By Pepe Escobar with permission and first posted at Asia Times
The late Dr. Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski for some time dispensed wisdom as an oracle of US foreign policy, side by side with the perennial Henry Kissinger – who, in vast swathes of the Global South, is regarded as nothing but a war criminal.
Brzezinski never achieved the same notoriety. At best he claimed bragging rights for giving the USSR its own Vietnam in Afghanistan – by facilitating the internationalization of Jihad Inc., with all its dire, subsequent consequences.
Over the years, it was always amusing to follow the heights Dr. Zbig would reach with his Russophobia. But then, slowly but surely, he was forced to revise his great expectations. And finally he must have been truly horrified that his perennial Mackinder-style geopolitical fears came to pass – beyond the wildest nightmares.
Not only Washington had prevented the emergence of a “peer competitor” in Eurasia, but the competitor is now configured as a strategic partnership between Russia and China.
Dr. Zbig was not exactly versed in Chinese matters. His misreading of China may be found in his classic A Geostrategy for Eurasia published in – where else – Foreign Affairs in 1997:
Although China is emerging as a regionally dominant power, it is not likely to become a global one for a long time. The conventional wisdom that China will be the next global power is breeding paranoia outside China while fostering megalomania in China. It is far from certain that China’s explosive growth rates can be maintained for the next two decades. In fact, continued long-term growth at the current rates would require an unusually felicitous mix of national leadership, political tranquility, social discipline, high savings, massive inflows of foreign investment, and regional stability. A prolonged combination of all of these factors is unlikely.
Dr. Zbig added,
Even if China avoids serious political disruptions and sustains its economic growth for a quarter of a century — both rather big ifs — China would still be a relatively poor country. A tripling of GDP would leave China below most nations in per capita income, and a significant portion of its people would remain poor. Its standing in access to telephones, cars, computers, let alone consumer goods, would be very low.
Oh dear. Not only Beijing hit all the targets Dr. Zbig proclaimed were off limits, but the central government also eliminated poverty by the end of 2020.
The Little Helmsman Deng Xiaoping once observed, “at present, we are still a relatively poor nation. It is impossible for us to undertake many international proletarian obligations, so our contributions remain small. However, once we have accomplished the four modernizations and the national economy has expanded, our contributions to mankind, and especially to the Third World, will be greater. As a socialist country, China will always belong to the Third World and shall never seek hegemony.”
What Deng described then as the Third World – a Cold War-era derogatory terminology – is now the Global South. And the Global South is essentially the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on steroids, as in the Spirit of Bandung in 1955 remixed to the Eurasian Century.
Cold Warrior Dr. Zbig was obviously not a Daoist monk – so he could never abandon the self to enter the Dao, the most secret of all mysteries.
Had he been alive to witness the dawn of the Year of the Metal Ox, he might have noticed how China, expanding on Deng’s insights, is de facto applying practical lessons derived from Daoist correlative cosmology: life as a system of interacting opposites, engaging with each other in constant change and evolution, moving in cycles and feedback loops, always mathematically hard to predict with exactitude.
A practical example of simultaneously opening and closing is the dialectical approach of Beijing’s new “dual circulation” development strategy. It’s quite dynamic, relying on checks and balances between increase of domestic consumption and external trade/investments (the New Silk Roads).
Peace is Forever War
Now let’s move to another oracle, a self-described expert of what in the Beltway is known as the “Greater Middle East”: Robert Kagan, co-founder of PNAC, certified warmongering neo-con, and one-half of the famous Kaganate of Nulands – as the joke went across Eurasia – side by side with his wife, notorious Maidan cookie distributor Victoria “F**k the EU” Nuland, who’s about to re-enter government as part of the Biden-Harris administration.
Kagan is back pontificating in – where else – Foreign Affairs, which published his latest superpower manifesto. That’s where we find this absolute pearl:
That Americans refer to the relatively low-cost military involvements in Afghanistan and Iraq as “forever wars” is just the latest example of their intolerance for the messy and unending business of preserving a general peace and acting to forestall threats. In both cases, Americans had one foot out the door the moment they entered, which hampered their ability to gain control of difficult situations.
So let’s get this straight. The multi-trillion dollar Forever Wars are “relatively low-cost”; tell that to the multitudes suffering the Via Crucis of US crumbling infrastructure and appalling standards in health and education. If you don’t support the Forever Wars – absolutely necessary to preserve the “liberal world order” – you are “intolerant”.
“Preserving a general peace” does not even qualify as a joke, coming from someone absolutely clueless about realities on the ground. As for what the Beltway defines as “vibrant civil society” in Afghanistan, that in reality revolves around millennia-old tribal custom codes: it has nothing to do with some neocon/woke crossover. Moreover, Afghanistan’s GDP – after so much American “help” – remains even lower than Saudi-bombed Yemen’s.
Exceptionalistan will not leave Afghanistan. A deadline of May 1st was negotiated in Doha last year for the US/NATO to remove all troops. That’s not gonna happen.
The spin is already turbocharged: the Deep State handlers of Joe “Crash Test Dummy” Biden will not respect the deadline. Everyone familiar with the New Great Game on steroids across Eurasia knows why: a strategic lily pad must be maintained at the intersection of Central and South Asia to help closely monitor – what else – Brzezinski’s worst nightmare: the Russia-China strategic partnership.
As it stands we have 2,500 Pentagon + 7,000 NATO troops + a whole lot of “contractors” in Afghanistan. The spin is that they can’t leave because the Taliban – which de facto control from 52% to as much as 70% of the whole tribal territory – will take over.
To see, in detail, how this whole sorry saga started, non-oracle skeptics could do worse than check Volume 3 of my Asia Times archives: Forever Wars: Afghanistan-Iraq, part 1 (2001-2004) . Part 2 will be out soon. Here they will find how the multi-trillion dollar Forever Wars – so essential to “preserve the peace” – actually developed on the ground, in total contrast to the official imperial narrative influenced, and defended, by Kagan.
With oracles like these, the US definitely does not need enemies.
“Cold Warrior Dr. Zbig was obviously not a Daoist monk – so he could never abandon the self to enter the Dao, the most secret of all mysteries.” Here Pepe refers to the conscious ego as the self. But there is also an unknown Inner Self, which is the Dao.
Pepe does get to the esoteric heart of the matter with the above remark. Carl Jung wrote that the relationship between the modern ego and the unconscious is “a power struggle”. That struggle acted out en masse gives us our perennial class war. That is between the ego mind and the Dao or Inner Self. Or in political terms bourgeoisie (egoism) and proletariat (the masses). Islamic scholars have noted that the real problem is the egoism of the West. As I see it the massive global struggle now mesmerizing the world is just that. It is a collective power struggle between the control seeking ego of the West and the reality of life in “the Dao.” It is a spiritual struggle between egoism and authentic life which harmonizes with the Dao. All people find their chosen position in this great struggle which is acted out collectively via politics.
Another hint to the inner reality that mysteriously shapes world politics is Jung’s observation that for the West Russia represents the collective unconscious, whereas China represents the Inner Self or the great Dao. Hence the alignment between Russia and China is a movement within the Dao. The ego is fanatically and desperately wedded to its control mania. The Americans exemplify this extreme. So when Democrats accuse Russia of interfering in their phony elections they are really saying my egoism does not like the collective unconscious (the masses) upsetting our total control of our elections. The accusation against Russia with regard to the elections has a hidden mythic force, but the Democrats are of course blind to it.
With Russia, Iran and China aligned what they call “the Dao” is step by step repossessing the world from the egoism of the West. The politics we all follow is a cosmic evolutionary war between egoism and the Dao. I very much doubt that the Chinese miss this internal connection. Thank you Pepe.
“egoism of the West”
egoism is universal,
i dont see China giving SinoVac vaccines or Russia giving Sputnik V vaccines for free.
They demand money. Pay up or die. Lets call it “dao”.
Same with Iranians, who help the Yemenis/Palestinians just to reap geopolitical benefits.
Sure, they will claim their help hails from higher moral standing. But that’s just marketing.
Of course egoism is universal. The essential point is – to varying degrees. In the West egoism has declared its independence from fealty to spirit and now casts before the world a cosmology that denies God. Have you ever heard of the myth of Faust? It is the defining myth of the European bourgeoisie. It carries forward the Cartesian world view. The American Declaration of Independence was, according to Ken Wilber, a declaration of independence of the ego from all its moorings in spirit. Hence America is riven with egomania and all of the desperate insecurities that come with it. For the Anglo Zionist empire the ego has become a reigning god that has usurped the Creator. It is a form of terminal madness that Larchmonter 445 critics acutely.
@ Snow Leopard. Thanks for a deeper view of the global forces at work. Perhaps a better word to describe the West is the worship of self or more simply “narcissism”. Ego is needed for survival but narcissism is an aberration but, fortunately, not a sustainable aberration. Russia, China and Iran best represent the non-narcissistic movement gathering power in the world.
Patient Observer;
You are right in observing the need for ego development. Your suggestion of “narcissism” is very good. The difficulty is to be found when that ego development is “overgrown”. That overgrowth now infects and defines the West and produces rogue egoism and denial of the deeper realities of human existence. Do you think the American imperialists are narcissistic? That is what the political term “bourgeois” is intended to convey. Capitalism is a religion of narcissistic egoism. Marx knew that. The overgrown ego unconsciously declares war against all of the features of life which it denies and suppresses into the unconscious. This is widely understood in psychological circles but not yet in political circles. So we have now what Carl Jung called a “power struggle” between excessive rogue ego driven mass denial (Bernays and Co) and authentic human life. The Anglo Zionist empire is a manifestation of the collective ego’s lust for control and domination of all life. From a psychological point of view all Western propaganda is motivated by the need to support the ego in its struggle to control and dominate real life. The British and their BBC carry this to the highest degree along with their Zionist friends. China stands as counterpoint. Marx and the German Romantic philosophers advanced the revolutionary notion that Civilization is on the path to the “supersession of egoism” That is the real philosophical basis of Communism.
With all due respect.
Giving the fruit of work, actually know-how, manpower and resources for – caps – free?
Well.
I cannot see but flagellant focus busting in this question.
Although unselfishness goas a long way.
We know unselfishness, don’t we? we are facing the hard devotion unselfishness demands, day by day, as I presume, we all do, but this proposal of free medicament is a bit too… Naive.
Getting such stuff it on goverment dimensions would it make wether compulsory, wether new ways of black money disappearing on redhanded sewers, like bribes, additiojal costs, essentially: corruption.
Still, it’s worth an explanation, dear Anon.
So what if someone gives such stuff for free?
Then, what happened?
I suppose, the credibility of the vaccine and the concerning medical treatment would be contested. At least a bit.
So what you foretell?
What’s in your opinion the chain of possibilities?
“They demand money. Pay up or die.”
Not true. China provided vaccines spontaneously, free of cost, no-strings-attached, to many countries.
I posted a link under a previous article where Chinese physicians and companies received the order of merit on Serbian Statehood day two weeks ago for for providing free vaccines and other healthcare products & services.
Pakistan is another example. They also received free vaccines from China. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202101/25/WS600dfdc8a31024ad0baa4b2e.html
Your Vucic is retroactivly taxing freelancers so he can collect the needed money to cover $180/vaccine. And he bought 12 million doses.
“Free”… LOL
12 Million vaccines? ROFL
Not just a troll, a stupid one too…
The entire population of Serbia is 7 M.
Actual numbers re Vaccine rollout in Serbia:
1.5 m Sinovac
200k Sputnik
45k Pfizer
https://www.danas.rs/bbc-news-serbian/vakcinacija-i-korona-virus-zasto-je-srbija-u-vrhu-zemalja-po-broju-imunizovanih/
Btw, even if our government decides make us pay for it, it still doesn’t change the fact that China gave us the vaccines for free.
… And they’ve also started donating to African countries:
“Workers unload COVID-19 vaccines donated by China at Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Feb. 15, 2021.”
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1215661.shtml
And to Brunei, and many others: “China is providing vaccine aid to 53 developing countries”
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1215543.shtml
Macron is worried (FT interview) that the EU is not helping African (and other) countries and “China and Russia are offering to fill the gap”, He foolishly adds that these countries are “being offered Chinese and Russian vaccines of uncertain efficacy against new variants of the virus.” https://www.ft.com/content/15853717-af6c-4858-87d4-58b1826895a8
VEĆ STIGLO DVA MILIONA: Premijerka otkrila – Srbija naručila ukupno 12 miliona doza vakcina
https://www.novosti.rs/vesti/drustvo/967570/vec-stiglo-dva-miliona-premijerka-otkrila-srbija-narucila-ukupno-12-miliona-doza-vakcina
Guess who looks stupid now…
and yes, more vaccines, because they want to jab you multiple times
so if the population of your Serbia = 7 million, that means 14 million doses at a minimum
but if you follow the advice of Austrian virologists, they recommend getting 2 jabs from
each of the different vaccines, little bit of Astra, little bit of Moderna, little bit of pfizer
just to be safe …. LOL
it is so blatantly obvious it is only about money
and in case of Billy-boys vaccines some herd-culling
ahhh, c’est la vie.
There was a representative of the pharm co’s not long ago that stated they would be giving away free vac’s in the future (like 2 or 3 years) to 3rd world country’s, that is after everyone before them paid a higher price depending on how soon you wanted to be vaccinated.
I have yet to find too many things that are so called free in this insane world of competition for resources, aside from human capital labor that is, seems the elite can always use plenty of that.
@Anon
As long as you keep submitting your phony complaints, it means first and foremost that the Axis of Resistance is tenaciously doing its job. You see, national leadership matters quite a lot. And please do consider the fact that as long as the leadership of a nation has not been forced upon a country by conspiracy from within and/or without, it duly reflects the calibre of the citizenry. Your impertinent and, let’s be frank, intellectually challenged points of view only make sense to people siding with imperialism such as yourself while they enjoy minuscule support at best from most other people, especially outside the West. I think your marvelously clever hasbara is being wasted here. There are a fistful of sites on the Internet where your stardom will be recognized in no time.
I believe that this ‘Anon’ is the same as a constant provocateur troll on Unz, where people stopped to take any notice of his provocations and he thought to pester others with his impertinence. The best answer to his provocations is none at all.
I am not posting on Unz.
Never did.
A put-down that scores like a rapier to the heart without a single drop of blood (crude adjective). Well done! Yet I doubt such a foe has the capacity to feel a thing.
All your ad hominems still don’t refute the issues i raise.
And all i do is shine the light on the discrepancies between whatever propaganda you are being sold and reality.
Anon, you’re all over the site making comments without any real evidence and that you call ‘issues’ and ‘reality’. (It is what is called sh!tposting in the trade I believe.)
I have a dictum .. In God we trust – all others should bring data.
Now, I’m not going to be working for you to let you know how many free doses of vaccines China or Russia in fact delivered. Surely you can do that all by yourself. There is an international agreement (or they are trying to get to an agreement in terms of donations). This is done under the auspices of https://www.gavi.org/. (It is not that I like or support this initiative, it is that it is fact). And we also run the risk here of going completely off-topic. In some cases, countries receive donations, as well as buy-in more tranches. This is not difficult and ‘issues’ and ‘reality’ is within grasp.
@amarynth
Thanks for the fact-checking! So they did give away free shots!
And for the poor and the needy.
Well, that stands as unselfishness.
Whaddya think @Anon?
I hope you are happy to see your initiative was, actually, granted. I wonder what you ask for next!
Looks to me as the forementioned post-man’s provocation was evaded thoroughly.
Honestly, I just can’t help myself singing a haka to express the gratitude and the pride I feel belonging to this extraordinary club of saker’s vineyard’s readers.
Although, presumably, neither could you!
Grateful thanks to Mr Escobar, for giving us a column that even the spin-off/off-topic threads are useful.
Man, you are well informed!
But this really was sooo off-topic, I wish the vineyard had a sub-blog for hunting trolls!
Lord of the frickin Rings style, till all of the forces of the darkness are subdued.
Grenknight,
Haha yes! The comments section is a perfect match for Pepe’ s aptly titled “the art of spectacularly misguided oracles” …
amarynth
one day you will pay too for supporting crimes against humanity
that gavi.org that you mentioned partners with
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
WHO
The World Bank
Except these days it’s every person their own reality, it’s like too many anon’s, it gets confusing after a while even to the best of us.
@Alabama
Word
Just imagine every one of us getting rid of nicknames… But the Vieyard does excellent moderating, so it’s still better as in my country.
@serbian girl
I forgot to mention your contribution to the topic, sorry. This is to change my sentence written so carelessly before.
They – the Russian Government – gave free medicine to allies , and the poor and the needy.
Sounds also more true.
Sorry again, and best regards!
Have we dealt with old motormouth here, or do we need a little more :-)
China Daily
@ChinaDaily
China state-affiliated media
China is exporting COVID-19 #vaccines to 27 countries and providing free vaccine aid to 53 countries in need, foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said. http://ow.ly/JxyI50DHv1r
For what it’s worth:
“China pledges to supply any Covid-19 vaccine to Africa free of charge”
(When they’ve produced enough for their own people, I presume)
https://www.africanews.com/2020/06/18/china-pledges-supply-any-covid-19-vaccine-to-africa-first-free-of-charge// Also: “State media reported China has sent 30 million testing kits, 10,000 ventilators 80 million masks monthly to Africa, in addition to teams of experts to help nations fight the coronavirus.”
And this: “Chinese company wins bid for the first phase of the African CDC project.”
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1208943.shtml
Xi Jinping (last June): “construction of a new Africa Center of Disease Control headquarters would start “ahead of schedule” this year, despite the pandemic.”
Cheer up, get some sunshine, and don’t die. Who needs any vaccine against such a virus, especially not a new mRNA gen-tech treatment of unknown long term harmful effects and a ridiculous 6% protection rate? And that only until the next important mutation… :-))))
Snow Leopard
I appreciate the arise of Jung and Dao emerging in the political discourse in some tents at the fringes of the universal villages where the older sit in circles – and even sometimes a spark of the astri, man’s calendar long before he counted and wrote the names and numbers.
Referring to JUNG is referring to the I n d i v i d u a l as the only hope mankind has to enfold it’s true strength-weakness-truth – anything is build of adversarials – hence the true complete man, adam secundus, “Self”, Anthropos, does exist not only in the inner, but also in the outer world – outer heaven mirrored, by inner heaven, outer ‘gods’ mirrored by the inner ones, ready to be recognized only by man’s experience of individual’s oneness in universe by God’s spark, in the heart, igniting quietly.
Dao knows, much depends on some accumulated virtue.
Laotse (on the cloud) loves, I feel so, the Russian and Chinese Presidents and their competent handling of human affairs on the collective level of mutual respect and win-win competition.
Thank you Pepe, for this spirited tentacel to the common heart of Dao.
“With all of our consciousness we have to learn, to, so to say, live unconsciously;
only so we fulfill the higher will and follow the path of Tathagata.
JUNG, Letter to Vijayatunga, August 1957.
Mundan
“With all of our consciousness we have to learn, to, so to say, live unconsciously;
only so we fulfill the higher will and follow the path of Tathagata.
JUNG, Letter to Vijayatunga, August 1957.
Would that not mean that to live”unconsciously” in alignment we are to include allowing our “unconscious” political mythologies to become conscious? Joseph Campbell spoke of our current myth being that of the creation of world unity. Anthropos?
Thanks SL. I agree completely. Chinese culture and civilization is simply not as ego centered as the West. One of the most seminal texts, the first mass produced book, the Diamond Sutra, assert that there is no such thing as a self existent entity. This is the same idea that Laozi presented in the Dao Te Jing. (sorry if my spelling is wrong.)
How is it that a culture that simply doesn’t have a concept of a ‘God’ controlling things, somehow managed to hang together for 5000 years and indeed over come tremendous obstacles?
While Russia has Orthodox Christianity as a foundational aspect, it also has a less ego centered understanding.
Point being, Western selfishness, self centeredness is causing its own self destructive consequences.
For your viewing pleasure, here’s a nice film about Laozi which gives a flavor of how Chinese think.
https://youtu.be/469erIMNM28
Laozi Went out of Hangu Pass
Pepe,
It’s in their DNA. They have a self-identity problem. If they can’t kill and destroy, they don’t exist.
Turn the volume off. Look at their actions. That’s who they are.
The US/NATO exist as killing machines. There is no other goal in the mission, no other objective in the operations.
They enter a country and destroy it.
They “train” proxies to do the bulk of the killing and to maintain a reign of terror (cooperation) over the natives.
Supporting this normative are the clueless, uninformed citizens who foot the bill (on credit, of course, how else to extract Trillions per year but to generate debt?).
‘Crash Test Dummy’ Biden, (can we use CTD Biden?) has signed onto Moar War in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, immediately. That’s Guinness Record time (3 weeks) to ratchet up the bloodshed, arm the proxies and get the payrolls fattened.
In just three weeks, he has doomed Afghanistan and the ME to another decade of “kinetic democracy” which delivers freedom with Hellfire precision.
Forever Wars indeed.
Now Now L445,
Everybody should enjoy the free-dumb that US style dumb-ocracy brings, and they will bloody well prod you with the tip of the bayonet until you do!
And it’s not ‘destroying the country’, it’s remaking the country better!
“The US/NATO exist as killing machines”
Of course that it’s task, carefully nurtured to bring the Empire to the next stage – it’s an elite vs. mass system WHICH by definition MUST be centered around the ego – in fact it’s the golden calf. They are still as dumb as Cain was and haven’t learnt one tiny bit, because there was always space to expand and conquer into (and to kill – of course, which they love !), now they are offered the last one – the digital prison, into which they all will vanish – nothing can change their fate – it’s been written down a loooong time ago. It’s ‘adversaries’ or victims however were able to learn their lesson and by mastering that adversary will become the son of man (a new lifeform), also this is written down a loooong time ago – this are universal things – REALITY – the really real !
https://youtu.be/uwjxQoTyVAE
Joe Biden dropping the N-word.
Forward to 15:33
I can’t hear that, but his words are so slurred that anything is possible.
He was unable to wrap his tongue around “Angela” as in Merkel.
I fast-forwarded so I’m sure I missed more slurred thoughts and words.
Every time someone says “Look,” I know I am about to hear a bunch of BS and a basic implified propaganda message.
Katherine
Yes, Katherine. “Look, . . . ” is one, and for me “Frankly, . . . ” is another. Newt Gingrich is the one who made me take note of “frankly”, and how it was routinely followed by bs.
Katherine, it is maybe different in English, but in Spanish which I mainly function in, the word ‘mira’ (look) is used often. Both in comical circumstances as well as in serious circumstances – the message is in the tone. For us, it is part of everyday speech.
And of course, the word frankly? Well, ‘frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn’ is probably one of the most recognized phrases. :-)
I read Brzezinski’s book, “The Grand Chessboard.”
It was striking both for its positives and its negatives.
The positives were the encyclopedic knowledge of world cultures and politics that he displayed in that book. It is truly a great read for those wanting to understand the world.
But the negatives were equally striking. Brzezinski took this encyclopedic knowledge and forced it through a filter of “wishful thinking.” For instance, he predicted that Asia would come to see the United States as the beneficent arbiter of all Asian disputes. That conclusion was so stunningly myopic that it gave the appearance of mental illness.
The problem that the world has right now is this. Many of the so-called elites in Western world see “reality” through the same blinders that crippled Brzezinski’s perception. Their starting assumption is that the West has an inherent right to rule the planet. They then proceed with their reasoning from that assumption.
I don’t see anyway that the endless wars will cease as long as the West fails to see other “peoples” as people, rather than as vassals.
Mike from NJ: (apologies again for links to articles but they do present detail which I would be hard pressed to duplicate):
RE: inherent right to rule the planet:
https://original.antiwar.com/doug-bandow/2021/02/21/robert-kagan-diagnosed-americas-biggest-problem-americans-who-dont-want-to-run-the-world/
Kagan’s “dictat”:
https://outline.com/freHx7
One would be hard pressed to ID a more ominous and dangerous individual than zionist kagan (and his coterie/family/relatives: nuland, staff at AEI, institute for study of war (sic)
Ha has a running track record going back t0 PNAC and the drumbeat is consistently war mongering as in the US as a superpower has an “obligation and a responsibility” (sic).
It could not be any more dangerous to world stability and any more war mongering than his strident screed!
Most Americans realize that the United States has about four to five per cent of the world’s land mass and about four to five percent of the world’s population.
That is why a majority of the population want the foreign interventions to stop. They understand that it is impossible for America to rule the world.
For people like Kagan, these are concepts too difficult to grasp.
Interesting that you bring up PNAC, Pepe. Back in 1997 they predicted 9/11 with their pronouncement, “Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”
Who knew that the 9/11 false-flag attacks, blamed on the Arabs, would become the pretext for all the wars of this century, all for Israel? Who knew that 9/11 would become the pretext for the onerous USA Patriot Act that shredded the Bill of Rights for all Americans? Who knew that we would still be living in a cloud about what really happened on 9/11? PNAC, it turns out, was a spectacularly prescient oracle, maybe because they along with Mossad and others were the real perps of 9/11, not the Arabs.
Fifty times normal background levels of Tritium in the basement water of the twin towers are indicative of nuclear fusion. The buildings disintegrated to fine grey dust, they did not collapse. The twin memorial pools that fit the exact footprints of the two buildings are in fact waste water treatment plants to deal with ongoing heat generation and contamination by continuously pumping water back into the River Hudson.
Hi, Tommy, please, do not forget to mention the Brits every time the Zionist Brotherhood is on-play, they are one & the same. The decade-long preparation was done by the US Deep State, the City of London & its internal tools like MI6 & military auxiliaries, and their Middle Eastern serfs, the Saudis as walk-on parts.
The last “Who knew…” I referred to is the one that most surprised me. Who knew that we would still be living in a cloud about what really happened on 9/11? The unwillingness of the Zionist MSM to confront the truth of 9/11 is understandable. The unwillingness of the limited-hangout alternative media, including Pepe Escobar, is indicative of how one has to “play by the rules” in order to be published anywhere on the planet. By omitting the fact that all the wars of this century were the result of a false-flag attack on the USA blamed on the Arabs is a little like trying to describe the motions of the planets without saying that they all revolve around the Sun. It simply can’t be done without wild contortions and baroque reasoning.
They were preparing for the 2001 event in 1995 with the Oklahoma City incident. The Murrah building was a big and very sturdy building that it could not have been damaged that way with a truck bomm parked in the lot. Some of Papa Shrub’s personal troops were spotted there practicing the swift removal of evidence. These were Iraqi troops imported from the first Gulf War. They are now stationed in Paraguay to protect the Shrub compound located there over the gigantic aquifer. This is provided at taxpayers’ expense.
His involvement goes back to the JFK assassination. He was the spook agency’s control agent when he was VP. He controlled Reagan like Kissinger controlled Nixon. He became very close to Bill when they distributed agency drugs from the Mena Airport in Arkansas, and he got Bill into the WH. If you count his term and Boy George’s term, he controlled the WH for 28 years.
His gang partnered with the Khazarian Mafia, the worst gang in world history. They caused the world wars.
Their existence is dependent on absolute secrecy. This is their Achilles heel. Let use the 20th anniversary to inform the pubic about the truth.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/september-11-2001-the-15th-anniversary-of-the-crime-and-cover-up-of-the-century/5544414
Tao / Dao and Carl Jung, Pepe is a highly favored human “Astral Being” (lineage)
The Feng shui, pivotal point of balance unseen (aka yin), and seen (yang) in the Tai Chi
Dark, Light, Black, White EARTH / HEAVEN
USA has reached critical mass imbalance. The Military Industrial Complex is an abomination and a correction cannot be prevented. The law of nature is the decider, i.e., Tao.
Cannibalizing our planet and the infinite forms of life energies the Earth creates, is truly criminally insane.
Iran calls Israel the Zionist Clown. The USA is vassal to Israel. See Texas? How ready are Americans for a year of the Darkness?
The real question is nuclear winter!?!
BTW, falsely arrested x2! Yes cos standing against the “evildoers” that continue as though mass murdering our own species is not a total violation of the Tao. See Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Love U Pepe, RK
Question for Pepe – what do you think of Luongo’s take on your last editorial, that in fact it is Europe, not the US, that is driving the dynamics between Germany and Russia?
“This is a part of the story I think a lot of commentators are missing in the the U.S./EU/Russia power dynamic. That the goal here, as Pepe Escobar gets close to in his latest article, is not just a restoration of German sovereignty out from under the yoke of the U.S. occupation, but a reversal of the power dynamic completely.”
https://tomluongo.me/2021/02/10/great-reset-putin-not-so-fast/
Confucius says neo con artists who believes in Mackinder’s geographical determinism gets Daoist lesson in primacy of moral determinism.
Job 28:28 And this is what he says to all humanity: ‘The fear of the Lord is true wisdom; to forsake evil is real understanding.’”
Taoist, Buddhist, Confucianist. All Chinese philosophies are reflections on relations. Relatedness, relational dynamics, relations good and bad, the coalescence of causes and conditions. In the West it’s ontology. The One, things, essences, principles, persons, identity. Relativism is viewed with horror, a state of war, a condition to overcome. In China, a world of relatives is a world well ordered, a condition to cultivate, the very praxis of cultivating our natural human goodness.
The most common aim of Western philosophy is ‘self realisation’. When that happens .. give up, you won’t get a word in edgewise.
Oracles like Zbig and Kagan. Lin Yutang said: ‘when small men cast long shadows it means the sun is setting’. Wherever you look in the West you see ‘small men’. Small men can only make their way in the world by shamelessly resorting to sticks and carrots. They have no substance, no intrinsic qualities, no mojo. With these people baraka is not found. This is why we rave about leaders like Putin, Xi, Lavrov, Shoigu. They have qualities we wished we could see in our people. But in our part of the world upright men, the opposite of small men, are scarce on the ground. If they venture into a public space they soon depart. In the West the lights are going out. Btw, this distinction between ‘small men’ and ‘upright men’ is as formative of the Chinese view of things political as is the opposition of the ‘rule of men’ vs ‘the rule of law’ in the West. And the values are practically inverted. In the West the rule of law is lauded as a refuge from the moral weakness or worse of flesh and bones men. It basically defines what is meant by ‘civilisation’. In traditional China it was the other way around. There the good was ‘humanitie’ (the French gloss for ‘ren’) embodied in the cultivated gentleman, the ‘upright man’ vs the regime of ‘legalism’, a system of rewards and punishments, resorted to by ‘small men’. In times to come this distinction will effect a major revision in matters of political philosophy. You can be the first on your block to get it right. It’s certain to p–s off the Anglo-Zionist neighbours.
Excellent and insightful post, Kevin.
Thank you for this encouraging comment.
Great post, exactly said. Relational thinking of China (and Russia as well) vs reductionist thinking of the West.
But still unto lately the core of the West atleast believed into a form of objectivity which in a way was a safeguard against total reign of the ego – of course this obstacle has now been removed, is still being removed and thus the fall into the abyss is now a certainty – they will to that totally on their own, if not for the serious very destructive side-effects the rest of the world could watch it from a far with amazement.
When I leave my appartment I enter the house of the insane literally – thus I prefer the woods and the birds as companions.
Kevin, obrigado. Entre tantas citações pertinentes que o texto do Pepe suscita, só mesmo nestes comentários do Saker para encontrar Lin Yutang.
Yes Hoyeru, he is trolling many of those that are “absolutely clueless about realities on the ground.” And he is doing that almost humorously with devastating effect. making the point crystal clear. Pepe uses his words well.
But how about this? If you are so disappointed, put your money where your mouth is and I await your submission of a better article for us where we can all learn :-) Would be fair to my thinking.
That the Taliban will inevitably control Afghanistan becomes even more certain every single day the occupation lasts and the more lies they tell. In the realm of propaganda spread by the hypercorrupt child sex slaver warlord puppet regime and its Amerikastani owners, the Afghans hate the Taliban. In the real world,
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They must put something in the water of the Potomac. Before he was Washington’s oracle-in-residence, Dr. Zbig was a true scholar of the world, studying the USSR from a perspective that might be called dialectical materialism. His earlier writings, before he became NSA, are among the best pictures of the world, as it was, as seen from the West.
But it seems once you step into the West Wing, you leave reality behind…
Folks like Kagan. A bit late this one; probably nobody will read it. Oh well, ..
How to explain guys like Kagan? Here’s my amateur two bits. In my experience the most powerful people, who wield the most emotional power and are able to sway those around them, are often people who’ve managed to somehow lie to themselves. If you can lie to yourself you can lie to anybody. If there’s no conscience holding you back you can be an effective activist in this world. It’s the people who are committed to truth that tend to be tongue tied and hesitant. Being able to see both sides of a question is not a formula for success. If you want power you have to be prepared to make sacrifices. Not that anybody does this knowingly or consciously. When we do we find ways of ‘not noticing’, resorting to little tricks.
Ok, Kagan. Kagan knows what sells. The machinations of DC swamp creatures are such that what’s needed to bring together congressional power and the money that goes with it, the military, Wall St., the weapons industries, the media, academia, and various grifters, fixers and such is the right sort of narrative, which becomes like a medium of exchange. So in the circulations of power language is like money; it’s what gets traded around. Kagan is a narrative entrepreneur who supplies the intellectual grease that gets all the gears meshing smoothly. And that’s worth something. It’s lucrative. It’s a career. In a swamp as corrupt as DC there’s always a need for fixers so there’s always rewarding work for hacks with no conscience like Kagan. This guy’s got blood on his hands, drenched right up to the elbows. So they rationalise that to. He can’t possibly believe in what I would call ‘karma and rebirth’. I’d guess that he assumes that when it’s over it’s over. Wishful thinking. That’s it in a nutshell. Wishful thinking can get people into a lot of trouble. One small step, followed by another, and another, and so forth, till you wind up in the 9th circle of hell.
Yes, and no one envies their fate – and many are in the know by now – atleast subconscious !
Could “the right kind of narrative” include attacking Israel instead of her enemies? Would Kagan be just as happy selling that kind of narrative?
What’s going on seems a lot simpler than your theory.
Pepe Escobar hits another homerun with this article – Bravo!
Seriously, I always admire Pepe’s writing and analysis of the many problems he delves into. I only have a small quibble with his statement about “Daoist Correlative Cosmology.”
Yes, there are many practicing Daoists in China but don’t let that fool you. The majority of Chinese are Confucian and the society in China is Confucian in structure and in character.
Case in point: A family household has the elderly parents living with the children and the children venerate their parents(Filial Piety for those who don’t have a clue). The Confucian Chinese understand very well that “Heaven has a will of its own.” I quoted from Confucious since it bears significance to the contemporary situation.
2. Three Gorges Dam was built in order for China to avoid building and maintaining coal-burning powerplants for energy generation. Three Gorges Dam would not have been built by a Beijing Government populated by Daoists.
Of course, I could go on but I find it unnecessary to do so.
So, I conclude by saying again to Pepe: Bravo for an otherwise great article!
Dào-ism is a multifalious treditin and pretty religious. On the other hand, philosophical dào-sm as represented byh the writings of the philsophical traditons of Zhuàng-zî and Lâo-zî represend the backlayed selfishness of churlish scoundrels (Knechte) in the first instance and the scheming of frightened rouÿal advisors in small stateds in the other . Still, both Zhuangzi (Chuang.tzu) and Laozi (Lao tzu) do provide us with great reads now to this very day.
As per your last comment – please stick to one name when posting here. Mod.
I once in Mainland China (the area concretely ruled by the People’s Republic of Chiana) came across a translated tome authored by Heintz-Georg Kissinger. The preface was written by a professor of geopolitics at — of all places — the university of Southern Shensi (Shǎnxi) in Hànzhōng, on the upper reaches of the Hàn river that gave the H`n dynasty and the presend day appellation for ethinic Chinese (Hànzú’) their nowaday naming.
The professor stated in his foreword to dr,Heinzt-Georg’s work:
“Unlike Zbig Brezhinsy, dr. Kissinger is a very intelligent person who knows that he is extremely intelligent. Thus we can vary well fool him. Zwig — on the other hand — is so foolish as not worthy of being turned.
To my regret, that book with its preamble got stolen from me when I descended to Wŭhàn in the year 2000 after the birth of our lord and saviour Jesus Christos,
However: It seems to me that in Washington D.C. circles, the stupid vulgaritu of Brezhesinsky thinking has clerlu´y won over the more esotheric stupidity and evel of dr, Kissinger.
Please stick with one name when posting here and stop posting using different names. Thx. Mod.