The global strategy for world domination
Beginning in the 16th century, with the so-called “voyages of discovery”, Europeans set out to conquer, subjugate and rule over the rest of the world. The modern era of human history officially begins with these events. The Industrial Revolution enabled the innate militarism that characterises the Western psyche to develop such military power as to overwhelm highly advanced non-European nations and make them colonies, extract their wealth, weaken their cultures and make their citizens subordinate people. In the chaos of World War 2, basically a European/American/Japanese War fought on many fronts and misnamed a world conflict, subject nations in Asia and Africa managed to wrest back their freedom. But is the quest for world domination by the West, now led by the American “policeman of the world”, over?
During the era of the Cold War after World War 2, the West advanced the theory of the expansion of communism in terms of a domino effect. After the Soviet Union’s military victories in Eastern Europe it was able to create communist regimes favourable to the dominant Russian communists. Communist political parties had a substantial following in France, Italy and Greece and it took a lot of American money and clandestine CIA intrigues to keep them out of power. The victory of the communists in China was followed by communist gains in Korea and Vietnam. Sparsely populated Mongolia was already a communist state under Russian tutelage since 1924. In the Caribbean, a communist revolution had triumphed in Cuba in 1959 despite US counter-measures.
The Americans and their Western allies felt that their economic and political dominance of the world was under serious threat. Even the newly freed Western colonies in Asia and Africa were espousing socialist ideas and nationalising Western corporations that dominated their economies. It became the cornerstone of foreign policy that no other nation should be allowed to become communist or even socialist. Consequently, we have the Western invasions of Korea and Vietnam, the destruction in Cambodia and Laos, the US sponsored overthrow of President Arbenz Salvador of Guatemala (1954), the murder of President Patrice Lumumba of Congo (1961), overthrow of President Soekarno of Indonesia (1967) with the attendant massacre of a million communists, the murder of President Salvador Allende of Chile (1973) and the continuing intervention in the internal affairs of countries in South America, Asia and Africa. But the real target was the USSR which could not be attacked head on because of its nuclear arsenal and military power.
Ideologically, communism or socialism could not be presented for what it was at that time: a national alternative to Western mega-corporate capitalism which had drawn its tentacles around the globe to dominate the world economy. So communism was presented as an evil system that was a violator of human rights. The earlier USSR under J. V. Stalin did much to confirm this by his authoritarian rule.
The collapse of the USSR in 1990 and of communism changed the dynamics but not the goal which was the continuation of Western domination of the rest of the world. Russia was fine as long as a senile drunkard named Boris Yeltsin ruled with the backing of the USA while the Russian economy was being destroyed so it could never again become a super-power. The economy of that state was destroyed by the Western sponsored privatisation of its assets to corrupt oligarchs who rose, like Yeltsin, from the former communist apparatus. The country was deeply in debt to Western banks. But all that quickly changed with the election of President Vladimir Putin in 2000. The economy revived, the international debts were paid and Russia again refused to be subservient to Western interests.
To the east of Russia, in China, Mao Zedong and his calamitous economic and social experiments ended with his death in 1976. Under the new reforms beginning with Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese economy and industries were expanding at rates unsurpassed in history. It was also becoming a world economic power. Could the West tolerate these other races that were becoming economically and politically powerful and seeking to be independent of Western leadership? Japan had been the first Asian nation after World War 2 to become an economic power, followed by South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. They had become obedient followers of USA and the West, giving unconditional support to Western military adventures and policies. But Russia and China remained obstacles despite becoming free market economies because they declined to be subservient.
That such impertinence was unacceptable to the USA is well documented in policy papers prepared by the top neo-conservative think tanks and political leaders. The objective of American policy was to be continued dominance over the rest of the world and it is well documented in the Project for the New American Century founded in 1997. It was not secret and its vision was presented as public documents available to Americans on internet at http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm
America was not only to be dominant but it would carry out “constabulary” duties around the world. This would be done by creating the most powerful military. How the military would be used and developed is found in the following 90 page document based on the assessments of US military leaders and policy makers.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
This is the summary of the mission and strategy taken from this document.
“ESTABLISH FOUR CORE MISSIONS for U.S. military forces:
defend the American homeland;
fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars;
perform the “constabulary” duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions;
transform U.S. forces to exploit the “revolution in military affairs;”
Now it is not the USSR but Russia and China that is the focus of attention in 2000 when this document was prepared. It goes on to state that the US must
“MAINTAIN NUCLEAR STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY, basing the U.S. nuclear deterrent upon a global, nuclear net assessment that weighs the full range of current and emerging threats, not merely the U.S.-Russia balance.
RESTORE THE PERSONNEL STRENGTH of today’s force to roughly the levels anticipated in the “Base Force” outlined by the Bush Administration, an increase in active-duty strength from 1.4 million to 1.6 million.
REPOSITION U.S. FORCES to respond to 21st century strategic realities by shifting permanently-based forces to Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia, and by changing naval deployment patterns to reflect growing U.S. strategic concerns in East Asia. …………….
DEVELOP AND DEPLOY GLOBAL MISSILE DEFENSES to defend the American homeland and American allies, and to provide a secure basis for U.S. power projection around the world.
CONTROL THE NEW “INTERNATIONAL COMMONS” OF SPACE AND “CYBERSPACE,” and pave the way for the creation of a new military service – U.S. Space Forces – with the mission of space control.
EXPLOIT THE “REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS” to insure the long-term superiority of U.S. conventional forces. ….
NCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING gradually to a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, ……”
It notes the need to deal with the new enemies with nuclear superiority.
“A new assessment of the global nuclear balance, one that takes account of Chinese and other nuclear forces as well as Russian, must precede decisions about U.S. nuclear force cuts.”
The signatories to the project principles, all members of the Republican Party’s neo-conservative wing who played the leading role in early 21st century US politics in the Bush administration, are noted in the main document as follows:
Elliott Abrams , Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel, Paul Wolfowitz.
While the project for the dominance of the world by America using its overwhelming new military power resonates with the American public brought up to believe that the USA is a super-nation destined to govern the world, the rest of the world needed a different propaganda message. The main propaganda message was now the protection of human rights, with the cryptic advertising slogan of R2P, with the USA being the worldwide arbiter of human rights. So Russia and China became the main violators of human rights and its people needed the protection of the USA. Other countries that do not accept US hegemony automatically become major violators of human rights: the former Yugoslavia in Europe, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua in South America; North Korea, Burma and Sri Lanka in Asia; Syria and Iran in the Middle East. The grossest violators of human rights in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, are off the hook as they are client states with US military bases.
Direct military intervention is costly and fraught with an element of danger. Before such action, countries can be destabilised by interference in their internal politics through US and EU funded NGOs which could later be supplemented with assistance to opposition movements or local terrorists. Recently, a German television interviewer asked President Vladimir Putin why foreign funded NGOs in Russia were now required to reveal their sources of funds. He pointed out that foreign government funding of NGOs was prohibited by a 1938 law in the USA. On the other hand, there were 654 NGOs in Russia funded by Western diplomatic missions who received a total of almost US dollars one billion that were interfering in Russian politics. Russia only required them to reveal their sources of funds. There were only two Russian NGOs in the West: one in UK and another in the USA. See http://rt.com/politics/official-word/political-russia-schnenborn-russian-399/
The administration of George W Bush implemented the New American Century policies with brazen invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq behind a massive cover of false propaganda. He added a new dimension to R2P: combating worldwide terrorism. Forget that the USA supported Cuban terrorists, Afghan terrorists against that government in the 1980s, Chechen terrorists against Russia, Uighur terrorists in Xinjiang, China, by aiding the World Uyghur Congress, Israeli terrorism against Palestinians, aided terrorists in Libya and are now aiding Al Qaeda terrorists against Syria, to name just a few. Blatantly false propaganda was manufactured and disseminated worldwide by Western leaders and the Western-controlled mass media to justify Western intervention in other nations. Their domination of the UN and its agencies gives them the opportunity to legitimise some of these depredations.
Sri Lanka knows this strategy very well. Throughout the Eelam Wars, the US and its allies refused to support the government and allowed terrorist offices and funding from their soil. At the very end of the war, desperate attempts were made by the US alliance to save the terrorist leadership to live and fight another day. Subsequently, they have permitted the creation of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam and the Global Tamil Forum on their soil and continue to discredit Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has been dubbed a major human rights violator deserving of punishment. Post-war reconciliation efforts are downplayed.
George Bush’s successor has carried on the same policies with the “democratic revolutions in North Africa”, the threat to destroy Iran and now the threat to destroy the Syrian government. Coupled with this is the administration’s “Pivot to Asia” which is nothing new but a strengthening of an existing programme of encircling and intimidating the ascendant China.
But why is the Middle East so important to the USA and its allies? It is not merely because of its oil. The region is the underbelly of Russia. The US military bases are mainly stationed to encircle China and Russia. The objective is not direct invasion, which is impossible considering their power, but intimidation. The other part of this plan is to ensure that countries in their neighbourhood are also weaned away from Russia and China. Hence the importance of lining up the Middle Eastern, East and South Asian countries as camp followers. Those that recalcitrant are targeted for punishment. Syria and Iran happen to be friends of Russia in a Middle East that is now mostly allied with the West. They could not be allowed to remain as such.
This paper will not go into the internal dynamics of the US political system that begets such policies. After all, the US and Western economies are today in relative decline, unemployment is high, social benefits are being cut while the military and internal security budgets are rising. The current US Department of Defence figure is that there are 750 US military bases in 40 foreign countries while there are 153 countries where there at least a handful of US military personnel working in military facilities or as military advisers. For the full official list, see
http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/MILITARY/history/hst1109.pdf
The tragedy for the USA, and consequently for the world, is that the vision for the New American Century has no concern with humanistic values: alleviation of poverty, improved access to education and health, improvement of the environment, assistance to poorer nations, etc. Its focus is the projection of military power and world dominance. Its beneficiaries are the American mega-corporations supplying the military and the oil and gas industries. The ordinary American people are among the most generous you can find but their sensibilities are blunted by the demonization of manufactured enemies. Unfortunately, these continue to be the guiding principles of US foreign policy. That a great country with such a capacity to help the rest of the world, and its own people, should be stuck with such a narrow vision is a tragedy for the whole world.
Thepanis Alwis
Baddegama, Sri Lanka.
10 September 2013