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The United States launched a soft regime change operation in Pakistan to overthrow ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan some months ago. Since the US Deep State re-established control over Pakistan, the risk of an Iran-Pakistan-China or Russia-Pakistan-China strategic alignment was eliminated.
After Pakistan, Washington turned to South America where it was necessary to reclaim Argentina, which was achieved with the election of Javier Milei, supposedly a “populist”, but in fact a key lackey of Washington’s Imperial agenda. A further move was to ensure that Brazil, heavyweight of the continent, did not escape US influence after Washington perceived unpleasant rumblings there.
Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and Ecuador were also brought into the fold, where.Mexico too, very important for the USA, is under control via the Sheinbaum electoral victory there. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/mexico-lopez-obrador-and-sheinbaums-presidential-victory/ Venezuela and Nicaragua face a redoubling US hybrid warfare effort versus them, in order to achieve the Neocon’s long-standing and desired regime change there.
In Asia, the militarist regime in Myanmar has proven resilient versus any color revolution or sedition within the regime. However, Washington is arming dozens of guerrillas in Myanmar and Myanmar thus finds itself in a high-intensity civil war.
In Bangladesh, Washington booted the ex-prime minister, who became ineffective at pushing Washington’s agenda, and got too close to India, while allowing the return of a well-known and controllable figure. [Same in Phillipines and Thailand. -ed.]
In sub-Saharan and southern Africa, all of China’s promising markets have been undermined by the US-backed “Islamic State”-type guerrillas, including countries where Islam is virtually non-existent. This counter-offensive by Washington versus China in Africa is based on a proven modus operandi that Washington has leveraged in the Middle East for many years, and is proving effective from Mali to Mozambique and from Somalia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
As such, the former United States no longer relies on Great Britain and France for control of Africa in the face of Chinese influence. Likewise Russian influence is considered secondary there, and is being combated by a transfer of Ukrainian military training and US-backed arms to ethnic Tuareg rebels in Mali and Sudan, which has dislocated some Wagner Group elements there.
In Europe, the US American order totally reigns from Lisbon to Riga and from Oslo to Limassol. the US Deep State has politically weakened all European states, and has managed to eliminate any emergence of a “neutral” European Elite, vis-à-vis any leader that may advocate for any policy that may offend Washington. [Granted Hungary and Slovakia may prove an exception to this, with anti-Neocon rumblings in Bulgaria too — ed.]
The choice of appointments at the highest levels for European states and within the European Union has become, via the US Deep State’s shadow ‘soft power’, a simple formality. The US logic is clear: never let a strong head of state emerge in Europe. As the US goes – so goes Europe.
In the Middle East, Washington has eliminated Russian influence (even in Iran) [1] and stopped the Chinese advance as well by blocking a Pakistan-Iraq pact, and by allowing the richest Gulf nations to strengthen their financial ties with China.in a two-spring trap; that trap being where Washington enforces sanctions and imposes tariffs on China, that the EU must secondarily follow.
Unsurprisingly, Washington has mobilized all possible resources to “defend” Israel and is working assiduously with all available means, to restore the fiction of a regional strategic hegemony of this very fragile entity indeed, where Washington provides the only significant guarantee for its survival. However, given the total decline of Israeli governance, Washington is forced to do everything diplomatically and militarily, everything logistically and informationally — and also economically — to avoid the internal collapse of Israel’s aggressive far-right junta.
In this respect we must consider the threat of US nuclear annihilation as broadcast to Iran via three intermediate channels, to dissuade Iran from retaliatory action versus the Israeli regime. This is the first time Washington has used nuclear threats versus Iran, and reflects the extreme difficulty in which Israel finds itself, through the blundering of an extremist government engaged in genocide. As such, the Otzma Yehuditim have forced Washington to take control of Israel’s security, in conjunction with an economic guarantee.
Note too, that these worldwide offensives coincide with the ongoing war in Eastern Europe/Eurasia, considered the logical completion of NATO’s long expansion Eastward, and whose borders are continuously extended. The evolution of the fighting in Russia’s Kursk Oblast — where Russia has failed to provide an early adequate response — will likely determine the assessment and scope of future Neocon plans and aims, for a NATO-dominated Eurasia.
Whatever the configuration chosen, the chosen device will be in line with strengthening an encirclement of China, because that is Washington’s primary objective. That is, if regime change in Russia may be accomplished, where regime change in Russia in favor of the west has been a US objective goal since 1946.
The resilience of Russia will allow China to buy time, but will not avoid a confrontation. For its part, Washington will multiply provocations against China, primarily in Taiwan but also in the East China Sea via vassal entities such as the Philippines, with a goal to provoke China — just as the US provoked Russia in the Ukraine from 2014 — and thus justify a conflict for which the United States has been preparing for at least two decades.
China has no solutions at the moment, and must avoid any misjudgment, and ignore provocations by the former United States, with an urgent hope to find alternatives to economic and technological marginalization.
The allegations about failures in US production of weapons systems, deficiencies in ammunition, and military budget restrictions regarding military aid provided to both the Ukraine and Israel represents a psyop operated by the US Deep State, and Washington began this ruse many years ago. The idea is to feign weakness when in fact militarily able (recall that the failed /former United States has the largest military budget, globally) and to trick opponents to overestimate their abilities and make mistakes. [Editor note: the foregoing paragraph is not what we have seen so far in the Ukraine, where NATO tactics and western arms supplied have proved somewhat ineffective, even if in great supply — with the exception of US artillery shells, which are not.]
This author (Strategika51) has written before that:there is no shortage of weapons. There is no ammunition shortage, no manpower shortage, and no problem with production or with propaganda — or for that matter, even the scam of cryptocurrencies. These are elements of cyberwarfare and psychological warfare intended to weaken the opposite side. War is the raison d’être for all in the west, and the main trade of Empire and its economy, and is based on the creation of new enemies to justify new wars.
[1] A questionable statement by the author presented without evidence
By Strategika 51 [Translated from Francais to english with edits by permission]
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By the way, I submitted this article (from my colleague and translated by yandex with my own editorializing) because I believe it’s an interesting point of view seldom heard among Realists, where somehow the US is still a “successful global hegemonic”. Which actually, in truth, appears to be not so successful. And has indeed failed in foreign policy for sixty+ years. Unless the US creation of failed states and terror-for-hire can be considered ‘success’. From what I gather the author is submitting a veiled argument that Iran, Russia, China and India (India interestingly not addressed by the article) should do… Read more »