Pakistan And America: Briefly Asked, Briefly Answered

The topic of Pakistan and America keeps cropping up. Not long ago a commenter or two pointed to the current political crisis in Pakistan—in which the Pakistani Deep State acceded to American wishes and dumped a popular president, Imran Khan. On one level it was an example of Imperial America’s policy of regime change.

Later, and quite recently, as discussed in EUROPE AND THE USA - WHAT LIES AHEAD, a panel discussion among Crypto Rich, Alex Mercouris, and Tom Luongo, the three all agreed that there is an unsettling similarity between events in Pakistan and in America:

The last topic, starting around 44:00, is the MAL Raid. They all agree that this is a chilling, disturbing development, with the potential to turn US politics into something resembling Pakistan, with a weaponized security state apparatus to repress dissent. AM is "horrified" that this is happening in the United States. The FBI, he says, looks like a "political police" force. TL says this just shows the mindset of a class of people who care for nothing but arrogating power to themselves.

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AM agrees that there are clearly "countervailing" forces, but he stresses "we must not lose sight of “how very sinister this is--the MAL Raid is just a horror." "The danger is that Pakistan is the future of the United States."

This morning Steve Sailer brings up the matter in his own way, again in the context of the Imran Khan coup and the MAL Raid:

Pakistan has long been known as the epitome of the Deep State state. What’s striking to an American is how much the current Pakistani government’s threat to arrest the ex-Prime Minister (cricket celebrity and Mark Wahlberg lookalike) Imran Khan resembles the Biden Administration’s plans to indict ex-President Trump over Top Secret Documents (which are, of course, so secret that they will never ever tell you what they are, but if you can’t trust the Intelligence Community, who can you trust?)

This, of course, is a striking development in American politics—the weaponizing of National Security to trump all issues and to inaugurate a shutdown of all normal constitutional and legal processes, leading to hoax investigations, hoax congressional hearings, hoax impeachments, hoax prosecutions, hoax search warrants. You name it. No hoax can be questioned, much less challenged, because … national security! And when a person shows himself to be unfit to be a member of the Establishment—ipso facto, a “domestic terrorist”—all these processes shift into high gear.

That’s exactly what happened in Pakistan. Sailer quotes at length from a Reuters article Pakistan court extends former premier Khan’s pre-arrest bail on terrorism charges. Similarly, the recent speech by the American regime’s frontman, Zhou himself, clearly identifies Trump and his followers as “a threat to this country”. The detail charges, The Enemy Within, certainly portray Trump and his followers as domestic terrorists and, indeed, the charges of the Russia Hoax are being quietly bruited about once more—espionage? nuclear secrets?

But this comparison between the two countries’ governments leads to the question: What’s the difference? Is there a difference? Reassuringly—or maybe not so much—Sailer has a firm grasp on the differences:

Of course, the situation in America and Pakistan is completely different because Pakistan has a Deep State but America has an Intelligence Community.