War and Peace – New Antarctica

The Killing Fields of Aotearoa/New Zealand

Just as Britain lead the world out of the evils of slavery in the 19th century, Aotearoa has the opportunity to lead the world out of the dark age of extraction and into an era of inter-species harmony. The choice, ultimately, is whether we will continue to be a hunter-killer state, or finally become the peaceful, harmonious society we claim to be.

The Hunter-Killer State and the Illusion of Species Supremacy: Re-imagining Aotearoa’s Relationship with the Living World

Globally, Aotearoa New Zealand is marketed as a pristine, peaceful utopia. It is the “clean, green” paradise of the ‘Lord of the Rings’, a nuclear-free haven, and a progressive society nestled in a breathtaking natural environment.

But this carefully curated branding masks a dark, systemic reality. Beneath the rolling green hills and the pristine marketing campaigns lies a society deeply structured around violence, domination, and killing.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the government’s recent $2.7 billion defense package to purchase five MH-60R Seahawk “Romeo” helicopters. This purchase is not merely a military upgrade; it is the ultimate, multi-billion-dollar manifestation of a national psyche addicted to violence. From the slaughterhouses that drive our export economy to the poisoned forests of our biodiversity projects, and our eager enlistment in foreign wars, New Zealand is not a peaceful nation. It is a profoundly violent one.

But to truly change this, we must look beyond the policies and confront the philosophical root of our violence: our arrogant and foolish belief in human supremacy.

The $2.7 Billion “Hunter-Killer”: Servicing Empire Over the Pacific

The MH-60R Seahawk is a premier “hunter-killer” helicopter, heavily optimized for Anti-Submarine and Anti-Surface Warfare. It is a weapon of war, designed to track and destroy enemies in the deep ocean.

Yet, the New Zealand government justifies this recent exorbitant purchase by claiming it will help with Pacific Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR). This is a profound deception. The MH-60R’s cabin is packed with mission computers and weapons systems, not optimized for carrying bulk disaster relief. With only five air-frames, NZ may only ever have one or two fully operational at any given time—leaving almost zero surge capacity for a major Pacific cyclone.

If the government genuinely cared about Pacific civil defence, they would have purchased heavy-lift, utility-focused aircraft like the Boeing CH-47F Chinook or the utility variant MH-60S “Sierra”. But we didn’t buy those. We bought hunter-killer choppers. Why? Because New Zealand has a long, sycophantic history of enthusiastically joining UK and US wars of aggression. The MH-60R ensures the Royal New Zealand Navy can act as a subordinate, interoperable asset for the US and Australian navies to thwart a mythical Chinese invasion thereat. It is a tool of empire, bought with money that could have been used to genuinely protect the Pacific.

The Slaughterhouse Economy: Millions of Lives, Objectified as “Products”

We know that those exposed to military violence abroad, bringtheir violence and trauma home with them This militarism abroad mirrors our violence at home. The foundation of New Zealand’s rural economy is built on the industrialized killing of sentient beings. Each year, the agricultural sector slaughters tens of millions of animals. While the industry uses sterile, bureaucratic language to desensitize the public to the terror and cruelty they inflict —referring to living, feeling individuals as “stock,” “meat,” “carcasses,” and “products”—the reality is visceral and brutal.

Recent scientific consensus has thoroughly dismantled the Cartesian illusion that animals are unfeeling automatons. The 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness formally acknowledged that non-human animals possess the neurological substrates of consciousness. Research has proven that cows experience grief, pigs possess complex problem-solving skills and emotional depth, sheep and even bees recognize human faces. They have full cognition, social structures, and a desire to live.

Yet our legal and economic systems maintain a staggering cognitive dissonance. While the NZ Animal Welfare Act was amended in 2015 to formally recognize animals as “sentient,” this very same state sanctions their mass slaughter. Below is a table illustrating the sheer scale of this killing over a recent five-year period (excluding the additional 100+ million poultry killed annually):

The methods of this killing are inherently violent: captive bolt guns, electrical water-bath stunning, and ex-sanguination. We normalize this daily, systemic bloodshed because it lines the pockets of big business and the export economy.

The “Pest” Paradigm: Militarizing Conservation

This culture of killing extends deep into our native bush. New Zealand’s biodiversity sector is dominated by a lethal paradigm: the obsession with killing introduced mammals to save indigenous birds.

Under the banner of “Predator Free 2050,” the state sanctions the killing of roughly 8 to 10 million possums annually, alongside millions of rats, stoats, and ferrets. We use military tactics—bombing the forests with 1080 poison, which causes a slow, agonizing death by internal organ failure, and deploying steel-jawed leg-hold traps.

This approach relies heavily on the sanctification of the hunter and the trapper as the heroes of our natural environment. But it requires a massive, willful blind spot. The NZ biodiversity movement rarely acknowledges the root cause of indigenous species decline: humans and our actions. The destruction of native habitats through rampant deforestation for grazing and dairy conversion, and urban sprawl is the primary driver of extinction.

Yet, rather than addressing the unsustainable expansion of the human footprint, or transitioning to true re-wilding, the conservation establishment defaults to endless culling. We are attempting to bomb, poison, and trap our way to ecological health, just as we buy hunter-killer helicopters to strafe our way to geopolitical relevance.

Beyond Human Supremacy: The Inherent Equality of All Life

To break this cycle of violence, we must dismantle the philosophical foundation that makes it possible: anthropocentrism: the belief that human beings are the supreme rulers of the Earth, and that all other life exists merely as a resource for our consumption. That belief is a destructive fiction and the key driving force for humans destruction of our natural environment globally.

The reality of our shared existence demands the recognition of the inherent equality of all living beings. This does not mean that a human, a cow, or a kauri tree are exactly the same; it means that their right to exist, to flourish, and to live free from unnecessary suffering is of equal moral weight. A pig is the center of its own universe, just as a human is. A possum, a rat, and a kiwi all possess an inherent value that is entirely independent of their utility—or perceived detriment—to human beings or our prioritising of one species over another because of our conservation ideology.

When we view the world through the lens of inherent equality, the language of “pests,” “stock,” and “resources” dissolves. We recognize that we are not the masters of the web of life, but merely one strand within it. The violence we inflict on the slaughterhouse and forest floor is directly derived from the arrogant and foolish delusion that we are somehow separate from, and superior to, the natural world.

Five Pillars for an Inter-species Aotearoa

To transition from a Hunter-Killer State to a society of inter-species harmony, we must move beyond identifying its failings and illogicality to creating a new reality. New Zealand has the geographic isolation, the wealth, the innovation and the progressive heritage to pioneer this shift. Such a new paradigm could look something like the following…

1. The Parliament of All Beings: Expanding Legal Person-hood

New Zealand is already a global pioneer in the “Rights of Nature” movement, having granted legal person-hood to the Whanganui River (Te Awa Tupua) and Te Urewera. But we have stopped halfway. We must expand this legal framework to grant person-hood and inherent rights to all sentient species and ecosystems.

Imagine establishing an “Ecological Parliament” of equals. Just as the Whanganui River has human guardians to speak for it in court, every major species—the kiwi, the kauri, the honeybee, the cow—would have legally appointed, ecologically trained guardians. Their sole mandate would be to veto legislation, economic projects, or agricultural practices that harm their species’ right to flourish. This shifts our legal system from protecting human ‘property’ to protecting ecological kinship and inter-connectivity.

2. From the Slaughterhouse to a Laboratory of Caring

The argument against ending animal agriculture is always economic: “We need the export revenue.” But this assumes we cannot innovate our way out of the slaughterhouse. New Zealand has world-class agricultural science and a highly skilled rural workforce.

We must redirect the billions in agricultural subsidies away from the meat and dairy export model, and invest heavily in new strategies like plant protein based agriculture, fruit and nut tree proteins and precision fermentation using food-forest, permaculture and organic principles.

Our farmers wouldn’t be forced out of business; they would be retrained and subsidized to become “ecosystem stewards” and bio-technologists. NZ could transition from being the world’s slaughterhouse to the world’s “Laboratory of Caring,” exporting high-tech, cruelty-free, climate-positive food systems and proving that a vibrant rural economy doesn’t require a bloody foundation.

3. Healing the Hunter-Killer Psyche (Eco-Psychology)

We cannot change our external policies without addressing the internal, psychological conditioning that makes us comfortable with killing. New Zealand’s cultural identity is heavily tied to the “Hunter” (the bloke with the rifle and his pig-dogs in the bush), the “Warrior” (the ANZAC mythos), and the “Conqueror” (the pioneer clearing the bush).

We must integrate ‘Eco-Psychology’ into our education system and public health initiatives. We need to actively deconstruct the “toughness” associated with killing animals and fighting in foreign wars, replacing the “Hunter-Killer” archetype with the “Cultivator-Healer” who understands humanity’s interconnection with the rest of the natural world and our own dependence on it for our own survival. True inter-species harmony requires humans to heal their own disconnection from nature and their own internalized violence.

4. Aotearoa as the World’s First Inter-species Sanctuary

In 1984, New Zealand took a massive geopolitical risk and declared itself a Nuclear-Free Zone. It was mocked by superpowers at the time, but it ultimately became our greatest point of national pride and remains so to this day. It is time to expand this legacy into an “Inter-species and Ecological Peace” Declaration’.

New Zealand should formally declare its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and landmass a “Sanctuary from Speciesism and Ecological Violence.” This would mean legally banning the importation of products derived from ecologically destructive practices, banning lethal conservation methods (like 1080 and leg-hold traps) on all public lands, and refusing to participate in international military alliances that project violence into the Pacific. It would be a beacon to the world, proving that a modern nation can choose coexistence over conquest.

5. Technological Symbiosis and Non-Invasive Conservation

Our current conservation model relies on brute force: poison, traps, and bullets. The future model must rely on deep listening and technological symbiosis. Instead of spending millions on helicopters to drop poison, we must invest in AI-driven bio-acoustic monitoring networks, drone-assisted native seed dispersal, and genetic research into disease and predator resistance for native birds like the kiwi and kākāpō.

We must use technology to understand and facilitate nature’s own resilience, rather than using technology to bombard nature into submission. In this new paradigm, we can move from being the arrogant “managers” of the forest to its humble “students.”

Re-wilding the Budget and the Mind

New Zealand likes to look in the mirror and see a peaceful, progressive, nature-loving nation. But a society that slaughters 22 million sentient animals a year, poisons and destroys its own forests, and eagerly spends billions on weapons of war is suffering from a profound moral sickness.

True environmentalism and true peace require us to lay down our weapons, our traps, and our poisons. We must abandon the arrogant illusion of human supremacy and embrace the inherent equality of all living beings.

The Erasure of Palestine and its Populations

Genetics and history prove Palestinians are indigenous Levantine Semites, not “foreign Arabs.” This analysis examines the ICJ-documented reality of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank, driven by maximalist “Greater Israel” ideology.

The narrative surrounding Israel and Palestine is frequently obscured by politicized historical myths and euphemistic language. To understand the current reality, one must separate established genetic and historical science from political ideology, and replace diplomatic euphemisms like “decades of conflict” with the precise legal and historical terms documented by international bodies.

This analysis examines the indigenous Semitic heritage of the Levant’s inhabitants, the ideological drivers of maximalist Zionism, and the documented outcomes of these policies on the ground.

Part I: The Historical and Genetic Reality of the Levant

Modern genomics and historical scholarship dismantle the notion of mutually exclusive, alien populations in the Levant. The reality is one of deep, shared indigenous roots.

1. The Historic Levant: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith

In antiquity, the Levant was a diverse mosaic of peoples and belief systems. The ancient Israelites and Judeans were one of many groups—alongside Canaanites, Philistines, Phoenicians, Arameans, and others—who inhabited the region. Judaism, as a distinct, organized religion, evolved over centuries alongside and in interaction with these neighboring cultures. The idea that the ancient Levant was exclusively or uniformly “Jewish” is a modern retrojection; historically, it was a pluralistic region of evolving polytheistic, henotheistic, and monotheistic traditions.

2. Palestinians: Indigenous Levantine Semites, Not “Foreign Arabs”

A persistent political trope is the framing of Palestinians merely as “Arabs” who migrated from the Arabian Peninsula, implicitly casting them as foreign interlopers. This is historically and genetically false.

Semitic Continuity: Palestinians are the direct descendants of the ancient indigenous peoples of the Levant (Canaanites, Judeans, Philistines, and others). They are Semites, sharing the same ancestral roots as Jewish peoples. “Arab” is a linguistic and cultural identifier, not a distinct racial or genetic category.
The Adoption of Islam: Following the Islamic expansions beginning in the 7th century, the indigenous Semitic population of the Levant gradually adopted the Arabic language and Islamic faith through a centuries-long process of cultural integration, intermarriage, and conversion. By approximately 1200 AD (the Crusader and Ayyubid periods), Islam had firmly consolidated as the predominant cultural and religious identity of the native Levantine population. They did not replace the indigenous people; they are the indigenous people, culturally and religiously transformed over time, much like populations across the Middle East and North Africa.

3. The Genetic Mirror

Peer-reviewed genomic studies confirm this historical continuity. Both Jewish diaspora populations (including Ashkenazi Jews, who carry a mix of Levantine and Southern European ancestry due to historical migration and founder effects) and modern Palestinians share a profound, dominant genetic clustering with the ancient Bronze Age Levant. Genetically, they are closely related branches of the same indigenous tree.

Part II: The Ideological Engine

While genetics and history point to shared indigenous roots, the modern geopolitical reality is driven by exclusionary political ideologies.

1. Zionism and the Erasure of the Native

While early Zionism was framed as a refuge from European antisemitism, its practical implementation in Palestine required the systematic displacement of the existing indigenous population. The foundational outcome of this ideology was the Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948, during which over 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled or fled from their homes, and hundreds of villages were destroyed to ensure a Jewish demographic majority.

2. “Greater Israel” (Eretz Yisrael HaShlema)

This maximalist, ethno-religious ideology asserts that the State of Israel has a divine or historical right to the entirety of the biblical Land of Israel, encompassing the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), Gaza, and at times, parts of Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. While not universally held by all Israelis, this ideology has become the dominant driving force behind the modern Israeli right-wing, the settlement movement, and current government policies, directly shaping the strategy of territorial annexation.

Part III: Impacts and Outcomes: Beyond the “Conflict” Euphemism

Describing the situation in Gaza and the West Bank as a “decades-long conflict” between two equal sides is a profound mischaracterization. It obscures a structural reality of occupation, expansion, and systematic removal.

1. Gaza and the West Bank: Documented Ethnic Cleansing

The devastation in Gaza and the ongoing fragmentation of the West Bank are not the accidental byproducts of a “conflict.” They are the result of deliberate, systemic policies.

The ICJ and International Law: The International Court of Justice (ICJ), in its landmark 2024 provisional measures, found it plausible that Israel’s acts in Gaza could amount to genocide. Furthermore, leading UN Special Rapporteurs, the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, and major human rights organizations (including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch) have explicitly documented and characterized Israel’s actions—including mass displacement, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and starvation tactics—as ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
The West Bank: A parallel, slower-motion ethnic cleansing is occurring in the West Bank through the expansion of illegal settlements, settler violence, revocation of residencies, and the fragmentation of Palestinian land into disconnected, unviable cantons, all designed to make a future Palestinian state geographically impossible.

2. Impacts on Israel

The pursuit of “Greater Israel” has fundamentally compromised Israel’s own stated democratic ideals. To maintain control over millions of stateless Palestinians while preserving a Jewish majority, the state has had to institute a system of legal apartheid, militarize its society, and empower extremist religious factions. This has led to deep internal societal fractures, international isolation, and a perpetual state of moral and political crisis.

3. Impacts on Wider West Asia

The Failure of “Normalization”: While some regional states pursued the Abraham Accords, the visceral, documented reality of the assault on Gaza has shattered the illusion that the Palestinian issue could be sidelined. It has re-centered Palestinian liberation as the paramount moral and political cause across the Global South and the wider West Asian region.
Regional Destabilization: The unchecked expansion of maximalist Zionist ideology and the resulting humanitarian catastrophes have fueled justified regional resistance, drawing in state and non-state actors and threatening to ignite a broader regional war. The root cause of this instability is not inherent regional “violence,” but the ongoing, unresolved injustice of Palestinian displacement and occupation.

Conclusion: Dismantling the Myth to Face the Reality

We need to look past ‘curated’ narratives to systemic truths. The genetic and historical record is clear: Jews and Palestinians are both indigenous, Semitic peoples of the Levant, bound by a shared ancient ancestry that was diversified over millennia by culture, language, and faith.

The tragedy of the region is not a “clash of civilizations,” but the violent imposition of a modern, maximalist ethno-nationalist ideology upon an existing indigenous population. The devastation in Gaza and the West Bank is not a vague “conflict”; it is a documented, ongoing process of ethnic cleansing and demographic engineering, as recognized by the highest international legal bodies.

Lasting peace and justice in West Asia will not be achieved by perpetuating the myth of Palestinian “foreignness” or by normalizing occupation. It requires the dismantling of the “Greater Israel” paradigm, accountability for documented international crimes, and the recognition of the equal, indigenous rights and self-determination of the Palestinian people on their ancestral land.

Links

Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences

https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-92971730276-8

Israel must comply with key ICJ ruling ordering it do all in its power to prevent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

https://amnesty.org.nz/israel-must-comply-with-icj-ruling

Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem

https://www.icj-cij.org/node/204176

Disclaimer: This analysis is based on current international legal findings (including the ICJ), peer-reviewed population genetics, and mainstream historical scholarship. It is intended for educational and analytical purposes.

Ukraine’s OUN-B: Nazi Racial Mythology & the “Asian Hun”

Introduction

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists — Bandera faction (OUN-B) — remains one of the most controversial political movements in 20th-century European history. Founded in 1929 and radicalized under Stepan Bandera’s leadership from 1933 onward, the OUN-B espoused an ideology of integral nationalism that demanded ethnic homogeneity as the foundation of statehood. Its symbols — the red-and-black flag representing “blood and soil” (Blut und Boden), the fascist salute, and the Führerprinzip — were borrowed directly from Italian fascism and German Nazism.

Critically, the OUN-B’s racial ideology was not merely generic fascism but explicitly drew upon Nazi racial superiority theory. Bandera and his followers in their insurgent army, the UPA, embraced the Nazi racial hierarchy that placed “Aryan” Europeans at the pinnacle and demonized Slavic peoples as inferior — a tension they resolved by positioning Ukrainians as an exception, a “pure” European people distinct from the “Asiatic” Russians. Central to this was the centuries-old European slur that Russians were “Tartars”or“Huns” — descendants of Mongol invaders with “Asian blood” — while Ukrainians were framed as the true, uncorrupted European heirs of Kyivan Rus. Over 44 monuments and statues to Stepan Bandera currently exist in Ukraine; mostly in Western Ukraine where his nationalist party flourished during the second world war alongside the nazis.

In the post-2014 and especially post-2022 landscape, elements of this ideology have experienced a complex revival. One recurring theme is the claim of ancient, pure Ukrainian ancestry — sometimes embellished with references to Viking (Varangian) roots through Kyivan Rus. This analysis examines what the OUN-B actually believed about racial purity, how Nazi racial mythology shaped their anti-Russian ideology, what modern genetics says about the “Asian Hun” claim, and whether any of these narratives hold scientific water.

Part I: Nazi Racial Ideology and the OUN-B

1.1 The Nazi Racial Hierarchy

Nazi racial theory, as elaborated by Hans Günther, Alfred Rosenberg, and others, posited a strict hierarchy of European peoples:

Racial Category	Nazi View	Slavic Position
Nordic	The master race; creators of civilization	Germans, Scandinavians
Alpine	Peasant stock; solid but unremarkable	Many Slavs, including Czechs, Slovaks, Poles
East Baltic	Inferior; prone to Bolshevism	Russians, Belarusians, some Ukrainians
Dinaric	Warrior aristocracy; secondary to Nordic	Balkan peoples, some Ukrainians
Mediterranean	Declined from ancient greatness	Southern Europeans

Under this schema, Slavs were generally classified as inferior to Germans — “Untermenschen” (subhumans) in the most extreme formulations. The Generalplan Ost envisaged the enslavement, expulsion, or extermination of Slavic populations to make way for German colonization.

1.2 The OUN-B’s Racial Ambivalence

The OUN-B faced a profound ideological problem: they were Slavs seeking alliance with a regime that classified Slavs as racially inferior. Their solution was to accept the Nazi racial framework but argue for Ukrainian exceptionalism:

Ukrainians were“pure Europeans” — descendants of Kyivan Rus, untainted by “Asiatic” admixture.
Russians were“Mongoloids”or“Tartars” — corrupted by centuries of rule by the Golden Horde and intermixing with Asian peoples.
Poles were racially suspect — seen as mixed or corrupted by Germanic influence.
Jews were the absolute enemy — the racial “other” against whom Ukrainian purity must be defended.

This was not merely political rhetoric. The OUN-B’s propaganda explicitly used Nazi racial terminology, and their collaboration with the SS, the Wehrmacht, and the German civil administration was premised on demonstrating Ukrainian racial worthiness within the Nazi New Order.

1.3 The “Asian Hun” Myth in European Discourse

The characterization of Russians as “Asiatic” or “Hunnic” has deep roots in European history:

Period	Usage	Context
Medieval	“Tartar Yoke”	Western European chroniclers describing Mongol domination of Russia
16th–18th centuries	“Muscovy = Tartary”	European maps and political discourse
19th century	“The Asiatic soul of Russia”	French and German Romantic nationalism; Russia as fundamentally non-European
WWI	“Huns”	British/German propaganda (applied to Germans by British, then appropriated by Nazis for anti-Slavic use)
Nazi era	“Mongoloid Bolsheviks”	Explicit racial characterization of Russians as Asiatic, particularly under Jewish-Bolshevik rule
Cold War	“Red Hordes”	Western anti-communist rhetoric echoing older racial tropes

The OUN-B adopted this entire conceptual framework wholesale. Their anti-Russian ideology was not merely nationalist but racialized — Russians were not just political enemies but biologically alien, carriers of “Asiatic” blood that threatened European civilization.

1.4 Bandera’s Ideological Synthesis

Stepan Bandera synthesized several influences:

Dmytro Dontsov’s integral nationalism — The theoretical foundation; anti-liberal, anti-rationalist, voluntarist.
Italian fascism — The organizational model; the corporate state, the leader principle, political religion.
Nazi racial theory — The biological framework; “blood and soil,” anti-Semitism, the European-Asiatic dichotomy.
Ukrainian historical mythology — The narrative of Kyivan Rus as a Ukrainian (not Russian) state; Cossack romanticism; the martyrdom of western Ukraine under Polish rule.

The result was an ideology that was simultaneously ultra-nationalist and ultra-internationalist — committed to Ukrainian statehood but within a fascist European order. The “Asian Hun” slur against Russians was essential to this: it positioned Ukrainians as Europe’s eastern bulwark against Asiatic barbarism, deserving of Nazi support rather than Nazi subjugation.

Part II: The “Asian Hun” Claim — What Genetics Actually Says

2.1 The Historical Reality of the Mongol Invasion

The Mongol invasion of 1237–1242 CE and the subsequent 240-year domination of the Golden Horde did have demographic and genetic consequences for the region:

Aspect	Historical Reality
Mongol numbers	The invasion force was ~150,000; the occupying administration was small
Genetic impact	Limited direct Mongol admixture in most of the population
Elite recruitment	The Golden Horde incorporated Turkic, Slavic, and other peoples; the ruling elite was ethnically mixed
Geographic concentration	Impact strongest in the lower Volga and southern steppe; much weaker in forested northern regions
Duration	240 years (1240s–1480s) — significant but not transformative demographically

The key point: the Golden Horde was a political and military superstructure, not a mass population replacement. Its genetic impact was concentrated in specific regions and social strata.

2.2 Genetic Evidence of East Asian Ancestry in Russians

Modern genetic studies do reveal trace East Asian ancestry in Russian populations, but the picture is far more nuanced than the “Asian Hun” slur suggests:

Autosomal DNA: – Russians show a small East Asian/Siberian admixture component (typically 1–5%, varying by region). – This component is highest in northern and eastern Russia (closer to Siberia and former Finno-Ugric territories). – It is lowest in western Russia and among urban, European-identified populations. – The admixture is not primarily Mongol but reflects multiple sources: Finno-Ugric peoples (who had their own Siberian contacts), Turkic peoples of the Volga, and smaller Mongol/Tatar contributions.

Y-Chromosome Evidence: – The haplogroup C2 (formerly C3), associated with Genghis Khan’s lineage and Mongol expansion, is found at very low frequencies in Russia (<1–2% in most regions). – The haplogroup Q (associated with Siberian/Native American populations) is also present at trace levels. – The dominant Russian Y-haplogroups are R1a (~50–60%) and N1c (~10–20% in the north) — the latter being Finno-Ugric, not Mongol.

Mitochondrial DNA: – East Asian mtDNA lineages (haplogroups A, C, D, G, Z, etc.) are found in Russians at low frequencies (typically <5%). – These are more common in Siberian and Far Eastern Russian populations than in the European heartland.

2.3 What About Ukrainians?

Here is where the OUN-B narrative faces its most devastating genetic contradiction:

Feature	Russians	Ukrainians	Interpretation
East Asian autosomal component	1–5% (regional variation)	Also present, 1–3%	Both populations have trace East Asian ancestry; the difference is quantitative, not qualitative
C2 (Mongol-associated Y-DNA)	<1–2%	Also present, <1%	Negligible in both; where found, likely reflects shared steppe history rather than direct Mongol descent
N3/N1c (Finno-Ugric)	~10–20% in north	~9.6% in northeast Ukraine	Ukrainians in the northeast actually have more Finno-Ugric/Siberian-associated ancestry than many Russians in the west
East Asian mtDNA	Low in European Russia	Also low; slightly higher in eastern Ukraine	Both populations show the same pattern
Steppe pastoralist ancestry	High (~35–40%)	High (~35–40%)	Shared Yamna heritage

The critical finding: Ukrainians — especially eastern Ukrainians — carry comparable or greater trace East Asian/Siberian ancestry than many western Russians. The OUN-B’s claim of Ukrainian racial purity versus Russian “Asiatic corruption” is genetically false.

2.4 The Real Source of East Asian Ancestry: The Steppe, Not the Horde

Ancient DNA studies reveal that East Asian ancestry entered the Pontic-Caspian steppe long before the Mongols:

Period	Source	Impact
Bronze Age	Andronovo/Sintashta cultures	Some East Eurasian admixture in steppe populations
Iron Age	Scythians, Sarmatians	Western Steppe + East Asian ancestry among nomads; local farmers remained European
Medieval	Huns, Avars, Bulgars, Khazars	Incremental East Asian admixture in steppe zone
Mongol era	Golden Horde	Additional but limited admixture

The 2025 Science Advances study (Saag et al.) found that Scythian nomads in eastern Ukraine already carried Western Steppe and East Asian ancestry by ~500 BCE — 1,700 years before the Mongol invasion. This East Asian component was present in the steppe zone before either Russians or Ukrainians existed as distinct peoples.

2.5 The Genetic Irony: Who Is More “Asian”?

If we apply the OUN-B’s own racial logic (which we should not, but for the sake of argument):

Eastern Ukrainians have slightly more East Asian/Siberian trace ancestry than western Russians.
Northeastern Ukrainians have significant Finno-Ugric (N3) ancestry — a lineage with Siberian connections.
Both Russians and Ukrainians share the same basic three-component European ancestry, with minor regional variations.
The Mongol/Yamna/Scythian East Asian component is a shared heritage of the steppe zone, not a Russian-specific corruption.

The “Asian Hun” slur, when subjected to genetic scrutiny, collapses entirely. It was never a scientific claim — it was a political-racial myth designed to delegitimize Russian identity and elevate Ukrainian claims to European status.

Part III: The Viking Ancestry Narrative — Another Myth Examined

3.1 The Historical Reality of Kyivan Rus

The medieval state of Kyivan Rus (9th–13th centuries) was indeed founded with significant Varangian (Viking) input. According to the Primary Chronicle, the East Slavic tribes invited the Varangian prince Rurik to rule over them in 862 CE. His successors established control over the trade route “from the Varangians to the Greeks.”

However, the genetic and demographic reality was far more complex:

Aspect	Historical Reality
Varangian numbers	Small elite warrior-trader bands, not mass migration
Genetic impact	Limited — the Rurikid dynasty was Scandinavian, but the population remained overwhelmingly East Slavic
Cultural fusion	Rapid assimilation of Varangians into Slavic language and culture within 2–3 generations
Geographic scope	Primarily urban centers (Kyiv, Novgorod); rural hinterland unaffected
Duration	Varangian presence peaked 9th–10th centuries; essentially ended by 1050 CE

3.2 Genetic Evidence on Viking Ancestry

Modern genetic studies provide no evidence of significant Scandinavian/Viking ancestry in contemporary Ukrainians:

The primary Scandinavian haplogroup I1 is found at very low frequencies in Ukraine (<2–3%).
The R1a-Z284 subclade (Scandinavian-specific) is virtually absent in Ukraine.
Principal Component Analysis places Ukrainians firmly within the Eastern European cluster, with no detectable Scandinavian autosomal component.
Ancient DNA from the Kyivan Rus period shows medieval Slavs were already genetically similar to modern Ukrainians — traceable to the Bronze Age, not to Viking immigration.

The “Viking roots” narrative serves modern political functions (distancing from Russia, Western alignment, prestige association) but has no genetic basis.

Part IV: The Political Functions of Racial Mythology

4.1 Why the OUN-B Embraced Nazi Racial Theory

The OUN-B’s adoption of Nazi racial mythology served several strategic purposes:

Alliance justification — Demonstrating Ukrainian racial worthiness to secure German support.
Anti-Russian weapon — The “Asian Hun” slur delegitimized Russian claims to European identity and to Ukrainian territory.
Internal cohesion — Defining Ukrainians as a “pure” race against Jewish, Polish, and Russian “contamination.”
Post-war utility — In the Cold War context, positioning Ukrainians as anti-communist Europeans against “Asiatic Bolshevism.”

4.2 The Post-2014 Revival and Its Contradictions

After 2014, and especially after the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion, Ukrainian nationalism has experienced a complex revival. In Western Ukrainian circles, Bandera has been venerated as a national hero, and OUN-B symbols have entered mainstream discourse.

This revival contains profound contradictions:

The OUN-B sought ethnic homogeneity through elimination of Jews, Poles, and others.
Modern Ukraine is defending a multi-ethnic civic state against Russian aggression.
The OUN-B’s “blood and soil” ideology is incompatible with the civic nationalism that has actually unified Ukraine.
The “Asian Hun” slur against Russians is genetically false and mirrors the very racial essentialism Ukrainians rightly oppose in Russian imperial ideology.

4.3 Russia’s Counter-Narrative and Its Own Falsehoods

Russian propaganda has weaponized the OUN-B’s fascist legacy. However, Russia’s own nationalist narrative contains equally false genetic claims:

The assertion that eastern Ukrainians are “really Russian” because of genetic affinity is false although most Eastern Ukrainians ( and Western Ukrainians) speak Russian -an issue that post Maidan coup Ukraine has been desperate tp eradicate.
The claim that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” ignores the genetic clinal differences, while acknowledging a shared history of many of its regions
Russian imperial ideology has its own myth of “Russian purity” — equally unsupported by genetics.

Part V: Conclusions

5.1 The OUN-B’s Racial Ideology Was Scientifically Bankrupt

The OUN-B’s integral nationalism, with its demand for ethnic homogeneity and its “blood and soil” symbolism, had no basis in genetic science — and modern genetics definitively refutes its core claims:

There is no pure Ukrainian blood — Ukrainians are a composite population, like all Europeans.
Ukrainians are not racially distinct from Russians — both share the same basic ancestry, with minor regional variations.
The“Asian Hun”slur is genetically false — both Russians and Ukrainians carry trace East Asian ancestry; Ukrainians in the northeast actually have more Finno-Ugric/Siberian-associated lineage than many Russians.
Viking ancestry is negligible — the romanticized Varangian connection has no genetic basis in modern Ukrainians.

5.2 The “Asian Hun” Myth Was Always Political, Never Scientific

The characterization of Russians as “Asiatic Huns” served a clear political function: to position Ukrainians as the true European heirs of Kyivan Rus, deserving of Nazi alliance and Western recognition, while Russians were cast as barbarian interlopers. This was:

Historically false — the Golden Horde’s genetic impact was limited and regionally concentrated.
Genetically false — East Asian ancestry is a shared, trace component in both populations.
Morally bankrupt — it replicated the very racial hierarchy that condemned Slavs as inferior.
Strategically self-defeating — it required Ukrainian nationalists to accept their own subordinate status within Nazi racial theory.

5.3 Ukrainian Identity Does Not Need Racial Myths

The genetic evidence supports a more robust and defensible basis for Ukrainian identity:

Deep demographic continuity — The same people have inhabited this land for ~3,000 years.
Genetic coherence across east and west — Clinal variation, not categorical difference.
Central role in Slavic ethnogenesis — The highest frequency of Slavic-specific mtDNA in Europe.
Shared ancestry with neighbors, but distinct proportions — A unique genetic profile within the broader Slavic family.

None of this requires “purity,” “Viking blood,” anti-Russian racial slurs, or exclusionary ideology. Ukrainian identity is a legitimate modern political and cultural construct built upon genuine, ancient, but not exclusive or pure, genetic heritage.

5.4 The Danger of All Racial Essentialism

Genetics can tell us where populations came from, how they mixed, and how they relate to each other. It cannot tell us: – Who should rule whom – Which state is legitimate – Whether a nation is “real” or “artificial” – Whether war is justified – Who is “European” and who is “Asiatic”

These are political questions that must be resolved through democratic deliberation, international law, and respect for human rights — not through appeals to blood, soil, ancient DNA, or Nazi racial mythology.

5.5 The Final Irony

The greatest irony of the OUN-B’s racial ideology is this: in seeking to prove Ukrainian racial superiority within the Nazi framework, Bandera and his followers accepted the premise of their own inferiority. The Nazi racial hierarchy placed Germans at the top and Slavs near the bottom. By arguing that Ukrainians were an exception — “pure” Europeans unlike the “Asiatic” Russians — the OUN-B conceded the validity of the hierarchy itself. They were not rejecting Nazi racist ideology, but negotiating their position within it.

References

Rossoliński-Liebe, Grzegorz (2014). Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Columbia University Press.
Rudling, Per Anders (2011). “The OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust.” The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies.
Saag et al. (2025). “North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period.” Science Advances 11(2).
Khar’kov et al. (2004). “Structure of the gene pool of eastern Ukrainians from Y-chromosome haplogroups.” Genetika.
Eupedia and YFull databases for haplogroup distribution and dating.
Franklin, Simon & Shepard, Jonathan (1996). The Emergence of Rus 750–1200. Longman.
Günther, Hans F.K. (1929). Rassenkunde des osteuropäischen Raumes.

The Echo-Chamber

Analyzing Coordinated Messaging in Western Foreign Policy & Media

The phenomenon of Western political leaders broadcasting near-identical statements on foreign policy is not a coincidence of shared ‘values’, but rather the result of a highly sophisticated and deliberate system of political synchronization. This commentary explores how “scripted policy” functions across various global flashpoints and how Western media outlets serve as a crucial amplification mechanism for these government narratives.

The table below illustrates a remarkable uniformity in response to an incident involving a supposed attempted assassination of Donald Trump in April 2026. Leaders from Germany, Estonia, France, the United Kingdom, and Greece all used the specific phrase “Political violence has no place in a democracy.”

Leader	Key Phrase Used	Strategic Intent
Friedrich Merz (Germany)	“Violence has no place in a democracy.”	Reaffirming the rule of law and democratic norms.
Kaja Kallas (Estonia)	“Political violence has no place in a democracy.”	Aligning with the “Free World” consensus.
Emmanuel Macron (France)	“Violence has no place in democracy.”	Projecting a unified Western front against instability.
Keir Starmer (UK)	“Political violence in any form has no place…”	Demonstrating continuity in UK-US relations.

This by no means unique linguistic alignment serves several strategic purposes. This synchronisation is not merely about the sentiment; it is about the signalling their total conformity to the agreed policy. By using identical phrasing, these leaders attempts to signal to both domestic and international audiences that the “Western Alliance” speaks with a single, ‘unbreakable’ voice.

The Ukraine: “As Long As It Takes” Mantra

Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the phrase “as long as it takes” has become the official linguistic mantra for NATO affiliated and G7 nations. This script was designed to project strategic patience and deter Russian calculations that Western support would eventually fatigue.

“We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support and stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes.” — G7 Leaders’ Communiqué

However, as domestic political pressures mount, particularly in the United States, the script has begun to fracture. President Biden’s shift to “as long as we can“ represents a rare “glitch” in the coordinated messaging, revealing the underlying tensions that the scripts are designed to hide.

In coordination with this Ukraine political message, Western media appear required to state as one that Russia’s attack on Ukraine was not just an invasion, but a ‘full-scale’ invasion.

Israel and Gaza: The “Right to Defend Itself” Premise

In the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the phrase “Israel has the right to defend itself” has served as the foundational premise for almost every official statement from Washington, London, Berlin, and Brussels. This specific wording is used to establish a legal and moral framework before any subsequent concerns about humanitarian issues or civilian casualties are addressed.

This attempt at legitimisation of Western policies by repetition is often managed through G7 Foreign Ministers’ statements, which serve as the “master script” for individual national press releases. This ensures that even when there are internal disagreements about the scale of military operations, the public-facing message remains monolithic.

Venezuela and Iran: The ‘Legitimacy‘ Script

In Venezuela and Iran, the messaging shifts from “defense” to “legitimacy.” The coordinated demand that “Maduro must step down” or the synchronized expressions of “solidarity with the brave people of Iran” are tools of diplomatic pressure.

Venezuela: The recognition of Juan Guaidó in 2019 was a masterclass in scripted diplomacy, with over 50 nations releasing nearly identical statements of recognition within a 48-hour window.
Iran: During the 2022 protests, Western foreign ministers utilized a shared vocabulary of “regime brutality” and “universal rights,” often timed to coincide with the rollout of coordinated sanctions packages.
The Iran wars: Similarly, in the recent war by the US and Israel against Iran we are continually reminded that Iran’s government is a ‘regime’ (implying illegitimacy) whereas Israel (despite its brutal suppression of its Palestinian population) is a legitimate democracy.

The Media as an Echo Chamber: Manufacturing Consent

The effectiveness of these diplomatic scripts relies heavily on the uncritical repetition by major Western media outlets, reminiscent of the age-old dictum of propaganda- repeat the lies frequently enough and people will believe them.

Rather than acting as independent watchdogs providing balanced reporting from both sides so that its readership can fully understand the issues , ‘mainstream’ media organisations often function as “stenographers of state,” a phenomenon famously described by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman as “Manufacturing Consent.”

Mechanisms of Media Amplification

Headline Synchronization: Outlets like The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and Reuters frequently adopt the exact terminology used in government press releases. For instance, the phrase “unprovoked and unjustified” became a standard descriptor for the Ukraine invasion across nearly all mainstream Western news reports within hours of the first official statements.
Passive Voice and Framing: Media coverage often mirrors the diplomatic framing of allies. In the case of Gaza, reports frequently use passive voice when describing Palestinian casualties (e.g., “Palestinians died”) while using active voice for Israeli deaths, (e.g. Israeli “civilians were killed by the Iran proxy, Hamas’) effectively softening the impact of the government’s military policies.
The “Expert” Circuit: News programs often invite former government officials (political or military) or think-tank analysts who are themselves part of the diplomatic synchronization process. These “experts” reinforce the official talking points, creating a closed loop of information that excludes dissenting perspectives.
The “Source”: Where exactly do the original mantras for media and politicians come from? Who develops them?-(what agency and what personnel and what location?) How did the process to pre-agree on regurgitating the same phrases come into existence?
Nato’s ‘Cognitive Warfare” programme provides some insights into the process of manipulating the minds of the public to support what otherwise might have been a very unpopular war in Ukraine. The very fact that Western politicians and military have felt the need to manipulate Western public opinion in this way makes it clear that they themselves have significant reservations about the legitimacy of NATO’s and their own actions.

The Impact of Repetition

By constantly repeating these phrases, the media helps to normalize them, transforming a specific political position into an “obvious truth.” When the public hears “Israel has the right to defend itself” or “as long as it takes” repeated across every major news channel, it becomes difficult to question the underlying assumptions of those policies. This repetition creates a “truth-by-repetition” effect, where the volume and frequency of the message replace the need for critical analysis.

NATO’s Cognitive Warfare Programme (CWP) is a blueprint for large-scale perception management. Framed as a defense against authoritarian propaganda, the CWP weaponizes the same tools those same ‘authoritarian regime’s’ use: algorithmic amplification, behavioral microtargeting, and narrative laundering.

NATO’s CWP doesn’t just counter lies; it engineers consent by drowning out dissent under the banner of “strategic truth.

NATO condemns Russian/Chinese disinformation while running classified PSYOPS that manipulate global audiences.

Echo-Chamber Escalation NATO’s AI-driven propaganda tools (e.g., deepfake-enabled “fact checks”) may well be being repurposed to silence dissidents as “foreign agents.”

NATO’s CWP therefore isn’t just a foreign problem—it’s a warning. When institutions normalize cognitive manipulation, every power structure follows suit; they’re part of a global infowar arms race where truth is collateral damage.

What Can You Do?

Follow NATO’s critics (not just its PR).

Archive evidence of narrative shifts over time

Demand transparency—from both NATO and others

“The battlefield is your mind, and the war is already live.” —Anonymous CWP whistleblower

Conclusion

The use of identical statements in Western foreign policy, amplified by a compliant media, is thankfully a double-edged sword. Whilst its intention is to project unity and strength, it can also create a perception of insincerity, lack of nuance and manipulation.

These scripts and their media echo chambers are designed as the “glue” of an increasingly fragile and fractured Western alliance.

But when every leader and every news anchor says exactly the same thing, the message begins to sound less like a principled coordinated stand and more like a pre-recorded propaganda broadcast.

Links

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/big-data/articles/10.3389/fdata.2024.1452129/full

Israel’s Murderous Collective Psychosis

Expulsion: How Israel’s Undefined Borders, Messianic Ideology, and Permanent War Economy Manufacture Consent for Genocide

The 82%

In March 2025, a Penn State University survey published in Israel’s Haaretz newspaper delivered the following article: 82% of Israeli Jews support the forced expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, with 47% endorsing the killing of all inhabitants in conquered enemy cities—referencing biblical conquest narratives .

A separate Israel Democracy Institute poll found that over 80% of Israeli Jews believe Israel should consider Palestinian civilian suffering in Gaza only “to a very small extent” when planning military operations .

These figures represent not a spontaneous reaction to October 7, 2023, but the culmination of a 76-year project since the Nakba of 1948 of historical erasure, legalized discrimination, and ideological indoctrination.

Israel’s refusal to define its borders, its dependence on permanent war, the systematic theft of Palestinian land, and the rise of messianic religious extremism have all converged to create what researchers call a “state of permanent potential expansion”—where ethnic cleansing is not an aberration but a structural necessity. A murderous ideology combining white supremacism , ancient Yiddish messianist texts , the collective trauma response to the Holocaust and extreme violence and sadism.

Part I: The Foundation of Erasure—1948 and the Nakba

The Template of Dispossession

The Nakba—the 1948 expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians—established the blueprint for Israeli land acquisition that continues today. Immediately after that expulsion, Israel controlled 20 million dunams (20,000 km²) of Palestinian land—over three-quarters of all land in Palestine . This was not merely military occupation but the beginning of a legalized system of dispossession.

The “Transfer Committee,” headed by Jewish National Fund (JNF) director Yosef Weitz and approved by David Ben-Gurion, implemented a plan to destroy Palestinian villages and prevent refugee return . Between 360-429 villages were destroyed, with 345 new Jewish communities established on refugee land by 1953 .

The 1950 Absentee Property Law transformed de facto seizure into de jure ownership. This law defined “absentees” so broadly that it included Palestinians who were inside Israeli-controlled territory but temporarily away from their homes . The law allowed the Custodian of Absentee Property to sell confiscated land to the Development Authority, which then transferred it to the Jewish National Fund (JNF)—whose charter restricts land to Jewish ownership only .

The Absence of Borders: A Strategic Choice

When David Ben-Gurion declared Israel’s establishment on May 14, 1948, he deliberately refused to specify borders . This was not administrative negligence but strategic design. To this day, Israel has never defined its international borders beyond those with Egypt and Jordan, while state maps—including those presented by Prime Minister Netanyahu at the United Nations—show Israel covering the full expanse from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea .

The 1949 Armistice Lines were explicitly designated as “without prejudice to future territorial settlements” , creating legal ambiguity that Israel has exploited for 76 years. This refusal to define borders creates what scholars call a “state of permanent potential expansion”—where territory is never finally acquired, only temporarily held, with further expansion always justified as security necessity.

Part II: The Architecture of Discrimination—Legal Apartheid from 1948 to Present

Phase 1: Military Rule (1948-1966)

Palestinian citizens of Israel were subjected to military government until 1966, living under the same British Mandate Defense Laws that Zionists had previously denounced as “inhuman and unjust” . During this period, Israel stripped Palestinian Arabs of a further estimated one million dunams of land through “security” designations and cultivation laws .

Phase 2: The Dual Legal System (1967-Present)

After 1967, Israel described capturing the West Bank and Gaza as “finishing the job”—the job being the ethnic cleansing begun in 1948 . The same pattern of dispossession was repeated, but without even the pretense of equality:

Jewish settlers in the West Bank live under Israeli civil law with full rights and protections
Palestinians are governed by over 1,800 military orders enforced through military courts with conviction rates exceeding 99%
This meets the legal definition of apartheid: an institutionalized regime of systematic racial oppression

The JNF’s Role in Structural Discrimination

The Jewish National Fund(JNF) owns 13% of Israeli land and manages another 80% through the Israel Land Administration, giving it control over 93% of all land in Israel . Its policies explicitly restrict land to Jews only. A 1961 Covenant between the JNF and Israeli government formalized this apartheid structure . Even when the Israeli Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that this discrimination was illegal (Katzir-Qaadan case), the state simply offered to compensate the JNF with equal amounts of land to maintain Jewish-only ownership .

The 2018 Nation-State Law: ‘Legalising’ Supremacy

The “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People” (2018) constitutionalised the hierarchy established in 1948.

The Basic Law:

Declares Jewish settlement a national value that the state must encourage and promote
States that “the right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people”
This makes racially segregated housing official state policy, completing the trajectory from the 1950 Absentee Property Law to constitutional apartheid

Part III: The Permanent War Economy

Israel’s economy is structurally dependent on military conflict.

Military spending reached 30.46% of GDP in 1975 and averaged 11.8% from 1960-2024—nearly triple the world average of 2.2%
In 2024, military spending hit $46.5 billion (8.78% of GDP), second only to Ukraine globally
Defense exports reached $13.1 billion in 2023, representing 2.5% of total GDP and 100% growth since 2018

The Gaza Laboratory

Gaza serves a dual economic function: testing ground and showroom for Israeli military technology. As one analysis notes, “Gaza has become the world’s largest laboratory for drone assassinations and mass killing,” where Palestinians serve as “human test subjects” for commercialized cruelty . Each military offensive—from Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009) to Operation Protective Edge (2014) to the current genocide—acts as a product demonstration for international buyers.

Weapon Diplomacy

Arms exports function as foreign policy tools. Between 2014-2018, Israel was the world’s 8th largest weapons exporter (3.1% of global arms exports) . After the 2020 Abraham Accords, military exports to Arab states surged, reaching record highs of $12.5 billion in 2022 . This creates a feedback loop: military operations against Palestinians generate “combat-proven” technologies that are exported globally, with profits funding further military development.

The Constant War Machine

Israel has maintained continuous military operations since 1948, with major invasions and campaigns occurring in every decade:

Lebanon: Six Invasions in 50 Years :

1978: Operation Litani—20,000 troops occupied southern Lebanon
1982: “Peace for Galilee”—full invasion reaching Beirut, 60,000 troops, 800 tanks
1993: Operation Accountability—displacing 500,000 civilians
1996: Operation Grapes of Wrath—Qana massacre killed 106 civilians in UN compound
2006: July War—34-day conflict with Hezbollah
2024: Third Lebanon War—ground invasion following pager attacks
2025/2026 Current ground invasion with recent temporary cease-fire (April 2026)

Gaza: The Never-Ending Campaign:
Since Hamas’s 2006 election, Israel has conducted Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), Operation Protective Edge (2014), Operation Guardian of the Walls (2021), Operation Breaking Dawn (2022), and Operation Swords of Iron (2023-present—ongoing genocide).

Part IV: Paramilitary Settler Violence

Settler violence is not random criminality but systematic, politically-motivated terrorism designed to expand territorial control and increasingly formally supported by Israeli Defence Force personel and weaponry.

Historical Evolution:

1980s: Settler violence emerged as a “key factor undermining Palestinian security and livelihoods”
2005-2008: The “price tag” strategy emerged after Israel’s Gaza disengagement, with settlers exacting “prices” against Palestinians in retaliation for any restrictions on settlement expansion
2023-2024: Massive surge in violence. Since October 2023, The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has documented 1,536 settler attacks resulting in 152 Palestinian casualties and 1,226 property damage incidents

The Pattern of Violence:
Settler attacks follow a clear template: physical assaults, arson of homes and mosques, uprooting olive trees, stealing harvests, and blocking access to land. Between January and October 2024, settlers vandalized over 26,100 Palestinian-owned trees . In March 2024 alone, at least seven Palestinians were shot and killed by settlers—the highest monthly fatality count in a decade .

State Complicity:
Israeli forces are frequently present during attacks but refuse to intervene until Palestinians defend themselves . The Israeli government has accelerated the legalization of outposts that serve as bases for violence—regulating 30 illegal outposts in a single day in March 2025 . Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has explicitly called for annexation and dismantling the Palestinian Authority, which has unsurprisingly emboldened settler groups who view displacement as a religious duty .

Part V: The Rise of Messianic Power—Theological Extremism as State Policy

The Demographic and Political Transformation

Over the past ten years Israel has experienced a profound demographic and political shift driven by the explosive growth of religious populations:

Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Growth:

The Haredi community numbers 1,335,000 (13.6% of the population) with a 4% annual growth rate—nearly triple the general Jewish population’s 1.4%
Due to a fertility rate of 6.4 children per woman, half of the Haredi sector is under age 16
Projections indicate Haredim will constitute 16% of Israel’s population by 2030, and 32% of all Israelis by 2065

Religious Zionist Radicalization:
While Haredim are growing demographically, Religious Zionism has undergone ideological radicalization. The movement that began with Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook’s messianic theology has transformed from a moderate political force into the driver of relentless territorial expansion .

From Fringe to Mainstream: The Messianic Takeover

The January 28, 2024 “Victory Conference” marked a watershed moment. At Jerusalem’s International Convention Center, 10 cabinet ministers and 27 Knesset members (nearly one-quarter of parliament) gathered to call for:

The conquest of Gaza
Expulsion of its Palestinian population
Renewal of Jewish settlement in Gaza and Northern Samaria

Speakers quoted the Book of Numbers: “Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land”—a Blibical Old Testament ‘commandment’ interpreted literally to justify ethnic cleansing .

Netanyahu’s Transformation of Likud:
Benjamin Netanyahu deliberately transformed Likud from a secular nationalist party into a vehicle for religious extremism. As Hebrew University political scientist Gayil Talshir documents, Netanyahu “took a right-wing, national-oriented, liberal party and pulled it hard to the edge,” introducing “extremist religious and messianic elements into the heart of Likud” .

The Temple Mount Movement: Eschatology as Foreign Policy

The Temple Mount movement exemplifies how messianic ideology has been weaponized for territorial expansion. Once considered radical fringe, it has become mainstream through government support:

Ideological Evolution:

Pre-1967: Visiting the Temple Mount was forbidden by all leading rabbis as violating Jewish law
1996: The Committee of Yesha Rabbis ruled that Jews “are permitted and even encouraged to enter the Temple Mount” to prevent territorial compromise
2005: The Gaza disengagement caused “the final breakdown of the Kookist interpretation,” making the Temple a “substitute for the messianic vision”
2020s: Support among Likud MKs grew “from virtually nil to almost half”

Government Funding and Support:

The Temple Institute received approximately $361,000 from the Ministry of Education and $210,000 from the Ministry of Culture and Sports between 2010-2015
Israeli public schools “indoctrinate children” into the movement, “forcefully exposing students to the Temple movements’ versions of history, ideology and Jewish law regarding the Temple Mount”
By 2016, Israel’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau publicly declared he wanted to see a temple built in the Noble Sanctuary

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Ascent:
The appointment of Itamar Ben-Gvir (former disciple of Meir Kahane) as Minister of National Security represents the ultimate fusion of messianic ideology and state power. Ben-Gvir, who was convicted of supporting terrorism and inciting racism, now oversees the police force that once investigated him .

In June 2024, Ben-Gvir declared: “We say in the simplest way, it’s ours” regarding the Temple Mount, adding “We are the masters of Jerusalem and all of the land of Israel” . This is not religious fundamentalism but ultra-nationalism using religion as justification—what scholar Motti Inbari calls “theocratic post-Zionism” .

Part VI: Manufacturing Consent—Education, Media, and the Psychology of Denial

Educational Indoctrination

Israeli education systematically suppresses the Nakba and cultivates militarized nationalism:

Military jargon penetration: Classrooms use military terminology that “trivializes military discourse and mode of thinking”
Pseudo-military memorial services for fallen soldiers socialize children into militarized nationalism
School excursions to military bases and the “Next Generation” (HaDor HaBa) programs cultivate “civilian soft militarism”
Textbooks that mention massacres like Deir Yassin justify them because “the slaughter of friendly Palestinians brought about the flight of other Palestinians which enabled the establishment of a coherent Jewish state”
The 2011 Nakba Law criminalizes historical truth in educational settings

State-Sponsored Historical Revisionism

Benny Morris, the Israeli historian who documented Nakba atrocities, revealed that Israel’s Defense Ministry operates a secret department (Malmab) that systematically removes historical documents from archives to prevent documentation of 1948 atrocities . Morris himself was denied access to documents he had previously quoted, with archivists stating simply: “now the documents are closed” . This represents what scholars term “memoricide”—the systematic destruction of collective memory .

Media Manufacturing Consent

Research from UCLA’s Study of Hate demonstrates how media framing reinforces educational indoctrination :

British media used emotive terms like “atrocities,” “slaughter,” and “massacre” 11 times more frequently for Israeli victims than Palestinian victims, despite disproportionate death tolls
80% of British media articles framed the conflict as “Israel-Hamas war,” aligning with Israeli-preferred narratives that obscure the occupation’s structural violence
Israeli attacks were described vaguely while Palestinian actions included weaponry specifications in 99.3% of articles versus 20.5% for IDF attacks

Israeli domestic media has become even more extreme. Channel 14 has been accused by human rights organizations of “incitement to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity” .

The Psychological Mechanism of Selective Trauma

The system operates through what researchers call “competing historical truths” where empathy is systematically directed toward one group and denied to another . By suppressing the Nakba and framing Palestinians as eternal enemies, Israeli society maintains what psychologist Vamik Volkan terms “chosen trauma”—the selection of historical wounds (the Holocaust) that justify present aggression, while denying the other’s trauma (the Nakba) .

The Penn State study found that 65% of Israeli Jews believe in a modern-day “Amalek” (biblical enemy), with 93% believing the commandment to “wipe out the memory of Amalek” applies today . This transforms ethnic cleansing from a historical crime into a divine obligation, with Palestinians cast as successors to biblical enemies.

Part VII: The Self-Perpetuating Cycle—Connecting All Threads

Each element of Israeli/Zionist ‘lore’ reinforces the others:

1. Undefined Borders Enable Constant Expansion

Without defined borders, every military operation can be framed as border security rather than foreign invasion. The messianic belief in “Greater Land of Israel” sanctifies the entire territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean as divine judgement, making border definition not just politically difficult but theologically impossible .

2. Permanent War Requires Permanent Enemies

The military economy requires constant conflict to maintain funding and test technologies. As the Security in Context analysis notes, “Israel has positioned itself as a global exemplar in urban militarism and securitization, leveraging its experience in the Palestinian territories” . This creates an incentive for military escalation rather than diplomatic resolution or de-escalation.

3. Discrimination Legitimizes Dispossession

The 82% support for expelling Palestinians connects directly to the economic system. When Finance Minister Smotrich states that Ben-Gurion’s “mistake” was not “finishing the job” in 1948 , he articulates the logical conclusion of the permanent war economy: complete territorial control requires demographic transformation.

4. Settler Violence as Paramilitary Enforcement

Systematic settler attacks are used as irregular forces for territorial expansion, operating with state complicity. The 1,536 attacks since October 2023 are not aberrations but policy implementation by other means.

5. Messianism Provides Theological Justification

The messianist right has captured the education system, media, and legal structures to produce the 82% consensus. As Gayil Talshir, professor of political science at Hebrew University observes, Netanyahu has become both master and marionette of this system—using messianists for political survival while being forced to conform to their agenda .

6. The Feedback Loop to Maintain the Murderous Onslaught

The feedback loop is complete: military operations generate “combat-proven” technologies for export → export revenues fund further military R&D (4.5% of GDP—highest in OECD) → military service socializes citizens into militarized nationalism → this produces public support (82%) for further military operations → which justify further territorial expansion under “security” pretexts.

The Unbroken Chain from 1948 to 2024

The 82% support for expulsion, the settler violence, the media complicity, and the educational indoctrination are not aberrations but the logical culmination of a system established in 1948. The Nakba was not a historical event but a template for ongoing dispossession—legalized through the Absentee Property Law, normalized through education, justified through religious ideology, and enforced through settler violence.

As the Penn State researchers noted, October 7 “unleashed demons that have been nurtured over decades in the media and in the legal and educational systems” . Those demons were born in 1948, when Israel chose not to define its borders, and have been fed by every military operation, every land confiscation, and every act of discrimination since.

The “Victory Conference” warning was clear: if Netanyahu compromises on territory, he will be replaced by someone who won’t. The messianists have “cracked the genetic code of how to control the political system in Israel,” offering Netanyahu “great respect and the role of leader of the people” while receiving “dramatic control of the deeper structures of society: the education system, the media, the judiciary, the economy and of course the occupied territories” .

The 82% are not naturally evil individuals. They are the product of a system that has, for three generations, taught them that Palestinian suffering is instrumental to Jewish security, that ethnic cleansing is divine commandment, and that permanent war is the only possible condition.

Until this system is dismantled—its borders defined, its military economy transformed, its messianist ideology challenged, and its historical truths acknowledged—the cycle of dispossession will continue, with each generation finding new justifications for the ancient crime of 1948.

While the U.N. and the West push for a ‘two-state solution” and a return to the 1967 borders, the reality is that a new Palestine is no longer a viable economic or security option because of the destruction caused by Israel in the intervening years. Only a single state solution is now possible. A state where Palestinians and Israelis live side by side in peace, and where democratic rights for all citizens are respected and upheld.

That will require a comprehensive re-education programme for the 80% Israelis who currently favour genocide to learn how to respect those who they have been conditioned to consider as ‘other”. It can be done, and post-apartheid South Africa can serve as a somewhat imperfect model for this process.

Sources and Further Reading

Polling Data and Public Opinion:

Penn State/Haaretz poll: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll
Genocide Watch analysis: https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/poll-show-most-jewish-israelis-support-expelling-gazans
Israel Democracy Institute: https://en.idi.org.il/about/about-idi/

Historical Documentation:

UN study on land acquisition: https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208638/
PalQuest on property appropriation: https://www.palquest.org/en/highlight/14374/israel%E2%80%99s-appropriation-palestinian-property
Benny Morris on archive censorship: https://mondoweiss.net/2019/07/reveals-israeli-conspiracy/

Economic Analysis:

Security in Context on permanent war economy: https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/merchants-of-death-israels-permanent-war-economy
WiFi Talents defense statistics: https://wifitalents.com/israel-defense-industry-statistics/

Messianism and Politics:

Jewish Voice for Labour analysis: https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/how-messianic-fundamentalists-took-over-israel/
IMEU explainer on Temple Mount movement: https://imeu.org/resources/resources/explainer-the-temple-mount-movement/115
Jewish Currents on Temple Mount activism: https://jewishcurrents.org/the-nationalist-heresy-of-temple-mount-activism

Education and Media:

Arab Center Washington DC on Nakba in education: https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/the-nakba-in-israeli-public-discourse-and-school-history-curriculum/
Lund University media framing study: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9179397/file/9179405.pdf
UCLA Study of Hate: https://studyofhate.ucla.edu/media-portrayals-of-the-israel-hamas-war-in-gaza/

Settler Violence:

ACLED on settler violence surge: https://acleddata.com/report/while-all-eyes-are-iran-conflict-settler-violence-surging-west-bank
OCHA humanitarian updates: https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/humanitarian-situation-update-252-west-bank

Demographic Data:

JPPI Annual Assessment 2024: https://jppi.org.il/en/%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%94-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%AA-2024/s/5.4/
Wikipedia on Haredi Judaism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haredi_Judaism

This article synthesizes peer-reviewed research, UN reports, and investigative journalism to present a comprehensive analysis of the structural factors behind current Israeli public opinion. All statistics and claims are linked to verifiable sources.

Racism and the Iran War

How White Supremacy Fuels the West’s Assault on Iran

From the 1953 Coup to the 2026 War—A Pattern of Racialized Resource Theft

The bombs falling on Iranian schools, hospitals, and residential neighborhoods in early 2026 are not merely acts of war. They are the violent expression of a centuries-old ideology: white supremacy. The United States and Israel’s assault on Iran represents the latest chapter in a colonial playbook where non-white nations are systematically dehumanized, their sovereignty violated, and their resources plundered—all under the guise of “democracy,” “security,” or “civilization.”

To understand the current conflict, we must strip away the propaganda and examine the racial and economic architecture that has driven Western policy toward Iran for over seven decades.

The Original Sin: 1953 and the Birth of Modern Iran Policy

The template was set in August 1953, when the CIA and MI6 orchestrated a coup against Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. His crime? Nationalizing Iran’s oil industry to free his people from British Petroleum’s colonial extraction. The response from London and Washington was not diplomacy—it was regime change through terror.

Operation Ajax deployed “paid terrorists within Iran to stir up trouble,” as CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt arrived with suitcases of cash to bribe newspaper editors, manufacture protests, and create a sham communist threat . The Shah was restored, Savak (his brutal secret police) was trained by the CIA, and 40% of Iran’s oil fields were signed over to U.S. companies . Some 300 Iranians died in the streets so that white-controlled corporations could maintain their grip on Persian oil.

This was not about communism. It was about race and resources. As the Zinn Education Project notes, American textbooks still sanitize this history, claiming the CIA merely “backed” a coup rather than orchestrating a terrorist campaign against a democratic government .

The “Regime” Label: 47 Years of Racialized Delegitimization

Since the 1979 revolution, Western media has religiously referred to Iran’s government as a “regime”—a term rarely applied to Western allies like Saudi Arabia, despite its absolute monarchy and routine beheadings. This linguistic violence serves a purpose: it transforms a sovereign nation into a rogue entity requiring “management” by civilized (white) powers.

The double standard is stark. The Gulf States are “kingdoms” despite being hereditary dictatorships. Israel is a “democracy” despite maintaining an apartheid system over millions of Palestinians. But Iran—whose people have participated in more genuine electoral contests than most U.S. allies in the region—is perpetually a “regime.”

This vocabulary reflects what scholar Vijay Prashad calls “the darker nations” thesis: the global South exists in the Western imagination only as a problem to be solved, never as equals with legitimate interests.

The 2025-2026 Wars and School Children

The Twelve-Day War of June 2025 and the subsequent 2026 conflict have revealed the true character of Western-Israeli military doctrine. When Israeli and U.S. forces bombed the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Elementary School in Minab on February 28, 2026, killing at least 168 people including scores of children, they were continuing a tradition of racialized warfare .

Satellite imagery confirmed the strike was likely conducted by a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile. The Pentagon’s response? “We’re investigating.” President Trump suggested Iran bombed its own school. This is the logic of supremacy: brown children’s lives are collateral damage in a game where only white strategic interests matter .

The pattern is deliberate. DAWN (Democracy for the Arab World Now) documented scores of schools, health facilities, and fuel depots bombed by U.S. and Israeli forces, with white phosphorus dropped on civilian communities . These are not accidents. They are war crimes rooted in the belief that Iranian lives are expendable.

As DAWN’s Omar Shakir stated: “The international community’s failure to act when the most fundamental norms of international law are being challenged risks plunging the world further into a lawless era” . But this “lawlessness” is selective—it applies only when non-white nations assert sovereignty over their resources.

The Chosen People Narrative: Israel’s Racial Theology

Central to this conflict is Israel’s self-conception as “the chosen people”—a theological framework that has been weaponized into a license for ethnic cleansing. The “Greater Israel” project, stretching from the Euphrates to the Nile, requires the removal or subjugation of non-Jewish populations. This is not ancient history; it is current Israeli government policy. Israel is the only country in the world that does not have defined borders; since its inception in 1948, it has constantly expanded its borders in order to fulfil its founders’ messianistic dream of a Greater Israel

The genocidal attacks on Palestinians—documented by the UN Commission of Inquiry as war crimes and crimes against humanity—are the laboratory for techniques now being deployed against Iran . When Israeli forces disguised themselves as medical personnel to kill 41 civilians in Lebanon in March 2026, they were demonstrating that perfidy is permissible against non-white enemies .

The infantile belief in divine selection—used to justify the maiming, murder, and terrorizing of non-Israelis—finds its parallel in American exceptionalism. Both ideologies depend on the fundamental dehumanization of the Other. Both require the constant manufacturing of existential threats to maintain racial hierarchy.

The Real Target: Oil, Hormuz, and the Anxiety of White Decline

Strip away the rhetoric about Iranian nuclear weapons—despite Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa against them—and the true object of Western aggression becomes visible: oil and strategic control.

Iran’s insistence on uranium enrichment is not about bombs; it is about energy sovereignty. The West Asian region contains the world’s most critical petroleum reserves, and the Strait of Hormuz is the chokepoint through which global capitalism breathes. When Iran asserts control over its own energy destiny, it threatens the white-dominated global order.

The 1953 coup was about oil. The decades of sanctions are about oil. The current war is about oil. The “white supremacist view that these other non-white people are inferior” serves to legitimize the theft of their resources. As one analyst noted, even “precision warfare” against Iranian targets killed thousands of civilians—a “stark reminder” that technological sophistication does not erase racialized brutality .

The Complicity of the “International Community”

The West’s Gulf allies—Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar—play their assigned roles in this racialized hierarchy. These “kingdoms” (never “regimes”) provide cover for the assault on Iran, their own populations suppressed by the same security apparatuses supplied by Washington and London. They are the house managers of the white supremacist estate in West Asia.

Meanwhile, Western media continues its 47-year project of manufacturing consent. The war is framed as “defensive,” Iranian retaliation as “terrorism,” and civilian casualties as unfortunate necessities. When Iranian missiles strike military targets in Israel, it is an outrage; when U.S. missiles destroy Iranian schools, they are “tragic mistakes” .

Forty-seven years of Western and UN sanctions on Iran have also resulted in many Iranian deaths through loss of access to essential services and increasing poverty. The supposed rationale for the sanctions was that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon- something that Iran has consistently declared it was not going to do. It is abundantly clear that Iran, with its very sophisticated academic and industrial capacity, could have developed nuclear weapons decades ago if it had wished to.

This is the epistemic violence that accompanies physical violence—the systematic erasure of non-white agency, pain, and legitimate grievance.

Breaking the Cycle

The war on Iran is not an aberration. It is the continuation of a colonial modernity that divides the world into civilized (white/aligned) and barbaric (non-white/independent) nations. From the 1953 coup to the 2026 bombing of schoolchildren, the through-line is clear: the West will not tolerate resource sovereignty in the hands of non-white peoples.

To oppose this war requires more than anti-war activism. It requires the dismantling of the ideological architecture that makes such wars thinkable—the racial hierarchies, the exceptionalist theologies, the media frameworks that render some children worthy of mourning and others merely statistics.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz under international law, the breaking of international law by Israel and the U.S., the bombing of universities and hospitals—these are not separate issues. They are facets of a single system of domination that must be named, confronted, and dismantled.

The war is not about nuclear weapons. It is about who has the right to exist, to govern, and to benefit from the planet’s energy source. Until we confront the white supremacy at its core, the bombs will continue to fall.

For the children of Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School. For the memory of Mossadegh. For a world where sovereignty is not determined by skin color.

AI generated audio version of this post, below..

Resources

For accurate and largely dispassionate analyses of the Iran war and international affairs generally, try Youtube interviews with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Alastair Crooke, Prof. John Mearscheimer, Prof. Glenn Diesen, Colonel Larry Wilkerson, and Larry Johnson.

False Outrage

Western commentators continue to express outrage about Trump’s latest international adventures: Nigeria, Venezuela and more particularly Ukraine and Greenland ( because they have ‘good white’ populations.

I was struck by an Australian Broadcasting analysis of 11th January 2026 which stated, without a hint of irony, that Trump had assaulted the ‘once enshrined concept of national sovereignty, overthrowing eight decades of rigidly enforced global order.

Obviously the analyst didnt understand the concept of history, or perhaps was born less than decade ago. The United States since its inception has been launching wars of extreme savagery and brutality ( something the Israelis seem to have inherited from them and the UK) . From the extermination of North American Indians, the Phillipines genocide in 1898, the many many wars in South America over the past 200 years to install compliant dictatorships, to the post second world war killing spree, with CIA endless covert murders across the world, the Korean War genocide, then on to the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, there has most certainly not been 8 decades of peace because of the West’s global world order!! (or the ‘International Rule Based Order ‘ if you prefer (i.e. the US rules and you obey)

Trump’s attempts at a land-grab of Greenland, along with trying to plunder Venezuelan oil and supporting Israel’s imminent (second) war against Iran are simply just a continuation of America’s foreign (and internal) policy since its inception in 1792.

U.S. analysts decry Trump and his coterie for undermining democracy and freedom and not wanting to be an empire like the 19th century European powers, frequently quoting statements made by the U.S.’s founding fathers like Jefferson and Washington. Those analysts use the founding fathers statements and quotes from the American Constitution as proof that the US is essentially a ‘good’ nation.

What analysts in the US particularly object to about Trump and his thuggish entourage, is that they are saying the things that they have themselves always really believed in, OUT LOUD.

Perhaps those founding Fathers believed in the things they were saying, but the evidence suggests they were trying to create a country where the wealthy and landowning civilised ‘white’ (really pink) class could live in peace without threats from the uncivilised darker peoples of the world. And naturally, because those peoples were uncivilised it made perfect sense for the US military to treat them as sub-human.’Humanity’ was reserved for the white-skinned folks. Trump and his racist coterie and oligarchs are therefore, the continuation of a long lineage of theft and thuggery.

We should be careful though to emphasise that the other pink ‘ruling classes” of the world also subscribe to this obscene and absurd view. The EU ex head of EU ‘diplomacy’ Josep Borrell’s statement in 2022 that “Europe is a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle. The jungle could invade the garden” is a classic example of this racist ignorant ideology.

Borrell seemed to have forgotten that the only reason Europe had had- up till then at least, been a ‘garden’ is because it had murdered and plundered its way through most of the global south over the past 500 years and used those resources to create Europe’s safe and pretty garden. Ironically, Europe now relies economically on the non-pink migrants it has brutally forced from their homelands for its cheap labour and maintaining its GDP.

Similarly and with great irony, what helped to make “America Great” in previous times was the enormous number of immigrants from ‘pink’ Europe.

Trump and his ‘administration’ are now attempting, with great lawless brutality, to cut off that very lifeblood of immigration to US simply because they are now the wrong colour. In Trump’s desperate attempt to ‘Make America White Again’, that cheap labour, which as of late 2025, made up approximately 19% of the total U.S. labour force, is now under threat, thus undermining the very basis of US agriculture and industry. One is reminded of Australia’s attempts for 50 years to to keep Australia ( besides the ‘sub-human’ indigenous aboriginal population) ‘safe’ for Europeans using their “White Australia” policies.

With the meteoric rise of China as a global economic power and its vastly superior research and industrial base, the West is under massive threat to its global dominance. China expands its opportunities for wealth, not through Western-style theft and subjugation, but through contracts and mutual agreements. The Belt and Road initiative is a classic example of this practice.

In theory the US and the West could realign their foreign policies to work alongside China and the Global South to develop cooperative and mutually beneficial trade, while reducing the threat of war.

This however does not seem to be an option for the US or the rest of the West. 500 years of exploitation and murder have paralysed Western decision-making and innovative thinking.

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The Role of Racism in Western Colonialism: A Historical & Contemporary Analysis

Racism was not a side-effect of empire—it was its operating system. From the 15th-century “Age of Discovery” to 21st-century border regimes, racial hierarchies have justified land theft, slavery, resource extraction and permanent war.

We outline how racism powered colonialism—and why it still shapes our world, as we see in the large recent populist responses in Europe and the US to immigration from non-white countries.

I would argue that we are, as human beings, inherently racist. We cherish the human group we belong to; the way we look, the way our group behaves, the things that are important to us. Those that look, and/or behave differently to us are therefore not ‘one of us”- they are outsiders, a threat to us and our group’s safety and wellbeing. Who we are is ‘normal’ – those ‘others’ are not normal.

That defensiveness against ‘others’, I would argue, is the root of racism. While that fear response may be deeply imbedded in our psyche, it can, and must be rooted out with clear rationality and understanding for those ‘others’. If we are to be truly human, we must treat all other living things with the kindness and compassion we expect for ourselves.

Conquest Begins with Name-Calling: “Savage” as a Licence to Kill

Greek and Roman writers already labelled outsiders “barbarians”, but the Atlantic world turned prejudice into policy. English colonisers depicted the Gaelic Irish as dark-skinned degenerates; Spaniards painted Indigenous Americans as cannibals; Dutch and Portuguese traders recast West Africans as “beasts of burden”. Once economic incentives for plantation slavery exploded, stereotypes hardened: Africans were now naturally servile, sexually voracious, mentally inferior—and therefore made for slavery. The perjorative demeaning language used to describe non-whites by ‘white’ people across the world is no accident. Language defines..

In the 21st Century, non-white immigrants to Western countries are seen as a threat to European ‘values’ culture and economic wellbeing. Current immigrant levels to the US and Europe are a direct result of economic and safety destabilisations caused by earlier extractive colonial policies and the West’s immensely destructive wars in those countries. In addition, Western governments, as opposed to their ‘white’ populations, have welcomed these new cheap labour immigrants to bolster their GDPs.

“Scientific” Racism: Empire in a White Lab-Coat

19-century European universities measured skulls, mapped skin tones and coined terms like “Caucasoid” to give racism the veneer of objectivity. The Dawinian science of evolution was used to delineate some human ‘races’ as less genetically evolved, with of course the white races at the top! This absurd and unscientific use of evolution were used by many in the West and exploited in the eugenics movement, and in its extreme form by the Nazis, and latterly the Zionists.

3. Britain’s ‘Liberal’ Empire

“Violence was not a one-off occurrence… it was systemic and part and parcel of Britain’s liberal imperialism.”– ‘Legacy of Violence-
A History of the British Empire’ Caroline Elkins (2023)

In the 19th century, Medical journals warned that “negro lungs” were unfit for cold climates to help justify keeping indentured labourers on Caribbean sugar plantations. Anthropology museums displayed colonised peoples alongside fauna. These ‘scientific’ findings were incorporated into colonial legal codes: the 1885 Berlin Conference carved up Africa on the assumption that Whites could best steward African land and bodies. Britain’s ‘protectorates’ listed below are a ‘sublime’ example of the racist mentality of the British Foreign Office. Why these populations would need ‘protecting’ from themselves was never adequately explained…

Territory	Protectorate proclaimed	Today part of …
Malta	1800	Malta
Ionian Islands	1815	Greece
Mosquito Coast	1838	Nicaragua / Honduras
Aden (W. & E. Protectorates)	1872	Yemen
Cyprus	1878	Cyprus
Sultanate of Zanzibar	1890	Tanzania
Bechuanaland	1885	Botswana
British Somaliland	1884	Somalia
North Borneo	1888	Malaysia (Sabah)
Brunei	1888	Brunei
Sarawak	1888	Malaysia
Maldives	1887	Maldives
Sikkim	1861	India
Barotseland	1900	Zambia
East Africa Protectorate	1895	Kenya
Uganda Protectorate	1894	Uganda
Nyasaland	1893	Malawi
Northern Rhodesia	1924	Zambia
Swaziland	1903	Eswatini
Basutoland	1868	Lesotho
Gambia Protectorate	1894	The Gambia
Sierra Leone Protectorate	1896	Sierra Leone
Nigeria (N. & S. protectorates)	1900	Nigeria
Qatar	1916	Qatar
Bahrain	1861	Bahrain
Trucial Oman	1887	UAE
Cook Islands	1888	New Zealand (self-governing)
Niue	1900	New Zealand (self-governing)
Tokelau	1889	New Zealand
British Solomon Is.	1893	Solomon Islands
Gilbert & Ellice Is.	1892	Kiribati & Tuvalu
Tonga	1879	Tonga
Oman (Muscat & Oman)	1800	Oman
Bhutan	1911	Bhutan

From Kenya’s “Pipeline” detention camps to Malaya’s New Villages, London cast mass incarceration, forced labour and sexual violence as “rehabilitation” for racially suspect subjects. Files were then sealed for decades under the Colonial Papers Destruction Policy.

Comparative Brutality: France, Belgium, Germany

French Algeria: Settler colonialism embedded in the département system; with 1.5 million Algerians killed during the 1954-62 war of independence (Al-Jazeera retrospective).

Belgian Congo: Leopold II’s rubber regime caused an estimated 10 million deaths—A BBC investigation calls it “one of the greatest mass murders in history”.

German South-West Africa: 1904-08 extermination order against the Herero and Nama is now officially recognised by Germany as genocide.

British India: current scholarship puts the excess-mortality death toll attributable to British colonial policy in India between 1881-1920 alone at roughly 50–165 million people.

Racism after the Empires Recede

Decolonisation brought new flags, but not justice. The UN confirms that “colonialism lives on” in racial profiling, poverty and unequal trade. Former plantation economies still dominate global commodity chains, even while end-use processing for value addition to those raw commodities continues to happen in the Global North. France’s banlieues, Britain’s Windrush deportations, and the U.S. racial wealth gap all map precisely onto old imperial shipping routes.

Environment Impacts of Racism

The climate crisis is driven by the same extractive logic that cleared forests for sugar and cotton. Former colonies already suffer temperature increases twice the global average—a direct legacy of shipping carbon to Europe while deforesting the colonies’ natural environment- that same natural world many indigenous populations relied upon for their survival.

Towards Reparatory Justice

Unveiling the Truth: Ensure that all colonial archives are opened to the public and for research (UK still classifies this information under the “migrated archives” rule).
Reparations: From debt cancellation to technology transfers—see UN-DESA Policy Brief #96 along with fair funding reparations from ex colonial powers for their brutality and economic extraction.
Education: Develop truthful, accurate and non-ideologically driven curricula for each ex-colonial country and its coloniser which explains the rationales and impacts of racism and consequent colonialism from each side.

Palestine 2023-25: A Live-Streamed Genocide Enabled by Racialised Imperial Logic

The same racial logic that once classified Indigenous peoples as “savages” and Africans as “natural slaves” is now redeployed to portray Palestinians—especially in Gaza—as irredeemable terrorists whose lives are expendable. Western diplomatic, financial and military support for Israel’s 2023-25 assault is therefore not an aberration; it is the continuity of a 500-year-old pattern in which white-majority states licence settler violence against racialised “others” while declaring themselves civilised.

Genocide is apparently what “non-white” actors commit; white or white-allied states are presumed incapable of it. Western media highlights Israeli “security” and terrorists’ ‘hostages’ while Palestinian deaths are counted in opaque “casualty” statistics, stripped of names, faces, context, and their 70 + years living under Israeli colonisation completely ignored. Bizarrely, peaceful protesters against Israeli savagery in Gaza in France, Germany, Britain and the US, among many, have themselves been labelled as terrorists and arrested.

France banned pro-Palestine demonstrations within days; police invoked emergency powers against students wearing the keffiyeh. The UK Home Secretary equated Palestinian flags with “support for terrorism”. Germany’s Berlin Senate excluded Palestinian speakers under the IHRA definition. These measures show how racialised imperial violence abroad is coupled with shrinking anti-racist space at home.

Trump’s ‘War’ on Immigration

The role of racism in Donald Trump’s immigration agenda is not incidental—it is the engine. From his 2015 campaign launch to the executive orders signed on Day 1 of his second term, Trump has consistently racialised immigrants, fused white-nationalist grievance with policy, and leveraged state power to punish Black, Brown and Muslim communities. Bizarrely the United States economic growth has historically largely been fuelled by immigration- but only immigration from the ‘right’ places; from Western Europe.

Trump’s language about immigrants betrays the racist underpinnings of his anti-immigration policies -‘“These aren’t people. These are animals” (referring to Central-American migrants), “Shithole countries” (Jan 2018): Trump asked why the US admits people from Haiti, El Salvador or Africa instead of Norway..

Such statements activate what scholars call “demographobia”: the fear among whites that they are being “replaced” by higher-fertility non-white minorities.

The Great Replacement theory—the belief that elites are deliberately replacing whites with non-white immigrants—moved from far-right chatrooms to Trump’s 2025 National Emergency declaration, which frames migration as an “invasion” threatening “national character”.

Demonic Israel and the Savage West

Israel has only 3 months till September to launch a new aerial attack on Iran.In September Iraqi airspace will be closed to the US and its allies, as US troops are required to leave Iraq by then. Given that Israel and the US clearly did not achieve it s objectives in this most recent attack on Iran, we can expect further surprise attacks on Iran in the near future.

Will Iran finally go nuclear? will they have learnt their lesson and build a full military alliance with Russia China and North Korea? – we shall have to wait and see…

There is clear evidence of the UK, Germany and France providing the air-refuelling tankers for Israeli F35s to reach the Iranian border, fire their missiles, and return to base. Undoubtedly Five Eyes (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and US) have also provided the intelligence targeting data for the Israelis both for the Iran war and for the Gaza genocide.

Germany France and UK have thus been intimately involved in supporting this unprovoked war while they and the EU have continued to pretend such an attack is legal in international law.

International law is very clear-Israel had absolutely no legal grounds to attack . Its excuse was that Iran was about to possess nuclear weapons- a claim Netanyahu has been making for 40 years. Alistair Crooke (below) however claims that Palantir’s AI predictive software created a false impression of a sudden surge in Iranian enrichment, which contributed to the urgency to attack by the Americans and Israel.

80% of Israelis support Palestinian genocide- its Jewish citizens have been indoctrinated into a bizarre ideology that says they are the chosen ones and therefore they have the right to act with total impunity- sadistic brutal murder torture and starvation- any thing goes- and the US and the rest of the West have fostered and enabled that savagery to blossom and erupt into its demonic current state. Over $150 billion in mostly military aid from the US alone since 1948, has enabled Israel to continuously expand its territories.

Israel has violated at least 30 UN Security Council resolutions and over 100 resolutions from other UN bodies, totalling more than 130 violations of international consensus.

Nevertheless it is very clear- despite an Israeli security blackout, that Israel’s economy, already fragile, has been significantly impacted by Iranian missile strikes. Bloomberg estimates the economic costs alone to Israel caused by Iran’s missile strikes at $3.5 billion. Although Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told a press conference the total cost of war could be as high as $12 billion. The Israeli Haifa oil refinery will take at least a month to repair and its major shipping port, Haifa, significantly damaged and a number of military facilities either destroyed or damaged.

Unlike Israel with its drone terror attacks in Iran, its assassinations of Iranian civilians and terror bombings in Iranian cities, Iran has displayed remarkable circumspection in its attacks-minimal civilian Israeli deaths (despite the repeated images from Israeli propaganda of little Israeli children unscathed and perfectly clean, being held by Israeli soldiers after being ‘rescued” from the rubble) have been very small- indicating Iranian precise targeting of military targets.

Clearly this was a regime change operation. The West expected the Islamic regime in Tehran to fold quickly and rapturous joy would break out in the streets at Iran’s ‘liberation”. In fact, most (but not all) Iranians rallied round the flag and its likely that -despite 40 years of Western sanctions , Iranian infrastructure will be quickly rebuilt -especially with Chinese assistance (Iran is a vital node in China’s Belt and Road transport network to and from the West to China with a major rail network recently completed from China).

Iranian International, with enormous funding from the US and Israel (and likely other funding sources in European governments) had been poised to insert the Shah of Iran’s son Reza Pahlavi as the new “king” of Iran once the regime capitulated. The fact that Reza Pahlavi was heir to his father’s bizarre and corrupt reign (with his brutal SAVAK secret police trained by Mossad, Mi6 and CIA in torture techniques), and is entirely in the pocket of the genocidal Israelis and corrupt Americans and British who would then steal Iranian oil, wasn’t deemed to be a problem somehow. Israel’s title for their war with Iran , ‘Rising Lion’ is both a reference to Talmud texts, but also to the flag of the late Shah.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_Israel

Like everything associated with the state of Palestine and the history of Israel since the Nakba , Zionists have attempted to revise history and pretend that Palestinians never occupied or owned the land that was stolen from them by the Zionists, starting with the Nakba of 1948 and progressing to the present day. aijac.org.au

Thankfully, Trump’s bombasity, lies and stupidity have fed into the perception of many in the South of a steady decline in American power and influence. The recent bizarre events at the NATO Summit in the Netherlands of Trump being called ‘Daddy ‘and all the NATO states kowtowing to Trump in pledging 5% military spending by 2035, a pledge which would undoubtedly bankrupt many of the EU states.

America and Israel and NATO/Five Eyes had expected an easy victory over Iran- decapitate the military leaders through assassinations, disable the Iranian neural networks for their missile defence systems and radars , blitz Tehran and then demand capitulation. The assassinations were largely successful, the hacking of the networks worked- but only for 8 hours-( the West had not anticipated how fast Iranian engineers could get the system back up and running)- and then the Iranian missile response began..

Indisputably Iran has suffered major but not irreparable losses in this war; the assassinations of some key military leadership and nuclear scientists, military facilities and missile systems destroyed.

However the genocide in Gaza by the Israeli “Defence” Forces (IDF) continues at the same brutal pace- with continued support form the US and the West. Every day Palestinians are being shot and killed by snipers , tanks and artillery as they try and negotiate the gate-pens to get some food ‘ provided’ through Israeli and US agencies for their starving families . While condemned by the UN and many in the South, Western nations are silent and complicit in this total inhumanity: a massive indictment of all that the West has pretended to stand for in the last 70 years- freedom, safety, democracy and the rule of law.

And for those who would like to believe this total absence of humanity and human rights for Palestinians is a recent phenomenon, please look at the following data below of the deaths and displacements by Israel since the Nakba of 1948. The state of Israel is an abomination, a pariah state fully supported by the West.

1. Displacement and Refugees

1948 Arab-Israeli War (Nakba) :
- Approximately 700,000 Palestinians were displaced or became refugees, including many women and children.
- The UN estimates that 75% of Palestinian refugees today are women and children.
1967 Six-Day War :
- Another 300,000+ Palestinians fled or were expelled from the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.
- Women and children made up a significant portion of these refugees.
Total Palestinian Refugees Today :
- Over 7 million Palestinians are registered as refugees or displaced persons globally (UNRWA and UNHCR data).
- The majority are women and children due to generational displacement and high birth rates.

2. Casualties in Conflicts

Major Conflicts Since 1948 :
- 1948–1956 : Exact numbers for women and children are unclear but likely high due to mass displacement.
- 1967 & 1973 Wars : Limited data exists, but civilian casualties included many women and children.
- First Intifada (1987–1993) : ~1,000 Palestinian children killed; women’s deaths unrecorded.
- Second Intifada (2000–2005) : Over 3,000 Palestinian children killed; women also died in airstrikes and shootings.
- Gaza Wars (2008–2009, 2012, 2014, 2021, 2023–2024) :
  - 2023–2024 Gaza War : As of April 2024, over 10,000 women and 18,000 children reported killed (Palestinian Health Ministry). Independent experts warn underreporting due to chaos and blocked aid.
  - 2014 Gaza War : ~2,200 Palestinians killed, half of them children (UN OCHA).

3. Incarceration and Detention

Since 1967 , Israel has detained thousands of Palestinians, including:
- Women and Children :
  - Over 10,000 Palestinian women have been imprisoned since 1967 (Addameer, a Palestinian rights group).
  - Children : Thousands detained annually for alleged “security offenses.” In 2023 alone, over 8,000 children were arrested (UNICEF and DCIP reports).

4. Demographic Impact

Population Growth : Despite displacement and casualties, Palestinian populations in the West Bank, Gaza, and refugee camps have grown due to high birth rates.
Vulnerability : Women and children face disproportionate risks in poverty, restricted movement, and limited access to healthcare/education.

Category	Approximate Numbers (since 1948)
Refugees/displaced	Millions (majority women/children)
Casualties (conflicts)	Hundreds of thousands (exact numbers disputed)
Incarcerated	Tens of thousands of women/children

Resources

United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
Israeli human rights groups (e.g., B’Tselem)
Reports from Al Jazeera, BBC, and Reuters

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The Yemen Tragedy

Now that Trump ( as of May 2025) has made the decision not to continue U.S. air attacks on targets in Yemen (for now), the following semi-legal analysis of the strikes below is perhaps somewhat moot. However it does provide a glimpse into the legalities of the multiple aggressions by Western countries in the past 75 years since World War 2.

After an almost shootdown of an ‘invisible’ US F35 aircraft, and the loss of 2 (possibly 3) F18s (valued at $70 million each) that had ‘fallen off’ US aircraft carriers in the Gulf, along with about 10, 30 million dollar MQ9 drones shot down by Ansar-allah (what the West MSM as one voice like to call “Iran backed rebel Houthis”-all in one breath), it must have been clearly apparent, even to Trump, that the billion dollar US bombing campaign against Yemen was going nowhere.

Additionally, because the US had (and has) very little accurate information on where Ansarallah weapons and military was on the ground they were in fact predominantly (and accidentally?) hitting civilians. In addition the long-standing U.K air support for the Americans on the Arabian peninsula was entirely without targeting or strategy, but largely an attempt to try and demonstrate that Britain was still a force to be reckoned with in the Gulf.

One cannot however be so charitable about Israeli bombings of civilian Yemen targets-(civilian ports and airports), who used their traditional methods of terror and brutality to try and intimidate Ansarallah.

What follows is an analysis of the legalities of this bombing campaign, supposedly initiated by first Biden and then Trump, to stop Ansarallah closing the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea to shipping bound for the Israeli Red Sea port of Eilat (top right hand section of map)

Legal Analysis of US/UK Strikes in Yemen and Potential Violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL)

The US and UK military interventions in Yemen, particularly against Houthi targets, raise significant legal questions under international humanitarian law (IHL)—also known as the laws of war. Below is a deeper examination of their compliance with key legal principles.

Analysis of the Legal Framework Governing US Strikes against Yemen

A. Applicable Law

Geneva Conventions (1949) & Additional Protocol I (1977): Govern the conduct of hostilities, including distinction, proportionality, and precautions in attack.
UN Charter (Article 2(4) & Article 51): Prohibits the use of force except in self-defense or with UN Security Council authorization.
Customary IHL: Binding on all parties, including non-state actors like the Houthis.

B. Justifications for US/UK Strikes

Self-Defense Argument (Article 51, UN Charter): The US and UK argue strikes are necessary to protect maritime security (Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping).
Legal Debate: Some scholars argue this stretches self-defense doctrine, as Houthi attacks may not constitute an “armed attack” justifying unilateral force.
Collective Self-Defense (Supporting Saudi Arabia & UAE): Previously invoked, but less relevant post-2022 since the Saudi-Houthi truce.

2. Key IHL Principles & Potential Violations

A. Principle of Distinction (Civilian vs. Military Targets)

Rule: Attacks must only target military objectives, not civilians or civilian infrastructure.
Concerns in Yemen:
Urban Warfare: Houthis embed military assets in densely populated areas, increasing civilian risk.
Reports of Civilian Harm: NGOs (e.g., Mwatana, Amnesty) allege US/UK strikes hit homes, farms, and markets, suggesting possible indiscriminate targeting.

B. Principle of Proportionality

Rule: Civilian harm must not be excessive relative to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.
Challenges:
“Double-Tap” Strikes: Some reports suggest follow-up strikes hit first responders, which could be a war crime if deliberate.
High Civilian Toll in Past Strikes: Even if targets are legitimate, large-scale civilian casualties (e.g., 2022 Saada prison strike by Saudi coalition) raise proportionality concerns.

C. Precautions in Attack

Rule: Parties must take all feasible measures to verify targets and minimize civilian harm.
US/UK Practices:
Use of precision-guided munitions (reduces but does not eliminate risk).
Lack of Transparency: Few public investigations into alleged civilian harm, unlike in Iraq/Syria.

3. Accountability & Legal Consequences

A. Mechanisms for Accountability

Domestic Investigations (US/UK):

The US has a Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP) but rarely discloses Yemen investigations.
The UK has no independent Yemen strike review body, unlike its Iraq/Syria oversight.

International Criminal Court (ICC):

Yemen is not an ICC member, but if nationals of member states commit crimes on Yemeni soil, the ICC could theoretically investigate.

Universal Jurisdiction:

Third countries could prosecute war crimes under universal jurisdiction (e.g., Germany’s case against Syrian officials).

B. State Responsibility & Reparations

Under IHL, states must provide reparations for unlawful strikes, but neither the US nor UK has a compensation program for Yemeni victims.
Contrast with US payments for civilian harm in Afghanistan/Iraq.

4. Broader Implications & Legal Precedents

Escalation Risks: If strikes are seen as disproportionate, they could fuel further Houthi attacks, creating a cycle of violence.
Erosion of IHL Norms: Repeated civilian harm without accountability weakens global adherence to laws of war.
Potential for Future Cases: If evidence of systematic violations emerges, legal challenges could arise in international courts or via sanctions.

Conclusion: Are US/UK Strikes Lawful?

Legally Defensible? The US/UK can argue self-defense and military necessity, but civilian harm incidents raise serious IHL concerns.
Accountability Gap: Lack of transparent investigations and reparations undermines claims of compliance.
Future Risks: If civilian casualties continue unchecked, legal challenges (e.g., ICC petitions, universal jurisdiction cases) could follow.

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Part III: Impacts and Outcomes: Beyond the “Conflict” Euphemism

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Media Manufacturing Consent

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