It is really a sorry sight to see young, manipulated people in their twenties who rant in the EU Parliament about putting an end to economic growth. It is a sorry sight to see their gray-haired supervisors who have groomed those youngsters and are now parading them for the whole world to see and having them deliver pseudo-lectures, pseudo-appeals to give up on development. That the likes of Philippe Lamberts or Ursula von der Leyen have had enough and cannot keep pace with the vibrant advance of technology and sound ideas is understandable; that there are young people who want to jump from childhood straight to senility is really sad. Two generations back their peers dreamt of conquering outer space, today young men and women are dreaming of going back to a leisurely existence in the countryside. Why do the young men and women do it?

They are – to put it politely – not quite in their rights senses. They have for the most part graduated from social “sciences” or gender studies; if some of them have dealt with economics, then a special type of economics, like the one socialist countries practised and ended up as they did. These young men and women, groomed to be future Baerboks and von der Leyens, genuinely believe in all that has been fed to their minds. They believe in the end of the world that is looming large unless we – the whole mankind – stop developing. They also benefit from this pro de-growth activism: how many people can have the floor at the EU parliament, stay at a Brussels hotel and play big? How many people can attend such conferences repeatedly every year and travel the world round at who knows whose expense? How many people can feel that important? Narcissism in full blossom!

In the meantime the powers that be have a problem with money. The rising debt, the debt ceiling that is not crossed only because it is constantly raised, the emergence of crypto currencies and the engineering of central bank digital currency are all on the agenda. Let the young care about climate change, immigration, sexual deviance, cancel culture and white supremacy while we – the managers of the world – are busy designing a system of total control. Gefira 75 sensitizes us to these problems. Sadly, while socio- and psychopaths at the top echelons of the world’s elite are hell-bent on preserving their power and subjugating humanity, their red guards – or rather – their green guards are doing their danse macarbe and calling to us with the gladiators words: Morituri vos salutant! 

 

True, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki /ma-TEH-oosh maw-rahv-YETS-kee/ has studied history, but he is sort of oblivious to history’s lessons. What of the low quality of the educational services offered at the university where he was a student or of Mateusz Morawiecki’s lack of diligence, even the most recent events have been lost upon him. Why?

Well, he and the whole Polish establishment (of which some others have also studied history!) are, first, very much belligerent in their relations with Russia, and, second, they have put unlimited trust in the protective powers of the United States, NATO and the European Union. That is to say: Poland is flexing its muscles as if nothing bad whatsoever might happen to her. This is very strange both from the common sense point of view and – as mentioned above – from the lessons that history should have taught Poles (and apparently it hasn’t).

Consider the last one hundred years. Subsequent to World War One, central Europe saw the emergence of a number of more or less national states that sprung up on the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy, on the debris of the Russian Empire and slightly at the expense of the defeated German Empire. Central Europe was thus carved up between Poland, Czechoslovakia, (territorially reduced) Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. There also emerged the three Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The existence and independence of all those new political entities located roughly in between Germany and Soviet Russia was guaranteed by the Treaty of Versailles and the accompanying treaties, by the League of Nations and a couple of international agreements, especially between France and Czechoslovakia or France and Britain on the one side, and Poland on the other. (As an aside: the interbellum in Europe was full of treaties, pacts and alliances, all guaranteeing the signatories territorial integrity and political sovereignty.) How effective were these guarantees?

In 1938 Czechoslovakia was dismembered by the consent of the then European superpowers (the Sudetenland was annexed by Germany, Slovakia was torn away) and in 1939 the rump state of Czechia was incorporated into Germany; in 1939 Poland was attacked and devoured by Germany and the Soviet Union, despite the guarantees from Paris and London, which pledged solemnly to defend it. Before the war erupted, the Polish authorities would have posters placed in cities and towns that showed the might of Poland’s allies: both France and Great Britain were depicted against the background of the whole globe with all their colonial and dependent territories in Africa and Asia and America. The pictorial message left no doubt: not only the United Kingdom and France, but also almost all of Africa and almost all of southern Asia along with Australia, New Zealand and Canada that were formally parts of the British Empire presented an overwhelming power as compared to the speck of land occupied by Germany. In a word: a tiger and a mouse.

Soon it transpired that there was no force strong enough to stop the German steamroller, with France – a World War One victor from twenty years earlier – being crushed by the Teutons within the length of time comparable to that taken by Germany to conquer Poland. Did that teach the Polish elites a lesson? Not in any way!

During the Second World War the Polish government in exile operated first in France and then in the United Kingdom, again cherishing hopes that with the aid of the superpowers – this time Great Britain soon to be joined by the United States – Poland would regain its prewar territory and preserve its political system despite the advance of Soviet armies! Polish soldiers were sent to fight in Norway, in the skies over England, in North Africa, in Italy (Monte Casino), in France and the Netherlands. A large number of the Polish soldiers hailed from the eastern territories of prewar Poland that would soon be annexed to the Soviet Union, leaving them no place to return to. One might understand that common soldiers could not figure out how world politics operated, but how about higher officers, generals, the members of the government? Did they really believe that Great Britain and the United States were so powerful that Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s leader, would tuck his tail between his legs and withdraw his troops from prewar Poland, leaving its territory to the Polish government in exile? Did they really believe that the United Kingdom and the United States would declare war on Soviet Russia in case Joseph Stalin refused to comply with their demands regarding Poland? If they did, then they were not quite in their right senses. If they did not, then why did they enter into all those alliances? Why did they sacrifice the blood of Polish soldiers, why did they demand that the Polish soldiers be killed, injured, maimed somewhere in Africa or the Netherlands? If those soldiers could not go back to their homeland, and many did not, why fight and die in the first place? In the name of what?

Today’s Polish elites resemble their prewar predecessors. They face a formidable neighbour – this time Russia rather than Germany – and they recklessly provoke him, they recklessly poke the bear in his backyard. Why? Because they feel safe because, first, Poland is allied with the United States, second, Poland is a member of NATO, and third, Poland is a member of the European Union. Today’s Polish elites might as well have posters placed in towns and cities – resembling those from prewar Poland – showing the powerfulness of the Western world. People in their vast majority would fall for the trick just as they believe in all the talk about the righteousness of our side and the wickedness of the Russians.

The question arises: why are the Polish elites operating the way they are? Do they not know recent history? Most of them certainly do not, but some of them – as mentioned in the opening of this text – have studied it, so it would be impolite to suggest that they don’t. If they are aware of the past, then why are they taking the risk of having Poland overrun by the formidable neighbour? Why do they believe that the collective West will stand up for Poland when push comes to shove? Even those who do not know history (the majority of the ruling class) can still hark back to events within their living memory: the withdrawal of Americans from Afghanistan, the incapability of Americans to effectively oppose Russians in Syria and MOST IMPORTANTLY the current, unfolding fate of Ukraine! For years Kiev has been offered guarantees of support, security, aid – you name it – and look what has happened to the country! Ukraine’s 1991 population of 50 million has dwindled to at least 25 million, its economy is in shatters, its population keeps living in duress caused by the hostilities and the country lost huge chunks of territory. If the missiles with depleted uranium are eventually applied there, Ukraine will have had vast swaths of territory contaminated by radiation. Can’t the authorities in Warsaw – and in Prague, Bratislava, Vilnius, Riga, and Tallinn – see this destruction, this annihilation, this obliteration that are visited upon Ukraine DESPITE the West’s help? Do they really think that Ukraine will win this war? Do they really think Americans or the French or the British will send their soldiers to stand up for Ukraine or Estonia, or Latvia, or Lithuania, or Poland if the formidable enemy advances West? Are they not aware of the fact that Americans only get militarily involved when they oppose a very weak and politically isolated enemy – Iraq, Yugoslavia – when victory is served them on a silver platter?

Why do they pursue a policy of confrontation with the formidable neighbour? Do they not care what will happen as a result? Is it so hard to imagine the outcome of a possible confrontation? Perhaps they already have their families far away in a western country and so they don’t care…?

It is not the first time that the Polish elites act as though they were in the pay of Poland’s enemies i.e. as though they were acting to the detriment of their own nation. The same goes for Ukrainian elites and the elites of the Baltic States (all these elites without an exception tormented by a deep-seated inferiority complex towards the West and everything western to the effect that they are willing to forfeit the interests of their nations for… a stay in Paris or a trip to Venice or a Western grant or award). They can easily visualize the fate of their countries if Russia invades: they will be provided with weapons by the West while Russia will suffer a hundredth wave of sanctions and they will have their countries turned into a battleground. If the elites have no power of imagination, then let them look at Ukraine, for goodness’ sake!

What has Ukraine gained from relying heavily on the West? Was it all worth the price that the country and the nation is paying now? Could Ukrainian elites really not foresee what had been looming large at least since 2014? How irresponsible must one be to act like that? To think of it: they all – in Poland, Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States – shoot their mouths off about how they want to make the world a better place to live, a place where each individual can develop his potential to the full. What world have they created for the tens of millions of Ukrainians? They should all – the managers of the United States and the European Union – have a very troubled conscience i.e. if they had a conscience in the first place. Chances are they have none, for if they had, they would long have worn sackcloth and sprinkled ashes over their heads. As it is, they rescue INDIVIDUAL Afghans or Somalis and do not give two hoots about the lives of MILLIONS of Ukrainians which they have purposefully ruined only to spite their nemesis: Putin’s Russia.

The negotiations were not easy. Hungary, that defiant child of Europe, refused from the start. Poland argued that it took in so many Ukrainians that it met all the migration quotas for many years to come. No, said the hypocritical Scholz and von der Leyen, who shapes Europe’s demographic landscape. You must take in at least 30,000 migrants a year! And behold: They gave in… Those quasi-right-wing Eastern Europeans like Orban and Morawiecki. What they were frightened by by the powerful EU technocrats, we will certainly not know.

This shows that Brussels and Berlin are not about, say, helping Ukrainians and seeing them as migrants on an equal footing with Africans and Arabs. Evidence of this was provided by the beginning of the war, when Poland took in most of the “refugees” from the East and provided the most military support to its Eastern neighbor, while Scholz sent only the familiar helmets, which was like: Are you hungry? Ok, then I’ll send you some bowls and plates, you have to get food by yourselves.

Now the EU under Swedish leadership continues to show its true face. It is still about ethnic exchange and bringing the uneducated masses of people from the remotest places in the world. That the very commissioner from Sweden stands for the pact and advancement of the exchange is striking. A woman from a once quiet and idyllic country, where crime was zero and whose cities have since turned into a paradise for Arab and African gangs, pleads for the planned abolition of her own nation.

The facts are these:

① By the end of May, 72,585 migrants had arrived in Europe, most of them via sea. Since the drive is organized by criminal gangs from Italy, Spain, Libya, and Morocco that despise human life, 1,246 people died or were classified as missing in the process (Nachrichten, Al Jazeera English, 2023-06-08, 23.00 Uhr). These gangs are particularly looking forward to the pact. The pact will surely encourage more droves to make their way to Europe.

② Among these migrants, most people came from Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Syria, Pakistan, Bangladesh. No wars are currently being waged in these countries, so these people should not be called refugees and given free money, shelter and food, unless: they are superhumans and Europe belongs to them a priori.

③ 70% of the asylum seekers in Austria can neither write nor read. They will enrich Austria and lead it to the bright future.

④ The number of terrorist attacks after 2015 (after Mutti opened the gates) increased dramatically in Western Europe. In total, there were 133 attacks with 385 deaths. Do you remember the attacks in those years in Poland, Czechia or Hungary?

⑤ The EU opened its borders, but at the same time paid billions to countries like Turkey, Mali or Niger to stop this flow of migrants. Where is the logic? Or is it about transfers from the pocket of Western taxpayers directly to the pocket of dictators in the mentioned countries?

⑥ How would the German sociologists interpret the fact that in 2022 there were 25,111 car thefts in Germany (84 million people), while in Poland (about 38 million people) there were only 6,157. how would they explain that the number of bicycle thefts in Germany has increased dramatically recently? And so on and immediately. The percentage of citizens with the migration background in the country of Goethe is 28.7% and the percentage of these citizens in crimes is 37.4%. Even Statista cannot embellish reality, but if you live in Germany, then you know that there are big lies, even bigger lies and statistics.

The proxy war between NATO and Russia has been dragging on for almost a year and a half. The odds are that Ukraine cannot win: even if you believe in what the mainstream media tell you that Kiev’s armies will soon re-conquer Crimea and then storm the turrets and towers of the Kremlin, a look at the map, a cursory scan of the statistical data comparing the economies of the two belligerents and their human resources ought to make everyone sober up. You may feel strongly about Ukraine and still see reality; twenty or so years ago there were people – though it is difficult to imagine – who felt strongly about Serbia when this small country was being bombed into stone age by the Americans and still reasonably they could not cherish any hope that tiny Serbia would be capable of defying and successfully opposing the gargantuan, trigger-happy aggressor.

If reality is what it is, if facts are what they are (and as we know that facts obstinately refuse to conform to our wishes), why then prolong the hostilities? It is highly unlikely that NATO will let itself be drawn into the conflict as that would mean World War Three and MAD i.e. mutually assured destruction. Why then feed Ukraine with a scanty number of tanks or armoured vehicles or – as is being planned – aircraft? Why funnelling money into the Kiev regime to the detriment of the many needs that Western countries have? Why all this madness, all this insanity, all this war-mongering?

I can very well understand why Western politicians have an insatiable thirst for blood:

First: They revel in playing the big game around the globe, creating and destroying nations, flying from place to place and having talks while participating in palatable, luscious and delectable dinners and defecating comfortably in luxurious hotel bathrooms.

Second: They are beside themselves with raging fury because President Putin reversed the course pursued by President Yeltsin: President Putin effectively put a stop to the plunder of Russian resources and finances. They are shaking with raging fury because they have “invested” so much in Ukraine and expected huge returns, and all of a sudden someone threw a monkey wrench into their plans of subjugating and exploiting Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Third: They are raving mad because all those sanctions – wave after wave after another wave – have not only had no effect but seem to have strengthened Russia economically, socially and politically (the imminent expansion of BRICS, Sino-Russian bond, high popularity ratings for President Putin). Worse, the sanctions became a backlash for the European economy.

Fourth: They are livid with anger because they have severed all diplomatic channels and now do not know how to come to a settlement – or better out: how to backpedal – without losing face. To do so, they would have to sit down at the negotiation table with the “killer, murderer, despot, tyrant” and all the other names that they have applied in reference to Putin, being so self-assured that they could use them with impunity because they were oh so certain that this killer, murderer, despot and tyrant would not survive politically once they had launched their sanctions and would be toppled down either by a popular uprising or the Russian elites.

To sum up: I can perfectly understand why the Western politicians are reluctant to even consider a peaceful settlement. After all, they are safe, well-fed, travelling the world over and enjoying life to the fullest. They do not have their sons in the trenches, either, and no missiles or blackouts or power cuts disturb the peace of their daily routine. Also, their voters are not thrown into the meat grinder that the Ukrainian conscripts are, which means they do not fear a backlash from their own people.

But what about all those activists that usually shoot their mouths off about human rights, peace, ecology/climate change, and animal rights?

Hey, I’m calling on you, champions of human rights: tens of thousands of Ukrainians are dying senselessly and have been dying senselessly for several months now; millions of Ukrainians are suffering from fear, shortages in supplies, and have been suffering for several months in the war that cannot be won by Ukraine. Millions have left the country and continue to do so. Why are you, champions of human rights, not protesting? Why aren’t you taking to the streets? Why aren’t you screaming at the top of your lungs that the war must be stopped?

Hey, I’m calling on you, peace movement activists! Why are you silent? Follow in the footsteps of your predecessors who so eagerly protested the war in Vietnam! Where are you? War is being waged next door to you and you are afraid of making yourselves heard? You are afraid of making yourselves visible? Why? People are dying on a daily basis and you do not care?

Hey, I’m calling on you, activists of the green movement, climate change activists, environmentalists! Tens of thousands of exploding shells and missiles release tens of thousands of tons of chemicals that pollute the air and the ground and contaminate the water. Where are you, uh? You are otherwise so sensitive about the carbon print of a single man or woman or child being left with a single breath, and now, in the face of such a colossal, catastrophic, gigantic contamination of the environment you remain silent? No Fridays for future this time? Why, for heaven’s sake?

Hey, you activists of all and very stripe, hey you, allegedly so independent of the managers of the world, of the wicked capitalists and evil politicians, can it be true that someone has told you, Don’t you dare! and you tucked your tail between your legs?

Look, you are allowed to cut school on Fridays because the carbon print threatens to do away with all life on the planet earth but you cannot stage a weekend protest over the tens of thousands of tons of chemical compounds and shells mangling and mauling and lacerating the Mother Earth? Shame on you! 

If you think that self-hating whites who are on a crusade to combat white supremacy are a new occurrence, then you do not know history well enough. A self-hating white despising white civilization is a psychological phenomenon, a psychological disturbance, a psychological ailment or even disease. As such, it must have existed and indeed has existed since the dawn of humanity in various latitudes and periods. Just as we know of no nation or corner of the earth without slavery, neither do we know of a time or region without self-haters.

19th century Poland was a nation divided by three neighboring countries, three European superpowers of that time: one part of Poland was incorporated into Prussia, one part was incorporated into Austria and yet another – into Russia. The easternmost parts of the former Polish state – those annexed by Russia – had a particular social structure: the gentry were of Polish nationality and professed Catholic Christianity, while the peasantry were – to use today’s language – Ukrainian and professed Orthodox Christianity. Since these territories were under Russian rule, the Russian authorities began to work on the minds of the Polish youth, on the minds of the prospective Polish landowners. In schools, in universities, in historical publications the Polish gentry was depicted as cruel exploiters of the poor and noble common Ukrainian people. The exploitation was not limited to economy: the Polish gentry was also accused of suppressing Ukrainian culture (cultural colonization). Young, impressionable sons of the Polish nobility that studied at the Russian universities in Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow or Saint Petersburg would imbibe these ideas and would be slowly converted to the Russian or Ukrainian point of view, with the effect that they assumed a hostile approach to their own fathers and their own interests. To them, to those young people who romanticized and rhapsodized everything Ukrainian, who lionized the cossacks, who were enamoured of the Orthodox Christian tradition, Ukrainians became brothers while their own compatriots began to be perceived as villains.

Their world view was a simple black-and-white picture: on the one hand Polish exploiters and oppressors, on the other – noble and virtuous Ukrainians. These young Polish students would always find fault with their fathers and condemn them. This eventually led some of those students to national and religious apostasy: they would claim to be Ukrainian and consequently would convert to Orthodox Christianity. The seeds of self-hatred would come to fruition.

What did those young Polish sons of the Polish gentry demand?

One. The Polish gentry must resign from their privilege of… being Polish and Catholic. Does that not make one think of today’s white privilege?

Two. The Polish gentry must stop Polonizing Ukrainians through village schools and churches. Does that not make one think of today’s cultural colonialism that whites supposedly pursue in their dealings with the people of color?

Three. The Polish gentry had best leave the Ukrainian territories and move to central Poland or… the Polish gentry had better stop being Polish. Does that not make one think of today’s demands that whites ought to pack up and leave or subject themselves to the demands of the people of colour?

Those young students – as students everywhere – would form clubs and these very often united and consolidated students of one ethnicity. It turned out that in Kiev’s university some Polish students formed a Ukrainian Club whose members were made up of… Poles alone. Why?

Because Ukrainian students and the Ukrainian intellectuals or Ukrainian upper classes preferred to speak Russian and regarded themselves as Russians. They looked down upon the Ukrainian people. Notice that today, too, black upper classes do not mingle with black lower classes but rather tend to associate themselves with whites; notice also that today all those anti-racist white activists make up a mutual admiration society where you will have a hard time trying to find a person of colour.

What forms the minds of self-hating whites or self-hating Poles or self-hating anybody?

First, persistent propaganda. When the mass media, the entertainment and the education are bent on impressing certain messages on people’s minds – systemic racism, climate change, planned parenthood, gender reassignment and, and, and, – then with time they necessarily notch up a success.

Second, the one-sidedness of views, opinions or information that is fed to the recipients. This is by far the gravest intellectual sin of them all. People exposed to one type of information, one world view, one set of facts, develop a distorted perception of reality. Today just as yesterday this triad of the media, entertainment and education shoot their mouths off about white privilege, white supremacy, systemic racism, and the whole string of such notions while other argumentation is either suppressed or ridiculed. Consequently, one-sided views are formed and those views become firmly set.

Third, apotheosis of one race, ethnicity or social class that is performed against the background of the vilification of the other race, ethnicity or social class. Thus, for example, peoples who were at first perceived as culturally backward and hence were called savages, receive the adjective noble and become noble savages (Rousseau); cultures that were patently and demonstrably lower than that of the Europeans become viewed as simply different. Young activists romanticize and rhapsodize about the other race, ethnicity or social class drawing their knowledge from novels, movies and selected pseudo-scientific books in which reality is skewed and re-interpreted (Boasian anthropology, Freudian psychoanalysis, Marxist economics, etc). The result? Self-hating Poles, self-hating whites, self-hating capitalists, and self-hating men (men who fell into the trap of feminist fairy tales of male exploitation and male privilege).

All those activists mull over the many ideas of a better (raceless, classless, sexless) world without giving as much as a passing thought about who and why feeds them these ideas. Those activists are like children watching a play: their attention is easily controlled by the spotlight. They see what they are supposed to see and never wonder what is in the shadows, and never question why the spotlight calls their attention here rather than there; it never occurs to them that there is someone in charge of this spotlight who has full mastery over their eyesight and through it over their minds.

In the case of 19th century Poland it was the Russian authorities that controlled the spotlight and thus the minds of the sons of the Polish gentry. The Russian authorities were the enemy of the Polish nation. Though they were known as such, still they were successful in duping some of the young Poles. Who controls the spotlight in the West? Certainly not Russians, but certainly an enemy of the Western world who is all the more efficient and successful in his doings because he remains in the dark.

19th century self-hating Pole, born as Włodzimierz Antonowicz, died as Володимир Антонович. Early in his adult life he renounced his “Polish and aristocratic privilege” and Catholicism, became a Ukrainian and Orthodox Christian, and married two Ukrainian women so as to raise Ukrainian offspring (expiatory ethnic miscegenation). Ukrainian though he desperately wanted to be, he spoke and wrote either in Polish or Russian; somehow, he could not master the language of those he gave the knee to.

People spend the night in front of ATMs with the hope that money will be brought there and they will finally be able to withdraw it after standing in line for many hours. Sometimes the fights break out, even among those waiting in front of the banks. Tensions reach their peak. Branches are set on fire and people all over the country take to the streets….

Scenes from Cyprus 2013? No. Nigeria, Laos, April this year. Old banknotes were invalidated in February and since then no new ones have been printed, only the old ones collected from the market by the central bank and destroyed. At the same time, they introduced central bank digital currency (CBDC), which was not accepted by the people at all. Over 200 million people were deprived of their money overnight. Almost no one wanted to pay or transact with the new e-currency (called eNaira). Thousands of businesses went bankrupt in a short period of time. A paradoxical situation arose in which gasoline could no longer be bought at gas stations in the country, which is one of the largest oil producers in the world.

Nigeria, with its 22o million people, has long since overtaken South Africa and is the largest economy on the Dark Continent. It is a country with huge raw material resources and a development potential that African mentality and corruption, which is present everywhere, wreck. It can be said that it is a rich country of poor people because almost all the capital is in the hands of politicians. One of them, the head of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefile, said in Davos that his country would soon be cashless and – lo and behold – that might end with blood in the streets. It is hard to believe that in a country where 32% of the people are illiterate, where most people do not have access to electricity, the idea of digital currency comes from below; that the shamans had whispered it in the ears of ordinary people. No, it comes from above and from outside. Third World countries have always been a training ground for Western elites, the grassroots movement of the new authoritarian world without cash. This time they are testing how far and how fast they are able to implement their ideas.

Finally, it should be remembered that the complete transition to cash, would make citizens transparent. Central banks could regulate digital money, depending on how they would like a citizen. It could also be that the validity of the money would be limited in time and could only be spent for certain purposes. Electronically, that’s easy to organize. How embarrassing that would be for the Germans, 58% of whom pay in cash! Nigeria has also been called the “cash king” in Africa.

The virtual world threatens the physical world. More on this in Gefira 73.