Strauss' world view became weaponized

Editor's note: A recent article by Voltairenet claims that a faction referred to as "Straussians" (Leo Strauss' philosophical interpretations became deranged and twisted by his followers) has shifted its power base from U.S. institutions to international bodies such as NATO and the United Nations. According to the Voltaire Network, this group is allegedly using diplomatic and security platforms to push for broader geopolitical confrontation, influencing decisions on Ukraine and sanctions against Iran while bypassing traditional oversight. The article frames this as part of a strategic effort to steer global policy toward escalating conflict. The term "Straussians" is often used as a shorthand for a core ideological group that overlaps significantly with the movement commonly called neoconservatives (or "neocons"). While not formally organized in Britain, Straussian-aligned neoconservative ideology has influenced UK foreign-policy circles through transatlantic security networks and interventionist war mongering wonk tanks. Jews like Leo Strauss and Melvin Lasky are not called "masters of discourse" for nothing. Their verbal dexterity can animate entire countries.  

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Straussians take control of the United Nations and NATO

by Thierry Meyssan | October 8, 2025

It wasn’t expected, but the advocates of generalized war, the Straussians, expelled from the governing bodies of the United States, have regrouped in intergovernmental organizations. To everyone's surprise, they are present in the European Union, but especially at the United Nations and in the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine. Institutions dedicated to peace have been hijacked by the warmongers.

or nearly a year, President Donald Trump has been restoring order in the United States. He has reestablished the principles of equality before the law and merit-based promotion at the expense of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). He has slashed federal budgets for everything related to imperial spending and attempted to restore the military's primary function: homeland defense.

At the same time, we all see how he is failing to achieve the peace he hoped for in Ukraine and Palestine. He is letting the Europeans fight not for Ukraine, but against Russia and the coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu persisting in its program of a "Greater Israel", that is to say annexing its neighbors [1].

However, we fail to see the worst of it: the Straussians, who held the upper hand under George Bush Jr., Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, are still not defeated. They have retreated into two intergovernmental organizations: NATO and the UN.

Apart from NATO, they have taken control of the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine (formerly the Ramstein Group), which, since September 9, no longer meets alternately at the US military base in Ramstein and at NATO headquarters in Mons-Brussels, but now also in London.

It was they who, along with the Ukrainian secret services, organized the drone flights over Western and Northern European airports. Then, they pushed for the delivery of German Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine, after secretly organizing the transfer of the first batteries from Israel.

They are still the ones who falsified the reports of the UN Secretary-General on the Security Council meetings of September 19 and 26 [2]. Contrary to these reports—which we were wrong to trust—the Security Council did not approve the reimposition of sanctions against Iran. Moreover, it lacked the power to do so.

This summer, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom adopted a strange common position on the JCPoA, that is, the nuclear agreement signed during the 5+1 negotiations with Iran. As a reminder, the United States led these negotiations supposedly to end Iran's military nuclear program and prevent the country from acquiring an atomic bomb. After a round of discussions, the meetings were interrupted for a year while Washington and Tehran concluded a secret protocol about which we know nothing.

Negotiations then resumed and were immediately concluded with a treaty in Vienna. It is also important to remember that China and Russia, which participated in the negotiations, both confirmed that there had been no Iranian military nuclear program since 1988.

The JCPoA was validated by Security Council Resolution 2231 on July 20, 2015. As a result, the sanctions that the council had adopted against Iran were gradually lifted. However, by the following year, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany were questioning the agreement on the grounds that Iran was conducting research on missiles capable of delivering atomic bombs. Ultimately, on May 8, 2018, President Donald Trump (in his first term) decided to withdraw from the agreement on the grounds that it had not prevented Iran from increasing its military power in the Middle East. On September 19, 2020, Elliott Abrams, President Trump’s representative for Venezuela... and Iran, announced the reinstatement of US sanctions, allegedly by resorting to paragraph 11 of the resolution ("snapback mechanism"). However, neither Washington, nor London, nor Paris, nor Berlin have ever attempted to resort to paragraph 36 of the JCPoA for the simple reason that they would have had to admit that they were wrong.

Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, reacted strongly to the lies from the 

UN press service. Without directly implicating Secretary-General António Guterres, 

he warned him of the infiltration of his administration by war mongers. He had his 

letter distributed to every member state of the Organization.

However, as Iran, China, and Russia have repeatedly stated for the past five years, the JCPoA was included in Resolution 2231. Consequently, it is not possible to activate paragraph 11 of the resolution without taking into account the commitments signed in the JCPoA [3]. And these were initially violated by the Europeans and the United States. China declared: "The United States has reimposed and has continuously tightened unilateral sanctions against Iran and has adopted maximum pressure measures." As a result, Iran has been unable to benefit from the economic advantages of the JCPOA and has been forced to default on some of its obligations under the JCPOA." [4]

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While on the subject of intervention and war Germany's Merkel takes the proverbial cake:

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This is from the neocon central Newsweek. To be precise, Russia will strike Poland without hesitation if the US provides Poland with cruise missiles:

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