The Life Blood of Humanity on the Grand Chessboard
Russia is playing for its life and the extinction or slavery of all humanity is in the balance. Trump is as crazy as Biden. His vigour is even more threatening
[I copy this map from Larry C. Johnson’s article on Sonar 21, “Will Russia Help Defend Iran Against a US/Israel Attack?” By Larry C. Johnson on 2 April 2025]
The threat of possible air attack on Iran by nuclear armed US bombers reminds me of this item from the past:
<< US ‘PLANS TO ATTACK SEVEN MUSLIM STATES'
<< Presidential hopeful General Wesley Clark says the White House devised a five-year plan after the 9/11 strikes to attack seven majority-Muslim countries.
22 Sep 2003
<<A former commander of NATO’s forces in Europe, Clark claims he met a senior military officer in Washington in November 2001 who told him the Bush administration was planning to attack Iraq first before taking action against Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan… >>
When in 2015 Russia went into Syria to save it from being overcome by Al-Qaeda and ISIS and other (in my view) US/UK/Israeli funded and supported terrorists I argued that Russia had to intervene because allowing Syria to be broken up by Western supplied terror armies would threaten Russia’s southern flank seriously and soon.
By 2015 Russia had already been threatened by NATO’s June 2008 declaration that it intended to absorb Georgia and Ukraine which immediately was followed by the attempt by Georgia to seal off the Roki Tunnel from South Ossetia to North Ossetia which Russia prevented. Already Russia had fought two wars to prevent Chechnya from being taken by CIA supported terrorists. The atrocity at the Bejan School in 2004 had alerted Russia as well. The pattern was plain to see.
In my view, Syria fell to the weakening effect of US sanctions and the “covert” actions of the CIA/MI6/Israeli and mercenary terrorists aided by Erdogan’s treachery.
As a bulwark against Western encroachment on Russia, Syria was never satisfactory because Turkey is in the way and Turkey will always be unreliable.
Russia’s defensive line has had to move back until the buffer zone is contiguous with Russia’s security sphere. This means Iran. Iran is the last of the seven nations that the George W. Bush administration’s Neocons targeted in 2001.
Iraq and Syria took a grindingly long process and Afghanistan was an exhausting drain and maybe a ‘bridge too far’ in driving a wedge between Russia and China. But never mind, so the senescent Zionist Neocons believe. On to Iran and then Moscow and Beijing.
So now we have another Zionist US President apparently about to land a nuclear bomb on Iran.
The American/Zionist Empire is as senile as its leaders. They began playing chess on the grand chessboard of Eurasia with Russia in the days of their youth in the 1990s. They are up against the grand master.
The real hazard is that Zionist Neocon Washington will flip the board by dropping a nuke at the behest of homicidal/suicidal Israel. They are Zionist enough and crazy enough to burn down the whole human species.
Israel right now is all too reminiscent of Hitler in his last bunker in April 1945. Zionism and Nazism are twins from birth. Ceasefire in Ukraine and ceasefire in Palestine are equally despised. This is not a co-incidence, it’s a continuation.
There is no way in the sane world that Russia can let Iran be destroyed. Iran is as existential as is Ukraine. Ukraine is one or two moves from capture by Russia. Iran is four moves ahead. Russia castled last year. Now Iran is threatened on the Queen’s side of the Grand Chessboard. Russia anticipated this and prepared. She must be successful in the defence or Mother Russia’s great game falls apart.
II
The game of this 21st century was set on September 11, 2001. It proceeds logically out of almost the entire 20th century. World War 1 and World War 2 and, now, World War 3 (not yet nuclear and, please merciful heaven it won’t be) are all the same war. I call it the Hundred Years’ War of our historical epoch.
It is my firm contention that on September 11, 2001 the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon Building in Washington DC were attacked by agents of the State of Israel with CIA personnel and key actors within the US military and the G.W. Bush administration in support.
Further, I note the fact that the Bush administration was almost a complete transplant into executive power over the USA and the Pentagon of signatories to Projects for a New American Century. The most vital consequence of that was what amounted to a take-over of Washington DC by the Wolfowitz Doctrine, which Paul Wolfowitz introduced even as the USSR was collapsing in 1991. This doctrine was adopted by the US air, sea, land and space forces, essentially abandoning the defensive doctrine which had held through the Cold War and adopting an aggressive projection of US “Full Spectrum Dominance” over the entire globe.
Wikipedia’s bare facts summary is useful:
<< The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., that focused on United States foreign policy. It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan … >>
[Husband of Victoria “fuck-the-EU” Nuland of Maidan Coup infamy.]
<< One of the PNAC's most influential publications was a 90-page report titled Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources For a New Century...
<< Written before the September 11 attacks and during political debates of the Iraq War, a section of Rebuilding America's Defenses titled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" became the subject of considerable controversy: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”… >>
Wolfowitz was a key PNAC member and a fervent Zionist along with PNAC’s members and founders including Robert Kagan and his wife Victoria Nuland. Their fanatical Zionism means that PNAC was founded on implacable hostility to Russia and unwavering loyalty to Israel. This loyalty is above their loyalty to the United States of America in their minds.
Essentially the Wolfowitz Doctrine of Full Spectrum Dominance was to use the US military to prosecute the ambitions of the State of Israel regionally and then globally, as a part of conquering and breaking up Russia and colonizing all of Eurasia in “the New American Century”.
It is important to note, however uncomfortable it is to note it, that PNAC was an association of American Zionists whose American Imperialism was part and parcel of the seamless alliance between US Military hegemony and the State of Israel. To these “Neocons” America’s military was useful only for the realization of the vision of the State of Israel. The American Empire was the same as the Israeli Empire. And one cannot escape the feeling that it was also the active ghost of the British Empire.
Eurasia is still as Halford McKinder’s 1904 book, The Geographical Pivot of History, named it. "The World Island”, the “Heartland” of earth and the sine qua non of global hegemony. Conquering and colonizing Russia and all of Eurasia was the goal of the British Empire throughout the 19th century. Breaking up Russia and “containing” – a euphemism for colonizing – China was and is the same goal of its inheritor, the American Empire.
In my view, the ambition to conquer the world island fits neatly into the establishment of the State of Israel as a new Crusader state, a colonial beachhead.
Zbigniew Brzezinski made this grandiose vision explicit in his book The Grand Chessboard.
Amazon’s bumf is interesting:
<< THE GRAND CHESSBOARD: AMERICAN PRIMACY AND ITS GEOSTRATIGIC IMPERATIVES
<< By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Sept 18, 1998
<< As the twentieth century draws to a close, the United States has emerged as the world’s only superpower: no other nation possesses comparable military and economic power or has interests that bestride the globe. Yet the critical question facing America remains unanswered: What should be the nation’s global strategy for maintaining its exceptional position in the world?…
<< Central to his analysis is the exercise of power on the Eurasian landmass… Eurasia is the ”grand chessboard”... The task facing the United States, he argues, is to manage the conflicts and relationships in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East so that no rival superpower arises to threaten our interests or our well-being… in each arena: Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and East Asia. The ... implosion of the Soviet Union has created new rivalries ... NATO expansion offers Russia the chance to undo the mistakes of the past, and why Russia cannot afford to toss this opportunity aside. Why the fate of Ukraine and Azerbaijan are so important to America. Why viewing China as a menace is likely to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why America is not only the first truly global superpower but also the last …>>
Oh those intoxicating days! The heady effulgence off decaying and fermenting Russia went to Zbiggie’s head. Expanding NATO would embrace Russia even as economic hit men and gangsters were swarming like blowflies over the former Soviet Union. It would be a heavenly and warm afterlife indeed if only Russia would forget about partnering up with China. I think I recall that Russia offered to join NATO around that time.
OOPS! That wasn’t the plan. I can’t let go of a sentence in L. Fletcher Prouty’s 1992 book “JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy”. Referring to the CIA:
<< This is what the destruction of sovereignty and disregard of the rule of law means, and it will not stop there. With it will go property rights (as we have witnessed in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union) and the rights of man….>>