Submitted by The Burning Platform<\/a><\/p>\n Guest Post by Pepe Escobar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n After careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the \u201cindispensable nation\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n (Source: Holderlin, Hyperion\u2019s Fate Song)<\/em><\/p>\n Operation Z is the first salvo of a titanic struggle: three decades after the fall of the USSR, and 77 years after the end of WWII, after careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the \u201cindispensable nation\u201d. No wonder the Empire of Lies has gone completely berserk, obsessed in completely expelling Russia from the West-centric system.<\/p>\n The U.S. and its NATO puppies cannot possibly come to grips with their perplexity when faced with a staggering loss: no more entitlement allowing exclusive geopolitical use of force to perpetuate \u201cour values\u201d. No more Full Spectrum Dominance.<\/p>\n The micro-picture is also clear. The U.S. Deep State is milking to Kingdom Come its planned Ukraine gambit to cloak a strategic attack on Russia. The \u201csecret\u201d was to force Moscow into an intra-Slav war in Ukraine to break\u00a0Nord Stream 2 \u2013 and thus German reliance on Russian natural resources. That ends \u2013 at least for the foreseeable future \u2013 the prospect of a Bismarckian Russo-German connection that would ultimately cause the U.S. to lose control of the Eurasian landmass from the English Channel to the Pacific to an emerging China-Russia-Germany pact.<\/p>\n The American strategic gambit, so far, has worked wonders. But the battle is far from over. Psycho neo-con\/neoliberalcon silos inside the Deep State consider Russia such a serious threat to the \u201crules-based international order\u201d that they are ready to risk if not incur a \u201climited\u201d nuclear war out of their gambit. What\u2019s at stake is nothing less than the loss of Ruling the World by the Anglo-Saxons.<\/p>\n Mastering the Five Seas \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Russia, based on purchasing power parity (PPP), is the 6th<\/sup> economy in the world, right behind Germany and ahead of both the UK and France.\u00a0Its\u00a0\u201chard\u201d economy is similar to the U.S. Steel production may be about the same, but intellectual capacity is vastly superior. Russia has roughly the same number of engineers as the U.S., but they are much better educated.<\/p>\n The Mossad\u00a0attributes Israel\u2019s economic miracle in creating an equivalent of Silicon Valley to a base of a million Russian immigrants. This Israeli Silicon Valley happens to be a key asset of the American MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academia-think tank complex), as indelibly named by Ray McGovern.<\/p>\n NATOstan media hysterically barking that Russia\u2019s GDP is the size of Texas is nonsense. PPP is what really counts; that and Russia\u2019s superior engineers is why their hypersonic weapons are at least two or three generations ahead of the U.S. Just ask the indispensable Andrei Martyanov<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Empire of Lies has no defensive missiles worthy of the name, and no equivalents to Mr. Zircon and Mr. Sarmat. The NATOstan sphere simply cannot win a war, any war against Russia for this reason alone.<\/p>\n The deafening NATOstan \u201cnarrative\u201d that Ukraine is defeating Russia does not even qualify as an innocuous joke <\/a>(compare it with Russia\u2019s \u201cReach Out and Touch Someone\u201d strategy). The corrupt system of SBU fanatics intermingled with UkroNazi factions is kaput. The Pentagon knows it. The CIA cannot possibly admit it. What the Empire of Lies has sort of won, so far, is a media\u00a0\u201cvictory\u201d for the UkroNazis, not a military victory.<\/p>\n Gen Aleksandr Dvornikov, of Syria fame, has a clear mandate: to conquer the whole of Donbass, totally free up Crimea and prepare the advance towards Odessa and Transnistria while reducing a rump Ukraine to the status of failed state without any access to the sea.<\/p>\n The Sea of Azov \u2013 linked to the Caspian by the Don-Volga canal \u2013 is already a Russian lake. And the Black Sea is next, the key connection between the Heartland and the Mediterranean. The Five Seas system \u2013 Black, Azov, Caspian, Baltic, White \u2013 enshrines Russia as a de facto continental naval power. Who needs warm waters?<\/p>\n Moving \u201cat the speed of war\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The pain dial, from now on, will go up non-stop. Reality \u2013 as in facts on the ground \u2013 will soon become apparent even to the NATOstan-wide LugenPresse<\/em>.<\/p>\n The woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Mark Milley, expects Operation Z to last years. That\u2019s nonsense. The Russian Armed Forces may afford to be quite methodical and take all the time needed to properly demilitarize Ukraine. The collective West for its part is pressed for time \u2013 because the blowback from the real economy is already on and bound to become vicious.<\/p>\n Defense Minister Shoigu has made it quite clear: any NATO vehicles bringing weapons to Kiev will be destroyed as \u201clegitimate military targets\u201d.<\/p>\n A report by the scientific service of the\u00a0Bundestag<\/a>\u00a0established that training of Ukrainian soldiers on German soil<\/a>\u00a0may amount, under international law, to participation in war. And that gets even trickier when coupled with NATO weapons deliveries: \u201cOnly if, in addition to the supply of weapons, the instruction of the conflict party or training in such weapons were also an issue would one leave the secure area of \u200b\u200bnon-warfare.\u201d<\/p>\n Now at least it\u2019s irretrievably clear how the Empire of Lies \u201cmoves at the speed of war\u201d<\/a> \u2013 as described in public by weapons peddler turned Pentagon head, Lloyd \u201cRaytheon\u201d Austin. In Pentagonese, that was explained by the proverbial \u201cofficial\u201d as \u201ca combination of a call center, a watch floor, meeting rooms. They execute a battle rhythm to support decision-makers.\u201d<\/p>\n The Pentagonese \u201cbattle rhythm\u201d offered to a supposedly \u201ccredible, resilient and combat-capable Ukraine military\u201d is fed by a EUCom system<\/a> that essentially moves weapons orders from Pentagon warehouses in the U.S. to branches of the Empire of Bases in Europe and then to the NATO eastern front in Poland, where they are trucked across Ukraine just in time to be duly incinerated by Russian precision strikes: the wealth of options include supersonic P-800 Onyx missiles, two types of Iskander, and Mr. Khinzal launched from Mig-31Ks.<\/p>\n Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed Moscow is perfectly aware the U.S., NATO and UK are transferring not only weapons but also loads of intel. In parallel, the collective West turns everything upside down 24\/7 shaping a new environment totally geared against Russia, not caring for even a semblance of partnership in any area. The collective West does not even consider the possibility of dialogue with Russia.<\/p>\n Hence talking to Putin is \u201ca waste of time\u201d unless a \u201cRussian defeat\u201d in Ukraine (echoing strident Kiev P.R.) would make him \u201cmore realistic\u201d. For all his faults, Le Petit Roi Macron\/McKinsey has been an exception, on the phone with Putin earlier this week.<\/p>\n The neo-Orwellian Hitlerization of Putin reduces him, even among the so-called Euro-intelligentzia, to the status of dictator of a nation chloroformed into its 19th century nationalism. Forget about any semblance of historical\/political\/cultural analysis. Putin is a late Augustus, dressing up his Imperium as a Republic.<\/p>\n At best the Europeans preach and pray \u2013 chihuahuas yapping to His Master\u2019s Voice \u2013 for a hybrid strategy of \u201ccontainment and engagement\u201d to be unleashed by the U.S., clumsily parroting the scribblings of denizens of that intellectual no-fly zone, Think Tankland.<\/p>\n Yet in fact the Europeans would rather \u201cisolate\u201d Russia \u2013 as in 12% of the world\u2019s population \u201cisolating\u201d 88% (of course: their Westoxified \u201cvision\u201d completely ignores the Global South). \u201cHelp\u201d to Russia will only come when sanctions are effective (as in never: blowback will be the norm) or \u2013 the ultimate wet dream \u2013 there\u2019s regime change in Moscow.<\/p>\n The Fall<\/strong><\/p>\n UkroNazi P.R. agent Ursula von der Lugen presented the sixth sanction package of the Europoodle (Dis)Union.<\/p>\n Top of the bill is to exclude three more Russian banks from SWIFT, including Sberbank. Seven banks are already excluded. This will enforce Russia\u2019s \u201ctotal isolation\u201d. It\u2019s idle to comment on something that only fools the LugenPresse<\/em>.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the \u201cprogressive\u201d embargo on oil imports. No more crude imported to the EU in six months and no more refined products before the end of 2022. As it stands, the IEA shows that 45% of Russia\u2019s oil exports go to the EU (with 22% to China and 10% to the U.S.). His Master\u2019s Voice continues and will continue to import Russian oil.<\/p>\n And of course 58 \u201cpersonal\u201d sanctions also show up, targeting very dangerous characters such as Patriarch Kirill of the Orthodox Church, and the wife, son and daughter of Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov.<\/p>\n This stunning display of stupidity will have to be approved by all EU members. Internal revolt is guaranteed, especially from Hungary, even as so many remain willing to commit energy suicide and mess up with the lives of their citizens big time to defend a neo-Nazi regime.<\/p>\n Alastair Crooke called my attention to a startling, original interpretation of what\u2019s goin\u2019 on, offered in Russian by a Serbian analyst, Prof. Slobodan Vladusic. His main thesis, in a nutshell: \u201cMegalopolis hates Russia because it is not Megalopolis \u2013 it has not entered the sphere of anti-humanism and that is why it remains a civilization alternative. Hence Russophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n Vladusic contends that the intra-Slav war in Ukraine is \u201ca great catastrophe for Orthodox civilization\u201d \u2013 mirroring my recent first attempt to open a serious debate on a Clash of Christianities<\/a>.<\/p>\n Yet the major schism is not on religion but culture: \u201cThe key difference between the former West and today\u2019s Megalopolis is that Megalopolis programmatically renounces the humanistic heritage of the West.\u201d<\/p>\n So now \u201cit is possible to erase not only the musical canon, but also the entire European humanistic heritage: the entire literature, fine arts, philosophy\u201d because of a \u201ctrivialization of knowledge\u201d. What\u2019s left is an empty space, actually a cultural black hole, \u201cfilled by promoting terms such as \u2018posthumanism\u2019 and \u2018transhumanism\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n And here Vladusic gets to the heart of the matter: Russia fiercely opposes the Great Reset concocted by the \u201chackable\u201d, self-described \u201celites\u201d of Megalopolis.<\/p>\n Sergey Glazyev, now coordinating the draft of a new financial\/monetary system by the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) in partnership with the Chinese, adapts Vladusic to the facts on the ground (here<\/a> in Russian, here<\/a> in an imperfect English translation).<\/p>\n Glazyev is way more blunt than in his meticulous economic analyses. While noting the Deep State\u2019s aims of destroying the Russian world, Iran and block China, he stresses the U.S. \u201cwill not be able to win the global hybrid war\u201d. A key reason is that the collective West has \u201cput all independent countries in front of the need to find new global currency instruments, risk insurance mechanisms, restore the norms of international law and create their own economic security systems.\u201d<\/p>\n So yes, this is Totalen Krieg, Total War \u2013 as Glazyev spells it out with no attenuation, and how Russia denounced it this week at the UN: \u201cRussia needs to stand up to the United States and NATO in its confrontation, bringing it to its logical conclusion, so as not to be torn between them and China, which is irrevocably becoming the leader of the world economy.\u201d<\/p>\n History may eventually register, 77 years after the end of WWII, that neocon\/neoliberalcon psychos in Washington silos instigating an inter-Slavic war by ordering Kiev to launch a blitzkrieg against Donbass was the spark that led to the Fall of the U.S. Empire.<\/p>\n
\nBut it\u2019s our fate
\nTo have no place to rest,
\nAs suffering mortals
\nBlindly fall and vanish
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\nTo the next,
\nLike water falling
\nFrom cliff to cliff, downward
\nFor years to uncertainty.<\/h3>\n
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