By Pepe Escobar<\/p>\n
Vast swathes of NATOstan have been corralled into behaving like a Russophobic lynch mob. No dissent is tolerated.<\/em><\/p>\n By now it\u2019s abundantly clear that the neo-Orwellian \u201cTwo Minute Hate\u201d Russophobic campaign launched by the Empire of Lies after the start of Operation Z is actually \u201c24\/7 Hate\u201d.<\/p>\n Vast swathes of NATOstan have been corralled into behaving like a Russophobic lynch mob. No dissent is tolerated. The full psyops has de facto upgraded the Empire of Lies to the status of Empire of Hate in a Total War \u2013 hybrid and otherwise \u2013 to cancel Russia.<\/p>\n Hate, after all, packs way more punch than mere lies, which are now veering into abject ridiculousness, as in U.S. \u201cintelligence\u201d resorting to \u2013 what else \u2013 lies to fight the info war<\/a> against Russia.<\/p>\n If the propaganda overdrive has been lethally effective amidst the zombified Western masses \u2013 call it a \u201cwin\u201d in the P.R. war \u2013 in the front where it really matters, inside Russia, it\u2019s a major fail.<\/p>\n Public opinion support for both Operation Z and President Putin is unprecedented. After videos of torture of Russian POWs that caused widespread revulsion, Russian civil society is even bracing for a \u201cLong War\u201d lasting months, not weeks, as long as the targets of the Russian High Command \u2013 actually a military secret \u2013 are met.<\/p>\n The stated aims are \u201cdemilitarization\u201d and \u201cdenazification\u201d of a future neutral Ukraine \u2013 but geopolitically reach way beyond: the aim is to turn the post-1945 European collective security arrangement upside down, forcing NATO to understand and come to terms with the concept of \u201cindivisible security\u201d. This is an extremely complex process that will reach the next decade.<\/p>\n The NATOstan sphere simply cannot admit in public a series of facts that a military analyst of the caliber of Andrei Martyanov has been explaining for years. And that adds to their collective pain.<\/p>\n Russia can take on NATO and smash it to bits in 48 hours. It may employ advanced strategic deterrence systems unmatched across the West. Its southern axis \u2013 from the Caucasus and West Asia to Central Asia \u2013 is fully stabilized. And if the going gets really tough, Mr. Zircon can deliver his hypersonic nuclear business card with the other side not even knowing what hit it.<\/p>\n \u201cEurope has chosen its fate\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n It may be enlightening to see how these complex processes are interpreted by Russians \u2013 whose points of view are now completely blocked across NATOstan.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s take two examples. The first is Lieutenant General L.P. Reshetnikov, in an analytical note examining facts of the ground war.<\/p>\n Some key takeaways:<\/p>\n \u2013 \u201cOver Romania and Poland there are airborne early warning aircraft of NATO with experienced crews, there are U.S. intelligence satellites in the sky all the time. I remind you that just in terms of budgets for our Roscosmos we allocated $2.5 billion a year, the civil budget of NASA is $25 billion, the civil budget of SpaceX alone is equal to Roscosmos \u2013 and that is not counting the tens of billions of dollars annually for the entire U.S. feverishly unfolding the control system of the entire planet.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 The war is unfolding according to \u201cNATO\u2019s eyes and brains. The Ukronazis are nothing but free controlled zombies. And the Ukrainian army is a remotely controlled zombie organism.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 \u201cThe tactics and strategy of this war will be the subject of textbooks for military academies around the world. Once again: the Russian army is smashing a Nazi zombie organism, fully integrated with the eyes and brain of NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n Now let\u2019s switch to Oleg Makarenko<\/a>, who focuses on the Big Picture.<\/p>\n \u2013 \u201cThe West considers itself \u2018the whole world\u2019 only because it has not yet received a sufficiently sensitive punch on the nose. It just so happened that Russia is now giving him this click: with the rear support of Asia, Africa and Latin America. And the West can do absolutely nothing with us, since it also lags behind us in terms of the number of nuclear warheads.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 \u201cEurope has chosen its fate. And chose fate for Russia. What you are seeing now is the death of Europe. Even if it does not come to nuclear strikes on industrial centers, Europe is doomed. In a situation where European industry is left without cheap Russian energy sources and raw materials \u2013 and China will begin to receive these same energy carriers and raw materials at a discount, there can be no talk of any real competition with China from Europe. As a result, literally everything will collapse there \u2013 after industry, agriculture will collapse, welfare and social security will collapse, hunger, banditry and chaos will begin.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s fair to consider Reshetnikov and Makarenko as faithfully representing the overall Russian sentiment, which interprets the crude Bucha false flag as a cover to obscure the Ukrainian army torture of Russian POWs.<\/p>\n And, deeper still, Bucha allowed the disappearance of Pentagon bioweapon labs from the Western mediasphere, complete with its ramifications: evidence of a concerted American drive to ultimately deploy real weapons of mass destruction against Russia.<\/p>\n The multi-level Bucha hoax had to include the Brit presidency of the UN Security Council actually blocking a serious discussion, a day before the Russian Ministry of Defense struggled to present to the UN \u2013 predictably minus the U.S. and the UK \u2013 all the bioweapon facts they have unearthed in Ukraine. The Chinese were horrified<\/a> by the findings.<\/p>\n The Russian Investigative Committee at least persists in its work, with 100 researchers unearthing evidence of war crimes across Donbass to be presented at a tribunal in the near future, most probably set up in Donetsk.<\/p>\n And that brings us back to the facts on the ground. There\u2019s a lot of analytical discussion on the possible endgame of Operation Z. A fair assessment would include the liberation of all of Novorossiya and total control of the Black Sea coastline that currently is part of Ukraine.<\/p>\n \u201cUkraine\u201d in fact was never a state; it was always an annex to another state or empire such as Poland, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and crucially Russia.<\/p>\n The landmark Russian state was Kievan Rus. \u201cUkraine\u201d, in old Russian, means \u201cborder region\u201d. In the past, it referred to the westernmost regions of the Russian Empire. When the Empire started expanding south, the new regions annexed mostly from Turkish rule were called Novorossiya (\u201cNew Russia\u201d) and the northeastern regions, Malorossiya (\u201cLittle Russia\u201d).<\/p>\n It was up to the USSR in the early 1920s to jumble it all together and name it \u201cUkraine\u201d \u2013 adding Galicia in the west, which was historically non-Russian.<\/p>\n Yet the key development is when the USSR broke up in 1991. As the Empire of Lies de facto controlled post-Soviet Russia, they could never have possibly allowed the real Russian regions of the USSR \u2013 that is, Novorossiya and Malorossiya \u2013 to be again incorporated to the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n Russia is now re-incorporating them \u2013 in an \u201cI Did It, My Way\u201d manner.<\/p>\n Vamos a bailar in European Puerto Rico<\/strong><\/p>\n By now it\u2019s also quite clear to any serious geopolitical analysis that Operation Z opened a Pandora\u2019s box. And the supreme historical victim of all the toxicity finally let loose is bound to be Europe.<\/p>\n The indispensable Michael Hudson, in a new essay on the U.S. dollar devouring the euro<\/a>, argues half in jest that Europe might as well surrender its currency, and go on like \u201ca somewhat larger version of Puerto Rico.\u201d<\/p>\n After all, Europe \u201chas pretty much ceased to be a politically independent state, it is beginning to look more like Panama and Liberia \u2013 \u2018flag of convenience\u2019 offshore banking centers that are not real \u2018states\u2019 because they don\u2019t issue their own currency, but use the U.S. dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n In synch with quite a few Russian, Chinese and Iranian analysts, Hudson advances that the war in Ukraine \u2013 actually in its \u201cfull-blown version as the New Cold War\u201d \u2013 is likely to last \u201cat least a decade, perhaps two as the U.S. extends the fight between neoliberalism and socialism [meaning the Chinese system] to encompass a worldwide conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n What may be seriously in dispute is whether the U.S., after \u201cthe economic conquest of Europe\u201d, will be able to \u201clock in African, South American and Asian countries\u201d. The Eurasia integration process, rolling in earnest for 10 years now, conducted by the Russia-China strategic partnership and expanding to most of the Global South, will go no holds barred to prevent it.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no question, as Hudson states, that \u201cthe world economy is being enflamed\u201d \u2013 with the U.S. weaponizing trade. Yet on the Right Side of History we have the Rublegas<\/a>, the petroyuan, the new monetary\/financial system being designed in a partnership between the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) and China.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s something no puny Cancel Culture War can erase.<\/p>\n