We are controlled by the City of London. They determine our economic policy. The City is controlled by the hugely wealthy who use the City to launder their wealth; and use the City in its role as Web Master of the thread of offshore tax havens, relics of our Empire, that litter the Globe. Using this network, the world’s richest escape burdensome trivialities like paying taxes to the country in which they technically reside. This same network controls foreign policies: by ploughing some of their untaxed wealth into politics, they control political parties by subsidising them. Without their wealth, no political campaigns. Russia, smarting from a typically American ruse to convert the Ukraine to becoming one of its own - throwing money and strategists at the country to persuade its people to adopt its values - invades the Crimea, part of Ukraine and also central, for centuries, to Russia’s defence needs. Russia technically, therefore, breaks the cardinal values of national sovereignty. It’s out of order. In a previous age, it would be the equivalent of the 1939 invasion of Poland. There’s even a piece of paper somewhere, the equivalent of Chamberlain’s famous ‘peace in our time’ note, that guarantees Ukrainian sovereignty. The US would, instinctively, be bold. But they can’t be: their people will not wear any more stupid wars. They were fooled over Iraq, know too well that Afghanistan is a disaster and, in any case, there’s a general recognition that the country is a bit broke. They have cried wolf once too often; and will only do anything if it’s an international response. Europe, though, won’t do anything. Well, yes, we can cancel a few visas and tell the Russians they’re nasty; but Germany is stymied because of its gas needs, France because of its arms exports and the UK because of the awkward fact that Russian billionaires own half of London and even the odd football team. And the City of London, making billions from these nice Russians who would be even nicer if they didn’t go around the place poisoning each other with darts; and the London Estate Agents and Property Owners, making billions selling empty apartment blocks to Russians who understand only too well that the city’s property is the best reserve currency in the world; and the chic restaurants, boutiques and hotels that service these very wealthy murderers and criminals.....well, the last thing any of these want is to stop the party. Putin can do whatever he wants. I wonder if he’s thought of invading Poland and Romania? Someone ought to tell him that this would be a neat vote winner over here. But I would imagine he knows that already. He’s probably already got his Night Wolves to open a chapter of their dastardly organisation in Warsaw.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:48:33 +0000