Finian Cunningham – ICH June 6, 2019
In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war and the Party’s slogan is “War is Peace”. Donald Trump and his team of warmongers are obviously keen students of Orwell.
Presented by Lasha Darkmoon
with commentary and a short video added
At the 75th anniversary this week of the Allied assault on Nazi-occupied France, US President Donald Trump and other NATO leaders issued a “D-Day Proclamation.” In it, they pledged never “to repeat the horror of World War Two.” The US and 15 other nations, including Britain, France, and Canada, also declared their commitment to “resolve international tensions peacefully.” If the so-called D-Day proclamation sounds like a load of PR twaddle, that’s because it is.
“I want peace on earth!”
Evidently, it was hurriedly put together for some feel-good effect as Trump and others commemorated Operation Overlord to the strains an army brass band and Vera Lynn’s wartime paean ‘We’ll Meet Again’. The noble sacrifices of soldiers and civilians in the defeat of Nazi fascism would have to be given some token of decorum in the form of a peaceful proclamation, so it seems.
However, the proclamation by Trump and his gang of NATO warmongers has to be seen as nothing but cynical lip-service.
While commemorating a past naval offensive “for peace,” the US has at the very same time deployed warships and nuclear-capable B-52 bombers in the Persian Gulf in a blatant show of aggression towards Iran. Washington is flagrantly using military force to subjugate Tehran to its geopolitical demands. So much for “resolving international tensions peacefully.”
Trump this week told media that he did not want the stand-off with Iran to become an all-out military conflict. Yet he continues to threaten that the US is ready to deploy the military option against Iran. Last month, he cryptically warned about the “official end of Iran” while also offering “talks” with Tehran. Trump’s occasional words of peace are therefore meaningless.
Washington’s apparent problem with Iran is based on claims that the latter is “supporting regional terrorism” and has “ambitions to build nuclear weapons.” That amounts to paranoid hearsay, sourced from the Israelis and Saudis. It is hardly the grounds for justified military force. In reality, the US is simply using aggression – which is a war crime – in order to exert its political will on Iran.
LD: Meanwhile, Trump is himself quite happy to use nuclear weapons, asking naively: “What’s the point of having nukes unless we use them?” [LD]
Another contemporary case that flies in the face of the D-Day Proclamation is the Trump administration’s threat to use military force against Venezuela.
That threat is wielded because Washington doesn’t want the elected socialist president Nicolas Maduro in power, and instead wants to replace him with their preferred pro-Washington opposition figure who has never been elected by the people. This is not even a case of “resolving tensions peacefully”. It is a straight leap to militarism by the Trump administration towards a sovereign country whose internal affairs should be none of Washington’s business.
If Britain, France, Germany, Canada and other members of the NATO military alliance were genuinely committed to this week’s D-Day Proclamation they would be forthrightly telling the US to halt its aggression towards Iran and Venezuela. But none of them have. The Europeans may have expressed concern about US tensions with Iran, owing to their selfish instincts for their own safety, but they have not been nearly as robust enough in censuring Washington to cease its criminal use of aggression. Their mealy-mouthed attitude is in effect a cowardly form of passive aggression.
No surprise there, however. Every illegal war and covert operation launched by the US has been supported by the NATO alliance ever since its formation in 1949. When did the bloc ever oppose any American military intervention, no matter how egregiously unlawful and destructive? It automatically issues a blank cheque of seeming “multilateralism” to cover for US war crimes, the most recent of which include the wars in former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia and covertly in Syria, where the NATO powers covertly sponsored jihadist terror proxies in a bid for regime change against President Assad.
Some of the NATO minions go off on their own national adventures. France’s President Emmanuel Macron, who likes to pontificate about “saving the planet”, has currently ordered French troops to “fight terrorism” in Mali, Niger, Cameroon and other former colonies in Africa.
Maybe if France stopped looting those countries with its control over their national finances through the colonial-era African Franc system whereby those countries are mandated to deposit their gold reserves in Paris, then many internal African “tensions could be resolved peacefully.” As is it, the military option is the preferred one because it flatters the French national ego on the world stage and makes huge profits for France’s weapons industry.
What NATO member has ever stood up and questioned the Washington-led policy of aggression towards Russia and China? All 29 members of this militarist club indulge the US ringmaster and its gung-ho strategy of encircling Russia and China with missile systems, encroaching bases, warships, and warplanes.
Just last month in an address to West Point graduates, Vice President Mike Pence “promised” that US soldiers would one day be on a battlefield “for America”. He said it was a “certainty.” Ominously, Pence mentioned China as a potential target because it has the audacity to “rival American power.” Again, so much for commitment to resolve tensions peacefully.
Here is the stupendous irony. NATO was formed in the ashes of World War Two, not because the US and Britain defeated Nazi Germany. It was the Soviet Union that largely destroyed the Nazi war machine. The overdue D-Day landings in June 1944 were finally ordered by American and British rulers because they feared the Soviets would conquer all of Germany singlehandedly. The Red Army at that stage in the war was rolling up the Third Reich, eventually taking Hitler’s Berlin in May 1945.
Before the outbreak of the war, American and British capitalism had fostered the rise of Nazi Germany during the 1930s as a bulwark against the Soviet Union and the spread of socialism among their own working classes. Nazi Germany would not have become the fearsome force were it not for massive foreign investment from Wall Street and American corporations like Ford, General Motors, Du Pont, ITT and others, as documented by historian Jacques Pauwels. When the Nazi regime went rogue, Western powers were obliged to liquidate it, as they usually do, as seen with other client regimes down through history. Iraq’s Saddam Hussein being a choice case.
The D-Day event is therefore not at all what it seems. There is no disputing the courage and conviction of ordinary American and British soldiers who went to war against fascism. But that principled motivation did not apply to their ruling classes. A concomitant of the ambiguity and contradictions is demonstrated in the way that NATO was promptly set up after the war, and for the primary purpose of confronting the West’s supposed wartime ally, the Soviet Union.
Another concomitant is the way the US and NATO powers have in the decades after the war continued to use militarism and aggression as a matter of policy to achieve their geopolitical interests. The US and other Western powers never really had a problem with Nazi Germany based on political, legal or moral principle. The latter’s termination came to be a matter of pragmatic urgency in order to safeguard Western geopolitical interests of stability and spheres of influence. The root problem for Western capitalist powers was always Russia as a power perceived to be in defiance of their objectives.
That’s why the D-Day Proclamation of peaceful intent issued by the US and its gang of NATO warmongers is a travesty. It’s the exact opposite of their policy and practice of aggression.
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LD: You can judge the calibre of this President by the team of Zionist warmongers he has around him at all times. Would he appoint such warmongers to high office if he was a “man of peace”?
The smiling figure on the right, Gina Haspel, not only happens to be an ardent advocate of torture techniques, including waterboarding, but has also been implicated in the destruction of 92 interrogation videotapes showing the torture of detainees in the black site she ran in Thailand on behalf of the “peace-loving” American government.
All these malefactors posing as model citizens have one thing in common: they are blindly besotted servitors of Israel. Dr Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, was spot-on right when he said in a speech to the Tenth Islamic Summit Conference on October 16, 2003: “Today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.”
(Incidentally, no point clicking on the above link. Google has censored it, sending it straight down the memory hole! You will find the famous original quote on The Occidental Observer, here. From now on, you will be disappointed to learn, all articles and videos casting doubts on the Holocaust, or suggesting that Jews control the media or are interested in world domination, are to be rigidly censored by Google and YouTube on the “advice” of Jonathan Greenblatt, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League. Henceforth, all such articles and videos are to be regarded as “hateful conspiracy theories“.)
Judge for yourself how much Donald Trump is loved by Israeli Jews, the people for whom he is willing to sacrifice countless American lives in the future:
SUPER TRUMP,
ISRAEL’S WARMONGER HERO
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Vera Lynn the forces sweet heart was no such thing.
She was a jewess who sung our menfolk into war for rothschild.
There is nothing on wikipedia etc about who or what she was.
Bluebirds over the white cliffs of dover, written by walter kent, a jew who never came to the UK, or he would have known we dont get bluebirds.
The entertainment industry interviewed several jewesss we are told but vera, seemed the best choice, to sing our men to their deaths, fighting their anglo saxon brothers in Germany
She was evil through and through
old saying: the closer the war the louder the louder they talk about peace
and then: the first victim of war is the truth, always
John Kaminski at his best
https://johnkaminski.org/index.php/john-kaminski-american-writer-and-critic-2/212-evil-empire