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August
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This
analysis was written
for the Unz Review.
First,
my writing on the wall
In
October of last year a wrote an analysis I entitled The
USA are about to face the worst crisis of their history and how Putin’s example
might inspire Trump and I think that this is a good time to revisit it
now. I began the analysis by looking at the calamities which would befall
the United States if Hillary was elected. Since this did not happen
(thank God!), we can safely ignore that part and look at my prediction of what
would happen if Trump was elected. Here is what I wrote:
Trump
wins. Problem: he will be completely alone. The Neocons have a
total, repeat total, control of the Congress, the media, banking and finance,
and the courts. From Clinton to Clinton they have deeply infiltrated the
Pentagon, Foggy Bottom, and the three letter agencies. The Fed is their
stronghold. How in the world will Trump deal with these rabid “crazies
in the basement“? Consider the vicious hate campaign which all these
“personalities” (from actors, to politicians to reporters) have unleashed
against Trump – they have burned their bridges, they know that they will lose
it all if Trump wins (and, if he proves to be an easy pushover his election
will make no difference anyway). The Neocons have nothing to lose and
they will fight to the very last one. What could Trump possibly do to get
anything done if he is surrounded by Neocons and their agents of
influence? Bring in an entirely different team? How is he going to
vet them? His first choice was to take Pence as a VP – a disaster (he is
already sabotaging Trump on Syria and the elections outcome). I *dread*
the hear whom Trump will appoint as a White House Chief of Staff as I am afraid
that just to appease the Neocons he will appoint some new version of the
infamous Rahm Emanuel… And should Trump prove that he has both principles
and courage, the Neocons can always “Dallas” him and replace him with
Pence. Et voilà!
I
went on to suggest that Trump’s only option would be to follow Putin’s example
and do the the Neocons what Putin did to the oligarchs. Clearly that did
not happen. In fact, one month after the election of Trump I wrote
another analysis entitled “The
Neocons and the “deep state” have neutered the Trump Presidency, it’s over
folks!“.
Less
than a month ago I
warned that a ‘color revolution ‘ was taking place in the USA. My
first element of proof was the so-called “investigation” which the CIA, FBI,
NSA and others were conducting against President Trump’s candidate to become
National Security Advisor, General Flynn. Tonight, the plot to get rid of
Flynn has finally succeeded and General Flynn had to
offer his resignation. Trump accepted it. Now let’s immediately
get one thing out of the way: Flynn was hardly a saint or a perfect wise man
who would single handedly saved the world. That he was not.
However, what Flynn was is the cornerstone of Trump’s national security
policy. (…) The Neocon run ‘deep state’ has now forced Flynn to
resign under the idiotic pretext that he had a telephone conversation, on an
open, insecure and clearly monitored, line with the Russian ambassador.
And Trump accepted this resignation. Ever since Trump made it to the
White House, he has taken blow after blow from the Neocon-run Ziomedia, from
Congress, from all the Hollywood doubleplusgoodthinking “stars”
and even from European politicians. And Trump took each blow without ever
fighting back. Nowhere was his famous “you are fired!” to be seen.
But I still had hope. I wanted to hope. I felt that it was my duty
to hope. But now Trump has betrayed us all. Again, Flynn was
not my hero. But he was, by all accounts, Trump’s hero. And Trump
betrayed him. The consequences of this will be immense. For one
thing, Trump is now clearly broken. It took the ‘deep state’ only weeks
to castrate Trump and to make him bow to the powers that be. Those
who would have stood behind Trump will now feel that he will not stand behind
them and they will all move back away from him. The Neocons will feel
elated by the elimination of their worst enemy and emboldened by this victory
they will push on, doubling-down over and over and over again. It’s over,
folks, the deep state has won.
I
then concluded that the consequences of this victory would catastrophic for the
United States:
In
their hate-filled rage against Trump and the American people (aka “the basket
of deplorables”) the Neocons have had to show their true face. By their
rejection of the outcome of the elections, by their riots, their demonization
of Trump, the Neocons have shown two crucial things: first, that the US
democracy is a sad joke and that they, the Neocons, are an occupation regime
which rules against the will of the American people. In other words, just like
Israel, the USA has no legitimacy left. And since, just like Israel, the USA
are unable to frighten their enemies, they are basically left with nothing, no
legitimacy, no ability to coerce. So yes, the Neocons have won. But their
victory is removes the last chance for the US to avoid a collapse.
I
think that what we are seeing today are the first signs of the impending
collapse.
The
symptoms of the agony
- Externally,
the US foreign policy is basically “frozen” and in lieu of a foreign
policy we now only have a long series of empty threats hurled at a list of
demonized countries which are now promised “fire and brimstone” should
they dare to disobey Uncle Sam. While this makes for good headlines,
this does not qualify as a “policy” of any kind (I discussed this issue at
length during my recent
interview with SouthFront). And then there is Congress which has
basically stripped
Trump from his powers to conduct foreign policy. This bizarre,
and illegal, form of a “vote of no-confidence” further hammers in the
message that Trump is either a madman, a traitor, or both.
- Internally,
the latest riots in Charlottesville now being blamed on Trump who, after
being a Putin agent is now further demonized as some kind of Nazi (see
Paul Craig Roberts’ first and secondwarnings about
this dynamic)
- Organizationally,
it is clear that Trump is surrounded by enemies as illustrated by the
absolutely outrageous fact that he can’t even talk to a foreign head of
state without having the transcript
of his conversation leaked to the Ziomedia.
I
believe that these all are preparatory steps to trigger a major crisis and use
it to remove Trump, either by a process of impeachment, or by force under the
pretext of some crisis. Just look at the message which the Ziomedia has
been hammering into the brains of the US population.
The
psychological preparation for the forthcoming coup: scaring them all to death
Here
are three very telling examples taken from Newsweek’s front page:
Ask
yourself, what is the message here?
Trump
is a traitor, he works for Putin, Putin wants to destroy democracy in the
United States and these two men together are the most dangerous men on the
planet. This is a “plot against America“, no less!
Not
bad, right?
“They”
are clearly out there go get “us” and “we” are all in terrible danger: Kim
Jong-un is about to declare nuclear war on the USA, Xi and Putin are
threatening the world with their armies, and “our” own President came to power
courtesy of the “Russian KGB” and “Putin’s hackers”, he now works for the
Russians, he is also clearly a Nazi, a White supremacist, a racist and,
possibly, a “new
Hitler” (as
is Putin, of course!).
And
then, there are those truly scary Mooslims and Aye-rabs who apparently want
only two things in life: destroy “our way of life” and kill all the
“infidels”. This is why we need the TSA, 16 intelligence agencies and
militarized police SWAT teams everywhere: in case the terrorists come to get us
where we live.
Dangerous
international consequences
This
would all be rather funny if it was not also extremely dangerous. For one
thing, the US is really poking at a dangerous foe when it constantly tries to
scare Kim Jong-un and the DPRK leadership. No, not because of the North
Korean nukes (which are probably not real nuclear capable ICBMs but a not
necessarily compatible combination of nuclear ‘devices’ and intermediate range
ballistic missiles) but because of the huge and hard to destroy conventional North
Korean military. The real threat are not missiles, but a deadly
combination of conventional artillery and special forces which present very
little danger to the USA or the US military, but which present a huge
threat for the population of Seoul and the northern section of South Korea.
Nukes, in whatever form, are really only an added problem, a toxic “icing” on
an already very dangerous ‘conventional cake’.
[Sidebar
– a real life nightmare: Now, if you *really* want to terrify
yourself and stay awake all night then consider the following. While I
personally believe that Kim Jong-un is not insane and that the main objective
of the North Korean leadership is to avoid a war at all costs, what if I am
wrong? What if those who say that the North Korean leaders are totally
insane are right? Or, which I think is much more likely, what if Kim Jong-un
and the North Korean leaders came to the conclusion that they have nothing to
lose, that the Americans are going to kill them all, along with their families
and friends? What could they, in theory, do if truly desperate?
Well, let me tell you: forget about Guam; think Tokyo!
Indeed, while the DPRK could devastate Seoul with old fashioned artillery systems,
DPRK missiles are probably capable of striking Tokyo or the Keihanshin region encompassing Kyoto,
Osaka and Kobe including the key industries of the Hanshin
Industrial Region. The Greater Tokyo area (Kanto region) and the
Keihanshin region are very densely populated (37 and 20 million people
respectively) and contain an immense number of industries, many of which would
produce an ecological disaster of immense proportions if hit by missiles.
Not only that, but a strike on the key economic and financial nodes of Japan
would probably result in a 9-11 kind of international economic collapse.
So if the North Koreans wanted to really, really hurt the Americans what they
could do is strike Seoul, and key cities in Japan resulting in a huge political
crisis for the entire planet. During the Cold War we used to study the
consequences of a Soviet strike against Japan and the conclusion was always the
same: Japan cannot afford a war of any kind. The Japanese landmass is too
small, too densely populated, to rich in lucrative targets and a war lay waste
to the entire country. This is still true today, only more so. And just
imagine the reaction in South Korea and Japan if some crazy US strike on the
DPRK results in Seoul and Tokyo being hit by missiles! The
South Koreans have already made their position unambiguously clear, by the
way. As for the Japanese, they are officially placing
their hopes in missiles (as if technology could mitigate the
consequences of insanity!). So yeah, the DPRK is plenty dangerous
and pushing them into their last resort is totally irresponsible indeed, nukes
or no nukes]
What
we are observing now is positive feedback loop in which each move by the
Neocons results in a deeper and deeper destabilization of the entire
system. Needless to say, this is extremely dangerous and can only result
in an eventual catastrophe/collapse. In fact, the signs that the USA are
totally loosing control are already all over the place, here are just a few headlines
to illustrate this:
- Iran
could quit nuclear deal in ‘hours’ if new U.S. sanctions imposed: Rouhani
- Israel:
Netanyahu declares support for a Kurdish state
- Syrian
forces take 3 more towns en route to Deir ez-Zor in first airborne
operation
- Maduro
calls for nationwide ‘anti-imperialist’ drills after Trump’s threat of
‘military option’
- Soldiers
of the 201st (Russian) base in Tadjikistan have been put on high alert as
part of a military exercise
- Confirmed:
Turkey to end support for anti-government terrorists in Syria
- Russia
Plans Huge Zapad 2017 Military Exercises With Belarus
A
French expression goes “when the cat is gone, the mice dance“, and this
is exactly what is happening now: the USA is both very weak and basically
absent. As for the Armenians, they say “The mouse dreams dreams that
would terrify the cat”. Well, the “mice” of the world are dancing and
dreaming and simply ignoring the “cat”. Every move the cat makes only
makes things worse for him. The world is moving on, while the cat is busy
destroying himself.
Dangerous
domestic consequences
First
on my list would be race riots. In fact, they are already happening all
over the United States, but they are rarely presented as such. And I am
not talking about the “official” riots of Black Lives Matter, which are bad
enough, I am talking about the many mini-riots which the official media is
systematically trying to obfuscate. Those interested in this topic should
read the book Don’t
Make the Black Kids Angryby Colin Flaherty which shows that racist attack
on Whites by Blacks (aka “polar bear hunting”) are on the rise pretty much all
over the county. Likewise, to anybody who stubbornly persists in ignoring
the strong correlation between race and crime ought to read Ron Unz’s seminal
analysis Race
and Crime in America. Now, before some self-appointed thought police
volunteer accuses me a racism, I am not saying anything at all about the causes of
the racial problems in the United States. I am only saying that racial
violence in the USA is severe and rapidly getting much worse.
The
second problem which I see threatening the US society is an extremely rapid
delegitimization of the entire US political system and, especially, of the
Federal government. For decades now Americans have been voting for ‘A’
and each time what they ended up with is ‘non-A’. Examples of that
include the famous “read my lips, no new taxes”, of course, but also Obama
promises to stop stupid wars and now Trump’s promise to “drain the
swamp”. Americans have been lied to for decades and they know it.
There is a widening chasm between the so-called “American values” taught in
schools and the reality of power. While officially the USA are supposed
to stand for democracy, freedom and all the other good things advocated by the
Founding Fathers, the disgusting reality is that the USA are in bed with
Wahabis, Nazis and Zionists. The all-prevailing hypocrisy of it all now
threatens to bring down the entire US political system just as the no less
prevailing hypocrisy of the Soviet system brought down the USSR (if interested,
you can read more about this topic here).
The simple truth is that no regime can survive for too long when it proactively
supports the exact opposite of what it officially is supposed to stand
for. The result? I have yet to meet an adult American who would
sincerely believe that he/she lives in the “land of the free and the home of
the brave”. Maybe infants still buy this stuff, but even teenagers know
that this is a load of bull.
Third,
for all the encouraging statistics about the Dow Jones, unemployment and
growth, the reality is that the US society is rapidly transforming itself in a
three-tired one: on top, a small number of obscenely rich people, under them, a
certain amount of qualified professionals who service the filthy rich and who
struggle to maintain a lifestyle which in the past was associated with the
middle-class. And then the vast majority of Americans who basically are
looking at making “minimal wage plus a little something” and who basically
survive by not paying for health insurance, by typically working two jobs, by
eating cheap and unhealthy “prolefeed” and by giving up on that which every
American worker could enjoy in the 1950s and 1960s (have one parent at home,
have paid holidays, a second vacation home, etc.). Americans are mostly
hard workers and, so far, most of them are surviving, but they are mostly one
paycheck away from seriously bad poverty. A lot of them only make ends
meet because they get help from their parents and grand-parents (the same is
true of southern Europe, by the way). A large segment of the US
population now survives only because of Walmart and the Dollar Store.
Once that fails, food stamps are the last option. That, or jail, of
course.
Combine
all this and you get a potentially extremely explosive situation. No
wonder that when so many Americans heard Hillary’s comment about the “basket of
deplorables” they took that as declaration of war.
And
how do the Neocons plan to deal with all this?
By
cracking down on free speech and dissent, of course! What else?
Their
only response – repression of course!
YouTube,
Google, Facebook, Twitter – they are all cracking down on “bad” speech which
includes pretty much any topic a garden variety self-described ‘liberal’ frowns
upon. GoDaddy and Google are
even going after domain names. Oh sure, nobody gets thrown in jail for,
say, defending the 2nd Amendment, but they get “demonetized” and their accounts
simply closed. It’s not the cops cracking down on free speech, it’s
“Corporate America”, but the effect is the same. Apparently, the Neocons
do not realize that censorship is not a viable strategy in the age of the
Internet. Or maybe they do, and they are deliberately trying to trigger a
backlash?
Then
there is the vilification campaign in the media: unless you are some kind of
‘minority’ you are assumed to be nefarious by birth and guilty of all the evils
on the planet. And your leader is Trump, of course, or maybe even Putin
himself, vide supra. Christian heterosexual White males
better run for cover…
Whatever
may be the case, by their manic insistence, on one hand, to humiliate and crush
Trump and, on the other, to repress millions of Americans the Neocons are
committing a double mistake. First, they are showing their true face and,
second, they are subverting the very institutions they are using to control and
run this country. That, of course, only further weaken the Neocons and
the United States themselves and that further accelerates the positive feedback
loop mentioned above which now threatens the entire international system.
Us
and them
What
makes the gradual collapse of the AngloZionist Empire so uniquely dangerous is
that it is by far the biggest and most powerful empire in world history.
No empire has ever had the quasi monopoly on power the USA enjoyed since
WWII. By any measure, military, economic, political, social, the USA came
out of WWII as a giant and while there were ups and downs during the subsequent
decades, the collapse of the USSR only reaffirmed what appeared to be the total
victory of the United States. In my admittedly subjective opinion, the
last competent (no, I did not say ‘good’, I said ‘competent’) US President was
George Herbert Walker Bush who, unlike his successors, at least new how to run
an Empire. After that, it is all downhill, faster and faster. And
if Obama was probably the most incompetent President in US history, Trump will
be the first one to be openly lynched while in office. As a result, the
AngloZionist Empire is now like a huge freight train which lost its locomotive
but which still have an immense momentum pushing it forward even though there
is nobody in control any more. The rest of the planet, with the
irrelevant exception of the East Europeans, is now scrambling in horror to get
out of the path of this out of control train. So far, the tracks (minimal
common sense, political realities) are more or less holding, but a crash
(political, economic or military) could happen at any moment. And that is
very, very scary.
The
USA has anywhere between 700 to 1000 military bases worldwide, the entire
international financial system is deeply enmeshed with the US economy, the US
Dollar is still the only real reserve currency, United States Treasury
securities are held by all the key international players (including Russia and
China), SWIFT is politically controlled by the USA, the US is the only country
in the world that can print as much money as it wants and, last but not least,
the US has a huge nuclear arsenal. As a result, a US collapse would
threaten everybody and that means that nobody would want to
trigger one. The collapse of the Soviet Union threatened the rest of
mankind only in one way: by its nuclear arsenal. In contrast, any
collapse of the United States would threaten everybody in many different ways.
So
the real question now is this: can the rest of the planet prevent a
catastrophic collapse of the AngloZionist Empire?
This
is the irony of our situation: even though the entire planet is sick and tried
of the incompetent arrogance of the AngloZionists, nobody out there wants their
Empire to catastrophically collapse. And yet, with the Neocons in power,
such a collapse appears inevitable with potentially devastating consequences
for everybody.
This
is really amazing, think of it: everybody hates the Neocons, not only a
majority of the American people, but truly the entire planet. And yet
that numerically small group of people has somehow managed to put everybody in
danger, including themselves, due to their ugly vindictiveness, infinite
arrogance and ideology-induced short-sightedness. That this could ever have
happened, and at a planetary scale, is a dramatic testimony to the moral and
spiritual decay of our civilization: how did we ever let things get that far?!
And
the next obvious question: can we still stop them?
I
honestly don’t know. I hope so, but I am not sure. My biggest hope
with Trump was that he would be willing to sacrifice the Empire for the sake of
the USA (the opposite of what the Neocons are doing: they are willing to
sacrifice the USA for the sake of their Empire) and that he would manage a
relatively safe and hopefully non-violent transition from Empire to “normal
country” for the USA. Clearly, this is ain’t happening. Instead,
the Neocons are threatening everybody: the Chinese, the Russians, the North
Koreans and the Venezuelans of course, but also the Europeans (economically),
the entire Middle-East (via the “only democracy in the Middle-East”), all the
developing countries and even the American people. Heck, they are even
threatening the US President himself, and in not-so-subtle ways!
So
what’s next?
Truly,
I don’t know. But my overwhelming sense is that Trump will be removed
from office, either for “high crimes and misdemeanors” or for “medical reasons”
(they will simply declare him insane and unfit to be the
President). Seeing how weak and spineless Trump is, he might even
be “convinced” to resign. I don’t see them simply murdering him simply
because he is no Kennedy either. After that, Pence comes to power and it
will all be presented like a wonderful event, a group-hug of the elites
followed by an immediate and merciless crackdown on any form of political
opposition or dissent which will immediately be labeled as racist, homophobic,
anti-Semitic, terrorist, etc. The evil hand of the “Russian KGB” (yes, I
know, the KGB was dissolved in 1991) will be found everywhere, especially
amongst US libertarians (who will probably the only ones with enough brains to
understand what is taking place). The (pseudo-) “Left” will
rejoice. Should this course of action result in an unexpected level or
resistance, either regional or social, a 9-11 false flag followed by a war will
the most likely scenario (why stray away from something which worked so well
the first time around?!). Unless the USA decides to re-invade Grenada or
give Nauru a much deserved thrashing, any more or less real war will result in
a catastrophic failure for the USA at which point the use of nukes by the
Neocon crazies might become a very real risk, especially if symbolic US targets
such as aircraft carriers are hit (in 1991 when the US sent the 82nd AB to Iraq
there was nothing standing between this light infantry force and the Iraqi
armored divisions. Had the Iraqis attacked the plan was to use tactical
nuclear weapons. Then this was all quickly forgotten).
There
is a reason why the Neocons thrive in times of crisis: it allows them to hide
behind the mayhem, especially when they are the ones who triggered the mayhem
in the first place. This means that as long as the Neocons are anywhere
near in power they will never, ever, allow peace to suddenly break out, lest
the spotlight be suddenly shined directly upon them. Chaos, wars, crises
– this is their natural habitat. Think of it as the by-product of their
existence. Eventually, of course, they will be stopped and they will be
defeated, like all their predecessors in history. But I shudder when I
think of the price mankind will have to pay this time around.
The
Saker
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