China, Russia and Iran are the top three existential “threats” to the U.S., according to the National Security Strategy. Three features distinguish the top three. They are all sovereign powers. They are under varying degrees of sanctions. And they are the top three nodes of the 21st century’s most important, evolving geopolitical process: Eurasia integration.
What do the three sovereigns see when they examine the dystopia that
took over Exceptionalistan?
They see, once again, three – discombobulated – nodes in conflict:
the post-historic Pacific and Atlantic coasts; the South – a sort of expanded
Dixieland; and the Midwest – what would be the American heartland.
The hyper-modern Pacific-Atlantic nodes congregate high-tech and
finance, profit from Pentagon techno-breakthroughs and benefit from the
“America rules the waves” ethos that guarantees the global primacy of the U.S.
dollar.
The rest of America is largely considered by the
Pacific-Atlantic as just a collection of flyover states: the South – which
regards itself as the real, authentic America; and the Midwest, largely
disciplined and quite practical-minded, squeezed ideologically between the
littoral powerhouses and the South.
Superstructure, tough, is key: no matter what happens, whatever the
fractures, this remains an Empire, where only a tiny elite, a de facto
plutocratic oligarchy, rules.
It would be too schematic, even though essentially correct, to
assert that in the presidential election, invisible campaigner Joe Biden
represented the Pacific-Atlantic nodes, and Trump represented the whole South.
Assuming the election was not fraudulent – and that remains a big “if” – the
Midwest eventually swung based on three issues.
1.
Trump, as much as he relied on a sanctions juggernaut, could not
bring back manufacturing jobs home. 2. He could not reduce the military
footprint across the Greater Middle East. 3. And, before Covid-19, he could not
bring down immigration.
Everything that lies ahead points to the irreconcilable –
pitting the absolute majority that voted Dem in the Atlantic-Pacific nodes
versus the South and a deeply divided Midwest. As much as Biden-Harris is bound
to isolate the South even more, their prospects of “pacifying” the Midwest are
less than zero.
Whose ground control?
Beyond the raucous altercations on whether the presidential
election was fraudulent, these
are the key factual points.
1. A series of rules in mostly swing states
were changed, through courts, bypassing state legislatures, without
transparence, before the election, paving the way to facilitate fraud schemes.
2. Biden was de facto coronated by AP, Google
and Twitter even before the final, official result, and weeks before the
electoral college vote this past Monday.
3. Every serious, professional audit to
determine whether all received and tabulated votes were valid was de facto
squashed.
In any Global South latitude where the empire did “interfere” in
local elections, color revolution-style, this set of facts would be regarded by
scores of imperial officials, in a relentless propaganda blitz, as evidence of
a coup.
On the recent Supreme Court ruling, a Deep State intel source told
me, “the Supreme Court did not like to see half the country rioting against
them, and preferred the decision be made by each state in the House of
Representatives. That is the only way to handle this without jeopardizing
the union. Even
prominent Democrats I know realize that the fix took place. The error was to
steal too many votes. This grand theft indicts the whole system, that has
always been corrupt.”
Dangers abound. On the propaganda front, for instance, far right
nationalists are absolutely convinced that U.S. media can be brought to heel
only by occupying the six main offices of the top conglomerates, plus Facebook,
Google and Twitter: then you’d have full control of the U.S. propaganda mill.
Another Deep State source, now retired, adds that, “the U.S.
Army does not want to intervene as their soldiers may not obey orders.
Many of these far right nationalists were officers in the armed
forces. They know where the nuclear missiles and bombers are. There are many in
sympathy with them as the U.S. falls apart in lockdowns.”
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden’s dodgy dealings simply will not be made
to vanish from public scrutiny. He’s under four different federal
investigations. The recent subpoena amounts to
a very serious case pointing to a putative crime family. It’s been conveniently
forgotten that Joe Biden bragged to the Council on Foreign Relations
that he forced Ukraine’s chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin to be
fired exactly when he was investigating corruption by Burisma’s founder.
Of course, a massive army of shills will always invoke another
army of omniscient and oh so impartial “fact checkers” to hammer the same
message: “This is Trump’s version. Courts have said clearly all the evidence is
baseless.”
District Attorney William Barr is now out of the picture (see
his letter of resignation). Barr is a notorious Daddy Bush asset since the old
days – and that means classic Deep State. Barr knew about all federal
investigations on Hunter Biden dating back to 2018, covering potential money
laundering and bribery.
And still, as the Wall Street Journal delightfully put it, he
“worked to avoid their public disclosure during the heated election campaign”.
A devastating report (Dems:
a Republican attack report) has shown how the Biden family was connected to a
vast financial network with multiple foreign ramifications.
Then there’s Barr not even daring to say there was enough reason
for the Department of Justice to engage in a far-reaching investigation into
voting fraud, finally putting to rest all “baseless” conspiracy theories.
Move on. Nothing to see here. Even if an evidence pile-up
featured, among other instances, ballot stuffing, backdated ballots,
statistical improbabilities, electronic machine tampering, software back doors,
affidavits from poll workers, not to mention the by now legendary stopping the
vote in the dead of night, with subsequent, huge batches of votes miraculously
switching from Trump to Biden.
Once again an omniscient army of oh so impartial “fact checkers”
will say everything is baseless.
A perverse blowback
A perverse form of
blowback is already in effect as informed global citizens may now see, crystal
clear, the astonishing depth and reach of Deep State power – the ultimate
decider of what happens next in Dystopia Central.
Both options are dire.
1.
The election stands, even
if considered fraudulent by nearly half of U.S. public opinion. To quote that
peerless existentialist, The Dude, there’s no rug tying the room together anymore.
2.
Was the election to be
somehow overturned before January 20, the Deep State would go Shock and Awe to
finish the job.
In either case, The
Deplorables will become The Ungovernables.
It gets worse. A possible implosion of the union – with internal
convulsions leading to a paroxysm of violence – may even be coupled with an
external explosion, as in a miscalculated imperial adventure.
For the Three Sovereigns
– Russia, China and Iran – as well as the overwhelming majority of the Global
South, the conclusion is inescapable: if the current, sorry spectacle is the
best Western liberal “democracy” has to offer, it definitely does not need any
enemies or “threats”.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/16/when-deplorables-become-ungovernables/