EXCELLENT article. From the US, I read it wishing someone down here had the courage to write a similar piece about American "NPR" (National Propaganda Radio).
Alex Krainer wonders: Was there a palace coup at the White House? Antony Blinken's foreign policy conduct has been a textbook recipe for a mutiny in the military ranks.
The events have taken a very strange turn in Washington DC this month. Britain's new cabinet has made it a priority to escalate the West's proxy war against Russia and to bring the U.S. and other allies onboard by hook or by crook. Part of the agenda was enabling the Ukrainians to strike at Russia with western supplied long-range precision missiles. This wouldn't be a new thing exactly, but the escalation they are gunning for is quite substantial, involving possibly even nuclear weapons.
The groundwork for this escalation was being prepared for months. In March this year, the Biden administration approved a new "Nuclear Employment Guidance" in preparation to fight and "win" a three-front nuclear war against Russia, China and North Korea. They followed up with plans to deploy long-range nuclear missiles in Germany and Holland. The preparations were being coordinated between the Neocons in the Biden administration, led by the Secretary of State Antony Blinken, NATO and the members of British cabinets, both under (not war) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and under the new (war) PM Keir Starmer...
..On July 9, his fifth day on the job Keir Starmer flew to Washington for the NATO summit and a meeting with president Biden. On July 16, Starmer’s government published the new “Strategic Defense Review” – a “root and branch” revision of UK’s defence, so that it is “secure at home and strong abroad for decades to come.” Of course, all these ambitious initiatives ultimately depend on the special relationship itself. Without it, Britain would be punching way, way above its weight.
Trump-proofing the “special relationship”
In terms of military power, the UK is pretty much a lightweight with a handicap, so securing the American protection was top priority. Accordingly, the Mutual Defense Agreement (MDA) between the U.S. and Great Britain needed an urgent upgrade. The agreement was last renewed in 2014 and was set to expire on 31 December 2024. The new major upgrade was formulated by the British government in July of this year: it would make the MDA indefinite, turning it into a de-facto treaty. The idea was to Trump-proof the Agreement in case the DNC fails to steal the presidential elections again this November. The treaty also joins the two nations’ nuclear programs.
..Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), was jubilant about the new Mutual Defense Agreement, seeing it as a diplomatic win for the UK: "It is good news for the UK that it doesn't need to worry about a future US administration using a future renewal [of the MDA] as leverage." How clever! Now we can stir the pot around the world and if things get ugly, the Americans have to come to our rescue. This is a good position from which to manipulate the U.S. into fighting Britain’s (City of London's?) wars of choice...
..On 10 September, US State Secretary Antony Blinken came to London to meet with his British counterpart David Lammy and the day after they both went to visit Kiev together. On the occasion, Blinken and Lammy almost certainly finalized the plan to commit both nations to aiding Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with western-supplied long range precision missiles. Only two days later, the Prime Minister Starmer flew to Washington again to meet with President Biden, ostensibly to “discuss” the events in Ukraine among other things.
Something went wrong in Washington
Now, the Prime Minister wouldn't normally travel and meet with his U.S. counterpart just to "discuss" things... In fact, according to British government sources, the decisions had already been made, and Sir Keir brought all the paperwork with him. However, the signing ceremony never took place and neither did the joint press conference. Something went wrong.
It appears that the U.S. military leadership took Vladimir Putin's warning about this escalation seriously...
..."This would mean that NATO, US and the European countries, the United States are at war with Russia. If that is the case, then bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will take appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.”
According to some sources, Putin’s warning was reinforced through back-channel communications between the Russian military leadership and their American counterparts who understand that they were being pushed over the edge of total war. In response, it seems that the American military leadership took over the conduct of the US foreign policy, both in terms of military and diplomatic affairs. State Secretary Blinken and his merry band of Neocons appear to have been sidelined...
..The change in leadership could also be felt in the Middle East. General Michael E. Kurilla, the head of U.S. Central Command visited Israel last week (the second time in a week's interval), apparently also to announce a new policy. Allegedly, he informed the Israelis that if they provoke a war against Hezbollah or against Iran, the U.S. will not come to their aid: they're on their own.
The palace coup at the White House wasn’t officially announced and it almost certainly won't be. We will probably only know of these changes with time, by observing the pattern of events. If the U.S. policy really changes course in a substantive way, this would corroborate that the coup did indeed take place. This may seem inconceivable, but it shouldn’t be. Secretary Blinken has been conducting a truly insane* foreign policy, inflicting massive damage to the United States in material, strategic as well as reputational terms. Such conduct would unavoidably provoke disapproval and opposition within the ranks of the American defense and foreign policy establishments. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/was-there-a-palace-coup-at-the-white *Quite "sane" if destruction of 2 strong nations is the objective
Thomas Neubrger, An American Coup? 'No dice, Mr President. No dice on Ukraine and no dice on Gaza. We're in charge now.
Napolitano: No dice. You're talking about no dice on the long range missiles reaching deep into Russia, even though Tony Blinkin had intimated all week in Kyiv with his British counterpart that this was happening. And Sir Keir Stormer, the British Prime Minister, had every reason to believe as he’s flying across the Atlantic that Joe Biden’s answer would be yes.
Wilkerson: He was embarrassed. He was embarrassed by the fact — he was pulling out his maps with target data and Biden told him, “Don’t even pull them out. We’re not going to talk about that.”
I’ve been told, again by fairly reliable sources, that Blinkin and Sullivan — Blinkin primarily, but Sullivan too — have been sidetracked, and what’s happened is the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war.
And so they’re now in charge.
I have to change my evaluation of Secretary Austin if that’s the case, because it means he listened finally to the people in the bowels of the Pentagon who know the truth, and he’s reacting to that, and he’s told the President Biden that, and to Biden’s credit, even though he was furious, he finally took that advice.
Napolitano: Colonel, you once ran the State Department [as Secretary Colin Powell’s chief of staff under George Bush]. How does the Defense Department engage in diplomacy?
Wilkerson: They engage in diplomacy every day. Every day. There are four-stars in the various syncdoms, the regions that they control, the AORs [Areas of Responsibility] [who] are the true U.S. diplomats. And some of them are very good at it. I saw some of them. I worked with some of them who are very good at it, better than any Secretary of State.
Oh. Canada! It seems that the American disease is catching. The LameStream Media, commercial or government supported, simply can’t be trusted to tell the truth
The CBC is their own worst enemy. As a kid growing up in the 50s,60s and 70s, it was just about sacrilege to not tune into the CBC, people trusted it and defended what was being broadcast. In the early 70s I travelled through out northern Canada and realized how integrated and beneficial the CBC was. In the 80s I became more involved with starting and running a business as well as raising a family, which took my eyes and ears away from what was happening. Occasionally I would tune in and realized I was questioning some of what I was hearing but put it down to me not being up to speed. Life goes on, and it consumes more time than allowing myself the privilege to really listen to the media. The next thing I wake up and start listening to the political banter from the newly elected Prime Minister. Such a surprise to wake up to my sleeping form. The CBC is not recognizable anymore. Everything they are saying seems to be really slanted to what I believe is truth.
“This is a message from the Government of Canada, duh dom de dah” became the most despicable television and radio jingle, which just grates my nerves and I have come to believe every time I hear this most annoying line it is pure propaganda generated by a bunch of pandering desperate followers who are incapable of a single original thought.
I am totally disgusted whenever I hear that we are spending 1.3 billion taxpayer dollars on a corporation that is now just a propaganda machine for a corrupt government. The other main stream media corporation are no better because they all feed from the same filthy trough.
Everything comes to an end and it is time to put the CBC out of its misery quickly. It is obvious the CBC is in its agonizing death throes, you can hear the death rattle that accompanies one close to the end of their life.
Euthanizing it is the human way to go. Don’t spend anymore taxpayers dollars.
Tony your essay expanding on Elizabeth Nickson's expose on the CBC breaking it down into even more detail is absolutely excellent and timely. I think this essay should be required reading for all aspiring political scientists. Great Work !!
EXCELLENT article. From the US, I read it wishing someone down here had the courage to write a similar piece about American "NPR" (National Propaganda Radio).
Happy Equinox! {The Way of the Tao is Reversal}
Alex Krainer wonders: Was there a palace coup at the White House? Antony Blinken's foreign policy conduct has been a textbook recipe for a mutiny in the military ranks.
The events have taken a very strange turn in Washington DC this month. Britain's new cabinet has made it a priority to escalate the West's proxy war against Russia and to bring the U.S. and other allies onboard by hook or by crook. Part of the agenda was enabling the Ukrainians to strike at Russia with western supplied long-range precision missiles. This wouldn't be a new thing exactly, but the escalation they are gunning for is quite substantial, involving possibly even nuclear weapons.
The groundwork for this escalation was being prepared for months. In March this year, the Biden administration approved a new "Nuclear Employment Guidance" in preparation to fight and "win" a three-front nuclear war against Russia, China and North Korea. They followed up with plans to deploy long-range nuclear missiles in Germany and Holland. The preparations were being coordinated between the Neocons in the Biden administration, led by the Secretary of State Antony Blinken, NATO and the members of British cabinets, both under (not war) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and under the new (war) PM Keir Starmer...
..On July 9, his fifth day on the job Keir Starmer flew to Washington for the NATO summit and a meeting with president Biden. On July 16, Starmer’s government published the new “Strategic Defense Review” – a “root and branch” revision of UK’s defence, so that it is “secure at home and strong abroad for decades to come.” Of course, all these ambitious initiatives ultimately depend on the special relationship itself. Without it, Britain would be punching way, way above its weight.
Trump-proofing the “special relationship”
In terms of military power, the UK is pretty much a lightweight with a handicap, so securing the American protection was top priority. Accordingly, the Mutual Defense Agreement (MDA) between the U.S. and Great Britain needed an urgent upgrade. The agreement was last renewed in 2014 and was set to expire on 31 December 2024. The new major upgrade was formulated by the British government in July of this year: it would make the MDA indefinite, turning it into a de-facto treaty. The idea was to Trump-proof the Agreement in case the DNC fails to steal the presidential elections again this November. The treaty also joins the two nations’ nuclear programs.
..Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), was jubilant about the new Mutual Defense Agreement, seeing it as a diplomatic win for the UK: "It is good news for the UK that it doesn't need to worry about a future US administration using a future renewal [of the MDA] as leverage." How clever! Now we can stir the pot around the world and if things get ugly, the Americans have to come to our rescue. This is a good position from which to manipulate the U.S. into fighting Britain’s (City of London's?) wars of choice...
..On 10 September, US State Secretary Antony Blinken came to London to meet with his British counterpart David Lammy and the day after they both went to visit Kiev together. On the occasion, Blinken and Lammy almost certainly finalized the plan to commit both nations to aiding Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with western-supplied long range precision missiles. Only two days later, the Prime Minister Starmer flew to Washington again to meet with President Biden, ostensibly to “discuss” the events in Ukraine among other things.
Something went wrong in Washington
Now, the Prime Minister wouldn't normally travel and meet with his U.S. counterpart just to "discuss" things... In fact, according to British government sources, the decisions had already been made, and Sir Keir brought all the paperwork with him. However, the signing ceremony never took place and neither did the joint press conference. Something went wrong.
It appears that the U.S. military leadership took Vladimir Putin's warning about this escalation seriously...
..."This would mean that NATO, US and the European countries, the United States are at war with Russia. If that is the case, then bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will take appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us.”
According to some sources, Putin’s warning was reinforced through back-channel communications between the Russian military leadership and their American counterparts who understand that they were being pushed over the edge of total war. In response, it seems that the American military leadership took over the conduct of the US foreign policy, both in terms of military and diplomatic affairs. State Secretary Blinken and his merry band of Neocons appear to have been sidelined...
..The change in leadership could also be felt in the Middle East. General Michael E. Kurilla, the head of U.S. Central Command visited Israel last week (the second time in a week's interval), apparently also to announce a new policy. Allegedly, he informed the Israelis that if they provoke a war against Hezbollah or against Iran, the U.S. will not come to their aid: they're on their own.
The palace coup at the White House wasn’t officially announced and it almost certainly won't be. We will probably only know of these changes with time, by observing the pattern of events. If the U.S. policy really changes course in a substantive way, this would corroborate that the coup did indeed take place. This may seem inconceivable, but it shouldn’t be. Secretary Blinken has been conducting a truly insane* foreign policy, inflicting massive damage to the United States in material, strategic as well as reputational terms. Such conduct would unavoidably provoke disapproval and opposition within the ranks of the American defense and foreign policy establishments. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/was-there-a-palace-coup-at-the-white *Quite "sane" if destruction of 2 strong nations is the objective
Thomas Neubrger, An American Coup? 'No dice, Mr President. No dice on Ukraine and no dice on Gaza. We're in charge now.
Napolitano: No dice. You're talking about no dice on the long range missiles reaching deep into Russia, even though Tony Blinkin had intimated all week in Kyiv with his British counterpart that this was happening. And Sir Keir Stormer, the British Prime Minister, had every reason to believe as he’s flying across the Atlantic that Joe Biden’s answer would be yes.
Wilkerson: He was embarrassed. He was embarrassed by the fact — he was pulling out his maps with target data and Biden told him, “Don’t even pull them out. We’re not going to talk about that.”
I’ve been told, again by fairly reliable sources, that Blinkin and Sullivan — Blinkin primarily, but Sullivan too — have been sidetracked, and what’s happened is the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war.
And so they’re now in charge.
I have to change my evaluation of Secretary Austin if that’s the case, because it means he listened finally to the people in the bowels of the Pentagon who know the truth, and he’s reacting to that, and he’s told the President Biden that, and to Biden’s credit, even though he was furious, he finally took that advice.
Napolitano: Colonel, you once ran the State Department [as Secretary Colin Powell’s chief of staff under George Bush]. How does the Defense Department engage in diplomacy?
Wilkerson: They engage in diplomacy every day. Every day. There are four-stars in the various syncdoms, the regions that they control, the AORs [Areas of Responsibility] [who] are the true U.S. diplomats. And some of them are very good at it. I saw some of them. I worked with some of them who are very good at it, better than any Secretary of State.
But it shouldn’t be that way. That’s a parenthetical remark. We shouldn’t have the military leading diplomacy. But we often do. https://neuburger.substack.com/p/an-american-coup
Oh. Canada! It seems that the American disease is catching. The LameStream Media, commercial or government supported, simply can’t be trusted to tell the truth
Do see Alex Krainer's piece, which I just included in a comment.
The "Fifth Branch Of Government" may have just taken the reins...
Great article. Thank you.
Thank you. Pass it along please. Tony Hall
I appreciated the point you made early on about who the paymaster for the CBC is...
Great chronological explanation.
The CBC is their own worst enemy. As a kid growing up in the 50s,60s and 70s, it was just about sacrilege to not tune into the CBC, people trusted it and defended what was being broadcast. In the early 70s I travelled through out northern Canada and realized how integrated and beneficial the CBC was. In the 80s I became more involved with starting and running a business as well as raising a family, which took my eyes and ears away from what was happening. Occasionally I would tune in and realized I was questioning some of what I was hearing but put it down to me not being up to speed. Life goes on, and it consumes more time than allowing myself the privilege to really listen to the media. The next thing I wake up and start listening to the political banter from the newly elected Prime Minister. Such a surprise to wake up to my sleeping form. The CBC is not recognizable anymore. Everything they are saying seems to be really slanted to what I believe is truth.
“This is a message from the Government of Canada, duh dom de dah” became the most despicable television and radio jingle, which just grates my nerves and I have come to believe every time I hear this most annoying line it is pure propaganda generated by a bunch of pandering desperate followers who are incapable of a single original thought.
I am totally disgusted whenever I hear that we are spending 1.3 billion taxpayer dollars on a corporation that is now just a propaganda machine for a corrupt government. The other main stream media corporation are no better because they all feed from the same filthy trough.
Everything comes to an end and it is time to put the CBC out of its misery quickly. It is obvious the CBC is in its agonizing death throes, you can hear the death rattle that accompanies one close to the end of their life.
Euthanizing it is the human way to go. Don’t spend anymore taxpayers dollars.
Tony your essay expanding on Elizabeth Nickson's expose on the CBC breaking it down into even more detail is absolutely excellent and timely. I think this essay should be required reading for all aspiring political scientists. Great Work !!