WATCHING THE INDO-PACIFIC OUT OF THE CORNER OF OUR EYE

While Donald Trump plays peacemaker and the Western media distracts us with the flimsy peace agreement for Gaza and the much-publicised talks with neo-Nazi Volodymyr Zelensky, could this be a smokescreen to distract us from something else

 

By Sir Charlattam 

While large media corporations and their repeaters around the globe have focused their attention on the shaky agreement in the Middle East and Donald Trump's role in imposing it, strange things were brewing and have begun to unfold in Asia that could spread southward, creating very dangerous regional complications. These are so strange that one has to ask, who benefits from all this?

The escalation that has taken place over the last week on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan has all the hallmarks of an operation deliberately created by a third party. Remember those reports in the US media about the ‘sectarian war’ in Iraq during the occupation? The cross-border terrorist attacks against Shiite and Sunni communities were coordinated by the invading military intelligence and local collaborators who sought to intensify the internal struggle and perpetuate the occupation.

In Afghanistan during the occupation by the US, Britain and their strategic crutch (NATO), the Taliban proved to be much more cunning, tough and difficult to combat, even using dirty methods such as those used in Iraq. The last major failure before their hasty retreat from Kabul was the farce of ‘ISIS-Khorasan’, which is nothing more than a structure of criminals and murderers recruited (and transferred from Syria, Iraq and Jordan). by the CIA, MI6 and the Israeli Mossad, whose objective was to counteract the theology and ideology of the Taliban and weaken their combat structures. It is clear that they failed and many of those elements have been eliminated or are in prison.

But who could be behind the resurgence of instability in the region today?

Some point to the Pakistani ISI as being behind the initiative, and if that is the case, we must not lose sight of who has historically been behind them. The Pakistani intelligence service is considered the CIA's arm in the region, which is why it has earned particular hatred among nationalists and Islamist groups on both sides of the border. During the occupation of Afghanistan, it was a key player in facilitating CIA operations, including arms and drug trafficking. When the US had to withdraw hastily from Afghanistan, among the interests Washington left behind was the Bagram airbase, which is of irreplaceable strategic importance to the Pentagon and... NATO.

A month ago, Donald Trump's whim to recover the Bagram base north of the capital, regardless of the means necessary, had been leaked. But the president's words had not left his blonde head. Since Joe ‘Potus’ Biden ordered the withdrawal of troops (after the CIA's continued failure to subdue the Afghans in Doha) the Pentagon had been pressuring the executive branch to regain control of it, as it is a strategically important location not only for operations in the Middle East (and in this case against Iran) and the Russian Federation, but also as a platform for immediate deployment against China in support of operations in the Indo-Pacific.

For this mission, it would have tasked the CIA with establishing (obviously secret) contacts with the Taliban in order to reach an agreement whereby US aircraft and personnel could take control of the base. Obviously, that did not work and, as we know, the Americans moved on to the dirty phase.

Plunging the region into a new conflict would be good news for Washington and a serious security problem for China, which shares borders with both countries and maintains balanced relations with them despite long-standing disputes. It is well known that there is a Silk Road that, if managed within the framework of BRICS+, would represent a formidable opportunity for the global south and commercial competition that Donald Trump and his Atlanticist partners in the EU are unwilling to tolerate. In this context, let us not lose sight of the escalation in the imposition of tariffs on Chinese products of 130% and Beijing's corresponding response of not allowing itself to be pressured. At the same time, let us not forget India, with whom cordial relations have been maintained so far, despite serious border problems and a critical focus on Kashmir. Special care must be taken with any misunderstanding between India and Pakistan, who have already been embroiled in border skirmishes that were on the verge of escalating dangerously to another level.

This is a very dangerous moment, and it is now clear that Trump is a very unstable individual who lacks integrity. In the hours following the visit to the White House by the supplicant Ukrainian neo-Nazi leader Volodymyr Zelensky (a puppet of the warmongers in Washington DC and Brussels) begging for help to stop Russia, we witnessed the ambiguous and clumsy words of Donald Trump promising to deliver Tomahawk missiles (with a range of 1,550 miles) and then picking up the phone to call Russian President Vladimir Putin to deny that he would do such a thing. It does not take a genius to imagine the Russian leader's scepticism that if he allows Kiev to use these missiles, they will be used to attack his refineries and oil pipelines, which are well located by US strategic intelligence. Nor do we believe that Putin is uninformed about the causes of the clash between Afghans and Pakistanis and those who have instigated it. We will see if this issue is resolved at the upcoming summit in Hungary.

But while all these hilarious situations unfold with the main comedian Trump as the protagonist and are covered with the BBC's classic Russophobic narrative, we must not forget to keep an eye on the Indo-Pacific, where Atlanticist intelligence cells (including to Australians of course), especially the MI6 boys, are having hectic days at their stations throughout the region, particularly in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.