Last week I presented the testimony of Egyptian writer and intellectual Wassim al-Sisi on the importance of educating young people on historical facts they may not be well aware of. As I saw it, Dr Sisi’s advice, given on the talk show al-Qahira (Cairo) on the satellite channel TEN, was a wakeup call to Egyptians, especially the young. Dr Sisi was specifically referring to the schemes and conspiracies drawn by world superpowers, mainly the US and its European allies, to empower Israel by fragmenting the Middle Eastern nations surrounding it.
Today, I again delve into the conspiracy file by presenting a testimony by Jimmy Dore, American stand-up comedian, conspiracy theorist and political commentator. Mr Dore was recently hosted by the Tucker Carlson show on Fox News channel. Incidentally, I viewed the video of the interview in the wake of the US shooting of a Chinese balloon that was traversing its territory. The US claimed the balloon was on a spying mission, whereas China denied any espionage claims, and described the shooting as “excessive reaction” by the US. The incident capped a series of US attempts to provoke China during the last year, as when it pushed ahead with a visit by Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, to Taiwan in August 2022, despite explicit warnings from China that the visit would pose a flagrant challenge of its sovereignty.
So, what did Jimmy Dore say?
“Just like we [the US] provoked the war in Ukraine, we are now provoking a war with China. Your enemy is not China, your enemy is not Russia, your enemy is the military industrial complex which has been fleecing this country to the tunes of hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars. How many times are we going to have a defense secretary say: ‘we can’t account for two trillion dollars in the Pentagon’ again, which happened twice now in my lifetime? The war machine cannot be stopped. Who’s running this country? The war machine. It certainly isn’t Joe Biden making these decisions. I just want to remind everybody, the United States is the world’s terrorist which set the Middle East on fire 20 years ago, and now we’re doing a proxy war in Ukraine, which we provoked, NATO provoked, and it was just admitted that we provoked it by former Prime Minister of Germany.
“And now we’re trying saber-rattling with China, and they’re predicting a war. Again, China is not going to invade us, China is not our enemy. We might have an economic war, that’s what these are; these are economic wars.” My comment: Economic wars are settled by agreements of common interests and not by igniting conflicts, provocations and fueling military battles.
Back to Mr Dore on the Tucker Carlson show: “In Ukraine, it’s about Liquified Natural Gas, and making sure Germany and Russia never come together, because we fear Russia’s natural resources and manpower, and we fear them getting together with Germany with their technology and their capital, and so that’s why we blew up the Nordstrom Pipeline, that’s why we’re doing the Ukraine war.
“This all about hegemony, imperialism and economics. If there’s a marine somewhere, it’s there because they’re about to steal some natural resources from another country. If everybody’s screaming that Putin is a bad guy for invading Ukraine, the United States is currently occupying a third of Syria, and which third is that? It’s the third that has the oil. And how do I know we’re there to steal their oil? Because the President of the US said so.”
Almost everyone in the US and its EU allies, and others around the world believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the bad guy who invaded Ukraine, but they are overlooking, or do not know because western media conceals the facts, that Russia was provoked into the war. The provocation started in the 1990s, with the aim of preventing Russia from rising among the ranks of the world superpowers. Russia was lured into the war in order to exhaust it militarily and economically in one of the most heinous scandals of double standards in modern times.
We must be alert to testimonies that expose conspiracy theories and educate us on who the demon of this age really is.
Watani International
17 February 2023
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