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In posing the important question as to where all our peaceniks have gone, Sonja van den Ende’s recent article begins to answer it by citing Le Soir and mentioning that the Belgian headquarters of NATO and of the European Union do not get as many mass protests as they once did. Le Soir is typical of Europe’s radicals in that its militancy consists of mocking the Belgian Catholic Church and making some insipid stance over the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. If one yearns for revolution, then Le Soir is not going to be its vanguard.

And, as for the offices of NATO and the European Union, that assumes that German, Italian, Spanish and French folk have the time to go off to Belgium and shout at buildings that are indifferent to their existence and that their health insurance will cover their costs when the Belgian cops criminally assault them. Our experiences of the mass protests against the Iraqi genocide strongly suggest all of that is a waste of time.

Van den Ende also pre-supposes that there was a golden era, now past, when “the workers” were prepared to storm the Bastille for liberty, fraternity and all the rest. Whatever about 1789, that is to misrepresent more recent upheavals, in particular the 1968 upheavals, which were led by such double headed snakes as Red Rudy Dutschke, who went on to form Annalena Baerbock‘s German Greens, one of the most rabidly pro-war groupings the modern world has even seen. It is also to conflate genuine anti-war activists like the Berrigan brothers of that era with loathsome war criminals like John Kerry, who built their fortunes on pretending they opposed the Vietnam genocide, whereas all they really opposed was American GIs getting their just desserts in the paddy fields of South East Asia.

Although events like the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Junior colour our memories of the 1960s, that was not a golden age of protest as imperialism did its thing then, just as it does its thing now. If there are any lessons NATO has to learn from the 1960s, it is to keep their own body bag count down and to stop the likes of van den Ende, today’s John Pilgers and Robert Fisks, getting the word out that NATO’s savagery is as fierce now as it ever was.

One need only go this very day to Syria’s coast where, like Libya not so long ago, Alawite women are being gang raped and sold into sex slavery. Although I am devoting a series of blogs to these atrocities and I am sure van den Ende will continue to write about them, the truth is no one in authority in the West gives a tinker’s curse about any of it. And, as for van den Ende or anyone else telling the great and the good about any of that, forget about it as people like her are maligned as peddlers of Russian or Alawite misinformation, just as those who exposed the My Lai massacre or the more recent Abu Ghraib torture factory were similarly denounced. Defending the most basic of human rights is, it seems, a loser’s game.

Far from surrendering the field, this is to salute those genuine American students, who have protested the ongoing turkey shoot in Gaza. But it is also to acknowledge the multi headed hydra they and all who follow the righteous path are up against. Let’s start at the top, where Donald Trump has threatened Iran with nuclear strikes and note that this is now part of accepted discourse and, one presumes, a permissible military option in NATO’s self-styled arsenal of democracy. What is noticeable about talk like that or anything to do with Israel’s supposed right to self-defence is the absence of blowback. Though all may or may not be fair in love and war, Israel has certainly been greenlighted to do as it wilt, and that spills over into other less spoken about arenas, as NATO’s collusion in the ongoing Alawite and Libyan gang rapes testify.

Although we do not want to get bogged down with Israel, we should note that, since 1980, there have been more than 200 Hollywood movies and countless more documentaries on their Holocaust, and other scandals, such as the murder of 3 million or so Cambodians, have rarely made it to the silver screen. Hollywood, like all of NATO’s media outlets, has its obvious white hats and its black hats and they leave us in no doubt who we must cheer for both on and off the screen.

Another key reason for our silent complicity in these ongoing genocides is the marginalisation of voices like those of George Galloway and Jeremy Corbyn and the hijacking of anti war movements by Trotskyist crackpot groups, who use them for recruiting new members and garnering funds to keep their lucrative scams up and running. These Trotskyist groups have the added bonus to NATO that they ensure all these protests lack focus, certainly when compared to the Israeli lobbyists they pretend to oppose. Though this is in contrast to the earlier days of the Greenham Common anti-nuclear protesters, that is not to erect altars to those pioneering women, who were infiltrated from top to toe by a plethora of secret service outfits.

Of course, when the burning question of the day is how to feed vulnerable children ever more puberty blockers before castrating them and gang raping children in Syria is a non-issue, lack of focus is something the intelligence services can easily do, given how firmly they have embedded themselves among the West’s political dissidents, a process which began long before the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and which was by no means confined to them.

Here, to illustrate that point, is Thatcher greenlighting the infiltration and subversion of both of those groups and here is a very extensive but far from complete list of the radical groups the British security services infiltrated. And that is before we look at how the plethora of Peace Studies Departments in the West’s various universities and sham radical “minstrels” like Kneecap helped to divert radicals into the cul de sacs NATO wishes to corral them into. And then, with charlatans like AIPAC‘s Samantha Power and compromised groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch championing the Uyghur sex jihadists, one could easily despair, when the most unspeakable war crimes by NATO’s Uyghur and Azov proxies have not only been normalised but cheered on by the West’s chattering classes.

Yes,despite our apparent failure to stop Blair and Bush in Iraq, NATO’s demonisation of ordinary Russians and Syrians, the end of national sovereignty, and the concentration of political and economic power being ceded to foreign centres of financial technocracy in Brussels and Davos, there is hope, as the desire freedom is eternal. Donald Trump, Baerbock, Kallas and von der Leyen may succeed in their manifest destiny of foisting their violent and lawless AI technocracy on the rest of us but neither time nor demographics are their friends.

Zelensky’s regime employs a whopping 150,000 thugs in his Territorial Recruitment Centers (TRCs), who are tasked with kidnapping ordinary, decent Ukrainians, a whopping 400,000 of whom they have already dragooned into their eastern front meat grinder. Not only does that contrast sharply with Russia, where folk are eager to join the colours but it is a very labour intensive “recruitment” method, especially when compared to the emerging Asian powers, who have no shortage of men of military age or the hi tech lethal weapons to put in their hands.

Where the West has depended on press ganging and on mercenaries (hello, Qatar), the East has followed a different beat, which has given them increased prosperity, increased leisure and increased militaries that will be soon more than a match for NATO and that will speak a language NATO’s war mongering media will understand, even if their pretend peaceniks do not.

Though we all pretend to want peace, the fact is that peace is impossible until those who want to wage war are stopped and, given that the West’s peaceniks have singularly failed to make Trump, Baerbock, Kallas and the rest of them see sense, it seems that the stage might be set for the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army and similar groups to try their hands at making the West an offer it cannot refuse. Bad and all as a dustup with the CPLA will be, it seems there is no other way to unseat NATO’s war mongers from their high and haughty horses, even if it means giving them, us and our peaceniks, the mother of all hard landings.