Propaganda machine
Many NPC’s have come out of the wood works claiming to know about geopolitics because they religiously watch/believe television and parrot MSM narratives.
We saw this with Russia-Ukraine and now, it is happening again with the China-Taiwan US led provocation. Am already hearing from those who simplistically say while displaying emotional illogic, 'I support the underdog', so they can claim to be morally superior in their support of Taiwan without understanding subtle nuances and historical context of the ongoing sabre rattling.
Easy to spot people with little to no knowledge of the principles of international relations (IR) and its theories.
The anarchical state of the international system poses us with a natural conflicting hierarchical organizing principle of man in nature. It gives many the illusion that there should be no form of hierarchy or that there should be no form of subordination existing within the international system, given the absence of agents with ‘’system-wide authority.’’ With this notion in mind, we consult Waltz, N. K. (1979) Theory of International Politics, as he questioned the viability of a system lacking a dominant figure and suggests that an ‘’orderer’’ must exist to ensure that the system remains ‘organized’, even though we are faced with the contradiction that all states in IR abides by the notion of ‘self-help’, prioritizing their survival and act on an equal footing. Despite this, a state or a number of states are needed to perform the role of ‘global vigilantes’, ensuring that some form of hierarchy is present within the international system. Here we need a balance in multipolarity, whereby more than one country is the designated global vigilante and the superpowers can act as an oversight on each other leading to a truly diverse world.
As we have demonstrated above, do some still think:
The US is rightfully the undisputed unipolar hegemon despite its waning power?
Is the rise of new challengers a consequence or effect of the empire in decline?
Does China or Russia’s model of multipolarity balance out the power?
Is China or Russia the underdog from a unipolar context of the US?
If China/Russia is the underdog, why claim support furthering unipolar policies through its proxy in Ukraine/Taiwan?
As Caitlin Johnstone writes via her substack,
Taiwan is a US military asset, not a US ally. That's a very significant difference that everyone, especially the Taiwanese, would do well to keep in mind.
She goes on..
If someone criticizing the most dangerous agendas of the most powerful and destructive government on earth looks like "Russian propaganda" or "Chinese propaganda" to you, it's because you yourself have been brainwashed by propaganda.
The western propaganda campaign against China is succeeding, even among many who consider themselves anti-war or critical of establishment power. Whatever sick future agendas they're manufacturing consent for, they'll be able to roll right on out. People's brains are turning to soup.
Indeed.
Lets play a guessing game which nation is the common denominator in all of the following major political crises in the world today:
Russia/Ukraine war
Yemen
Taiwan tensions
Syria
Afghanistan
Iran and JCPOA
Answers:
US backed 2014 coup
US sanctions and support for Saudi kingdom
Prevented Chinese unification since the KMT fled to Taiwan and continued provocations to create an independent nation.
US bombing Syria/overthrow of Syrian & Iranian government
US funding Mujahideen & then US invasion
Hostile policy to Iran from US/overthrow of Iranian government.
We are not forgetting Serbia-Kosovo tensions too!
The fact is the US is the leading source of the worlds instability.
Succinctly put in this twitter message:
According to the MSM narrative, 'the good guys' (US/NATO) has to be involved everywhere to make it, spread and impose their goodness (Hollywood & culture)—that's why they're the good guys, stepping up to spread their influence and propaganda.
Sure, the good guy always tells us he’s a good guy.
And some think China is the bad guy?
The enemy is within.
The propaganda is working hard as this will only ramp up from here.
Again from Caitlin Johnstone,
They use propaganda to facilitate war, but they also use war to facilitate propaganda. Keeping the wars going helps the propaganda machine spin war as something normal and expected and to be continuously prepared for. It acts as an immunosuppressant against the public's natural, healthy rejection of war. The more normalized war becomes, the more suppressed our collective immune system's rejection of it becomes.
War is the absolute worst thing in the world. It's the most insane thing humans do. The most destructive. The least sustainable. The most conducive to human suffering. Only by very aggressive narrative management can the public be dissuaded from insisting on peace.
The conclusion to all the warmongering and propaganda is that Pelosi's trip is not a prelude to WWIII but a preparation for it.
I firmly believe that a China-US war will happen at some point but not now.
The war propaganda machine still spins.
See you tomorrow!
- Ope