© Chris Williamson / Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO. Jordan Peterson in Cambridge.
Popular conservative political commentator Jordan Peterson has tried to get into Russian President Vladimir Putin's head and predict how Russia's conflict with the West in Ukraine will unfold. Peterson said that if he were the Russian president he would leave the EU without energy supplies in the winter.
"I know what I'd do in his shoes," he said on the Piers Morgan Uncensored show on Thursday. "I'd wait till the first cold snap and shut off the taps."Peterson was referring to supplies of Russian natural gas to EU nations. He argued that Moscow indirectly warned that a full shutdown would happen when Russian gas giant Gazprom started curtailing deliveries through the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany, citing maintenance issues.
The political commentator declined to endorse a notion popular in the West that Putin resembles Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin in his thinking, calling the claim "foolish" and not backed by any actual evidence.Putin "is a lot more like everybody else than anyone thinks," Peterson argued. He added that "there is a bit of Hitler and Stalin in everyone," before going into an explanation of how accepting government-imposed lies under pressure was part of human nature.
"The totalitarian state is actually the grip of the lie. And people would certainly go along with that. We've seen this emerge with [the] cancel culture. It's like 'Lie! Or else!'," he said.
He mocked the idea that Ukraine and its Western backers could "win" against Russia as "naïve.""I just don't understand that. What do you mean we are going to win? What are we going to win exactly?" he demanded.
The Russian government, Peterson believes, would consider simply devastating Ukraine an acceptable outcome, if no better alternative can be achieved. And the West would not be able to stop it due to Russia's role as a global supplier of energy, he argued.
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We can't win against Vladimir Putin in any way because you cannot win against someone you cannot say 'no' to. Period. And we can't say 'no' to Putin because we sold our soul for his oil and gas," he said.
"And we did that to elevate our moral stature in relation to 'saving the planet.' And
here we are, facing a very dire winter, hoisted on the petard of our very own foolishness and moral presumption," he added.
Peterson was referring to the concern that humanity was facing an existential threat due to climate change, a threat that he believes to be exaggerated. The unintended consequences of the West's conflict with Russia are a far more imminent and real threat to humans, he pointed out, as "the World Bank already estimated that we've put 350 million people into what they call 'food insecurity'."
"But the planet has too many people on it anyway, so, you know... It's just poor people," he added.
Peterson is a Canadian psychology professor who rose to international prominence over his commentaries on various contemporary issues, such as transgender acceptance policies in the West, the role of Christianity in cultures originating in Europe, and geopolitical conflicts. His YouTube channel has over 5.5 million subscribers.
Reader Comments
It's f*cking horrible how dumbed down people are in the West.
However, in this 1984-world we are living in, a man must be cancelled if he is not able of constant double-think.
Hypocrisy at its peak
I refuse & do not consent to be part of of any collective “WE” context of collective humanity that Pers Morgan uses. He is truly an puppet manipulated insult, not relevant, thinks like a twit & has nothing to offer humanity except his Bravo Sierra.
How will you know when you've won, if you don't know what you mean by the word "win"?
Cybernetics derives from greek "kubern" via "kubernos". which is the name for the guy at the helm of a ship or directing the helmsman. We also transliterate it - in NELF, my word for the Northern European Language Family - as "Governor". As a person, he usually does not own the ship, but the owner has put him in charge of the ship with an order to steer the ship to a destination. The oarsmen and sailors don't need to know where they're headed or how to get there, they only need to know how to row and how to raise and lower sails.
The point being, Biden, Trudeau, Queen Charles, et al do not own their respective countries, they are acting on behalf of the actual owners, whom we do not know - or do we? Do they?
I saw two very inspiring vids yesterday.
Go to www. Adverse reaction report.zone and search for Prof Dolores Cahill
Then on YouTube find Vof Live from the Sunshine coast
I watched a video last night of a woman claiming to be a recruitment agent for the oil & gas resource sector. In it she said that human resources officers at large corporations are being told to expect that their vaxxed employees will need to be replaced in two to three years. Here she is: [Link]
It's shite like this that keeps popping up and extending the suspense. Is she for real? What she says appears to be in line with what we are seeing for cancers, injuries, sickness and death of the vaxxed.
I'll check the hr vid, once I get service back.
No wonder the first one did not, that woman looks really dangerous ...
From a survivalist point of view that concept is certain suicide. When a person must live off of the land or in the real world then he/she knows that resources and opportunities are finite and not to be squandered.
Not so for people who live in a fake, constructed world who have never be deprived of anything except what they don't already have. These people have no concept of reality and remind me of the evil Non Playable Characters in a video game.
This is from Meditations on Moloch, which is well worth the read. [Link] It is an example of Moloch-thinking when it comes to the intersection of government regulations and corporate greed.
From your own post, above, the last line perfectly describes the United States/Western Powers when it says;
" A self-interested person has some incentive to sign a pact to make everyone use a filter, but in many cases has a stronger incentive to wait for everyone else to sign such a pact but opt out himself. "
I do believe in death with dignity (or assisted suicide) in some cases (having worked in a nursing home for the better part of a decade), but that's another conversation.
Wait. When does Il Papa okay digital Confession?
Is someone listening/viewing? Well, no...but yes. Everything is recorded and stored. And it can be accessed from essentially anywhere, if the Archbishop or the King wishes you to be investigated, or simply found, later. I'll bet the same drones being used right now can already provide a platform to fly right into your ear and blow your head off, or whatever else needs doing.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. We wonder about the grave goods of the past while doing the same thing in possibly sillier ways.
I thought it was for the deceased to call for help if he/she was not really dead... I'm so far behind the techno crowd it's not even funny. Actually it is.
Warlords of antique were buried with armour and weapons, members of hunter and gatherer tribes with weapons and personal items as well. Taking the stuff that dominated their mortal coil with them into the afterlife.
Only some priorities have changed, it seems ...