In TrendCompass on Monday, I wrote about the sudden lust for war against Russia that’s gripped European ruling establishments like a fever, with a handful of notable superspreaders doing the rounds of TV panels and interviews as they try to convince the public that war is inevitable, that the people must step up and do their duty and enlist in the military to defend “our nations” and our way of life.
It all feels as though the decision that Europe will be going to war against Russia has already been made. As Mr. Pompous, Jacob Rees-Mogg put it:
“… If we face a war, we will need people who will join the armed services and who will go out and do their duty. We may even face circumstances where people have to die to save their country…”
One of the most enthusiastic war promoters, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently had this to say:
“There’s no reason, that I can see, why we shouldn’t send some peaceful ground forces to show our support, our constitutional support for free, independent Ukraine.”
Johnson’s wording itself is interesting: “peaceful ground forces,” and “constitutional support,” and it’s obvious from the video (linked above) that he was struggling to spit all those words out exactly right so that his plea for a peaceful war could sound perfectly honorable and dignified. He seemed especially scrupulous to put the words constitutional and support together.
All the while, the British media are doing their part, dutifully informing their fellow citizens that the Russians are coming:
In just one week, more than 250 articles have been published about the supposed threat from Russia, which is remarkable! They couldn’t all be wrong, could they? Like that time they sold us the pandemic and the safe-and-effectives..?
But war propaganda has been planned and creeping for a while now, including subtle indoctrination of children.
Imagining Private Peaceful
Earlier this year, my son went on a school trip to London and when he came back, he had a leaflet on him (see below) titled, “IWM Photo Treasure Hunt - Private Peaceful,” related to a novel about this “Private Peaceful,” which was related to the children as part of the program on this trip.
The children’s mission was to “Take photos of exhibits that connect to Private Peaceful,” and, “When you return to school, create a PPTX presentation.” The assignment also came with a warning: “If you do anything inappropriate, you will be punished accordingly,” a truly bizarre thing to toss into a school trip. The following tasks, listed in the leaflet, were part of their assignment:
Military discipline/execution (“Anything about court martial, desertion, or punishment. .. Would Charlie’s execution be considered fair based on what you’ve learnt?”)
Letter or personal object (“What does this show about soldiers’ feelings? How can you relate it to Private Peaceful?”)
Uniform/equipment (“How practical or comfortable does this look? … How did Tommo feel about his uniform / kit?”)
Gas warfare (“How does this change your understanding of Tommo’s fear and panic during gas attack?”)
Enlistment (“Tommo was able to enlist even though he was too young. Would you have been successful? Why or why not?”)
Battle/weapons (“How does this change your view of war? Does this make what the Peaceful brothers went through more heroic or more frightening? Why?)
The trenches (“Walk through the trench reconstruction and note your impressions…”)
There’s something profoundly sinister about asking 14-year olds if the execution of a comrade was “fair,” to imagine themselves in trenches and asking whether they think they could be “successful” at enlisting even if they are too young. Calling troops “the Peaceful brothers” seems like one of those Orwellian, war is peace and slavery is freedom, but this all was part of the kids’ school trip program in London.
It all reeks of one of those Tavistock institute psychological “nudge unit” plans to prepare young minds to see themselves as cannon fodder disciplined future soldiers who should regard enlisting to join the Peaceful brothers at a young age as a success.
Counting down to a Russian provocation
Of course, all these psychological preparations for a peaceful war may not get very far without a proper galvanizing event that could trigger the mass formation psychosis and begin changing behaviors. For the young ones, that change should entail a transition from imagining themselves as soldiers to actually pursuing a “successful” enlistment and getting into real trenches.
Not so long ago, Europe’s leaders were talking about war against Russia coming in 2029 or 2030, but now it seems that this timeline has been moved up quite a bit, perhaps only a matter of some unexpected surprise needed to induce the necessary mass formation psychosis for men across Europe to step up and enlist to do their duty. To be sure, Mr. Rees-Mogg and his children won’t be among them, but many ordinary Europeans won’t be offered a different choice.
I’ve written here before that a false-flag event could be in the making, but thus far nothing came of it. For some reason however, Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Gordon, who is very close to Volodymyr Zelensky, thought he’d share this jewel with the public:
“This I know for sure: literally with days something will happen that will give us great hope. Let me say this … Right know I’m talking about what I know. I can’t say what it’ll be because it’s a military secret, but I know that in the coming days - well within a week or two weeks at most, something will happen that will give the nation wings. I know this.”
Well, I can think of very few things that could give a nation wings, but in this case the explanation is quite obvious. Unless Mr. Gordon was just drawing attention to himself, that “something” could be exactly an event that would galvanize Ukraine’s Western supporters and sponsors to mobilize their unwilling populations to finally rise up and do their “duty.”
False flag attack Russian provocation to the rescue!
Four days lapsed since Mr. Gordon’s statement when the Spanish media publicized a warning, supposedly received from the CIA, that the dastardly Russians were planning drone attacks on civilian targets in the Mediterranean.
Of course, this is to be taken utterly seriously. The Russians hate us for our freedoms, they hate democracy, have weapons of mass destruction, and even though they are failing in Ukraine (as UK’s Ed Miliband disclosed at the UN this week), they are very keen on invading Europe. The best way to kick off such an invasion would be to launch drones at a bunch of targets in Spain, France and Italy. The CIA and other Western intelligence agencies would never so brazenly lie to the public just in order to get a big war going - that would be very bad and wrong!
The psychological war on European people
Judging from the overwhelming majority of reactions and comments to the ruling establishment’s warmongering, the public is not exactly buying the narrative about the Russian threat. If drone attacks in the Mediterranean are indeed what Dmytro Gordon was alluding to, it might not suffice to trigger a groundswell of outrage and indignation needed to point the Europeans at the designated culprit and induce the necessary enthusiasm for war.
Joe Public does not seem to be as inclined to believing the media or the political class as he once was, and it appears that the psychological conditioning has been planned quite extensively, beyond mere slogans and indoctrination of children. As a result, the media is suddenly flooding the zone with war stories and talk about an “inevitable” war, which is just around the corner. In France for example, on 18 November, a full feature film will be released in the cinemas.
The film is titled, “Jupiter,” and judging by its chilling trailer, it foreshadows a willful mutual nuclear annihilation between France and Russia:
The odd thing about this trailer is that it doesn’t portray the President of France and his military brass as lunatic degenerates but as serious, sombre people, managing the crisis responsibly to protect the nation - in other words, total fiction, which might seem quite at odds with the French people’s living experience with their political class.
It remains to be seen whether all this planning and preparations will go the way our ruling establishments so passionately desire. Something happened in the collective mind of the public, particularly since the Covid 19 pandemic and the lockdowns of 2020, which has broken the trust between the people and their governments. Much of the public no longer believes anything published in the corporate media and they might be as inclined to turn against their ruling classes as they are to believe that “the Russians are coming.”
Nevertheless, this is no time to be complacent or think that the war drive will fail. Back in 2022, the vast majority of Ukrainian people were reluctant to fight Russia and even when it was clear that a Russian invasion really was in the making, over 80% of Ukrainians expressed unwillingness to enlist and fight. Somehow, however, well over a million of them have been sacrificed so far, which suggests that our ruling establishments have the means of coercing the unwilling public into war. In other words: today it’s the Ukrainians - tomorrow, it might be our children!
For most of us, it is time to push back against these war pigs if we want to see our children alive and intact, rather than in an endless row of graves underneath the nation’s flag. We MUST be sure to keep our kids far away from those trenches that have been planned for them and their future “success.”
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Promising.
Tens of thousands of students took to the streets across Germany on Friday to protest the government’s military service reform amid Berlin’s push to expand the armed forces, citing the alleged threat from Russia. Organizers of the “School Strike Against Conscription” said around 45,000 students joined demonstrations in some 100 cities and towns on Friday. Police did not provide a nationwide figure, but reported around 2,400 protesters in Berlin, while hundreds more rallied in Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Munich, and Hamburg.
That is one VERY nasty Orwellian school project you've got there.
If it were my child, we would be having a long, long discussion about WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq....etc., and we would discuss what the bottom line results for the soldiers and citizens directly involved actually were.
As we would see, the only things that came out of those wars were banker enrichment, massive death and asset redistribution upwards. We woud then move on to comparing what is happening on the news concerning a war with Russia with what was said about the covid "war."
Next we would compare the size of the WW1 allies armies, including the US to the opposing side. And discuss how the odds were stacked against Germany.
Lastly we would compare the capabilities and size of the current NATO armies against those of the Russian team; Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. Then assess who may have winning in their back pocket based those figures.
Again, what a horrid, horrid document!