Un poco cansados
de escuchar tanta sanata en torno a Donald Trump, decidimos dejar de lado una
montaña de notas salidas en estos días y postear un análisis más a fondo sobre
lo que podría denominarse “la construcción del enemigo” cada vez que el Imperio
decide hacer algo. Nos gustó esta nota del intelectual canadiense John
McMurtry, posteada en el sitio web Global Research. Acá va:
Título: Trump’s
“Russia Connection”, Behind America’s Perpetual Wars
Subtítulo: Why
the Enemy Structures US Identity
Epígrafe: The
enemy in one form or another drives the US – the gun culture on the streets,
the rich behind weapon-guarded enclaves,
the pervasive violence entertainments of good vs. evil killers, the never-ending
destabilizations of societies not submitting to US military and corporate
globalization, and the hundreds of billions of public dollars pouring into
continuous armed threats and wars.
Texto: The US
capital-E Enemy is whatever exists in the world that stands against the ‘full
spectrum dominance’ of the US in the world – the bi-partisan objective made
explicit in the iconic Project for a New American Century.
But incoming
President Trump has gone to the other side, and so becomes the enemy to the establishment.
He has rejected globalizing “free trade deals” led by NAFTA as “disastrous”,
saying to Canada, “congratulations, you now have your independence” (an idea
that terrifies the branch-plant CEO’s
and their politicos and media now in power).
He has
consistently intimated an “obsolete” NATO, the global military front of the US
empire marching East through Ukraine to Russia’s borders (which are now
standing against the next US-led looting of the greatest natural resource
treasures of the world). In the backdrop lies official Canada morphed into a
new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chrystia Freeland of Ukrainian descent, who like the US supports the 2015
neo-Nazi-led coup against Ukraine’s elected government to force US-EU access to
the breadbasket of Eurasia and new fossil-fuel riches formerly prohibited from
fracking – all of this publicly unspeakable fact in Canada and US corporate
media today.
Trump’s Russia
connection has put him on the enemy side again, although the reasons why will
never be made public in the official cultures of the corporate media and NATO
states.
In the last days
before his inauguration, Trump has not buckled fought back hard on the truly
fake news backed by the CIA-led spy apparatus of ‘US intelligence’ and by his
enemies in power. We read only of how ‘reckless’ and ‘irresponsible’ Trump is
for ‘insulting the intelligence community’: in fact the lead agents of the US
dark state long implicated in every state-terrorist interference with
democratic process across the world, including the assassination of JFK.
In the last days
before his entry into the White House, this CIA-CNN-McCain-led set-up of Trump
has induced a feeding frenzy of the media to de-legitimate him – now all but
declared guilty of treason as well as dupery by Putin and sexual perversion,
any of which is usually fatal to a US politician.
In historical
perspective, all that the ‘intelligence community’ did to boost the Bush Jr.
presidency and its 9-11 foreign wars and war crimes is put into reverse on Trump.
If we know a man by his enemies, Trump is deeply honored by attacks from every
quarter of the US Money-Enemy-War Establishment.
But
President-to-be Trump goes further against the US dark state by implicitly
denouncing the US-made wars in the Middle East and Central Asia as bankrupting
America as well as ruinously invading other societies on false pretexts – as
many US libertarians have done for years. In the White House, this long-overdue
rationality will be welcomed by everyone who is not part of America’s war
machine at the head of destroying the planet. It is the biggest point source of
all ecocides and pollutions as well as of society destructions. This is a home
truth which neither Trump nor anyone else in US power seems to have
comprehended.
Yet what most
triggers the enemy structure of US identity into fuming rage is Trump’s refusal
to assume that Putin and Russia are the Enemy of US. Trump’s skepticism on
NATO, foreign wars and the CIA is now compounded into perceptions of treasonous
Manchurian Candidate projections. It is an interesting spectacle of US
group-mind in official stories and media of record– including junior
counterparts in Canada and the EU. The US group-mind is militantly blocked
against facts and reason wherever the Enemy is concerned.
Above all, the
US-Enemy group-mind is governed by an inner logic of reverse projections. It projects onto the designated Enemy what
the US is doing itself as the justification for warring against it.
Russia and Putin
are a perfect example. Every malevolence of lies, forced expansion into other
societies, and pretexts for more aggression and territory under US control is
projected onto Putin. There is no hard evidence from which these accusations
follow, but there is also no reasoning with the US-Enemy syntax of the
capitalist group-mind. Reverse projections become the perpetual justification
of war against the designated US hate-object.
We have seen it
over and over again. US demonization of foreign individuals is repeatedly the
pretext for wars against whole societies: while in fact the mass-murderous
aggression and acquisition of new powers and treasure are by the US dark state.
Trump has called this system into question at a libertarian level.
Ending Attack of
Russia as War-State Compulsion
Behind the ad
hominem hate of Putin lies independent Russia. It has been a target of
militarized expansion of the West since Napoleon and Hitler. Nonetheless few
notice the staggering hypocrisy of accusing Russia of “interfering in elections”
with no proof, and no question of the
truth of the document itself. We see here the paranoid nature of this
group-mind morality. It sees no facts, but only an “attack on US democracy”:
while in truth the US itself has never stopped interfering in others’
elections, including Russia and Ukraine’s.
Governing all the
instituted criminal networks and armed special forces at work across borders in
and out of elections is this degenerate framework of value attribution and
meaning.
For the most
civil examples of its operations, the US National Endowment for Democracy and,
in private connection, multi-billionaire money speculator George Soros,
generate well-paid ‘NGO’s” in other countries to destabilize any deviating
society. Its is an a-priori enemy of “democracy
and freedom”.
Yet
President-to-be Trump and Russia’s President Putin are oligarch nationalists,
not war mongers like previous US presidents and candidates. This is shown by
Trump and Putin bridging across the Enemy driver of the cold and proxy wars now
in motion.
The reverse
projections of ad hominem hate have been so far deleted. This the US money-war
establishment cannot bear. It undermines the whole global system of US-led
terror and treasure across all borders. Trump and Putin have implicitly agreed
that these wars are disastrous for both America and Russia.
Behind the
Freedom Fighters and Terrorists Lies the Money-War Party
Breaking the
continuous US destabilizations and wars is treason to those who profit big from
them. Ever more tens of billions of public money go to Wall Street, weapons
manufacturers, war-service corporation like Cheney’s and Bush’s,. Who in US
power is not implicated?.
Keeping this
foundational question out of the public
agenda is the unseen censorship syntax of America’s official culture.
An example of the
power of the Enemy-US war driver is that even the first US President to win a
Nobel Peace Prize ends up cheerfully approving serial mass murders of the
designated Enemy - ‘Islamic terrorists’
including children, every Tuesday of the week.
This is also good
business promotion. The eponymous drones now built by military-industrial
corporations get mass advertised as very precise and profitable commodities
about to fill auditory fields with their mass-marketing production already out
of control. The ‘Free World’ has many ecocidal expressions.
Yet with the
endless terrorist outfits designated as the US Enemy to justify the weekly
bombing of families – from al-Qaeda to ISIS and from Afghanistan to Syria and
Libya – the evidence consistently shows that the CIA (and related Saudi, Turkey
and other secret agents) have been responsible for their financing, recruiting,
arming, and training. But the morphing names of jihadi forces are effective
masks for concealing their sponsors.
Recall here the
vivid images of Reagan’s “freedom fighters” (including bin Laden) in
Afghanistan against the USSR (‘al-Qaeda’s’ launching pad) at the same time as
the US drug-funded Nicaraguan ‘Contras’ were specializing in destroying
hospitals, schools and peasant communities in Nicaragua.
Recall too the
very sudden appearance of the new ‘ISIS/Islamic State’ in a daylight desert
parade to the horizons waving machine guns in new Toyota trucks – all with no
intervention and impunity not far from Israel’s borders and in full sight of US
aerial reconnaissance.
Yet throwing
spanner into the works of the privately profitable Enemy-US war system
haemorrhaging public money and privilege around the clock to its leaders is
President-to-be Trump, the rogue elephant none in the establishment believed
could win.
He is a dangerous
man to the money-war state. He does not hate Putin as required for the US-
Enemy driver. He does not get lobbied by the manifold big money corporations
profiting from endless war and war preparations. And he very publicly and
rightly opposes foreign wars on false pretexts plunging the US people and
Treasury into a great dark hole. This is ultimately why there is an
increasingly shrill establishment war on him as a “threat to US security” and
implicit collaborator with the Enemy.
On the other
hand, if President Trump goes along
with the weekly Obama-style drone
murders and war-crimes, and the ongoing Israel war crimes as by far the longest
in history, he may fit better with the
US-Enemy war culture he is about to lead.
Trump however has
signaled that he will end the legally questionable embargos on Russia. For
this, the CIA, FBI and DIA are coming out along with Senate war-mongers like
McCain against Putin, Russia and Trump together. Everything they have pulled in the days
before his succession is an effort to blow up Trump’s Russia connection. Even a
honey-pot hoax has been hatched within the security community and forwarded to
the media to nail Trump in the way they have done before with others.
Yet again, the
enemies of Trump show that his position in making peace with Russia and getting
the US war-state under control is for real. Trump would not be taken so
seriously by the in-office war party if this were not true.
Trump’s
repudiation of foreign-war “disasters” should mean a change of US direction
into Armageddon. Combined with his move to stop the
transnational corporate stripping of US jobs, the Trump turn may be the most
effective resistance to the corporate globalization establishment since 1950.
That the dominant media hate Putin and Trump at once is predictable. This is the Russia connection that simmers
back to McCarthyism.
The Inner Logic
of Enemy Construction
Putin is a
supreme object of non-stop abuse because his actions stand for an independent
Russia which has stopped the march of NATO East in East Ukraine and Crimea.
Although both have been long integrated with Russia, the US-Enemy mind frame
screens out all facts not consistent with its presuppositions.
Combine Putin
with Trump, and the conflagration of outrage explodes. Little recognised, it
comes from all points of the non-productive transnational corporate system, and
not from those who make things of life use. It is predictably full of hate.
In general, the
Enemy designation to justify war on every level can be crystallized into the
following lock-steps of operant conditioning across classes. Every step is a
non-sequitur assumption or inference.
Together they build to all-fronts war against the designated Enemy. .
The auto-pilot
succession of (1) to (10) goes on as automatically like a Pavlovian reflex, but
in more steps. Its meta program applies not only to the US. It explains how to
identify the Enemy-War derangement
across space and time. .
(1) The Enemy is
any group or leader designated to be so (e.g., Russia, Putin).
(2) The Enemy is
evil a-priori.
(3) Evidence to
support this conclusion is not logically or scientifically demonstrated.
(4) Invariantly
one-sided denunciations of the Enemy govern
media and government statements.
(5) No
counter-evidence or argument against (1) to (4) is normally allowed on the
public stage
(6) Criminal and
armed activities towards destabilizing the Enemy and its surrounding world are
always blamed on it instead (the reverse projection operation).
(7) All is
justified in one underlying form: here the ‘Free World’ against its Enemy.
(8) Attacking the
Enemy includes non-stop hate propaganda, military-war preparations,
encirclement, economic embargo, and bombing if the Enemy cannot bomb back.
(9) The
designated Enemy of the US is always a leader, state or movement which is
developing public infrastructures and standing against transnational corporate
control, privatization and financialization (as with every society invaded by
the US since 1945).
(10) Anyone or
body effectively resisting (1) to (9) may be attacked or murdered in ‘plausibly
deniable’ scenarios.
The War-Enemy
Structure Built into American Culture
We can see the
Enemy-and-War structure built into America’s identity by the US national anthem
itself.It hymns a war song of “the rocket’s red glare and bombs bursting in
air” It climaxes with “the blood [of the enemy] has wash’d out their foul
footstep’s pollution” which “prove” the meaning of “her flag’.
But where is this
inner logic of the US war state decoded?
In lucid-dream
read, America the Good bombs and rockets the Enemy which is inherently Evil,
both true by definition. The blood of the designated Evil Enemy must flow to
cleanse the world of it. Rockets and bombs prove the flag and its meaning to
exterminate the Enemy of the US with no moral criterion but this designation. .
Illustration of
the war hymn’s binding of the American people is not hard to find. Any elite
athlete who does not put his hand on his heart to seal the meaning may be
pilloried and ruined (as happened to Afro-American men with bowed heads and
fists of solidarity with the oppressed in the 1968 Olympics). Before that, the
most all-round achiever in American history – world renowned in sport, in law,
in singing, in acting, in African linguistics – Paul Robson – was denied his
freedom to leave and persecuted to death after he declined to declare the
Soviet Union as evil.
The circumstances
reveal the absolute command of the Enemy construction by which Robson and
countless other distinguished Americans were ruined. This all happened after
Russia’s winning the war in Europe against the Nazis at the cost of 26 million
lives, while known very rich Americans helped to build and weaponize Hitler’s
war state, and never punished for it.
In contrast, the
allies Soviet Union was declared the Enemy right after Roosevelt’s death. His
chosen ‘peace- president’ successor was falsely accused as a ‘communist’. The
world had been at last in peace after Nazi surrender, but not the pro-Nazi
American backers at the top of the money-war party led by David Rockefeller
since. His prodigy Leo Strauss and Henry Kissinger have provided the
rationales. US covert agents have ever since been seeking to destroy Russia in
any form of sovereign economic independence and strategic power, and succeeded
till Putin.
The surprising
fact is the total contradiction between the a-priori US assumption that it has
a right to have its propaganda and agents at work over any borders up to Russia
and beyond, but an equally fixed a-priori assumption that no other country has
any right to circulate even true information about US politics within it.
This is clear not
only from the accusations against Russia’s interference in the election of
Trump as US President, but from public debates from 1991 on within the US. They
argue whether or not and how many US troops should stay in Iraq after
eco-genocidal bombing of its public life infrastructures,. Or whether to bomb
Syria again to give a message to Putin not to eliminate US assets there.
On the other
hand, an extended and still raging denunciation of Russia’s alleged “aggression
against the US” and “interference in US elections” for Russia accessing,
without proof and imputed to Putin, a DNC e-mail whose truth no-one questions.
How can there be such extremist imbalance of moral and rational understanding
which so completely erases others’ human rights up to war on their society’s
very life bases and children, while absolutizing the rights of US and ally
bombers to do all of this, and debate only whether it will work if they go on
doing it.
The US national
anthem itself expresses the chosen-people’s right to kill others with no basis
except that it is US doing it. The open logical spaces of this war hymn can
include any nation or force as Enemy against it. The lines generically
prescribe rocketing the Enemy to shed its blood. The compulsory song for all
citizens to sing indicates no fault of the Enemy except being so designated.
No benefit for
anyone is indicated but that “the US flag is still there”.
Yet everyone in
the US must put his hand over his heart when the anthem is sung before any
public event: most fiercely before the sabbath NFL Games in which the largest,
fastest and most powerful violence of body against body collide with each other
n accordance with detailed war-room plans. ‘The long bomb’, ‘sacking’ and
‘slashing up the center’ are favorite operations of the stadium-war spectacle.
On Superbowl days of the Superpower’s favorite entertainment, army jets scream overhead to give US military
signature to the meaning.
The Chosen People
In the world
political context of today, the war party of the US includes all the media of
record, all politicians not being condemned, and most people in allied states.
The cheerleading of the now declared ‘new Cold War’ being created by “Putin’s
attack on America’s election” is heard on every mainstream media days before
the Trump Inauguration – for, allegedly, finding and distributing true
information of the DNC establishment’s own subversion of the election of its
presidential candidate.
If we read back
to the first ‘chosen people’, which US ‘exceptionalism’ carries on, with “God’s
blessing America’ for all its wars, we find an unmistakeable through-line of
meaning: the Enemy structure of identity justifies eco-genocidal wars as Good
against Evil and as led by God.
We find too that
nothing of the society attacked is left behind, and this too as God’s
will. We see too that the US in either
form controls vast new territory and power with no limit on the annihilation of
others’ communities, children and natural environments.
When we turn to the
normative cornerstone of Western civilization, we find that total
destruction of men, women and chidren
and systems of life support is specifically commanded by the Almighty of
Judaic-Christian tradition. Thus to His voice is attributed the still believed
intention to “take “the whole land of Canaan to own in perpetuity” (Genesis
17:21) and, in, explicit prohibition of any “pact with them” to “exterminate”
all of the inhabitants, “Amorites,
Hittite, Perizzites, Cannanites Hivites and Jebusite” (Exodus 23:24)
(Understanding War, Science for Peace, 1989)
But the guiding
thread of meaning is assumed without being seen. The Enemy society is
constructed as the hate object to mass-kill and erase from the world.
One way or
another, the eco-genocidal right continues on in modified form. A lead
individual is demonized by corporate states and media to justify attack on
entire societies’ shared life support systems. No collective psychopathology is
penetrated. No eco-genocide is allowed to be seen even as n a word.
US Freedom of War
against the Other as Supreme Value
Freedom in
America means to liberate the individual to follow his self-maximizing purpose
as freedom and happiness. Ronald Reagan interpreted this as the “freedom to get
rich”. All US enemies and wars since
1945 have been launched against those opposing the implementation of this
ultimate value. The ultimate Good of the US and the Enemy as Evil to be rid of
are two sides of one ultimate moral program. It is universal, overriding and
obligatory to follow.
The US and its
Enemy thus define each other. The US is born in war on this basis. Britain’s
1763 Royal Proclamation prohibits any settler actions to “molest” and “disturb”
the first peoples West from the Appalachians.
It also rejects any
“pretexts whatever” or ‘fraudulent purchase”
in “all the lands” that the first nations inhabit and from which the
colonists “must forthwith remove themselves” .
Very rarely is
this ground of the US Revolution recognised. Yet US history follows in many
such takings or invasions of other societies’ lands under false pretexts ever
since.
For example, it
is seen as a “clear and present danger” to the US war state for any organized
community to change the private-money rules of the game. It could be in the US
‘backyard’ of Latin America, or reach all the way to the Philippines, Korea,
Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Other nations
across in general are threatened and warred upon by the US dark state in many
ways, and all work to take or destroy their natural and built resources (as
with Iraq and Libya’s oil and gold, and now Ukraine’s and even Russia’s).
Throughout, US
identity lies in its own system of private capitalist market exchange and
profit, and the Enemy is opposition to global expansion of it everywhere.
Ever greater
extremes of rich-over-poor and loot-the-planet and public purse do not lead to
any change that stops them, including the Trump agenda.
From US
Independence against First Nations’ Rights, the US is ordered by money value,
private property and profit in everything that can be so extracted, priced and
sold. There is no collective right that limits, redirects or cancels this right
by obligation to the life commons of all.
All ‘free trade’
treaty commands of ‘globalization’ since 1988 spell out this logic of value in
volumes of detail in which only private transnational corporate rights exist.
All ‘Cold War’ actions before them have been to enforce this
privatization-for-profit system.
“There is no
alternative”.
All US armed-force
interventions and pervasive media propaganda against other regimes follow this
inner logic one way or another. That it
has proven to be eco-genocidal in effects does not stop the wars and treaties
for further globalization of it. The Trump presidency may steer it back to home
lands.
Thinking through
Putin
As soon as
Vladmir Putin rose to lead Russia from hollowed-out basket case to geopolitical
independence, he was a marked man. His repudiation and pursuit of the oligarch
crooks who parked their privatized oil fortunes outside Russia were glorified
as oppressed fighters for freedom and their double agent killed was a martyr.
More
impressively, social programs like pensions have been instituted again for the
looted people, and the fanatic jihadi aggressors financed and directed from
abroad since the late 1980’s in Afghanistan to Syria have been bombed back.
Putin and Russia,
once poodled, thus became the Enemy again. Putin even although an
anti–communist was incarnate evil, a KGB agent still, a brutal dictator, a
murderer with no evidence in front of the Kremlin, and so on. The US money and
war party has gone on auto-repeat of US killing as Good and Putin/Russia as
Evil .
“The Russians are
coming, the Russians are coming” was into the ruling group-mind even as NATO
forces rolled through the former USSR up to Russia’s borders calling it the
world’s major aggressor as The US-led West positioned armies, tanks and
missiles on its doorstep.
It is not unlike
the Nazis going through Poland and the Ukraine to ‘save lives’ before killing
26 million Russian people and destroying its life infrastructures, – the litmus
test again of who is right and wrong. .
The
US-orchestration of the sniper-murderous coup of Ukraine’s elected government
in 2013 was enforced on the ground by neo-Nazis still glorifying Ukraine’s Nazi
collaborators, and calling for “extermination of the Russians” with
US-supported leaders at the front.
‘Ethnic
cleansing’ attacks on Russia speakers went into high gear. The US and Canada
silenced any attempt to recognise the neo-Nazi threat, far worse than anything
in Western Europe where it is properly denounced. Schizoid morality rules.
“Communists” in
Ukraine were and remain still the enemy to be slaughtered and forbidden to
stand for election or speak. The full pogrom was in process until the majority
of Russian-speaking citizens in East Ukraine rose up against the mass-murderous
coup state which Canada’s envoy and local MP’s refuse to discuss. As always,
the narrative of the US “leader of Free World” justifies all.
Reverse
Projections Rule the Great Game of Aggression
The established
reverse operation of blame on the designated Enemy has ruled since. Putin has
been since slandered in foaming at the mouth attacks led by the US-led media
and NATO without evident exception of intelligence or human care.
Fake news media
of the West – to reverse another reverse projection – have not reported that
Putin stopped the Dombass region and its mainly Russian-speaking people from
joining Russia as they polled strongly in favor. No evidence has ever appeared
in public that the industrialized region’s revolt has been by Russian armaments
rather than those captured from the US-led coup state. The US-directed military
bombing of villages and urban centers in the Eastern region have gone on daily
with no US-led diplomats or media of record reporting it.
In the post-truth
era, facts make no difference. Only accusations of the Enemy frame the old
story line. Putin was stripped of legitimacy in all the Western media (despite
87% population approval by independent polls). Russia has been ever more
US-embargoed against UN law to cause recession (but no loss of support from
Russian voters glad to have their leadership off its knees);. Putin has been
ever more threatened by NATO command and armed forces advancing into Russia’s
heartland.
But always in
accord with the reverse projection operation, Russia and Putin are accused of
what the US-led armed forces have been themselves doing many thousands of miles
from the US and right on Russia’s Western borders on all sides.
As ever, the Evil
of the Enemy of US justifies war on it on all levels available for private
transnational corporate-profit globalization, here at the door of the world’s
greatest natural resource basin.
This is why so
much space is dedicated in the mainstream media to accusing Putin and Russia
with little or no evidence, but only repetition. The designated Enemy is Evil
prior to fact.
We see by
attention to undisputed historical facts that the legitimacy of Russia’s former
Ukraine long desired by the West as a ‘sovereign state’ with ‘sacred borders’
defended by ‘patriots’ and ‘the Free
World’ is not what it seems. It is all part of the US versus Evil Enemy construction
to pry open more national resources to raid. Putin and Trump may as nationalist
leaders agree.
In truth the
democratically elected Ukraine government has been usurped into a violent-coup
state won by storm-trooper leaders adoring Nazi regalia, all of this
orchestrated by the US and supported by Canada even against UN resolution to
outlaw the Nazi symbols, memorials and statues now springing up everywhere the
coupsters can manage in the corrupt new state.
Yet even now US
Democrat and Canada Liberal regimes enthuse in “liberating Ukraine” from the
“Putin-Russia bully” in perfect reverse projection, with Canada just changing
its Minister of Foreign Affairs to carry
out the big lie with “all the right connections”..
It is worth
knowing that Ukraine is now indebted to the US-dominated IMF and the big
private banks for which it is the collector and enforcer beyond any ability to
pay. So Ukraine’s breadbasket of the continent and newly discovered oil-and-gas
sources will now service big public debts enforced by the IMF, with all in
diplomatic and press circles crying “Russia aggression”.
This arrangement
was instituted as the first big move after the neo-Nazi coup repudiating
Russia’s interest-free loans and financial assistance of tens of billions of
dollars in Russia oil-and-gas energy support alone.
But the dots are
never joined if the US-Enemy, Good-Bad lenses blinker out the meaning. Trump
could turn the tide here with the home truth.
Putin, the US,
and Syria: Assad’s Alleged Gas-Attack on his own People
Another US Enemy,
President Bashar Al Assad of Syria, is incarnate Evil to the US money-war party
on the charge account that ‘he used chemical weapons’ and ‘gassed his own
people’, a crime under international law, and ‘the red line’of President Obama.
Yet when the
iconic investigative journalist Seymour Hersh tracked down the chemical weapons
that were in fact found to be crudely made by non-Syrian jihadis, and he
identified exactly how they were mocked up and used to generate a pretext for
US bombing of Syria. But his painstaking research and publication went down the
mind hole again.
This was not so
when Hersh revealed the Mai Lai massacre, even if no US decision maker was
punished. At least the massacre was revealed. Here in Syria decades later, the
media sound reason to ignore everything at once, and invalidate Hersh by
insinuations. The media of record then continued with the NYT to tirelessly
repeat the exposed falsehood as a given truth.
Since Putin has
led the pacification of the war waged by the “mercenary” jihadis as well as
sponsored he UN-led destruction of the unused chemical weapons of Assad by his
permission, how can he remain the US Enemy?
The US Enemy
remains Evil by definition. Putin is most of all attacked for his alleged
“annexation of Crimea in violation of all international norms and laws”. This
is the ultimate crime Putin is fixed to in auto-pilot media and politician
blame across the ‘the free world’. “No-one can forget this’” they say.
Yet the facts
that Crimea has been part of Russia since Catherine the Great, and was in the
sights of the US-led neo-Nazi implemented Ukraine coup government for
occupation again go down the memory hole. In fact, the next coup taking Crimea
from Russia was stopped by Putin before it was launched. An on-the-spot
over-90% referendum for re-joining Russia worked with no evidence of any force
used.
This is Putin’s
real offense, drawing the line on the moving US-led take into Russia. In fact
Crimea had been traditional Russia territory since defeating the Ottoman Turks
to keep its lone outlet onto the inland Black Sea.
So keeping the
Enemy ball rolling, the US dark state supported Tatars, who opposed the
re-Crimea re-integration into Russia, to sabotage in full view Crimea’s main
source of electricity cheered on by the US-led military and media.
What about
Putin’s ‘war criminal’ invasion of Ukraine? What about daily NATO-claimed
‘Russian troop movements’ and ‘aggressions against a sovereign state’?
That Ukraine and
Kiev are originally the founding center of the Rus people in the seventh
century, around the same time as Britons, is inconceivable to think through the
ruling group-mind of the US-Enemy frame of mind.
That Ukraine was
long a province of Russia before Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian, made it an
independent state is erased from the record and the frontal lobes.
That this was a
‘Soviet Union dictate by its supreme dictator’ is an unspeakable exposure of
the established mental disorder. Trump could turn the tide here with the home
truth.
Can President-
Trump Lead Solution to the Collapsing Empire?
President-to-be
Trump has a model to go on. A remission in the US private corporate occupation
of the world for private profit occurred with Roosevelt’s New Deal. It emerged
with the victorious war against Nazism, union legalization, high taxes on high
incomes, and post-war industry growth on all planes. An implied ‘social
contract’ between the working class and the
often pro-Nazi rich was formed.
Yet the Enemy
card of “communism” was played to reverse the much better America that FDR led.
As soon as the war was won with Russia sacrificing by far the most in
collective defense, US war on the USSR
as the designated enemy began to be waged. An unseen continuation of the Nazi
project which had been supported by the US corporate giants and money men like
the Bush family fortune connected back to the original US-led war against the
1917 Russian revolution.
FDR was now dead
and Henry Wallace was publicly red-smeared by the Truman wing of the still
money-controlled Democratic Party – an interesting parallel to the DNC’s
undermining the candidacy of Bernie Sanders in 2016. But this too was forgotten
by the DNC, the Clintons and the
political and media establishment.
They have kept
insisting since the election loss that it was because of “Russia’s hacking
aggression against US democracy”, not the e-mail that directly demonstrated
this corrupt tactic of the DNB and the Clintons against the progressive Bernie
Sanders. This meaning has been erased from reference, a revealing confirmation
of their systemic corruption.
Trump has
overcome the auto-hate on Russia and Putin in the face of near-deadly
opposition from the US political and covert-state machine. Yet in many ways, he
specially embodies the life-blind freedom of America and the corporate rich.
He exudes
enjoyment in ostentatious spending on and show of himself, an egomaniac and
ugly American many say. His program for public infrastructure is privatization
for profit. He loves more oil and gas
extraction that are proven mass polluters.
He promises more
de-regulation without life-based criteria. He seems to deny system-caused
climate destabilization, and seeks by implication to undo the Environmental
Protection Agency as well as a universal healthcare insurance.
He hates Castro
on cue despite – or perhaps because of Cuba’s having far better universal
healthcare and education systems than the US.
Trump may be the
paradigm of the US social and mental disorder. But hopeful signs are there.
Trump learned against his loud opinion that water-boarding torture was lawless
and did not work. He has acknowledgd that climate-change science can change his
mind on his doubts of it.
Most importantly,
President-to-be Trump is adamant in opposition to “disastrous” foreign wars and
regime changes, multi-national trade treaties disemploying workers in the US,
ruinous money-hole US empire in general, and Big Pharma fleecing of the US
public.
Nota: John McMurtry is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada whose work is translated from Latin
America to Japan. He is the author of the three-volume Philosophy and World
Problems published by UNESCO’s Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS),
and his most recent book is The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: from Crisis to
Cure.
Esa "construcción del enemigo" no es algo que surge espontáneamente de la cultura estadounidense. Es geopolítica oligárquica pura y dura que, por supuesto, tiene efectos culturales.
ResponderEliminarEn la historia de USA hay un patrón más o menos reconocible: cuando dominan demasiado los intereses oligárquicos en el Estado éste se hace mucho más arbitrario con los vecinos y en las relaciones exteriores en general. Cuando esos intereses menguan, es decir, cuando avanzan los del campo nacional y patriótico estadounidense, tiende a haber políticas más amigables con los vecinos y en las relaciones internacionales.
Estos patrones no están exentos de matices y contradicciones, pero son muchas veces reconocibles y nos dan indicios de qué clase de intereses operan sobre el Estado en USA en determinadas etapas.
El denominado "Imperio" no es ni una entidad ajena a las localidades ni, a su vez, se identifica con cada una de ellas. Es como una red que tiende a estar en todas partes al mismo tiempo. Es parte de la estructura global.
Por eso los patriotas estadounidenses, con todas sus particularidades y salvando las distancias, tienen las mismas disyuntivas, dilemas y desafíos que los patriotas de cualquier parte del mundo, incluidos los argentinos.
Que el Imperio se exprese "en" localidades (USA, Argentina, GB, Brasil, etc.) no significa que sea "de" localidades. Ni tampoco significa ajenidad a ellas.
En cambio, los Estados Nacionales (soberanos) para plasmarse sí necesitan ser "de" la localidad, de la misma manera que cada individuo o persona es "de" una familia.
Lo que habría que reflexionar acá -como propuso recientemente el Presidente de China en Davos- es qué clase de "globalidad" queremos?
En efecto, aunque desbanquemos al Imperio, siempre queda pendiente la cuestión de cómo se ordenaría un mundo compuesto de Estados soberanos (Nacionales). Porque no es lo mismo un orden internacional de soberanías que uno global oligárquico donde no hay soberanías.
Por eso, a mi me gustó cuando Trump dijo que la prioridad son los intereses de USA y que va a reconocer ese derecho para todos los países. Aunque me gustaría saber qué tipo de relaciones internacionales propone. Porque, es obvio, si dice que va a reconocer ese mismo derecho para todos los países, ergo, no va a poder satisfacer los intereses de USA a expensas de los demás países, puesto que eso sería incumplir el principio que antes dijo. Sería borrar con el codo lo que escribió con la mano.
Entonces, para que eso se pueda llevar a la práctica, las soberanías tienen que llegar a principios de acuerdos entre ellas que impliquen que favoreciendo a todos se favorecen a sí mismas. Y este tipo de acuerdos es, muchas veces, muy difícil de alcanzar, aunque no imposible.
Muy bueno el post.
siempre sospeche que la estrategia de ataque contra Rusia por el corredor ucraniano-caucásico y los enormes recursos naturales por parte de la otan era mas un objetivo europeo que americano. eeuu es un país enorme con amplios recursos y facilidad de obtenerlos en otros sitios que no necesita un enfrentamiento.con la actual Rusia como en la epoca de la URSS. en cambio ¿quienes son altamente dependientes de la gran estepa rusa? Europa. por el mismo motivo que Hitler se vio forzado a una guerra imposible contra la Gran Madre Patria, Europa sigue la misma ruta, un corredor ucraniano-caucásico.
ResponderEliminarLa OTAN bajo la estúpida marioneta de Obama respondió más a intereses europeos que americanos. Las guerras de las primaveras árabes y en ucrania son el eje del expansionismo europeo de Merkel-Sarkozy-Hollande usando maquinaria militar prestada. es el area de influencia europea colisionando con Rusia, como desde hace 5 siglos.
Europa sin el paragua protector de OTAN no existe, y es posible que terminen como suelen terminar los europeos: haciendo guerras locas y matándose entre ellos.Europa sin otan se desintegra.
Creo cierto sector republicano advirtió que Obama es muy estúpido y se dedicó demasiado tiempo y dinero contra Rusia, lo cual no genera beneficio, y le dio 8 invalorables años de olvido al principal problema para el imperio, que los aprovecho brutalmente: China como rival del próximo siglo.
Esta es la hoja de ruta imperial que compró Trump. la obsoleta OTAN significa que ya no le sirve al imperio posguerra fria convertida en marioneta europea, olvidarse de Rusia, y enfocar su flota hacia China.