Acá va un
inusual análisis sobre el posible significado del “Brexit” para el Reino Unido,
la unión Europea y la integridad de la NATO. La tesis del politólogo anglosajón Norman Pollak, aparecida anteayer en Counterpunch, es que la
desintegración de Europa implicará repensar la NATO, instrumento "defensivo" (en realidad, ariete contra Rusia) que siempre estuvo entre bambalinas en el proceso de integración. La
estrategia antirrusa del Imperio podría entrar, en consecuencia, en una fase de descomposición.
Título: Fissures
in World Capitalism: the British Vote
Texto: The
collapse of world markets is telling evidence of capitalism’s stake in
maintaining a renewed Cold War, indispensable to its logic of global
confrontation as a sustaining developmental force and dependence on a
disproportionate, heavy-laden defense sector for America and drawing in its
allies. The European Union, historically, was first and foremost the economic
underpinning to solidify NATO, itself from first to last an obviously military
alliance. Together, EU and NATO represented America’s stalking horse in its
posture of world intervention and counterrevolution. Obama’s “pivot” to the Far
East, his Pacific-first geostrategic framework, complements and extends the US
geopolitical vision of global, unilateral dominance—military, ideological,
economic.
With Britain’s
vote, we see a magnificent—even if Britons voted on other grounds—objective
determination to put a roadblock into the American Grand Design of
universalizing its own brand of monopoly capitalism (and heading off a
projected nuclear holocaust), in which systemic financialization erodes and
supplants the US manufacturing base via outsourcing, foreign investment, and
securing predictable sources of raw materials, including of course oil.
Consternation and
worse reigns supreme in both the capitalist and defense communities, the
architectural splendor of simultaneous containment, even isolation, of Russia
and China, now on hold, yet hardly surrendered, as America, for its own
self-identity, reified the idea of the Pervasive Enemy to accompany its
doctrine of Permanent War. Blowback, after all, has some validity, as America’s
warmongers pressed too far: Obama’s modernization of the nuclear arsenal,
provocative incursion in the South China Sea, pressures on NATO to occupy the
borderlands of Russia. Whether or not inadvertent, Britons have thwarted the US
move toward the greater fascistization of a once-democratic polity, yet no
longer recognizable as such.
How will America
react to the British vote? Probably by intensifying, as is already happening,
its Cold War rhetoric, and translating that into more aggressive policies of
containment vis-a-vis a growing list of enemies presumed waiting in the wings.
Counterterrorism, which has become a catch-all for creating a mindset for
ideological conformity, will be a useful instrument for confusing radicalism
and terrorism, in order to suppress the former as in Latin America and Africa.
Secretly, I suspect, American policy makers hoped for the Britain-EU outcome,
so as to beef up European defenses, continue the rearming (encouragement of a
nuclear capability) of Abe’s Japan, and feel relief in pursuing the abominable
policy of armed drone targeted assassination.
My Comment in The
New York Times on Erlanger’s article, “Britain Votes to Leave E.U.,” follows:
Delighted! There
has been such evasiveness about the meaning of the campaign. British exit from
the EU is a vote AGAINST the renewed Cold War. The elephant in the room is
NATO. Obviously, the EU is its economic counterpart, and was never conceived in
isolation as a mere trading bloc.
With Britain out,
hopefully others will follow, the EU will tighten its ship as an economic union
and NATO, now presently at Russia’s borders, will be forced to rethink its
dangerous course.
Britain did the
right thing, even if only intuitively; for only in the defense establishment of
the West was the true nature of the vote, and its implications, discussed. Yes,
if NATO unravels, along with an EU unravelling, the world will be a step closer
to peace and the avoidance of a nuclear holocaust.
I’m ashamed that
Corbyn didn’t see this, or worse, did, but has been less than frank. Now,
Britain, for the first time since the end of World War II, can break its
dependence on the US and perhaps,just perhaps, lead the world on a middle
course away from bipolarization.
I am thrilled by
the results–the ticking clock toward WAR has been slowed down, until perhaps
good sense can prevail.
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