Neocons
Pushing USA And The Rest Of The World Towards A
Dangerous Crisis
By The Saker
August 21,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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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
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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.
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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
second
warnings about this dynamic)
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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:
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 Angry
by 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.
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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
The Essential Saker: from the trenches
of the emerging multipolar world
This
article was first published by
UNZ Review
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