Quoting acclaimed Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy before the Biden-Putin summit at Geneva last June, the Russian leader uttered an ominous warning: “There is no true happiness in life, only flashes, a mirage of it is on the horizon — cherish those.” But the establishment media mocked the stark warning as nothing more than rants and raves of a deranged mind.
At the time, the British Royal Navy Defender had breached
Russia’s territorial waters [1] in the Black Sea and as many as 20 Russian
aircraft conducted “unsafe maneuvers” merely 500 feet above the warship and Britain
also lamented shots had been fired in the path of the ship.
“British Prime Minister Boris Johnson would not say whether
he had personally approved the Defender’s voyage but suggested the Royal Navy
was making a point by taking that route,” a Politico
report [2] alleged in June.
Boris Johnson didn’t explicitly acknowledge the naval
incursion into Russia’s territorial waters was done on his orders. Something a
lot more sinister happened behind the scenes that could have ended up in a
false flag naval engagement like the Gulf of Tonkin incident before the Vietnam
War in 1964, and given the NATO powers a pretext to start a war over and above
the heads of elected politicians.
While the responsibility to recklessly provoke Russia
ultimately rested with the entire British cabinet, there was a catch. A Telegraph
report noted [3] that former Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab had raised
concerns about the mission, proposed by defense chiefs, and that Boris Johnson
was ultimately called in to settle the dispute.
Therefore, what Johnson actually did was to play the role of
a mediator in the dispute between the civilian cabinet and the UK’s military.
The provocation was clearly planned and executed by the UK’s deep state in
collaboration with its partners in the transatlantic NATO military alliance led
by the Pentagon.
It’s noteworthy that all the militaries of the NATO member
states operate under the integrated military command led by the Pentagon.
Before being elected president, General Dwight Eisenhower was the first
commander of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). The
commander of Allied Command Operations has been given the title Supreme Allied
Commander Europe (SACEUR), and is always a US four-star general officer or flag
officer who also serves as the Commander US European Command.
In Europe, 400,000 US forces were deployed during the height
of the Cold War in the sixties, though the number has since been brought
down [4] to over 100,000 after European powers developed their own military
capacity following the devastation of the Second World War. The number of
American troops deployed in Europe now stands at 50,000 in Germany, 15,000 in
Italy and 10,000 in the United Kingdom.
During the last year, the United States has substantially
ramped up the US military footprint in the Eastern Europe by deploying thousands
of NATO troops, strategic armaments, nuclear-capable missiles and air force
squadrons aimed at Russia, and the NATO forces alongside regional clients have
been provocatively exercising so-called “freedom of navigation” right in the
Black Sea and conducting joint military exercises and naval drills.
Excluding the self-styled global hegemon, the imperial
United States, the rest of the Western powers might have been colonial powers
before the Second World War but they are no longer “powers” in global politics.
In fact, they can more aptly be described as Western regimes that serve no
other purpose than act as Washington’s client states via the framework of
transatlantic NATO military alliance to maintain the charade of
multilateralism.
The national security and defense policies of modern nation
states are formulated by civil-military bureaucracy, dubbed as the deep state.
Whereas trade and economic policies are determined by corporate interests and
business cartels within the framework of neocolonial economic order imposed on
the post-colonial world by corporate America following the signing of the
Bretton Woods Accords at the end of the Second World War in 1945.
Purportedly democratic governments, elected through heavily
manipulated electoral process, are reduced to performing ceremonial gimmicks
and are meant only to serve as showpieces to legitimize militarist and
capitalist exploitation.
Fomenting crisis in Ukraine by audaciously intruding into Russia’s
territorial waters isn’t the only instance when the deep state flagrantly
interfered into the US foreign policy. It went to the extent of discrediting
and, at times, even brazenly assassinating American presidents who dared to
refuse to toe the national security policy formulated by the high-command of
the world’s most powerful military force.
It’s worth recalling that at the height of the Cold War in
the sixties when the US domestic politics was infested with the McCarthyite
paranoia and communists were persecuted all over the country, Lee Harvey Oswald,
the alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, was picked up as a scapegoat because
he had visited Russia and Cuba before the hit-job in order to put the blame for
the high-profile political assassination on the communists.
Not surprisingly, he was silenced by Jack Ruby before he
could open his mouth and prove innocence in the courts of law. The cold-blooded
murder of a pacifist and non-interventionist American president was obviously
perpetrated by a professional sniper trained expert marksmanship by the deep
state.
It was not a coincidence that Kennedy was murdered in
November 1963, and months later, the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorized his
successor Lyndon B. Johnson to directly engage in the Vietnam conflict in
August 1964 on the basis of a false flag naval engagement.
It’s obvious that the American national security
establishment was the only beneficiary of the assassination of Kennedy. Most
likely, the deep state turned against Kennedy after the October 1962 Cuban
missile crisis and Kennedy’s pacifist rhetoric and conciliatory approach toward
Washington’s arch-rival, the former Soviet Union, in the backdrop of the raging
Cold War.
Besides the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, another reason the
Kennedy administration fell from the grace of the deep state was the botched
Bay of Pigs invasion by the CIA operatives and the Cuban exiles in April 1961
to topple the government of Fidel Castro that JFK approved but later severely
castigated the CIA for the fiasco and sacked CIA director Allen Dulles and several
employees. The Pentagon wanted Kennedy to immediately invade Cuba following the
foiled plot but he “vacillated” and let a golden opportunity to dismantle a
security threat close to the US soil slip by.
Similarly, JFK’s brother Robert F. Kennedy was a leading
Democratic candidate for the presidential office when he was shot dead by a
Palestinian Christian Sirhan Sirhan in June 1968. Being a pacifist himself,
Bobby Kennedy opposed the US involvement in the Vietnam War and wrote a book on
the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 in which he credited his brother, JFK, for
showing restraint and amicably resolving the crisis.
As the former attorney general of JFK, Bobby probably had
good leads on the masterminds of the JFK assassination, and wanted to avenge
his brother’s shocking murder by exposing the assassins after being elected
president. This was the principal reason he, too, was silenced before he could
be elected president.
Though serving a life sentence at a California penitentiary,
Bobby Kennedy’s murderer Sirhan, now 77 years old, is a suspicious and deranged
character, who frequently backtracked on his testimonies and confession during
and after the trial, had no recollection of the murder and subsequent events,
and his defense team had pleaded for a retrial several times but the request
was summarily denied. He was due to be released on parole last August but
California Governor Gavin Newsom decided against setting him free in January.
Likewise, the US security agencies turned against Richard
Nixon after the deep state helped him get elected in the 1968 elections by
eliminating his formidable Democratic opponent Robert F. Kennedy and felt
betrayed after Nixon decided to end the Vietnam War.
The Watergate scandal was clearly orchestrated by the deep
state, as Nixon was responsible for the Fall of Saigon and the humiliating
defeat of the US in Vietnam at the hands of communists. Despite the allegation
of illegal wiretapping, nothing was actually recorded at the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) Headquarters.
An additional charge was brought against Nixon that he had
installed voice-activated taping system in the Oval Office, which is a
customary practice for all the presidents before and after him, as all the
offices in the White House and the Capitol are known to be bugged, though only
a handful security officials have access to recorded conversations.
Not surprisingly, the perpetrators of clumsy wiretapping
attempt at the DNC headquarters turned out to be former FBI and CIA agents. All
48 Republican campaign officials who threw Nixon under the bus by becoming
approvers and testifying against him were found guilty, but were handed down
light sentences, ranging from fines and several months in prison, excluding
Gordon Liddy who served four and a half years in the penitentiary and later
became a celebrity anchor.
To his credit, despite being a reviled politician in the
American political discourse, Nixon ended the US involvement in the Vietnam War
in 1973. He also ended the military draft the same year. Nixon's historic visit
to China in 1972, the first ever by an American president, eventually led to
the establishing of diplomatic relations between the two nations. Buttressing
his pacifist credentials further, he signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
with the former Soviet Union the same year.
On October 10, 1972, the “October Surprise” on the eve of
elections on Nov. 3, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, relying on an anonymous
source “Deep Throat” (likely a Freudian slip implicating the deep state or
could be a double entendre even more sinister), subsequently revealed to be an
FBI director, reported that the FBI had determined that the Watergate break-in
was part of a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage on behalf of
the Nixon re-election committee.
Although venerated as credible “investigative journalists”
by mainstream audience, both Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were formerly rogue
reporters for the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post before becoming best-selling
author, and are known to be unapologetic deep state shills.
In 2019, the Trump administration awarded the Pentagon’s $10
billion cloud
computing contract JEDI [5] to Microsoft over its rival Amazon’s bid.
Amazon’s owner Jeff Bezos contested the decision in federal court, which ordered
the Pentagon to reconsider certain aspects of the contract. The contract was
subsequently scrapped by the Pentagon last July due to the controversy.
It’s worth recalling the reason the corporate media took
morbid interest in the gory details of the grisly assassination of Jamal
Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018 was that Khashoggi
was a columnist for the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, the
world’s richest man with $200 billion net worth and the owner of Amazon.
Bezos had a score
to settle [6] with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Mohammad bin
Salman hacked Bezos’ phone in May 2018 and sent the details of Bezos’
extramarital affair to the National Enquirer in January 2019, leading to Bezos’
wife MacKenzie Scott divorcing him and taking a significant portion, $35.6
billion, of Bezos’ obscene wealth as alimony.
Nevertheless, the Washington Post, with its vast network of
NATSEC shills having access to insider accounts of the deep state sources, has
a history of working in close collaboration with the CIA, as Bezos won a $600
million contract [7] in 2013 to host the CIA’s database on the Amazon’s
web-hosting service.
Citations:
[1] Britain says don’t get carried away by warship spat with
Russia:
[2] Russia says next time it may fire to hit intruding
warships:
[3] British PM Boris Johnson ignored warnings of his foreign
secretary:
https://www.rt.com/russia/527563-johnson-order-warship-crimea-waters/
[4] What the US Gets for Defending Its Allies and Interests
Abroad?
[5] Jeff Bezos contests the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI
contract:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/technology/amazon-jedi-defense-department.html
[6] The Saudi heir and the alleged plot to undermine Jeff
Bezos:
[7] Jeff Bezos Is Doing Huge Business with the CIA, While
Keeping His Washington Post Readers in the Dark:
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