"The US has established its
control over 191 governments which are members of the United Nations. The
conquest,occupation and/or otherwise supervision of these various regions
of the World is supported byan integrated network of military bases and
installations which covers the entire Planet (Continents, Oceans and Outer
Space). All this pertains to the workings of an extensive
Empire,the exact dimensions of which are not always easy to ascertain."
War is the Siamese twin of Corporatism
Ever-lasting wars and unregulated capitalism
are the two arms of the same monster. The Free Market is the war backed
up by a hidden armory that enables Big Capital to go on plundering the
rest of the world. Washington today still seems to believe that anything
is for theft, for sale or for conquest. The country has been blinded
ever since the success of the Marshall plan after WWII into believing
that anything can be bought. And that funds are limitless. The enormous
deficit does not seem to bother them seriously. China and Japan and
other countries own a huge part of the U.S. economy and Washington sees
them as their friendly creditors, a financial interdependence having
developed that the leaders seem to believe is here to stay. And the
game goes on. More military bases in Colombia, more money to military
intervention in Afghanistan which is of course not a war, according
to the present administration, but rather a helping hand. The fact that
there are ulterior motives for the U.S. not to abandon Afghanistan is
of course not even referred to. The hyperbole is that U.S. military
are in the country to make it more "civilized' and "democratic',
to free the Afghan women who are forced to wear burkas by the Taliban
and who have no right to get an education. The truth is though that
democracy and justice have gone out the door, if they ever existed.
As soon as corporatism takes over it's the death of democracy.
Hypocrisy and megalomania
Since United States citizens have constantly
been bombarded with self-righteous talk about their moral superiority
as well as their military/economic invincibility, it did not occur to
them at first that their leaders may be inventing a world image that
did not correspond to reality. It was a given that all nations outside
of the U.S. borders were of little importance. The superior power of
their own country, the right of U.S. military to interfere wherever
greed took their country was taken for granted. They were always morally
right and they were invincible. So they thought.
After the fall of the Soviet Union
in 1992, it became easier than ever to convince the people of the worldwide
power of the United States of America. Nothing could now stand in their
way. Therefore, the only thing that was missing at the beginning of
this century was an enemy. Then came September 11 and the whole stage
underwent a complete rearrangement. One scheme was born after the other.
Alongside with Afghanistan and then, later on, Iraq, military bases
were installed in a number of countries, which had formerly been part
of the Soviet Union. The planning went well to begin with, but more
and more those countries started to become wary of the U.S. Empire and
a competition for the favors of the "Stans' is becoming increasingly
heated between the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. builds a conclave in one
country and is kicked out of another one.
The geopolitical situation today
What the U.S. can't conquer, they
buy. For decades the United States has been paying billions to countries
like Israel, Turkey, Egypt and of course now Pakistan, among others.
Strategic countries must be kept as friends and ultimately the United
States must be able to take over the natural resources of the whole
Middle East and Central Asia region.
They actually seem to believe that they can have friendly relations with India, Pakistan and China, all at the same time, which in view of the long-term hostility between India and the other two countries seems to most of us to be pure fantasy.
Even with the economic crisis threatening
to subject the whole country to a complete meltdown, the new administration
is still playing the game as if it could get friendly with countries
like India and China while at the same time they are invading or, as
they claim, peacefully taking over countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The fact that the real reason for never giving up on Afghanistan is
the vital importance that is given to the pipeline that will give the
Unites States access to natural gas from the Caucasian region is of
course a badly kept secret for those who keep their eyes open. Getting
access through Iran is obviously seen as unrealistic, even by the fantasists
in Washington The long-time competition between Russia and the U.S.
for military bases in the countries along the southern border of Russia
concerns nothing else than the control of oil and gas exports from the
Caucasus and the Caspian Sea basin.
Reality counts for nothing. The whole
imperial agenda seems to Washington to be played out like a video game.
The fact that Afghanistan has never been conquered by any nation since
the Mongol invasion under Genghis Khan in 1219 -- 1221 does not seem
to bear any reality for the U.S. fantasists. The British tried and lost,
the Soviet Union tried and lost and Washington is still refusing to
see their Mission Impossible for what it is.
As far as Pakistan is concerned, Washington
still imagines that they can be seen as the Big Brother who has come
to mend a torn country. They are the friendly nation builders who will
win over the people and get rid of the feared Taliban and all the various
groups of religious fanatics and different shades of jihadists who are
holed up in the mountainous areas in the west of Pakistan. But they
never asked the people what they wanted. It turns out that a vast majority
of Pakistanis want more than anything else to see the Americans leave.
They see them as colonizers, not as a helping hand to mend a torn country.
This is not surprising after the drone bombings of the mountainous regions
in the West, started by President Obama very early on in his presidency.
Changes at home
Washington's major goal is to keep
everybody else from getting the upper hand on the income from the precious
oil and the general control of the region. As a result American citizens,
suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, see their lives
and livelihoods being shattered, while their tax money goes to the upkeep
of client states that will serve as buffers against countries that threaten
U.S. domination of Central Asia, in particular Iran. It's all about
control. Controlling the whole world, even if it takes making newly
Capitalist China a friend. Which no one else has ever managed to do.
