The anti-false-flag event: Or, the chicken-shit wars of late late capitalism

From Amir Khan at our China Writer’s Group

We all know what false flags are. They are contrived stagings of violence used as a pretext to justify war. We all know further the textbook false flag operations, like the Reichstag fire, the Gulf of Tonkin, 9-11, Charlie Hebdo, and most likely the so-called Al Aqsa flood of October 7.

There are many others, happening routinely on small-scales every day and all the time. Police routinely entrap people of color to justify ongoing campaigns like the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. You may have forgotten when the Occupy protesters shut down the Wisconsin legislature for 17 days in 2011, Governor Scott Walker was caught red-handed on the phone considering a plan to place an instigator in the middle of otherwise peaceful protests thus giving him the pretext to quash the uprising with force.

My point is that even when the stakes are so small (who gives a shit about the state legislative house in Wisconsin?), false-flag operations are the norm. It makes no sense to then suppose that when the stakes are much higher, world elites will not pick up the phone on a whim to discuss false-flag options. This is diplomatic par for the course.

So please stop asking for “evidence.” And stop looking for it. You have to know in your heart that this is just the way the world works. Investigate if you must but also realize that you will have to move forward even if no definitive evidence is forthcoming. Even if evidence eventually surfaces, it is always long after the fact. So what are you going to do now?

Wait?—

Why?

Because your entire view of the world is based on an objective “weighing of the evidence”—is that it? As if you never make decisions based on intuition.

But you have to intuit false-flag events not as truth per se but in order to make such events true. In a world of weaponized information, this is your only recourse. Everything is weaponized against you, even the so-called “evidence” you have managed to meticulously gather however many decades after the fact.

You are free, for instance, to talk about CIA clandestine operations in the 1950s and 60s (JFK of course, but also CIA cultural infiltration, including in areas of art, music, film and television). The evidence exists in abundance now. But these crimes are so yesterday. So why not intuit clandestine crimes happening now? Or must you wait another 50 years for evidence before you believe as true something you already know to be true?

So much for false-flags.

But what I want to discuss here is the occurrence of an event that must be equally intuited as real despite hard evidence. Where war-mongers for sure manufacture acts of staged violence for the explicit purpose of justifying further acts of violence, peacenik chicken-shit nations like China, Russia, Iran, and basically the whole rest of the world, will bend over backwards to deny even blatant acts of terrorism in order to avoid violence altogether.

Do you see what I’m getting at?

We all know that Israel killed Raisi. But the magnitude of the crime is so great that no one can face its implications. Iranian state media is not looking for a pretext; they have all the pretext they need! What they are looking for is an anti-pretext, something or someone they can blame for the mishap so that they don’t have to fight because they are too afraid to fight. Their own propagandists are working round the clock to convince you not that things really are that bad but that things really aren’t that bad. Iran’s denial of Israeli involvement is an anti-false-flag event.

The same is true of Covid-19; China knows it was a US instigated act of biological terror inflicted on its human population. But the CPC propaganda department is not working to stage some other false-flag event to take its population to war against America. They are working non-stop to convince you and their own population that America had nothing to do with Covid-19, that its origins were “natural” and that we should all work together to keep the world safe and healthy.

And what about our friends in Russia? Putin knows there are at least 25 world-threatening dangerous bioweapons labs in the Ukraine (on a magnitude much bigger and far more dangerous than Saddam’s supposed nuclear arsenal). He doesn’t exactly want to convince you they don’t exist; but he certainly doesn’t want to fight over them. He would rather plead his case to The Hague in the hope that the ICJ will give him the anti-false-flag cover he desperately needs in order to avoid fighting over an issue which, if true (which it is), entails an outbreak of war anyhow. There is simply no other option.

Any country that sets up dangerous and illegal bioweapons labs (which literally threaten humanity’s survival) on the border of your own country deserves to be wiped out. But with said pretext, Putin refuses to act. Unlike the imperialists, Putin does not need a false-flag event. He is surrounded by serious red flags but refuses to act decisively.

Anyone who thinks Putin is “winning” in the Ukraine is totally out of their mind. Putin is ensuring decades of false-flag terror directed at him; in response, he will carry on with decades of chicken-shit-silver-lining diplomatic overtures. That is, he will continue to look for anti-false flag “diplomatic” exits in order to refuse to fight; all the while, the world around Russia’s borders will continue to burn with acts of false-flag terror. Putin (or the next Russian leader after him) will ingest the blame continually and forever.

Don’t believe me? I made a prediction in 2023 that the world would go nuclear. I was wrong but only about the year because in 2024, we did go nuclear. Do you remember the brief flurry of propaganda for a single day in the aftermath of Iran’s silly act of retaliation (which killed zero people) against the April 1st Israeli strike against their embassy in Damascus?

For perhaps a total of several short hours on April 18, there was propaganda chatter in Western news outlets about an escalation in Isfahan. However, even reports on the ground in Isfahan chalked up such chatter to “fake news.” Gleeful anti-imperialist reaction “celebrated” the supposed misinformed Western media. Everything was “calm and peaceful” in Isfahan.

However, according to Pepe Escobar, the escalation was real. Israel sent a nuclear equipped F-35 over east Jordan effectively initiating a nuclear attack over the province of Isfahan via EMP, or electromagnetic pulse, which is an atmospheric nuclear detonation whereby the fallout destroys a nation’s entire electricity and communications grid. In short, an EMP nuclear strike sends a nation into the stone age in a matter of seconds, rendering all its communications, including all military and satellite, inoperable.

Russia secretly downed the aircraft thus avoiding a certain conflagration and WW3 scenario. All parties agreed to hush up the incident, including the West and Iran.

I believe this scenario most certainly happened. Israel carried out the first nuclear attack on the world since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

“But where’s your proof?!”

There is no proof! That’s what I am trying to argue fukstik. So what are you going to do? Or rather, what are you going to believe? I know what I believe.

And is this really so surprising? Pay attention to the chicken-shit world-geist. Stop crying and getting outraged over all the atrocities committed by Israel. What else do you expect Israel to do?

Aren’t you instead amazed that in light of a phony election, a scam global pandemic, the discovery of weapons of biological mass destruction, an ongoing genocide, an attempted nuclear detonation, and the assassination of a President (set aside the murder of General Soleimani), the world still hasn’t yet entered into a World War 3 conflagration? What more could possibly go wrong? Stop saying World War 3 is just around the corner. It isn’t. The world is committed to doing its utmost to prevent this from happening. We are ready to cower at even the most heinous crimes; Israel and the USA are well aware of this. They have full faith that they can escalate to their hearts’ delight! The world will refuse to fight back collectively in every case.

Still don’t believe me? We have no problem branding the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline as the single greatest act of industrial terror the world has ever known. Ever. A clear-cut act of war and easy pretext for WW3. And yet, we still have no WW3 . . .

Are you relieved by this? Do you like watching the world take it in the ass over and over again? This is becoming routine and indicative of the global decisions being carried out by all non-Western actors.

Do you remember when China caught a US nuclear armed Seawolf-class submarine off the Pratas islands in its own territorial waters in October 2021—an act of extreme military provocation? What did China do? They destroyed the ship’s sonar and allowed it to surface before escorting the vessel back to a US base in Guam—again, not wanting to escalate.

And don’t even get me started about Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. Fuck-all happened in the aftermath of that supposed act of extreme provocation as well.

In light of each of these acts (which are gaining in frequency), the imperialists only learn one thing: we can do whatever the fuck we want, we can carry out acts of extreme depravity, and not only will no one do anything, the rest of the world will bend over backwards to pretend it didn’t happen! So heads we win and tails you lose.

Keep breathing a sigh of relief every time escalation is avoided if you must (I personally throw up in my mouth). You are fully trapped within the chicken-shit war paradigm of late late capitalism. You will likely continue to express outrage at real false-flag events when the fake anti-false-flag events should trouble you more.