Chaos & the American Caesar
Trump? Nero or Caligula ?
Is Washington burning? Not yet. But it will.
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 id 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.
Semantics?
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”.
The requirements for a color revolution?
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.
Now, USAID and NED are no more .
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
The chaos industry is a subversion industry - -it carries out hostile takeovers, not of companies, but of whole countries and whatever they have of value Hence, Trump’s obsession with the Ukraine’s resources, which unfortunately for him he is unlikely to get his hands on - which is why he can’t stop talking about it. It’s an itch he can’t scratch.
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.
Once the democrats had discredited themselves and Trump had achieved a popular mandate, he had the power to prevent the Chaos Industry from eve coming after him again – co-opting it and elevating his “executive” presidency” to an “imperial” presidency. Not that of Octavius or Aurelius. All hail Trump Caesar.
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.
I see the stable and a horse’s ass. And horse shit better known as Trump-talk.
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 iss 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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No American politicians have any rational long term plan, getting into Congress for them is like winning the lottery. You only have to look at America's career politicians staggering wealth. In America these people receive massive rewards for being the best liars, the most self serving & outright corrupt. Why would they feel the need to change their ways? Building up a country or state. Takes a lot of time effort & hard work. Is their any American politicians willing to do hard work, make difficult choices, giving all their effort for the greater good? I don't see any, I don't see anyone being allowed to question any of these politicians or narratives. I heard Rubio making China out to be the devil. No one questioned a single one of his ridiculous accusations. No one had the courage to say, hasnt America committed 10x worse that what you're accusing China of being? None of these politicians have the receipts, they make their accusations & all accept them as cast iron facts. This atitude has made it very easy for idiots to gain their positions. They're not accountable for anything they say or do. America is in massive decline, the worst administration in their history has accelerated it. Now the man who believes he is so fantastic he can do no wrong is at the helm. He's probably realising how much of a decline they're in. Meaning all he'll want to acheive is his own legacy. He'll do what all American politicians do at their failures. Point the blame on some other country that's doing better than themselves. It's never their own fault, they never make the wrong decisions. In their fantasy world all they know are fantasy stories.
Glad to see your keeping Aaron sharp by calling him out on his using the word”invasion “.
The social pressure to be “acceptable “is horrendous, inhumane.