asiatimes | We are in the middle of the proverbial, total fog of war. Those
defending the US Army crushing “insurrectionists” in the streets
advocate at the same time a swift ending to the American empire.
Amidst so much sound and fury signifying perplexity and paralysis, we
may be reaching a supreme moment of historical irony, where US homeland
(in)security is being boomerang-hit not only by one of the key
artifacts of its own Deep State making – a color revolution – but by
combined elements of a perfect blowback trifecta: Operation Phoenix; Operation Jakarta; and Operation Gladio.
But the targets this time won’t be millions across the Global South. They will be American citizens.
Quite a few progressives contend this is a spontaneous mass uprising
against police repression and system oppression – and that would
necessarily lead to a revolution, like the February 1917 revolution in
Russia sprouting out of the scarcity of bread in Petrograd.
So the protests against endemic police brutality would be a prelude to a Levitate the Pentagon remix – with the interregnum soon entailing a possible face-off with the US military in the streets.
But we got a problem. The insurrection, so far purely emotional, has
yielded no political structure and no credible leader to articulate
myriad, complex grievances. As it stands, it amounts to an inchoate
insurrection, under the sign of impoverishment and perpetual debt.
Adding to the perplexity, Americans are now confronted with what it
feels like to be in Vietnam, El Salvador, the Pakistani tribal areas or
Sadr City in Baghdad.
Iraq came to Washington DC in full regalia, with Pentagon Blackhawks
doing “show of force” passes over protestors, the tried and tested
dispersal technique applied in countless counter-insurgency ops across
the Global South.
And then, the Elvis moment: General Mark Milley, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, patrolling the streets of DC. The Raytheon
lobbyist now heading the Pentagon, Mark Esper, called it “dominating the
battlespace.”
