By SJ Otto
A few days ago I wrote about the propaganda
war discussed in an article on the decline of US imperialism, based largely on
"Pentagon study declares American empire is
‘collapsing’," from INSURGEintelligence. This was included in my article, "As US
Imperialism gets weaker, we all play a part in bringing it down."
Much of the INSURGEintelligence article
is based on a report the U.S.
Department of Defense (DOD) produced. The article was posed as a wake up call,
outlining problems and perceived solutions. But one interesting aspect of
the INSURGEintelligence article
is its bluntness of the true nature of US Imperialism. For example:
"The document also sets out the real
reasons that the U.S. is
hostile to “revolutionary forces” like Iran and North Korea : they pose
fundamental obstacles to U.S. imperial
influence in those regions. They are:
“… neither the products of, nor are they
satisfied with, the contemporary order… At a minimum, they intend to destroy
the reach of the U.S.-led order into what they perceive to be their legitimate
sphere of influence. They are also resolved to replace that order locally with
a new rule set dictated by them.”
Far from insisting, as the U.S. government does
officially, that Iran and North Korea pose as
nuclear threats, the document instead insists they are considered problematic
for the expansion of the “U.S.-led order.”
Many on the left already know this. This
opinion can be found in many leftwing news sources or blogs. But this article
is from a more mainstream (or at least centrist) source of news and it actually
quotes a DOD document. It is like reading a confession by an actual US imperialist
news source. We constantly hear President Donald Trump, members of congress and
mainstream news pundits that Democratic People's Republic (North) Korea is
a serious nuclear threat. The impression given is that countries such as North Korea and Iran are
dangerous Rogue nations that
might strike out at innocent smaller countries or even make attacks on the US itself.
Barack Obama and other former presidents have claimed
that North Korea refuses talk to America on ways to defuse the
military tensions. And while Obama did make an agreement with Iran to
stop its attempts to become a nuclear power, Trump has insisted that Iran ,
along with North
Korea , can't be trusted and the Iran nuclear
agreement is worthless.
Neither Trump, congress people or most past
presidents have admitted that much of the attempts by these rogue nations to
build nuclear arms are actually defensive positions to prevent being overthrown
by the US Imperial "order" as the Pentagon likes to call it. For
example:
"The study describes the essentially
imperial nature of this order as being underpinned by American dominance, with
the U.S. and
its allies literally “dictating” its terms to further their own interests:
“The order and its constituent parts, first
emerged from World War II, were transformed to a unipolar system with the
collapse of the Soviet Union, and have by-and-large been dominated by the United
States and its major Western and Asian allies since. Status quo forces
collectively are comfortable with their dominant role in dictating the terms of
international security outcomes and resist the emergence of rival centers of
power and authority.”
While there is serious concern by the Western
Imperialists about Iran , North Korea
and other small so called "rogue countries," There is less concern
about Russia and China .
At times those super powers seem to benefit from the new "order:"
"Russia and China are
described as “revisionist forces” who benefit from the U.S.-dominated
international order, but who dare to “seek a new distribution of power and
authority commensurate with their emergence as legitimate rivals to U.S. dominance.” Russia and China , the analysts say,
“are engaged in a deliberate program to demonstrate the limits of U.S. authority,
will, reach, influence, and impact.”
They are a threat, but Western Imperialists
want to control their influence rather than completely eliminate them, as with
smaller rivals. Another way to look at this is that it is nearly impossible for
the US and
its allies to overthrow Russia and China .
But smaller nations can always be changed. Regime change has been a tool of US
imperialism for much of US history.
That is especially true in Latin
America, which the US has
considered it's backyard. The US is
already at work trying to change the regime in Venezuela.
So as with the last article I posted, about
opposing US and Western Imperialism, we must arm ourselves with the truth. At
times the pen is mightier than the sword and it is those times we must take
full advantage of our use of the truth. Articles such as the one in INSURGEintelligence are extremely
helpful.
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