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The Deep State Is Still Sabotaging Presidential Policies
Ambassador M.K. Bhadrakumar reminds us of subtle maneuvers by deep state actors to sabotage presidential policies.
When a U.S. spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union President Dwight Eisenhower had not be informed about its real mission. The CIA claimed that it had been a weather plane that went off course after its pilot was incapacitated. The president repeated that tale.
The Soviets then published that the wreckage of the U-2 spy plane had been recovered and the pilot captured alive. The Soviets were miffed of being lied to and Eisenhower's attempt of detente with them failed.
Bhadrakumar sees a parallel in the recent Ukrainian drone attacks on strategic bomber on several Russian air field.
President Trump, in a call with the Russian president Putin, claimed that the U.S. had had no knowledge of the attack. That is, as several former CIA members confirm, implausible. The operation had been the making for 18 month which means that it had been initiated under President Biden. U.S. and/or British intelligence was certainly involved in designating the targets.
It seem that Trump, like Eisenhower before him, was not informed and thus embarrassed himself.
While Trump was talking with Putin Russian officials warned that deep state forces within the U.S. have not changed their anti-Russian aims:
Moscow should take very seriously reports that certain circles in the United States want to see Russia destroyed, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at a news conference at TASS ..
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"The fact that certain circles in the United States have been and are still hatching plans to move towards eradicating Russia as a state is also undeniable. It is enough to follow the discussions that are taking place, including on political science platforms. We should not underestimate the consequences of such a mindset," the deputy minister noted.
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His comments came in response to the words of Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in an interview with Le Monde, who argued that former US President Joe Biden, during his administration, mentioned a desire to destroy Russia.
Ryabkov probably though of an upcoming conference about the 'fracturing states' of 'one of the globe’s last colonial empires', i.e. Russia, by the CIA connected Jamestown Foundation. The invitation to the conference says:
The Kremlin’s imperial ambitions in Ukraine come at the cost of potential mutinies, fracture, and dissolution at home. Understanding the consequences of Russia’s deteriorating internal conditions will be the main topic of the upcoming conference, which will involve experts in foreign affairs, defense, and geopolitics, along with representatives of Russia’s captive nations long-recognized by the United States. Russia is one of the globe’s last colonial empires, denying captive nations the right to self-determination and independence. Whether it remains an aggressive imperial power committed to threatening its neighbors or otherwise devolves into fracturing states, U.S. and allied policymakers cannot afford to ignore Russia’s future.
While Trump is at least somewhat attempting to create better relations with the Russian Federation parts of the foreign policy blob are still dreaming of dismantling it.
We are seeing similar attempts of counteracting presidential policies with regards to China.
On May 11 during trade talks between the U.S. and China in Geneva both sides agreed to calm things down:
Both sides reduced their tariffs. China also promised to reduce some of its non tariff measures:
China will [..] adopt all necessary administrative measures to suspend or remove the non-tariff countermeasures taken against the United States since April 2, 2025.
The financial markets relaxed and everyone was happy about it.
But on May 14, the very same day the new rules were to apply, the U.S. introduced new and extremely harsh measures against Chinese products:
The US Commerce Department issued guidance stating that the use of Huawei Technologies Co’s Ascend artificial intelligence (AI) chips “anywhere in the world” violates the government’s export controls, escalating US efforts to curb technological advances in China.
The agency’s Bureau of Industry and Security said in a statement on Tuesday that it is also planning to warn the public about “the potential consequences of allowing US AI chips to be used for training and inference of Chinese AI models”.
While this may not have been a technical breach of the Geneva agreement it certainly violated the spirit of the agreed upon Joint Statement: …
In consequence China continued to withhold export licensees for rare earth products which U.S. industries need. Trump was furious about this but seemingly without understanding what had caused China to take that step.
On Thursday a phone called between Trump and President Xi tried to calm things down (archived).
The two leaders, speaking for the first time since Trump became president, agreed to another round of high-level trade talks to follow up on the truce reached in Geneva last month, and exchanged invitations for state visits.
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Trump said on Truth Social “there should no longer be any questions respecting the complexity of Rare Earth products,” but the Chinese readout didn’t mention the issue.
On Friday, just a day after the president's attempt to calm down trade issues with China, four deep state actors set out to again sabotage him:
The U.S. in recent days suspended licenses for nuclear equipment suppliers to sell to China's power plants, according to four people familiar with the matter, as the two countries engage in a damaging trade war.
The suspensions were sent to companies by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the people said, and affect export licenses for parts and equipment used with nuclear power plants.
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Nuclear equipment suppliers are among a wide range of companies whose sales have been restricted over the past two weeks as the U.S.-China trade war shifted from negotiating tariffs to throttling each other's supply chains. It is unclear whether a Thursday call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping would affect the suspensions.
Why, just a day after Trump's call with Xi, did 'four people familiar with the matter' found it necessary to inform Reuters of this?
This is, like the withholding of information on CIA operations in Russia, a measure to embarrass the president in eyes U.S. opponents. It is also an obvious attempt to sabotage trade with China.
The Chinese will note that the president's words get counteracted by his administration. Why should they even talk with him when he is not able to impose his own policies on the people who are supposedly working for him?
In consequence U.S. companies will have wo wait longer to be allowed to purchase the rare earth products they urgently need and can only get from China.
My two cents on the human nature issue. Where there is abundance, people are happy, generous, and loving.
Where there is scarcity, things are different. For one, it depends on how many humans are involved. If it is a tribal situation, most likely what is available will be evenly distributed.
If it is a situation where there are hundreds of millions of people who are not related and don’t know each other, and there is obscene wealth at the top, while millions on the bottom struggle, there will be strife, mostly among those at the bottom, although there will be inchoate and impotent rage towards those at the top.
The way the US is set up at this time, the nastiest and most vicious rise to the top, while those inclined to cooperate are disadvantaged. Unfortunately, the ideas of society are those of the ruling class, so most people accept the viciousness of American society as “human nature”.
Back in the 1930s, there was open class struggle, and many people at the bottom saw clearly what the problem was. The USSR stood as an example of a country where there was full employment and equal distribution, and many people advocated for communism.
The USA could have had a revolution if the commies prevailed. Instead, FDR came in, took down some of the wealth and power of the ruling class, put people to work, and improved the lives of Americans enough to make it possible to stop those scary revolutionary ideas. That is the MAGA dream, although most MAGA believers would be shocked at the 90%+ tax rates that made it possible, and would oppose it, as their rulers have taught them.
Look at the rhetoric of the president in the 30s and compare it to the rhetoric of any president or Congress member now.
“In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.
Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/froos1.asp
Posted by: wagelaborer | Jun 8 2025 0:48 utc | 233
“There’s only one war that matters: The Class War.”
True, but ‘stoning the Elites’ is not the solution nor is fighting that class war.
The only way out of this is to get rid of the classes. No classes, no class war.
The existence of classes alone already IS the war – AND the victory of the ruling class.
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“There is no such a thing as the deep state.”
The ‘deep state’ is simply what does not switch every four years. It’s that ‘mass’ that remains and creates its own, lasting system of power, while the elected government is only a small puddle the camera’s point at on that giant cancer growth.
You could say, that this oh so ‘democratic’ thing about switching governments ever few years is mainly used as a cover up, especially in the USA.
They love to condemn China for their one party syste, but guess what: when you only got one party, there is no fake fight between the parties, where mainly the lies and false promises win, but the focus HAS TO be on the politics. China’s elections are all about painting that country sized picture of where the problems are which have to be solved. Western eletion’s are ignoring most problems, creating false ones as distraction and for PR and even if a real problem is mentioned, then just make fake promises around them which will be instantly forgotten after the election.
It already starts with the talk which reveal the whole problem. “Party X has won”. Why do the parties win or lose? What is that? A game show? And the citizens are just the audience? Elections should be about the country and its people. THEY win – or lose. Mainly lose…
If a shit party comes into power that keeps ruining the country and exploiting the people, who is the loser? Party Y in opposition? Or the people who now have to pay for the shit politics of the ‘winning’ party X?
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“How is the DeepState going to control this narrative?”
He doesn’t. In case you did not see it, but the MSM will just keep spewing more propaganda and stop reporting about the former lies. That’s enough. The majority will just forget about it. I call it the ‘event brain’. It’s all just events. No matter what or how big how impactful, everything is just an event like some saturday night life show and the next day forgotten. This way you can keep the show running endlessly, because such an even brain will never learn, it will just enjoy the next event you throw at it.
NOTHING of what we got now is in any ways new. It is like that since decades, partly like centuries and much longer. The event brain does not learn from any of that. Else we would live in a completely different world already.
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“Why wasn’t the more capable Russian nuclear-capable aircraft attacked?
Pure luck?
Too provocative?”
You can only guess. IMO it indeed points to the western control of that, because for Ukraine it made zero sense. Their main problem are the tactical bomber, which constantly drop those FABs. The strategical bomber make zero difference, even if you would destroy ever single one of them, because what they do in that SMO can easily be done by other means, including those tactical bombers, land units and ships.
When it comes to PR, it would also have much more impact if much more advanced prestige bombers like the TU 160 or those tactical bombers would have been attacked – instead of all those incredible old and slow soviet time “trucks” (and in constrast to something like the TU 160, those TU 95 are pretty much that).
So yeah, it seems the ‘too provocative’ part is the point and that points again at UK or US deep state (so CIA and their shenanigans), which went for a provocation to make Russia snap.
NEVER FORGET:
The goal of NATO is to destroy Russia without being turned to dust in return. The pretty much only way for that is to make Russia crumble under inner tumult and outer, non military pressure, so if the whole world is against Russia, something NATO constantly tries to do, what is of course pretty much impossible hard to do, when the big rest of the world knows you as that bloody monster you are, often enough with a whole row of ugly, personal experiences with that bloodthirst.
But Russia going completely lunatic over their precious bombers being attacked and nuking Kiev or whatever, that would be the absolut dream of NATO. That was likely the whole idea behind it. Hoping for Russia being braindead stupid over it, killing itself in blind rage.
Yes, it’s obviously absurd that this would happen if not going for FAR, FAR more to the level where pretty much no one would doubt anymore, that NATO is now going for a nuclear attack on Russia, but that’s the problem of NATO: their dream is stupid and unreachable and would only work if Russia, China and pretty much the rest of the world would be as stupid (and evil) as our western propaganda loves to make them out to be.
NATO just despertaly clinges to that ill dream, because it’s the only thing it got left. If they give that up, they would admit, that their time of being the big bad overlord who whoops the world is over.
Posted by: Beatrice | Jun 8 2025 6:44 utc | 278
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