War whores - Listing of warmongering women in power

[Aeneas]

For the last couple of years, I have wanted to write an article about warmongering women. This has not happened, but I think it could be useful to collect and examine a list of these female warmongerers.

As has been seen by supporters of Hillary Clinton, then the very fact that she inhabits a female body is enough for a big proportion of women to vote for her, uninterested in what she stands for.

https://youtu.be/TcrA8ehw2e4

This fact is without doubt used by the pathological elite to help sway the general population in the direction of supporting wars of conquests. Often these are sold as humanitarian interventions to protect women and children, but as we all know this is just BS to garner support among the population. It is as always so much easier to launch wars when the population is more than happy to send of their young sons and daughters to the slaughter in far off lands against "those darn evildoers".

Just to be clear, and to avoid misunderstanding. This is not a witchhunt and a thread could equally be set up to detail war pimps.

Here is a starting list of women that comes to mind, but it is in no way exhausted and more will undoubtedly be added. Articles with links and dates when posted are useful, when examining these pathological deviants, who display little if any signs of conscience and whose actions and rhetoric have been the cause of death for countless number of people.

Margaret Thatcher (Falkland war)
Madeleine Albright (Yugoslavia+)
Hillary Clinton (Libya+ )
Condolizza Rice (Iraq+)
Samantha Powers (Syria+)
Susan Rice (Libya, Syria, Congo)
Michele Flournoy (Syria)
Victoria Nuland (Ukraine+)

It is also interesting to see their interconnectedness, think tanks and who they are married to. Sometimes neocon husbands lurk in the background.

In the following article, Pepe Escobar gives an idea about these women, who hardly ever have seen a war, they didn't like.
https://www.sott.net/article/321318-War-whores-The-three-American-harpies-are-back

War whores: The three American harpies are back!
Pepe Escobar
Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:50 UTC

Three American Harpies: Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power.


Those were the days when Libya ("We came, we saw, he died") offered to the world a full-blooded humanitarian imperialist spectacle starring Three American Harpies: Hillary Clinton, Samantha Power and Susan Rice, actually four if Hillary's mentorette and soul mate, Madeleine Albright, was included.

Pop cynics felt tempted at the time to coin those Amazons-in-waiting Brunhilde and the Valkyries. Or at least to qualify perma-smirker Hillary as Attila The Hen.

So let's kill the suspense. There will be, predictably, a sequel. And it even comes with a somewhat highbrow preview, titled Expanding American Power, published by the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) think tank. CNAS happens to be co-founded - and led - by former Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy, who served in the Obama Administration under Leon Panetta.

Also predictably, CNAS and its combative paper read as a sort of grand PNAC remixed - including some of those same old neocon/neoliberalcon faces; Elliot Abrams, Robert Zoellick, Martin Indyk, Dennis Ross, and of course Flournoy herself, who a Beltway consensus already identifies as the next Pentagon head under a President Clinton.

In this context, Exceptionalistan rules in all its forms - from the juicy defense contractor donor list to the emphasis on NATO on trade via the Trans-pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). After Brexit though, implementing TTIP will be a tall order - and that's a mighty understatement.

Pentagon-in-waiting Flournoy was recently quoted as willing to send "more American troops into combat against ISIS and the Assad regime than the Obama administration has been willing to commit."

Well, not really. She actually responded to the piece, arguing she's in favor of "increasing U.S. military support to moderate Syrian opposition groups fighting ISIS and the Assad regime, like the Southern Front, not asking U.S. troops to do the fighting in their stead."

She also argued that the U.S. should "under some circumstances consider using limited military coercion - primarily strikes using standoff weapons - to retaliate against Syrian military targets." Thus, she adds, "I do NOT advocate putting U.S. combat troops on the ground to take territory from Assad's forces or remove Assad from power."

OK. No regime change then. Just "limited military coercion". And don't forget the creation of a "no-bomb zone"; as in "if you bomb the folks we support, we will retaliate using standoff means to destroy [Russian] proxy forces, or, in this case, Syrian assets.'" As if the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) - and the Russian Air Force - would just sit there playing poker and waiting for the American bombs.

You will all remember that this is strikingly similar to Hillary Clinton's own "policy" in Syria - which, semantically, amounted to a "no-fly zone". In the context of the Syrian theatre of war, "no-fly zone" actually means regime change. No doubt Hillary Clinton has been a keen reader of George Orwell's Politics and the English Language.

Give'em all hell

So if Flournoy is our Harpy Number Two in the new war series Syria Remixed, she's obviously in synch with Harpy Number One Hillary. Hillary's harpy eagle record, even partly summarized, is well known to all; in favor of the bombing and destruction of Iraq; major cheerleader of all things GWOT (Global War on Terror); cheerleader of the Afghan surge; the "no-fly" zone in Syria and more as a means towards regime change; rabid "containment" of Iran even after the nuclear deal struck in Vienna last year; Putin as the new "Hitler"; and the show goes on.

All this, of course, safely ensconced by all those dodgy nations - mostly the petrodollar gang - and companies that donated fortunes to the Clinton Foundation as a prelude to a healthy increase in weapons deals while she was Madam Secretary of State.

So we have Harpies One and Two seeing most of the world as a "threat" (the Pentagon identifies five; Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and "terrorism", in that order; the Harpies may have add-ons). They identify a slew of core American interests challenged non-stop by these threats. They are enthusiastic cheerleaders of humanitarian imperialism and/or downright regime change. And they want to give hell to strategic rivals China and Russia.

No wonder uber neocon Robert Kagan loves this show with a vengeance, along with a vast neocon/neoliberalcon galaxy spread all over the Beltway. From Libya to Syria to "aid" to the House of Saud in its destruction of Yemen, what's not to like?

And that brings us to Harpy Number Three; someone who actually worked for Number One in the State Department - and thus to the most terrifying words in the English language in case Number One lands 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Secretary of State Victoria Nuland - the neocon stalwart who immortalized "F**k the EU" even before Brexit. She should sue for royalties, but collect in US dollars, not depressed sterling.

The honorary Kaganate of Nulandistan dominatrix, as is well known, has enjoyed a pretty stellar revolving door; foreign policy advisor for Vice-President Dick Cheney; corralled into Obamaland by her protector and boss at Brookings, Strobe Talbott; Number One's spokesperson at State; and currently Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, in charge of demonizing all things Russian. Let's face it; get The Three Harpies in the ring, and they body slam those glowing WWF divas to Kingdom Come.

And those 51 warmongers love it

On Orlando, Hillary Clinton was keen to note, "this is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States and it reminds us once more that weapons of war have no place on our streets." Of course there's no problem if those "weapons of war", manned or "advised" by US personnel, kill innocent civilians across what the Pentagon calls MENA (Middle East, Northern Africa).

There is hardly any question that the Three Harpies Remixed - Hillary, Flournoy and Nuland - will get "their" war on Syria, whatever the Orwellian semantics employed. After all 51 warmongering "diplomats" have already endorsed it. And a long time ago, as WikiLeaks revealed, Harpy Number One had already disclosed that "the best way to help Israel deal with Iran's growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad." Realpolitik may have proved that Iran actually had a negative nuclear capability, but what the hell, regime change remains alive and kicking.

Others, such as the Stanley Kubrickian Dr. Strangelove, sorry, General Philip Breedlove, former NATO supreme commander, are also shopping for a Defense job in a putative Clinton administration. But he's no match to the Three Harpies dream team. It makes it so much cozier, and family fun, for the Deep State to deploy Full Spectrum Dominance - that Enduring Freedom Forever doctrine - when played by an all-star female cast. They came, they saw, they'll bomb.

 

[Aeneas]

The list of war harpies listed in the first post are mostly affiliated with the Democratic party, though in truth they are whether Democratic or Republican only truly subservient of the war party. Thus they willl continue to work behind the scenes and support any attempt at getting a good war going. An 'old' war harpie who was almost a household name during the Bush years has also been behind Trump and it is Ann Coulter. Sarah Palin, also a Republican has been seen with Trump recently and is just like Ann Coulter a war harpie. So even if Trump on some fronts is seen as a man for peace, that hasn't stopped the war mongerers from endearing themselves to him and his new administration.

Another woman to be added to the list would be Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James (Democrat) who came out calling Russia an existential threat, thereby adding fuel to the fire:
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/12/05/496546/US-Russia-Deborah-James-Dunford

Russia No. 1 ‘existential threat’ to America: US Air Force

Russia’s rising military power, including its nuclear arsenal, makes the country “the number one” existential threat to the United States, according to US Secretary of Air Force Deborah James.

Speaking to Reuters at the annual Reagan Defense Forum in California on Sunday, James accused Russia of conducting cyber attacks against the US and expressed deep concern about rising military confrontations between the two countries.[Of course nothing to do with America's own actions]

“Russia is the number one threat to the United States. We have a number of threats that we're dealing with, but Russia could be, because of the nuclear aspect, an existential threat to the United States,” James said.

She called recent unsafe encounters between Russian and American aircraft “very worrying,” saying there needed to be more dialogue between the two sides in order to prevent these incidents of “very dangerous airmanship” from leading to an all-out war.

James made the remarks after a series of similar warnings by her and other high-ranking US military officials at the conference.

Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the conference that Russia was determined to limit NATO and prevent the US from projecting power around the world.

"They are operating with a frequency and in places that we haven't seen for decades," he said, while pointing to the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.

Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson echoed those points, saying more communications with Russia would be “valuable.”

The US navy cut all communications with the Russian navy after the Crimea region voted in a referendum to join Russia in 2014, according to Richardson.

This year, tensions continued to mount after Russian and US aircraft buzzed each other over the Baltic, while Washington accused Moscow of trying to interfere in the US presidential elections.

Bickering over nuclear issues has also increased markedly in recent months.

In late October, Moscow moved batteries of nuclear-capable missiles to its western borders with the NATO, in response to a years-long military buildup by the US-led military alliance on Russia's doorstep.

The US, in September, flew three long-range nuclear bombers over Eastern Europe to participate in NATO military exercises.

The back and forth further escalated in early October when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the suspension of a Cold War deal with the US to dispose of weapons-grade plutonium.

 

[angelburst29]

Along with Victoria Nuland (Ukraine+) might want to also consider Nadia Savchenko and Julia Tymoshanko?

Savchenko begs Trump to strengthen anti-Russian sanctions
http://www.fort-russ.com/2016/11/savchenko-begs-trump-to-strengthen-anti.html


Savchenko asked Trump to tighten sanctions against Russia
http://novorossia.today/savchenko-asked-trump-to-tighten-sanctions-against/

A Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Nadezhda Savchenko wrote to the American President Donald Trump, copies of which she posted on her page in Facebook.


Ukrainian pilot Savchenko guilty of Russian journalists’ murder, illegal border crossing - court
https://www.rt.com/news/336400-savchenko-guilty-murder-journalists/

Nadezhda Savchenko, a Ukrainian Air Force officer detained in Russia in 2014, is guilty of murdering two Russian journalists near Lugansk, eastern Ukraine, and of illegally crossing the Russian border, a court in the southern Russian town of Donetsk ruled.


Criminal cases against Yulia Tymoshenko since 2010
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_cases_against_Yulia_Tymoshenko_since_2010

Since May 2010[4][5] a series of criminal cases has been opened against Ukrainian politician and former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko. Tymoshenko is one of Ukraine's most important politicians[6][7][8][9] But after Tymoshenko was released from prison on February 22, 2014, in the concluding days of the Euromaidan revolution, following a revision of the Ukrainian criminal code that effectively decriminalized the actions for which she was imprisoned, she has been cleared of all charges.[10][11] She was officially rehabilitated on February 28, 2014.[12][13][11][14] Just after Euromaidan revolution, the Ukrainian Supreme Court closed the case and found that "no crime was committed".[15]

 

[Ruth]

Yes, there doesn't seem to me to be a real reason why women shouldn't be evil, or under evil's sway. No reason why any one of there number shouldn't be the next Hitler or even the "Antichrist". I don't think bad stuff should remain invisible, just because it's done by a woman.

 

[Aeneas]

I think this thread needs some updating and perhaps the title of the thread could be changed to something like "Women in power pushing for war". The article from 6 years ago, which got slightly updated in March is a primer and a number of those mentioned there are still very much active. Some of these are:

Hillary Clinton (Libya+ )
Condolizza Rice (Iraq+)
Samantha Powers (Syria+)
Susan Rice (Libya, Syria, Congo)
Michele Flournoy (Syria)
Victoria Nuland (Ukraine+)

These are all Americans, but the EU has certainly caught up in the those years and deserve a space here.

What I have noticed is the surprising number of women in Western countries who have become defence ministers in recent years and who are to say the least. The same goes for female foreign ministers.

The sheer number is too big to list in one post and I also hope that others will be happy to help.

My speculation is that a number of these women are put in those positions for the reason that it might be easier to sell the war agenda to the general population. Women are normally not what we associate with war and direct aggression. Those soldiers dying at the front are mainly men. Yet as we know, psychopaths and their ilk are not defined by gender and thus it is interesting to see how many women in positions of power, are happy to fuel policies of willful destruction and send young men to their deaths on the battlefield. On the surface of it, we are being told that these young men are dying defending our values of freedom and democracy, yet it is merely in defence of the hegemonic dominance of the golden 1 billion. Even that is not quite true as it is only really about the defence of a tiny elite who control the resources and power and who are happy to install a utopian totalitarian regime ruling over that 'garden' of 1 billion people and the other 7 billion outside in the 'jungle' as Borrell called it.

Here are a few just from recent days.
The Canadian Foreign minister, Melanie Joly:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1619180097524871169

The German Foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock.

Germany 'at war' with Russia - FM

Comment: So that there's no doubt in anyone's mind, here is the Foreign Minister of Germany today stating - in crisp English - that "we [Germany/the EU/NATO] are fighting a war against Russia." Arguing in favor of sending tanks to Kiev, German...

www.sott.net

https://twitter.com/x/status/1618217167388053504

The German Defense minister until a month ago, Christine Lambrecht, (She was critizised for not giving arms to Ukraine fast enough, though she had been going along with war agenda, but to the neocons in the US German arms can not get to Ukraine fast enough). In October when she was in Odessa, she said:

"We will support our friends for as long as it takes," the German Defense Ministry said on Twitter.

Her successor to the post of defense minister was a man, Boris Pistorius, who was critizised by the left for the simple fact that he wasn't a woman. The left likes to have women defense ministers, which just highlights the obsession with gender and the outside appearance rather than something like qualifications. (I am not saying that Pistorius has those qualifications).

A previous German defense minister is Ursula von der Leyen, now EU President, who has demonstrated in so many ways both her ineptitude but also her allegiance to the neocon warmongering cabal. Here is one quote from an article:

"Never before has this parliament debated the state of our union with war raging on European soil," von der Leyen told the legislature, with Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska seated as the guest of honor among lawmakers, many of whom were wearing blue and yellow, Ukraine's national colors.

"And I stand here with the conviction that with courage and solidarity, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will fail and Europe will prevail.... Europe's solidarity with Ukraine will remain unshakeable," she said, adding that she would pay a surprise visit to Kyiv later in the day.

Another woman in Germany who also bears mentions in regarding this subject is Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, head of the Bundestag Defense Committee. She is also behind the war agenda, the Russophobia etc. as her response to a question in this recent article shows:

[Questioner]But finally, official Berlin not only allowed third countries to provide Ukraine with German tanks, but also will carry out such a supply.

What has changed?

[Zimmerman] I cannot tell you what exactly made Chancellor Scholz change his mind.

I'm just glad that he finally made up his mind and decided that Germany will not only supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks, but also that the government will no longer block the re-export of German-made battle tanks by our allies, such as Poland.

Denmark has a prime minister, Mette Frederiksen is fully aligned with the US position on Ukraine and gives, whenever it is being asked. The lastest has been giving Denmark's entire arsenal of Ceasar howitzers.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1616104923392868354

Zelensky has been given the red carpet treatment in Denmark ever since the war started and there are no indications that it is going to stop any time soon.

More to follow

Edit: Spelling.

 

[Aeneas]

continued...

Finland's Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, who has pushed for NATO membership and a border fence with Russia, apart from visits to Kiev to show support.
Warmongering Finnish PM says sanctions must hit 'ordinary Russians'

Estonian Prime minister, Kaja Kallas is another who is pro war on Russia and can't seem to support the war enough.
Estonia for its size actually was the most generous. The tiny Baltic state donated all 60 of its D-30 and FH-70 towed howitzers. “This takes our total military aid to Ukraine over one percent of our GDP,” Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas noted.

Lithuanian Prime Minister, Ingrida Šimonytė also belongs to this category. Under her watch Lithuania tried to block access to Kalingrad.
Lithuania to block rail cargo to Russian enclave Kaliningrad


The Prime Minister of Moldova, Maia Sandu, who at the UN said that Moldova is firmly behind Ukraine. She also banned the ribbons of St. George as they to her represented a symbol of Russian aggression.

Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni, who has given her full support for Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1574862655067660295

and then a few days ago:

Italy Decree Allows Meloni to Send Additional Weapons (5:28 p.m.)

Italy’s parliament gave final approval to a decree that allows the government to send more weapons to Ukraine. The law is a crucial for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to fulfill a promise to send additional equipment to Kyiv.

While details of the shipments are classified, the Italian government is planning to provide equipment including the anti-missile system SAMP/T, government officials have said.

As always, things are not black and white and there are nuances. Some of these women in positions of power are more zealot or should we say conscious evil about it than others. Some are at the extreme scale of it, the likes of Canadian Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystie Freeland

https://twitter.com/x/status/1618665806216441856

and Under Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland (aka the Maidan cookie monster)

https://twitter.com/x/status/1618871523137445889

mentioned previously, comes to mind.

Another woman in position of power in the armed forces comes to mind:
US Army General Laura Richardson:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1616755195148472320

There are many more who sit in positions of power, governments, institutions, think tanks, financial institutions etc. who could well be mentioned for the purpose of breaking the spell that if women rule, then it will all be peace and love. No, psychopaths rule and are not limited to the male gender, though some research from what I gather suggest that more men than women belong to the category of pathological deviants. Whether that is actually true goes beyond what this thread is about.

Edit: Added a missing quotation mark in the post.

 

[Hi_Henry]

My speculation is that a number of these women are put in those positions for the reason that it might be easier to sell the war agenda to the general population. Women are normally not what we associate with war and direct aggression.

I also think it is all optics.
Plus it fits in with reorganizing society in all aspects, with LGBT being the most disgusting example of this. Get Xe some Balenciaga outfits.

 

[Aeneas]

The Czech Defence Minister, Jana Černochová is another one to appear happy to show her support of Ukraine and her anti-Russian feelings.

Czech minister of defense Jana Černochová gave her Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksi Reznikov a shirt. The shirt is from a Czech charity collecting funds for Ukrainian army.

The Spanish Defence Minister, Margarita Robles (since June 2018), appears also to be content to send military aid, Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
Spain has agreed to send 53 Leopard 2A4, tanks to Ukraine, many of which have been out of use for a long time.

The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, has confirmed that the plans to send Spanish Leopard battle tanks include preparing some of the 53 armored vehicles that...

As a side note, Robles was very much involved in managing the Covid 'crisis' and her popularity increased because of her handling of it according to wikipedia.

Edit: deleted image and inserted link.

 

[Aeneas]

Another one which just popped up on my Twitter feed mentioned Florence Gaub. One who most probably haven't heard about, at least I hadn't, but who appears to work more away from the public eye than the other more prominent figures. Yet she stuck out in my eyes as one of the more conscious war mongers. From wiki:

Florence Gaub (born 1977) is a Franco-German researcher, security expert and futurist who focuses on foresight based policy formation for international relations and security policy. She worked as deputy director at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris February 2018 until May 2022,[1] worked as foresight advisor at the General Secretariat of the Council[2] and is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, member of the WEF Global Future Council on the Future of Complex Risks as well as founder and president of a think-tank and consultancy, Futurate Institute.[3]

Gaub specializes in strategic foresight[7] and matters of international security, advising high level decision makers in governments and IOs such as NATO, OSCE, UN or of course, at EU level. From 2012 till 2015 she was also a reserve officer in the French army with the rank of major.

Since 2020 Gaub has been vice-president at the European Forum Alpbach.[9] In the same year she joined the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Frontier Risks[10] and from 2023-2024 the Global Future Council on the Future of Complex Risks. Furthermore Gaub is part of the visiting faculty at the College of Europe Campus.[11]

With regard to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Gaub has been among the notable German female security experts[12] routinely commenting in the media and in particular German late night political talk shows.

The bit from Wiki which caught my eye this evening was this interview on German television where she basically was saying that Russians though they look like Europeans, aren't and they are different from 'us' and how they view violence and death. She does not say that they are Untermenschen, but one gets the feel that she views Russian as less than Europeans where postmodernism rules (that should be a blessing, but she sees that differently).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1618953970462097408

Wiki does mention this appearance and it is in English:

An interview on 12 April 2022 on the show Markus Lanz she explained the considerable losses endured by the Russian military and societal tolerance levels of violence.
During this appearance, Gaub argued for a reassessment, stating that culturally Russian society does not prescribe to a liberal, post-modern sense of life, and views violence and death differently if compared to today's Germany.[15] Gaub detailed her theses on the need to rethink Europe's attitude or acceptance of violence in consequent writings in FAZ and Zeit and also clarified her quote in a debate setting for die Zeit, where she detailed her take on value-driven violent behaviour from domestic abuse to death penalty or loss of life by soldiers.

I wonder what she means about viewing death differently in Germany as I am not sure Germans have a specific view on death and if so, it is likely colored by a Darwinistic, materialistic viewpoint. Russia rightfully views the threat from NATO as existential which explains to me why the are prepared to fight. Further the Russian losses have been minimal exactly because they value the lives of the soldiers and don't just throw them into meatgrinders as the Europeans do with Ukrainian soldiers. In other words her words are projections of her glass house view from inside Borrell's 'garden'.

German forumites might like to add their observations if any regarding this woman.

 

[Aeneas]

A member of the EU Parliament who used to be the Foreign Minister of Poland also former head of the Chancellery of the President of Poland, Anna Fotyga, also belongs in this thread.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1619841342519283712

This is what she had to say about Russia, which she would like to see split up.

The invasion of Ukraine is a direct continuation of Russia’s imperial and colonial policies; policies that never disappeared. Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has been coupled with a propaganda campaign denying the very existence of a Ukrainian nation, genocide being actively committed against Ukrainians, all completed with the colonisation of occupied territories by ethnic Russians. This is what is happening in Mariupol, Donbas or Bakhchysarai. Russia’s policy in these instances has been copy-pasted from Krasnaya Polyana or Kamchatka in the 19th Century, writes Anna Fotyga, ECR MEP and former foreign minister of Poland.

Anna Fotyga is a Polish Member of the European Parliament and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

Whether it was Tsarist, Soviet or led by Putin, Russia has not changed over the centuries. It is driven by the same imperial instincts, repeating the same scheme: conquest, genocide, colonisation, and then seeking a silent acceptance of the status quo, bribing the international community through a mirage of economic cooperation or the illusion of a vast Russian market. We cannot be misled into thinking that Moscow is a part of the solution to any global problems. We should remember that even when Russia was falsely seen as a stabilising force in Europe, it was at the expense of nations of my region, with my country being partitioned and occupied by Russia. Even then, Moscow planned to further “go West”, to export its “stabilisation” in the 19th century or its revolution in the 20th. Moscow has no shame in openly repeating this imperialist scheme in Ukraine in the 21st century. This is why Moscow’s imperialism must end forever.

We should be aware that Putin and his gang of war criminals are not the cause, but the consequence of the problem, the root of which is the authoritarian and imperial essence of Moscow and the phobias of the Okhrana, KGB or FSB, which captured the Russian state long ago. Russian imperialism has very deep roots. However, today we find ourselves not in the 16th century of Ivan the Terrible or the 18th of Catherine II, but in the 21st century of international law, common organisations and shared values. The European Parliament and many other parliaments around the globe have labelled the Russian Federation a terrorist state. Such an acknowledgment has certain consequences. This terrorist organisation, even if it is seen by many as an empire, should be dismantled. Otherwise, we should have no doubts that in a blind desire to maintain ‘the empire’, other criminals in its leadership will continue to create constant threats, destabilisation, hybrid attacks and wars for its neighbours and other countries, and enslave and oppress its own citizens. Therefore, as it was the case of the German Third Reich, as an existential threat to humanity and international order, the Russian Federation should undergo drastic changes. It is naive to think that the Russian Federation, after being ultimately defeated, will remain within the same constitutional and territorial frames. It never happened in history that such centralised empires, subjugating so many nations, remained unchanged after being defeated in a crucial war. Therefore, the international community cannot take a comfortable position on the side lines, waiting for developments, but must undertake a brave initiative that supports re-federalisation of the Russian state, taking into account the history of Russian imperialism, and the respect for the rights and desires of its nations. The victims of Russian imperialism should be able to rebuild their own statehoods, exercise their right to celebrate their heritage, and determine their own future.

Unfortunately, we cannot draw any positive conclusions from anti-war demonstrations organised by Russian society in the country or outside, because there are no such protests. However, we should learn a lesson from mass protests against subjugations to Moscow in the regions of the Federation, such as those in Ingushetia or in the Far-Eastern city of Khabarovsk.

There are no such things as Russian gas, oil, aluminium, coal, uranium, diamonds, grain, forests, gold, etc. All such resources are Tatar, Bashkir, Siberian, Karelian, Oirat, Circassian, Buryat, Sakha, Ural, Kuban, Nogai, etc. For most of the inhabitants of the regions — be they ethnic Russians or indigenous people — Moscow represents only war, repression, exploitation and hopelessness. Harassment and discrimination against ethnic minorities in Russia is commonplace. Hyper-centralisation has exposed the country’s multiple weaknesses, but foremost, subjugated theoretically autonomous regions and republics to the will of the Kremlin. Moreover, with its odious war of aggression, Moscow is sending ethnic minorities to the meat grinder, implementing a real ethnic policy by further harming both the Ukrainian and already conquered nations of the Far East.

Taking into account the national and ethnic map of the territories of the Russian Federation, we should discuss the prospects for the creation of free and independent states in the post-Russian space, as well as the prospects for their stability and prosperity. The international community has the obligation to support the rights of indigenous nations that, due to Russian conquest and colonisation, now exist also within the borders of the Russian Federation. We cannot only focus on the preservation of some indigenous people and not others. The same rights must belong to Khakas, Tuvans, Sakha or Evenks. We cannot neglect the fact that ethnic Russians, while being the biggest nation of the Russian Federation, are just one of many. We should put more focus on the regions and nations of the Russian Federation, their capacities, and their perspectives for sovereignty. We should get to know their leaders, their histories, and their strengths. We should be aware that the Russian Empire denied the very existence of a culture of subdued nations, often stealing their heritage. The Western term ‘cultural appropriation’, has many examples in Russia, be it Mikhail Lermontov stealing the legends of conquered Circassians, or Russians trying to separate ethnic Ukrainian Nikolay Gogol from his Ukrainian national identity.

We should be aware that the dissolution of the Russian Federation might bring certain difficulties and risks, as with any transition period. However, those risks will be far less dangerous than leaving this aggressive empire unchanged. After a period of sleep, it will return with further aggressions as it has done throughout centuries. There are many possible solutions and strategies for a controlled, constructive, and non-violent dismantling of the last colonial empire in Europe. The rupture of the Russian Federation will bring unquestionable benefits in the security, including energy security, and in the economy of Europe and Central Asia. I agree with Janusz Bugajski that new pro-Western states can emerge from within the Russian Federation, enhancing stability in several regions of Europe and Eurasia.

The dismantling of the last colonial empire in Europe is inevitable. Therefore, it must be controlled and constructive, solving the problem of the imperial policies of “United Russia”. Dissolution of the Soviet Union was a catastrophe for Putin and his KGB colleagues. For the Baltics, Ukrainians and Georgians, but also for Kazakh or Kyrgis, it was blessing. I am convinced it will be also the case of the Russian Federation, bringing freedom to Ichkerians, Circassians, Buriats, Chuckots and many others.

That is why, together with my colleague Kosma Złotowski, we are glad to host numerous experts, historians, journalists, politicians from both sides of Atlantic, and leaders and representatives of more than 20 nations of the Russian Federation, who will gather in Brussels in the European Parliament to discuss prospects for the decolonisation and deimperialisation of the Russian Federation.

She sounds unhinged, but she is not alone in having such intense Russophobic views and especially not in Poland, which clearly has tied the knot with the US.

 

[Aeneas]

There has been a plethora of war mongers in the media over the last few months and many could well have been put into this thread.

I saw this one which doesn't carry the name, but it is how the banking elite wish to win this war as they can see how they can profit from it. It is a woman making this speech and that she is nameless (on the video) fits quite well how many of these war mongers (men and women) work behind the scene in think tanks or corporations who profit from war.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1647986455300505601

 

[Aeneas]

Regarding the topic of putting women in positions such as defence ministers so as to soft sell the various wars, I saw this on my Twitter feed today. It shows 9 female defence ministers. None of them appear to my knowledge to make a name for themselves by promoting peace, but I could be wrong on that.

They could all be moving on to great things. The current EU president, Ursula von der Leyen was after all, the German defence minister before her current post in the EU hierarchy.

 

[omara]

Regarding the topic of putting women in positions such as defence ministers so as to soft sell the various wars, I saw this on my Twitter feed today. It shows 9 female defence ministers. None of them appear to my knowledge to make a name for themselves by promoting peace, but I could be wrong on that.

We've never had defence ministers in Iceland, Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir is our foreign minister. Besides having the most pretentious name in Icelandic politics, she's already cutting diplomatic ties with Russia, our embassy in Moscow will be closed in August. Russia was the first country to open an embassy in Iceland, as the USSR, and will respond in kind. So she's already doing her part for the lunatics that run the asylum here in the West.

They could all be moving on to great things. The current EU president, Ursula von der Leyen was after all, the German defence minister before her current post in the EU hierarchy.

She's undoubtedly being groomed for bigger things, as has been obvious since she started her career in politics. If she can avoid scandals, or, rather, successfully suppress them, like her party boss, she could well go on to take a prominent place on the international stage. Her party, the oddly named The Indipendence Party, which is always ready to follow in the footsteps of American power, is the symbol of everything that's wrong with politics, banking, corporatism, cronyism. You name it, it has got it.

 

[Aeneas]

I just saw this video which is 5 years old but fits well into this thread. It is from OAN and just 3 minutes long yet highlights how women now are in many of the leading positions in the war economy.

When looking at what has happened in the last 20 years it is hard to see that the fact that more women are in the army or at the very top of decision making centers have made it any less aggressive. The mask has fallen off from the psychopaths in power, but that is unlikely to be due to gender. It is highlighted in the video that women are better at communication and I wonder if that is part of the reason why there appears to be much more soft selling of the wars and the use of paramoralisms. That is perhaps due to female psychopaths coming into the power positions of the military industrial complex.

 

[Mark7]

Yes, there doesn't seem to me to be a real reason why women shouldn't be evil, or under evil's sway. No reason why any one of there number shouldn't be the next Hitler or even the "Antichrist". I don't think bad stuff should remain invisible, just because it's done by a woman.

Especially since women tend to want to 'usurp the masculine principle' these days. So much hostility toward 'The Patriarchy' on the left. I guess women felt that since men have mucked things up so badly over the centuries, a woman's touch in government would be a good thing. But now we have a matriarchal 'Longhouse System' of government that focuses on safety and conformity, which has turned out to be cold-blooded, and that's not quite what we need with psychopaths in power - rather we need the aggressive, masculine principle of taking action, as in a revolution. Maybe we need men and women of objective knowledge to work together for a change.