A Peace that Won't Be

The thaw between South and North Korea and a possible, planned meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un has been big news lately. 

South Korea's President Moon and Kim have met, and promises were made to improve relations, and end North Korea's nuclear testing.

To the starry-eyed, it looks like the two Koreas, along with the US, will finally make peace and stop threatening each other.

But let's not forget that the South Korean regime, regardless of its smiles, is descended from the right-wing dictatorship of Syngman Rhee, the ex-Japanese collaborator-turned-puppet of the US military occupation forces. People with the same mentality are still in power in South Korea, and it is doubtful that they will allow any improvement in relations. Like their US counterparts, these right-wing South Korean Rhee acolytes have made their fortunes and careers on having North Korea as an enemy.

It’s difficult to believe that there will be any reconciliation/peace/unity breaking out. These things go against US interests of countering China. The US wants a permanent military presence in Korea to serve as a base of operations against whoever the US deems an enemy for whatever reason.

Trump's eagerness for peace is not serious, regardless of how many Tweets to the contrary he sends. Let's not forget that this is the same guy who a month ago bombed a country based on false pretexts, and has recently appointed John Bolton and Mike Pompeo to important posts. These two misfits were behind the illegal and criminal war on Iraq and the torture scandals. There is nothing good to expect from the Trump regime at all.

History by now has shown us that once the US occupies an area, they don’t leave. It’s been 73 years since WW2 ended, yet the US military is still occupying Germany. This occupation has now spread to Eastern Europe under the guise of ‘countering Russian aggression.’ It’s been 15 years since the Iraq invasion, yet US is still there, with no signs it will ever leave.

The US has gotten too entrenched in South Korea to just get up and leave, regardless of what NK will do. It serves US interests to be there, and the interests of the military-industrial complex, not to mention the career prospects of all the US generals, officers, and CIA spooks. Too many careers and paychecks are riding on the US remaining on the Korean peninsula, and everywhere else they’re squatting.

Even if Kim Jong Un ends up meeting Trump, it will go down something like this, or close to it:

1. Kim and Trump sit down to talk

2. Trump makes outrageous demands that he knows NK won’t accept, while he offers nothing worthwhile in return

3. Kim says NO. Then he counters that US must sign a permanent peace treaty and end all acts of aggression, end to sanctions, including military exercises close to NK’s borders and/or removal of US troops from SK in return for complete NK nuclear and missile disarmament

4. SK president sits there like a quiet little vassal with no say-so, and acquiesces to whatever the US says

5. The entire meeting turns into a fiasco, everyone walks out, and tensions not only stay but go up

6. US regime and all western media go into ‘Blame it all on Kim’ overdrive for the failure of the meeting

7. Kim restarts nuke and missile testing and Trump threatens military action

This is what we can expect. And the blame for any failures will rest on the US, which will refuse to give up an inch, but will demand a mile from NK.

The US establishment doesn’t want peace on the Korean peninsula. They most likely want a Libya-type scenario.

The meeting will be used to cajole NK into giving up its main deterrent, disarming, letting in ‘inspectors’ who will most likely feature spies from every god-damn US intelligence agency in existence. These people will look under every rock, identify any and all important targets for bombing, report back to their US regime bosses, who will then make up some false flag implicating NK, then attack NK-which at that point will be defenseless.

What the US ultimately wants is to get rid of Kim Jong Un, annex NK by force to SK, then move up US troops all the way to the Chinese border.

The US doesn’t honor its treaty commitment. The examples of Iraq, Libya, and Trump’s present threat to walk away from the JCPOA are clear signs that North Korea cannot trust the US.

Kim Jong Un seems to be quite involved in a peaceful solution, and has stopped issuing insults toward the Dotard.

But it is most likely not because sanctions and US threats have worked.

What may be going on here is that China’s Premier Xi had a talk with Kim, and NK was promised very beneficial economic opportunities and OBOR/Silk Road integration in return for doing something to shut the US up, so that sanctions are lifted and the two can get back to business. 

The US regime, Trump, and his deranged walrus mustache advisor won't get anything for free from North Korea. The problem on the Korean peninsula was, is, and will be the US, not NK or Kim. The US doesn’t honor its agreements, so that's one thing that will definitely be a stumbling block.

Even IF the US agrees to make some major concessions that NK could accept, it will most likely be a ruse. What the US may do is make promises to NK, but require that NK first disarm and do whatever the US wants, and only after that the US will deliver on its part. This may take years. But a short while from the deadline, the US will stir up some false flags, and claim that NK is not living up to the agreement-even if NK does-and use that as an excuse to walk away from the agreement, and take military action against NK. 

This type of scenario is very likely, and if there actually is an agreement with NK like this, and the US demands that the UN approve it under Chapter 7 of the UN charter, then the regime change scenario will be guaranteed. 

A prophetic warning of this very possibility has already come from none other than John Bolton, Trump's rabid neo-con national security advisor. He has already stated that a disarmament agreement with North Korea could be based on the disarmament agreement with Libya. And we all know what happened to Libya and its leader Muammar Ghaddafi after he 'disarmed.'

The US establishment is intellectually and morally incapable of making a genuine peace with North Korea without any evil ulterior motives.

The stench of future US betrayal of NK will be thick in the air at whatever venue these two will meet.

A Dotard and His Bombs

The end-result of all the Skripal and Syrian chemical attack fakery has led the US and its feckless vassals to bomb Syria, without any shred of credible evidence to justify their criminal and illegal action.

All the US had was ‘open social media’ information; as if that can’t be faked!

Notice that this attack came right before the OPCW was to arrive in Douma to investigate the scene of the alleged chemical weapons attack. This alone looks strange.

What does the US have to hide? After all, if the US and its vassals were so sure that Syria did launch a chemical attack, they would’ve sat and waited for the guilty verdict before they did anything.

That the US rushed to act before the verdict was in shows us that they were worried about the facts getting out, and those facts would’ve contradicted all US accusations. After all, didn’t ‘Mad Dog’ say some months ago that US could not verify if Syria actually gassed anybody? So there you have it-US likes to shoot first, and ask questions later.

This seems to be a prevailing problem in the US today-verdict before proof. The US rush to punish Syria, or some other country for committing a crime they did not commit is just an extension of the same problem faced by people in the US who find themselves at the mercy of ‘US justice,’ from small county courts all the way to the white house.

There is no shortage of stories of people in the US being sentenced to years, or decades in jail only to be proven innocent after the fact.

In desperation, poor people that cannot afford a good lawyer are forced to admit to crimes they didn’t commit just to escape a longer sentence.

This same verdict before guilt, and forced confession culture extends all the way to relations with other countries.

Russia and Syria are the latest victims of this. But before them there was Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya; countries that were bombed or destroyed by the US and their criminal henchmen on the basis of false flags, false accusations and lies.

But no one should have any illusion about the success of this airstrike, or lack thereof.

Over 70 of the 103 missiles launched at Syria by the US, UK, and France, the three most powerful members of NATO, did not reach their targets. They were either shot down by Syrian air defenses using 30+ year-old Soviet-made S-200 anti-missile systems, or electronically jammed by Russia. This will not go unnoticed by the pentagoons.

It seems western technology is not that effective. Trump’s shiny, new, smart missiles were fried before impact.

Also, not all NATO members participated in the attack.

This attack was a strategic failure, and no one will ever know exactly why it was carried out. Was it to save Trump’s, May’s, and man-boy Macron’s political fortunes in the face of domestic troubles? Was it an angry reaction to Syrian and Russian successes? Was it an attempt to destroy Trump by making him do something misguided against Syria and Russia, or an attempt to goad Russia to do something to destroy Trump? Was it simply an expensive fireworks show to satisfy western defense contractor and Wall St. profit margins? Was it to hide other domestic US crimes and corruption? These are all possibilities.

This attack merely aggravated the Syrians, but it was no decisive blow to anyone but maybe Trump’s future.

This attack will only solidify and enhance Syrian-Russian cooperation and success. Add that the US avoided targeting any place where Russians were stationed, alone shows that the US is afraid of Russia’s reaction. The US didn’t even dare lob one solitary missile at any peripheral Russian targets as a cheapshot, like it did at the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the terror bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, shows that the US is scared.

The people who will pay the price will be the fools who ordered this atrocity, not Putin, not Assad, not anyone in Iran. Trump and his useless cohorts may get a bump at the polls for a minute, but that will dissipate. He has betrayed many of his supporters who voted for him mainly because he did not want to intervene in other nations’ affairs.

Trump has committed an act of cowardice. He has become a war-monger just like Bush, and will be disgraced just like Bush was.

Russia is playing the long-game in Syria, and as long as it is there, US has no good chance of succeeding. One interesting thing about this attack that no one yet has brought up is the absence of any sudden rebel offensive. Could it be that Trump has tired of supporting jihadists? Yes, he’s using their bullshit lies as a pretext for aggression to make himself feel better, but he’s not helping them in any way. That alone says volumes.

This whole fake Skripal poisoning and Syrian chemical attack allegations, and now this useless bombing were all manufactured to pressure Russia and Syria into making political and strategic concessions. But Russia won’t negotiate under pressure.

But nevertheless, the ball is now in Russia’s court. There must be a reaction to this, and a very significant one.

Russia needs to supply Syria and Iran with better air defense systems and other equipment, and training that will increase the effectiveness of their forces ability to knock out enemy aircraft to the point where most, or no enemy attacks are successful.

Better yet move would be if Russia, China, Iran and Syria organize a defense pact, and Syria and Iran go under the Russian nuclear umbrella. This would end once and for all any further US adventurism.

But something must be done, or else the fake atrocity propagandists will be back for more, the next time Syria wins a victory. 

What Russia and Syria did to the western-sponsored Wahhabi freaks in the last two years makes any US airstrikes look like pebble-throwing; a poor substitute. This will not change.

But let's conclude this essay with Trump's words from 5 years ago. He was so right then, but so wrong now.

 

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