansive early voting periods, unfettered absentee voting, mail-in voting, and other remedies that virtually invited voting fraud. Republican politicians know that if they scrutinize these votes too closely, they’ll be accused of “racism” and the charge of racism is kryptonite to Republican politicians.

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 will soon make such shenanigans obsolete – not only in the South but nationwide. As Berchtold Brecht, a communist Jewish/German playwright said in the late 1940s, “If you don’t like the election results, change the electorate” and that’s exactly what the Left is doing by third-world immigration legitimized under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. These immigrants are almost always non-white and their numbers assure that states like California stay permanently in the blue column while other states wait to be flipped. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 are simply more weapons in the vast Leftist arsenal to punish and dispossess the founding stock of America.

Edwards: How have so-called “affirmative action” and today’s “diverse workplace” impacted society?

Alexander: Affirmative Action and the goal of achieving a “diverse workplace” describes government policies that weaken America and make us less competitive in world markets. Affirmative Action and diversity are meant to replace merit as the guiding principle for determining who is chosen for positions of authority, responsibility, and power, as well as who is selected for admission to select colleges, universities, and professional schools. Affirmative Action was a policy enacted in 1969 by Alfred Blumrosen and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC was and still is a bureaucratic agency tasked with enforcing the 1964 Civil Rights Act – a monstrosity of a law reputedly as thick as the phonebook. The supposed purpose of this law is to ensure that race has no role in determining who is selected for key desirable jobs and positions but instead requires employers, admissions committees, and HR departments to not only consider race but give preference to black applicants over whites in determining who is hired or admitted.

Instead, following the regulations authored by Blumrosen, this so-called interpretive regulation actually contradicts the intent and plain meaning of the actual language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Blumrosen’s editorializing was an early example of the so-called “Chevron Doctrine” in action, which directs the Courts to give federal governmental agencies wide latitude in writing regs to implement practical enforcement of the statutes they are supposed to enforce. Tasked with enforcing the 1964 Civil Rights bill, Blumrosen and his compatriots apparently felt that the only way they could get blacks into high positions and selective schools was to discriminate against whites in favor of blacks. Once again, the true purpose of the Civil Rights Act was not to protect blacks from white racial discrimination but was to visit racial discrimination upon whites. Again, the law’s purpose was not so much pro-black as it was anti-white. he supposed high-mindedness of the Civil Rights Act was just a red herring intending to hide the true intentions of the liberals in charge. This not only deprives us generally of having the best and brightest in charge, but it also unconstitutionally deprives whites of equal protection under the law. It has resulted in a new regime of mediocrity that governs every major institution of our nation and is another key element in turning America into a third-world nation.

Edwards: The nuclear family is the building block of any healthy society. How have radical feminism and no-fault divorce further assaulted this institution?

Alexander: Just as the Civil Rights movement was not pro-black but anti-white, so also the feminist movement was not pro-woman but anti-male. To destroy America, the Cultural Marxists needed to destroy the American family. A closer look at feminism shows that it was primarily populated in its leadership by Jewish lesbians. Normal women know that they need men because not only are men essential to propagating humanity, but they are also a natural complement to women for successfully raising children to adulthood. Feminists are just another example of mankind presuming that they know better than God.

The no-fault divorce movement was just as essential to the destructive ends of the Cultural Marxist scheme to destroy God’s order and reduce white birth rates by making men and women competitors rather than partners. By loading the dice against men by making women’s interests paramount over those of men, no-fault divorce makes men wary of marriage, and sometimes understandably so. Any man ensnared in a court proceeding against a feminist woman and her feminist lawyer before a feminist judge will learn quickly that Mr. Lincoln didn’t free all the slaves. Men understand that no-fault divorce can destroy their lives if they marry the wrong woman. He can lose his fortune, his business, his peace of mind, his livelihood, his children, and even his freedom. Another problem with all of this is that we need our young adults to get married posthaste and have plenty of children. Be sure to pray for God’s guidance when choosing a wife.

Edwards: Give us a parting shot in summation.

Alexander: The great 19th-century Southern theologian R.L. Dabney once commented that “American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition.” Victories for the good guys have been few and far between since Dabney’s day.

Many people retain a false impression about the true nature of many liberal initiatives like, for example, the Civil Rights movement. It is commonplace for many so-called liberals and even conservatives to imagine that the Civil Rights movement was and still is righteous and holy. In the Gospel of Matthew, the verses read, “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.” Apply this test to the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court decision, or the Civil Rights movement generally. Did public school racial integration in America produce good fruit or corrupt fruit? The answer is obvious. It ruined one of the best public education systems in the world and reduced it to one of the worst but like the emperor’s new clothes, this is a truth few in public life want to acknowledge publicly. It may seem to be paved with good intentions, but according to the old saying, so is the pathway to hell. How many of the sanctimonious politicians who celebrate the Brown decision each year send their children to the Washington D.C. public schools? Actions speak louder than words. Call out this hypocrisy every time you can. Elites can casually ruin your life while sparing themselves of the consequences.

Many Americans have concluded that it is easier to go along with the leftist flow of America. They are reluctant to be identified as opposing those supposedly on “the right side of history” and wish they could get on with their lives – making money, watching their favorite sports team, and drinking a beer. But the Left, running out of causes to promote, has decided to make “transgenderism” a civil right and force it down the throats of not just Americans but also the rest of the world. Liberalism is truly the modern face of evil. We must resist it and every part of their program with every fiber of our being. There is no good fruit falling from the evil tree of liberalism.

This article was originally published by The Barnes Review.

Kritarchs on Krusade: What a Slippery Jewish Lawyer Really Means by “Rule of Law”

Voters in Europe and America are like fish in the ocean. They’re utterly ignorant of vast forces shaping their lives. Fish are ignorant of the moon and its control over the tides. Voters in Europe and America are ignorant of the Jews and their control over politics. For example, in Britain the acronyms LFI and CFI mean absolutely nothing to the vast majority of those who cast their votes for the Labour and Conservative parties.

Tricky Dicky isn’t a grovelling goy

And yet LFI and CFI control those two parties and are gatekeepers of all important appointments in the governments they form. No-one gets to the top without being certified kosher. And when I say “kosher,” I mean it. That’s because the acronyms LFI and CFI stand, respectively, for Labour Friends of Israel and Conservative Friends of Israel. They’re the very rich and very powerful Jewish lobbying groups that pull the strings of political puppets like the Labour prime minister Keir Starmer and the other goyim in his fervently Zionist government.

Some Jews in Labour Friends of Israel (image from Declassified UK)

But there’s one high office in Starmer’s government that isn’t filled by a puppet. That’s because Britain’s supreme legal officer isn’t a grovelling goy. No, just as the current Attorney General in America is the slippery Jewish lawyer Merrick Garland, so the current Attorney General in Britain is the slippery Jewish lawyer Richard Hermer, who has family members serving in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), is a former sabbatical officer of the Union of Jewish Students, and was an “active and dedicated” anti-fascist in his youth. Under the fervent Zionist Tony Blair, the Attorney General was the slippery Jewish lawyer Peter Goldsmith. Under the fervent Zionist Harold Wilson, the Attorney General was the slippery Jewish lawyer Samuel Silken. In America, the post of Attorney General was filled before Garland by the Jews Edward H. Levi, Michael Mukasey and Jeffrey A. Rosen.

Two Attorney Generals from one tiny minority: anti-White Jew Merrick Garland in America and anti-White Jew Richard Hermer in Britain (images from Wikipedia)

What are the odds on that? Again and again, a hugely powerful and important post on both sides of the Atlantic has been filled by members of the same tiny minority. It’s proof of how Jews control law just as they control politics. But what do the post of Attorney General and the name Richard Hermer mean to the vast majority of British voters? The same thing as the acronyms LFI and CFI mean: absolutely nothing. Those voters are utterly ignorant of vast forces shaping their lives. But the demonic crimethinker Dominic Cummings isn’t ignorant about things like that. I’ve called Cummings the most interesting man in British politics. He’s also one of the most insightful and here’s what he’s said about Richard Hermer at his Substack:

The Attorney General’s speech this month [October 2024] may prove to be the most important speech of the entire Starmer government. Obviously therefore it was almost entirely ignored or misinterpreted inside the system — except in the deep state where they understand very well what it means, for us and for their careers. (“Snippets 14: US polls; the Westminster Wasteland; the Cabinet Office sabotaging the PM’s office; PRC v USA…,” Dominic Cummings Substack, 31st October 2024)

But Cummings leaves it at that. He doesn’t explain why Hermer’s speech was so important. I wish he had, because I’m not knowledgeable enough myself about politics, law and the Deep State to understand or explain the full significance of the speech. But I think I do understand one key thing: the meaning of two phrases used in the title of the speech and repeatedly mentioned in the text. The speech is entitled “The Rule of Law in an Age of Populism.” Hermer uses “populism” and “populist” more than a dozen times in the text that follows. But what do he and his fellow leftists mean by it? Well, he never defines it, but it’s clear that by “populism” he and his fellow leftists mean “democracy.” That is, populism means ordinary people getting what they want from politics rather than what the leftist elite wants to give them. More specifically, for Jews like Hermer, “populism” means goyim getting what they want from politics. And that would be a very bad thing.

Repeated with relish

Fortunately, goyim in Europe and America don’t get what they want from current politics. That’s why the previous Conservative government in Britain repeatedly promised to drastically reduce immigration and then proceeded to drastically increase immigration. Reducing immigration would have been “populist” and therefore bad. Raising immigration to nation-wrecking levels is “democratic” in the highest and truest sense, because it expresses the will of the only people who matter — the Chosen People, i.e.,the Jews.

Promise to reduce immigration, proceed to rocket immigration: how British “democracy” has repeatedly denied the will of the people

But Hermer’s use of “populism” and its variants is dwarfed by his use of “rule of law.” He uses that phrase nearly seventy times in the speech. But he never defines it in even the vaguest detail. He simply repeats it again and again:

I want to argue that this is precisely the time for us to reaffirm that the rule of law – both domestically and internationally – is the necessary precursor to those democratic values, providing the foundations for political and economic flourishing. … Far from being at odds with democracy, as some populists would have us believe, the rule of law is the bedrock on which it rests. … And I would go further. Democracy, in my view, is inextricably related to the rule of law, properly understood. … To shore up the rule of law against the forces of populism, we must also emphasise its importance as an idea that unites, rather than divides us. … So, to meet these challenges it is my view that we need to take immediate steps to restore the UK’s reputation as a rule of law leader whilst at the same time also seek to build and secure the rule of law’s long term resilience in the face of threats known and unknown, domestic and international. … A crucial part of restoring the rule of law, and building resilience in the face of future threats, involves thinking about the respective roles of our own institutions in upholding these fundamental values. This must start by recognising that upholding the rule of law cannot just be left to the courts. All branches of our constitution must see the rule of law, in its fullest sense, as a guiding force for their own actions. …

Finally, in my third theme I want to talk about culture and how we promote a rule of law culture which builds public trust in the law and its institutions — a vital task if the rule of law is to be made resilient enough to withstand the threats I have described in this age of populism. [Etc, etc, etc] (“The Rule of Law in an Age of Populism,” 2024 Bingham Lecture by Attorney General Lord Hermer KC [King’s Counsel])

“Rule of law” — “rule of law” — “rule of law.” Hermer seems to relish the mere sound of those three short words. He caresses them like a Bond villain stroking a white cat. And it’s no wonder that he likes them so much, because by “rule of law” Hermer really means “rule of lawyers.” More specifically, he means rule of leftist lawyers such as himself, who follow a Jewish agenda of privilege for non-Whites and relentless hostility towards Whites and their interests. Hermer thinks that ordinary Whites in Britain or America or France should have no say in what happens to their nations or who crosses their borders. No, all that should be left to wise and benevolent leftist lawyers like Richard Hermer. Note the sneer-quotes he places around “will of the people” in this section of his speech:

At a time when there is a desperate need for cooperation and solutions, we are increasingly confronted by the divisive and disruptive force of populism. This is not a new phenomenon. But in recent years we have grown accustomed to diagnosing its symptoms, on both right and left. We face leaders who see politics as an exercise in division; who appeal to the ‘will of the people’ (as exclusively interpreted by them) as the only truly legitimate source of constitutional authority.

Their rhetoric conjures images of a conspiracy of ‘elites’; an enemy that is hard to define, but invariably including the people and independent institutions who exercise the kind of checks and balances on executive power that are the essence of liberal democracy and the rule of law. Judges. Lawyers. A free press. NGOs. Parliament. The academy. An impartial and objective civil service. Populists work to diminish their legitimacy or, at worst, actively remove them from the scene altogether.

Allied to this, we have also seen how populism, in its most pernicious forms, works to demonise other groups, usually minorities — to discredit the legal frameworks and institutions that guarantee their rights, and dismantle, often through calculated misinformation, the political consensus that underpins them. (“The Rule of Law in an Age of Populism”)

I laughed out loud when I read Hermer’s phrase “impartial and objective civil service.” The British civil service is riddled with woke lunacy and replete with anti-White leftists like Tamara Finkelstein, sister of the supposedly conservative potentate Daniel Finkelstein, a Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council. On her part, Tamara is the “Joint Senior Sponsor of the Civil Service Jewish Network,” has supported Black Lives Matter (BLM) on an official government Twitter account, and has issued a stirring call to “fight racism.”

When the Jewish lawyer Richard Hermer calls the British civil service “impartial and objective,” he’s being either utterly deluded or deliberately mendacious. Which is it? The latter, of course. Hermer is lying throughout the speech, constantly saying one thing while meaning something else. But perhaps his biggest lie comes when he boasts that “I have dedicated my professional life to fighting for justice and accountability.” No, he has dedicated his professional life to fighting for Jewish interests and for the unaccountability of Jewish power. Recall his list of those who provide “checks and balances” against the toxic “will of the people.” Top of that list are “Judges. Lawyers.” Hermer hasn’t fought for justice: he’s fought for judges and for kritarchy, as rule by judges is known.

Deep State to the rescue

That’s why Hermer must have been very pleased by some recent news from Romania. A dangerous populist called Călin Georgescu, who supports Putin and opposes NATO, had come on top of the first round of voting for the presidency, trouncing “centrist” candidates from the mainstream parties. Georgescu would next have entered a run-off with the second-placed Elena Lasconi, but Romania’s Deep State soon put a stop to that. First one wing of the Deep State, the Romanian intelligence services, published files saying that Georgescu had been the beneficiary of a sinister influence campaign by Russia. Then another wing of the Deep State, the judges in Romania’s Supreme Court, used the intelligence files to annul the first round of voting and cancel the run-off. The judges were defending Romania’s precious democracy from the menace of populism, just as they had already done when they banned a “hard-right” MEP (Member of the European Parliament) called Diana Șoșoacă from even standing in the presidential election.

Why was she banned? Because the judges said she failed to adhere to “democratic values, rule of law, and respect for the Constitution correlated with the political and military guarantees, and belonging to the EU and Nato.” There it is again: the phrase “rule of law” or statul de drept in Romanian. The lying lawyer Richard Hermer says that “rule of law” is the bedrock of democracy. In fact, the Romanian kritarchs were acting against democracy, cancelling the votes of ordinary citizens and imposing the “rule of law,” a.k.a. the rule of lawyers. Kritarchs also like to cancel the voices of ordinary citizens. That’s what a proud Black woman, the New York State Attorney General Letitia James, did when she waged “unprecedented, unethical and unscrupulous lawfare” against the migration-critical VDARE website, as she had already done against Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association (NRA). VDARE’s founder, Peter Brimelow, described her scandalous and unscrupulous campaign like this:

To repeat: James has not charged us with anything. She has simply battered us to death by a massive and intrusive “investigation” that bears no rational relationship to any conceivable offense. We estimate we’ve spent upwards of a million dollars on compliance, let alone hundreds of hours of work. All of these resources should have gone to our mission: advancing the cause of Patriotic Immigration Reform.

Letitia James is quite obviously aiming at suppressing our speech. But the New York State courts have completely declined to protect our First Amendment rights. (“PETER BRIMELOW: Why We’ve Suspended VDARE and I’ve Resigned After 25 Years,” VDare, 2024)

The free speech of VDARE should have been protected by American law and would have been protected if America were indeed under the rule of law. But it isn’t: it’s under the rule of lawyers — leftist lawyers like Letitia James. That’s why she was able to batter VDARE to death even as other leftist lawyers in the New York State courts “completely declined” to protect VDARE’s First Amendment rights. It was a perfect example of kritarchy in action. It was also a supreme irony, because VDARE resurrected the obscure term “kritarchy” to describe how the rule of lawyers was crushing the rule of law in America.

Koffee-kolored kritarch Letitia James celebrates sodomy in 2019 (image from Wikipedia)

The reaction to that resurrection was very revealing. Writers at VDARE made and implied no reference to Jews when they described and condemned the anti-legal behavior of judges like Letitia James. And yet Jews and their supporters immediately began shrieking that the terms “kritarchy” and “kritarch” were “deeply offensive and Anti-Semitic.” This is what a Jewish writer Ari Feldman had to say at a Jewish magazine called the Forward:

On Thursday afternoon [August 22, 2019], BuzzFeed News reported that the Department of Justice had sent a routine email to a large group of DOJ staff that contained a link to a blog post from VDARE, an online haven for white nationalist, anti-immigrant and racist pseudo-intellectuals.

In response, [Iranian] Ashley Tabbador, head of the union the National Association of Immigration Judges, wrote a letter to the DOJ, saying that the post’s inclusion in the email was a violation of the DOJ’s “ethical standards and legal principals.”

The blog post in question referred to American judges as “kritarchs,” as do many other posts on VDARE. The term, used in “a negative tone,” Tabaddor wrote, “is deeply offensive and Anti-Semitic.” The term, she wrote, is a reference to Ancient Israel, and specifically to the period described in the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Judges, when the leaders of the loosely confederated tribes of the people of Israel, who served as the de facto arbiters of law, were called “judges.” Kritís means “judge” in Greek, and the suffix “-arch” means “rule,” so “kritarchy” means “rule of judges.”

“VDare’s use of the term in a pejorative manner casts Jewish history in a negative light as an Anti-Semitic trope of Jews seeking power and control,” Tabaddor wrote.

The story was widely picked up by media outlets, including the Forward. Most took it for granted that the term “kritarch” was anti-Semitic, while many Jews on social media noted how unique it was to be informed of an anti-Semitic term that they had never heard of. (“The Crazy Story Of ‘Kritarch,’ The Term Used By A White Nationalist Website Linked To By The DOJ [Department of Justice],” The Forward, 23rd August 2019)

If you fail to follow the logic of the hysterical Iranian Ashley Tabaddor, that isn’t surprising. There was no logic to what she said. For example, is any negative use of the term “exodus” also anti-Semitic? Clearly not, even though exodus is, just like kritarchy, a Greek-derived word most famously used in reference to Jewish history. So what was going on when Tabbador and other anti-White leftists condemned VDARE’s use of kritarchy as “deeply offensive and Anti-Semitic”? The same thing as is going on when Jews condemn use of the term “globalist” as inherently anti-Semitic. The Bible puts it like this: “The wicked flee when no man pursueth” (Proverbs, 28:1) In this case, one can say: “The wicked kvetch when no man accuseth.” Although critics of kritarchy and globalism may make and imply absolutely no reference to Jews when they use those terms, kritarchy and globalism are at root Jewish phenomena. Critics are therefore a threat to Jewish interests, which is why Jews and their supporters react so strongly to those critics and shriek so loudly about “anti-Semitism.”

“Rule of law” means “rule of Jews”

The same thing happened when the racially Indian British politician Suella Braverman denounced “cultural Marxism” in a speech in April 2019. She was first “rebuked” by the Jewish Board of Deputies for using what they called an “antisemitic trope,” then called in for a “discussion” with the Board. After discovering that Braverman is married to a Jew and has repeatedly performed the goy-grovel for Israel, the Board certified that she is kosher: “Conservative MP Suella Braverman is ‘in no way antisemitic’, the Board of Deputies has declared after meeting her amid concern about her denouncing ‘cultural Marxism’, a word with anti-Jewish origins.”

Jews do not want any discussion or investigation of kritarchy, globalism and cultural Marxism. Why not? Because they are real phenomena and any serious and objective investigation of them must inevitably conclude that they are Jewish in origin and intended to serve Jewish interests. Now we can finally and fully understand why the Jewish kritarch Richard Hermer, Britain’s supreme legal officer, used those three short words so often and with such relish in his speech. Every time he said “rule of law” he meant “rule of lawyers” and was thinking “rule of Jews.” That’s why kritarchs in Britain will now watch with approval as kritarchs in France try to do what kritarchs in Romania have already done: prevent the wrong kind of candidate standing for election:

The Paris prosecutor has asked for a prison sentence of five years and a five-year ban from political office for far-right leader Marine Le Pen in an illegal party funding case. Nicolas Barret asked for the ban to become effective immediately after the verdict, even if the defence team appeals, ruling Le Pen out of standing again for president in 2027. (Prosecutor seeks jail and election ban for Le Pen, BBC News, 14th November 2024)

Putin Has Betrayed and Abandoned Syria

By Ruri Skywalker; sent  by Rolo Slavski.

But then so has everyone else as well.

Where have I been these past few days? Shouldn’t I have been taking a victory lap and screaming, “I was right!” and “I told you so!” this whole time?

Well, yes … yes, I should have.

But I was busy doing some cramming and studying on the topic. See, I had followed Syria closely a decade ago, but dropped the whole thing out of disgust when the fighting was concluded with nothing being resolved. Everything devolved into yet another cover-up and a conspiracy caper, which I admit that I wasn’t equipped to understand at the time. Like many, I believed the lives that the Kremlin and Tehran propagandists were spreading about how Iran and Russia had saved Syria.

In fact, the entire narrative around Syria is actually very important to understand because that is when we really saw the ZAnon + AssasAnon + TehranAnon propaganda get trotted out to explain away Assad’s defeat by the so-called rebel groups and Russia and Iran’s complicity in partitioning Syria. Now though, with the benefit of a decade under my belt, I think I have a pretty good read on what is going on. This article will explain what happened then and what is happening now in very simple and easy-to-understand terms. I haven’t seen anyone else provide such an overview.

First, we should cover the latest updates: the big one is that Assad might already be dead at the time of me writing this article. There are reports that his plane was shot down. Either way, he was apparently in the process of fleeing Damascus, which, like the other cities, fell without a shot to the “rebels”. The entire Syrian army appears to have just disbanded. The videos on Twitter over the last week have been crazy. The latest info drop is with the rebels storming the airport without encountering resistance. It is all over for Assad’s Syria. The end of an era.

And we’ve got some new memes coming out about our brave lion Bashar al-Assad:

But I don’t want to talk about Assad and his Potemkin government and country too for that matter. Let’s talk about how Russia (and Iran) betrayed him instead.

The Planned Demolition of Syria

First off, rumors that Putin is fleeing the two bases that Russia set up in the region — Tartus and Khmeimin.

I don’t want to toot my own horn too much, but, well …

In contrast, chances are, most of the shills who are claiming that Assad has lured the Turkish rebels into a brilliant trap by surrendering major cities without a fight do not even understand themselves what is going on. They simply read from a script, so perhaps we should be understanding of their plight. Because the cope that has been put out over the last week has been absolute off the charts.

The real interesting stuff is happening behind the screaming headlines and the denial and the cope. It is very possible that Moscow is not only simply losing Syria, but actually helping Syria be taken. This increases the order of the magnitude of the betrayal substantially. We can break down the betrayal into tiers:

Tier 1: Moscow and Tehran and Damascus were simply taken by surprise, too weak to do anything (INCOMPETENCE)

Tier 2: Moscow and Tehran pulled support for Damascus even though they knew what was coming (WITHDRAWAL)

Tier 3: Moscow and/or Tehran turned against Damascus and sided with the Satanist-Globalist-Analists (BETRAYAL)

All three tiers are actually betrayals, but you get the point I am making, I hope. Like, for example, the reports about the Russian airforce bombing SAA and Iranian bases for some reason.

— 🇷🇺/🇸🇾/🇮🇷 NEW: Russian aviation begins bombing SAA / Iranian weapons storage & production facilities across Syria, to prevent material falling into the hands of HTS

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This is kind of a big deal, and I haven’t seen anyone else teasing out the implications.

But we can easily prove that Tier 2 (WITHDRAWAL) is a lock. Like, that is the baseline understanding that the facts as we have them now prove without any reservations. We know at least that this was a Tier 2 event. Not one battle was fought for the cities of Syria.

— ❗️🇸🇾 NEW: ‘Generals of the SAA ordered their units to withdraw from Homs without the approval of Assad, after contacting Gulf states and Western mediators’ – Damascus-based media outlet ‘Sawt al-Aasimah’

This simply does not happen in a real war.

All the evidence points towards a pre-planned and controlled handover of the Syrian state. In these entire 10 days, I have not seen a single battle. I don’t know by whom, but this was 100% orchestrated.

So, again, this was all planned and executed to ensure a rapid overthrow of the Assad government. Now, the more interesting question is trying to figure out who in the Axis of Resistance collaborated with the enemy and to what extent. That’s really all that there is left to do here. Obviously, Moscow did not provide any military support over the last two weeks. Nor did Tehran. And the SAA appears to have rebelled against Assad. However, it is unclear who the real traitor is here. It is possible that the military or elements in the military were rebelling initially to prevent this takeover plan from being carried out.

This is speculation on my part, and I admit that.

But there were old Ba’athist hardliners in the military who were against Assad because of his coziness with his esteemed Western partners in the early days. They probably had enough of him. That is, at least, what many Russian analysts are saying:

The military leaders do not want to fight for Bashar al-Assad, his soldiers and, apparently, since he did not want to address the population of Syria, neither did he. And yet, relatively recently, there were elections, and 95.19% of the population voted for him. This often happens.

Curiously, Assad was supposed to give an emergency address that was instead done by the head of the army, who promised to defend Damascus and claimed that the rebels were being destroyed. Another piece to the puzzle, perhaps.

Finally, in some parts of SAA controlled Syria, they simply cut direct deals with the rebels, like in Derah, to surrender the town in exchange for being allowed a withdrawal. What happens to the SAA now, I wonder? Will they be reformed like the Iraqis were by the Israels and the Gulf States and the Americans into a new ISIS-type muzzrat terror group to be used against Iran next?

We will see.

Assad the Asset (of the West)

The problem of popularity wasn’t necessarily that Assad is/was an Alawite and that the majority of the country is not. The problem is that Assad was really hated by most Syrians for looting the country so thoroughly with his crime clan and the heavy-handed repression that his secret police and paramilitary squads employed to keep the “peace”. Maybe the mild-mannered and meek Assad had nothing to do with the looting and racketeering and terror, but he simply couldn’t do anything to stop the Alawite and Damascus-based business mafias monopolizing everything and extort the population. The only problem with that version of the story is that Assad has been in power for almost a quarter of a century and had the firm political legacy of his father behind him. And yet, this didn’t seem to help. Nor was he ever ideologically opposed to the West in any way. Like Putin, he often begged to be forgiven and let back in the club. Everything was on the table:

Remember: Assad got his start in power as a Western asset, a Liberalizer (like Putin) who deliberately adopted policies to weaken his country and their standing in the region. One of his early betrayals was the withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon. Before that, he helped Bush in his war against Saddam Hussein and the dismantling of the old Ba’athist network in Iraq. Assad also let the CIA set up terrorist training camps in Syria, as well as the infamous black prison extra-rendition torture sites that they were running all over the region. In no small part, they were interrogating old Arab nationalist officers and trying to get them to turn and run these new terrorist groups that they were setting up all over the Middle East. I leave you with this clip of Assad at the Arab League laughing at Ghadaffi warning that Washington will murder all of the Arab leaders assembled in the room if they do not band together.

There is a lot more that can be said about Assad and his disastrous, downright treacherous management of Syria, but we will get back on track and focus on the Russia connection instead for today. I hope someone else will cover that story because I run the Slavland Chronicles here, not the Swarthland Chronicles and I have my hands full trying to explain the full depth of Putin’s treachery without also taking on the entire lore of the swarthlands.

To anyone who wants to dig deeper on this topic though, you have to start as far back as his father Hafez, at least, and then compare and contrast what went down during these two periods of rule.

 

To really get an understanding of the situation though, you need to study the immediate post-Ottoman period and the rise of Arab nationalism in the region and the Anglo-Israeli effort to destroy it using radical Abrahamism (Jewish and Christian Zionism, Islamic Fundamentalism).

Anyway.

The Turkish SMO

The “SMO” nature of this war immediately jumps out. Many Russian commentators are comparing and contrasting this SMO to the other, ongoing on in Ukraine and Russia.

What is happening in Syria is a tragedy. And not only for the Syrians, but also for Russia.

But it should be noted that this can be called a healthy person’s SVO.

If we translate the words of a colleague who wrote about Syria (https://t.me/zhivoff/18333) into the realities of the SVO, it will turn out like this:

😀Kiev is in operational encirclement… They take everything almost without a fight. The tragic end of Ukrainian oligarchs and the clan of their protege Zelensky. The situation is developing so quickly that Ukraine’s allies do not have time to react… 😀

— isn’t this what our “bosses” were counting on when they started the SVO? But dreams are one thing, and reality is something completely different, as it turned out.

The only difference between the SMOs is that it worked for Turkey and friends and didn’t work for Russia, which is what the sarcastic poster is pointing out.

Why though!?

Well, first of all, the push on Kiev was not a feint as we have been told, but an HTS-style SMO with the goal of achieving a political coup. And it succeeded, actually. The took some heavy losses, sure, but they got the job done and took the positions that they were supposed to reach in time. However, instead of actually claiming the victory or doing something kinetic with the soldiers parked outside of Kiev, Putin signed a treacherous agreement with Zelensky, bequeathing Donbass to Ukraine again in exchange for more economic and political power being transferred to the Donbass mafia clans and promises not to join NATO. Sensing this weakness, Boris Johnson and other NATO leaders convinced Kiev to trash the agreement and fight a real war.

Putin had revealed himself to be totally craven by a) squandering the SMO b) asking for very weak terms and c) not setting up any guarantees/insurance and d) failing to take many cities in the SMO.

We’ve talked about the first three points ad nauseum on the blog at this point, so let’s focus on point d instead. How is that Aleppo and Homs and Hama and Damascus were taken without a shot? Simple: agents were deployed to these cities ahead of time to open the gates of these cities. The southern military grouping in Ukraine succeeded with their task and took Kherson without firing a shot this way. It simply involves either assassinating or bribing or coercing locals military commanders to not put up a fight. In contrast, Kharkov was a failure that turned into a trap for Russian troops who rolled into the city thinking that the fix was in only to be fired upon. Similar results were reported in all the other major cities. The reason why this aspect of the SMO is not discussed is because of ZAnon propaganda that waved these failures away as being part of a brilliant maneuver to lure NATO into a prolonged war in Donbass. They really really really don’t want people asking questions about what went down in those early days.

Because, who was in charge of opening the gates to these cities?

Why, that would be the FSB, of course, which was tasked with “SMOing” Ukraine via the 5th Service department:

Can I At Least ASK The Question? Who Planned the Special Military Operation?

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November 14, 2022
Can I At Least ASK The Question? Who Planned the Special Military Operation?

Let’s go back in time and remember what was happening and being discussed not so many months ago.

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And Ukraine as a whole was put in the hands of Surkov, who ended up falling out of grace with Putin soon after. Remember: Strelkov even specifically pointed the finger at Surkov in his famous “39 Questions” for which he was sent to prison by Putin. More on Surkov here:

The Saga of Surkov and the “Generation P(utin)” Conspiracy

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August 13, 2023
The Saga of Surkov and the "Generation P(utin)" Conspiracy

A Stalker asked me to write about Surkov the other day. And then a commenter shared some information about this personality, and then as I was writing this, someone messaged me on Telegram talking about Surkov too! How fortuitous and eerie … a true synchronicity. The stars have aligned, clearly and they compel me to take this rare opportunity, at the pr…

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But what were Putin’s goals in Syria in the first place? Perhaps now we can re-examine the reason that Russia was even there? Yes, now that it is too late, perhaps people are ready to listen.

The Russian Plan to Partition Syria

The sad reality is that Syria was already partitioned in 2016. a united Syria was a fig leaf put over a corpse. By Moscow and Tehran and Ankara that is. Despite this, we were told that Putin and the mullahs had “saved” Syria, despite the fact that they had actually just cut a deal with the terrorist and rebels and Israelis (but I repeat myself) to occupy different parts of the country and simply not shoot at each other. A deal that the Israelis often violated, I might add, and to which Putin would only shrug as another Russian serviceman was sent in a bodybag to be buried at home. After Putin’s “saving”, the only thing that remained to be done in Syria was to formalize this partition. Perhaps we need a refresher on what happened in 2016 before we dive into that part though. Nikola Mikovich had a good write-up on it. Here:

Russia got involved in the Syrian Civil War only in September 2015, when Assad’s Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was on the verge of collapse. In February of that year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Minsk Agreements, effectively putting the Donbas war, which had broken out in the spring of 2014, “on hold”.

One month earlier, pro-Russian rebels were amid a military offensive, and the Ukrainian military was on the verge of collapse. But Putin decided to freeze the conflict and focus on Syria instead.

In October 2016, former Russian general Leonid Ivashov explained on Russian state-owned Channel One that the Kremlin’s engagement in the Syrian conflict was “critical to prevent the construction of the Quatar-Turkey pipeline, which would be catastrophic for Gazprom”.

Besides that, in the war-torn Middle Eastern country, Russia and the United States reportedly had the same opponent – the Islamic State (IS). The SAA would have had difficulty defeating the IS if it hadn’t been for Russia and the Wagner Group. In 2015-2016, Russian forces, along with Hezbollah and other Iran-affiliated groups, also played an important role in the battle for Aleppo, significant parts of which were under the control of the Western-backed Syrian militias.

Indeed, Moscow and Tehran helped Assad stabilise the situation in Syria. The conflict was put “on hold” in 2020 when the last significant battles occurred. After that, Russia began preparing to invade Ukraine, while anti-Assad rebels, strongly backed by Turkey, used the “break” to consolidate, rearm, and continue with what they see as the Syrian revolution. The SAA apparently did nothing to prepare for another round of fighting.

2024 Russia is bogged down in Ukraine, with no strategic goals achieved. Hezbollah was defeated by Israel, whose military killed not only the group’s entire leadership but also dozens of top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders in Syria.

The Wagner Group, following the murder of its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been integrated into the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya), with some of its elements deployed to Africa. Assad, therefore, is unlikely to be able to count on its help either.

His SAA seems to be on its own against well-armed and highly motivated Turkey-backed rebel forces. There are, however, two things that can prevent further falls in SAA-controlled cities. This time, it is Iran, rather than Russia, that could play a pivotal role in a new stage of the Syrian Civil War.

[NOTE: Iran ended up pulling out all support.]

If Assad survives politically and biologically, it will likely be due to Tehran’s support. However, whether Iran has the capacity and political will to help the Syrian leader remains highly uncertain.

Also, a potential deal between Putin and the West could halt the rebels’ offensive, although that does not mean the SAA will recapture Aleppo or any other vital cities it has lost in the past few days. In other words, Putin would have to make serious concessions to the United States and its allies in Ukraine to be allowed to “save face” in Syria. But how likely is such an outcome?

Assad’s defeat would automatically signify Moscow’s defeat. If the Western-backed rebels seize power in Damascus, Russia will have to immediately shut down its Khmeimim Air Base in the Latakia area and the naval facility in Tartus. Since Russia and Syria have no land connection, the Kremlin would be forced to ask NATO member Turkey for permission to allow its vessels to pass through the Bosporus and Dardanelles on their way back to Russia.

To get the green light from Ankara, Putin may have to make concessions to his “friend”, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But that’s not all. On their way through the Black Sea, Russian vessels would become an easy target for the Ukrainian military.

All of the Kremlin’s choices seem difficult. To avoid another large-scale humiliation, whether in Ukraine or Syria, Putin will have to pay a heavy price. Since reaching deals with the West (and then accusing his Western partners of “deceiving him” and “leading him by the nose”) seems to be the core of his reign, he is likely to try to use his old strategy: making painful concessions to the West and selling it to his audience as another “geopolitical victory.”

Syria and Bashar al-Assad could quickly become the most significant “collateral damage” of Putin’s approach. Given that Russia is not in a position to seriously help Damascus unless Iran intervenes, Assad will have a hard time stopping the rebels’ offensive. As a result, Russia could eventually lose Syria as an ally.

Pro-Kremlin analysts and propagandists have already started blaming Assad and the SAA for “not learning the lessons” from the Ukraine war and preparing for another round of fighting against Western-backed rebels. In reality, Assad is not an autonomous actor but a leader who remains utterly dependent on Moscow and Tehran. Therefore, for everything happening in Assad-controlled parts of Syria, Russia and Iran, as his significant sponsors, bear full responsibility.

Quite aware of that, many pro-Assad Syrians have already started blaming the Kremlin for the role it is playing in their country. They are unhappy about the fact that Moscow never prevents Israel from bombing SAA positions. Now that militants from the Jabhat al-Nusra group are advancing toward Hama, speculations in Syria are growing that Russia might betray Assad, which would have dramatic consequences for the Alawites, Christians, and other minorities in the Middle Eastern country.

One thing is for sure: under the current geopolitical circumstances, where Russia repeatedly shows weakness and suffers humiliation, it cannot have both Ukraine and Syria. It remains to be seen what Putin will decide to sacrifice. Maybe both?

Grim stuff.

But Putin betrayed Syria in 2016 already with the “peace” deal they tied to force through. Putin would even go so far as to bomb the SAA and Wagner when they started making too much progress against ISIS and other terrorist groups. Well, at least Shoigu did anyway.

Maybe Prigozhin Was Telling the Truth About the Russian MoD?

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May 18, 2023
Maybe Prigozhin Was Telling the Truth About the Russian MoD?

An interesting account of the battle of Kasham in Syria has come to light recently. The American soldiers who took part in the clash with Assad’s troops and Wagner shared their side of the story and added some hitherto unheard details to their account. This particular line in the story, which you should read in its entirety because it is interesting, re…

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Before even that though, in 2015, Putin was already arming Syrian rebels in their fight against ISIS. Here:

“I will particularly note that the work by our aviation group helps unite the efforts of Syrian government forces and the Free Syrian Army. Currently, its different units have over 5,000 people, and just like the regular forces, they are conducting offensive operations against terrorists in the provinces of Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Raqqa. In addition, we support them from the air, same as we do with the Syrian army, assisting them with weapons, ammunition and materials.”

Which … in retrospect, is rather strange if you are claiming that the SAA is the only legitimate military authority in the region and fighting to ensure the territorial sovereignty and oneness of the Syrian Arab Republic. Putin put direct pressure on Assad to back off and not fight the rebel groups that Moscow and Washington and Ankara (and others) were playing footsie with under the table. He did this by cutting off military support for the SAA, forcing Assad to negotiation and make concessions. It was, of course, spun as a great “peace” gesture by 5D Putin.

Putin probably got this whole strategy from Macron, who also armed pretty much all of the rebel groups at various points ostensibly to fight ISIS as well. Here:

“During my recent visit to Paris, the President of France, Mr Hollande, voiced an interesting idea that he thought is worth a try, namely, to have President Assad’s government troops join forces with the Free Syrian Army. True, we do not know yet where this army is and who heads it, but if we take the view that these people are part of the healthy opposition, if it were possible to have them join in the fight against terrorist organisations such as ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and others, this would help pave the way to a future political settlement in Syria.”

For their part, Putin and friends were rather honest when they insisted that they were actually just in Syria to fight “terrorism” not to do any of that other stuff that propagandists claimed that they were secretly planning on doing. ISIS turned out to be very useful to everyone involved because it gave them a propaganda carte blanche to just do whatever and say it was an anti-ISIS emergency measure that had to be done. That is how Putin justified the Free Syrian Army (rebels fighting for the partition of Syria and the overthrow of Assad) calling in Russian air strikes. Here:

And here’s VVP boasting about how the FSA was calling in RF airstrikes:

“We have even worked together with the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The Russian aviation has conducted several strikes on the targets identified by the FSA. We excluded areas, which had been indicated by FSA commanders as being under their control. By the way, this fact proves once again that we are not bombing the so‑called moderate opposition or the civilian population.”

So it shouldn’t be surprising to learn that Putin was trying to force Assad to sign the formalized partition of Syria once you understand that Putin armed and supported the FSA and was cooperating with NATO (even taking advice!) while in Syria.

The treaty was downright treasonous, and so even Assad couldn’t sign it.

 

did a very detailed analysis of the document almost a decade about. The analysis is prescient, but it is also very long, so I cannot reproduce it in full here. The full link is here. There are a lot of interesting details in the Putin-written document.

But, essentially, Putin wanted to impose decentralization, allow for the Golan Heights to be given up to Israel, Kurdish autonomy, bribes to non-ISIS rebels, hate speech legislation, disavowing the Ba’ath nationalism project, introduce the authority of the ICC, grant immunity to key politicians, Assad stepping down after his term is up, and some other interesting ideas. This was all probably proposed to then present to his handlers in Washington as proof of what a useful guy Putin was for them and their agenda. Perhaps Putin wanted to “trade” Syria for Ukraine as some analysts have pointed out. Putin always holds up his end of the bargain, but the West never does though. In the case of Syria though, Assad dug his heels in and refused to allow Putin to partition Syria and present it with a bow to Washington. Of course, the proles and peasants are told that Putin went in to save the Christians!!! and fulfill the BRICS prophecies or something, so they won’t bother to read the link, naturally.

I bring this all up explain why Syria was already defacto partitioned and why Putin may have left Assad out to dry. Here are the possible options so far:

  1. Putin was upset at Assad for not signing the new constitution, embarrassing him in front of his handlers in Langley
  2. Putin was offered a better deal by Turkey
  3. Putin successfully “traded” Syria for something else which we will hear about in the coming weeks
  4. Putin had no reason for preventing the oil and gas pipeline in Syria any more because Nord Stream II was bombed
  5. Putin was offered a better deal by Israel
  6. Putin is in such a weak position that he simply fled

Or maybe this is all a clever patriotic trap?

The Next Domino to Fall

Well, let’s just get the obvious out of the way. Gaza never stood a chance and didn’t put up much of a fight anyway. Those same lying liars who claimed all those wonderful things about the Axis of Resistance and the Lion of Damascus were all claiming that the Gazan fighters had destroyed the IDF advance several times over, forcing them to retreat disgracefully. None of that true, and if you don’t see why this narrative is absurd, then you are very very stupid. How is a glorified open-air prison camp supposed to fight off one of the most advanced and psychotic militaries in the world? Especially when they weren’t getting any support from any Muslim brethren nations? But whatever.

Point being: Gaza is cooked to perfection. Stick a fork in it and turn it over because they are DONE.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah surrendered South Lebanon to the IDF. And, well, Syria has now been taken by Israeli allies, the HTS forces who are run out of Ankara, Turkey. Hezbollah’s chief came out and said that, “without Syria, Palestine is lost”. I think we can take this to mean that he is predicting that the IDF sets its sights on the West Bank next. With Hezbollah, Assad, and Hamas out of they way, they might set their eyes on a bigger target next though: Iran. We will see.

There is no “Axis of Resistance” though.

An “Axis of Impotence”, maybe.

Putin has sent more weapons to Turkey than they have to the SAA or Iran. Turkey has S-400s, while Iran doesn’t. If the Americans and Israelies start bombing Iran, there won’t be much to stop them. There were rumors and fake news stories of air defense being sent from Moscow to Tehran for years now, true. But this isn’t happening and the people who say this don’t understand the close ties that Putin and his oligarchs have with Tel-Aviv and Ankara, who would never allow Putin to arm Tehran ahead of their attacks.

But hey, why bother speculating about this?

It doesn’t matter how many times that the doomer/blackpilled/pessimist position is proven right, people will still refuse to accept the next prediction as valid or at least possible and given in good faith. Instead, they will simply call people speaking difficult truths CIA-Satanists!!! and then spend the next few months pretending that Putin has cleverly defeated the Satanists in Syria. The Axis of Resistance aren’t any good at fighting or de-dollarizing or decolonizing, but they are really really good at pretending that they are.

The Black Colonel makes a prediction on this front:

I think that now there will be bravura reports from Russian media and leaders about the huge victory of the Russian Federation in Syria. Apparently, a VICTORY PARADE on Red Square awaits us after all!

Now we are waiting for a delegation of respected partners from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham at the next St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Moreover, the business of producing captagon should not depend on a change of ownership on that side.

Of course, it will be interesting to observe the turn of our propaganda in explaining what happened. So that Russia’s victory is not questioned. It will be difficult, but we believe in it, we will find a way to cope.

They’ve been claiming that the fall of Aleppo was a social media psyop for the last week now. No, really. Here is what they were saying less than 8 hours ago:

I bring this all up to mock these people, yes. But I also want to explain once and for all that these people are not your friends. They lie to cover for their bosses’ betrayals. You do not become a better person by believing in lies. This might be difficult for many Abrahamists to hear, I know, but believing in nice-sounding lies about good guys defeating immoral Satan-Nazi-Anal guys doesn’t make you a better person.

It just makes you even more of a gullible chump than you already are.

Oh, by the way, I think some of you on-the-fence guys should support my blog financially now. I’ve been saying that Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Hamas, would fold like cheap suits for like a year now. I will be proven right about Iran as well. And then we can have a discussion about China as well.

But only if you support the blog NOW.

How many people had the guts to really stick their necks out there and sound the alarm about Putin and his friends in the #Resistance? Not many. The real victim in all of this is me, frankly.

Well, and the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who are about to have an even harder time now than they’ve been having under Assad’s kleptocrat government. Not to worry though, chances are you’ll meet many of these Syrian refugees and many other Syrian refugees from all over Africa and Central Asia and China that will be moved into your neighborhood in the coming months in the name of Tolerance Abrahamic Antifa Jesus Values. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Putin has decided to import another couple of hundred thousand Arabs as well! It is simply the moral Christian thing to do, you see?

In fact, our brave resistance leaders are so moral and Christlike that they literally don’t even fight back.

Brings a tear to my eye, it does.