The CHAZ Is a Setup as the Next Maidan by Tom Luongo!
(2020-06-22 at 12:15:27 )

The CHAZ Is a Setup as the Next Maidan by Tom Luongo!

The rate at which events are accelerating makes prediction a fools game. But I will take a shot at it, since I have been called a heck of a lot worse than "fool" in my life.

Since the rioting began after the death of George Floyd it has been obvious to anyone with any experience in covering global politics that these have been a directed operation aimed at undermining the presidency of Donald Trump here in the United States.

The formation of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in downtown Seattle is the latest in a series of provocations and escalations intended to goad Donald Trump into invoking the Insurrection Act of 1878 and deploying the military to put down these riots endlessly promoted by a complicit media in the West as mostly "peaceful protests."

They are anything but that.

This is a situation that, because of the subsidization of it by the Mayor, Jenny Durkan, and the Governor, Jay Inslee, that will persist just long enough to descend into violence and chaos. Note how I do not use the word anarchy.

Because we have already seen a form of government form in the CHAZ, with a governing council, a constitution of sorts and decrees of white people paying reparations to black members of the community.

Raz Simone, like a latter day Issac Hayes - the Duke - from John Carpenters now prophetic Escape from New York, is passing out AR-15s and AK-47s to keep the peace of the gun. And in no time some pigs will become far more equal than others.

But, even if my worst predictions about the CHAZ do not come to pass, since it is very much a tactical operation in the grander strategy to undermine and delegitimize Donald Trump, there will still likely be violence.

All we have to do is look at what happened in other so-called color revolutions that piggy-backed on legitimate protests against existing, corrupt governments.

This reminds me of the situation in Ukraine in 2014 where the protests on the Maidan plaza in Kiev turned violent when snipers began shooting from rooftops. And to this day there are questions as to who shot who and what actually happened.

But given that a peaceful stability in the CHAZ serves no one in power, on either side of the political divide, the likelihood of a similar provocation is very, very high.

The way I see this, the people in the CHAZ are pawns in a much larger game being played by the power elite many of them want to overthrow.

All it takes is one agent provocateur, one guy with a rifle and a narrative springs into being.

If there is one thing that is abundantly clear after four years of watching this escalation in the United States it is that there is nothing Donald Trumps enemies will not do to make things worse.

Because, in the end, this is about far more than Donald Trump. This is about moving the United States into a failed political and economic state. The economic destruction is already well underway thanks to the persistence of the COVID-19 insanity.

The new normal of face masks and social distancing highlight the sheer cowardice of the corporate managerial class and the complicity of the corporate leadership, as The Saker pointed out in a recent post. He asks the question that if money is not the object of this corporate "bowing to the mob" what is at stake.

The answer, of course, is power:

Specifically, the United States deep state - at a major faction within that deep state - is clearly desperate to get rid of Donald Trump (and -not- for the right reasons, of which there are plenty).

There are plenty of signs that illustrate that Donald Trump is even losing control of the Executive, including Secretary Esper contradicting Donald Trump on what is a key issue - restoring law and order - or the United States Ambassador to South Korea voicing support for BLM (I consider that these actions by top officials against their own Commander in Chief border on treason). Needless to say, the pro-Dems neo-libs at Slate immediately began dreaming about, and calling for, a military revolt against Donald Trump.

And that new normal now separates United States of Americans along yet another vector, one much subtler than wearing a MAGA hat or sporting a "Coexist" bumper sticker on their hybrid.

And that is exactly why I think there is going to be some kind of Maidan-like event in the CHAZ if President Donald Trump continues to refuse to take the bait and roll the tanks in, metaphorically, to break it up.

But, ultimately, this is not Donald Trumps job, it is the job of the local elected officials to provide services to protect the property and livelihoods of their constituents. But that is not what is on display in Seattle.

It is not on display in New York City either where Mayor Bill DeBlasio is doing everything he can to disarm and delegitimize his own police force and enflame tensions by allowing looters to run wild while enforcing social distancing rules against Hasidic Jews trying to worship in peace.

This is a movie whose ending I have seen before and I did not like it the previous times I watched it. What is sad is that the people who have released this one are the same ones who released the previous ones.

It is a tragedy which, frankly, as I have talked about ad nauseum. Donald Trump has invited this onto himself because of his own weakness to confront his attackers while engaging in similar behavior against countries he does not like - Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Venezuela.

No one in the international community will shed one tear if Donald Trump is deposed in November or during his second term. Many of us United States of Americans recognize his faults and what they have wrought but still understand that the alternative to him is the restoration of the worst parts of the Empire.

His only true accomplishment to date has been staying in power in a White House where his power has steadily eroded to the point of near irrelevancy. If he does not make substantive moves to neutralize those behind the CHAZ he will be the one blamed when it explodes.

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