{"id":154338,"date":"2023-01-12T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=154338"},"modified":"2023-01-12T11:05:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T15:05:35","slug":"why-the-cia-attempted-a-maidan-uprising-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=154338","title":{"rendered":"

Why the CIA attempted a \u2018Maidan uprising\u2019 in Brazil<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Pepe Escobar, first published\u00a0at The Cradle<\/a>, reposted here by the author\u2019s permission<\/p>\n

The failed coup in Brazil is the latest CIA stunt, just as the country is forging stronger ties with the east.<\/em><\/p>\n

A former US intelligence official has confirmed that the shambolic Maidan remix staged in Brasilia on 8 January was a CIA operation, and linked it to the recent attempts at color revolution in Iran.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, alleged supporters of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro stormed Brazil\u2019s Congress, Supreme Court, and \u00a0presidential palace, bypassing flimsy security barricades, climbing on roofs, smashing windows, destroying public property including precious paintings, while calling for a military coup as part of a regime change scheme targeting elected President Luis Inacio \u201cLula\u201d da Silva.<\/p>\n

According to the US source, the reason for staging the operation \u2013 which bears visible signs of hasty planning \u2013 now, is that Brazil is set to reassert itself in global geopolitics alongside fellow BRICS states Russia, India, and China.<\/p>\n

That suggests CIA planners are avid readers of Credit Suisse strategist Zoltan Pozsar, formerly of the New York Fed. In his ground-breaking 27 December report titled\u00a0War and Commodity Encumbrance<\/a><\/u>, Pozsar states that \u201cthe multipolar world order is being built not by G7 heads of state but by the \u2018G7 of the East\u2019 (the BRICS heads of state), which is a G5 really but because of \u2018BRICSpansion\u2019, I took the liberty to round up.\u201d<\/p>\n

He refers here to reports that Algeria, Argentina, Iran have already applied to join the BRICS \u2013 or rather its expanded version \u201cBRICS+\u201d \u2013 with further interest expressed by Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n

The US source drew a parallel between the CIA\u2019s Maidan in Brazil and a series of recent street demonstrations in Iran instrumentalized by the agency as part of a new color revolution drive: \u201cThese CIA operations in Brazil and Iran parallel the operation in Venezuela in 2002 that was highly successful at the start as rioters managed to seize Hugo Chavez.\u201d<\/p>\n

Enter the \u201cG7 of the East\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Straussian neo-cons placed at the top of the CIA, irrespective of their political affiliation, are livid that the \u201cG7 of the East\u201d \u2013 as in the BRICS+ configuration of the near future \u2013 are fast moving out of the US dollar orbit.<\/p>\n

Straussian John Bolton \u2013 who has just publicized his interest in running for the US presidency \u2013 is now demanding the ouster of Turkey from NATO as the Global South realigns rapidly within new multipolar institutions.<\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his new Chinese counterpart Qin Gang have just announced the merging of the China-driven Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Russia-driven Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU). This means that the largest 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century trade\/connectivity\/development project \u2013 the Chinese New Silk Roads \u2013 is now even more complex, and keeps expanding.<\/p>\n

That sets the stage for the introduction, already being designed at various levels, of a new international trading currency aimed at supplanting then replacing the US dollar. Apart from an internal debate among the BRICS, one of the key vectors is the discussion team set up between the EAEU and China. When concluded, these deliberations will be presented to BRI-EAEU partner nations and of course the expanded BRICS+.<\/p>\n

Lula at the helm in Brazil, in what is now his third non-successive presidential term, will offer a tremendous boost to BRICS+, In the 2000s, side by side with Russian President Putin and former Chinese President Hu Jintao, Lula was a key conceptualizer of a deeper role for BRICS, including trade in their own currencies.<\/p>\n

BRICS as \u201cthe new G7 of the East,\u201d as defined by Pozsar, is beyond anathema \u2013 as much for Straussian neo-cons as for neoliberal.<\/p>\n

The US is being slowly but surely expelled from wider Eurasia by concerted actions of the Russia-China strategic partnership.<\/p>\n

Ukraine is a black hole \u2013 where NATO faces a humiliation that will make Afghanistan look like Alice in Wonderland. A feeble EU being forced by Washington to de-industrialize and buy US Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) at absurdly high cost has no essential resources for the Empire to plunder.<\/p>\n

Geoeconomically, that leaves the US-denominated \u201cWestern Hemisphere,\u201d especially immense energy-rich Venezuela as the key target. And geopolitically, the key regional actor is Brazil.<\/p>\n

The Straussian neo-con play is to pull all stops to prevent Chinese and Russian trade expansion and political influence in Latin America, which Washington \u2013 irrespective of international law and the concept of sovereignty, continues to call \u201cour backyard.\u201d In times where neoliberalism is so \u201cinclusive\u201d that Zionists wear swastikas, the Monroe Doctrine is back, on steroids.<\/p>\n

All about the \u2018strategy of tension\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clues for Maidan in Brazil can be obtained, for instance, at the US Army Cyber Command at Fort Gordon, where it\u2019s no secret the CIA deployed hundreds of assets across Brazil ahead of the recent presidential election \u2013 faithful to the \u201cstrategy of tension\u201d playbook.<\/p>\n

CIA chatter was intercepted at Fort Gordon since mid-2022. The main theme then was the imposition of the widespread narrative that \u2018Lula could only win by cheating.\u2019<\/p>\n

A key target of the CIA operation was to discredit by all means the Brazilian electoral process, paving the way for a prepackaged narrative that is now unraveling: a defeated Bolsonaro fleeing Brazil and seeking refuge at former US president Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago mansion. Bolsonaro, advised by Steve Bannon, did flee Brazil, skipping Lula\u2019s inauguration, but because he\u2019s terrified he may be facing the slammer sooner rather than later. And by the way, he is in Orlando, not Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n

The icing on the stale Maidan cake was what happened this past Sunday: fabricating a 8 January in Brasilia mirroring the events of 6 January, 2021 in Washington, and of course imprinting the Bolsonaro-Trump link on people\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n

The amateurish nature of 8 January in Brasilia suggests CIA planners got lost in their own plot. The whole farce had to be anticipated because of Pozsar\u2019s report, which everyone-who-matters has read across the New York-Beltway axis.<\/p>\n

What is clear, is that for some factions of the powerful US establishment, getting rid of Trump at all costs is even more crucial than crippling Brazil\u2019s role in BRICS+.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the internal factors of Maidan in Brazil, borrowing from novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, everything walks and talks like the Chronicle of a Coup Foretold. It is impossible that the security apparatus around Lula could not have foreseen these events, especially considering the tsunami of signs on social networks.<\/p>\n

So there must have been a concerted effort to act softly \u2013 without any preventive big sticks \u2013 while just emitting the usual neoliberal babble.<\/p>\n

After all, Lula\u2019s cabinet is a mess, with ministers constantly clashing and some members supporting Bolsonaro even a few months ago. Lula calls it a \u201cnational unity government,\u201d but it is more like a tawdry patchwork job.<\/p>\n

Brazilian analyst Quantum Bird, a globally respected physics scholar who has returned home after a long stint in NATO lands, notes how there are \u201ctoo many actors in play and too many antagonistic interests. Among Lula\u2019s ministers, we find Bolsonarists, neoliberal-rentiers, climate interventionism converts, identity politics practitioners and a vast fauna of political neophytes and social climbers, all well aligned with Washington\u2019s imperial interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

CIA-stoked \u2018militants\u2019 on the prowl<\/strong><\/p>\n

One plausible scenario is that powerful sectors of the Brazilian military \u2013 at the service of the usual Straussian neo-con think tanks, plus global finance capital \u2013 could not really pull off a real coup, considering massive popular rejection, and had to settle at best for a \u201csoft\u201d farce. That illustrates just how much this self-aggrandizing and highly corrupt military faction is isolated from Brazilian society.<\/p>\n

What is deeply worrying, as Quantum Bird notes, is that the unanimity in condemning 8 January from all quarters, while no one took responsibility, \u201cshows how Lula navigates virtually alone in a shallow sea infested by sharpened corals and hungry sharks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lula\u2019s position, he adds, \u201cdecreeing a federal intervention all by himself, without strong faces of his own government or relevant authorities, shows an improvised, disorganized and amateurish reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

And all that, once again, after CIA-stoked \u201cmilitants\u201d had been organizing the \u201cprotests\u201d openly on social media for days.<\/p>\n

The same old CIA playbook though remains at work. It still boggles the mind how easy it is to subvert Brazil, one of the natural leaders of the Global South. Attempted old school coups cum regime change\/color revolution scripts will keep being played \u2013 remember Kazakhstan in early 2021, and Iran only a few months ago.<\/p>\n

As much as the self-aggrandizing faction of the Brazilian military may believe they control the nation, if Lula\u2019s significant masses hit the streets in full force against the 8 January farce, the army\u2019s impotence will be graphically imprinted. And since this is a CIA operation, the handlers will order their tropical military vassals to behave like ostriches.<\/p>\n

The future, unfortunately, is ominous. The US establishment will not allow Brazil, the BRICS economy with the best potential after China, to be back in business with full force\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0in synch with the Russia-China strategic partnership.<\/p>\n

Straussian neo-cons and neoliberals, certified geopolitical jackals and hyenas, will get even more ferocious as the \u201cG7 of the East,\u201d Brazil included, moves to end the suzerainty of the US dollar as imperial control of the world vanishes.<\/p>\n

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