Written by The Saker; Originally appeared at The Unz Review
I remember one evening in distant 1991, I was sitting with a few friends in the SAIS cafeteria discussing the future of the United States with a few very smart students, including a Pakistani Army Colonel, a US captain who served on aircraft carriers and a Spanish diplomat: we all agreed that “the system” was perfect, so to speak, and that the USA would only collapse if a strong external shock would hit it hard. We all agreed that the combination of the best propaganda machine in history, the stupidification resulting from many daily hours of watching the Idiot Tube and, finally, a very effective repression apparatus made for a quasi perfect dictatorship: the one which only gives the illusion of democracy and people power.
Years later, in 2017, I read by J.M. Greer’s brilliant book “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” which I later reviewed here. I would say that this book is one of the best one written on the topic of a future US collapse, even though this is a (very well written) fiction book because it brilliantly illustrates the kind of mindset which can get a supposed superpower in a very bad situation.
To me, this all made perfect sense, but only because I, and my SAIS friends, never even considered the possibility that the US Nomenklatura would commit national suicide and, in the process, bring down the AngloZionist Empire.
Yet this is exactly what happened.
So when did all this begin?
There are many possible answers to this question. Some say with the murder of Kennedy. Others point to Clinton, whose Presidency inaugurated a policy of armed imperialism all over the planet; this administration was also the first one to witness a major “coming out” of the Neocons (many of which had already infiltrated the GOP during Reagan). Then there is 9/11 with the subsequent GWOT. As I said, these are all valid candidates, and there are many more.
My personal view is that the main initiation of collapse was under Barack Obama, a truly exceptionally weak President who would have made an absolutely terrific used cars salesman, but who as a President lost control of his own country and even his own administration. It was under Obama that we saw the vacuum at the top resulting in various agencies (DoS, DoD, CIA, Pentagon, etc.) all developing their own “foreign policies” which resulted in total chaos on the foreign policy front. Needless to say, having harpies such as Hillary Clinton or Susan Rice or Samantha Power involved did not help!
[Sidebar: what is it with western women which makes them become even more bellicose than men when they reach a position of power?! Looking at women like Thatcher or Hillary, I wonder if these women are not carefully selected precisely for their nasty character and need to prove themselves as “equal” to men by being even more nasty and murderous than male politicians…]
Since his election, it has become very popular to blame Donald Trump for everything which went wrong under his Presidency and, indeed, there is much which ought to be blamed on him. But what so many people overlook is that almost everything which went wrong under Trump began with Obama! When Trumps says that he inherited an awful mess, he is absolutely correct. Not that this absolves him from his own contribution to chaos and collapse!
And, in truth, the biggest difference between Obama and Trump, is that Trump did not start any real wars. Yes, he did threaten a lot of countries with military attacks (itself a crime under international law), but he never actually gave the go ahead to meaningfully attack (he only tried some highly symbolic and totally ineffective strikes in Syria). I repeat – the man was one of the very few US Presidents who did not commit the crime of aggression, the highest possible crime under international law, above crimes against humanity or even genocide, because the crime of aggression “contains within itself the accumulated evil”, to use the words of the chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Robert H. Jackson. I submit that just for this reason alone any decent person should choose him over Biden (who himself is just a front for “President” Harris and a puppet of the Clinton gang). Either that, or don’t vote at all if your conscience does not allow you to vote for Trump. But voting Biden is unthinkable for any honest person, at least in my humble opinion.
In the Trump years something absolutely amazing happened: while Trump and his administration were busy destroying the Empire externally, the Dems put all the energy and resources into destroying Trump. However, to paraphrase a quote by the Russian author Zinoviev, “they targeted at Trump but they hit the United States” (Zinoviev’s quote was about the putative anti-Soviets: “Метили в коммунизм, а попали в Россию” which can be translated as “they were aiming at Communism, but they hit Russia”).
What took place next was precisely what my SAIS friends and I could never have imagined: the US ruling elites committed collective suicide.
Suicide is typically executed in three phases: decision to commit suicide, the act of suicide itself, and then death. If we accept that the decision to engage in behavior which can only be described as suicidal was taken sometime during the Obama years, then this begs the question of where we are now. In other words, has the Empire already died or is it still only in agony?
I was asking myself that question the other day when I suddenly realized that I might have determined the exact moment when the Empire collapsed: 8 January 2020.
What happened that day? Following the murder of Major General Qasem Soleimani in a US drone attack (on the 3 of January 2020) the Iranians retaliated by using missiles to attack several US bases in Iraq. According to the US side, there were only minor injuries, which is very likely since the Iranians warned the US by several backdoor channels what they were planning on doing. This argument was used by Trump and his supporters to say that the Iranian reaction was lame, ineffective and could be completely ignored.
In my opinion, the moment when the Trump Administration made this statement is when the death certificate of the Empire was signed. Why?
First, the low number of US casualties (probably higher than the official one, US troops were evacuated in treated in several countries) is due only to the fact that Iranians are superb strategists: they realized that killing a lot of US soldiers would force Trump to strongly retaliate, so they chose not to kill them. Instead, they put a gun to their collective heads. How?
Think about it: the Iranian counter-strike showed the entire world something which most people did not realize: Iranian missiles (ballistic and cruise) were much more accurate than previously thought. In fact, they clearly have some form of terminal guidance. Simply put, the Iranians have proven that they can very precisely, deliver a warhead of several hundred pounds of high explosives pretty much anywhere in the Middle East. To give you a visual idea of their current coverage check out this page.
This bears repeating: the Iranians have now proven that they can place several hundred pounds of high explosives anywhere in the Middle-East with a CEP of about 3-5 meters!
Remember the Khobar Towers bombing? Yes, this was a truck bomb with much more explosives than a missile can carry (by at least an order of magnitude), but that truck was also parked far away from the towers! Yet just under 500 people died that day.
There are plenty of similar US military installations in the Middle-East, many buildings housing hundreds of US servicemen. Just imagine what would have happened if the Iranians had decided to take out as many lives as possible and placed a couple of their missiles right on top of, say, 10 such facilities – just imagine the cost in lives!
But the Iranians are smart, and they chose a much wiser course of action: they used their missiles essentially to kick Uncle Shmuel where it hurts, but they mainly demonstrated their ability to create thousands of US casualties in just a few minutes.
Obviously, another, now undeniable, Iranian capability is the ability to instantly destroy any gas/oil facility in the region: wells, processing facilities, terminals – you name it: if it is important and expensive, the Iranians can destroy it.
The Iranians also have the ability to close down the Strait of Hormuz and even to attack USN ships, possibly including carriers.
Last, but certainly not least, this now proven Iranian capability puts every government building in danger, along with any crucial facility (Dimona anybody?).
At this point of the conversation all the well-propagandized flag-waving morons will immediately stand up and declare something along these lines:
“So what?! If these sand-niggers cross the line they know that we can massively bomb them! Heck, we can even nuke them and send them back to the stone age! Let them try and they will see what the wrath of the most powerful nation on earth, with the most formidable military in history, can do to a bunch of semi-literate peasants, LOL! Let see if their “Allah” will save them!”
Apart from all the ignorant cliches typically spewed by this crowd, there is a major analytical error underlying this “logic” (I use the term generously): the Iranians have lived with this threat since 1979 and they are used to it. Not only that, but they know for a fact that these are empty threats. Oh sure, the USA can do to Iran what “Israel” did to Lebanon in the course of the “Divine Victory” war of 2006, or what NATO has done to Serbia during the Kosovo war (1998-1999): kill civilians and destroy the country’s infrastructure to punish these civilians for supporting the “wrong” (i.e. not US approved) government. But if Uncle Shmuel does to Iran what Israel did to Lebanon, the result will be the same: the Iranians will rebuild (they are very good at that) and they will bounce back twice as strong. As for their martyrs, the more there will be, the stronger the Iranian people’s resistance (check this article written by an Iranian scholar in excellent English explaining the roots of the unique ethos of Shia Islam).
Last, but also not least, the US Presidents and their aides are quite aware of the current state of the US military: it is a military which simply cannot win even simple conflicts, a military hopelessly gutted by insane liberal ideologies, a military whose entire surface fleet has been made obsolete by hypersonic missiles (which the Iranians also seem to be working on!) and a military whose Air Force spent absolutely obscene amounts of money to create a supposedly “5th generation” fighter which in many ways is inferior to US 4th generation aircraft!
[Sidebar: this begs the question of what still works in the US military. In my opinion, the US submarine fleet is still very powerful, and the US nuclear deterrence posture is still solid. Other than that? Meh…]
Bottom line: the arguments that the US did not retaliate because it did not care, or that it does not care because “we can nuke them” are typically civilian nonsense which have no connection whatsoever to the real world (just imagine the political consequences for the already highly unpopular USA following a nuclear strike, especially on a non-nuclear country!)
Okay, but then why did the US not retaliate?
Simply put, because Uncle Shmuel does not have what it takes to take on Iran. Heck, Uncle Shmuel can’t even take on Venezuela (!), which is an extremely weakened country right on the USA’s door step. Frankly, if this or the next President decides that the US needs to “pick up a crappy little country and throw it against a wall just to prove we are serious” then I recommend Grenada. I know, Grenada was basically undefended in 1983 (mainly by a few lightly armed Cuban engineers) and it took the 82nd airborne to rescue the totally defeated and clueless US special forces stuck under fire, but I think that since 1983 the Pentagon had the time to make a some “lessons learned” exercises and that by now the US probably could re-invade this tiny island without repeating one of the worst disasters in military history.
Conclusion
The Empire died on the day the Iranians hit these US facilities and the USA did absolutely *nothing*. In fact, since that date, what have we seen:
- The Iraqis are slowly but surely kicking the US forces out of Iraq
- The number of attacks against US forces in Iraq has sharply increased, including against the massive US bunker complex known as “the Green Zone” which now is not “green” at all.
- The Iranians are merrily continuing to make fun of Uncle Shmuel.
- The US failed at renewing the anti-Iran sanctions at the UN Security Council and Russia has already declared that she is willing to sell S-400s to Iran. You can also count China in this great weapons market.
- The US is also in retreat in Syria where anti-US attacks are becoming more dangerous (and regular clashes with ground forces of the Russian task force in Syria are also becoming a potentially very dangerous phenomenon).
- In Yemen, the Iranian backed Houthis have basically won the war and defeated both the KSA and the USA.
- In Afghanistan, the US and its “coalition of the losers” has stayed even longer than the Soviets and has achieved exactly nothing except a total and most humiliating defeat. The contrast between the performance of the Soviet 40th Army (poorly equipped and averagely commanded) force of conscripts and what the lavishly equipped (but also poorly commanded) US professional force achieved is absolutely amazing on all levels, but the most telling is how much the Soviets actually built in Afghanistan (even facilities that the US still uses every day!). Uncle Shmuel only destroyed everything except the opium trade…
In other words, everything is going exactly according to the announced Iranian game plan to completely kick the USA out of the Middle-East. I know, this seems unthinkable right now, but please make the list of all the putatively “unthinkable” things which have since happened and you will see how dangerous it is to assume that something will never happen.
When Georgia attacked the Russian peacekeepers in Tskhinval there were also limited casualties, but Russia immediately counter-attacked defeated in Georgian military in 3 days, and that in spite of being numerically smaller (at least in the initial phases of the counter-attack) and too slow to react (a typical Russian weakness). And the message to “to whom it may concern” sent by the Russian counter-attack was simple: attack a Russian base, or kill Russian soldiers and you will be killed: every time a Russian serviceman has been killed in Syria the Russians retaliate with strong missiles and air strikes. In other instances Russian Spetsnaz units killed selective Takfiri commanders. And everybody “got it”, even the Turks who have not been able to force the Russian to stop shrinking their areas of control in Syria to a small fraction of what it used to be.
Mind you – Russia has no desire to become an Empire or even some kind of superpower (Russians realize how evil any empire is for the country which is supposed to host it: they suffered for over 300 years in this toxic status of “empire” and they had enough! Only dumb Hillary and even dumber Brzezinski still thought that Russia wanted to “rebuild the USSR” when, in fact, Putin’s policies were designed to disengage and separate from the former Russian periphery which only drained immense Russian resources and never gave Russia anything useful (and nevermind the Warsaw Treaty Organization which was just as resources-consuming and useless as the periphery). All they want is being taken seriously and treated with respect, not as a superpower, but simply as a major, but truly sovereign, power.
Compare that with the unique blend of stratospheric megalomania, narcissistic self-worship and crass ignorance of the leaders of the USA and you immediately see that the Empire is not dying anymore, it is already dead and has been dead for many months now.
What comes next?
Well, the election of course. I submit that under no scenario will the next administration be able to reverse that course and somehow miraculously resurrect the Empire. Empires don’t resurrect. It has been tried in the past (even by Napoleon), it never works. Once empires lose momentum and, especially, their ideological credibility, they are over. Oh sure, a dead body still can emit some heat for a while, some organs, or even cells, can work for a while longer, but dead is dead. Mostly dead bodies bloat and stink, which also applies to dead empires.
This is not to say that the outcome will not matter, it will – but only for the future of the United States themselves. Simply put, the upcoming vote is either a vote for upholding law and order in the USA, or for total nihilism. On a deeper level, it is a vote for the USA or against it: the Dems all hate this country and its “deplorables”; they also hate almost every aspect of US history (overturned statues are but symbols of this hatred) and they hate what they call “a racist system” in spite of the fact that the real causes of racial tensions in the USA have very little to do with the “system” and everything to do with the unique problems of blacks in a culture with mainly European roots.
The Empire is dead. And I hope and believe that its death will mark the rebirth of the United States as a “normal” country (which is what happened to all the other former empires).
Until that happens, we can now at least rest assured that this amazingly evil Empire has finally died, even if very few noticed this.
The Saker
PS: While writing this column my thoughts turned to Major General Qasem Soleimani, who was cowardly murdered (he was on a diplomatic mission) by Trump. I imagined what he would have said if somebody had offered him the following deal: Haj Qasem – would you agree to be murdered by the modern Crusaders if your martyrdom would turn out to be the “straw” which will break the Empire’s “camel” back? I think that he would reply with tears of joy in his eyes “Glory be to God for allowing me this immense honor and joy and for allowing me to become a shahid (God’s witness)!” Soleimani was a soldier, the real thing, not a disguised businessman or politician, and he knew that he could die literally every moment of his life. He died as a general in charge of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and of its elite Quds Force. It sure looks to me that Trump in his ignorant arrogance gave Soleimani the best death he could have wished for. May this great man rest in peace!
I think this article dangerously underestimates the US soft powers and the level of prostitution of the satellites of the empire. I would not focus to much on the military power only. Yes the US military is in a profound crisis and the system inside the US cannot function properly anymore. But will these problems stop the US elites from doing what they have been doing for the last 30 years? Absolutely not a chance. On the contrary we will see an increase of us pressure worldwide and the US satellites will follow in kind especially the EU which is a lost cause. The risks of wars/ civil wars are only increasing. A wild beast is more dangerous when it is injured. This also applies to the US empire. I think those who think we have already seen the worst the US can do are profoundly mistaken.
Are you an American? I am. Born in Washington, DC.
This in my opinion is what the US is headed for and will be at the epicenter of, though the Euros won’t be far behind:
– Greyerz – Get Ready For The Biggest Collapse In The History Of Mankind –
https://kingworldnews.com/greyerz-get-ready-for-the-biggest-collapse-in-the-history-of-mankind/
The US will have it’s hands full just surviving as a 50 state union. Let alone causing problems overseas.
One of the biggest weapons the Reich has are $$$$$$$$$$$$$$,there are always some who will sell their own Country to the Reich,some come very cheap,the Reich buys Countries by bribing a few Generals in the Military and politicians,we saw it in Bolivia when Morales was ousted,now there is a eleccted Government back in control,first thing they should do is purge the military and security forces.
” Government back in control,first thing they should do is purge the military and security forces. ” But will they ? I have my doubts.
I agree with the author. The question is what to do about it. High on the list, if not at the top of it is Israel. All that you have to do is look at a map to see that Israel is at the center of, literally and figuratively, the JWO forever war against the middle east and humanity. Libya, Syria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, etc..
It’s called the Yinon plan and it’s variants that Zionists and Jews have used for Israel’s entire 100+ year modern history. Using the Jewmerica as it’s global hegemony plan stalking horse. The US is heading down the tubes. As an American, Israel and Jews need to pay a price for this.
The place to start is with getting the US out of Iraq and finishing the Syrian war with a Syrian victory. And then putting together a regional coalition that the US will be in no position to intervene on Israel’s behalf against. Preferably including, but not limited to: Egypt, Gaza, Lebanon/Hezbollah, Syria, Turkey, Russia, Iran, the West Bank, and Jordan for starters. With additional participants that could include Iraqi and Afghan militias.
Then using this regional coalition implementing UN resolutions to clear the IDF and Israeli government out of the occupied territories. Preferably by negotiation, with military force used on an as needed basis. And policing resolution implementation, like the right of return. For holding a referendum outlawing Judaism and replacing Israel with a unified Jew free Palestine.
YOU suggest you were born in DC … bs
YOU’VE got Jew on the brain … lol
YOU suggested: ‘finishing the Syrian war with a Syrian victory’? Why is that an American interest? That’s just plain … bs
Then suggesting: ‘Egypt / Gaza / Lebanon/Hezbollah / Syria / Turkey / Russia / Iran / the WB / Jordan / Iraq / Afghanistan’ combine to attack Israel? ROTFLMAO
YOU’RE a f/kn Muslim … full stop
Coming ta git ya …
You fall in the retard category like Holms. Just with better English. And you’re going to get the same treatment until you wise up, which I’m not holding my breath for.
Your comments aren’t worth wasting my time reading.
Laughable …
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Wise up?
Did you learn English from a Hollywood Western? LMAO
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No, you’re not, you ain’t got what it takes, pretender. Nevermind you blunder every damn thing you do, but at this point I wish you’d try, instead of just running your fat stupid lying mouth.
The Jews/Zionist/Israelis have made it clear …. and Netanyahu said it TODAY:
“Those who attack us will be met with a steel fist”
While viewing a large Military exercise simulating a War from the North, that is, Lebanon
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– Congress is now three times as Jewish as the US is Jews make up only 2 percent of the nation’s population, but have 34 representatives in Congress, or 6 percent of 535 lawmakers in both chambers – https://www.timesofisrael.com/congress-is-now-three-times-as-jewish-as-the-us-is/?fbclid=IwAR1SZlW1VG0Wxqe_iL2MhAfjQR8E-rNjZqGhqlahAvFiOeG3uPypigjR0SE
Jews must be ‘civil minded’ … eh?
I don’t celebrate All Hallows Day …
BTW … cap’n f/k off
What’s that capt’n crunch?
English translation not working? lol
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So you were attempting to provoke me? Becuz I didn’t ‘troll’ you?
ALL Without making a comment but only USING vitriol?
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Not me … stay safe
– How did American Jews get so rich? Since the mass immigration some 100 years ago, Jews have become richest religious group in American society. They make up only 2% of US population, but 25% of 400 wealthiest Americans. How did it happen, and how crucial is their aid to Israel? – https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4099803,00.html?fbclid=IwAR0Zsy7o79xx7IR-604YLm-k0SeLgzkm3IPkp7VftkK1h_qM2pMJRg2mIe8
Did they steal it … FoW?
Do Jews have ‘special’ powers?
What’s it say?
The “Jews ” are obviously more intelligent, more hard working, more organized, more disciplined , more talented, more creative, more ” lucky ” then any other group in this world and in all of human history. It should be obvious shouldn’t it ?
You forgot lying, thieving and cheating. Something that they’re brainwashed from birth to do for their evil cult. After many of them are raped as newborns by blood sucking Jew cannibal prostitutes. Who take their innocence and infect some of them with venereal disease for life, brain damage and murder them.
Good sir, that is anti-Semitic. Jews believe in hard work and fair play. You insinuations are unacceptable.
Try to get your terms correct. I’m an antijudaic. Jews are parasites by culture and ideology, who gravitate to control positions in society to victimise it. They’re also the planet’s worst antisemites, most of whom have little if any Hebrew Cannanite DNA.
The Palestinians are Semites, and the primary holders of what Hebrew Cannanite DNA remains. And they rejected Judaism in mass. First for Christianity, that they voluntarily converted to. And then Islam, that they were forcibly converted to.
Sir, I find your highly accurate historical facts and observations highly Anti-Khazarian. Please cease and desist immediately. The ” Jews ” are a highly virtuous people with love and compassion for all man kind. You sir are a bigot of the highest order.
It’s called truth. Being sarcastic doesn’t change it.
Handsome men and good lookin’ girls too … eh?
What’s up wit dat ?
Probably the best looking people on the planet. Extremely handsome men and very beautiful women. Their highly chiseled features are the envy of the entire world. The planet was blessed aesthetically when the Yahweh created the Jews.
Hollywood had more than its share … eh?
Definitely many Jewish actors. Also, directors, producers, studio heads, managers, agents and so forth. If one was Antisemitic they would say that Jews monopolize and control the whole industry, but we all know thats not the truth, Jews are just better at everything then all the other people on the planet.
Obviously ….
This matters how ? Your whole line of questions are as irrelevant as you are. Jews were already wealthy when they got here, and just carried on what they’d been doing. Duh.
The first real reason why we are witnessing the collapse of the former US empire is to be found in its liberal nature, which has transformed the vast majority of its population into useless eaters, compulsive consumers unable to produce anything useful, the imbalance between the economy of services and the industrial economy is too big, in the same way they destroyed the public school, the result is the inevitable failure, postponed only by being able to impose on the rest of the world the strength of the petro-dollar, but also this power is failing by exposing the inconsistency of the reasons for an unlikely global domination, on the other hand it has to start to deal with Asian nations that have taken the opposite path and this is starting to become hard for the Yankees to digest, excluding the possibility of a true industrial reconstruction, it’s too late for that, the question is how it will die, if slowly or if it goes away with a bang.
” collapse of the former US empire is to be found in its liberal nature, which has transformed the vast majority of its population into useless eaters, compulsive consumers unable to produce anything useful, ” However, this was the inevitable result of machinations by a certain tribal group as has been shown numerous times through out history .
The Axis of Resistance (To Middle Eastern citizens) are experts in turning every failure and loss into a “divine victory.”
Exactly …. in their own minds
American Zionists are not anglo, saxons or slavs you fool. jew khazars blend in and pretend to be white just as they did as the bolsheviks
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/24d57818e791c03fc5678651ad95784ff8606b5c1a8d9c3ee4ecc4908c7bc019.jpg
Joos … Jooz … Jewz on the brain to the tune of Rihanna’s ‘Must be Love on the Brain’
YOU can’t sing? Got no soul? lol
TFB … ya piece of WHITE TRASH
white trash is what i spit on your mutters face
White trashy is all you’ll ever be … lol
My mutter is buried …. but I’d shit in your mutters mouth
i would not fuck your mutter i do not touch animals
She’s deceased ….
Isn’t that a violation of her ‘human rights’? Where’s an international tribunal?
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we can convene the international tribunal in artsakh
I’m ok with an independent Artsakh … eh?
if by independent you mean armenian, then sure
Of course … Armenian
Hey incest prout,why don’t you save that trash for the kweer bars where you assfloggeds bewlong,dementy biden loving facist loser bum,got nothing on the truth,you will burn in hell because you and your dementy fake mates on incest pills have no underrstanding about life! Like I said there is no future in fascism nor your proided lgbtq,vile weak utter evil pieces o sht!
No frgn wonder eugeddon can’t come soon enough,but you soros trolls are the depolorables, Now here’s your identity,as you see incest wonders you are identified as mentally exempt,losers! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3d00f85e1097e3b2fc97b47e83fb243220ae754324f6963e933a0899b50effab.jpg
The Saker is full of sh Xt … lol
The empire is falling AFTER Soleimani got offed? Come on Man!
The US hit Comrade #2 and NOTHING from the Iranians? lol Yuh Making out as if an Iranian GPS short range missile is ‘special’ in 2020? Come on Man!
The US is now getting very familiar with the fact the OLD WORLD ORDER has changed … China / Turkey / Iran have raised their heads in confrontations … eh?
No one will tear America apart … that’s wishful thinking by adversaries … lol
The reality is the malign influences of Islamists/Jihadis has stirred up a series of wars WITHIN Islam … Sunni vs Shia / Islamism vs Secular Police State / Gulf Arabs vs Qatar / Gulf Arabs vs Qatar & Turkey
These inner Arab/Muslim Wars have NOTHING to do with Israel, which remains the preeminent Military Superpower in the Levant … eh? Israel has attacked over 200 TIMES the Iranians/IRGC/Shia Brigades/ Hezbollah without ANY response … hello?
What does that say? lol
The Sacker is full of sh Xt … lol
They gave several hundred US gangsters a headache when missiles hit their illegal base in Iraq.
Thanks for the reply …
Saker DID NOT mention that …. in his article … was it ‘fake’ news or what? I did not HEAR much about it ..
BUT … the Iranians were CLEAR that they would NOT KILL soldiers just do an attack … but did NOT want to escalate tensions
YOUR cousins are gonna get ‘smoked’ if they attack Americans or Israel
Triggered, pretender.
t-rat=idiot your banal stupidity and insecurity is tiresome F Jameson, C Hedges, A Slesinger Jr, Gore Vidal all observed last phase of US Empire Johan Galtung predicts collapse in less than 10 years back to your collapsing US colony
Collapsing of many states on Planet Earth is ongoing … the COVID Pandemic has caused harm to many countries … some may fall into bankruptcy … unable to continue the day to day upkeep … hello?
10 YEARS ? See ya then … lol
An interesting article and there is another article, which I will highlight in Part 2, that goes well with the above. It is an article that Sputnik have published and so needs reading, for those who wish to know how to kickstart a false flag. What is even more interesting, is the writer, a female, Kayla Pupochet, is studying in Slavic studies as part of her education in Latin American and Eastern European politics at City University of New York. Ms Popuchet, who is also a regular contributor to Anticonquista and a New York City Housing Court Specialist.
Anyway, before I go into Part 2, I am going to waffle, with regards 1991, where the Saker starts and remembering being heavily pregnant, when the Iraq War started, round 1. As memories of Maggie Thatcher, coming to the end of her time in Westminster, Ronald Reagan, who had been replaced by Bush, just in time for Iraq War, Version 1. The Warsaw Pact had just been dismantled, turning NATO from a bi-polar, defensive partnership, to an uni-polar, totalitarian offensive, which we were yet to experience. The Soviet Union was coming to an end and Yeltsin, was waiting on the sidelines, to replace Gorbechev and bankrupt Russia. Maggie Thatcher’s special adviser the late Tim Bell, who was also a special adviser for many Eastern European Politicians, especially those linked to the oligarchs and demise of Russia.
So who did Bell advise?
Herman Buchi, a former minister to the Pinochet Dictatorship, back in the 1989 Presidential Election. A friend of Boris Berezvsky, PR Management for Alexander Litvinenko Estate and spokesman Alex Goldfarb, post alleged poisoning. Adviser to Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mahamed. He also founded Bell Pottinger, which he championed for 30 years and was provided with over $500 million, to spin the Iraq War, Version 2, in 2003, on behalf of Tony Blair and George Bush. Bearing in mind, Blair had awarded Margaret Thatcher’s special adviser with a lifetime peerage. The same late Timothy Bell and the Bell Pottinger executives, who could not help but brag, ‘that they could quickly arrange at a client’s request for the then UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, to telephone the head of the Chinese Government to support any business project. The PR firm’s managers also claimed to have direct access to several other British Officials. Bell’s people also offered services to rewrite unflattering Wiki article and even change particular search results on Google’. (Meduza – Guys Get Out of Here). Ironically, the Belarusan Government was among Bell Pottinger’s list of clients and ironically, it was at the time of their involvement, that relations between Alexander Lukashenko and President Putin became strained. With Timothy Bell personally getting involve. I could go on, but, look at what happened back in 1991 and how it links into events today, including the Saker article. Timothy Bell, who brother set up Common Purpose, where you will find some seriously devoid politicians and ex-Prime Ministers from Westminster, lurking in the membership. Including Major, Blair, Brown, and Cameron, for starters. Why is the Membership List of the Shadow Government and Common Purpose, so covert?
Not forgetting, back in 1992, Common Purpose Member John Major, the Prime Minister of the UK, decided that he needed to politicalise the position of the Governor of Hong Kong, in time for when the Chinese were to get their territory back. His good friend and Common Purpose Member, Chris Patten had just been made redundant, owing to not getting the votes, during the election. So he was sent to Hong Kong as the Governor, just in time for the NED to take over from the CIA, who were caught out, owing to naughty behaviour and they needed something similar, but, covert, whilst still tax payer funded. Chris Patten who we went on to become an EU Commissionaire, then Chairman of the BBC. Leaving at the same time as Mark Thomson, the BBC Director General, who went onto become CEO of the NYT, owing to the BBC trying to shut down the story about that national treasure and well known peso, light entertainment presenter, Jimmy Saville.
Soviet Union – 1922 – 1991 Gorbachev – General Secretary of Bolshevik Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 – 1991 Ronald Reagan Presidential Term – 20 January 1981 – 20 January 1989 First Gulf War – August 1990 – 28 February 1991 Margaret Thatcher, last day as UK Prime Minister 28 November 1990. John Major – UK Prime Minister 28 November 1990 – 2 May 1997 End of Warsaw Pact – 24 February 1991 declared finished and officially declared finished 1 July 1991. Dissolution of Soviet Union – December 1991 Yeltsin – President Russian Federation 25 December 1991 – 31 December 1999
During that time you had Dick Chenie, working with Bush, who then ended up the CEO of Haliburton, just in time for him to cut down on US Military Serving Personnel, knowing that it would create a demand for the privatised military and intelligence industry. That would serve him so well. Even John Major ended up going to work for Chenie, Bush and the Bin Laden family, over in the Carlysle Group.
Funny, how being heavily pregnant back in 1991, caused such a brain fog. Which took a couple of decades to remember the political history of the time and how it all links into regime change programmes and the wars from at least the first Gulf War to present day.
Part II
Belarusian Opposition Figure Awarded Freedom Prize by the EU Will ‘Sell Belarus Out’, Analyst Says…https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202010281080892256-belarusian-opposition-figure-awarded-freedom-prize-by-the-eu-will-sell-belarus-out-analyst-says/
…A student of Eastern European politics tells Sputnik.
The European Parliament selected Belarus’ opposition movement as the winners of 2020’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The European Union’s legislative body specifically singled out a number of people and organisations including Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, whom they refer to as an “opposition leader”.
Kayla Popuchet is minoring in Slavic studies as part of her education in Latin American and Eastern European politics at City University of New York. Ms Popuchet, who is also a regular contributor to Anticonquista and a New York City Housing Court Specialist, says that much of Mrs Tikhanovkaya’s image has been constructed by Western governments who do not have the best interests of the Belarusian people at heart.
Sputnik: Who is Svetlana Tikhanovsky Kayla Popuchet:
As the tale goes, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is the wife of Sergei Tikhanovsky, a YouTuber who gained popularity among the youth for criticising the Belarusian government. But the “housewife to President” dance is a farce, in fact, Tikhanovskaya has always been politically agitated. As a child, she was sent to the Chernobyl Lifeline charity programs, spending her summers in Ireland where she was taught about the “backwardness” of her country and how much “better” the West is. The Ireland Times stated, in a piece on Tikhanovskaya’s connection to Roscrea, that the program “offered them holidays and healthcare”, both of which had already existed in the Soviet Union, and especially in Belarus…
…While her website has since been taken down, it has been archived by Historic.ly’s Esha Krishnaswamy in which you will find a link to the Reanimation Package Reforms for Belarus, the same organisation, that previously drafted market reforms for Ukraine. In it, you will find hyper-privatisation reforms and the underfunding of public services such as hospitals. Tikhanovskaya has vowed to free political prisoners like her husband, political prisoners like Pavel Yukhnevich, Yauhen Afnahel, Aliaksei Karatkou members of the European Belarus Civil Campaign and CEO-developer of the MakreML startup. She has also vowed to move away from the Union-State treaty with Russia and promote foreign investors interests in the Belarusian economy instead. In short, she’s going to sell Belarus out…
….Instead she is popular among the IT sectors, the petit-bourgeois youth, and the opportunists like the Belarusian National Front party that have long been fantasising over claiming power of Belarus. Like any group of people, Belarusians are not monolithic and have varying opinions. While she has a lot of supporters, she has a lot of people denouncing her.
On September 17th, in response to the weekly-Sunday opposition women’s marches, denouncers of the opposition held “The Women’s Forum: To Belarus”, which was organised in an alliance with Lukashenko supporters and those who simply do not support Tikhanovskaya …
…Another thing is that these protests even have a different way of communicating and organising than grass-roots working class movements. It’s like an art show for young people, they’re organising online and abroad and are unable to effectively capture the rage of the working masses that are discontent with their political status quo. It is ultimately a result of their petit bourgeois nature that is removed from the concerns of workers. But it is imperative to keep a watchful eye on the success of the national strike Tikhanovskaya has called for. It is possible that her legacy will depend on whether or not workers adhere and unify under her call…’ Who set up the ‘Belarus NEXTA, Telegram Channel’, running the Belarus regime change script?
Kayla Popuchet:
‘…Stepan Putilo is the 22 year-old activist operating entirely online and outside of his country. In fact, he has been out of his country since he was 18. So for these years, how do you build connections and organise while working specifically online out of the right-wing state that is Poland?…’
Sputnik: Have the protests consolidated behind any one group or figure?
Kayla Popuchet: Tikhanovskaya surely has become the face of the movement, her story as the doting housewife to political dissident is quite alluring to the naked eye. But she is actually much more ghoulish than the sweet housewife image would have you think…
…Let’s have a look at one of Tikhanovskaya’s advisors, Franak Viacorka who was the Acting Creative Director for the Minsk bureau for CIA-created Radio Free Europe and sits on the Atlantic Council. His father is Vincuk Viačorka, one of the founders of the right-wing oppositionist party Belarusian National Front, of which whose symbols can be found at protests. (Why do so many Nanzis flock to the Atlantic Council?).
Sputnik: Belarus is not a member of the European Union nor is a NATO member. Can you explain the level of interest that has been taken by the EU and the US in the demonstrations in Belarus?
Kayla Popuchet:
The European Union and the United States have had Belarus in their gun slings for decades, this attack on their sovereignty is not novel. The West has funded regime change operations in Belarus for quite some time. The National Endowment for Democracy spent $1,712,398 in 2019 alone while the EU vowed to give 53 million Euros for initiatives that support the opposition in Belarus…
… the Belarusian government has allowed these Western regime change operations and publications like Radio Free Svoboda and Voice of America to operate in their country. So much for censorship while publications funded by Russian and Latin American governments find themselves censored or disclaimed…
Read more, over on Sputnik, link at top of article
When will they learn not to allow those NGs to run riot in those Countries,they may as well give the CIA a green light,are they just naive or stupid?
” When will they learn not to allow those NGs to run riot in those Countries, ” Never it seems. Not even Russia or China kicks these groups out. They just put restrictions on their activities.
Are Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and Sergei Tikhanovsky of ” Amish ” persuasion ?
Ha-ha, I find them boring, so have never bothered checking out their faith. Whether Amish or relevant to some Nomadic Turkic Tribe. She looks seriously lifeless. Funny how she describes herself as an English Teacher, but, is she fluent in English?
She reminds me of the Saakashvili side kick, who performed for the Larry Diamond videos, promoting regime change in Ukraine.
joyous day!!! should be a holiday worldwide..
the Empire collapsed: 8 January 2020.
those familiar with historians of empire don’t require this article to comprehend that the US empire is near suicide, hapless and squirming It was Arthur KOESTLER that compared amerikans to 5th century Romans: “a similarly contactless society populated by automatons…a similarly soulless, politically corrupt everybody for themselves society”. David Riesman was kinder—he described amerikans as insecure, sexually repressed, shallow, “over-conformist semi-automatons”….Geoffrey Gorer observed: “only in America is the father vestigial: the amerikan mind and conscience is feminine”—he also observed how insecure amerikans are and was puzzled at whether amerikans were people or machines…”only in amerika are machine metaphors used to describe human behavior”…..”amerikans love big because they feel so small,,,the artificial sexual scarcity in amerika derives from the amerikan money neurosis” Philip Salter “of all peoples in an advanced stage of economic civilization amerikans r least accessible to long views, always in a hurry to get rich they give no thought to remote consequences–they see only present advantages…amerikans do not remember…amerikans do not feel: amerikans live in a materialist dream”. Moisede Ostrogorski “the amerikan soul is hard, isolate, a killer”. DH Lawrence “amerikans are the most prudish people in western civilization: they sublimate their desire by chasing the dollar…amerika is gigantic: a gigantic mistake”. S Freud “as one digs deeper into the national character of amerikans one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world according to the answer to a single question: how much money will it bring in? Tocqueville “amerikans are not at all happy–they feel themselves lacking in something: it is as if all the sensitiveness has dried up in them. the crystallization of love is impossible in amerika. I admire their kind of happiness, but I do not envy it: it is the happiness of a different and inferior species”. Stendhal an empire near collapse indeed “we are merely a nation of used car salesmen that have no qualms about killing anyone that makes us uncomfortable ” Hunter Thompson
“Putin’s policies were designed to disengage and separate from the former Russian periphery which only drained immense Russian resources and never gave Russia anything useful (and nevermind the Warsaw Treaty Organization which was just as resources-consuming and useless as the periphery).”Saker, you a great guy, an honest and insightful writer. I just wish your head wasn’t so deep up Solzhenixon’s cold dead arse. The only way Russia can be itself again is as an empire.
Yes I think Saker is right about the death and the date being Soleimani’s assassination. I’d only say I doubt Trump did it, I have a feeling it just “happened” because that’s the sort of thing the deep state and the zionist connection does, and Trump just claimed whatever publicity credit there was to be had, to enhance his own image. And yes I think US is going to turn into a “normal country now – it’s about time.
Frgn kweer fascists got what’s coming with or without trump,these vile cia pretenders of superiority are doomed,see they can’t hire any more soviet scientists let alone russians todays= decline of empire,see in reality kweers don’t have what it takes to win anything other than death to hell with bidens aidz too! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a4cc94adfe933479a3427c0f3dee0eda0924af19df75e4795761fb9d6a4802ae.jpg
To me, Soleimani’s assassination was about ending Iran’s military expansion in Syria, that was a threat to Israel. Once he was gone, there was significantly less influence for Iran to get involved there. But it was still a slap in the face to Iran, so they had to retaliate somehow. So they gave a response, a weak one in reality. Iran has no interest in going to war with the US, and that’s why this was no doubt communicated to Trump.