Written by Tyler Durden
Written by Pepe Escobar,
They're here. They fell into the bunker. They're gone.
And then they prepared the ground for narration control with mass PR operations.
POTUS praised "spectacular" victory B-2 flying from the U.S. to Western Asia to drop the ILO ("Massive Ordnance Penetrators") over the Ford in the mediate of the night on June 22 (what is significant, the same day that Operation Barbarossa began in 1941).
Officers Trump 2.0 boasted that the Iranian atomic program had already disappeared.
This is simply a reality show. And now, reality. Mannan Raisi, Iranian associate Majlis (parliament) from the holy city of Kom, he summed it all up: "Despite the claims of a liar President of the United States, atomic objects in Fordow have not been severely damaged. Only ground structures that can be restored were destroyed. In addition, everything that could endanger the population was evacuated in advance. There are no reports of any atomic emissions. Trump's false claims of "destruction of the Ford" are overturned by the fact that the attacks were so superficial that there were even no fatalities in the object.
What truly matters is that the Chaos Empire, in 1 – spectacularly criminal – raid, destroyed the United Nations Charter bunker (again); global law (again); NPT (perhaps for good); United States Constitution; "international society"; and its own MAGA Trump base.
The Global South is now working on computing and drawing the essential conclusions." Peace by force" POTUS now owns 2 wars; genocide; and an unprovoked atomic superpower attack on behalf of the atomic power on non-nuclear power.
IRGC's answer was quick: the real war begins now. The Zionist axis will pay – in spades. It will not be a full-scale war against the Empire: it is definitely unstrategic. What will make is simply a multilayered death by a 1000 cuts.
This was already in force on the morning of June 23. Iran launched not little than 5 multi-way rocket waves – covering all Israel, including fresh targets specified as the port of Ashdod and the power plant. Israeli interception rate dropped below 50%. Hell broke out – from emergency sirens failures to power outages. The Kneset members have escaped. El Al's rescue aircraft from fresh York City was forced to turn around erstwhile the missiles began to fly.
Transmission: The full of Israel is now a legitimate goal – achieved within minutes by Kheybar-Shakan, Emad, Qadr and Fattah-1 rockets.
Ormuz Strait: best card
Iran's priorities include halting the war in the Gaza Strip and confederate Lebanon; "evolution" atomic doctrine (all bets are off); deliberate killings of Zionist leaders; further attacks on Mossad; more rocket fire by Tel Aviv, Haifa and Dimona.
There will be no direct war with the Chaos Empire. The blockage of the Ormuz Strait is the eventual Iranian, not atomic card: it will not be played entirely for the time being. At best, there may be a partial blockade of oil transport to the – fragmented – collective West.
The leading erstwhile origin in Real Power confirmed that "CIA informed Trump administration that China powerfully opposes closing Ormuz Strait"so Trump embarked on the bombing".
Closing the Ormuz Strait will detonate global depression on an unforeseen scale. The failure of more than 20% of the world's oil supply will implode more than 2 billion dollars in derivatives, as already speculated in Goldman Sachs forecasts in late 2010. Warren Buffett described it as a chain reaction after a atomic explosion.
In the present situation, Tehran has learned his lesson in the most hard way. The point is not that Iranian leaders acted immorally: on the contrary, their belief in diplomacy and serious negotiations proved to be completely contrary to the completely depreciated modus operandi of the American empire.
This was all summed up by Iranian abroad Minister Abbas Araghchi. Iran negotiated with the US, "when Israel decided to blow up this diplomacy". Iran then spoke "to E3/EU erstwhile the US decided to blow up this diplomacy". Ergo, it is absurd to instruct Iran "to return" to the negotiating table: "How can Iran return to something that he never left, let alone blow up?"
At the Petersburg forum, president Putin made it very clear that "we support Iran and fight for its legitimate interests, including the peaceful usage of atomic energy." He added that "those who say Russia is not a reliable partner are provokers".
Putin himself said at the beginning of this week that Russia had previously offered to strengthen Iran's air defense, but did not accept this offer. It is besides not a secret that, unlike the North Korea Treaty, the Russian-Iranian strategical Partnership Agreement did not contain collective safety provisions.
Perhaps it will shortly change.
There have not yet been any crucial leaks about Putin-Araghchi meetings – but you had to discuss highly delicate issues. Putin confirmed that "absolutely nothing unprovoked aggression on Iran has no grounds or justification". He then mysteriously added: "Russia takes steps to support the Iranian people".
Today Putin meets Araghchim, Iranian abroad Minister, in Moscow.
No 1 should be amazed if Iran decides that it must now have atomic weapons as a deterrent to the Zionist axis. 1 of the options put forward by any analysts – although highly delicate at respective levels – would be a full safety partnership with Russia and possibly China, with Iran placed under their atomic umbrella.
After all, they are 3 leading BRICS countries – the renewed Primakov triangle and the war on the Empire is fundamentally a war against BRICS.
This fresh agreement would at least keep Iran's uranium enrichment as a civil, technological and non-military process, allowing the strategical Russian-Chinese partnership to oversee uranium enrichment while providing safety guarantees to Iran.
This would besides warrant safety for the global North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), which is in Russia's strategical national interest.
The Chinese point of view is another very complex matter. Among Chinese tankers there is any kind of consensus that Iran should now, more than ever, strengthen its air defence system. This most likely means that Russia has taken advantage of an earlier offer of cooperation in this area.
A long dark cloud approaches
Trump's accession to—suicide—the Israeli-American neoconservative war with Iran only adds a fresh layer to the wider picture. This was to be predicted at least from the late 1990s: the same manual controlling Western Asia's energy resources in order to strengthen the economical power of the Chaos Empire while threatening the Global South: don't even think about leaving our unilateral order.
Even POTUS himself betrayed the game, in capital letters: "If the current Iranian government is incapable to make Iran large again, why shouldn't there be a change of regime? !"
Invaluable prof. Michael Hudson, among respective others, summed up this rate: "Iran is not only the culmination of full control over the mediate East and its oil and dollar resources. Iran is the key link of the Chinese Belt and way program for the fresh Silk Road for rail transport to the West. If the United States succeeds in overthrowing the Iranian government, the break is simply a long transport corridor that China has already built and hopes to extend further west. Iran is besides the key to blocking Russian trade and improvement through the Caspian Sea and access south, with the omission of the Suez Canal. And under US control, the Iranian client government could endanger Russia from its confederate flank.
It is so no wonder that the change of the government in Tehran – this is what this war is all about – is simply a substance of overriding national interest of the American elite, in the sense that prof. Hudson emphasizes about "the forced empire of the client states respecting the dollar hegemony by sticking to the global financial strategy of excellence".
Let us compare all this with the speech of discussion at the global economical Forum in St. Petersburg (SPIEF) Last week. The Forum ended on the evening of June 20. The United States attacked Iran in the mediate of the night on June 22.
Practically the full Global South was located in St. Petersburg; at least 15,000 people. Over a 1000 contracts were signed for a full amount of over $80 billion, as reported by SPIEF Executive Secretary Anton Kobakov.
There were instructive panels everywhere: on the challenges of the North Sea Road, 1 of the key communication corridors of the 21st century; on common Russian-Chinese investments; on the improvement of the global financial system; on the fight against false news – the manufacture in which the West is leading – and artificial intelligence controlling all narratives; on BRICS, SCOV, EAUG, ASEAN, INSTC.
At the plenary session Global South and BRICS were full represented: Russia, China, Indonesia (the guest of honor was Prabowo President), South Africa, Bahrain. president Putin came to the heart of the matter: "Russia and China do not form the fresh planet order – it rises naturally, as the sun shines. We only pave the way to make it more balanced."
However, dark clouds are coming, and the Chaos Empire will not make any restrictions to block sunrise. Russia's typical to the UN Vasily Nebenzia nailed her like a dagger: "The United States has opened a can of Pandora (...) Nobody knows what fresh disasters and suffering this will bring."
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