{"id":1886,"date":"2021-08-27T01:53:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T02:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2021-08-27T01:53:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T02:53:19","slug":"bidens-gambit-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malvinartley.com\/blog.malvinartley.com\/2021\/08\/27\/bidens-gambit-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden’s gambit in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post follows upon the two-part post on the American\/NATO pull-out of Afghanistan. The hysteria and negative reporting in the American media has been going on at full throttle, with reports already steering the narrative in the public toward sanctioning the Afghanis and at the very least delaying recognition of any government that is to be formed. The hot war that has now ended is shifting toward a covert and hybrid war, with the effort to keep Afghanistan destabilized already taking shape. This post will be more of a focus on the US, though, along with the astrology of the US and what it will mean for the nation in the immediate years ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first post on Afghanistan<\/a><\/span> we looked at the government that has just fallen and the background on the 2001 war and how it evolved over time. In the 2nd<\/sup> post<\/a><\/span> we had a look at the events and a few possibilities as to what is to emerge with the new government, currently in formation. In this post we have a look at what the basis of every war involves \u2013 cui bono? \u2013 who has ultimately benefited from the war in Afghanistan and in a wider sense, the \u2018War on Terror\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Leo Blue Moon letter<\/a> <\/span>we expanded a little on what had taken place in Afghanistan and mention was made of a direction in the US chart that was most prevalent on the ides of August:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn October of last year I did a post where I was tracking the special relationship<\/a><\/span>. There were solar arc directions of Pluto to the meridian axes of both the US and the UK. For the UK that influence began in January of this year, to be exact in four months. For the United States, that direction was exact \u2013 on 15 Aug 2021<\/strong>, the day the Taliban took over in Kabul. The US and the UK have mutual Moon\/Saturn contacts in their synastry (relationship chart), so there are old karmic links between the two nations. That is not difficult to see. But Pluto directions to the MC of an individual or nation can point to one of two things \u2013 the ultimate attainment of objectives, or ruin through the misuse of power<\/strong>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We will take that as a basis. But before we look at the transits and directions to the US, and in answer to the question of cui bono, we have the following from Julian Assange<\/a><\/span>, from 2011, speaking on the war in Afghanistan<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

“The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war”<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, our tax dollars were being used to fund the \u2018fun and games\u2019 of an elite transnational security apparatus, headed by the US and UK, with hangers-on in certain Western European countries. The war made a fortune for what Ray McGovern defines as the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Counter-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think Tank) complex. The main beneficiaries have been the Anglo-European \u2018defense\u2019 industries and their shareholders, media conglomerates and covert operations, the latter having operated through the heroin rat line run out of the Kabul airport and Bagram air base.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interesting acronym, the MICIMATT. It sounds like a kids\u2019 club or playground, even a corner convenience store. \u201cI\u2019m goin\u2019 to the Micimatt for beers and chips. The game\u2019s on tonight.\u201d Americans will get it. I have heard many comments, like this one<\/a><\/span> and this one<\/a><\/span>, to the effect that the intelligence\/policy level at the MICIMATT is about on par with the comparison, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

But seriously, to put the matter succinctly, the wars in Afghanistan and in the Middle East\/Southwest Asia have been wars for the oligarchs and the very wealthy, all the while draining our purses and exacting chaos and destruction on foreign lands. The war and ensuing occupation have rendered Afghanistan, for instance, the 7th<\/sup>-poorest nation on Earth<\/a><\/span>, in contrast to what we were told was \u2018bringing democracy, freedom and nation-building\u2019 to Afghanistan. We\u2019ll come back to this, because there appear to be some major changes in the works.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moving on to the astrology of the US on 15 August this year, the chart for the US with transits and directions is below (bigger<\/a><\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The immediate standout is the combined direction of the natal Pluto\/Ascendant semisquare to the natal MC, activated by transiting Uranus, showing the sudden turn in the fates \u2013 the plural of fate is emphasized here \u2013 of the nation. The combination formed by the direction is MC=Pluto\/Asc, which would normally indicate the achievement of objectives and the attainment of power and authority. Indeed, Biden and Blinken both stated the US had achieved all their objectives in Afghanistan, and they had \u2013 just not the ones they stated. Instead, the objectives thus attained were for the aforementioned MICIMATT. But then, Uranus has a way of putting a big kink in the plans of mice and men.<\/span><\/p>\n

The transit of Uranus activating the direction under consideration points to, \u201cA frequent change of environment, the misfortune to live in constant anxiety and restlessness. – Extraordinary incidents and upsets, accidents\u201d. Events in Afghanistan certainly have been extraordinary in recent days, as well as upsetting. But there is more.<\/span><\/p>\n

The natal US Midheaven itself forms the midpoint MC=Mer\/Ura, which is an important aspect of the US and deserves to be read in its entirety:<\/span><\/p>\n

“A person with the ability to grasp all connective links and relationships correctly and to draw the logical conclusions from such knowledge. – An inventor, a mathematician, a physicist or a cosmobiologist. – The ability to think about a particular matter acutely and keenly and to act swiftly.”<\/span><\/p>\n

All of those points have been active in the United States in the past, a nation that is well known for its scientists, its tech and its ability to act quickly and decisively. That was particularly evident in WWII, when American threw its entire manufacturing might behind the war effort and mobilized the population toward the war as well. A lot has changed since then. We won\u2019t go into why here except to say the leadership in Washington has lost touch with the evolving world, evident in the chaotic scenes coming from Afghanistan now.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to directions to the natal MC, we see the transit of Pluto opposite the natal Mercury, showing the attempts to spin the situation in Kabul in a better light, as well as to heighten the sense of alarm in the Western public, blaming to the Taliban for the confusion and sporadic violence there. Transiting Pluto also aspected natal Uranus, the \u2018revolutionary\u2019 combination. The aspect to Uranus also activates a particular direction, though, also mentioned in the Leo Blue Moon letter, as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026We all know the nation is divided, with increasing disparities of wealth and influence and with a polarized society. This has happened two times before \u2013 once in 1896 and then in the 1930s. On all three occasions \u2013 1896, 1936 and 2020 \u2013 there was a configuration of solar arcs involving the following planets: Mercury, Ceres, Jupiter and Uranus. Each of those years was an election year. In each case there was a candidate who was demonized by the press, seen as the devil incarnate by the establishment and these periods have been characterized by extremes of inequality. Each period has been accompanied by national hysteria against the \u2018bad guy\u2019 \u2013 a \u2018bad guy\u2019 who was loved by a sector of the populace, as in the working classes\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And hated by another. If we look at the rectangle next to directed Jupiter, we see the minutes of separation formed by directed Jupiter, noting the most recent exact direction was to Mercury, about three months ago, followed by Uranus at about 6 months (just after the election, with only 4\u2019 of separation when the Capitol building was stormed) and lastly to Ceres, exact on 6 Nov 2020 \u2013 election day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many pundits had predicted a surprise Trump win, but with Jupiter directed to Ceres, a turning point was in the works, one that would favour more progressive policies (since Uranus was involved) and which would go against the sitting government, since directed Pluto was on the MC and there had been talk of keeping the office by force, \u2018if necessary\u2019. On election day, Pluto was also transiting in aspect to all the points to which Jupiter was directed, thereby activating the directions, and showing a storm was in the works. That storm was to come in Kabul, which has thrown the current US government into disarray. Note, too, by the astrology, there would have been a storm for the government no matter who had been elected.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lastly, we note the transit of Neptune on \u2018Saigon v. 2 day\u2019 was opposite its natal position, square to natal Mars and sesquisquare the natal north node. That period of Neptune transits opposite its own place has only happened once before in US history. One example was in 1858, just before the Civil War. The country was divided then, too, over slavery. It was the year Lincoln had accepted the Republican nomination for US Senate and gave his House Divided speech<\/a><\/em><\/span>. Now we have Black Lives Matter and Critical Race Theory. But the transit itself highlights the nation\u2019s ideals. Idealism has always been a keynote of American life, and those are being challenged again in the US. And that brings up a point worth considering.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US faces no external enemies, despite what we are told. There are two wide oceans that separate the nation from Asia and Europe, a narrow isthmus at Panama to the south, and a friendly nation and the Arctic Ocean to the north. No one is going to attack the US. No one wants to. Instead, Washington tries to project its power and \u2018values\u2019 across the world, at great expense to American taxpayers, not to mention the pain and destruction it has brought to other nations. The list is long. But who exactly has benefitted from that adventurism in the past? The fact is, America hardly ever forcefully intervenes in other nations unless the interests of certain vested interests are threatened, and in these days those vested interests are largely along financial lines and control of resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why did we go bomb and destroy Libya, for instance, or Syria, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and so forth? It was for those very reasons \u2013 control of resources, and then to stop any hint of socialism and bucking of the US dollar as the world\u2019s reserve currency. It is why Iran, Russia and China are seen as the prime threats to the US at the moment \u2013 because they do not play by our rules-based order \u2013 why we still try to destabilize Venezuela and why Cuba is again on the hit list for regime change. Why have we just seen Biden\u2019s gambit, then, and why the vitriol from Trump if his aim (as he painted it) was to get the troops out? Picture this<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c2021 is 1975, America\u2019s oil problems, a real estate bubble, and an economy that\u2019s about broke have returned. Here, let me quote from the aforementioned article<\/a><\/span> on the Vietnam era situation:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe origins of the Great Inflation were policies that allowed for an excessive growth in the supply of money\u2014Federal Reserve policies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember, Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s Great Society was expensive, as was the Vietnam War, and those moon launches did not come cheap either. Nixon was forced to nix the gold standard, and the dollar became pure paper, or \u201cair\u201d if we tell the whole truth. We\u2019ve no space here to discuss the ramifications of the Great Depression, but the collapse of the Bretton Woods agreement, the establishment of the so-called Phillips curve in pursuit of lower unemployment, and other factors like fiscal imbalances and energy shortages culminated about the time Saigon was evacuated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The point being made in the quote is that the US possibly faces energy supply problems now unless it returns to fracking, which has to be heavily subsidized and which poisons the environment. Otherwise supply is left to the vagaries of the international markets in terms of pricing and supply. Iran can shut off the Strait of Hormuz, Washington had to give up on Nordstream II, which would have been an additional source of revenue for American gas, Venezuela is still sovereign, and so forth. Perhaps the point gets a little clearer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US Treasury is printing money like nobody\u2019s business<\/a><\/span>, real estate is in another bubble, propped up since the beginning of the pandemic and boosted by bailouts to Wall Street. The national debt-to-GDP ratio is into the 100+ percentile. The latest figure is approaching $30 trillion, with 100 million workers out of work. The pandemic grinds on<\/a><\/span>, with the hospitals in the US loading up again in some areas. Currency and credit derivatives have sextupled in one year alone since last year. American taxpayers cannot continually foot the bill for everything, while corporations and oligarchs pay little if any tax and demand that taxes (on them) be kept very low. Something had to give.<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden has made two telling statements in the past months:<\/span><\/p>\n