{"id":36880,"date":"2018-08-21T08:54:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36880"},"modified":"2018-08-21T08:54:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:54:51","slug":"the-metaphysics-to-our-present-global-anguish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36880","title":{"rendered":"The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/08\/20\/or-41263.jpg\" alt=\"The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/08\/20\/metaphysics-to-our-present-global-anguish.html\">The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>James Jatras, a former US diplomat\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/08\/11\/lenin-updated-turn-globalist-war-into-race-war.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poses<\/a>\u00a0a highly pertinent question in his piece\u00a0Lenin Updated: Firstly, he says, President Trump meets with President Putin and appears to make some progress in easing bilateral tensions. \u201cImmediately all hell breaks loose: Trump is called a traitor. The \u2018sanctions bill from hell\u2019 is introduced in the Senate, and Trump is forced onto the defensive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Next, Senator Rand Paul goes to meet with Putin in Moscow, Jatras notes. Paul hands over a letter from the US President proposing moderate steps towards d\u00e9tente. Rand Paul then meets with, and invites Russian Senators to Washington, to continue the dialogue: \u201cImmediately all hell breaks loose. Paul is called a traitor. The state Department \u2018finds\u2019 the Russians guilty of using illegal chemical weapons (in UK) \u2026 and imposes sanctions. Trump is forced even more on the defensive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, from the very outset, Trump has been \u201cperceived by the globalist neo-liberal order as a mortal danger to the system which has enriched them\u201d Jatras observes. The big question that Jatras poses in the wake of these events, is how could such collective hysteria have blossomed in to such visceral hostility, that parts of the \u2018Anglo\u2019 establishment are ready to intensify hostilities toward Russia \u2013 even to the point of risking \u201ca catastrophic, uncontainable [nuclear] conflict\u201d. How is it that the \u00e9lite\u2019s passion \u2018to save globalism\u2019 is so completely overwhelming that it demands their risking human extinction? Jatras suggests that we are dealing here with hugely powerful psychic impulses.<\/p>\n<p>Jatras\u00a0answers\u00a0by evoking the zeitgeist of Lenin, when, in 1915, he made his infamous turn towards civil war inside Russia. That is,\u00a0a war versus\u00a0\u2018Russia&#8217; &#8211; in and of itself\u00a0\u2013\u00a0its history, its culture, its religion, and its intellectual and political legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish James Jatras, a former US diplomat\u00a0poses\u00a0a highly pertinent question in his piece\u00a0Lenin Updated: Firstly, he says, President Trump meets with President Putin and appears to make some progress in easing bilateral tensions. \u201cImmediately all hell breaks loose: Trump is called a traitor. The \u2018sanctions bill from hell\u2019 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[14457,7844,21338,2305,8203,857],"class_list":["post-36880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-alastair-crooke","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-jatras","tag-rand-paul","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36881,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36880\/revisions\/36881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}