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Igor Vuksanović's avatar

I am interested in your opinion about North Korea. Could it be only country in the world outside of Empire, possible only because of "madman with nukes". Or are we being swindled here, too?

♱ Rurik Christwalker ♱'s avatar

I don’t know enough. But it is a clear Platonic state.

It is a very interesting conspiracy to unravel.

It starts with Pyongyang being called “The Jerusalem of the East”. North Korea was the most heavily Christian asian country. This was the product of heavy American Protestant missionary work over the previous half century or more. Kim Il Sun was from a Presbyterian anti-Japanese Christian-Korean network of dissidents sponsored by the Americans.

Kang Ryang-uk was a literal Protestant minister, with a theology degree as well.

All of these North Korean leaders became Communists literally overnight.

And what is funny is that many of the most militant anti-Japanese leaders believed in a form of Korean Hebrewism, i.e., they claimed that the events in the Bible were about Korea and their occupation by Pharaoh was the situation with the Japanese. As a result, Korea practiced circumcision, and to my knowledge, this is still done.

There is also this Millenarian strain called Ch’ŏndogyo which believes that Korea is the fulcrum of the world, and its people have a unique role in the end times. This gets merged with the prophecies of the Bible under the Japanese occupation, encouraged by American protestant missionaries (spies).

Nowadays, this survives in the Unification Church (the Moonies) who believe Korea is the providential center of history and the future. And the

Shincheonji who believe that Revelation was fulfilled in modern Korea. These are just the surviving South Korean strains of what was once in North Korea as well.

The North, led by ex-Christian ministers claimed that Marxism was the end goal of Christianity, and so anyone who disagreed fled south to continue being Christian there. The Americans then firebombed them anyway for good measure, lol. The Americans essentially tried to genocide the Koreans with their nonstop firebombing and targeting of civilian centers. This then fueled belief that the End Times of the Bible had come — these people were living in a raging inferno. And so, South Korea and North Korea are both led by religious fundamentalists who believe that they’re essentially living through one prophecy or another.

Igor Vuksanović's avatar

thanks, very interesting!

James J. O'Meara's avatar

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by B. R. Meyers

I read this in 2010 and no longer have it or recall the details; I assume he doesn't have your occult analysis. However, I recall the details of the Korean worldview being rather amusing, straightforward stuff about being the only real humans, etc. which the author attributes to the influence of "Japanese fascism" LOL.

Dan Liviu's avatar

C'mon, man, how dare you question the high-octane fan fiction ZAnon porn that pepe churns out every second to please his goddess, it's been confirmed and reconfirmed!!?

Stevo's avatar

You know I now why people don’t want the truth is because they live in fear in Matrix Universe in fake lives. Life is game world is stage bay international oligarchs sinds 2000 yers sinds Egypte time end Mosses was frist killer ofwel oligarch .

Archangel's avatar

Hi Rurik,

This is really good. Information, analysis, moderation. No wonder you are the only writer on substack that I honour with money.

Assad accepted to flee only when his defences in Idlib were destroyed and Alep taken. He refused to leave beforehand. I believe it was the same for Maduro. Unlike Assad he did not receive a warning through a crushing military defeat. He was merely spirited away.

Let's see how this plays out in Iran. How do Khamenei and the Republican Guard assess their situation ? Many regime leaders seem ready to fight until the bitter end. I believe Israel and the USA would welcome an inner cull before hitting.

The collapse of Iran opens the field for the Kurds. They are already somewhat independent and armed in Irak. It might become the same in Iran. They may want to build a fully fledged nationalistic state and take on Turkey. Something to watch.

John Kenney's avatar

Azerbaijan too IMHO.

Patriot's avatar

> Where is Assad and his crime syndicate now? Literally no one has seen them.

Nobody has seen Edward Snowden either for quite some time now.

John Kenney's avatar

Exactly. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Tsar Botox is offering Snowden as a bargaining chip with Trump regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Patriot's avatar

Intercept/Greenwald betrayed Snowden and many other whistleblowers [1]. Greenwald published only 5% of Snowden data before shutting it down. Some whistleblowers went to jail after trusting Intercept.

Could not find original Whitney Webb interview video where she talks about that, but here's TL;DR one [1] with some Webb tweets with the exact same message.

[1] "They're Lying About The Snowden Files" | Whitney Webb - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmL-VWSEaWs

Gravis Mushnick's avatar

Damn, geopolitics these days feels like watching re-runs.

S Blackford's avatar

Is Putin foolish enough to think he won't be the next steak on the barby?

Perhaps the only criteria of leaders installed by washington is the hubris to think they're a special case and wont get rolled.

♱ Rurik Christwalker ♱'s avatar

I think he’s under the impression that there are a dozen leaders that Langley wants dead that he can help them with to buy time

Stateless3's avatar

You need to look at the world in terms of currencies and the control of central banks. All of their power derives from their fake currency. Without that, they would lose control, and there would be no one left to bribe. Since 1913, they have been continuously printing phony currency, inducing economic crises, and then buying up more and more assets after the crash.

If people and tribes could trade among themselves using decentralised money such as XMR, their digital IDs and CBDCs would disappear tomorrow as people begin to realise you do not need criminal Governments to run an economy.

♱ Rurik Christwalker ♱'s avatar

Nah, the problem predates 1913

John Duckitt's avatar

The curious case of the dog that didn't bark in the night. The supposedly dead 32 Cuban bodyguards and no one is asking obvious questions. Supposedly killed by the US attackers - doesn't wash as the Americans aren't actually good soldiers, even the ultra trained ones, and would have taken casualties (possibly heavy) in any kind of firefight with 32 heavily armed bodyguards. So what went on. Obvious possibilities seem: (1) there never was any real Cuban bodyguard (maybe just a few poorly trained, unmotivated plebs who were bought off and now living it up in Miami). (2) They did exist but were killed by Venezuelans working for the Rodriguez coup plotters, who we know took quite heavy casualties, supposedly from the Americans, but maybe from the Cubans. (4) They did exist but were all (or almost all) bought off (killing those who wouldn't go along) and now living well in Miami.

Oh, and I wouldn't write off the Iranians quite yet. The Chinese might have finally decided to dig in their heels a bit here - they probably need the oil and surely know they can't rely on Russian oil.