Neocons Want War With China

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[–]MeganDelacroix🤡🌎 detainee 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think they screwed up the timing. If McCain or Her Inevitability had won, this would be much more likely, but Obama began his pivot too late and then Trump barged in and started kicking things over and loudly asking the worst question in the world: "Why?"

 

Watching him reminded me of a passage from Watership Down:

 

But one strict rule they had; oh yes, the strictest. No one must ever ask where another rabbit was and anyone who asked, “Where?” – except in a song or poem – must be silenced. To say “Where?” was bad enough, but to speak openly of the wires – that was intolerable.

For that they would scratch and kill.

 

Trump spoke openly of the Empire. That's his real sin.

 

Anyway, without those delays they could've crowded Putin to much greater effect, but as it happened Putin had all the time in the world to observe, test, make up his mind, and set up contingencies. They're going to have to come up with something new.

Unfortunately for everyone, neocons (despite their name) are dreadfully unoriginal...

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Let them fight it. Fuckers.

[–]penelopepnortneyBecome ungovernable 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And a piece of history I didn't know, pointed out by Edward J Curtin, Jr. in his Trinity's Shadow:

“Barely six weeks after the Hiroshima-Nagsaki bombings,” Michel Chossudovsky tells us, “the US War Department [Pentagon] issued a blueprint (September 15, 1945) to ‘Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map’ (66 cities with 204 atomic bombs), when the US and the USSR were allies. This infamous project is confirmed by declassified documents.” (For further details see Chossudovsky, 2017)

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karlof1, who many of us know from MoA, posted much of Escobar's article and adds this:

As b has observed over the last several days at MoA, the Outlaw US Empire’s Establishment Narrative is making a very quick U-Turn. One excellent indicator was voiced by Trump when he said the EU will pay to replenish the Empire’s military stocks wasted in Ukraine. That the EU is approaching bankruptcy for following Imperial diktat for 20+ years wasn’t even mentioned. The Ukies are a spent force, and Russia’s in the process of finishing off the battered cage fighter—Two men enter; One man leaves. Will any other NATO member be as foolish as the Ukies now that it’s becoming clear they’re being thrown under the bus like all those before—”For as long as it takes.” Yeah, right. The only real question is about the timing of Russia’s move: Will it come after the Russian-African Summit at the end of July, or after BRICS in late August. Larry Johnson reached back into the past to showcase what Russia’s now doing by highlighting the work of M.N. Tukhachevsky and his strategic tactic of “historical development of the notion of sequencing battles to achieve the objectives of a war.” And given current ISR issues, that sort of sequencing has even more importance today than in WW2 when it proved its effectiveness.

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Let’s Declare a “Moral Victory” and Run Away

On Russia, the Kissinger vs. Luttwak confrontation reveals crucial cracks as the Empire faces an existential conflict it never did in the recent past. The gradual, massive U-turn is already in progress – or at least the semblance of a U turn. US mainstream media will be entirely behind the U turn. And the naïve masses will follow. Luttwak is already voicing their deepest agenda: the real war is on China, and China “will lose”

At least some non-neocon players around the Biden combo – like Burns – seem to have understood the Empire’s massive strategic blunder of publicly committing to a Forever War, hybrid and otherwise, against Russia on behalf of Kiev. This would mean, in principle, that Washington can’t just walk away like it did in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Yet Hegemons do enjoy the privilege to walk away: after all they exercise sovereignty, not their vassals. European vassals will be left to rot. Imagine those Baltic chihuahuas declaring war on Russia-China all by themselves.

The off-ramp confirmed by Luttwak implies Washington declaring some sort of “moral victory” in Ukraine – which is already controlled by BlackRock anyway – and then moving the guns towards China.

Yet even that won’t be a cakewalk, because China and the about-to-expand BRICS+ are already attacking the Empire at its foundation: dollar hegemony. Without it, the US itself will have to fund the war on China. Chinese scholars, off the record, and exercising their millennia-old analytical sweep, observe this may be the last blunder the Empire ever made in its short history.

As one of them summarized it, “the empire has blundered itself to an existential war and, therefore, the last war of the empire. When the end comes, the empire will lie as usual and declare victory, but everyone else will know the truth, especially the vassals.”

And that brings us to former national security adviser Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski’s 180-degree turn shortly before he died, aligning him today with Kissinger, not Luttwak. “The Grand Chessboard”, published in 1997, before the 9/11 era, argued that the US should rule over any peer competitor rising in Eurasia. Brzezinski did not live to see the living incarnation of his ultimate nightmare: a Russia-China strategic partnership. But already seven years ago – two years after Maidan in Kiev – at least he understood it was imperative to realign the global power architecture”