Trumpquake by Pepe Escobar!
(2024-11-08 at 00:04:50 )

Trumpquake by Pepe Escobar!

Fasten your seatbelts: whatever happens, Trumpquake is bound to be a bumpy ride.

On the political Richter scale, that was a killer - literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park - any park. Even before Election Day, critical thinking was aware of the stakes. With fraud, Kamala wins. With no fraud, Trump wins. There were, at best, (failed) attempts at fraud. The key question still remains: what does the United States Deep State really want?

My inbox is infested with loads of weepy reports from United States Think Tankland wondering, in disbelief, why Kamala could possibly lose. It is quite straightforward - apart from her sheer incompetence cum utter mediocrity literally cackling out loud.

The legacy of the administration she was part of is ghastly - all the way from Crash Test Dummy to Little Butcher Blinkie.

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

They invested everything to support a genocide in Gaza conducted with a huge arsenal of United States of American weapons: a lebensraum-coded ethnic cleansing cum extermination op directed by a bunch of Talmudic psychos - and marketed under the "rules-based international order" spewed out by Butcher Blinkie in every bilateral or multilateral gathering.

It is 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 Hegemons "interests". Thus the counterpunch: the strengthening of BRICS and BRICS+, celebrated for all the world to see two weeks ago in Kazan.

At least this administration had a merit, strengthening the bonds between all major "existential threats" to the Hegemon: three BRICS (Russia, China, Iran), plus the indomitable DPRK. All that in contrast with a meager tactical victory - which may not last long: the absolute vassalization of Europe.

Hanging Ukraine on Europes neck

Of course, foreign policy does not win United States elections.

United States of 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.

Trumpquakes coded message is that the Zionist lobby wins - again.

Perhaps not so unanimously when we consider all strands of neo-cons and Zio-cons. Wall Street wins again (BlackRocks Larry Fink said so even before Election Day). And prominent silos across the Deep State also win again. That begs a modified question; what if Trump feels emboldened enough after January 25 to launch a Stalinist purge of the Deep State?

Election Day proceeded nearly simultaneously with the Valdai Club annual meeting in Sochi, where the superstar, not surprisingly, was eminent geopolitician Sergey Karaganov. Of course he directly referred to the Empires Forever Wars: "We are living in biblical times."

And even before Trumpquake, Karaganov stressed, calmly, "We will defeat the West in Ukraine - without resorting to ultimate means." And that "will provide for a peaceful withdrawal of the United States - which will become a normal superpower." Europe, meanwhile, "will move to the sidelines of History."

All of that spot on. But then Karaganov introduced a startling concept: "The war in Ukraine is a replacement of WWIII. Afterwards, we can agree on some kind of order in Eurasia."

That would be the "indivisibility of security" proposed by President Putin to Washington,D.C. - and rejected - on December 2021, part of the "Greater Eurasia Partnership" that was conceptualized by Karaganov himself.

The problem though is his conclusion: "Let us make the Ukrainian war the last major war in the 21st century."

Ay, there is the rub: the real major war is actually Eretz Israel v. the Axis of Resistance in West Asia.

Let us have a quick pit stop in Europe before getting to the meat of this matter.

Trumpquake is all set to hang Ukraine on Europes neck like a larger-than-life albatross.

The shorthand: Exit United States of 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).

The United States Treasury has issued an internal memorandum valid until April 30, 2025 - when Donald Trump will be already three months in power - allowing transactions with Russian banks on anything related to oil, natural gas, timber and any form of uranium.

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.

Beware of that Tony Soprano wannabe

Trumpquake - if taken at face value - is bound to further weaponize the United States dollar; Donald Trump has threatened, on the record, to

blacklist any nation that uses other currencies for international trade. 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.

BRICS and the Global Majority also know that Donald Trump in fact signed off on Nordstream sanctions - when he referred recently to "killing" 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.

Now we come to the clincher. Donald Trump personally destroyed the JCPOA - the Iran nuclear deal - brokered by the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany). Moscow - and Beijing - know perfectly well how this led to further destabilization of the whole of West Asia, in conjunction to the Donald Trump-ordered assassination of Gen Soleimani, which started what I termed the Raging Twenties.

Last but not least, Donald Trump brokered the bombastically-named "Deal of the Century": the Abraham Accords, which if implemented will forever bury any possibility of an Israel-Palestine two-state solution.

The deal - which may be considered as nefarious as the 1917 Balfour declaration - may be in a coma. But MbSs 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.

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.

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

If that is the case, he will not have to worry about another failed sniper. But if he really tries to run his own independent game, there is no question he will be a dead man walking.

So the whole Global Majority waits with bated breath.

How will Trumpquake translate in the geopolitical MAGA sphere?

Sure bets focus on extensive use of private military companies (PMCs) for foreign policy "missions" and selected, targeted military "interventions".

Targets could include any Global South player from Mexico (to "secure the border") to Venezuela (the Monroe doctrine "securing the oil"), Yemen (to "secure the Red Sea") and of course Iran (a massive bombing campaign to "secure Israel").

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 "Western Hemisphere".

Fasten your seatbelts: whatever happens, Trumpquake is bound to be a bumpy ride.

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