Within only a few months of Obama's speech he budgeted one trillion dollars to make a new generation of more-powerful U.S. nukes. For the neocon Obama the Brandenburg Gate speech was just another publicity stunt. [HERE]
A little over a year after the Brandenburg Gate speech, Obama would challenge Russia in Ukraine, even though Kerry, speaking for the Obama administration, said that they were "fully aware" of the risk of a possible nuclear war with Russia.
Before WW2 was even over, instead of rejecting 19th-century colonialism, the U.S. decided to pick up the pieces of the British Empire in the Middle East. The U.S. did not object when the Allies reestablished their colonies in Africa and Asia either. The Soviets though were condemned for establishing a buffer in Eastern Europe to protect it from future invasions.
After WW2 the U.S. and Great Britain moved to isolate Russia and its heresy of Communist ideology. Capitalists panicked over the perceived threat of world Communism and they declared war on it. The Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe went up. [HERE]
President Harry Truman was not shy about threatening the Russians with the Atomic Bomb. His Secretary of State James F. Byrnes told Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov that he (Byrnes) personally carried an atomic bomb in his hip-pocket, and he threatened to use it. [HERE].
President Harry Truman would engage in "Atomic Diplomacy" for what he considered 19th Century type American interests abroad. Truman committed the U.S. to a worldwide confrontation with Communism anywhere and everywhere. [HERE]
Henry Luce, the publisher of "TIME" and "LIFE" magazines, was a stanch conservative Cold Warrior. He used his magazines to promote his anti-Communist conservative dogma. [HERE]
Luce wallowed in triumphalism after WW2. He had declared the 20th century to be the "American century". He would foreshadow future Neocons and the future "main-stream media" in the propaganda of U.S. world domination, Empire and an era of Pax Americana.
Luce declared that the U.S. should "exert upon the world the full impact of its influence, for such purposes as it sees fit and by such means as it sees fit." [HERE]
Luce cheered the U.S. into a Cold War with Russia and China. His magazines served as conservative propaganda for the Cold War, Korean War and other conflicts, including the disaster of the Vietnam War. [HERE]
The World the Neocons Made
Future Neocons such as the "Project for a New American Century" (PNAC) founders Robert Kagan, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and William Kristol would follow in Luce's 19th-century footsteps.
After the end of the Cold War, the Neocons called for U.S. World domination, Empire and a Pax Americana, just as Luce had before them.
Paul Wolfowitz, the former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for President George H. W. Bush, codified neocon foreign policy in the so-called "Wolfowitz Doctrine" in 1992:
"Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival ... [By] convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests ... We must maintain the mechanism for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role." [HERE]
PNAC wrote a letter to New-Democrat President Bill Clinton in 1998 urging Clinton to invade Iraq. [See names of war criminals responsible for the Iraq War]
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