{"id":170759,"date":"2026-06-29T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=170759"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:59:50","slug":"us-weaponises-uighur-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2026\/06\/29\/us-weaponises-uighur-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"US weaponises Uighur terror"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LIberalism, even when not wholly blind to modern imperialism, is incapable of seeing the extent of its evil. Millions have been slaughtered on the watch of Bush Snr, Clinton, Bush Jnr, Obama, Trump 1, Biden and Trump 2 \u2013 yet liberals continue to insist a Putin, Assad or Xi is far worse, and\/or that a new figurehead in the White House can turn it all around …<\/h6>\n
… Three things which separated me from my liberal peers are that (a) democracy is largely bogus and class rule a thing, (b) the US empire is real and ever more dangerous \u2013 far more so than the \u201cnew Hitlers\u201d we are constantly invited to revile \u2013 in its efforts to lock in the unchallenged supremacy it had after the fall of the USSR, and (c) the task of corporate media, including \u2018elite\u2019 and \u2018liberal\u2019 sections, is not to hold power to account but ultimately to enable its unfettered rapacity.<\/h6>\n
The dark heart of a dying empire<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n
I would like to put in a word of support for text based news items. I almost never watch videos as they are too time consuming. I can read an article in half to a quarter of the time it takes to listen to the same words and I imagine most people can easily do it in half the time. Videos are great … but not ideal for transmitting information.<\/h6>\n
Jams O’Donnell – BTL comment on Zugzwang for Israel?<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n
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A critical part of my role – self-allotted though it feels choiceless – as steel city scribe in chief is to show how on matters that cut to the heart of power, corporate media can be trusted neither to keep us informed nor to hold said power to account. Quite the opposite in fact, though they may serve us tolerably well on other matters, <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> not all of them trivial. <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A lesser part of the job description is to warn against being swayed, in our opinions on matters already subject to propaganda blitz<\/strong><\/a>, by voices whose miniscule numbers and self selecting bias render then statistically unreliable. I’ve been assured, by a courageous and genuinely big-hearted friend who’d cultivated a few dissident Syrians in the UK, that a nation of 17 million people was “mightily sick” of “mansplainers” like me … by another that Ukrainians and Russians alike loathe Vladimir Putin … and by a third that media accounts of a “Xinjiang genocide” now thoroughly discredited had been corroborated by a handful of Uighurs met on her travels.<\/p>\n

All three are highly intelligent and expensively educated. One is an academic with a doctorate in social science who can be assumed well versed in epistemology, research methodology and the pitfalls for the unwary of generalising from small and atypical samples. Which does nothing to counter a conclusion I drew in my last years in academia, when “critical thinking skills” were a hot topic in pedagogic circles intent on imparting them to undergraduates; viz,\u00a0<\/em>that uncritical thinking has less to do with cognitive skill deficit than emotional bias. On matters pressing our more visceral buttons we all, Oxbridge don as readily as bar room bore, regress in the blinking of an eye to the level of a toddler throwing a tantrum.<\/p>\n

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Bear these thoughts in mind as I change tack for a moment before getting to the main course. I’ve recently, i.e. belatedly, grown wary of the wishful thinking of many anti-imperialists – yours truly not excepted – who consult only the sources which tell us what we want to hear. The fall of Syria was salutary, since voices I’d hitherto heeded and featured in my own writings had voiced inside-track confidence that no such thing could happen. These weren’t charlatans but folk with their hearts in the right place. Amid the fog of war, egg on the face is a risk we take when having the balls to raise head above parapet. I’m less forgiving, however, of those who make no public acknowledgement of their errors, and carry on carrying on as if they’d never made a wrong call in all their puff.<\/p>\n

(They serve as mirror opposites to the pundits – not only ‘universalist’ liberals like George Monbiot<\/strong><\/a> but most of the far Left<\/strong><\/a> – who, having vilified Bashar al-Assad and his Damascus ‘regime’, have fallen weirdly silent on what has happened to that rape scene of a country since December 2024.)<\/p>\n

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On June 19 I posted part 1 of a series – US control of global energy?<\/strong><\/a> – whose subsequent posts I’ve yet to pen. It features an essay in which Nel Bonilla cautions against the twin errors for anti-imperialists on the one hand of despairingly assuming an empire run by a cabal both omnipotent and infallible; on the other of taking each and every setback for that empire – with the war it launched on February 28 as big a setback as they come – to be Writing On The Wall.<\/p>\n

Though there are differences between Nel Bonilla and Brian Berletic, there is common ground too. What I see in those – Nel’s second group – who underestimate empire’s capacity to learn and adjust is a focus on one or two squares of a geopolitical chessboard to the exclusion of the many others. As it happens Brian’s frequent use of chessboard analogies, to place the seizing or forfeiture of pawns or even rooks and bishops in the context of a longer game, can be likened to Nel’s reminder – her analogy is urban planning – that:<\/p>\n

… empires, like city governments, do not surrender when a policy fails. They evaluate, they consult their stakeholders, they conduct studies, and they adapt. To think that there is a grand masterplan or likewise to insist that there is no plan at all, are assumptions with political consequences. I want to explain why, from the perspective of someone who has spent years studying planning.<\/h6>\n
Bonilla, June 2026, Planning, Not Masterplans<\/span><\/a><\/h6>\n
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Here to continue the theme, with particular emphasis on empire’s use of proxy forces – fascists in Ukraine; Islamist terror not just in the Middle East but Central Asia, Caucasus and China itself – and CIA\/NGO funded colour revolution in states whose information ecosystems have been captured by US soft power, is the Bangkok based former US Marine analyst, Brian Berletic. In deference to Jams O’Donnell – second opening quote – I’m for once featuring Brian not in a podcast but a written piece six days ago. As ever he insists on not viewing local and regional issues in isolation from that global chessboard. As ever he fleshes out his own framework with factual evidence ignored by corporate media. And as ever he draws on the imperial hub in its own words.<\/p>\n

US Prepares Terrorist Army to Expand its Dirty War on China<\/a><\/h1>\n
The US media has invested in recent years in rehabilitating Uyghur Chinese extremists now based in Syria, depicting them as \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d<\/em>\u00a0whose ultimate goal is to\u00a0\u201cliberate\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(carve off) territory in western China and are preparing to fight China across Eurasia \u2014 adding to an already ongoing dirty war the US has been waging against China over the 20th and 21st centuries.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

A Familiar Pattern<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
From the Cold War to present day, the United States has actively created and used the world\u2019s worst terrorist organizations to advance US geopolitical objectives worldwide. This includes the creation and use of Al Qaeda* (through local chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood) in the 1970s and 1980s in Syria and their export to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union until their withdrawal in 1989.<\/span><\/div>\n

It also includes the use of these same terrorists to divide and disrupt unified resistance to invading US forces in Iraq from 2003 onward and the eventual region-wide US reordering of the Arab World spanning Libya and Egypt in North Africa to Yemen and\u00a0Syria<\/a>\u00a0in the Middle East beginning under the likewise<\/span>\u00a0US-engineered<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cArab Spring\u201d\u00a0<\/em>in 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

From North Africa to Central Asia, the US has admittedly utilized terrorist organizations listed by the US State Department itself as such to both target nations the US military cannot attack directly and to serve as a pretext for US invasions and occupations in nations the US seeks to attack more directly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other episodes in which this US strategy has been employed include against both Russia in its southern Caucasus region and even as far as China in East Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n

While both Russia and China appear to have successfully neutralized this malicious method of proxy warfare utilized by Washington within their respective borders, the US continues not only arming and building up terrorist forces for future conflicts but is also shaping public perception to depict such use of US-sponsored terrorism as somehow supporting\u00a0\u201cfreedom fighters\u201d\u00a0<\/em>against\u00a0\u201cauthoritarian\u201d<\/em>\u00a0governments.<\/span><\/p>\n

US Media Reintroducing Uyghur Terrorists as \u201cFreedom Fighters\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

A troubling sign that the US continues seeking to use extremists specifically tailored for attacking China and its investments and projects across Eurasia is a May 2026 National Public Radio (NPR)\u00a0<\/span>article<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>titled \u201cThe\u00a0foreign fighters who helped topple Assad \u2014 and why China worries about them.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Read in full at New Eastern Outlook …<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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