Can The World Survive Washington’s Hubris?
When President Reagan nominated me as Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Economic Policy, he told me that we had to restore the US
economy, to rescue it from stagflation, in order to bring the full
weight of a powerful economy to bear on the Soviet leadership, in order
to convince them to negotiate the end of the cold war. Reagan said that
there was no reason to live any longer under the threat of nuclear war.
The Reagan administration achieved both goals, only to see these
accomplishments discarded by successor administrations. It was Reagan’s
own vice president and successor, George Herbert Walker Bush, who first
violated the Reagan-Gorbachev understandings by incorporating former
constituent parts of the Soviet Empire into NATO and taking Western
military bases to the Russian frontier.
The process of surrounding Russia with military bases continued unabated through successor US administrations with various “color revolutions” financed by the US National Endowment for Democracy, regarded by many as a front for the CIA. Washington even attempted to install a Washington-controlled government in Ukraine and did succeed in this effort in former Soviet Georgia, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin.
The President of Georgia, a country located between the Black Sea and
the Caspian Sea, is a Washington puppet. Recently, he announced that
former Soviet Georgia is on schedule to become a NATO member in 2014.
Those old enough to remember know that NATO, the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, was an alliance between Western Europe and the US
against the threat of the Red Army overrunning Western Europe. The North
Atlantic is a long, long ways from the Black and Caspian Seas. What is
the purpose of Georgia being a NATO member except to give Washington a
military base on the Russian underbelly?
The evidence is simply overwhelming that Washington–both parties–have
Russia and China targeted. Whether the purpose is to destroy both
countries or merely to render them unable to oppose Washington’s world
hegemony is unclear at this time. Regardless of the purpose, nuclear war
is the likely outcome.
The presstitute American press pretends that an evil Syrian
government is murdering innocent citizens who only want democracy and
that if the UN won’t intervene militarily, the US must in order to save
human rights. Russia and China are vilified by US functionaries for
opposing any pretext for a NATO invasion of Syria.
The facts, of course, are different from those presented by the
presstitute American media and members of the US government. The Syrian
“rebels” are well armed with military weapons. The “rebels” are battling
the Syrian army. The rebels massacre civilians and report to their
media whores in the West that the deed was done by the Syrian
government, and the Western presstitutes spread the propaganda.
Someone is arming the “rebels” as obviously the weapons can’t be
purchased in local Syrian markets. Most intelligent people believe the
weapons are coming from the US or from US surrogates.
So, Washington has started a civil war in Syria, as it did in Libya, but this time the gullible Russians and Chinese have caught on and have refused to permit a UN resolution like the one the West exploited against Gaddafi.
To get around this roadblock, fish out an ancient Phantom fighter jet
from the 1960s Vietnam war era and have Turkey fly it into Syria. The
Syrians will shoot it down, and then Turkey can appeal to its NATO
allies to come to its aid against Syria. Denied the UN option,
Washington can invoke its obligation under the NATO treaty, and go to
war in defense of a NATO member against a demonized Syria.
The neoconservative lie behind Washington’s wars of hegemony is that
the US is bringing democracy to the invaded and bombed countries. To
paraphrase Mao, “democracy comes out of the barrel of a gun.” However,
the Arab Spring has come up short on democracy, as have Iraq and
Afghanistan, two countries “liberated” by US democratic invasions.
What the US is bringing is civil wars and the breakup of countries,
as President Bill Clinton’s regime achieved in former Yugoslavia. The
more countries can be torn into pieces and dissolved into rival
factions, the more powerful is Washington.
Russia’s Putin understands that Russia itself is threatened not only
by Washington’s funding of the “Russian opposition,” but also by the
strife among Muslims unleashed by Washington’s wars against secular
Muslim states, such as Iraq and Syria. This discord spreads into Russia
itself and presents Russia with problems such as Chechen terrorism.
When a secular state is overthrown, the Islamist factions become free
to be at one another’s throats. The internal strife renders the
countries impotent. As I wrote previously, the West always prevails in
the Middle East because the Islamist factions hate one another more than
they hate their Western conquerers. Thus, when Washington destroys
secular, non-Islamist governments as in Iraq and now targeted in Syria,
the Islamists emerge and battle one another for supremacy. This suits
Washington and Israel as these states cease to be coherent opponents.
Russia is vulnerable, because Putin is demonized by Washington and
the US media and because Putin’s Russian opposition is financed by
Washington and serves US, not Russian, interests. The turmoil that
Washington is unleashing in Muslim states leaks back to Russia’s Muslim
populations.
It has proved to be more difficult for Washington to interfere in
China’s internal affairs, although discord has been sowed in some
provinces. Several years from now, the Chinese economy is expected to
exceed in size the US economy, with an Asian power displacing a Western
one as the world’s most powerful economy.
Washington is deeply disturbed by this prospect. In the thrall and
under the control of Wall Street and other special interest business
groups, Washington is unable to rescue the US economy from its decline.
The short-run gambling profits of Wall Street, the war profits of the
military/security complex, and the profits from offshoring the
production of goods and services for US markets have far more
representation in Washington than the wellbeing of US citizens. As the
US economy sinks, the Chinese economy rises.
Washington’s response is to militarize the Pacific. The US Secretary
of State has declared the South China Sea to be an area of American
national interest. The US is wooing the Philippine government, playing
the China threat card, and working on getting the US Navy invited back
to its former base at Subic Bay. Recently there were joint
US/Philippines military/naval exercises against the “China threat.”
The US Navy is reallocating fleets to the Pacific Ocean and
constructing a new naval base on a South Korean island. US Marines are
now based in Australia and are being reallocated from Japan to other
Asian countries. The Chinese are not stupid. They understand that
Washington is attempting to corral China.
For a country incapable of occupying Iraq after 8 years and incapable
of occupying Afghanistan after 11 years, to simultaneously take on two
nuclear powers is an act of insanity. The hubris in Washington, fed
daily by the crazed neocons, despite extraordinary failure in Iraq and
Afghanistan, has now targeted formidable powers–Russia and China. The
world has never in its entire history witnessed such idiocy.
The psychopaths, sociopaths, and morons who prevail in Washington are leading the world to destruction.
The criminally insane government in Washington, regardless whether
Democrat or Republican, regardless of the outcome of the next election,
is the greatest threat to life on earth that has ever existed.
Moreover, the only financing the Washington criminals have is the
printing press. In a subsequent column I will examine whether the US
economy will complete its collapse before the war criminals in
Washington can destroy the world.
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