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Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation<\/p>\n
Whether civil war is coming will depend on the degree of stoicism prevalent among the Deplorable multitudes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Sisters of Mercy,\u00a0Lucretia my Reflection<\/a><\/p>\n 9\/11 was the prelude. 1\/6 is the Holy Grail.<\/p>\n 9\/11 opened the gates to the Global War on Terror (GWOT), later softened by Team Obama to the status of Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) even as it was suavely expanded to the bombing, overt or covert, of seven nations.<\/p>\n 9\/11 opened the gates to the Patriot Act, whose core had already been written\u00a0way back in 1994<\/a>\u00a0by one Joe Biden.<\/p>\n 1\/6 opens the gate to the War on Domestic Terror and the Patriot Act from Hell, 2.0, on steroids (here is the 2019 draft<\/a>\u00a0), the full 20,000 pages casually springing up from the sea like Venus, the day after, immediately ready to roll.<\/p>\n And as the inevitable companion to Patriot Act 2.0, there\u00a0will<\/em>\u00a0be war overseas, with the return in full force, unencumbered, of what former CIA analyst Ray McGovern memorably christened the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank) complex.<\/p>\n And when MICIMATT starts the next war, every single protest will be branded as domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n The faux coup<\/strong><\/p>\n Whatever really happened on 1\/6 in the militarized Valhalla of a superpower that spent untold trillions of dollars on security since the start of the millennium, the elaborate psy op\/photo-op circus \u2013 complete with a strategically photogenic MAGA Viking actor \u2013 could never had happened if it was not allowed to happen.<\/p>\n Debate will rage till Kingdom Come on whether the break in was organic \u2013 an initiative by a few hundred among at least 10,000 peaceful protestors surrounding the Capitol \u2013 or rather a playbook color revolution false flag instigated by an infiltrated, professional Fifth Column of agent provocateurs.<\/p>\n What matters is the end result: the manufactured product \u2013 \u201cTrump insurrection\u201d \u2013 for all practical purposes buried the presentation, already in progress, of evidence of electoral fraud to the Capitol, and reduced the massive preceding rally of half a million people to \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n That was certainly not a \u201ccoup\u201d. Top military strategist Edward Luttwak, now advising the Pentagon on cyber-war, tweeted, \u201cnobody pulls a coup during the day\u201d. That was just \u201ca show, people expressing emotions\u201d, an actually faux coup that did not involve arson or widespread looting, and relatively little violence (compare it to Maidan 2014): talk about \u201cinsurrectionists\u201d walking inside the Capitol respecting the velvet ropes.<\/p>\n A week before 1\/6, a dissident but still very connected Deep State intel op offered this cold, dispassionate view of the Big Picture:<\/p>\n \u201cTel Aviv betrayed Trump with a new deal with Biden and so they threw him to the dogs.\u00a0Sheldon Adelson and the Mafia have no trouble switching sides for the winner by hook or crook.\u00a0Pence and McConnell also betrayed Trump.\u00a0It was as though Trump walked as Julius Caesar into the Roman Senate to be stabbed to death. Any deal Trump makes with the system or Deep State will not be kept and they are secretly talking about ending him forever. Trump has the trump card.\u00a0Martial law.\u00a0Military tribunals. The Insurrection Act. The question is whether he will play it. Civil war is coming irrespective of what happens to him, sooner or later.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Whether civil war is coming will depend on the degree of stoicism prevalent among the Deplorable multitudes.<\/p>\n Alastair Crooke has brilliantly outlined the Top Three main issues that shape\u00a0Red America\u2019s \u201cEpiphany\u201d<\/a>: stolen elections; lockdown as a premeditated strategy for the destruction of small and mid-size businesses; and the dire prospect of \u2018cancellation\u2019 by an incoming woke \u2018soft totalitarianism\u2019 orchestrated by Big Tech.<\/p>\n Cue to a Corpse Reading a Teleprompter, also known as The President-Elect, and his own\u00a0ominous words<\/a>\u00a0after 1\/6: \u201cDon\u2019t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists.\u201d Some things never change. George W. Bush, immediately after 9\/11: \u201cEither you\u2019re with us, or with the terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n<\/em>Get down, get undressed
\n<\/em>Get pretty but you and me
\n<\/em>We got the kingdom, we got the key
\n<\/em>We got the empire, now as then
\n<\/em>We don\u2019t doubt, we don\u2019t take direction
\n<\/em>Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me<\/em><\/p>\n