RECENT CASES OF ELECTORAL MALPRACTICE

3 February 2025

Countries Considered Part of The West Where Democracy Has Been Contested or Undermined:

1. Romania

2. Pakistan

3. Venezuela

4. Moldova

5. Georgia

6. Abkhazia

7. South Korea

8. France

9. Germany

Has our democracy been hacked? The following countries have recently experienced electoral controversies, alleged external interference, or undemocratic power plays:

1. Romania

Issue: Presidential candidate Călin Georgescu won the first round decisively, but the results were annulled by a court citing "Russian interference on TikTok", with no evidence of Russian interference.

Concerns: Judicial interference in elections, use of "foreign influence" as a justification for nullifying results.

2. Pakistan

Issue: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan was jailed and politically sidelined after he sought stronger ties with Russia and China.

Concerns: The judiciary and military’s role in removing opposition leaders, suppression of political alternatives.

3. Venezuela

Issue: The country's election was deemed "stolen" by Western powers despite a lack of solid evidence, continuing a long history of foreign intervention narratives.

Concerns: Western attempts to delegitimise election results in non-aligned states.

4. Moldova

Issue: Pro-Western President Maia Sandu was reportedly saved from defeat by diaspora votes from Western countries, while pro-Russian voters in Moscow were allegedly disenfranchised by not being given access to voting booths.

Concerns: Election manipulation via selective voting access, external "political engineering".

5. Georgia & Abkhazia

Issue: Massive Western NGO involvement allegedly worked to sway political outcomes, buy influence in the local media, use engineered protest movements to pressure the government.

Concerns: Use of Western-backed civil society organisations to influence domestic politics.

6. South Korea

Issue: President Yoon Suk Yeol allegedly orchestrated a sudden military coup, using armed forces to storm the parliament.

Concerns: Military intervention in politics, suppression of opposition.

7. France

Issue: President Macron refused to resign after his government collapsed, echoing previous no-confidence votes in other European leaders.

Concerns: Political instability, erosion of public trust in democratic governance.

8. Germany

Issue: Chancellor Scholz has faced growing popularity and thus legitimacy crises, with opposition parties gaining traction against the establishment.

Concerns: Loss of democratic legitimacy in traditional Western power structures.

Key Question: Is There a Pattern?

These cases suggest a growing perception that democracy is being selectively upheld or subverted when it serves geopolitical interests.

Allegations of judicial or external interference in elections appear to be increasing, particularly in regions of strategic importance to the West.

The larger question remains: Is democracy being hollowed out in favour of managed elections where outcomes align with geopolitical objectives? Is there an elite class in Europe separating itself from the interests of the peoples of Europe? And aligning with the interests of America? If so, we have bureaucrats at the wheel, operating processes for outcomes set by the USA. And where is democracy in this?

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AMERICA'S GEOPOLITICAL DILEMMA IN A MULTIPOLAR WORLD

America’s Geopolitical Dilemma in a Multipolar World

1 February 2025

https://youtu.be/v0uY3ZoDwYs?si=izG19Y0NgQ8T_3-W

The new American administration recognises the world us settling back into a multipolar order, where diplomacy and economic competition take centre stage over military confrontation. It is also very important to recognise that the the new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, acknowledges that Ukraine has lost the war.

The central concern for Washington’s foreign policy strategists is a long-standing one: preventing any single power—or coalition—from dominating Eurasia, the so-called “World Island” described by Sir Halford Mackinder.

For decades, U.S. policy has sought to maintain equilibrium in Eurasia between land power (Russia, China) and sea power (the Anglo-American alliance). The neoconservative approach has been to disrupt potential challengers before they become existential threats. 

One persistent fear has been a strategic partnership between Germany and Russia, which would merge German industrial strength with Russian resources—a combination that could undercut American influence in Europe and beyond.

How Will the U.S. Manage These Risks?

- Keeping Germany in Check:

The U.S. has long pressured Germany to distance itself from Russia. The sabotage of Nord Stream in 2022—though no one officially claimed responsibility—was widely interpreted as a message: European energy dependence on Russia is unacceptable.

Economic policies, sanctions, and security dependencies (via NATO) serve to keep Berlin aligned with Washington rather than pursuing independent strategic interests.

- Containing Russia and China:

The war in Ukraine has been a proxy battlefield for weakening Russia. While U.S. support has faltered in recent months, the underlying goal remains unchanged: to prevent Russia from becoming a dominant force in Europe.

In Asia, U.S. alliances with Japan, South Korea, and Australia counterbalance China, while economic pressure attempts to stifle Beijing’s technological and military growth.

Moral Contradictions in Foreign Policy:

The U.S. positions itself as a champion of sovereignty and international law in Europe, yet openly supports military interventions and occupations in the Middle East.

How does Washington justify backing Ukrainian nationalism while suppressing Palestinian statehood? How does it reconcile sanctioning Russian annexations while endorsing Israeli settlements? These contradictions weaken America's credibility in the eyes of the Global South and even among segments of its own electorate.

The Cost of Hypocrisy

This double standard has  seriously discredited America. Countries once aligned with the West now pursue greater autonomy, engaging with China’s Belt and Road Initiative or forming alternative economic blocs. 

Meanwhile, at home, the ideological excesses of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and "woke" politics have created civil divisions, fueled in part by the need to maintain what is an increasingly fragile narrative.

The smothering of dissent—through media narratives, corporate policies, and social pressures—is an attempt to sustain a worldview that is hard to defend. Propaganda may hold for a while, but in a world where multipolarity is reasserting itself, even the most dominant empire cannot ignore reality forever.

When global power shifts, those who fail to adapt risk losing their grip entirely. Under Marco Rubio, it seems that America will adjust its strategy to engage with the new world on equal terms  The alterbative would be to continue down the path of resistance until the system it built after the last workd war collapses under its contradictions. So Rubio understands this.

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WHY UKRAINE'S MEDIA SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE

31 January 2025

Talk about soft power and how, at a detail level, it functions to progress american interests. 

We learn from Mercurious & others that for a long time, 90% of spending in the media space in Ukraine was coming from direct grants from the US State Department. 

Maybe ukraine is not a small country geographically, but in terms of population & GDP, it's small. Look how easily America buys up all Ukraine-media's column inches and turns them into one big advert for Russophobia.

The media literally speak with one voice, and have done so for a long time, pushing the anti-Russia hate speech; but according to the polls, this is not the voice of the mass of the people of Ukraine.

This op-ed program is a highly cynical black op. Where are American values of democracy and freedom in that? I wonder if the State Department under Rubio will continue this.

I know better than to trust the serpent words of the mass media and of government spokesman, but how about the 90% of the population of ordinary people going about their daily business in Ukraine? And what of the politicians back in Europe who read this dirt thinking it is the authentic voice of the Ukrainian people.? ... Remember, dirt written by the American state department as inspiration for the Ukrainian media, to be read by ordinary Ukrainian people and inevitably, a lead given to craven European media and read closely by politicians.

The whole operation is rotten to the core. How do the families of the million Ukrainians killed on the front lines feel towards those who persuaded their sons to to fight and die for what turns out to be a foreign cause? An operation that has ruined the economy. I'm destroyed the built infrastructure? A country that has now lost its young people and has no demographic future?

And all for a cause, membership of NATO, that we could see from the start, back in 2008, would be a catastrophic failure - and wrote about that from 2021 onwards - and America's greatest foreign policy disaster. A gamble on a strategy to weaken Russia that has no moral justification and no rational basis - they didn't even bother to look at the resources available to them : insufficient. A strategy handed down across generations of genociders.

Instead of blowing on the embers of a declining Empire in this way, what could have worked would have been to set goals and strategies for managing the Empire honestly and openly, configuring agreed security arrangements rather than going to war, making the home economy productive and efficient and debt-free, and help the people to love each other and unite, rather than all this delusional propaganda, DEI and woke divide and rule.

Well, that's my rant for the day. Now I want to tell a little story...

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A BURNT OUT PEOPLE

31 January 2025

A Burnt Out People

In the earliest days, before the world had hardened into kingdoms and laws, a wandering people left the lush Valley of Eden in search of a promised land. The valley of Eden had been fertile and rich with green pastures and streams that never ran dry, but a voice, a whisper in their hearts, had urged them onward.

"Go forth and claim the land beyond the horizon, where milk and honey flow, where your children will build cities that touch the skies", it said.

And so they did.

For many years they walked. They crossed rivers, scaled mountains, and pushed on through golden plains. Each dawn, they told their children that just beyond the next hill, the promised land awaited.

But when they reached the top of the last and highest mountain, their feet bruised, their faces battered. and their garments torn, they looked down and saw before them not a land of plenty, but a land of ruin and destruction.

The once-golden fields were blackened to ash, rivers had dried to cracked earth, and the swirling winds carried the bitter scent of acrid smoke. The promised land was no more, only barren and bare remained.

A great silence fell over them.

Then, turning back to their path, they looked upon their works to see what they had been blind to before: the land behind them, that too had turned to dust. Their valley, their Eden, their first home, was gone. The trees they had rested under were now charred stumps. The rivers they would drink from so abundantly were parched channels of mud.

There was no way forward. There was no way back.

One amongst them, the eldest, fell to his knees. "We were deceived," he whispered. "The journey itself was our undoing."

And so they stood, caught between ruin and regret, the last of their kind on a road that led nowhere.

And the voice that had led them turned silent.

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