HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN AN AMERICAN GULAG?

What is the USA fighting for? The aggressive stance it is taking is quite clear but what are the motivations involved and what might the ultimate outcome of America's various global wars be?

The aim of the leadership of the United States is to reverse the trend toward power being shared across our planet. The enemy this leadership fears is multipolarity. To understand what is going on certainly does not require a degree in rocket science, or the more appropriate qualification, a degree in great power politics. What is at stake and the motivations involved are quite clear.

The motivations referred to above that you will hear from North American leaders will involve such issues as the preservation of ‘western values’, the fight against repressive authoritarian regimes and the delivery of all the freedoms that come via democratic institutions. But when have you ever trusted what politicians say? I suspect you would agree that the word of snake oil salesmen is far more trustworthy.

So, what are the true motivations involved in U.S. foreign policy? One is certainly self-interest. Expanding the U.S. economy naturally makes U.S. politicians more popular, more jobs, a higher standard of living for all, and so on. Never forget Trump and his slogan “America First!” Not that he was the first American politician to use this slogan. It was in fact coined by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916. The phrase can be considered a call for the USA to withdraw from the world. However, this is not what we see happening currently.

The Biden administration is quite obviously acting as a wrecking ball across the planet destroying, or at least attempting to destroy, rivals and those it considers enemies. The aim is clear, to bolster U.S. power while weakening those who rival its power now or who may assist in rivalling its power later. This wrecking ball approach is however, creating as many new enemies fearing and loathing the USA as it does friends who see opportunities in siding with it.

The motivation that lies at the heart of the clear urgency with which the USA and its allies are attempting to disrupt the advent of a multipolar world is the drive to maintain the power and dominance they believe is their birthright, a birthright they have held and nurtured for a century and more. Losing this entitlement to consider the planet rightfully theirs to administer as they please is an unconscionable thought to them. The motivation therefore to avoid this loss is enormously strong.

Currently the sorry land of Ukraine is the focus of this struggle by the western coalition of powers to maintain global manipulative power, the power which they conceive of as their by right and, if some Americans are to be believed, one given by God. With half a million Ukrainians dead or injured and a conflict obviously lost the West urges everyone on toward ever more death and destruction. The urgent necessity to win means that the clear fact of defeat cannot be acknowledged. The carnage must then go on, leading ultimately to the complete collapse of Ukraine.

That Ukraine must be sacrificed in the name of what Washington conceives of as the greater goal, western continued domination, appears to offer no great problem or qualm to U.S. planners. These, the Neocons, have never worried overmuch about the casualties of war or even of the destruction of entire nations. These fundamentalists, the true ‘American Firsters’ have the true supreme goal in mind at all times, one that surmounts all others, the USA as global guardian wielding the ultimate earthly weapon of ‘full spectrum dominance’.

Whether you wish to call it a prison planet or gulag the end result envisaged is the same, the USA having supreme and unassailable power, able to monitor each proxy carefully, pushing in this direction or that at will and sure at each step that its surveillance capacity will snare all incalcitrant entities. The global guardian will strike down at any who dare oppose it. Sweeping powers will enable the guardian of the gulag, the warden of the world, to detect the slightest deviation from the renewed ‘America First!’ policy and consign such deviants to their fate of re-education or worse.

So, how do you like it? If you believe you would then get behind the US/UK/EU push for victory in Ukraine against the Russians. If they are beaten you only have China to deal with and then you are virtually there…

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN AN AMERICAN GULAG?