Political Observer wonder’s at the political desperation of a Technocrat.
Oct 03, 2024
Headline: The fury of history
Sub-headline: There can be no peace until there is regime change inside Iran.
https://www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/2024/10/the-fury-of-history
Mr. Kaplan makes no secret that he is a Neo-Conservative, as his impressive resume, as presented by Eurasia Group, makes utterly clear, and the sub-headline of his latest screed .His resume , below, simply confirms his status as a Propaganda Operative, of the once ascendent ‘Post-War Liberal Order’, under many and varied descriptors, that is now mired in the ever expanding Zionist Pogroms, with the active complicity of The American National Security State.
As a senior advisor at Eurasia Group, Robert D. Kaplan advises investors and top executives on political risks in countries around the world. Kaplan is the bestselling author of 18 books on foreign affairs and travel and a prolific essayist for numerous publications. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
In the 1980s, Kaplan was the first US writer to warn in print about a future war in the Balkans. And in the 1990s, his article “The Coming Anarchy,” arguing that population growth, ethnic and sectarian strife, disease, urbanization, and resource depletion are undermining the political fabric of the planet, was hotly debated in foreign-language translations around the world. Other positions held by Kaplan have included senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington; chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor; consultant to the US Army’s Special Forces Regiment, the Air Force, and the Marines; and member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board.
He has lectured for military war colleges, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA, major universities, and global business forums. He has briefed kings, presidents, secretaries of state, and defense secretaries, and reported from more than 100 countries. Kaplan, a graduate of the University of Connecticut, was given the Distinguished Alumni Award by his alma mater. He received the Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award by the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.
Editor: The first paragraph of his essay is a quick sketch of the end of the Cold War and the failures Gorbachev:
The Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union ended dramatically not because of a military conflict or international crisis, but because of internal domestic politics: Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms inside the Soviet Union led not to rejuvenation but to the dismantling of the communist system itself, and that, as we know, changed the world.
Editor: The self-serving Historical Pastiche of the above paragraph, compared to the two sources presented below, offer a more Historically relevant, and cogent analysis of the the Gorbachev Reforms, its Political Actors and its actual Historians!
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1520341
Editor: I will just highlight some of the the vapid propaganda of Mr. Kaplan.
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The postmodern Middle East may experience a similar fate. The military conflict between Israel and Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other Arabs can have lulls and ceasefires, but ultimately cannot truly end until there is change inside Iran. This historical process has only quickened because of the current war in Lebanon, which pits Israel against Iran’s most militarily powerful proxy force, Hezbollah.
The assassination of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on 27 September, followed by Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon, further undermines Iran, whose decades-long project in Lebanon may be turning to ashes. The regional war just ahead of us will ultimately focus on Iran itself and its military-security complex. Iranian territory will be less and less off-limits.
Its clerical regime, in power since 1979, defines the region’s era to an extent much greater than even Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, himself a historical life-force who will echo for far longer than the unmemorable mediocrities that now govern Europe and the US. But it is Iran, a country of 88.5 million and an ancient cluster of Persian civilisation (rather than many Arab countries, which are merely vague geographical expressions), that holds the key to the current regional war. Energy-rich Iran provides the money, the military training, the brilliant tactics and the dynamic ideology of revolutionary nihilism (which combines a radical Islam with an anti-Semitic fascism) that has allowed Hamas and Hezbollah to become what they are today. The older Arab-Israeli conflict over historical Palestine was a conventional contest over states and territory. But the introduction of clerical Iran has given the struggle a tiers-mondiste quality, further infused with a millenarian religious call for the annihilation of an entire people.
It is Iran that struck Israel on 7 October 2023, an event so dramatic and so bestial that it will be remembered like 9/11: a date so infamous that it becomes a concept. Of course, Iran did not do the murdering, the raping and the hostage-taking in southern Israel. Hamas and its operatives and supporters did that. Iranian leaders may not even have known about the exact timing of the event, or may even have been uncomfortable with its scope. But their long, total support of Hamas means their strategic fingerprints are all over the attack. Had Iran a different regime, there would likely have been no 7 October – no matter the anger and suffering of the Palestinians.
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This is 1342 words of Zionist Propaganda, just posting the most egregious examples of Kaplans Zionist Fascists Apologetics:
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Thus, with America being less helpful, they needed Israel as almost a corporate acquisition to aid them in their struggle with Iran in this new age of cyber warfare.
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On 7 October 2023 Sinwar’s forces launched an attack reminiscent of the Holocaust, which Sinwar knew, having learned Hebrew in an Israeli prison and understanding the mind of his enemy, would elicit an Israeli military response of such devastating proportions that it would be impossible for MBS and his fellow sheikhs to believe they could ignore their own streets, which were quietly baying for retribution against the Israelis.
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A simultaneous regional war in Lebanon and the Red Sea has been ignited as a result of the scale of the Israeli military response.
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On 7 October, that arrogance, in part, resulted in too much reliance on technology, allowing young people to congregate at a music festival protected by electronic surveillance rather than by soldiers.
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The Israeli military and intelligence services may be resourceful, but Israel’s entrepreneurial economy simply cannot sustain an Armageddon for too long. Nor are territorial concessions by Israel necessarily the answer: Gaza was a de facto independent state for two decades, with no Israeli troops or settlers.
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Many once made the mistake of thinking the shah’s system was eternal; one should not repeat the error. The collapse of the shah was a world-historical event; the collapse of Tehran’s clerical system might be too.
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Israel’s recent strikes against Hezbollah, in addition to creating the conditions for the return of 60,000 Israeli civilians to northern Israel, carries the benefit of preparing the battle space for an eventual Israeli strike on Iran.
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Editor: Self-Congratulation dominates this exercise in unapologetic Zionist Propaganda, ended in a toxic evocation of History in the lower case. What might that ‘furious’ mean except the chaos of battle, by a man, writer, pundit with no experience of what War is and means!
That’s where we are at this juncture: a year on, the 7 October attack has unleashed a chain of events that previous decades combined did not do. The pace of history is now furious.
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