{"id":222841,"date":"2022-10-31T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=222841"},"modified":"2022-10-29T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T08:50:50","slug":"the-war-of-terror-about-to-hit-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/10\/the-war-of-terror-about-to-hit-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘War of Terror’ about to Hit Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

24 Oct 2022 – <\/em>Never underestimate a wounded and decaying Empire collapsing in real time.<\/p>\n

Imperial functionaries, even in a \u201cdiplomatic\u201d capacity, continue to brazenly declare that their exceptionalist control over the world is mandatory.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s not the case, competitors may emerge and steal the limelight \u2013 monopolized by US oligarchies. That, of course, is absolute anathema.<\/p>\n

The imperial modus operandi against geopolitical and geoeconomic competitors remains the same: avalanche of sanctions, embargos, economic blockades, protectionist measures, cancel culture, military uptick in neighboring nations, and assorted threats. But most of all, warmongering rhetoric \u2013 currently elevated to fever pitch.<\/p>\n

The hegemon may be \u201ctransparent\u201d at least in this domain because it still controls a massive international network of institutions, financial bodies, politicos, CEOs, propaganda agencies and the pop culture industry. Hence this supposed invulnerability breeding insolence.<\/p>\n

Panic in the \u201cgarden\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The blowing up of Nord Stream (NS) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) – everybody knows who did it, but the suspect cannot be named – took to the next level the two-pronged imperial project of cutting off cheap Russian energy from Europe and destroying the German economy.<\/p>\n

From the imperial perspective, the ideal subplot is the emergence of a US-controlled Intermarium \u2013 from the Baltic and the Adriatic to the Black Sea \u2013 led by Poland, exercising some sort of new hegemony in Europe, on the heels of the Three Seas Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But as it stands, that remains a wet dream.<\/p>\n

On the dodgy \u201cinvestigation\u201d of what really happened to NS and NS2, Sweden was cast as The Cleaner, as if this was a sequel of Quentin Tarantino\u2019s crime thriller Pulp Fiction<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the results of the \u201cinvestigation\u201d cannot be shared with Russia. The Cleaner was there to erase any incriminating evidence.<\/p>\n

As for the Germans, they willingly accepted the role of patsies. Berlin claimed it was sabotage, but would not dare to say by whom.<\/p>\n

This is actually as sinister as it gets, because Sweden, Denmark and Germany, and the whole EU, know that if you really confront the Empire, in public, the Empire will strike back, manufacturing a war on European soil. This is about fear \u2013 and not fear of Russia.<\/p>\n

The Empire simply cannot afford to lose the \u201cgarden.\u201d And the \u201cgarden\u201d elites with an IQ over room temperature know they are dealing with a psychopathic serial killer entity which simply cannot be appeased.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the arrival of General Winter in Europe portends a socio-economic descent into a maelstrom of darkness \u2013 unimaginable only a few months ago in the supposedly \u201cgarden\u201d of humanity, so far away from the rumbles across the \u201cjungle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, from now on barbarism begins at home. And Europeans should thank the American \u201cally\u201d for it, skillfully manipulating fearful, vassalized EU elites.<\/p>\n

Way more dangerous though is a specter that very few are able to identify: the imminent Syrianization of Europe. That will be a direct consequence of the NATO debacle in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

From an imperial perspective, the prospects in the Ukrainian battlefield are gloomy. Russia\u2019s Special Military Operation (SMO) has seamlessly morphed into a Counter-Terror Operation (CTO): Moscow now openly characterizes Kiev as a terrorist regime.<\/p>\n

The pain dial is incrementally going up, with surgical strikes against Ukrainian power\/electricity infrastructure about to totally cripple Kiev\u2019s economy and its military. And by December, there\u2019s the arrival on the front lines and in the rear of a properly trained and highly motivated partial mobilization contingent.<\/p>\n

The only question concerns the timetable. Moscow is now in the process of slowly but surely decapitating the Kiev proxy, and ultimately smashing NATO \u201cunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The process of torturing the EU economy is relentless. And the real world outside of the collective West \u2013 the Global South \u2013 is with Russia, from Africa and Latin America to West Asia and even sections of the EU.<\/p>\n

It is Moscow \u2013 and significantly not Beijing \u2013 that is tearing apart the hegemon-coined \u201crules-based international order,\u201d supported by its natural resources, the provision of food and reliable security.<\/p>\n

And in coordination with China, Iran and major Eurasian players, Russia is working to eventually decommission all those US-controlled international organizations \u2013 as the Global South becomes virtually immune to the spread of NATO psyops.<\/p>\n

The Syrianization of Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Ukrainian battlefield, NATO\u2019s crusade against Russia is doomed \u2013 even as in several nodes as much as 80 percent of the fighting forces feature NATO personnel. Wunderwaffen<\/em> such as HIMARS are few and far between. And depending on the result of the US mid-term elections, weaponization will dry out in 2023.<\/p>\n

Ukraine, by the spring of 2023, may be reduced to no more than an impoverished, rump black hole. The imperial Plan A remains\u00a0 Afghanization: to operate an army of mercenaries capable of targeted destabilization and or\/terrorist incursions into the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n

In parallel, Europe is peppered with American military bases.<\/p>\n

All those bases may play the role of major terror bases \u2013 very much like in Syria, in al-Tanf and the Eastern Euphrates. The US lost the long proxy war in Syria \u2013 where it instrumentalized jihadis \u2013 but still has not been expelled.<\/p>\n

In this process of Syrianization of Europe, US military bases may become ideal centers to regiment and\/or \u201ctrain\u201d squads of Eastern Europe \u00e9migr\u00e9s, whose only job opportunity, apart from the drug business and organ trafficking, will be as \u2013 what else – imperial mercenaries, fighting whatever focus of civil disobedience emerges across an impoverished EU.<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that this New Model Army will be fully sanctioned by the Brussels EUrocracy \u2013 which is merely the public relations arm of NATO.<\/p>\n

A de-industrialized EU enmeshed into several layers of toxic intra-war, where NATO plays its time-tested role of Robocop, is the perfect Mad Max scenario juxtaposed to what would be, at least in the reveries of American Straussians\/neo-cons, an island of prosperity: the US economy, the ideal destination for Global Capital, including European Capital.<\/p>\n

The Empire will \u201close\u201d its pet project, Ukraine. But it will never accept losing the European \u201cgarden.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil, is a correspondent and editor-at-large at <\/em>Asia Times and<\/em> columnist for<\/em> Consortium News and<\/em> Strategic Culture in Moscow. Since the mid-1980s he\u2019s lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Singapore, and Bangkok. He has extensively covered Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia to China, Iran, Iraq and the wider Middle East. He is the author of <\/em>Globalistan<\/a> (2007),<\/em> Red Zone Blues<\/a> (2007), <\/em>Obama Does Globalistan<\/a> (2009), <\/em>Empire of Chaos<\/a> (2014) and <\/em>2030<\/a> (2015), all by Nimble Books. Pepe was contributing editor to <\/em>The Empire and The Crescent and<\/em> Tutto in Vendita in Italy and is also associated with the Paris-based European Academy of Geopolitics. When not on the road he lives between Paris and Bangkok. <\/em><\/p>\n

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