US Hybrid Warfare Operations, Revised – The Duran

A few months ago, the US launched a soft regime change operation in Pakistan to overthrow former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Since the US deep state has reestablished its control over Pakistan, the risk of an Iran-Pakistan-China or Russia-Pakistan-China strategic alignment has been eliminated.

After Pakistan, Washington turned to South America, where it had to reconquer Argentina, which was achieved through the election of Javier Milei, a so-called “populist” but in fact a key lackey of Washington’s imperial agenda. He also ensured that Brazil, the continent’s heavyweight, did not escape American influence after Washington sensed unpleasant rumblings in that country.

Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and Ecuador have also been brought into the US fold, with Mexico, which is very important to the US, also under control thanks to Sheinbaum’s electoral victory. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/mexico-lopez-obrador-and-sheinbaums-presidential-victory/ Venezuela and Nicaragua are facing a redoubled US hybrid war effort against them, in order to achieve the regime change long desired by the neocons.

In Asia, Myanmar’s militaristic regime has shown resilience in the face of any color revolution or sedition within its ranks. However, Washington is arming dozens of guerrillas in Myanmar, which has now plunged into a high-intensity civil war.

In Bangladesh, Washington dismissed the former prime minister, who had become ineffective in promoting his agenda, and moved too close to India, while allowing the return of a well-known and controllable figure. (Same in the Philippines and Thailand. -ed.)

In sub-Saharan and southern Africa, all of China’s promising markets have been undermined by US-backed “Islamic State”-style guerrillas, including in countries where Islam is virtually non-existent. Washington’s counteroffensive against China in Africa is based on a tried-and-tested modus operandi that Washington has used for many years in the Middle East and has proven effective from Mali to Mozambique and from Somalia to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Thus, the old United States is no longer dependent on Britain and France to control Africa in the face of Chinese influence. Similarly, Russian influence there is seen as secondary and is being countered by a transfer of Ukrainian military training and US-backed weapons to Tuareg rebels in Mali and Sudan, which has dislocated some elements of the Wagner Group in those regions.

In Europe, the American order reigns supreme from Lisbon to Riga and from Oslo to Limassol. The American deep state has politically weakened all European states and has managed to eliminate any emergence of a “neutral” European elite, vis à vis any leader likely to advocate a policy that might offend Washington. (It is true that Hungary and Slovakia could be an exception to this rule, with anti-neoconservative rumblings also in Bulgaria — ed.)

The choice of appointments at the highest levels of European states and the European Union has become, through the shadowy “soft power” of the American deep state, a mere formality. The American logic is clear: never let a strong head of state emerge in Europe. Europe is going like the United States.

In the Middle East, Washington has eliminated Russian influence (even in Iran) (1) and has also stopped Chinese advance by blocking a Pakistan-Iraq pact, and by allowing the richest Gulf nations to strengthen their financial ties with China, in a two-pronged trap; this trap being that Washington applies sanctions and imposes tariffs on China, which the EU must then follow.

Unsurprisingly, Washington has mobilized all possible resources to “defend” Israel and is working diligently, by all available means, to restore the fiction of a regional strategic hegemony of this very fragile entity, of which Washington is the only significant guarantee of survival. However, given the total decline of Israeli governance, Washington is obliged to do everything diplomatically and militarily, everything logistically and informationally – and also economically – to avoid the internal collapse of Israel’s aggressive far-right junta.

In this regard, one must consider the threat of American nuclear annihilation broadcast to Iran through three intermediate channels, to dissuade Iran from taking retaliatory measures against the Israeli regime. This is the first time that Washington has used nuclear threats against Iran, and it reflects the extreme difficulty in which Israel finds itself, due to the blunder of an extremist government engaged in genocide. Otzma Yehuditim forced Washington to take control of Israel’s security, in conjunction with an economic guarantee.

It should also be noted that these global offensives coincide with the ongoing war in Eastern Europe/Eurasia, which is seen as the logical outcome of NATO’s long expansion eastward, and whose borders are continually being extended. Kursk Oblast — where Russia failed to provide an adequate response at an early stage — will likely determine the assessment and scope of the neoconservatives’ future plans and goals for a NATO-dominated Eurasia.

Whatever configuration is chosen, the chosen arrangement will be in line with the strengthening of the encirclement of China, because that is Washington’s primary objective. In other words, if regime change in Russia can be achieved, where regime change in Russia in favor of the West has been a US goal since 1946.

Russia’s resilience will buy China time, but it will not avoid confrontation. For its part, Washington will multiply its provocations against China, first in Taiwan but also in the East China Sea via vassal entities such as the Philippines, with the aim of provoking China – just as the United States provoked Russia in Ukraine from 2014 – and thus justify a conflict for which the United States has been preparing for at least two decades.

China has no solutions for now, and must avoid any misjudgment and ignore the provocations of the former United States, with the urgent hope of finding alternatives to economic and technological marginalization.

The allegations about failures in the US production of weapons systems, shortages of ammunition and military budget cuts regarding military aid to Ukraine and Israel represent a psychological operation carried out by the American deep state, and Washington began this ruse many years ago. The idea is to feign weakness when in fact it is militarily capable (recall that the failed/ex-US has the largest military budget in the world) and to deceive adversaries into overestimating their capabilities and making mistakes. (Editor’s note: The preceding paragraph does not match what we have seen so far in Ukraine, where NATO tactics and Western-supplied weapons have proven somewhat ineffective, even though they were plentiful – with the exception of American artillery shells, which are not.)

This author (Strategika51) has already written that: there is no shortage of weapons. There is no shortage of ammunition, no shortage of manpower, no problem of production or propaganda – or even a cryptocurrency scam. These are elements of cyberwar and psychological warfare intended to weaken the opposing side. War is the reason for being for all those living in the West, and the main trade of the Empire and its economy, and is based on the creation of new enemies to justify new wars.

(1) A questionable statement by the author presented without proof

By Strategika 51 (Translated from French to English with modifications allowed)

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