{"id":1559928,"date":"2025-08-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1559928"},"modified":"2025-08-23T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:00:00","slug":"escobar-even-after-the-headmasters-humiliation-europe-insists-that-peace-is-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/escobar-even-after-the-headmasters-humiliation-europe-insists-that-peace-is-war\/1559928\/","title":{"rendered":"Escobar: Even After The Headmaster’s Humiliation, Europe Insists That Peace Is War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Escobar: Even After The Headmaster’s Humiliation, Europe Insists That Peace Is War<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The Empire of Chaos is at war, hybrid and otherwise, not only against BRICS, but against Eurasia integration…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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It took just one pic to imprint on posterity the utter humiliation of the EUrotrash political elites in Year 2025: the Coalition of the Twats, <\/strong>in the Oval Office, lining up like a bunch of frightened schoolkids, severely reprimanded by His Master\u2019s Voice \u2013 the Headmaster cum Circus Ringmaster.<\/p>\n

That was also neatly described as\u00a0Trump breaks Europe over his knee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course,\u00a0President Putin had already predicted it<\/a>, over six months before the fact:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI assure you, Trump, with his character and persistence, will restore order quite quickly. And all of them, you\u2019ll see, soon all of them will stand at the master\u2019s feet and gently wag their tails.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The White House humiliation sealed the deal, and reconfirmed an obsession: for the EUrotrash \u201cleadership\u201d, at all levels when it comes to relations with Russia, Peace is War.<\/p>\n

Brandishing their warped logic, they cannot possibly understand that if Ukraine is instrumentalized \u2013 actually since before Maidan in 2014 \u2013 to harass and destabilize Russia in its western borders, Russia will forcefully counter-attack.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s at the heart of the Russian concept of \u201cunderlying causes\u201d of the Ukraine tragedy, which must be thoroughly addressed if there is any real shot at Trumpian or not Trumpian \u201cpeace\u201d.<\/p>\n

In the Big Picture, that translates as the Empire of Chaos and Russia sitting down to set up a new \u201cindivisibility of security\u201d arrangement \u2013 just like Moscow proposed in December 2021: then, it was met by a non-response response.<\/p>\n

EUrotrash Inc.\u2019s new delirium is to attribute to itself the design of the future borders between a re-weaponized Europe and a Russia that will inevitably inflict on it a massive strategic defeat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a very long shot to imagine that Trump is capable, by himself, of imposing a new strategic reality on the warmongering yet penniless Coalition of the Twats. Whatever happens to rump Ukraine, Trump, based on his own twist and turn vociferations, actually wants Europe to \u201ccontain\u201d Russia from now on, using an arsenal of ridiculous expensive American weapons.<\/p>\n

So what changes is the character of this particular chapter of the Forever Wars: it will be fought by the Coalition of the Twats, and not by Americans.<\/p>\n

In the short term, that also unveils the only strategy available for the EUrotrash\/Kiev combo: outlast Trump until the 2026 mid-terms, destroy the remainder of his presidency, and be secure with the return of the mega-Russophobe gang in 2028.<\/p>\n

Which Dead Hand will prevail?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

And old school Deep State hand, who had privileged access to all Cold War era honchos, sums up the pitfalls ahead for Russia:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRussia is taking too long to neutralize Ukraine, allowing time for NATO to reignite diversions. While the snail offensive in Ukraine does save lives, NATO seeks to weaken Russia\u2019s strategic position in the Balkans and elsewhere that can cost far more lives in the future. If the Slavs in the Balkans are crushed that can strategically weaken Russia\u2019s overall position, and that is far more costly than a major lightning offensive a la Stalin in Russian Ukraine. Russia must finish this war now and turn to its southern problems in the Balkans and the intrigues in Baku.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump of course is oblivious to these Big Picture niceties. <\/strong>At best he admits, to Fox News, that \u201cUkraine will not regain Crimea\u201d and \u201cUkraine will not join NATO.\u201d But he does not seem to mind that \u201cFrance, Germany and the UK want to deploy troops in Ukraine\u201d as part of the new kabuki: \u201csecurity guarantees\u201d. That is an inter-galactic red line for Moscow.<\/p>\n

In parallel, it\u2019s wishful thinking to believe that Putin is now finally ready to negotiate \u201cpeace\u201d. This is not about peace; it\u2019s always about coming up with incontrovertible facts on the battle field, because Moscow knows this war will only be won in the battle field.<\/p>\n

Russian forces have reached the final Ukraine defensive line in Donbass: Slavyansk-Kramatorsk. And is fast encircling key strongholds near Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka. Talk about a strategic\/psychological turning point. From there, the \u2013 steppe \u2013 sky is the limit.<\/p>\n

Compound it with the\u00a0combined hacking<\/a>\u00a0of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine \u2013 which revealed that Kiev\u2019s losses, in terms of dead and missing, amount to a staggering 1.7 million.<\/p>\n

All of the above means that we are fast approaching the fateful moment when the victor dictates the full terms of the enemy\u2019s capitulation. No need to march to Bankova in Kiev and plant the Russian flag.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To indulge in a tawdry Trump-spun \u201cpeace\u201d agreement carries an overlapping amount of serious strategic defeats for Russia. For example: leaving Odessa and Kharkov to MI6 and Brit machinations. At the same time Moscow needs to start paying much closer attention to its underbelly in the South Caucasus front, where the mellifluous Turkish drive is to establish a pan-Turanic belt\/corridor.<\/p>\n

The Empire of Chaos is at war, hybrid and otherwise, not only against BRICS, but against Eurasia integration. Some of its implications will certainly be discussed in the upcoming SCO summit in Tianjin, on August 31\/September 1st. Putin, Xi, Modi, Pezeshkian will all be at the table.<\/p>\n

And that should impress on all players the imperative of BRICS and SCO, sooner rather than later, representing Eurasia, getting their act increasingly together, turbo-charging not only their economic but also geostrategic cooperation. There\u2019s only one way to go: negotiate with the increasingly out of control Empire of Chaos as a group. Putin and Xi already now it. Lula and Modi are starting to get the picture.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the temptation is irresistible to frame Putin as granting Trump a magnanimous exit: to get out of the imperial strategic defeat in Ukraine while saving face.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem is the massive Peace is War front will never accept it. And that goes way beyond EUrotrash Inc., including Atlanticist old money, key players in international finance, and the walking dead but not really dead neo-cons.<\/p>\n

Russia, China, BRICS\/SCO need to be on red alert 24\/7. The Peace is War front is already in the process of converting themselves into the NBT front: nuclear threats, bioweapons and terror attacks. <\/strong>Russia may have the Dead Hand \u2013 which will exterminate any attacker. The NBT front at best has the scrawny dead hand of a dead man walking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 08\/23\/2025 – 07:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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