{"id":280333,"date":"2024-11-18T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=280333"},"modified":"2024-11-16T07:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T07:08:06","slug":"fasten-your-seatbelts-exploring-the-trumpquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/11\/fasten-your-seatbelts-exploring-the-trumpquake\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fasten Your Seatbelts’\u2014Exploring the ‘Trumpquake’"},"content":{"rendered":"

9 Nov 2024 <\/em>– On the political Richter scale, that was a killer \u2013 literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park \u2013 any park. Even before Election Day, critical thinking was aware of the stakes. With fraud, Kamala wins.<\/p>\n

With no fraud, Trump wins. <\/strong><\/p>\n

There were, at best, (failed) attempts at fraud.<\/p>\n

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The key question still remains: what does the U.S. Deep State really want?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

My inbox is infested with loads of weepy reports from U.S. Think Tankland wondering, in disbelief, why Kamala could possibly lose.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s quite straightforward \u2013 apart from her sheer incompetence cum utter mediocrity literally cackling out loud – the legacy of the administration she was part of is ghastly \u2013 all the way from Crash Test Dummy to Little Butcher Blinkie.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Instead of bothering to care about the abysmal state of affairs, at every level, concerning that mythical entity, \u201cthe American people\u201d, they chose to invest everything on a neocon-manufactured proxy war to inflict a \u201cstrategic defeat\u201d on Russia \u2013 stealing Russian assets, unleashing a tsunami of sanctions, shipping an array of\u00a0wunderwaffen<\/em>. The weaponization of Ukraine led to countless Ukrainian dead and the inevitable, fast-approaching cosmic humiliation of NATO in the black soil of Novorossiya.<\/p>\n

They invested everything to support a genocide in Gaza conducted with a huge arsenal of American weapons: a lebensraum-coded ethnic cleansing cum extermination op directed by a bunch of Talmudic psychos \u2013 and marketed under the \u201crules-based international order\u201d spewed out by Butcher Blinkie in every bilateral or multilateral gathering.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder that West Asia and the wider Global South soon got the message of what may happen to anyone daring to go against the Hegemon\u2019s \u201cinterests\u201d. <\/strong>Thus the counterpunch: the strengthening of BRICS and BRICS+,\u00a0celebrated for all the world to see two weeks ago in Kazan.<\/a><\/p>\n

At least this administration had a merit, strengthening the bonds between all major \u201cexistential threats\u201d to the Hegemon: three BRICS (Russia, China, Iran), plus the indomitable DPRK. All that in contrast with a meager tactical victory \u2013 which may not last long: the absolute vassalization of Europe.<\/p>\n

Hanging Ukraine on Europe\u2019s neck<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Of course, foreign policy does not win U.S. elections.<\/strong> Americans themselves will have to solve their dilemmas, or plunge into civil war. As for the bulk of the Global Majority, it harbors no illusions. Trumpquake\u2019s coded message is that the Zionist lobby wins \u2013 again. Perhaps not so unanimously when we consider all strands of neo-cons and Zio-cons. Wall Street wins again (BlackRock\u2019s Larry Fink said so even before Election Day). And prominent silos across the Deep State also win again.<\/p>\n

That begs a modified question; what if Trump feels emboldened enough after January 25 to launch a Stalinist purge of the Deep State?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Election Day proceeded nearly simultaneously with the\u00a0Valdai Club annual meeting in Sochi<\/a>, where the superstar, not surprisingly, was eminent geopolitician Sergey Karaganov. Of course he directly referred to the Empire\u2019s Forever Wars: \u201cWe are living in biblical times.\u201d<\/p>\n

And even before Trumpquake, Karaganov stressed, calmly, \u201cWe will defeat the West in Ukraine \u2013 without resorting to ultimate means.\u201d And that \u201cwill provide for a peaceful withdrawal of the U.S. \u2013 which will become a normal superpower.\u201d Europe, meanwhile, \u201cwill move to the sidelines of History.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of that spot on. But then Karaganov introduced a startling concept: \u201cThe war in Ukraine is a replacement of WWIII. Afterwards, we can agree on some kind of order in Eurasia.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

That would be the \u201cindivisibility of security\u201d proposed by Putin to Washington \u2013 and rejected \u2013\u00a0on December 2021, part of the \u201cGreater Eurasia Partnership\u201d that was conceptualized by Karaganov himself.<\/p>\n

The problem though is his conclusion: \u201cLet\u2019s make the Ukrainian war the last major war in the 21st\u00a0century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ay, there\u2019s the rub: the real major war is actually Eretz Israel v. the Axis of Resistance in West Asia.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s have a quick pit stop in Europe before getting to the meat of this matter. Trumpquake is all set to hang Ukraine on Europe\u2019s neck like a larger-than-life albatross. The shorthand: Exit American money financing the born-to-lose Project Ukraine. Enter German money filling the coffers of the weapons lobby inside the Ray McGovern-coined MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academia-think tank complex).<\/p>\n

The U.S. Treasury has issued an internal memorandum valid until April 30, 2025 \u2013 when Trump will be already three months in power \u2013 allowing transactions with Russian banks on anything related to oil, natural gas, timber and any form of uranium.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As for the gullible, Brussels-run EU, they will pay the heavy load on weaponizing rump Ukraine while accepting wave after wave of new refugees and saying goodbye to any of their funds already invested in that humongous black hole.<\/p>\n

Beware of that Tony Soprano wannabe<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Trumpquake \u2013 if taken at face value \u2013\u00a0is bound to further weaponize the U.S. dollar; Trump has threatened, on the record, to blacklist any nation that uses other currencies for international trade.<\/strong> BRICS and BRICS+ partners have registered it; and that will accelerate the testing of all models in the BRICS lab leading towards a multi-layered alternative trade settlement system.<\/p>\n

BRICS and the Global Majority also know that Trump in fact\u00a0signed off on Nordstream sanctions<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 when he referred recently to \u201ckilling\u201d Nord Steam. And they also know he did less than zero during Trump 1.0 to find a solution for the proxy war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Now we come to the clincher.<\/p>\n

Trump personally destroyed the JCPOA <\/strong>\u2013 the Iran nuclear deal \u2013\u00a0brokered by the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany). Moscow \u2013 and Beijing \u2013\u00a0know perfectly well how this led to further destabilization of the whole of West Asia, in conjunction to the Trump-ordered assassination of Gen Soleimani, which started what I termed the\u00a0Raging Twenties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, Trump brokered the bombastically-named \u201cDeal of the Century\u201d: the Abraham Accords, which if implemented will forever bury any possibility of an Israel\/Palestine two-state solution.<\/p>\n

The deal \u2013 which may be considered as nefarious as the 1917 Balfour declaration \u2013 may be in a coma. But MbS\u2019s Whatsapp pal Jared Kushner is back, and will certainly renew the pressure. MbS still has not made up his mind when it comes to BRICS. Trump will go bonkers if MbS increasingly starts to navigate the petroyuan way.<\/p>\n

All that brings us to a supremely nefarious character, Tony Soprano wannabe Mike Pompeo, who is a serious candidate to become head of the Pentagon. That would spell major trouble ahead. Pompeo was CIA director and Secretary of State under Trump 1.0. He is an uber-hawk on Russia, China and especially Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arguably the pressing question from now on is whether Trump \u2013 whose life was spared by God, in his own interpretation \u2013 does what is expected of him by his uber-wealthy donors, appoints Pompeo and similar gangsters for key posts, and invests on Israel\u2019s war against Iran and the Axis of Resistance.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s the case, he won\u2019t have to worry about another failed sniper. But if he really tries to run his own independent game, there\u2019s no question he will be a dead man walking.<\/p>\n

So the whole Global Majority waits with bated breath. <\/strong>How will Trumpquake translate in the geopolitical MAGA sphere? Sure bets focus on extensive use of private military companies (PMCs) for foreign policy \u201cmissions\u201d and selected, targeted military \u201cinterventions\u201d. Targets could include any Global South player from Mexico (to \u201csecure the border\u201d) to Venezuela (the Monroe doctrine \u201csecuring the oil\u201d), Yemen (to \u201csecure the Red Sea\u201d) and of course Iran (a massive bombing campaign to \u201csecure Israel\u201d).<\/p>\n

In a nutshell: no new wars (as Trump promised), just a few targeted incursions. Plus Hybrid War on maximum overdrive. Brazil, watch out: Trumpquake will not tolerate a truly sovereign BRICS member increasing its Global South influence in the \u201cWestern Hemisphere\u201d.<\/p>\n

Fasten your seatbelts: whatever happens, Trumpquake is bound to be a bumpy ride.<\/em><\/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

Go to Original \u2013 zerohedge.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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