February
15, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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"Sputnik"
- The tawdry Michael Flynn soap opera
boils down to the CIA hemorrhaging leaks to the
company town newspaper, leading to the desired
endgame: a resounding victory for hardcore
neocon/neoliberalcon US Deep State factions in
one particular battle. But the war is not over;
in fact it’s just beginning.
Even
before Flynn’s fall, Russian analysts had
been avidly discussing whether President
Trump is the new
Viktor Yanukovych — who failed to stop a
color revolution at his doorstep. The Made
in
USA color revolution by the axis of Deep
State neocons, Democratic neoliberalcons and
corporate media will be pursued,
relentlessly, 24/7. But more than Yanukovych,
Trump might actually be remixing Little
Helmsman Deng Xiaoping: “crossing the river
while feeling the stones”. Rather, crossing
the swamp while feeling the crocs.
Flynn out
may be interpreted as a Trump tactical
retreat. After all Flynn may be back —
in the shade, much as Roger Stone. If
current deputy national security advisor K T
McFarland gets the top job – which is what
powerful Trump backers are aiming at – the
shadowplay Kissinger balance of power,
in its 21st century remix, is even
strengthened; after all McFarland is a
Kissinger asset.
This
call won’t self-destruct in five seconds
Flynn worked with Special Forces; was head
of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA);
handled highly classified top secret
information 24/7. He obviously knew all his
conversations on an open, unsecure line were
monitored. So he had to have morphed into a
compound incarnation of the Three Stooges
had he positioned himself to be blackmailed
by Moscow.
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What
Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak
certainly discussed was cooperation in the
fight against ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, and what
Moscow might expect in return: the
lifting of sanctions. US corporate media
didn’t even flinch when US intel admitted
they have a transcript of the multiple phone
calls between Flynn and Kislyak. So why not
release them? Imagine the inter-galactic
scandal if these calls were about Russian
intel monitoring the US ambassador
in Moscow.
No one
paid attention to the two key passages
conveniently buried in the middle of
this US corporate media story. 1) "The
intelligence official said there had been no
finding inside the government that Flynn did
anything illegal.” 2) "…the situation became
unsustainable – not because of any issue
of being compromised by Russia – but because he
[Flynn] has lied to the president and the vice
president.”
Recap:
nothing illegal; and Flynn not compromised
by Russia. The “crime” – according to Deep State
factions: talking to a Russian diplomat.
Vice-President Mike Pence is a key piece in the
puzzle; after all his major role is as insider
guarantor – at the heart of the Trump
administration — of
neocon Deep State interests. The CIA did
leak. The CIA most certainly has been spying
on all Trump operatives. Flynn though fell
on his own sword. Classic hubris; his fatal
mistake was to strategize by himself – even
before he became national security advisor.
“Mad Dog” Mattis, T. Rex Tillerson – both,
by the way, very close to Kissinger — and most
of all Pence did not like it one bit once they
were informed.
A “man
of very limited abilities”
Flynn
was already compromised by
his embarrassingly misinformed book
co-written with neocon Michael Ledeen, as well
as his juvenile Iranophobia. At the same time,
Flynn was the point man to what would have been
a real game-changer; to place the CIA and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff under White House
control.
A
highly informed US source I previously called
“X”,
who detailed to Sputnik how the Trump
presidency will play out, is adamant “this
decision makes Trump look independent. It is all
going according to script.”
“X”
stresses how “the NSA can penetrate any
telephone system in the world that is not
secure. Flynn was a man of very limited
abilities who talked too much. You never hear
from the real powers in intelligence nor do you
know their names. You can see that in Flynn's
approach to Iran. He was disrupting a peace deal
in the Middle East relating to Russia, Iran and
Turkey in Syria. So he had to go.”
“X” adds,
“the Russians are not stupid to talk
among themselves on unsecured lines, they
assumed that Flynn controlled his own lines.
Flynn was removed not because of his Russian
calls but for other reasons, some of which have
to do with Iran and the Middle East. He was a
loose cannon even from the intelligence
perspective. This is a case of misdirection away
from the true cause.”
In
direct opposition to “X”,
an analytical strand now rules there’s blood
on the tracks; the hyenas are circling; a
vulnerable Trump has lost his mojo; and he also
lost his foreign policy. Not yet.
In the
Grand Chessboard, what Flynn’s fall spells
out is just a pawn out of the game because the
King would not protect him. We will only know
for sure “draining the swamp” – the foreign
policy section – is doomed if neocons and
neoliberalcons continue to run riot; if
neoliberalcons are not fully exposed in their
complicity in the rise of ISIS/ISIL/Daesh; and
if the much vaunted possibility of a détente
with Russia flounders for good.
What’s
certain is that the
fratricide war between the Trump
administration and the most powerful Deep State
factions will be beyond vicious. Team Trump only
stands a chance if they are able to weaponize
allies from within the Deep State. As it stands,
concerning the Kissinger grand design of trying
to break the Eurasian “threat” to the unipolar
moment, Iran is momentarily relieved; Russia
harbors no illusions; and China knows for sure
that the China-Russia strategic partnership will
become even stronger. Advantage swamp.
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