Aristocratic cowardice, betrayal and opportunism

Photo by author. 2013.

Since I took the photo above and below almost 10 years ago as part of my preparations at Malta for writing my faction novel (in Dutch under pseudonym), I’ve learned a lot more about the topics mentioned in the title.
At that time I had not yet heard of the horrible organized betrayal and global lust for power of the World Economic Forum.

In 2012 I already did write about those horrible UN organizations UNRWA, UNISPAL and others but I was much less negative about the nature of the UN organizations of that time. At that time there was also much less talk of a true UN monstrosity. I was also just starting to notice and dig deeper into judicial internationalism and the decline of scientific practice.

In my view, the photo above most painfully portrays what I indicate in the title. In the foreground a few ordinary men who consider it an honor to lug around a heavy group of statues and behind them a person under a canopy surrounded by people with cloaks bearing a treacherous reference to that famous old knighthood (Knights Hospitaller) that once guaranteed with the sword that Christian pilgrimage sites could be safely visited.
An order that today, however, stands more in favour of Mohammedanism than against it.

Before visiting Malta, I read quite a bit about the astonishing heroism and success of the Knights in the 16th century who defended the island against a huge Ottoman invasion force.
The battle marked the beginning of the collapse of that Empire!
The photo below shows a rather sad-looking statue of the then leader Valette in the center of the city named after him: Valletta. The statue stands near the unrebuilt theater that was bombed in World War II in which Malta once again took center stage for a crucial twist.

Jean de la Valette

Bookshop in Malta

During my stay I visited one bookstore and bought one book, which I now re-read: The last knight of Malta, by Thomas Freller and Gabrielle Von Trauchburg.
Only now did it dawn on me that this book acutally constitutes one of the most thorough studies of the end of that order of chivalry. It took place as an almost incidental part of Napoleon’s plan to conquer Egypt. He succeeded and – to get the population on his side – that idiot called himself Mohammedan …
That last knight was a man from Bavaria.

Displaying Joseph Maria Rechberg in photo of inside of Valletta’s Co-Cathedral (backside of my 2014 faction novel)

At Malta the fall of the order was to a great extent the result of the aristocratic betrayal by the French and Spanish knights.

The book on Rechberg is extremely revealing about the levels of betrayal that the aristocrats and otherwise very powerful -then and always- were capable of. Maybe I should dedicate a separate video to it.

OK, one more comment. Rechberg is, as it were, the hero of the book. One of the major challenges he faces is to keep his distance from all kinds of actually existing conspiracies!

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