Perth in Australia will be a forward base for nuclear-powered and nuclear weapon-carrying American subs.
by Pepe Escobar – posted with the author’s permission and cross-posted widely.
Pax Americana was always a minor character in a zombie apocalypse flick.
Pax Americana is actually The Eternal Return of the Living Dead. “Pax” was never in order; War Inc. rules. The end of WWII led directly to the Cold War. The unipolar moment was an arc from the First Gulf War to the bombing of Yugoslavia. 9/11 launched the Global War on Terror (GWOT), renamed Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) by Team Obama. We are now entering Cold War 2.0 against China.
What former CIA analyst Ray McGovern memorably describes as the MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academia-think tank complex) never did “Pax”. They do War, in unison, like The Knights Who Say “Ni!” – minus the comic flair.
Take this Knight for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the heart of the establishment matrix. CFR specializes in Kissingerian Divide and Rule. Now that applies, in spades, to the Russia-China strategic partnership.
Knights overwhelmingly state the obvious: “Chinese power must be contained”. They sell the current, serial imperial debacle as “grand strategic moves”, in a quirky, lost in translation mixed salad of Gramsci and Lampedusa: a “new order” (engineered by the Empire) is being born via “everything must change so everything may remain the same” – privileging the Empire.
Other Knights even propose the ludicrous notion that the current POTUS, an actual zombie remote-controlled by a teleprompter, is capable of conceiving a “foreign policy for the middle class” , as if the MICIMATT would ever approve a scheme to “advance prosperity in the free world as a whole”. The “free world” has just been stunned by the “prosperity” offered to Afghanistan during 20 “bombing to democracy” years.
And then there are British Knights, who at least should have known their Monty Python by heart, carping about illiberalism and the “regimes created by Xi and Putin” , which will “crumble” and be succeeded by “anarchy and new despotisms.” Same old Anglo haughtiness mixed with piercing ignorance. Oh, those Asiatic “tyrannies” threatening the White Man’s civilizational drive.
We all live in an Aussie submarine
Now it’s all about AUKUS – actually U SUK A. Until recently, only the P5 – the five permanent UNSC members – possessed nuclear-powered submarines. India joined the club, and later rather than sooner, Australia.
Every major player knows the next American war will not be about remote Pacific islands. Taiwan, though, is a completely different ball game. U SUK A is mostly about Taiwan.
U SUK A was finalized at the G7 summit in Carbis Bay last June. That was an Anglo Boys Club affair, discussed exclusively by the Biden-BoJo-Morrison troika – and duly excluding Japan, even as Tokyo all but drew a samurai sword yelling its intent of supporting Taiwan.
The problem is there have been no leaks of the fine print contained in U SUK A. Only spin. Yet it’s already clear that U SUK A goes way beyond building Aussie nuclear subs. Canberra will also have access to Tomahawks, Hornets and even become part of American hypersonic missile research.
But then, in a slip, Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton gave away the game: U SUK A will allow the upgrading of “the infrastructure in Perth, that will be necessary for the operation of these submarines. I expect we will see…lease arrangements or greater joint operations between our navies in the future.”
Translation: Perth will be a forward base for nuclear-powered and nuclear weapon-carrying American subs.
Why U SUK A now? Let’s go back to WWII – and the same old cartoonish geopolitics of benign Anglo maritime island powers pitted against the “evil” Eurasian heartland.
WWII was the solution to simultaneously prevent Germany from dominating the Atlantic and Japan from dominating the Asia-Pacific (by the way, that’s the correct terminology: “Indo-Pacific” is Empire-speak).
Germany-Japan was all about an alliance that would be predominant across the Eurasian heartland. Now, the Empire of Chaos is being slowly but surely expelled from the Eurasian heartland – this time by the Russia-China strategic partnership.
Those with technical knowledge across the Beltway – not, not the Knights – are aware the US is not a match for hypersonic Russia. Yet the Americans believe they can make life unbearable for Beijing. The US establishment will allow China to control the Western Pacific over their dead bodies. Enter the instrumentalization of Australia.
A big question is what will be the new role of the Five Eyes. With U SUK A, the Anglo Club has already stepped beyond mere intel sharing and spying on communications. This is a military pact between Three Eyes.
Depending on the composition of its new government, Germany could become a Sixth Eye – yet in a subordinate role. With U SUK A, NATO as a whole, fresh from its spectacular Afghan debacle, becomes little else than a semi-relevant vassal. This is all about maritime power.
U SUK A in effect is a Quad Plus, with India and Japan, the Fifth Columnist Asians, only allowed to play the role of, once again, mere vassals.
War before 2040
Not surprisingly, the first, concise technical and strategic assessment of U SUK A is Russian, written by Alexander Timokhin and published in Vzglyad, closely linked to GRU intelligence. Here, provided by John Helmer, is an essential English translation.
The key points:
– the extra subs will create a serious, additional threat; “the problem of combating enemy submarine forces will become quite acute for China.”
– Geographically, “Australia can completely block the connection between China and the Indian Ocean.”
– Australia will meet the deadlines only if it lays “more submarines a year than the Americans.”
– It is “possible to quickly make Australia a country with a submarine fleet.” These “gigantic investments and sharp political turns are not carried out just like that. The hegemony of the Anglo-Saxons in the world is seriously shaken.”
And that brings us to the inevitable conclusion: “It is worth recognizing that the world is on the verge of war.”
Even before the Vzglyad strategic assessment, I had submitted the ravings of yet another Beltway Knight – widely praised as a sage – to an old school, dissident Deep State intel analyst. His assessment was merciless.
He wrote me, “the geopolitical logic is that the China-Russia alliance was determined to be against US interests, much as the Mao-Stalin alliance. SEATO and NATO are being replicated. The treaty between England, Australia and the US is part of the Pacific rebalancing, or a new SEATO. NATO is part of the offset against Russia-China in Europe.”
On what might lie ahead, he noted that “the coup against the US, Australia, England and NATO would be a French-Russian alliance to break up NATO and isolate Germany. Russia has unsuccessfully approached Germany, and now may approach France. The loss of France would effectively end NATO.”
He sees U SUK A all dressed up with nowhere to go: “As it stands now, China is in command of the Pacific and Australia and Britain mean nothing. Russia can overrun NATO in two weeks, our adversaries’ hypersonic missiles can destroy all NATO airfields within five to ten minutes and the battle for Europe would be over.”
He’s adamant that “the US cannot project power into the Pacific. Chinese submarine missiles would finish off the US fleet in short order. The Australian submarine issue is really irrelevant; if the CIA had an organization that was worth anything they would know that our adversaries already can spot and destroy our nuclear submarines without the slightest difficulty. The entire US Navy is obsolete and defenseless against Russian missiles.”
And it gets worse – at least for the cheerleading Knights: “The F-35 is obsolete. The Air Force is largely worthless, as Russian and Chinese missiles can finish off their airfields or aircraft carriers in short order. The woke US Army is more worthless than the French Army with their Maginot Line. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are paid less than 200k a year, and are second or third rate talent. The US is a sinking ship.”
Assuming that’s really the case, the – nuclear – war against China in the Western Pacific, projected in the Beltway to happen in the second half of the 2030s, would be over even before it started. Taiwan may even be part of China by then – an offshoot of Beijing always proposing economic exchanges to all, while Washington always “proposes” war.
One thing though will never change: The Knights Who Say “Ni!” singin’ the praise of Pax Americana to the utter indifference of the unruly plebs.
And don’t forget the black Knight in his spam tin armor, bragging, threatening, and boasting as his appendages are cut off one by. F-35! ‘Tis just a scratch! Come back here and fight. What? Air craft carriers are sitting ducks? No there aren’t! They are scary weapons of White Man’s Burden-ness. Stop making deals with the rest of Asia, Europe, and Africa and fight like a civilized Westphalian! I think I’m going to sit down now. Oh. I’m already in a ditch face down and bleeding. I’m better now! Come back here!
France leaving NATO’s integrated command would be a start, not to mention it leaving entirely.
Las, I really doubt it will happen in the next 6 years.
Micron Premier is even more of a hologram than Bidet. Even if it were replaced by Zemmour in 2022 fake election the program would be the same as Micron’s. There remains to be seen if Marine LePen will survive politically, but she has never had any opportunity, and even if she were elected by some bug in the counting machines, she is openly proUE, proIsrael, proWokies, etc., so she can be safely assumed to be part of the same turboglobalist neoliberal totalitarian zionist cabal governing France.
Vivement Houellebecq’s Soumission scenario…
Pepe reports that his deep state intelligence analyst is adamant that ‘the United States cannot project power in the Pacific … if the CIA had an organisation that was worth anything they would know that our adversaries already can spot and destroy our nuclear submarines without the slightest difficulty. The entire US Navy is obsolete and defenseless against Russian missiles.’ Wow, that’s a mouthful. Is that really true? Do the Russians and/or the Chinese have detection technology that gives them a confident idea of where these American subs are located? Pepe’s informant is confidential, and so unsourced. Does anybody really know the score on this business of tracking stealthy submarines?
Smoothie – Andre Martyanov – bagged this Timokhin writer along with the publication he writes for.
Otherwise I believe Pepe is correct that the real deal is American basing in Perth to patrol the Indian Ocean with their ‘neither confirm nor deny’ warships. The new Aussie subs drama oblige the govt. to contribute generously to America’s MIC. They’ll get their boats in due time, perhaps prior to the Second Coming. Or perhaps not.
The State Department & Military are in disarray at the same moment in history – Milley / Austen / Blinken all look like they go thru the motions of control – threatening the balking troops for vax – but have no clue in congressional hearings, especially Blinken, about any subject. You could envision, Patton slapping them all across the face.
A mirror image of these DC Jokester management is the domestic scene, where citizens are fleeing the blue state management in mass and red is the objective – Florida has incredible number of cars on the west coast with plates from far off places like California & Washington and it’s only September – People want out of the northeast corridor chaos as well.
strange to watch the momentum increasing by the day at every level – intense.
All the disenfranchised blue’s west of missisippi go to Texas. The ones from it’s east go to N Carolina or Florida.
And those who you say are fleeing the so-called blue states for the magical red states are finding little different, nor will they in the future unless you wish to freeze to death like they did in Texas and ending up with a $1,000 dollar bill for a few days of electric. It’s like the old saying about the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence…well until you get there that is and find it the same.
there is an Ocean on the west coast – so they are coming 3,000 miles not for fun, sun, a new ocean or “magical” anything – they are – escaping – because they see stark long term difference between CA and Red – electric problems come and go but Democrat Rule are forever – tyranny and chaos.
your ridiculing and minimizing what is a sea change – CA people hardly ever came east to resettle for the last 60 years.
Pepe, you summed it up when with “Translation: Perth will be a forward base for nuclear-powered and nuclear weapon-carrying American subs.” This is what it is all about. A cunning move by the US and one which will make life difficult for China. What is the game plan here? Outright war or “containment” of China by perpetually threatening to blockade China? Either way, the kid gloves are off and the world has entered a new tragic phase in international relations.
Containment is not possible….. at least, by the time these installations are up and running. China does not need the sea routes, due to the BRI, and this is one of the purposes of the belt and road project. The subs will be just another cat and mouse dance, the subs tracked, and shadowed by Chinese/Russian subs.
There is no practical purpose to this AUKAS…. just a big building project with new printed digital money.
And….. what will the US do with these new subs…. sink Chinese ships moving goods?
With the US so dependent on Chinese goods?
Look at the consequences.
Well, the overland trade routes of the BRI are not a sure thing yet and the US is also active in the countries along the BRI to sabotage it. According to the following Rand report, on which the current American strategy appears to be based, the plan is to cripple China with a limited war. The idea is that yes, the US will suffer a loss from this war, but China will suffer a greater loss that will set it back several decades. This is where the Perth naval base comes into play.
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1100/RR1140/RAND_RR1140.pdf
Their assumption that the US could attack the Chinese homeland with conventional weapons at will and not suffer any reciprocal damage is a very dangerous one.
So, to summarize: this AUKUS affair is just a move by americans to flank China with nuclear subs at Perth. The questions is: why they go through this entire charade since everyone, including the chinese, know what this all thing is about? Why not just lease basing rights at Perth and to be done with it and without much fuss?
There’s the matter of screwing the French out of the $90bn contract that was supposed to provide Australian jobs, I suppose.
Politically, saying you are replacing it with an apparent upgrade that is “conventionally” armed (to placate the anti-nuclear types) may look better than just saying they are throwing in the towel on ever operating a submarine force and letting the US base nuclear submarines, armed with nuclear weapons, in Australia.
Take a leaf out of Israel’s book: sabotage.
Blow up Perth dockyards before any launch of submarines.
Let ‘U Suk A’ know that sabotage isn’t only a weapon of the West. A few assassinations might also deter the Aussies.
Hit them hard. Hit them low. Hit them when they least expect it.
The final sentence contains a major blunder;
“Taiwan may even be part of China by then –”
Officially, Táiwan has been a Chinese province since Japan lost that island after the Second Worl War and it was returned to The Republic of China (Zhōnghuá Mínguó’). This is the stated official line both of the Chinese government in Táibĕi’ (T’ai-peh) and the Chinese government in Bĕi’jing (Zhōnghuá RénMín Gònghéguó’)-
Those islands off the Fújján coast, incluting Táiwan and most of the South China Sea, have no military. Their foces call ethemselves the foces of the republic of China.
The only act the provincial governmant of Táiwan could take to make sure China (the peaple’s republic this time) would feel compelled to retake those islands between Japan and the Phillipenes would be to rename thair terretory “The Republic of Taiwan” and call their military “Army nd Navy and otehr forces of Taiwan”.
So please: Do not refer to the Chinese government-in.refuge at Tábêi as the government of Taiwan. That would bring on a bad war if anything — if they dared to do so, @
Relax! the author meant CCP ~ the present dynasty will take actual control of the island province, nobody is denying “one China policy” here.
I understand what the author meant, Why does he then write something else than what he meant?
“the coup against the US, Australia, England and NATO would be a French-Russian alliance to break up NATO and isolate Germany. Russia has unsuccessfully approached Germany, and now may approach France. The loss of France would effectively end NATO.”
No way. France simply has no capacity to do anything significant to destabilize NATO. She must keep quiet and swallow offences and public humiliation. Russia “unsuccessfully” approached Germany through, nothing less than – Nord Stream 2. Where are those 4000 German firms and companies “imposing” sanctions o Russia?
The central question is delivery schedule of these famous subs. Various sources claim that the completion will be by 2036 or even 2040 (see eg https://vz.ru/world/2021/9/21/1119944.html, given in Mr. Escobar’s text). Come on!
The whole 14 or even 18 years in today’s speedy world? It is eternity.
And money – 60 or 90 billion $. Who will pay that? The West, who is about to explode financially? Then, how many elections will be in Australia during that period?
Because of all that (and much more, not to challenge the patience of readers) I am sure that is only a huge bluf, propaganda, empty threat to China (and Russia).
Well gentlemen, you are late, you are too late. You were outperformed in Afghanistan, by warriers in slippers (well, there were some other players, big ones, but you had not noticed them, big ones, or you had but late), where you were bussy for 20 years, spending 2,000 billion $.
How many SSNs you could contstruct for that money? For those 20 years (behind us)?
Regarding the AUKUS agreement, it is so good agreement that I would vote for it, and support it. Honestly.
The agreement with France was faster. Even the AU Navy could jump, in perspective, from firstly planned diesel-electric subs onto SSNs.
People say that there are (French) sub construction facilities in India.
Now, we have a reset, and new time to lost. And cancelation period of 18 months for the first agreement. And a new infrastructure for SNNs in Perth. What about Darwin?
Maybe the main purpose of AUKUS (to begin with three members, and to upgrade it after) is to create a new NATO, for Indo-Pacific region, while the real NATO is decaying. Have you noticed that, nobady from existing NATO didn’t know anything about the new NATO. For me, it is a clear sign of ‘clinically dead’ NATO. They do not believe each other. Especially after Afghanistan, where the whole world attended a big lecture, in a geo-classroom, when one paradigm was (have been) changed into a contrary one, within less than a month.
How verstatile and numerous are consequences of transition in Afghanistan – it is a real catena mundi. Of course, all that did not fall from the sky suddenly, but it is a result of long and painful pregnancy.
There is no way that Australia could really acquire nuclear submarines and missiles for its sole military managment.
Australia is just charged with the task of building and financing submarine bases for the maintenance of the US nuclear submarines.
Nevertheless these submarines will be an actual threat for China.
Macron has for many times proven that he is a US stooge. The only answer for this harsh slap on his face and towards France was a french NATO withdrawal.
I am rather in favor of a Germain Russia discreet connection. Nord Stream 2 is a very clear evidence that Germany is able to manage their interets even under the US threats.
The chinese BRI and the maritime sailing links in the North
will set thé basis of stronger commercial exchanges with China. Cheap russian natural gas will also increase the Germain industry competivity
I need someone to explain me this:
If:
– The Western World is in serious danger because of the rise of China (on the long-term losing the provilege of the free-lunch of importing goods by just printing UDSs if the BRI is fully implemented), and
– If the China-Russia alliance has a weakness concerning submarine warfare (one of the few they may have vis-à-vis AUKUS), and
– The impementation of the needed capabilities for building nuclear subs (training, infrastructure, logistics) take a lot of time and may be prone to sabotage, and
– The Australians mentioned that they need 18 months to assess the new agreement and admitted that they are not 100% sure whether they are building the subs or not,
then why to make such public announcement beforehand?
Is not surprise (or at least ambiguity) an important part of warfare, be it military or communicational?
Does this announcement have something to do with efforts to prop-up defense stocks?
I cannot see any advantage to the Western block by doing such announce. In fact, if I were them, I wouldn’t have cancelled the French contract, rather using it as a decoy to justify increased naval building activity before their enemy figures it out.
“Does this announcement have something to do with efforts to prop-up defense stocks?”
I am a bit embarrassed to admit I had not thought of that possibility/probability.
Pepe is right U SUK A is not about South China Sea, it’s about Taiwan.
None of the troika in U SUK A can remotely lay claim to any piece of SCS. Lack of such convenient pretext, they have to resort to brainwashing ASEAN to volunteer as cannon fodder. Alas, ASEAN is too smart to fall in such trap. Now, Taiwan is another story. There, the vast majority of the population are already brainwashed to adore Americana, Japanista, Christiana, any meme to hate China. There, U SUK A can demonstrate some perfunctory antics to give Taiwan people the idea that they are firmly being protected by the troika, and these Taiwan people will throw themselves onto the swords that China has no choice but to hoist up. After 2 million deaths in Taiwan, the troika will then raise hell about China being brutal, and use that as a pretext to mobilize the rest of the world against China. It’s a 6th grade script, but that’s understandable because those presently at the apex of the troika’s ruling class are no better than 6th minds.
They will fall flat on their faces, because they are too late. China has advanced to the point of picking fights against any and all of them without having to worry about losing. When the shenanigan plays up to a silly enough point, China would bomb the shit out of UK and A first, instead of busying itself killing millions in Taiwan. Better dead big noses than fellow hua ren, no??? Then you’ll see a situation of US facing off China alone across the Big Pond. The present trend suggests that US will grow fatter, clumzier, and dumber. China would just sit cross-armed and wait for those fatso to waste away on their own, as long as fatsos are sensible enough not to resort to nukes.
Nations in the West are a Phony Ponzi Private Plantation of the Private Imperialist Oligarchy.
Please name a nation in the West that has issued sovereign money over what time period in the last three centuries. The Private Imperialist (Money) Oligarchy sees China’s sovereign money, economic & monetary system as an existential threat, as nations will adopt it and start becoming sovereign. Russia wants to be sovereign in all dimensions. So the global conflict is between:
Sovereignty vs Suzerainty
Sovereign money vs private money
Is your nation sovereign or a vassal (suzerainty)? Are you using sovereign money or private money?
Australia is a vassal of the British Empire. Australia regularly hails its history of being involved in every major British & American (Private Imperialist Oligarchy) conflict over the past century. When hasn’t Australia gone with the Financial Empire? Australians act as Empire’s decoy to do its dirty work. Its mercenaries fight in its wars. Australian corrupt economists have played an active role in establishing autonomous central banks in Empire’s suzerainties, like India, Myanmar,… Why would lackey Australia act differently now?
Here is the oath that Australian ministers take: “I, [Minister’s full name], do swear that I will well and truly serve the people of Australia in the office of [position] and that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second.”
AUKUS, is about basing military hardware in Australia and using it in a war. Why the announcement now? The Empire knows it can’t hide its military transfers, so creates a ruse. The conflict is coming way sooner. The Financial Empire wouldn’t exist beyond 2024. Why?
The core of the Financial Empire (Five Eyes) know their position is precarious and are limiting their plans and its development to the core. They aren’t taking chances with other nations. Germany wants to be sovereign too! What did Wolfgang Ischinger say recently?
Please name a democracy that isn’t a suzerainty. You want your nation to be a vassal or sovereign?
The antidote to subs is drones
The antidote to mines is drones
We are missing the 3rd dimension – the water itself.
Hunter Killer drones can be dropped or placed like torpedoes or mines with patrol grids.
The sea lanes are open to those that can mass produce
They can deny them to others at will
If atomic cruise missiles can patrol then why not subs
Surely I’m not the first to think this
Zone A is history
Just us slaves left to bring down the collossus from within
Nice! chuckyman :) few I hv come across that actually did some Real thinking! water! water! law of physics!
Also – yes! if I am not mistaken, 1) russian drone subs is not only Real, its been deployed! 2) china, by ocean-mapping for scientific purpose has mapped every inch of SCS (who knows if they ‘accidentally’ drop anything or left anything behind 3) as mentioned, NK suddenly hv hyper-sonic weapon (btw they hv nuk – ussa believes anyway), why not indonesia, right across aust? indo has threaten too many times they will send 1 million of their ppl, to swim across if need be, to invade aust! 4) what if VVP also want to make some money via the ‘rule based order’ and XJP wink wink it and every asean country get S200, S300, S400 or even S500? hottest postcode on earth right? deserves special toys! 5) and many many many mor (that prob wont pass the climate change policy around here)…
… perhaps I will ‘need’ to fightclub at the next FullCircle :(
anyway, i giv you the real news (pepe dance around it)! its about USSA last gasp from going Declared Broke! prob trying to steal the aussie pension fund/gold :( btw since, chuckyman has been extraordinary, let me match that by ‘revealing’ to you, Fr is drafting for a compensation, judging by the sudden ‘insurrection’ relationship w ussa, the chinese media leaked that the demanded amount could be eighteen zeroes sum. can the assuie decline a godfather nuk super power who lost a nuk deal by a 2 face bitch who pocket a double kick back twice? guess china will swoop in to buy the bankrupt largest island on earth on dirt price then! rus win! chi win! eurasia win! Ya dumbf MoriSCUM!!!
ya’ll stay alive!
one prophecy (i read) say this will hockey-stick-escalate until mar/apr 2022… i am hoping there be no bang on top (as all the hostile energy would hv been ‘expended’)
bwbs
p/s 1-3 mth food supply may be considered?! I hv 10 yrs supply of rice in my bedroom xD Ha HA
“Perth in Australia will be a forward base for nuclear-powered and nuclear weapon-carrying American subs.”
So much for the Anglo Americans’ hysterical denunciations of Weapons of Mass Destruction proliferation or the Rules-Based Order (and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty).
The Anglo Americans are abrogating both these international norms.
The Anglos are the greatest deceivers and hypocrites on the planet, as they self-righteously masquerade as the moral judge and jury international norms and statutes–only to violate these very norms with impunity.
It would appear the Perth plan is to block China’s access to African resources.
Hawaii and other US Pacific islands would block China’s trade from Sth American and the long African route.
Its all about the money-changers to bring China down so they can take control of it.
And also those African and Sth American interests adversely affected by such a blockade.
@Obsequious
Americans always go on the path of war while China uses trade and diplomacy. The Chinese have been trying to forge as many trade deals as possible lately.
They have applied for the TPP trade pact. Their strategy appears to be to integrate with the international economy as much as possible so that a war might bring a greater economic blow to all others countries it does trade with.
With regards to this article, I’m more inclined to follow the Russian military analyst. According to him, the Virginia class subs pose a real threat to the Chinese mainland since they can sneak into China’s littoral. However, it’s not possible that the US would gain the total control of the SCS with these subs for one important fact. They’re invaders and the Chinese people will be fighting for their sovereignty, which would make them tenacious than ever.
Also, it’s quite possible that China and Russia are seeking options to counter this threat. Every move of the Anglozionists influences countermeasures by the resistance.
I just couldn’t resist not to leave a comment. I am not sure if the author meant it to sound that way or it just happened accidentally, but “U Suka” corresponds to “you bitch” in Russian. This is absolutely hilarious!
Speaking of Pax Americana. A few years ago, I came across an article about the US that was penned by an 8-grader in a local newspaper. He was writing about the usual stuff (the beacon of liberty, the shining city, democracy,…), but it is the ending of the article that really struck me. He concluded that Pax Americana was a good thing for the world and also particularly for him. He preferred it that way. And I thought: “You, little prick! Sure you love it. It wasn’t your affluent town where the bombs were dropped or where “freedom” fighters beheaded your siblings. And your affluent lifestyle is supported at the expense of the rest of the world!”.
Every year at my kid’s school they give concerts where the kids perform: the orchestra, the choir. And every year the choir sings “The peace on Earth”, a beautiful rendition. But it always makes me uneasy. Most of the teachers and kids are great people. They mean good, but they are the cogs in the vile machine and most of them are totally brainwashed. I grew up when the Soviet Union still existed, and I remember the anecdotes about the government and CPSU, the kitchen conversations. The majority of simple folk could tell reality from propaganda, could see behind the facade. They were not brainwashed, unlike the people here, especially those of the liberal persuasion living on the East Coast and the West Coast…
‘Perth in Australia will be a forward base for nuclear-powered and nuclear weapon-carrying American subs.’
– Sub-head to Pepe Escobar’s article.
Correction: Perth has been a nuclear cruise missile magazine for first-strike nuclear attack subs since 1968 (I myself drew the maps of the maintenance facility, for the local newspaper, the West Australian) Those assets now threaten China primarily. The facility is on an island closed to civilians, and it is 40 miles up-wind of the state capital’s CBD and its 1.05 million residents, who may well be doomed by its Godalmighty detonation, should China be forced to counter a first-strike by Yanqui Strangeloves.
Bourbaki on September 30, 2021 · at 8:03 am EST/EDT — “France leaving NATO’s integrated command would be a start, not to mention it leaving entirely.”
Which brings to mind Obummer’s retort about remembering what they did to JFK. Also, what about what they did to DeGaulle?
Not that macron would ever think that, but the moment he or his replacement begins to even think about leaving, we will read about an “unfortunate accident” that nobody could of predicted that will remove him from the chess board.
And of course, the evil empire’s minders would not be so lax as to not show any incoming “Western world leader” some nice, gory videos that us deplorables will never get to see.
david on September 30, 2021 · at 8:50 am EST/EDT — “The State Department & Military are in disarray at the same moment in history – Milley / Austen / Blinken all look like they go thru the motions of control – threatening the balking troops for vax – but have no clue in congressional hearings, especially Blinken, about any subject. You could envision, Patton slapping them all across the face.”
Blinkin’ Blink’n in his public appearances looks like a trapped rat, so very nervously struggling to appear the man in charge. Ends up looking like a heart attack on borrowed time.
Pepe Escobar quoted an unnamed insider, “The Joint Chiefs of Staff are paid less than 200k a year, and are second or third rate talent.” It is no wonder those medal-covered US “generals” behave worse than prostitutes (with apologies to the real prostitutes,who do real work for their money). Those US “generals” reveal themselves in every public appearance to be liars, making things up to say what the boss wants to hear, as they try to avoid being damaged goods until they make it to retirement to finally enjoy those nice corporate appointments and consulting fees.
The US cannot attack Syria without Russia intervening. Yet implicit in the US strategy is that the US can attack China without Russia getting involved.
I wouldn’t worry too much about NATO. Countries like Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium have armies that still cost money, but are no longer effective fighting forces.
North Korea has a mutual defense treaty with China and so it is not just China vs US. North Korea could annihilate US bases in South Korea. There are about 200000 US citizens living in South Korea including 28000 US troops. US would need to take those US citizens into consideration if it were to engage in any hostile act in Asia. The outcome of this war will be Korea being unified, Japan declaring neutral, Indonesia with a population of over 270 million occupying Australia’s mere 25 million, etc.