Pascal Najadi is back on the show to discuss the latest developments concerning Switzerland’s attempts to regain its much-needed neutrality as well as the depths to which German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is compromised by the corruption of the European Union’s war on Russia.
Show Notes
Pascal’s Open Letter to the Pope (translation required)
Episode #117 — Pascal’s previous appearance
Previous Episodes:
Podcast Episode #121 – Matt Ehret and the Unseen Intentions of U.S. History
Podcast Episode #120 – Alastair Crooke and the Dysfunctionality of Nations
Podcast Episode #119 – Alex Krainer and Who’s Really Behind the End of Pipeline Diplomacy
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Hi Tom,
Sorry, this is not about Swiss neutrality, so nuke if you see fit. I just wanted to make a comment about something you said on Tommy’s Podcast, about “De Santis & Trump staying out of it”. That was one of the kaleidoscope of feelings and positions I went through, before being naively convinced that the system could be fixed. The “staying out of it” already happened in 1976, believe it or not.
The system “they” are trying to emulate, either deliberately or through pragmatic convergence, is what Mexico just emerged from:
Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)
“In the 1976 election, the PRI presidential candidate José López Portillo faced no real opposition, not even the National Action Party, which did not field a candidate in this election due to an ideological split. The lack of the appearance of democracy in the national elections undermined the legitimacy of the system.”
Some other quotes about the PRI:
“Throughout the seven decades that the PRI governed Mexico, the party used a combination of corporatism, co-option and repression to hold power, while often resorting to electoral fraud.”
“…saw the PRI’s “initiation into the technology of electoral fraud, a ‘science’ that later became its highly refined speciality.”
“The elites of the PRI ruled the police and the judicial system, and justice was only available if purchased with bribes.”
“The PRI co-opted criticism by incorporating sectors of society into its hierarchy. PRI-controlled labor unions (“charro unions”) maintained a tight grip over the working classes; the PRI held rural farmers in check through its control of the ejidos (state-owned plots of land that peasants could farm but not own), and generous financial support of universities and the arts ensured that most intellectuals rarely challenged the ideals of the Mexican Revolution.”
“Critics claim electoral fraud, with voter suppression and violence, was used when the political machine did not work and elections were just a ritual to simulate the appearance of a democracy.”
“In 1990, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa famously described Mexico under the PRI regime as being ‘the perfect dictatorship’, stating: ‘I don’t believe that there has been in Latin America any case of a system of dictatorship which has so efficiently recruited the intellectual milieu, bribing it with great subtlety. The perfect dictatorship is not communism, nor the USSR, nor Fidel Castro; the perfect dictatorship is Mexico. Because it is a camouflaged dictatorship.’”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_Revolutionary_Party
Sorry about the many historical parallels and references in my comments, but it seems that is the way I cope, as in: “others in the past have seen and survived similar things and so, I imagine, shall we”.
The best analogy I can come up with for the US Uni-Party is Mexico’s PRI. And I remember thinking after 2020, that they would need to pay someone handsomely to run for POTUS in 2024 and take the dive. Maybe an estate on Martha’s Vineyard or a house next to Zelensky’s in Italy or Florida as an inducement?
Anyway, thanks for a great three hours with Tommy and the other “bald guys”! 😊