The plutocracy believes that afterwards they can buy the whole thing for a pittance while flies are still laying eggs in European carcasses.
By Pepe Escobar – , 7 minutes read time.
So Le Petit Roi in Paris was predictably crushed in the European polls. He has called parliamentary snap elections, dissolving the Assemblée Nationale in an act of blind, puerile revenge on French citizens, de facto attacking French institutional democracy.
That doesn’t mean much anyway, because the lineaments of “liberty, equality, fraternity” have long been usurped by a crass oligarchy.
The second round of these fresh French elections will be on July 7 – nearly coinciding with the British snap elections on July 11, and only a few days before the slow-burning urban catastrophe which will be the Olympics in Paris.
Paris salons are ablaze with intrigue on why the little Rothschild stooge with a Napoleon complex is throwing all his toys out of the pram now because he’s not getting what he wants.
After all what he really craves is to become a “War President” – together with the Cadaver in the White House, Starmer in the UK, Rutte in the Netherlands, the Toxic Medusa von der Lugen in Brussels, Tusk in Poland, without having to answer to the French people.
It’s nearly certain that Le Petit Roi will be facing the real prospect of becoming a lame duck President who needs to obey a right-wing parliament; Elysée Palace chatter already joined the circus, conveying the impression he might resign (that was later denied). Still, if Le Petit Roi runs off to war on Russia no French citizen will follow him, least of all the – pitiful – French army.
Bigger things though are in play. Following the – auspicious – game-changing messages to the Global Majority coming out of the St. Petersburg forum last week, anchored on openness and inclusiveness, the BRICS 10 meeting of Foreign Ministers in Nizhny Novgorod carried the baton early this week.
Foreign Minister Lavrov stressed three key points:
- “The countries of the Global South no longer want to be dependent on the double standards of the West and its whims.”
- “Everyone knows that the BRICS countries already serve as the locomotive of the world economy.”
- “We [at the BRICS FMs meeting] stressed the need for consistent efforts to create a new world order, where the equality of independent states will be the key.”
Now compare it with the shrinking G7 meeting later this week in Puglia in southern Italy: the same old song, from a “tough new warning” to Chinese banks (“Don’t do business with Russia or else!”) to vociferous threats against the China-Russia strategic partnership.
And last but not least, extra plotting to skim interest from the massive, frozen/stolen Russian assets with the intent of sending them to country 404; the Toxic Medusa itself announced that country 404 will receive €1.5 billion of the income from stolen Russian assets from the EU in July, 90% of it to buy weapons.
As for U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell – the man who invented the defunct “pivot to Asia” during Harpy Hillary Clinton’s tenure in the early 2010s – he had already advanced that Washington will sanction Chinese companies and banks over Beijing’s relations with Russia’s military-industrial complex.
False flags and perfect symmetry
By several metrics, Europe is about to implode/explode not with a bang but an agonizing whimper anytime within the next few months. It’s crucial to remember that the snap elections in France and Britain will also coincide with the NATO summit on July 11 – where Russophobia-fueled warmongering will reach paroxysm.
Among possible scenarios, some kind of false flag to be squarely blamed on Russia should be expected. It could be a Franz Ferdinand moment; a Gulf of Tonkin moment; or even a USS Maine before the American-Spanish war moment.
The fact remains that the only way these “leaders” across NATOstan plus their lowly MI6 agent in a green sweaty T-shirt in Kiev will survive is by manufacturing a casus belli.
If indeed that happens, a date can be advanced: between the second week of July and the end of August; and certainly no later than the second week of September.
October will be too late: too close to the U.S. elections.
So be prepared for the Summer of Living Dangerously.
Meanwhile, The Bear is not exactly hibernating. President Putin, before and during the St. Petersburg forum, elaborated on how “symmetric” Moscow’s response will be to attacks by Kiev using NATOstan missiles – already ongoing.
There are three NATOstan members which are supplying missiles with a range of 350 km and more: U.S., UK and France.
So a “symmetric” response would imply Russia providing Global South nations with advanced weaponry – capable of causing serious damage to nodes of the Empire of Bases.
And here are the top candidates to receive these weapons – as extensively debated not only on Russian TV channels but also in the St. Petersburg forum corridors.
West Asia: Iran (which already has them); Syria (badly needs them); Yemen; Iraq (would be very helpful to Hashd al-Shaabi) and Libya.
Central, Northeast, Southeast Asia: Afghanistan, Myanmar (these two were present in St. Petersburg) and North Korea.
Latin America: Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua (just look at the current Russian foray in the Caribbean).
Africa: Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Southern Sudan and Zimbabwe (just look at Lavrov’s recent African tour).
Mr. Zircon says hello
And that brings us the jolly matter of a Russian naval force hangin’ out in the Caribbean, headed by the hypersonic missile-armed frigate Admiral Gorshkov and the Kazan nuclear submarine.
The indispensable Andrei Martyanov has noted how the Gorshkov “carries 32 Onyx, Zircon, Kalibrs and Otvet. These are the most advanced and deadly cruise missiles in history, with a serious combat pedigree. Kazan, which is Yasen-class SSGN carries also 32 VLS and, in addition, has 10 torpedo tubes which can shoot not just torpedoes.”
Well, this naval force is obviously not there to launch WWIII. Martyanov explains that “while both can strike all of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. and Canada, they are there not for that reason. God forbid if it comes to real WWIII there are plenty of Bulavas, Avangards, Sarmats and Yarses to deal with this horrifying business. No, both Gorshkov and Kazan are there to show that they can reach any combat ship or strategic sea lift vessel carrying any military combat set from North America to Europe in case of some nutjob deciding to try to survive a conventional war with Russia in 404.”
What’s even more intriguing is that after spending time in Havana, the naval force will remain in the Caribbean for a series of exercises – and will be joined by other Russian Navy vessels. They will remain in these waters until the end of The Summer of Living Dangerously. Just in case some nutjob has fancy ideas.
Meanwhile, the possible escalation towards Hot War in Europe proceeds unabated, with NATO via its epileptic slab of Norwegian wood radically changing the established rules of proxy wars with one nonsense outburst after another.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are already capable, via NATO, to destroy both military and civilian Russian assets – oil storage, airports, energy facilities, railway junctions, even concentration of troops.
Everyone and his neighbor will be waiting for the “symmetric” responses.
For all practical purposes the crucial decision has been made by the rarified plutocracy which really runs the show: force Europe into war on Russia. That’s the rationale behind all the rhetorical kabuki about a “military Schengen” and a New Iron Curtain from the Arctic through the Baltic chihuahuas all the way to rabid Poland.
The plutocracy actually believes that afterwards they can buy the whole thing for a pittance while flies are still laying eggs in radioactive European carcasses.
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18 responses to “The summer of living dangerously”
This, ultimately, is what money can buy: the US bringing humankind to the edge of oblivion. Thanks, Bill Clinton, for delivering the Democratic Party to the economic ideology of Milton Friedman’s neoliberalism: ‘greed is good’. Nature simply took its course ever since.
Correct, but the trend started during the Reagan administration the presided over the greatest transfer of financial power from the lower classes into the elite. Clinton certainly continued the trend followed by every government until this very day, Democrat as well as Republican.
In fact is happening worldwide, and is described by the elites themselves as a “reset”, moniker that fits the process to a T.
Elections in the US-led Western countries have very little to do with direct democracy. In truth, elections are a cover for Fascistic (Police State) rule. In France, like in the U.S., UK, Jews controlled the outcomes and have the last words. Jews will select who will be President/Prime Minister. In the U.S., UK and France Jews own and control all major parties. Macron is a well know goy, so Le Pen. Biden and Trump are fighting on who will serve Jews (a.k.a. “Israel”) better, not Americans. The same goes for the UK, Australia and Canad, if not worse.
“Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.”
Aneurin Bevan
Your simplistic knee-jerKKK scapegoating of ‘Jews’ suggests you have yet to understand the reality behind the $hadowp£ay projections on your cave wall.
I$ra€£ itself is just another death-camp for the survivors of Adolf’s predations, funnelled into Palestine by Adolf’s $ponsors to complete his mi$$ion of rendering Europe judenrein in the Ba£four pact between the WA$P supremacists and Rot$chi£d’s ‘too-big-to-fail’ financial mafio$i.
Read Primo Levi for an inside perspective on Auschwitz.
Prometheus, I am offering you my 9.7 inch BBC to suck for free. It will help you cognition and literacy, you dirty MF.
“I$ra€£ itself is just another death-camp for the survivors of Adolf’s predations”
The last time I looked it wasn’t the Israeli Jews who were dying by the tens of thousands, it was Palestinian women and children!!! You, my friend, need to get your facts straight — Israel is a death-camp for the Palestinians, not for the poor, persecuted Israeli Jews!!!
I agree Gene except it would be more accurate to describe the group which runs the western world as Zionists rather than Jews. Zionists are a pathological offshoot of Jews. But just as the term Nazis (National Socialists) didn’t by any means cover the majority of Germans in the 1930s/40s not all Jews, or Zionists or even Zionist sympathisers . These are the powerful Jews and their befuddled Jewish sympathisers
It is wise to call a spade a spade. “Zionists” and “Israelis” is a cover for Jews. You do not do that for Muslims. You put all the 2 billion Muslims in on basket.
“The plutocracy believes that afterwards they can buy the whole thing for a pittance while flies are still laying eggs in European carcasses.”
I do believe B£ackrock already has UKKKraine in hock.
Maggot Hatcher’s f£i€$ are fu££y hatched.
The European scum running Europe at this time has delivered the continent hog tied into the hands of Big Satan America, to be destroyed by their closest “ally”. Who needs enemies with friends like that I ask. First they disposed of an industrial and economic rival, and then they committed an act of war by blowing up the life source of the continent, when they blew up Nord Stream I and II. Every one of those satraps deserve capital punishment for their treason against their countries and their people. Let me mention the main elements of that disgusting mob. First of all, Europe’s prostitute Angela Merkel (remember her?), then Emmanuelle Macron banker who since his youth was trained and nurtured, by the House of Rothschild to this very day, despicable Norwegian Jen Stoltenberg, Little Soldier Olaf Scholz, Green Monster Annalena Baerbock, and usurper Queen of the European Sultanate, Ursula von der Leyen, to name just the main characters of this European Operetta. This summary sentence needs to be final and non appealable, what else can be decided. A similar fate should also be cast, over the Zionist controlled US regime and almost every one of its politicians, except by Dr. Stein and her Party members the only ones that can be spared.
Great and accurate and even picturesque description of the scum
At this point what does it matter? The Republic is dead
The Genocide 7 are completely unhinged, enabling the Gaza mass murder and continuing to feed Ukrainians to the front to “bleed” Russia. Trump, white collar grifter, liar and narcissiacist in chief, may actually bring sanity to the table. The only chance the Ukrainians have is to overthrow Zelensky and promote a new leader to make peace with Putin.
I’m afraid that the opportunity for negotiation has long past. Too many Russian lives lost and tremendous expenses were incurred to win this confrontation with the Nazi regime in Kyiv. Today only unconditional surrender, must be the only viable alternative to the Russian Federation.
You have mentioned “depopulation” in your interviews. What’s going on now is the end of Dr. Strangelove where they decide to fight from the sewers after the catastrophic war kills everybody above ground. They appear certain that a big catastrophe will hit and because we are so great, it must be our constitution and Democracy that lasts in the bunkers and tunnels where they eat bug larvae like the Klingons.
“For all practical purposes the crucial decision has been made by the rarified plutocracy which really runs the show: force Europe into war on Russia. The plutocracy actually believes that afterwards they can buy the whole thing for a pittance while flies are still laying eggs in radioactive European carcasses.”
That is flagrantly psychotic, lunatic thinking — these plutocrats are DANGEROUSLY INSANE!!!
Putins terms; cede territory, disarm, deNazify, which Ursula von Der Leveyn (SP?) declared unacceptable, were the same terms Germany accepted at the end of WW2.
It was not enough causing the death of more than 30 million Muslims, they have now turned to Europe. Let us see what happens in Europe.