Two Things The Western PTB Hate
Funny how the "Love is Love" types are the most hateful of all.
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Western Elites, also known as the “Powers-That-Be” or PTB, have a pathological and neurotic hatred of many things and people that the more rational and level-headed among us would define as “the good and the true”: Objective truth, biological/genetic/gender realities, traditionalism, monogamous heterosexual marriage, the nuclear family, the Straight White Male, and European contributions to history and to the world, to name a few.
Somewhat less obvious, but nonetheless apparent, if you pay attention to world events, is their seething hatred of Russia and the Russian people.
From Nuri Katz, at Investment Migration Insider - “Strong-Arming Carribbean CIPs to Exclude Russians is Absurd, Unjust, and Unworthy”:
I entered the investment migration industry way back in 1992. I guess you could say I am one of the veterans in this industry. I have, over the years, many times seen situations that made me think the industry was coming to an end. And yet, it survived and flourished. However, having seen what has happened in regards to accepting Russians in most of the countries involved in invest1nent migration is making me fear that this really is the point where it is coming to an end.
I must say first that I am biased. I lived in Russia for 25 years; my child was born in Russia (I will get back to this point later), and most of my clients are Russian. I also oppose violence in every form, instigated by any country against their own people or against other people. I am against violence when western countries get involved in the multitude of wars that they tend to get into all the time, and I am against it when the same thing happens anywhere around the world.
The whole idea of investment migration is about awarding global citizenship to those people who, because of the circumstances of their birth, do not have the same advantages as those who were born in other places. Evening the playing field, so to speak.
There are many types of immigration - beyond the investment-based immigration programs we deal with - that can meet that need: Skilled worker programs, refugee schemes, and so on. The principal difference between investment immigration and other categories of immigration (beyond the investment itself) is that investor migrants are subject to due diligence to an extent that goes far beyond what is the case for other categories of immigrants.
With that in mind, I would like to draw attention to the ongoing plight of investor migrants from Russia. Since the beginning of the events in Ukraine, bureaucrats in certain countries got it into their minds that the Russian people should be punished for the actions of their government. Russians are being punished in every way that these bureaucrats can dream up. From influencing companies to deny access to consumer goods to all Russian people to denying Russians access to international financial markets, including si1nply freezing assets of people purely based on their place of birth, they are trying to make things as bad as possible for the Russians.
One of the means some bureaucrats conceived of to make life more difficult for Russians is to deny freedom of movement. These people are only concerned with Western Europe as the United States and Canada have not changed their immigration policy regarding Russians in any way. I am assuming that the thought behind this is that if some Russians are denied access to some Western countries, they, in turn, would somehow try to influence their government to change its policies.
This idea is absurd.
These same bureaucrats have, for some reason, also decided that denying a bunch of Russians Caribbean citizenship might change the course of events in Ukraine. I cannot think of a more ridiculous proposition.
Worst of all, these bureaucrats don't seem to care who they hurt. By denying the Caribbean the income Russian citizenship applicants would otherwise generate, they are depriving the countries of resources that help pay for infrastructure, pensions, and other much-needed programs.
Unfortunately, the Caribbean CIPs have been put in the unenviable position of having to fall in line with the demands of the bigger countries or face sanctions themselves. They are told, curiously, that somehow anybody born in Russia is now a danger to nothing less than the world order. This includes Russian scientists, artists, kindergarten teachers, and any other law-abiding citizen born in Russia.
The pressure levied has reached such a degree that many of the Caribbean countries are forced not to accept Canadians, Americans, or Europeans who are not even Russian citizens just because they were born in Russia.
My son, for example.
He is a Canadian citizen born in Russia to parents who are both Canadian citizens. He is not a Russian citizen, nor are my wife and I Russian citizens. He just happened to be born in Moscow because I was working there at the time, managing, among other things, a real estate company that was being financed by OPIC, an overseas financing arm of the US Treasury.
I realized, just the other day, that he would not be eligible to apply for Caribbean citizenship. This despite his parents having received citizenship through the CIP. My son has actually spent the vast majority of his life in the Caribbean, going to school here. But because he has a Russian birth certificate, he is ineligible to even apply to join us in our citizenship.
This is now very personal, which is why I decided to write this article. I don't blame any of the countries for doing what they are essentially being forced to do. I do blame the big countries for their insensitivity and, what I would say, borders on racism.
For some in the Western PTB, the hatred of Russia stems from old grudges leftover from the Cold War. To them, Russia is still the Soviet Union, a defeated foe that has no right whatsoever to get back up and recover from defeat.
To others in the Western PTB, the hatred of Russia and the Russian people goes back even further, to the days of the Pogroms of the Czarist eras, and their resulting displacement. This is something they have never forgotten nor forgiven, nor will they until they have subjugated, enslaved, and/or wiped out every last Russian in a psychotic thirst for revenge.
Still others in the Western PTB despise Russia for their resurgence of Orthodox Christianity, and their stance against LGBT propaganda. To the ungodly anti-Christians and sexual degenerates (but I repeat myself), Russia is a land and a people to be corrupted and defiled in the most disgusting ways imaginable, and they won’t stop until both Russia and Russians are as drug-addicted, spiritually bereft, mentally damaged, and STD-infected as they are.
For all of these factions, keeping the Russian people pinned in by their own national borders like some giant open-air prison is necessary to keep the people down, and to try to crank up the pressure on Vladimir Putin. It is a desperate bid to regime change Russia, break it up into smaller regions, and strip-mine it of everything it has. For the PTB, until and even after such time that their goals are accomplished, Russians are to be trapped by their own borders, and not allowed to escape from their foreign tormentors.
This leads us to the next thing that the Western PTB hates: Citizenship By Investment Programs. They cannot stand the fact that some uppity proles and even uninitiated bourgeoisie would try to escape their prisons of taxation, regulation, and oppression. How absolutely dare they!
Also from Investment Migration Insider - “Ending CBI is ‘Not an Option’ and Antigua Will ‘Fight it to the Bitter End,’ Says Foreign Minister”:
Antigua & Barbuda's Foreign Affairs Minister, E.P. Chet Greene expressed determination on the part of his government not to give up its CBI programs in the face of pressure from Europe and the US.
Questioned as to whether the government was "prepared to disband the program;' Antiguan Foreign Affairs Minister E.P. Chet Greene responded that "disbanding the program is not an option for us at the moment. And we won't pre-empt losing this fight. We'll fight it to the bitter end. We are strong in our views because we operate a program that is really above and beyond reproach. Our books can be pulled and can be reviewed; our reports are tabled in Parliament. So, we are doing everything that is required of us by law, in terms of what's expected by international partners."
Politicians in the EU and the US, Minister Greene indicated, should not "try to broad-brush" Caribbean programs and lump them in with programs elsewhere that did not "operate in an optimal manner". Rather, he pointed out, "they should look at us for what we bring to the table and how we manage the program and, if anything, cite us as an example of good management."
Minister Greene also hinted at a certain hypocrisy in the EU and US approach: "They have their programs contributing to their economies," he said, pointing out that while different terms may be used about investment migration programs in Europe and the US, they are "effectively the same."
Caribbean CBI jurisdictions have felt under pressure in recent weeks following a European Parliament vote that attempted to pressure the European Commission into proposing legislation to stop citizenship-by-investment in the Caribbean and the tabling of a US bipartisan bill aimed at much the same.
Antigua & Barbuda's government has been the most proactive in its response to the perceived threat. Earlier this month, Antiguan PM Gaston Browne wrote to EU and US lawmakers, stressing CBI's importance to Caribbean economies and emphasizing the integrity of such programs. The government has also proposed a Pan-Caribbean CIP regulator as a means to help mollify European and American concerns.
Don’t wait for conditions to be either “just right” or “just bad enough.” Your timing will never be right, so it’s better to be too early, rather than too late. Make your plans now to Escape From The West.
A good read. I will get a second citizenship through marriage in a few years, but I want to get a third one just in case within the next 10 years.