Will Western leaders start World War III to distract from their political failure?

The West faces an ongoing crisis of political legitimacy, with approval ratings among the G7 countries ranging from 44% for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to a mere 20% for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The situation is particularly dire in the United States where three-fourths of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Given such grim political and cultural indicators, will leaders seek global conflict to distract from their own failings? That’s the fear of author Jeremy Kuzmarov, who appeared on Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Friday to discuss the increasing desperation of the Western ruling class as the US-backed Ukraine puppet state nears collapse.

“These leaders seem to want a world war,” said Kuzmarov, the managing editor of Covert Action magazine. “Maybe that is what they want. I mean, they're losing, they've lost legitimacy as far as governing at home. My feeling is that this is a strategy, that they're provoking conflicts abroad to divert the attention of the public from their misrule at home and corruption.”

“So, I don't know if they could do that politically unless they resort to more and more authoritarian standards at home, which seems to be what's going on. But, again, you're going to sustain a domestic political backlash. So I think they're in trouble, and that's why we see these reckless threats and very reckless behavior. And I hope it doesn't provoke a third world war, which is where it could be leading.”

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Liberal fascism: analyst says European legacy is ‘one of a criminal gangster cartel’ (Part 1)

Germany’s Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party has been rocked by scandal after its top candidate in upcoming EU elections defended the Nazi Party’s notorious Schutzstaffel paramilitary organization.

“I will never say that everyone who wore an SS uniform was automatically a criminal,” said Maximilian Krah in comments made to an Italian newspaper. The Nazi Party was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people during World War II, including 27 million in the Soviet Union alone.

“It's actually the liberal center of the European Union that is fueling the kind of resurgence of that far right,” said Belfast-based political commentator Phil Kelly on Sputnik’s Political Misfits program, criticizing establishment politicians’ support for the Ukraine proxy war.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas sparked controversy recently with comments suggesting NATO should seek to Balkanize Russia after its current conflict with Ukraine. “There could really be a change in society,” said the Baltic leader, claiming the Eurasian country should be split into several “small nations.”

Pro-war figures like Kallas have dominated EU politics as mainstream forces have sidelined the populist left. Establishment parties formed a grand coalition to thwart Sinn Féin from taking power after the Irish republican party prevailed in recent elections.

In the United Kingdom, state intelligence actors and Zionist donors joined forces to sabotage socialist Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, with claims of “anti-Semitism” taking center stage in the smear campaign against the pro-Palestine candidate. US intelligence apparently assisted in the effort, with former Vice President and ex-CIA director Mike Pompeo promising to help prevent the populist figure from being elected Prime Minister in private comments leaked by the Washington Post.

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Liberal fascism: analyst says European legacy is ‘one of a criminal gangster cartel’ (Part 2)

“The architects of this, the people who are goose stepping Europe towards the abyss are those liberal centrists whose policies have failed, who are arming actual Nazis in Ukraine,” said political commentator Phil Kelly on Sputnik’s Political Misfits program.

Host Michelle Witte blamed liberal and centrist forces in the EU for mainstreaming the far right’s policies around immigration. As Western military and political interference has destabilized countries like Libya and Syria, Europe has faced a significant migrant crisis. The European Union has responded by funding aggressive programs wherein “tens of thousands of migrants every year” are dumped in the North African desert – policy which critics have called a “death sentence.”

“More and more the ‘lesser evil’ is appearing to be just as bad as what it warns against,” said Kelly. “When people talk about European values and ‘is there a difference between liberals and fascism’ – I don't understand what ‘European values’ means because Europe is the continent that built Auschwitz. Europe is the continent that colonized Africa, Asia, huge swathes of Latin America. Some of the worst crimes in human history were committed by the Belgian empire in Congo.”

“This is, again, the continent that gave rise to the Nazis,” he added, “where ex-Prime Minister of Britain Boris Johnson only this week was posing with members of the Azov* Brigade and saying that Ukraine should be sent weapons with which they should attack Russia and fire missiles into Russia.”

“These are the European values that supposedly Ukraine is the shield of? European democracy and freedom? Europe is living up to its historical legacy, which is one of a criminal gangster cartel creating misery across the world. And its inhuman response towards refugees and migrants is just a further example of that.”

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Shock: EU official appears to issue mafia-like threat to Georgian prime minister

Just over a week after an attempt on the life of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, a top European Union official has warned another Ukraine-skeptic leader that he could suffer a similar fate. That’s the claim made by Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who made the startling revelation Thursday.

“You see what happened to Fico, and you should be very careful,” European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi allegedly told Kobakhidze during a telephone call in which the Georgian leader was threatened with “a number of measures” in response to the passage of a proposed foreign NGO transparency act. Varhelyi acknowledged the comment in a statement released soon after, but claimed it was not intended as a threat.

“It sounds so Mafia-esque,” said Garland Nixon on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program. Analyst Steve Poikonen agreed, noting a string of independent world leaders who have been harmed or killed in recent years in Iran, Haiti, and throughout Africa.

“The bill that [Kobakhidze is] trying to push through the Georgian Parliament is for the color revolution industry to have to declare itself that it's coming into his country to start doing color revolution stuff,” said Poikonen. “For everybody that's been happy to basically have watered down versions of the exact same laws that the United States itself has should on its face show you that they're trying to get whatever are the whims of NATO, or the US and UK and Israel, and that's what the agenda is.”

Western-backed non-governmental organizations are an important way for the United States and other foreign powers to exercise influence in adversary countries, allowing outside actors to foment unrest and even regime change. The tactic forms an important part of US efforts to install compliant regimes through non-military means in events that are known as “color revolutions.”

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