Iwo Jima 2.0: What Story is This Picture Telling?
by Pepe Escobar
If the Deep State cannot influence the outcome of the November elections, they may find six ways to cancel them starting from Sunday.
A carefully composed photo changes everything – in more ways than one. So, let’s engage in a first attempt to deconstruct it.
We start with the biggest losers. The combo executing the teleprompter/fone de ouvido of the Crash Test Dummy is essentially composed of Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti, Bruce Reed, and Ted Kaufman.
Government officials like Jake Sullivan and Little Blinkie, on the other hand, are placed at the center of what is known in Washington as the “interagency” network, better described as The Blob.
The inestimable Alastair Crooke explained how the deliberations of Sullivan and Blinkie are “spread by a matrix of ‘groups’ interconnected that includes the Military-Industrial Complex, Congressional leaders, Big Donors, Wall Street, the Treasury, the CIA, the FBI, some cosmopolitan oligarchs, and the princes of the world of security and intelligence.”
But the key point – invisible – is who (my italics) tells Sullivan and Blinkie what to do.
These are the people who really (my emphasis) command the show: the Grand Families and Big Donors – old money and especially new money (like Vanguard’s invisible shareholders).
They’re all at a loss. Never thought it would come to this – even if Joe Biden was chosen specifically for what he is: a brutish, corrupt, easily manipulated, and head of a criminal family. Everyone in power within the Blob knew he was becoming a zombie a long time ago.
There’s a fierce debate in Beltway about how many factions are at war with each other within the Democratic Party.
There are at least three:
1. The Biden crime family – which depends on tens of thousands of people with comfortable and high-paying jobs.
2. The Dem machine – a “extended family” of dozens of thousands who will lose big, in elections or re-elections, if Trump 2.0 wins. These are the ones who want to play the Crash Test Dummy under the bus – and replace him with a Dem they hope and pray will win (the top candidate is super-incompetent Kamala Harris).
It’s not necessary to say that these two factions are not only at war with each other but also at war with…
3. Those who really matter: the true Deep State – the “intelligence community” within the CIA and FBI. This is the infernal machine that really gave the White House to Biden in 2020.
Democrat Chuck Schumer once proclaimed: if you cross this faction, they have “six ways to get to you, destroy you, or beat you. With total impunity.”
Six Ways from Sunday
So, that’s what might happen next – far beyond Iwo Jima 2.0 and the irresistible attraction of the Trump-Vance ticket. If the Deep State cannot influence the outcome of the November elections, they may find six ways to cancel them starting from Sunday, invoking a “national emergency”. Everything counts – from false flag terrorism to war.
Extrapolating from a well-legal analysis made by a Berlin fintech expert, it’s possible to characterize the bipartisan arrangement of the War Party within the Blob as two true mafias fighting for an Exceptionalist Empire on the brink of abysmal bankruptcy – and forced to choose their Eternal Wars.
The Six Ways from Sunday faction is determined to go all the way – using all imperial means – to conquer what could be called El Dorado in the black soil of Novorossiya, whose resources could buy, perhaps, 50 more years of power.
On the other hand, the MAGA [Make America Great Again] group doesn’t care about these Slavlands and is convinced that the real existential threat is the Middle Kingdom. And as it’s in debt to the Joshua Book fraud, the MAGA group also believes that “something must be done” about Iran.
By the way, both groups are, in fact, totally devoted to the Joshua Book conspiracy.
The Empire – of Chaos – is governed by a rather peculiar governance system, in which a very complicated voting system decides which group has access to the means to pursue its obsession.
While there was enough gold in the Empire’s coffers – illegally or not – the two groups alternated in Power without much fuss.
But then all those Forever Wars lost over the years against militarily insignificant adversaries started to take their toll. And the times are really tough.
The imperial voting system has an extremely bizarre feature: with approximately equal electoral affiliation to any group, the votes emitted in only five cities in five states in the Midwest determine the fate of the Empire’s dwindling resources, fiercely disputed by the two main groups.
The Six Ways from Sunday group controls the voting in those five cities.
In the last elections, the Six Ways from Sunday group anticipated a certain victory for the MAGA group in the Heartland, with 10 million votes, most of them deposited in fake ballot boxes in those five cities, plus electronic fraud related.
What the MAGA group now sees clearly is the possibility of finally conquering those five cities in five states.
And yet, 10 million excess votes and trying to conquer those five states may not be enough in the face of the massive fraud machine.
So, in 2024, MAGA calculates that they need to win other five states, normally leaning towards the Six Ways from Sunday universe, and win by a margin of at least 20 million votes to avoid massive fraud.
That’s where Iwo Jima 2.0 comes in – graphically formatting the result for a crushing victory.
Six Ways from Sunday may be beyond at a loss and confused in the current incandescent situation. The question of a trillion dollars is: how will they change the narrative and regain the initiative?
They committed the fatal error of choosing a dead man as their candidate. In contrast, MAGA parades the superstar pop narcissist par excellence, now supercharged and reenergized, and carrying global appeal.
It seems that the landslide is inevitable. Six Ways from Sunday is stuck in total panic – knowing it’s about to lose control.
But the fat lady hasn’t sung yet. Three months and a half are an eternity in politics. And a Six Ways from Sunday encurralado is ready to roar with more ferocity than ever.
Pepe Escobar – Independent geopolitical analyst, writer, and journalist
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