WESTERN LEADERS ARE DETERMINED TO SPLIT OUR WORLD IN TWO

The following commentary was written and first posted on the 17th of October 2020. Within it the prediction is made that we would again begin to hear the phrase 'The Free World'. We are now hearing this said in both the USA and Poland in particular and we can expect  it to become a mantra repeated ever more frequently in future months and years. The political leadership of the West have once again pronounced themselves the supreme judges of the rest of us and will clearly not be content until they are our permanent warders wielding their power on what will have become a virtual prison planet enforce their will to insist upon our obedience to their rule or risk being destroyed if and when we resist.

BIDEN HIS TIME It is beginning to look like the predictions of a Biden landslide in November will be fulfilled. So, what will an ‘Uncle Joe’ presidency look like? Hard or soft power? There will be undoubted relief among millions of North Americans if the Trump era is finally seen to be over and the ‘anyone but Trump’ man enters the White House. That being accomplished what are we likely to see from a Biden administration, what will its agenda be? ‘Uncle Joe’ has always been a political bruiser and very often in his career within the Democratic Party he has been atypical when compared to his colleagues, often veering to the far right in his ‘hang ‘em high’ rhetoric on law and order and his gung-ho attitude toward regime change wars including that against Iraq. Biden has aready telegraphed that his targets will include so-called ‘authoritarian’ regimes. He has already singled out Russia and Cuba as targets and we can safely include many more within this category as defined by himself, the liberal fraternity and the majority of Democratic Party supporters. China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua... in fact the same list as Mike Pompeo outlines at every opportunity. So what will be the main difference between Biden’s time and Trump’s? It is clear to me that the main difference will be in circling the wagons of what are always referred to as the USA’s allies in “The Free World”. We will hear no more criticisms of those allies, no more criticisms at all. NATO and those allies will be sacrosanct, as is the scared creed of western goodness, rightness and honor, of never knowingly doing wrong and being the eternal bastion of freedom, democracy and the 'right’ values as opposed to all others who are inherently bad by comparison. This will be the dualist Bush doctrine re-imagined and strengthened. If you are not good you are bad. If you are not with us you are against us. We are the standard, the ideal, that which you must be compared to in all things. And if you deign to contradict any of this you are a traitor to freedom, democracy and a danger to all right-thinking people. You may have seen that I use the word 'right’ a lot. Though the Democrats are still to some degree associated with the left, this has hardly been more than a convenient facade to engender some mirage of difference from the Republicans. The Democrats are not of the left and have not truly ever been of the left. They are of the elite. They are, as Noam Chomsky has said many times, merely one of the two factions of 'The Business Party’. And the business world needs war. Division, conflict and war are supremely good for business. Not only in terms of corporate profits, also for political business. How many times have wars boosted flagging political fortunes? Maggie Thatcher for instance, well down in the polls and looking at almost certain defeat at the polls was saved by the Falklands War. Bill Clinton found destroying a milk warehouse in Libya reportedly killing one of Gaddafi’s nieces was very good for his approval rating. George W. Bush gained his two terms mostly due to the illegal attack upon and invasion of Iraq post 9/11.

The Democrats have moved to the right and well past the Republicans when it comes to representing the hawks and neocons of the far right. No one remotely interested in American politics could have missed the parade of Bush-era warmongers at the recent Democratic fanfare event. Or their boast regarding how many security state officials have pledged their support for them. They are not even trying to hide the fact of their shift to the far right on foreign policy. They WANT Americans to hear it. They seem to believe (wrongly) that Americans find such breast-beating aggression toward foreign “foes” seductive. Despite this being contrary to what polling suggests they are likely to be rewarded with a big win in November anyway. War, a world war, becomes much more likely with a win by Biden in November. His bellicose attitudes of the past are being kept somewhat in check while his benign persona is kept to the fore currently... but just wait a few months and we will see the real Joe. The real Joe is an extremely hard and hardened political strongman. His attitudes are belligerent and adversarial. He will create an even more wicked series of adversaries than Trump has. They will be irredeemably bad. He will echo people like the harridan Nicky Haley who railed against the evil Russian officers in Syria who woke each morning wondering how many school children and hospital patients they could kill that day. The Nazi technique of generalized demonization of a people will be seen to continue under Biden I predict. His solution will be a resolute no to any suggestion of dialogue, diplomacy or detente. He will argue that only the submission of these 'authoritarian’ regimes to the demands of the West and nothing else, will do. Are you ready for a permanent division of our world into absolutist right and wrong, the always good and always evil, the sincere and the devious, the always to be trusted and never to be trusted? If you are indeed ready then you will welcome Biden’s time. If not, be ready to be silent, or to be condemned. Meanwhile... he's just 'Biden His Time'.