by Claudiu Secara
“If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for, it is this: he has decisively stripped away the ridiculous notion, long cultivated by western media, that the United States is a benign global policeman enforcing a ‘rules-based order’.
“Washington is better understood as the head of a gangster empire, embracing 800 military bases around the world. Since the end of the Cold War, it has been aggressively seeking ‘global full-spectrum domination’, as the Pentagon doctrine politely terms it.”
Commenting on the above words by Jonathan Cook, yes, it’s easy to blame the US for the world’s troubles of today. But let’s face the root of the 20th-century tragedy, and that is the very little-recognized destruction of Europe in two European wars (not so much world wars) in which both the Anglo-Americans and the Russians prevailed. Unfortunately for him, it was Tsar Nicholas II who betrayed his very specific commitment to his cousin, German Emperor Wilhelm II, not to fall for English intrigues and go to war with him.
The two wars were incited by the Anglos with the goal of taking over both Europe and Russia. The consequences were totally unforeseen. Europe was destroyed, so that there was very little to take over — but an even bigger menace was created for the Anglo perpetrators. Russia was lurking, biding its time in order to extend, little by little, further and further west. Remember the Crimean War of 1853-56, when the UK, France and the Ottomans defeated Russia? Little mentioned is that only 20 years later, in the war of 1877 pitting Russia and the Romanian provinces against the Ottomans, Russia completely defeated the Turks and pushed them almost entirely out, not only from Crimea but from the Balkans as well.
Same story in WWII. The net result of the four years of war was Western Europe’s loss of the Eastern European nations.
Now, one interesting question concerns the benefit vs loss endured by the Europeans on both sides of the divide. Most of the West in the end gained a good lifestyle, if not a good economy, due to the Marshall Plan and the continued supply of subsidies by the US in its cold war against the Soviet Union. For the Eastern European side, the outcome was more mixed. For Romania, for example, it was highly advantageous to have been liberated from the clutches of the West and its economic plunder; they were able to develop economically, educate the 85% illiterate peasant population and even develop their own high-quality industry and political personality. But for Hungary or Poland, it was a drawback as they lost their subservient internal colonies on the one hand and previous partnership with the West on the other hand.
But the Cold War ended in an undecided way. Did the Soviet Union really fold, in defeat? Is the new Russia just some kind of Nigeria with nukes? The (cold) war continued. So we come to today’s peak of the three year war in Ukraine. The new Russia is no longer acting under the auspices of the revolutionary soviet concepts of fraternity with the former economic underclass of the world. The new Russia demands its own pound of flesh. And that changes the political and the economic philosophy; now it acts just as ruthlessly as the West.
Case in point: Syria. When it found out that it was no longer cost effective to support the Assad people, it abandoned its best friends in the region to the hyenas’ massacres in broad daylight. And the new Russia went ahead with the killing of their own millennia-long brothers in Ukraine on an industrial scale. Why? Was it in order to help their brothers under the Ukrainian regime, as Igor Strelkov was asking the Kremlin to do in 2014? No. In 2014, Russia abandoned their brothers. It only became obvious to them 10 years later what was the aim of the West in attempting to take over Donbass. It wasn’t the environmentally negative coal reserves or the oil to be fracked. It was the rare earth metals that the Americans were out to get. The Russians were so far behind in focusing on the rare earth metals that they neglected to exploit their own resources, falling far behind countries like Myanmar and Thailand.
It turns out that we have a new Russia indeed, no longer anti-imperialist, but a Russia discovering its own economic imperialist ambitions. Not just imperial, but imperialist in its ambitions.
And that’s where the myopic Anglo American provocations have brought us, the rest of the world: to a new dilemma. Should we applaud the implosion of the US gangster monster? Or should we decry the bad situation, the loss of the US military umbrella which leaves all the European nations — and the Arabs in the Middle East — open to their aggressive neighbors, Russia and Israel?
As a classic mafia boss, Trump shrugs off any moral responsibility over the tragedy that has befallen the Ukainians, as well as the Europeans, and the Arabs, now defenseless in the face of ISIS and Israel — both offshoots of the same American policy in the region.
As for the Europeans, maybe a last minute wakeup call will enable them to regroup, marshal their potential, and manage, for the first time in modern history, to act as one — as the inheritor of the once powerful Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. But maybe not. With such traitors as Hungary, always a mercenary nation since the Khazarian times, in the service of whoever pays them more, it is a tall order. The Hungarians were betting on the defeat of the Khazars by the Slavs in the 800s and abandoned their masters in the steppes of Asia. Having become the new Apostolic mercenaries for the Catholic Church, they established their own feudal fiefdom in Panonia. Now, they lick the asses of Russia and China.
But no matter the long term outcome of the Russian threat looming over Europe, the Old Continent has a duty to re-arm itself and consolidate itself on an equal footing with the new contenders on the geopolitical world map. And even if Europe decides to enter into a consortium of sorts with Russia in the long term, it should do it from a solid position as it represents the legacy of humanity’s explosive rise from destitution to the Industrial Age and then the AI Age.
