Backstage at the Trump vs. Deep State Cage Match
By Pepe
Escobar
March 01,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- The real story behind The Fall of Michael
Flynn has been confirmed by a highly informed US
insider, who has previously detailed how the
Trump presidency's foreign policy will unfold.
According
to the insider, which I named "X", "
Flynn
was
removed because he was agitating for a strike
against Iran which would have had disastrous
consequences. That would have led to Iranian
strikes against Western oil supplies in the
Middle East, raising Russia's economic power
as the oil price would have soared to over $200
a barrel, and the EU would have had to join the
Russian-Chinese block, or not be able to obtain
sufficient energy to survive. The United States
would have been completely isolated."
When
still on the job as National Security Adviser,
Flynn, on the record, had already put Iran "on
notice". That was, for all practical purposes, a
virtual declaration of war. "X" expands on the
ramifications: "Turkey is the key here, and
Turkey wants a deal with Iran. The key danger
to NATO is Turkey, as it does not control
Serbia, and Turkey-Serbia undermines Romania and
Bulgaria in an outflanking maneuver to the
southern-southeastern part of NATO. Serbia
linked to Russia in WWI and Turkey linked
with Germany. Tito linked with Russia in WWII
and Turkey was neutral. If Turkey, Serbia,
Russia link together, NATO is outflanked. Russia
is linked to Iran. Turkey is linking to Russia
and Iran after what Erdogan perceives was a
failed CIA coup attempt against him. All this
was way beyond the capacity of Flynn to handle."
"X"
maintains that the Obama administration opening
towards Iran, which led to the nuclear deal, was
essentially a tactic to undermine Russia's
Gazprom – assuming an Iran-Iraq gas pipeline
would be built all the way to Turkey and then
connected to EU markets.
Yet this
major Pipelineistan gambit would have needed
major investment and years to be completed. In
parallel, from the start, Tehran increased its
energy sales to Eurasian neighbors and
especially China. The end result could only have
been the ratcheting up of US-Iran "tension".
Flynn may have indeed been "out of his depth",
as "X" defined it, on how to deal with the
hyper-complex Southwest Asia chessboard.
"X",
against a virtual Beltway consensus, insists,
"the rapprochement to Russia was not dependent
on Flynn. It is dependent on those who supervise
Trump, and they put him in there for the purpose
of shifting towards Russia. The deep state
conflict is irrelevant. These are pros who know
how and when to change policy. They have the
goods on anyone who is in a high position and
can destroy them at will. Flynn was in their way
and now he is out."
"X"
reveals once again what makes the Pentagon
squirm as far as Russia is concerned: "Russia is
not an economic threat to the US. Its
manufacturing base is centered on military
production. It has developed since the [late
1990s] Belgrade bombing into the greatest
military power in the world in terms
of self-defense. Its defensive missiles seal its
air space and its offensive ICBMs are the most
advanced in the world. The recently tested US
defensive missile placed in Romania is nearly
worthless despite a fake, staged success
for European consumption and to hold NATO
together. Russia is a natural ally to the US.
The US will shift to Russia and Flynn's
departure is relatively meaningless except for
its entertainment value."
Taking
out Trump
Now
compare this analysis with the CIA spin duly
relayed by stenographers across US corporate
media, pointing to a vicious internal battle
in the Trump administration. A battle there was,
indeed, and US intel was delighted to help
out since these ops never liked Flynn, and
vice-versa.
Add to the
intel octopus Obama loyalists such as pathetic
former advisor Ben Rhodes plus assorted deep
state ops, retired or otherwise. It gets
curiouser and curiouser when even neocon Michael
Ledeen, who co-wrote the Islamophobic opus The
Field of Fight with Flynn, laments that his
political assassination was carried out by "a
cabal of CIA officials and Obama loyalists,
in tandem with allies in the media."
For all
practical purposes, the most powerful deep state
neocon/neoliberalcon factions did launch a
covert op to take out Flynn and keep going
to eventually take out Trump – pursuing every
possible impeachment avenue further on down the
road. Whatever the deep strategy of the real
Masters as detailed by "X", Trump does face a
formidable axis of deep state neocons/neoliberalcons,
the CIA, neoliberal corporate media from CNN
to the Washington Post, and the
still-functioning Clinton machine.
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What would have been the ultimate game-changer –
a real reset with Russia – may be on evidence,
imperiled, despite the analysis by "X". Or, and
that's way more enticing, we could be right
in the middle of a very sophisticated
wayang shadowplay
– performance, as the Masters, according
to Kissinger's prescriptions, do ultimately plan
to align with Russia to challenge and break
up Eurasia integration, which is essentially
carried out by the Russia-China-Iran strategic
partnership.
Meanwhile,
we have nasty diversions such as that ghastly,
senile senatorial duo McCain-Graham urging Kiev,
earlier this year, to go on another war drive
against the Donetsk People's Republic – while
stirring the galleries to blame it all
on President Putin.
HR
McMaster himself, the new National Security
Adviser, may be a tactical diversion cleverly
set up by Team Trump. McMaster is quintessential
politically correct deep state status quo; he
frames Russia as "an adversary", true
to standard Pentagon doctrine that considers
Russia as much as an "existential threat"
as China.
So it's too early to unequivocally state the
neocons have knocked Trump out. We're in the
middle of a vicious deep state/US elites
fratricidal cage match. This was
largely predictable,
even before the final result of the US
presidential election.
"X" is
fundamentally correct when he stresses Trump was
supported by the Masters to reorient/reorganize/reboost
the whole Empire of Chaos project. The extra $54
billion bump on military spending was long
planned. "T. Rex" Tillerson, quietly, has
already decimated half of the Obama
administration’s State Dept; that's swamp
cleaning in a nutshell. Big Oil and a
substantial sector of the industrial-military
complex are firmly behind Trump. These interests
already know demonizing Russia is bad
for business.
The
losing axis though will continue to wreak havoc
as the current chaos develops as enhanced
shadowplay. Machiavelli/Richelieu Steve Bannon
may have given the game away – in code – when he
hints this is a process of creative destruction
leading to a completely new form of power
structure in the US. Under these circumstances,
Flynn was just a pawn. And make no mistake; dour
neo-Machiavelli and his glittering Prince are
firmly set in for the long game.
Pepe
Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia
Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and
TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to
websites and radio shows ranging from the US to
East Asia. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign
correspondent since 1985, and has lived in
London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington,
Bangkok and Hong Kong.
