Quick Take – The world is burning…but are the flames real?
Kit Knightly
I’ve had a cold, and as a cold Traditionalist, that means I’ve been sitting on the couch in my dressing gown, sipping herbal tea with honey in it. (The Zealots from The Church of New Colds would have me masking up and gaffer taping plastic sheets over my doors and windows, but they are odd people).
Naturally, it stands to reason that the first time I’ve been ill in years happens to be the same week the world decides to set itself on fire.
Or at least pretend to, but we’ll get to that.
Maduro has been kidnapped. Iran teeters on the edge of an old-fashioned colour revolution with a new Shah waiting in the wings, there’s talk of British troops on the ground in Ukraine and a US invasion of Greenland.
The New Year has dawned on a world bursting into chaos.
But is it genuine chaos? Or contrived chaos?
Regular readers know I would tend towards the latter. Fundamentally, I cannot reconcile the two worlds with which we are presented.
On the one hand, we have a set of nation-states wholly in concert on almost all the broader issues. They all work together to promote pandemics and climate catastrophes; they synchronise in passing near-identical legislation to tackle the same non-existent or heavily exaggerated problems.
They all have central banks “printing” fake money, they all have so-called “free-market” capitalism (in reality, a construct of state-protected monopolies that siphon public money into the private sector).
They all agree to pretend that Covid is a thing and the vaccines are safe and the climate is changing and the internet will be nothing but snuff films and child pornography if they don’t put a digital surveillance chip in everyone’s brain as soon as possible
Central bank digital currency, digital identity, genetically modified food…All of this is resolved supranational policy.
They tell the same lies to serve the same ends. They are all the same.
And yet, on the other hand, we’re told they cannot work out a single territorial or political conflict or disagreement in anything but the most crude, base or violent ways.
Nowhere is the clash of apparent cooperation vs reported conflict more apparent than nuclear war – or rather the lack thereof. India and Pakistan went to war (briefly). Both reportedly have nukes, neither used them. The US is seizing Russian tankers in the Caribbean and the UK is considering putting British troops on the ground in Ukraine.
Is anyone talking about Nuclear war? What happened to Mutually Assured Destruction? When did that stop being a consideration?
The only explanation I can think of is that there is an agreement – either tacit or explicit – that these conflicts will be allowed to go so far and no further.
And that makes them fake. Unquestionably, irrefutably, fake.
If you can agree not to have a nuclear war, you can agree not to have a war at all. Any war you end up having, logically speaking, is a war both sides want to happen.
I come back to this quote from Orwell a lot, because I’m not sure it’s possible to better express the thought:
The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word ‘war’, therefore, has become misleading.
George Orwell, 1984
I have a feeling there is a grander pattern embedded in this chaos that will emerge before the end of the year, something along postnational lines, arguing that statehood generates conflicts that globalism would solve.
I’m still coughing and spluttering between sentences, so I’m being quick. We’ll go into this in more detail when my brain is less crowded.
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Once again I’m reminded of Major General Smedley Butler’s pamphlet: War is a Racket https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf. And The Saint Valentine s Day Massacre when rival Chicago Gangs were squabbling over bootlegging whiskey. To understand what’s going on today, as ever, it might help to think racketeers.
For us to agree that nations are the problem, something beyond threats need to hapen I think… a real shock… they seem to be peparing us for that… little depop as a side effect… ?
Exactly, Mr. Knightly. The controlled media is always awash in the rivalries and animosities of various countries against each other, especially the West vs Russia/China.
Extremely knowledgeable men like Paul Craig Roberts and William Engdahl and Michael Hudson and so many others never, ever doubt this “truth.” But what if it’s all theatre and the leaders of these & other countries are united at the top?
No one ever discusses this possibility and so the (admittedly sketchy) evidence in support of it is never considered. You are unlikely to uncover what you are not looking for.
To me it’s like a big time pro boxing match: phony antagonists who win either way managed by higher forces who also win either may. The losers are the children, the slaughtered and the Earth. Sooner or later it will be the downfall of the imperial few, too, because they are ultimately destroying themselves, committing suicide. Nature will prevail.
Aggressive egoistic predator Homo sapiens is not capable of such an agreement with others Homos. The answer lays with another species, the extra- terrestrials. Faster evolved species developed long before the ape men and moved on – extra, but still care about the old Earth – Terre in French. They are seen around any risky nuclear stuff, be it nuke missile sites or failing nuke power plants, like Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine The world leaders know this since decades but keep it away from their general populations: too disruptive for their own power positions.
Only after we revolve in a more benign being will their effort not be needed anymore. The masses and most leaders won’t be capable of fast change so they will stay around like we still have monkeys or wild sheep in Nature. Individual internal consciousness will lead this change in outer form, not the other way around, so robocops etc.
Thus present materialistic science will continue to have no clue and stay a Johnny come lately.
“Maduro has been kidnapped”
maybe! or maybe he gave himself up to avoid assassination? or maybe he was a pawn sacrifice by the Venezuelan deep state that will now carry on in a re-branded form? or maybe he was traded by Xi and Putin for a player to be named later at some secret Yalta 2.0 where the superpowers redivvied up the global cake among themselves? the possibilities are endless
“the US is seizing Russian tankers”
here I think the reality is clearly not quite that, because this ship, alternately referred to as the Bella and the Marinera, if I’m not mistaken, is actually Venezuelan, but the crew ran Moscow’s colors up the flagpole as a disguise, much as many merchant vessels use whatever national identification signals seem expedient on the high seas whenever it suits them
“Iran teeters on the edge of an old-fashioned color revolution”
one piece I read suggests that in fact most of the Iranian protesters believe, not that their country is in need of some Western-style makeover, but rather that their current president is decidedly too pro-Western and that they’d be better off instead with someone more like Ahmadinejad who seemed to truly care about the economic well-being of the poorer strata there, and as for the “teetering” part, well that can go on for quite a long while, just ask Vucic whose regime has supposedly been on the verge of collapse for at least a year now right?
“US invasion of Greenland”
you’ve gotta love all that righteous indignation coming out of Brussels in defense of the impeccably just current state of affairs, under which this island is run as a colony of a kingdom that conquered it by force back in the good ol Viking days and that more recently has carried out a series of brutal measures against the indigenous inhabitants of the place that could pretty clearly meet the definition of genocide
some Western-style makeover
The Rabid Monster is trashing in desperation. It thinks it can control petroleum/gas, turning the supply from specific nations on or off. If it tries to infect Iran again, it will have to learn again.
apparently inhaling the vapors coming from a hot boiled potato can be a very effective method to combat cold symptoms
Aspirin.
So the land of the free cant take competition. It will force people with their military to eat its vitamine-poor products.
The latest development Washington dictate that Venezuela must not have the friends (Russia,China,Cuba) they want. Forced into marriage with USA.
I think we should not sleep. The latest developments and previous plans to win a nuclear war inside Russia during the cold war, say any opportunity will be used.
How’s the power grid in your sector tonight Eric
You can sleep, anything important will briefly wake you
A more logical explanation is that nukes don’t work as advertised. I’ve long put them in the same category as covid. Zero fear of them. A big boom, a white light, and all the pain is gone. We ain’t getting off that easy.
Every escalation involves Risk… The Corporate US war against
Russia is calculated on how far the US can push the envelope..;
The US has restraints, Russia has restraints. The restraints are
US wondering how far can the US push Russia ?
The Russians calculate how far they can respond without triggering
the likely risks… So both operate within the restraint of calculating
their opponents likely reaction to crossing the others Red Lines…
It always appears that there’s an agreement between the opponents…
…….
‘Nuclear War occurs when The Calculated Risks are miscalculated’ … (anon) …
“If you can agree not to have a nuclear war,..”
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, also known as the ABM Treaty, was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile systems used in defending areas against ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons.
It was intended to reduce pressures to build more nuclear weapons to maintain deterrence.[1]
Under the terms of the ABM Treaty, each party was limited to two ABM complexes, each of which was to be limited to 100 anti-ballistic missiles.
Signed in 1972, the ABM Treaty was in force for the next 30 years.[2] In 1997, five years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, four former Soviet republics agreed with the United States to succeed the USSR‘s role in the treaty, with Russia assuming all rights and obligations as the successor state of the Soviet Union.
Citing purported risks of nuclear blackmail, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the ABM Treaty in June 2002, leading to its termination.[3
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty
Results of the US withdrawing from these treaties.
NATO: Pentagon’s Gateway Into Former Warsaw Pact, Soviet Nations
Not forgetting of course, the US withdrew from In 2018, the United States pulled out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty – an agreement banning the deployment of ground-based strategic missile in the 500-5,500 km range. In 2020, the US left the 1992 Treaty on Open Skies – which allowed 35 partner nations to perform military reconnaissance overflights over one another’s territory using specialized aircraft. Moscow was forced to follow suit in 2021.
21 Years Ago Today: US Rips Up ABM Treaty With Russia, Starting Slow Slide Toward Current Crisis – 13.12.2022, Sputnik International
Russian Federation’s response to the US’s withdrawing from these treaties,
(Re)Birth of Russia’s Hypersonics Program
Still recovering from the catastrophic geopolitical and economic fallout of the collapse of the USSR, and watching closely as NATO expanded into Eastern Europe in several waves between 1999 and 2004, Moscow appeared to have gained the vague impression that behind the US rhetoric of friendship and partnership, Washington had not truly given up on its vision of Russia as an adversary after 1991.
Putin revealed that the US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty was the singular moment which prompted Moscow to develop these cutting-edge armaments, which the USSR had tinkered with at the twilight of the Cold War.
“America’s withdrawal from the ABM Treaty in 2002 forced Russia to start developing hypersonic weapons. We had to create these weapons in response to the deployment of the US strategic missile defense system, which would have been able to neutralize and render obsolete our entire nuclear potential,” Putin said. Russia’s hypersonic designs, gave Russia, for the first time in its modern history, “the most modern types of weapons, superior in terms of their force, power, speed and, very importantly, in terms of accuracy, compared to all which existed before them and exist today,” Putin said.
Putin returned to the fateful US decision on the ABM Treaty in remarks in October 2021, saying that Washington’s move had opened the Pandora’s box of a new global arms race, and demonstrated that America was not looking to defend itself, but trying to “receive strategic superiority, effectively eliminating the nuclear potential of a potential rival.”
Russia unveiled a series of new strategic weapons systems in 2018, with the arms, including the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle, the Kinzhal aero-ballistic air-to-surface missile, the Sarmat ICBM, and the Poseidon nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed autonomous torpedo, designed to assure that even if Washington did successfully build a missile shield, Russia would still be able to retaliate to hypothetical US aggression.
21 Years Ago Today: US Rips Up ABM Treaty With Russia, Starting Slow Slide Toward Current Crisis – 13.12.2022, Sputnik International
The Zionists crept for years, gaining control and influence in the financial markets, media, banking, technology, education, governments, think tanks, and major corporations.
Now that the obvious take-down of civilisation as we’ve known it for a few centuries is reaching its climax, they cannot hide any longer. If you don’t have the backing of pro-Israeli groups, you will get nowhere in government or business. It becomes clear that something is wrong when a tiny percentage of the population has so much influence.
Everything thats going wrong in this world is not happening by accident its all part of the globalist Zionist plan.
Imagine all Zionists gone; who could we blame than?
Not us!!
The Zionists are the cats paw, the enforcers of the Jesuits and Black Nobility families… they are the ones who created all the isms including communism, fascism and zionism, and they are the ones who sit at the top of the pyramid. The Rothschild’s are below them in the pecking order, and serve them as the Vatican’s bankers. As in servants.
I happened to be in Las Vegas last month and at one of the casinos I won’t name, I wandered into this meeting room with a sign outside that said “Bilderbergs”, and inside were representatives from a large number of countries, corporations, and banks, discussing how they were fooling the rest of the human race and that the New World Order was proceeding as planned. They said the people were falling for the fake wars in Ukraine and elsewhere, the fake genocide in Gaza, and the fake kidnapping of Maduro. They handed out scripts for the next 6 months and agreed to reconvene in Caracas at the end of the summer. They said something about a fake Alien invasion but decided they weren’t quite ready for that.
I don’t buy it. I think humans are humans. The scamdemic, the police states, wars, all that is a product of global capitalism, human greed, lust for power, and an inexorable and relentless process, etc. Think George Orwell. Think the Seven Deadly Sins. The conflicts are real, they’re killing, hurting, and starving people, the divides are growing, and we’re in a world of shit no matter which way it’s sliced. There’s no way in my mind that a global government is possible. Look at the pathetic response, or non response, of the UN. Fuckers are just scared ass wimps who somehow got elected or appointed to be there. Any actual collusion is in the warped heads of small psycho clan. Either way, it’s useless trying to figure it all out. The only way forward is to figure out how to change things.
In that respect, I’m thinking now a global new order is necessary however, except it has to come from “We the People” (figuratively), not the ruling classes. A Global Revolution so to speak to change or alter the “human condition”. Perhaps we could beat them at their own game.
Do you really think Little Rubio and Psycho Trump are that smart? I don’t.
Got ahead of myself with the Maduro thing, but you get my drift.
Figured I’d get jacked for that, but I posted it anyway. Go outside the accepted conspiracy theory realm and you’re persona non grata. Guess it’s time to mosey on down the road. Ya, fuck it.
hey did you scoop up any dope Bilderberg swag at their convention, man? a pen or coffee mug with their logo maybe, or one of those Neuralyzer thingees they use for remote mass mind control? a couple free donuts at least??
Well if they let you in… they may not have told the whole truth… but thanks for the heads, huhh, down
If you can agree not to have a nuclear war, you can agree not to have a war at all. Any war you end up having, logically speaking, is a war both sides want to happen.
AllAH verse Benjamin Netanyahweh 3rd temple cult they already sacrificed the red heifer which happened a few weeks before 7/7.
Kit you can stop playing games. this is your delusional religion what they believe in and need to happen.
to quote you.
logically speaking, is a war both sides want to happen.
Why is there never any OG articles explaining this.??
The ice age police in USA want to kick of a home war, to redcoated a holocaust zee United States Semiquincentennial, marking the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 it needs a good old blood and chaos to show force on its people in real time a major nationwide celebrations culminating on July 4, 2026.
what better way to celebrate than USA race RIOTS.
Laugh it at happening at the migrants (testing ground) but now there killing white folks in real time and the mental maga lot all agreeing the white ice age police man was correct in shooting her.
What he said on the tin!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
Presidential Memoranda
January 7, 2026
Organizations from Which the United States Shall Withdraw.
(a) Non-United Nations Organizations:
(i) 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact;
(ii) Colombo Plan Council;
(iii) Commission for Environmental Cooperation;
(iv) Education Cannot Wait;
(v) European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats;
(vi) Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories;
(vii) Freedom Online Coalition;
(viii) Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund;
(ix) Global Counterterrorism Forum;
(x) Global Forum on Cyber Expertise;
(xi) Global Forum on Migration and Development;
(xii) Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research;
(xiii) Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;
(xiv) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;
(xv) Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;
(xvi) International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;
(xvii) International Cotton Advisory Committee;
(xviii) International Development Law Organization;
(xix) International Energy Forum;
(xx) International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies;
(xxi) International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;
(xxii) International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;
(xxiii) International Lead and Zinc Study Group;
(xxiv) International Renewable Energy Agency;
(xxv) International Solar Alliance;
(xxvi) International Tropical Timber Organization;
(xxvii) International Union for Conservation of Nature;
(xxviii) Pan American Institute of Geography and History;
(xxix) Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation;
(xxx) Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combatting Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia;
(xxxi) Regional Cooperation Council;
(xxxii) Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century;
(xxxiii) Science and Technology Center in Ukraine;
(xxxiv) Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme; and
(xxxv) Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.
(b) United Nations (UN) Organizations:
(i) Department of Economic and Social Affairs;
(ii) UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) — Economic Commission for Africa;
(iii) ECOSOC — Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean;
(iv) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific;
(v) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia;
(vi) International Law Commission;
(vii) International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;
(viii) International Trade Centre;
(ix) Office of the Special Adviser on Africa;
(x) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict;
(xi) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict;
(xii) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;
(xiii) Peacebuilding Commission;
(xiv) Peacebuilding Fund;
(xv) Permanent Forum on People of African Descent;
(xvi) UN Alliance of Civilizations;
(xvii) UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;
(xviii) UN Conference on Trade and Development;
(xix) UN Democracy Fund;
(xx) UN Energy;
(xxi) UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;
(xxii) UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;
(xxiii) UN Human Settlements Programme;
(xxiv) UN Institute for Training and Research;
(xxv) UN Oceans;
(xxvi) UN Population Fund;
(xxvii) UN Register of Conventional Arms;
(xxviii) UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination;
(xxix) UN System Staff College;
(xxx) UN Water; and
(xxxi) UN University.
Like USAID there is now also UNAIDS….
No physical vaccine exists or will be made a human power lust, the Alpha male Ape urge.
Heck that was long. My scrolling thumb is numb
For Decades, those who study such matters have consistently
pointed out that people’s perceptions of Crime levels are unreal;
msm opinion polls record most believe Crime levels have been
increasing, whilst the actual data reveals overall drops in the
levels…
Alt-media, too, has a hand in the creation of mis-perceptions…
…….
“The Stockholm Syndrome is a shared affliction of those who
support governments.’ … (anon( …
Spot on! It’s rule by fear, their only leverage. The moment fear comes into the equation all animals go into survival mode, instead of standing up to the tyrants in solidarity.
The power of propaganda. But if you become aware, it loses its power. Thats why we all fell into here on OffG. Seek the truth and it will set you free!
It’s the deavastation of the crimes that have increased.. not necessarily the quantity
Order out of chaos… isn’t that their motto? Those implementing the plans on behalf of the puppet masters. And you will notice also over arching theme of fear Kit. Fear, fear, and more fear, and lots of (contrived) distractions from the rollout of the digital panopticonic gulag: AI, digital identity, programmable digital currencies, and the further erasure of free speech. I don’t even look at the mainstream presstitutes anymore except for clips I see on social media posts, because they are there solely as the propaganda arm of the establishment. Oh, and lemon, ginger & honey in hot water and lots of rest should help your cold.
When I heard about those “really exciting” protests in Iran where Evil Fundamentalist Islam is being overthrown by barricade stormers in favour of fantastic Western rampant porno-fuckery liberalism, I knew it was all a big show. And I note that the good old Trotters are taking the same side as the mainstream on this one – though of course from a solid prole Trotsky angle … but note the comments:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/01/05/mzac-j05.html
Yup – the groupies aren’t entirely buying it.
Some of course are. Take this dupe:
Ooh I wonder what’s coming next?
Yet another brutal fundamentalist regime to be toppled by the spirit of freedom fuckers!
And I note with some relief that Carolyn Zaremba – who was a sucker for covid – rejects the WSWS stance. Of course, she gets scorned for it whilst being reminded of her rejection of the Trotty line on Evil Putin!
I think your glove does fit just one hand, while the choir sleeps
AI is good for something after all.
I cant figure out whether these ‘riots’ in Iran is a usual West arranged ‘colour revolution’ as the Iran regime claims, or it is really about economic difficulties.
If it is economic difficulties, they should deserve it. Sweet holy words and ideology dreamers dont make bread.
Oh my gawd… are these delusional dingbat dribbling Trotskies still here? And to think I was involved with them in 2019 prior to convid where almost overnight they were more hysterical and over the top about convid than the actual mainstream media!!🤡 Which as you remember many on the so called revolutionary Left went full blown supporters of the narrative being pumped out by the mainstream presstitutes. Which told me just how “revolutionary” they really were. Not. And Carolyn Zaremba… sigh. I just had a horrible flashback. I wonder how many jabs she ended up getting?
Aaaa-ha-ha-ha—Choooo!!!
Sniffle…
Bless You.
This world is multi-dimensional, what you focus on (or what you are guided to focus on) you will conceive as ‘reality’…
But ‘reality’ is like an upper respiratory tract inflammation… with a little rest and some meditation… one ‘reality’ segues into another — because life is a theatre show — all you can do is interpret the way the script is performed and be certain the lights will soon come up… and you will realise that emotions are the lowest form of energy being manipulated by no-one greater than yourself….
Sniiffle…
Aaaaa–choooo!!!
Bless you.
Imho, it had been an orchetrated theatrical show… but it has also been real and about to get more real