Megalopolis x #Russia: Total War by Pepe Escobar t.me/c/1394010098/3…

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After careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the “indispensable nation”.

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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 “indispensable nation”.
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No wonder the Empire of Lies has gone completely berserk, obsessed in completely expelling Russia from the West-centric system.
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The #US. 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 “our values”.

No more Full Spectrum Dominance.

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The micro-picture is also clear. The #US Deep State is milking to Kingdom Come its planned #Ukraine gambit to cloak a strategic attack on #Russia.

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The “secret” was to force #Moscow into an intra-Slav war in #Ukraine to break Nord Stream 2 – and thus #German reliance on #Russian natural resources.

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That ends – at least for the foreseeable future – the prospect of a Bismarckian Russo-German connection that would ultimately cause the #US to lose control of the #Eurasian landmass from the #English Channel to the #Pacific to an emerging #China-#Russia-#Germany pact.

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The #American strategic gambit, so far, has worked wonders. But the battle is far from over. Psycho neo-con/neoliberalcon silos inside the #DeepState consider Russia such a serious threat to the “rules-based international order” that they are ready ...

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... to risk if not incur a “limited” nuclear war out of their gambit. What’s at stake is nothing less than the loss of Ruling the World by the Anglo-Saxons.

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#Russia, based on purchasing power parity (PPP), is the 6th economy in the world, right behind #Germany and ahead of both the #UK and #France. Its “hard” economy is similar to the #USA Steel production may be about the same, but intellectual capacity is vastly superior.

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#Russia has roughly the same number of engineers as the #USA, but they are much better educated.

The #Mossad attributes #Israel’s economic miracle in creating an equivalent of Silicon Valley to a base of a million #Russian immigrants.

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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.

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#NATO media hysterically barking that Russia GDP is the size of Texas is nonsense. PPP is what really counts; that and Russia’s superior engineers is why their hypersonic weapons are at least two or three generations ahead of the US Just ask the indispensable Andrei Martyanov
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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.

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The deafening NATOstan “narrative” that #Ukraine is defeating #Russia does not even qualify as an innocuous joke (compare it with Russia’s “Reach Out and Touch Someone” strategy). The corrupt system of SBU fanatics intermingled with UkroNazi factions is kaput.

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The #Pentagon knows it. The #CIA cannot possibly admit it. What the Empire of Lies has sort of won, so far, is a media “victory” for the #UkroNazis, not a military victory.

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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.

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The Sea of #Azov – linked to the Caspian by the Don-Volga canal – is already a #Russian lake. And the Black Sea is next, the key connection between the Heartland and the #Mediterranean.

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The Five Seas system – Black, Azov, Caspian, Baltic, White – enshrines #Russia as a de facto continental naval power. Who needs warm waters?

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The pain dial, from now on, will go up non-stop. Reality – as in facts on the ground – will soon become apparent even to the NATOstan-wide LugenPresse.

The woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Mark Milley, expects Operation Z to last years.

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That’s 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 because the blowback from the real economy is already on and bound to become vicious.
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Defense Minister Shoigu has made it quite clear: any #NATO vehicles bringing weapons to #Kiev will be destroyed as “legitimate military targets”.

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A report by the scientific service of the Bundestag established that training of #Ukrainian soldiers on #German soil may amount, under international law, to participation in war.

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And that gets even trickier when coupled with #NATO weapons deliveries: “Only 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 ​​non-warfare.”

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Now at least it’s irretrievably clear how the Empire of Lies “moves at the speed of war” – as described in public by weapons peddler turned #Pentagon head, Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin.

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In Pentagonese, that was explained by the proverbial “official” as “a combination of a call center, a watch floor, meeting rooms. They execute a battle rhythm to support decision-makers.”

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The Pentagonese “battle rhythm” offered to a supposedly “credible, resilient and combat-capable Ukraine military” is fed by a EUCom system that essentially moves weapons orders from #Pentagon warehouses in the U.S. to branches of the Empire of Bases in ##Europe and then ...

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... 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.

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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 ...

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... 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.

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Hence talking to #Putin is “a waste of time” unless a “#Russian defeat” in #Ukraine (echoing strident #Kiev P.R.) would make him “more realistic”. For all his faults, Le Petit Roi Macron/McKinsey has been an exception, on the phone with Putin earlier this week.

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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.

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Forget about any semblance of historical/political/ cultural analysis. #Putin is a late Augustus, dressing up his Imperium as a Republic.

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At best the Europeans preach and pray – chihuahuas yapping to His Master’s Voice – for a hybrid strategy of “containment and engagement” to be unleashed by the U.S., clumsily parroting the scribblings of denizens of that intellectual no-fly zone, Think Tankland.

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Yet in fact the Europeans would rather “isolate” #Russia – as in 12% of the world’s population “isolating” 88% (of course: their Westoxified “vision” completely ignores the Global South).

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“Help” to #Russia will only come when sanctions are effective (as in never: blowback will be the norm) or – the ultimate wet dream – there’s regime change in #Moscow.

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UkroNazi P.R. agent Ursula von der Lugen presented the sixth sanction package of the Europoodle (Dis)Union.

Top of the bill is to exclude three more #Russian banks from SWIFT, including Sberbank. Seven banks are already excluded.

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This will enforce #Russia’s “total isolation”. It’s idle to comment on something that only fools the #LugenPresse
Then there’s the “progressive” embargo on oil imports. No more crude imported to the #EU in six months and no more refined products before the end of 2022.
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As it stands, the IEA shows that 45% of Russia’s oil exports go to the EU (with 22% to #China and 10% to the U.S.). His Master’s Voice continues and will continue to import #Russian oil.

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And of course 58 “personal” 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.

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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.

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Alastair Crooke called my attention to a startling, original interpretation of what’s goin’ on, offered in Russian by a #Serbian analyst, Prof. Slobodan Vladusic. His main thesis, in a nutshell: “Megalopolis hates #Russia because it is not Megalopolis ...

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... it has not entered the sphere of anti-humanism and that is why it remains a civilization alternative. Hence Russophobia.”

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Vladusic contends that the intra-Slav war in #Ukraine is “a great catastrophe for #Orthodox civilization” – mirroring my recent first attempt to open a serious debate on a Clash of Christianities.

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Yet the major schism is not on religion but culture: “The key difference between the former West and today’s Megalopolis is that Megalopolis programmatically renounces the humanistic heritage of the West.”

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So now “it is possible to erase not only the musical canon, but also the entire #European humanistic heritage: the entire literature, fine arts, philosophy” because of a “trivialization of knowledge”.

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What’s left is an empty space, actually a cultural black hole, “filled by promoting terms such as ‘posthumanism’ and ‘transhumanism’.”
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And here Vladusic gets to the heart of the matter: #Russia fiercely opposes the #GreatReset concocted by the “hackable”, self-described “elites” of Megalopolis.

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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 in #Russian, here in an imperfect #English translation).

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Glazyev is way more blunt than in his meticulous economic analyses. While noting the Deep State’s aims of destroying the #Russian world, Iran and block #China, he stresses the #USA “will not be able to win the global hybrid war”.

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A key reason is that the collective West has “put 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.”

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So yes, this is Totalen Krieg, #TotalWar – as Glazyev spells it out with no attenuation, and how Russia denounced it this week at the UN: “#Russia needs to stand up to the #UnitedStates and #NATO in its confrontation ...

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... 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.”

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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.

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