More On DoD's Victory Over The Anglo-Zionists
From relatively early on in the war on Russia we have been among the group that has argued that the US NatSec establishment is divided. The two factions are the Anglo-Zionists, popularly known as Neocons, who largely control the non DoD agencies—State, the IC, most of the NSC—and the professional military. There are no real good guys here, but the argument that has been made is that the professional military at least has some grasp on what the actual state of the US military is. They can’t speak the truth in public, but they know:
Anyone who ever played RISK knows North America is the most geographically defensible continent on Earth. No one will attempt to conquer the US.
On the other hand, the US Empire lacks the capacity to project decisive power far beyond its borders against a near-peer.
The generals have to be scared out of their wits at the prospect of a major regional war breaking out in the Middle East, especially while confrontations with Russia and China are ongoing.
Up until last week it seemed clear that the Anglo-Zionists, led by fanatical ideologues like Blinken and Nuland and whoever rules the UK, had the upper hand. The generals may have favored caution, but the Anglo-Zionists were for ever greater escalation.
What I have argued over the last few days is the likelihood is that Zhou has probably been insulated from serious input from the professional military. His two Chief of Staff gatekeepers, Klain and Zients, along with Blinken and Sullivan and the IC headed by the DNI Avril Haines, have controlled the flow of any dissenting views to Zhou on global warmaking.
Something snapped last week—probably a combination of factors including, above all, the crazy scheme of launching direct American missile strikes from Ukraine into Russia. That craziness was challenged in no uncertain terms by Putin. However, the situations in both the Middle East and the Far East—with US forces stretched thin and under challenge by forces as disparate as the Houthis and the Chinese—played into what followed. What followed was that DoD insisted on their views being made known—almost certainly face to face—to the constitutional CinC.
This is a huge deal. It amounts to a constitutional crisis. In essence, what we see here is DoD—in what amounts to an act of bureaucratic self defense—insisted on the constitutional chain of command. A strike against the Deep State. Again, I’m not saying there are any good guys here, but the result is positive. For now.
What follows is a partial transcript of remarks Ray McGovern made today to Judge Nap. Note that blame for the Anglo-Zionist failure is being placed, by the Anglo-Zionists, on Jake Sullivan. It’s difficult to be sure how this played out. My own suspicion runs along similar lines. Sullivan is the channel to the CinC for DoD when DoD is insisting on input into policy—because if DoD sought direct access on its own they’d have to go through the Chief of Staff (Klain in the past, Zients now). DoD needed to pitch their casee very strongly to Sullivan, perhaps with threats (as I’ve speculated) to defy orders that didn’t come from a face to face with the CinC. That would force Sullivan to demand face to face access, no matter what Zients may have tried to filter out. That something of that sort happened is probably indicated by the finger pointing at Sullivan, who certainly was acting under duress, rather than stabbing his Anglo-Zionist fellows in the back on his own.
Read with a critical eye. McGovern adds some observations regarding the progress of the war and the ways in which NATO is fracturing. I left one part out. McGovern suggests that as long as the Ruling Class keeps trying to assassinate Trump, Trump looks like a sure winner.
The West blinked. Blinken was overruled. The Defense Department finally showed a little guts and they said, 'Do you know what's going on here, do you know what might happen if we authorize these long range missiles into the heart of Russia? You don't know? Well, let us tell the president?' I think that, to the degree that Biden is still approachable, still willing to listen, the military got to him on Thursday and on Friday and said, 'Look the British are coming and they want authorization to use their long range stuff--but don't give it to them!'
Now what was my evidence? It was just what happened, that the decision was not to make any decision. But then I saw that TASS carried a report, not in the Western media, about Pat Ryder, General Ryder. He's the Defense Department spokesperson. That same day--let me just read two sentences:
Pat Ryder told reporters at a regular briefing, "I would point you to Defense Secretary Austin's comments at Ramstein (huge US AFB in Germany) last week. He highlighted that there is no capability, no silver bullet, that's going to enable Ukraine to succeed." Ryder added that "in Washington's opinion [N.B., Ryder may say ‘Washington,’ but he only speaks for DoD] Ukraine should focus on employing capabilities currently at their disposal in a way that gets them a stronger hand at the negotiating table."
So, 'Use what you got, Ukraine--you ain't getting any more!' And that's the way it came out. Starmer came, perhaps expecting authorization to use those Storm Shadow missiles, they can't be used without US technology. He was told, 'No, we'll talk about it at the UN.' So that's a bright spot in an otherwise very dismal outlook.
What's the Anglo-Zionist spin now on what went wrong with their scheme?
What is it this time? The military got to the president, or they got to Jake Sullivan. The London Times is blaming all this on Jake Sullivan. So the military goes to Sullivan--that's one of their Avenues to the president--that say, 'Look, this is really crazy! Blinken is out of his gourd! For God's sake don't let this happen, don't authorize this stuff!' And that's the way it turned out.
Maybe someone has an ounce of sanity. Maybe they're listening not only to Putin but to our military, and the British military. They might even watch our program--who knows?
The Judge: I'm wondering if maybe Blinken is being pushed aside in light of the observations you just made about the now primacy of the Defense Department in Biden's thinking.
Well, in this most recent decision--God knows what'll happen this week. In other words, it's whoever gets Biden to sign off. One thing I point out is, it's not only the Poles. It's the Germans--no more money, nothing for Ukraine. It's Slovakia, to an extent it's the French--it's the Italians, for sure! They don't want any part of this sort of stuff. So when the people are talking about how NATO is united in such a way as never before--that's balderdash.
In a later portion McGovern adds the Dutch and the Danes to that list.
The Judge: How close is the Ukraine military to utter defeat on the battlefield?
It's become clear over the weekend that they are very close. Now a lot of these fortifications take weeks to overcome. A lot of the Ukrainian forces are running away. The Russians are going at a pace two or three times as fast as it was before. After the Ukrainians took out their best troops and their only reinforcements and put them in Kursk, of all places! there's no telling how quickly the Russians could go to Dnieper River. Most people are saying that it might be after the election, but they have the capability of doing it before the election, in my view. And they will be sniffing the political winds to see if that plays best.
On his program yesterday, Mercouris could hardly contain his contempt for the British ruling class (or whoever is ruling, as Mark notes) while discussing Starmer’s disaster of a visit to the great City on the Potomac. He speculates that either Starmer was not properly briefed or informed by those who know, or he chose to set aside (ignore?!) their advice and go full-bore to Washington and pitch the case for the Storm Shadows…must have been a very long and uncomfortable flight back to the UK.
The Brits were putting on an act, they're playing the guttsy we'll do anything for Ukraine part. All this is a show now, the war is over. The brits (city of London) have won their bit, destroying the city of Frankfurt. That's the prize they wanted most of all.