Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 From: Charles <•••@••.•••> To: "Richard K. Moore" <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#656> China; Propaganda; Elite designs You asked for my thoughts on how the Huntington KulturKampf scenario dovetails with your apocalyptic vision of a war to humble a resurgent China. I think it is somewhat early to make hard assertions, but this is how I see it: Sam Huntington is drawing up a scenario for the first half of the next century. That scenario, as I understand it, envisions three major power blocs (albeit defined as `cultures'): the Western, Islamic and East Asian. Sam seems to assert that the interests of these blocs are bound to bring them into serious competition, probably involving military conflicts of at least the level of those that dotted the late (lamented?) Cold War: Korea, Indochina and the numerous covert/proxy conflicts in Africa and Latin America. (The Gulf War might be considered the first of the new-style conflicts even though most of the Islamic nations were opposed to Iraq.) The `Western' culture bloc would include the whole Western Hemisphere and all of Europe (presumably including Russia if the current crop of stumblebum statesmen manage to avoid permanently alienating their potential ally as they are busy doing now.) The Islamic bloc would include most of the Islamic states, though the largest one, Indonesia, may not fit easily into that box. East Asia will clearly be China's sphere of domination, but Japan may not accept that formulation and could become a potential flashpoint of conflict. Africa will be of little consequence in power terms but India could be another area of contention. It may surpass China in population within a few decades; it fits easily into none of the three spheres nor (despite its size) is it sufficiently powerful to constitute a block of its own. Will the Western block, perhaps in alliance with Japan, seek to use military force to bring China to heel? That is certainly a possibilty, one of which China is well aware. (I first ran across mention of Sam Huntington's KulturKampf scenario in the Beijing Review, an English-language periodical I read in China last year.) But it seems to me, Richard, that your two `paranoid visions' are in partial conflict with each other. If transnational corporations are making nation-states obsolete, then the power blocs may be less relevant and less potent than Sam Huntington believes. Of course, they will have us all slaving for coolie wages, but they probably won't find it cost effective to incinerate us. There. Aren't you reassured? - Charles - @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Dear Charles, Your synopsis of Huntington is consistent with what I had read - thanks for the elaboration and verification. My thesis about the propaganda role of Huntington's theory remains: elite planners do not want the anticipated conflicts with China and Arab states to be seen as imperialist power games, but rather as "defending Western civilization from heathen hordes", so to speak. This is the oldest game in the book. We saw it with "heathen redskins" in nineteenth century US, and with the "White Man's Burden" in the British Empire. It wouldn't do for such episodes to be perceived as simple aggrandizement. As you point out, Huntington's cultural spheres are really camoflaged power blocs. I believe I've already dealt at length with the apparent contradiction between globalization and national real-politic, but I can review if you wish. The era of true globalization - where integration forces totally replace great-power conflicts - will not begin until AFTER China and the Arab states are brought into the fold. My prediction is that this bringing-into-the-fold will be achieved by the US continuing to enforce its time-honored "strategic interests" vis a vis oil-producing regions and Asian "balance of power". Even under full globalization, it appears there will still be vestigal great-powers, with vestigal spheres of influence. The US sphere will include, at a minimum, all the Americas - under the name of NAFTA and carrying on the tradition of the Monroe Doctrine. Germany seems to be rapidly staking out its own "traditional" sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and the Balkans (not to mention in Europe via the EU). A little-mentioned aspect of the Balkans conflict is that Croatia is a German client state, with strong Nazi sentiments, and fought with Germany in WW II. The Balkan conflict was manipulated by the West so that Croatia gained lots of territory at the expense of the Serbs (who fought against Germany in WW II). See also the message attached below. -rkm ________________________________________________________________ Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 From: Butler Crittenden <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Subject: CENTRAL Germany Richard, you know were Central Germany is, right? Here's an old scan I've been intending to send that may add grist to your NWO mill. Take care, Butler ----------------------- Lost Empire May Be on Rise Again Inhabitants of Central Europe unnerved by 'Germanization' By Frank Viviano Chronicle Staff Writer [Mon., Jan. 17, 1994, p. 1, San Francisco Chronicle] Malbork, Poland DISPATCH FROM EUROPE FRANK VIVIANO Perched imposingly above the Vistula River in the flatlands where Lithuania, Poland and Russia intersect, the enormous red brick fortress of Malbork has controlled Central Europe's vital access to the Baltic Sea since the 13th century. But on the German train schedules that now direct thousands of visitors here annually, the castle town is identified as "Marienburg," not Malbork -- just as the area's two major port cities now appear as "Danzig," rather than Polish Gdansk, and "Konigsberg," rather than Russian Kaliningrad. For Germans, the renewed use of such long-abandoned names simply acknowledges that this was for centuries the eastern limit of greater Germany. For the region's present inhabitants, as Gdansk historian Lydia Glinska puts it, "they sometimes seem the first worrying step toward the reconstruction of a lost empire." In this and other unsettling instances, the lifting of the Iron Curtain four years ago has set loose the barricaded floodwaters of Central European history in a way that has exposed, once again, the ancient and always disputed outlines of the old German empire. Until 1945, for instance, Malbork/Marienburg was the center of one of Europe's oldest sources of nationalist tension, a conflict that some observers fear is brewing anew as the post-Cold War era unfolds. Settled and militarized by the German Teutonic knights, the fortress and the hinterland that surrounds it -- much of which comprised German East Prussia, before it was handed over to Warsaw and Moscow after World War II -- dominated the largely Slavic region for 700 years. It was the focal point of the "march to the east" that eventually became a key vector in German foreign policy under Hitler. Disputed German Connection Today, as Poles, Lithuanians and Russians struggle to modernize their economies, the German connection is once again becoming an indispensable, if controversial, element on the scene. The German legacy "is of immense psychological value in attracting German capital and business development," said Klaus Blutner, a Berlin-based investment consultant who has brokered several major joint ventures in former East Prussia. "It must be remembered that this is not deep Russia or Poland," Blutner said. "It is closer to the West -- a part of the old Communist bloc that again wants to belong to Western Europe, more than to Warsaw or Moscow." In the Russian oblast of Kaliningrad, which covers most of old East Prussia, Germans account for 90 percent of the total value of foreign investment. "Every substantial new firm in the oblast is either a German-Russian joint venture or purely German," said Oleg Mikhailov, deputy director of western Russia's Jantar Free Economic Zone. ~--<snip>--~ ________________________________________________________________ ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Richard K. 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