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The Duran
As usual today, I checked the Duran where there was a very interesting discussion with Aaron Mate and the two A's. Then I read Andrei Martyanov and Larry Johnson. Also interesting. Some things to agree; somethings to disagree.
I don't pay attention to the MSM these days because:
a.) read one, you've read them all. These are copy & paste media.
b.) all MSM "narratives" are just that — Fictions, devolving from a Master Narrative, a cultural mythology.
c.) why bother debunking what is all bunk? I leave that to the wonderful Caitlin and the equally wonderful Bernhard at MoA.
On the other hand, the "mainstream" Alternative Media and its notables have a bit more original content — although even the best are to some degree influenced by MSM tropes. It is insidious, subtle brainwashing.
Slip of tongue or of brain?
For example, Aaron Mate, whom I think you will agree is one of the most incisive of analysts referred to the Russian "invasion" of Ukraine, a slip of the tongue — or maybe a slip of the mind. I have seen this "trope" repeated endlessly among critics of the US proxy war over and over again.
You might think it innocuous- but it isn't. "Invasion" is a keystone concept. The entire Western/ MSM narrative turns on acceptance that Russia "invaded" a sovereign state and started a war. Russia bad. NeoNazis good. In other words, the whole architecture of the Western story collapses if you just remove this single chunk of masonry.
For the record, the Russians followed international law very carefully to prevent the NeoNazis from cleansing Russian Ukraine ethnically and denying the rights of people in Donbas and Lugansk to self determination. Donbas and Lugansk had declared themselves independent republics — democratically as was their right. The Russians did not "invade" their territory, since they were invited. All they did was act to help end an illegal occupation and prevent a form of genocide.
And they provided a minimal force assisting the local militias who did most of the hard work.
So, no Russian invasion ever occurred. But there had been a NeoNazi invasion back in 2014, and there was about to be another, bigger one.
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Semantics are the key to propaganda.
Accepting "invasion" means accepting the American notion that there is no inherent right to self determination or sovereignty — because all human rights and the rules by which they are determined are decided by Washington.
As a result, the US and Israel, for example, can commit genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. because Donald Trump and the Beltway can deny the very existence of "Palestine", and it people.
The Chaos Industry
Leaving that aside, Alexander Mercouris made an very important comment in his discussion with the other two A's-- Alex and Aaron-- namely, that regime change and subversion have become "industries" in the US - not driven by moral or political ideologies — but simply by the profits derived from chaos flowing to upper class elites in government, think tanks, the media, "NGO"s and the like.
Chaos is a money maker. It a triumph of financialization.
You get to send your kids to the best schools and buy then PhDs from the Ivy League. You get beautiful summer homes, expensive cars for everyone in the family. You eat at the best restaurants, with the "best" people.
And you don't have to think much or work much. You have people to do that for you.
"Facts" don't matter. "Truth" doesn't matter. The hoi polloi will believe anything, right? And they will keep on paying taxes, which somehow end up in your pocket. You don't pay taxes. You pay accountants instead.
Mercouris mentions the "color revolution" in Bangladesh, nominally a US ally.
Dump the old government and install a new one, even more beholden to you. That means new contracts for US interests - more money-- in addition to giving the finger to the uppity BRIC-ish Indians and especially to the Chinese. Bangladesh of course had wanted to join BRICS. That's was a no-no.
The US also wants bases there to threaten both India and China.
Color Revolution
So, there was a "color revolution".
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- Mass protests triggered by a specific issue that the host government would normally have considered a minor, niche item
- Active participation of multiple social groups, usually led by younger people but soon spreading across society to hitherto unpolitical groups
- Significant use of technology, in particular secure communication apps (which may or may not have been assisted by a foreign state actor to ensure encryption upgrades beyond the host country's ability to monitor or disrupt)
- Generous and unexplained funding, usually emanating from new bank accounts of recently established charities and NGOs
- Random news designed to incite more participants and in particular the use of graphic images of rape involving young women and images or videos of authority figures causing grievous bodily harm or even dismembering human bodies.
Or are they?
Their core infrastructure remains and the US has a lot of ways to funnel money . It can still use charities and NGOs, with a little creative money laundering, paying off the right people. The corruption has just become more efficient. Isn't that what DOGE is about ? Efficiency?
Fomenting chaos in other countries will now be under direct control of the State Department and intelligence agencies - with soft / humanitarian "liberal" shit eliminated. Now the process is rationalized and streamlined.
Restructuring in this way of course does not mean eliminating all the beltway elites that profit from it - just those opposed to Trump — that leaves more profit for the rest who pledge their featly.
The Imperial Presidency
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The US Chaos Industry might have remained as it was had it not targeted Trump in 2016. .
That was a mistake. Trump is not a thinker or planner - he's a reactionary - in the classic sense of someone who just "reacts", without considering the why and wherefore or what or how ; facts, reality and the like, irrelevant. He is emotional rather than rational — a hormonal 12 year old going on hormoneless 78 — injecting chaos into the American political and judicial system.
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But his analogs are more like Nero and Caligula. Like Nero he fiddles while Rome or rather Washington empire burns. Legend has it that Caligula made his horse Incitatus a consul. Which is not so much worse than a some of Trump's appointments.
Mind you, Incitatus was probably smarter than most of the Roman Senate and even more than most of the US Congress
Stable genius or horse's ass?
Nevertheless, many intelligent analysts like Mercouris and Larry Johnson look at Trump and persist in seeing reason where there is only emotion, plans where he is just winging it, rational order where there is chaos. They do not see the "genius" part of "stable genius" — but just someone with a plan.
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Yes, turning the Washington bureaucracy upside down, fighting chaos with chaos may ultimately be a good thing. At this point, we don't know.
The bureaucracy of state, including USAID and NED, DoJ, FBI, CIA and others made the mistake of playing their trade too obviously against a sitting President — not imaging that the Biden and his handlers would sink the Democratic party. Those agencies will die — trumped — to be reborn within a Donaldian Deep State.
Chaos lives on.
Chaos is self-replicating — like crab grass — in the end uncontrollable.
If you study natural sciences, you learn that chaos is a natural non-linear dynamic that once set in motion cannot be directed nor its consequences predicted. It destroys systems, which leads inevitably to new ones — although this may take a long time.
When Chinese civilization broke down in the 19th Century, there was chaos for almost a century. Millions died. What emerged in 1950 was not fully realized until this Century and is still a work in progress.
One thing is for sure America must break before it can rebuild.
Here's Andrei Martyanov's take....
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Aaron Mate go drink your mate
No, really, that's no good. We got Thierry Meyssan, an alleged Syrian friend, "digging into the high complexity of polymorphous djihadist groups in the middle east" - locating the Hamas - allegedly doing us a favour...
. ..While it's pretty simple to discern "the Hamas" and other groups.
Arafat, at the time, build the PLO. The Fatah is part of it. Arafat dies. the PLO decreases. In 2007, The Hamas self-proclaims itself "Palestinian resistance" and they execute the Fatah leaders
What's hard in this?!
Palestinian resistance got taken over by an external stuff, the Hamas. They don't represent Palestinians.
And we've got Thierry Meyssan going by geopolitics of sand tribes and obscure names. It's not objective. But it's attractive for people who are more concerned by Paris Hilton. "Look, the guy tells us it's complicated". "Only a middle east native can understand things and untangle a bit of it for us".
I mean... 2007, The Hamas throws Arafat's remnants from the roofs of a building. And in 2023, the Hamas triggers the destruction of 92% of Palestine. What's hard to understand?!
"Oh, yeah, the geopolitic of Jihadist groups is a complex matter"
And there you are, a bearded guy takes Bachar down, and goes mediatic with an LGBT speech^^
We have been swimming in 200% horse manure waters.
Things are no such thing as "the complexity of desert tribes".
Next to all of this exists the King of oil - and we oddly heard NOTHING from him. King of oil on the planet. But nope. "It's about complex desert tribes & jihadists". My oh my