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by Pepe Escobar
June 05, 2024
from
TheCradle Website
(Photo Credit: The Cradle)
The
Hegemon is calculating
for a
World War to halt multipolarity.
It
supports Israel's Gaza genocide
as a
necessary evil
to win
hard in West Asia, figuring,
"who's
going to care
once the
war goes global?"
The St Petersburg Economic Forum (SPIEF)
takes place this week.
It's one of the go-to annual meetings across
Eurasia. The overall theme in 2024 is "multipolarity,"
quite fitting considering this is the year of the Russian presidency
of
BRICS.
The BRICS summit next October in Kazan will be
crucial in drawing the contours of the road map towards
multipolarity going forward.
Ay, there's the rub... taking us to arguably the key question facing
the Global Majority...:
How can we afford to dream about
multipolarity when we are plunged into The Unthinkable,
reduced to the role of mere spectators, watching a genocide
broadcast 24/7 on every smartphone on the planet...?
The - avowedly imperfect - International Court
of Justice (ICJ) at least ordered the biblical genocidals
to stop bombing Rafah.
Israel's response...?
They bombed Rafah.
Worse, they burned children alive in refugee
tents.
With American missiles...!
And the genocide will continue at least until the
end of this multipolar year, as boasted by Israeli intel.
The Global Majority at least clearly sees
how,
the "rules-based international order"
works...
Yet that's not much of a comfort.
The ICJ order to stop the carnage in Rafah, plus the ICC drive to
seek warrants for the arrest of top Israeli leaders for serial war
crimes in Gaza, predictably sent the Israel-US joined at-the-hip
combo into a hysterical frenzy.
The heart of the matter concerns the real masters and managers of
the
Empire of Chaos and Plunder
- much more than their lowly emissaries.
The masters cannot allow any institution to
loosen their grip on the 'official narrative'...
The official narrative is,
"there's no genocide in Gaza" and no "red
lines" have been trespassed...!
This is the official diktat
of the collective west.
No breaches are allowed.
They will go to unconstitutional extremes to
enforce total narrative control, with an ironclad public
relations operation to envelop the whole planet in layer after
layer of propaganda stupor.
Slightly contradicting Mao Zedong,
real power does not come from the barrel of a
gun (or from a hypersonic nuclear missile); it comes from
narrative control, or what we used to call "soft power"...
The difference now is that
the Hegemon does not control
soft power anymore.
The 'Global Majority' is perfecting, in
real-time, its own soft power counterpunches...
A systemically sociopathic society
The narrative controllers may still be able to obliterate key
facts from western public opinion, for instance, on ethnic
cleansing...
Christian Arabs have been
systematically ethnic-cleansed in Palestine.
In the early 1950s, Bethlehem was 86 percent
Christian, a figure that has since plummeted to a dismal 12
percent today.
The
biblical psychopaths built a
wall around Bethlehem, annexed land for the benefit of armed
Jewish settlers, and ethnically cleansed Christians.
Serious studies on
hyper-ethnocentrism or the systemically sociopathic character of
Israeli society do not offer much solace when it comes to stopping a
genocide. Because the wound is much deeper...
Alastair Crooke, a former diplomat with
vast on-the-ground experience, is peerless among westerners when it
comes to understanding the intricacies of West Asia.
In his columns and podcasts, he touches on the major wound
laid bare by the war/genocide in Gaza:
the schism, at the heart of the west, between
an "illiberal social engineering project" posing as liberalism
and a project to "recover the 'eternal' values (however
imperfect) that once lay behind European civilization."
Adding to the problem, the US-Israel power
structures are joined at the hip.
And they work under a sort of complementary
logic...
While Israel's version of plunder is embodied in
settler colonialism, the Hegemon - as brilliantly explained by
Michael Hudson - has been on an orgy of rent-seeking
financialized colonialism since the end of WWII.
And what Michael Hudson qualifies as the 'FIRE'
(finance-insurance-real estate) racket has calcified, as
Alastair notes, into,
"a permanent framework to the Western
political and geopolitical system."
Thus, it's no wonder that the Global
Majority instinctively sees the Israel-US combo - bearing
different forms of exploitation/plunder all the way to genocide - as
the epitome of colonialism, now "softened" by a narrative control op
into a meaningless "rules-based international order."
It's also no wonder that the Gaza genocide has sparked a renewed
Global Majority-wide, anti-colonial wave.
Still, that's not enough.
No one is actually stopping the genocide...
That would only be practically possible by
inflicting a devastating military defeat on Israel - with the
victors dictating the terms of capitulation.
That's not feasible - at least not yet - and
contributes to the biblical
psychopaths believing they
can get away with anything.
'A new horizon of human sacrifice'
Andrea Zhok is a professor of Ethical Philosophy at the
University of Milan and one of the foremost independent Italian
intellectuals.
Zhok
takes us further into the -
appropriately tragic - dead-end now contemplated by the collective
west. The west under the Hegemon, he says, only ever had a Plan A.
There was no Plan B...
That implies the west will continue to apply all
forms of Divide and Rule against the major Eurasian
powers:
Zhok notes, correctly, that India is
substantially under control... That's the crossroads scenario
we're in right now.
Looking ahead, it's either,
...between major powers and their vassals -
essentially, the Third World War...!
Zhok shows how the west under
the Hegemon is now obsessed with
creating "systemic wounds" capable of cyclical destruction.
To open these "wounds," there are two main
procedures:
war and pandemics...!
He argues that only,
"a new horizon of human sacrifice" is capable
of allowing the west's "Ultimate Truth" to continue standing on
its clay feet.
In fact,
it is this "new horizon of human sacrifice"
that is conditioning the west's non-response - or worse,
legitimization - of the Gaza genocide.
And that is inexorably corroding the European
psyche from the inside.
What used to be called European
civilization - now completely vassalized by the Hegemon -
may not ever be cured of the cancer.
If these trials and tribulations were not enough,
irrational messengers - under orders - are busy bringing us closer
day after day to a
nuclear war.
And some lowly functionaries even admit it, point blank.
It's all here, in
a conversation between Judge
Andrew Napolitano and analysts Larry Johnson and Ray
McGovern, during which the former refers to an email he received
from a military/intel source.
This is what the source told him:
Today, I listened to an extensive interview
with an IDF ex-intelligence officer.
His position was clear:
'We are,' he said, 'aiming towards a
world war'...
Israel, therefore, shouldn't stop itself from
implementing some of the most radical measures because its
actions will be measured retroactively in the context of the
brutal world conflict to come...
This should be seen as the ultimate explanation
for the Hegemon/Vassals' nonstop frantic escalation in the
intertwined Forever Wars front... from Gaza to
Novorossiya.
That includes genocide... and genocide spin-offs, such as the $320
million 'aid' pier scam now
turned into junk on the Gaza shore,
bringing it all back to genocide all over again as the breadcrumb
ploy of expelling/shipping Palestinians abroad has miserably failed.
"Aiming towards a world war" makes it all so
clear who's really running the show...
And the whole multipolar world is still being
held hostage...
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