[UNLOCKED] The Neocons’ Iraq War – Larry Wilkerson, Gary Vogler (DCC52) (A Little Bit of Real History+ my views)

This is part of history they don’t want you to know:

“Whether the transformation of organized crime was Lansky’s or Luciano’s doing, or the result of broader social forces pushing towards corporate centralization in every sphere of exchange—whether in business, politics, or crime—the expansion and integration of criminal enterprises is the key fact.”

— Carl Oglesby, Yankee and the Cowboy War

Secret pipelines from sanctioned Iran are not much different from ISIS oil sold in Iraq or the current dark fleet of ships transporting Russian oil.

“These sanctions regimes are a form of warfare and often lead to predictable, perhaps intentional, criminal racketeering operations. We know those operations are intertwined with intelligence agencies, which are frequently working with various mobs.”

— Aaron Good

I heard Joe Rogan say this once. I don’t watch a ton of Joe Rogan, but sometimes people share clips. I don’t remember who the guest was, but it was years ago, and they were talking about the drug trade. He said, “Just stop and think about it, man.” I think maybe he was high, because he always smokes weed on the show, or maybe he wasn’t—but either way, it makes sense. He said, “Think about it. All that money in the drug trade, all those big organizations making it. Do you think these bankers are just going to let that money go? Like they’d say, ‘Oh no, we don’t want that money’? Of course, they’re involved.”

It was funny because this stoner, mixed-martial-arts-fighting comedian was saying something important and true that you won’t really hear Western social scientists admit. It seems emblematic of the denial we have here.

— Aaron Good

It’s not just illegal drugs; it’s all illegal activities. Jokingly, I wrote in one of my posts that after we destroyed Libya and turned it into a failed state with a slave market, our lovely Western capitalistic corporations took part in that slave market. I was saying it jokingly and sarcastically, but I would not be surprised if it were true.

I’ve written before that, in my opinion, we created ISIS in Iraq to steal oil from the Iraqi people. Since we could not officially steal their oil, we could support illegal terrorist organizations, help them extract oil from Iraq’s oil fields, and then buy it at a discount. If we say we paid ISIS 50% of market price, we literally stole 50% of the oil from the Iraqi people.

I love the fact that no one asked themselves how ISIS was able to extract oil from Iraqi oil fields and sell it on the market while allegedly the U.S. was fighting them. The U.S. had the ability to bomb every place in Iraq, and ISIS had no air defense. So, how were they allowed to extract oil?

The best part is that people in ISIS thought they were fighting the U.S. by extracting oil and selling it illegally to Western corporations for money, which they later used to kill U.S. soldiers. Those people in ISIS believed the Americans were so stupid for giving them money to kill their soldiers, not realizing they were doing exactly what the U.S. wanted them to do. The U.S. was willing to lose soldiers in exchange for discounted oil—that was their goal from the beginning. Unknowingly, ISIS was only helping the U.S. If those people hadn’t fought the U.S., the U.S. corporations would have had to pay full market price for oil—and where’s the profit in that?

I figured this out, but what I didn’t know was that Israel was doing similar things with Iran. While Iran was sanctioned and could not sell oil legally, Israel created a pipeline to transfer and buy oil from Iran illegally at a discount. They could then sell it on the market and make a profit.

Making something illegal only makes it more profitable, and since they are capitalists, profit is the only thing that matters. To quote Michael Parenti again:

“There’s what the Empire is about. It’s about controlling people everywhere in the world, at home and abroad, giving them as little as possible so that the few at the top will get as rich as possible. The hungrier you are, the poorer you are, the harder you will work for less and less.

That’s what the world is all about, unfortunately. And for you to think that our leaders are stupid, for you to think that the people who own this world — the people who have built hundreds and hundreds of military bases, and are controlling and getting people to kill other people to advance and protect the interests of this top elite — if you think these people are stupid, you’re being a bit stupid.”

So, if you think the people who control the world didn’t predict what happened in Ukraine, you are a bit stupid. Just like people who think ISIS’s creation in Iraq was a failure of the West are also a little bit stupid. The same goes for the production of opium in Afghanistan. If someone thinks that was a failure of the U.S., they are a little bit stupid.

I’ve written many times before about Ukraine. I am Polish and when I was working for Amazon as a leader. Out of 60 employees working under me, 40 were from Ukraine. Since they didn’t speak Polish or English, we had to pick a few translators. Guess what? They had to speak Russian, not Ukrainian. Why? Because those Russian-speaking Ukrainians didn’t know the Ukrainian language, while the Ukrainian-speaking Ukrainians spoke Russian. That’s why our Western overlords are willing to destroy Ukraine.

Just like Putin didn’t want Western Ukraine, full of Nazis, our Western overlords didn’t want Eastern Ukraine, which was speaking Russian. I referenced the Condoleezza Rice video from 2006 before, where she said Europe needs to create new pipelines that don’t go through Russia and Ukraine. Why did she say “Russia and Ukraine” and not just Russia? Our Western overlords never considered Ukraine as our ally or part of our sphere of influence. That’s why they are so eager to destroy it.

When you understand that we never considered Ukraine as our ally or sphere of influence but as Russia’s, ask yourself why we wouldn’t be okay with destroying a state that is an ally and part of the sphere of influence of our enemy. People don’t understand that most of Ukraine used Russian internet, watched Russian television, and not Western. How do you imagine a state like that being assimilated to the West? It couldn’t be, and that’s why it had to be destroyed. We’ll take part, Russia will take part, and that’s all. Thousands of people are dying, but that doesn’t matter; it’s just good business. After all, they’re capitalists, so profit is the only thing that matters.

“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”

― Smedley Butler, War Is a Racket

“How numerous are the crowds that have heroically faced death for beliefs, ideas, and phrases that they scarcely understood!”(The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind – Gustave Le Bon)

“The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men’s minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.”(The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind – Gustave Le Bon)