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Monday, November 18, 2024

World War III is very close

I have always had mixed feelings about George Galloway – supporting him for his opposition to the appalling Iraq War and the power of his argument to the US Senate and his support for marginalised people but hesitating over some of his more outrageous performances. It was the Novara channel which posed the reasonable question recently about Who is the real George Galloway?

He’s been presenting the Mother of All Talk Shows (MOATS) for several years (it’s now at its 396th episode) and Twitter duly carried its latest excerpt which alerted me to the unbelievable fact that bomb Russian Biden has apparently given the green light to Ukraine to use use long-range missiles to bomb Russian cities

And the UK will, as usual, fall in line with the US madness. Indeed a site called The Gray Zone has just revealed a scheme to keep Ukraine fighting – despite the terrible losses it has been suffering.

Project Alchemy was founded on the personal orders of Lt. General Charlie Stickland, who is charged with “planning, executing and integrating UK led joint and multinational overseas military operations” as the head of Britain’s Permanent Joint Headquarters. Stickland boasts in leaked communications that his family “come from a long line of pirates and buccaneers.” In his email signature, the general identifies himself as an “LGBTQ+ Advocate” in rainbow-colored text. Stickland and his assistant, Maj. Ed Harris, did not answer The Grayzone’s calls to their personal phones, nor did they respond to detailed questions submitted to them through WhatsApp.

Stickland convened the first meeting of Project Alchemy’s on February 26, 2022, just days after Russian troops made their initial foray into Ukraine. According to minutes of the gathering, “an assortment of leading academics, authors, strategists, planners, pollsters, comms, data scientists and tech” was on hand to produce a “grand strategy options paper.” 

The paper consisted of a series of proposals for the British government to “defeat Putin in Ukraine and set the conditions for the reshaping of an open international order of the future.” Throughout the document, the need to “keep Ukraine fighting” was described as London’s “main effort” in the conflict.

In an email to British military apparatchiks dated March 3 2022, Stickland described Alchemy’s paper as the result of “some mischief I’ve been up to” with “a group of ‘sideways thinkers.’” He expressed satisfaction that “this has been seen by all sorts of people,” including senior British government and military officials, “and landed well.”

The paper can be viewed on the Gray Zone site but is attached here
 

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