As someone who doesn’t really buy the Russiaphobia, I find it an interesting cultural phenomena. We have no trouble working with the Russians on the space program and one would think that if they were as truly malign as we are supposed to believe, that would be an area totally off limits.

Having read a bit of history and the news since the 70’s, it seems our US based Western Empire is in a stage somewhat analogous to the USSR in the latter stages, as the official narrative became increasingly divorced from the facts on the ground. The Afghanistan papers, recently published in the Washington Post, give some hint of this, yet what is even more disconcerting is the degree they don’t even rise above the level of general hysteria otherwise.

That similar revelations coming out of the OPCW don’t even get mentioned in US news outlets is another signal that management of information flow is obvious.

The old term for doubting the official narrative was heresy and you could be burned at the stake, so I guess just being ignored isn’t so bad, but looking at it historically, the future for an official narrative that is rapidly losing credibility is bleak.

It is starting to resemble nothing so much as a scab. Increasingly harder and rigid, while slowly separating from the underlaying tissue.

It was Karl Rove, who apocryphally commented to a reporter that, “we,” the powers that be, create the reality, while everyone else just follows it.

If you really want to understand the elephant in the room, consider the degree to which public debt backs private wealth. Our capital markets simply could not function, without the government siphoning up trillions of dollars in otherwise excess capital and finding ever more ways to spend it. Including endless and strategically inept wars.

The rest is just theater.