{"id":1548082,"date":"2025-07-21T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1548082"},"modified":"2025-07-21T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:20:00","slug":"escobar-and-its-one-two-three-what-are-we-fighting-for-natos-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/escobar-and-its-one-two-three-what-are-we-fighting-for-natos-wars\/1548082\/","title":{"rendered":"Escobar: And It’s One, Two, Three; What Are We Fighting For? NATO’s Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Escobar: And It’s One, Two, Three; What Are We Fighting For? NATO’s Wars<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Pepe Escobar,<\/em><\/p>\n

All of you Vietnam vets and draft resisters will recognize where this column\u2019s\u00a0headline<\/a>\u00a0is coming from. Oh yes, this ain\u2019t the late 1960s anymore, so it\u2019s time to revamp it \u2013 no AI needed \u2013 and expand it: from now on, be assured everyone in the wild, wild West will be forced to fight and\/or endure three overlapping NATO wars.<\/p>\n

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War number 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s Europe v. Russia, of course. Not proxy anymore: hot \u2018n nasty, direct. Considering the advanced rottenness of the whole Ukrainian front, new fronts are already proliferating: the South Caucasus; clandestine ops in the Baltic Sea; MI6 recruiting frenzy across Central Asia; fresh terrorism ahead in the Black Sea, especially Crimea.<\/p>\n

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson<\/a>\u00a0succinctly nailed it: we are already on WWIII. Actually we are already deep in the extended preamble to WWIII. Circus Ringmaster in D.C. and the billionaires\/donor class behind him are of course clueless. Re-reading Keynes \u2013\u00a0The Economic Consequences of the Peace<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 is an absolute must like never before. History\u00a0does (<\/em>italics mine) repeat itself. Yet this ain\u2019t 1914 or 1935; now nuclear weapons may come into play.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin and Russia\u2019s Security Council are very much aware of the high stakes. In his recent interview to Kommersant, Sergei Shoigu even rolled out\u00a0some key NATO numbers<\/a>\u00a0to stress the threat Russia faces:\u00a0over 50,000 tanks and armored vehicles; over 7,000 combat aircraft; over 750 warships; 350 military and civilian satellites; an immense\u00a0offense<\/em>\u00a0(italics mine) budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, what sly Shoigu did not say is that when push comes to shove, it only takes Mr. Khinzal, Mr. Sarmat, Mr. Zircon and Mr. Oreshnik to deliver a few strategic business cards to paralyze the whole NATO machinery in a matter of minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

War number 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s the Empire of Chaos v. Iran in West Asia, with Eretz Israel as much as proxy as a lead actor.<\/p>\n

The Circus Ringmaster \u2013 whose only \u201cstrategy\u201d is to concoct shady deals to enrich himself and shysters in his close circle \u2013 dreams of an Israeli-centric West Asia, a toxic crossover of the Abraham Accords 2.0 with the IMEC corridor, creating, as Alastair Crooke defined it, \u201ca business-led West Asia, centered on Tel Aviv (with Trump as its de facto \u2018President\u2019), and via this business connectivity corridor, be able \u201cto strike further beyond \u2013 with the Gulf States penetrating into BRICS\u2019 south Asian heartland to disrupt BRICS connectivity and corridors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using the Arabs against BRICS won\u2019t cut it even with MbZ in the UAE and MbS in Saudi Arabia, who have both realized the business scam will only work if there is real peace in Gaza; some sort of humanitarian solution for the Palestinians; and rebuilding the Gaza strip.<\/p>\n

The death cult in Tel Aviv will never allow any of the above: their plan is to kill them all, steall all their land, and eradicate their culture. And as the genocide goes on \u2013 totally legitimized by the NATO sphere \u2013 the death cult keeps bombing anything in sight, perpetrating the balkanization of Syria, and expanding Eretz Israel.<\/p>\n

War number 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It\u2019s NATO against China. Already decided in the latest summit in The Hague, side by side with the continuing war on Russia.<\/p>\n

Yet actually the scam is much bigger: it\u2019s NATO\u2019s war on BRICS.<\/p>\n

That was announced, casually, by that unspeakable Dutch mediocrity that makes former slab of Norwegian wood Stoltenberg sound like a quantum physics star. NATO\u2019s Secretary-General Rutti Frutti actually threatened India, China and Brazil directly, and ordered them to \u201ccall Putin\u201d to prevent \u201cDaddy\u201d Trump from unleashing his next Tariff Temper Tantrum (TTT).<\/p>\n

Beijing is hardly breaking a sweat. China humiliated the Circus Ringmaster by not backing down one inch in their trade\/tariff war. Russia humiliated the Circus Ringmaster by not being coerced into a pathetic \u201cceasefire\u201d \u2013 as in allowing NATO to re-arm. Iran humiliated the Circus Ringmaster by not signing an unconditional surrender. The Houthis humiliated the U.S. Navy \u2013 now that\u2019s one for the military annals \u2013 by forcing the Circus Ringmaster into a ceasefire after $1billion in failed bombing.<\/p>\n

Lula in Brazil is about to humiliate the Circus Ringmaster by affirming Brazilian sovereignty in the face of an all-out trade and financial war (Trump even threatened to tax the popular Brazilian digital payment system, PIX). If slapped with 50% tariffs, Lula said Brasilia will slap the Empire of Chaos back under a reciprocity law.<\/p>\n

The whole Circus Ringmaster shtick, with each plot twist draped in several layers of hubris and empty bluster, only accelerates the BRICS\/Global South high-speed train, now increasingly being shaped as a geoeconomic, geopolitical and geo-strategic alliance of trans-continental proportions,\u00a0reaffirmed at the Rio summit.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

All that led, of course, by what I have been describing as the new Primakov triangle: the new RIC, Russia, Iran and China, complete with their interlocking strategic partnerships. Quite a few top Chinese academics not by accident are also starting to conceptualize the emerging, \u201cpost-West\u201d environment with two new \u201cI\u201ds in BRICS: Iran and Indonesia, not India, should be at the heart of BRIICS.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Europe,\u00a0Tricontinental\u00a0<\/a>analysis has noted how the \u2013 warmongering \u2013 German BlackRock chancellor has pledged \u201c\u20ac650 billion over the next five years toward military spending in order to reach the [NATO] 5% target by 2035\u201d. That means Berlin being forced to raise \u201cabout \u20ac144 billion per year\u201d, via, what else, austerity and debt, translated into massive extra taxes on German consumers.<\/p>\n

That, in a nutshell, is the \u201cprogram\u201d for the whole, fragmented, collective West in the near future: austerity for everyone (except the 0.01%); and NATO Wars, not Diamonds, Forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 07\/20\/2025 – 23:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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