In the last essay, I talked about the economic terrorism waged on the world by the US regime.
I also briefly touched on the pernicious propaganda spread by the EU that scares countries with fatalistic economic doom unless they submit to EU membership.
It is the EU that is the focus of this essay.
The EU has its roots as a union of French, German, and Italian steel manufacturers. The Union sought to harmonize economic relations between countries in post-war Europe.
This relationship was the brainchild of the EU, and European apparatchiks who spent time in US educational institutions.
The US pushed for an economic agreement between western European powers in order to blunt the appeal of socialism, distance rest of Europe from the Soviet Union, and keep US control over Europe.
From that time the EU grew to include more members, influenced more trade, and eventually became the bureaucratic monolith with its own supra-national government and currency that it is today.
The de-facto leader of the EU today is Germany. It has the most influence over EU policy, which it quite often breaks for its own benefit, and to the detriment of other members (like Greece).
When this German influence and control over the EU is more closely examined, some sinister parallels start coming into focus that hearken back to that nation’s unpleasant past.
Before the US decided that subordinating Europe to its interests through economic enticement would be a good idea, none other than Adolf Hitler embarked on his own ‘United Europe’ project, although by different means.
But even though the means may’ve been different, the aim was, and still appears to be German domination of Europe (albeit overseen by the US/NATO). But this time, it is an army of German businessmen that have been let loose in Eastern Europe buying up everything rather than the Wehrmacht shooting and bombing their way into peoples’ hearts.
The US basically took Hitler's plan and adapted it for its own purposes after the war.
One of the chief aims of German militarism and expansion for the last few centuries has been the subordination of Russia.
Let’s not forget that the Russian empress Catherine the Great was German. After she took control of Russia, she installed German advisers and invited German experts and migrants to settle in Russia.
But Germany’s appetite for controlling the East goes back much farther back in time. The Frankish Empire under Charlemagne controlled parts of Eastern Europe. The Franks were a Germanic people, and they always considered Eastern Europe as their ‘promised land.’
In later centuries, this German desire to rule the Eastern lands became a rallying cry of ‘Drang nach Osten,’ or ‘The drive to the East.’
Germany always desired to control the East. They see it as their destiny, and their defeat during WW2 may have tempered this drive, but the desire is still there.
This puts the 2014 color revolution in Ukraine led by the US and EU in a different perspective. This, as well as the recent intrigues against Russia, from accusing Putin of being a ‘tyrant’ to sanctioning Russia is a part of this renewed German attempt to subjugate the East.
Germany has already succeeded in regaining its influence in the old domains of Poland and the Baltic states by dragging them into the EU. In Poland for example, most of the banks and media are under German control. All this has been done without Germany firing a single shot!
Now, Germany is party to the NATO confrontation with Russia. Germany desires the raw materials of Russia so it can connect them to its own industries which will process them into products. The roadblock to this project remain Russian president Vladimir Putin, who insists on cooperation with the US and EU on an equal basis.
This is a big non-no for the US and the EU. Because whoever the US cannot control is seen as an enemy.
Putin wants to sell Germany and others these resources, but not for cheap.
So NATO has been mobilized to ‘send a message’ to Putin, that either he gives in or else. The on-going NATO force expansion deeper into Eastern Europe up to Russia’s borders, and the military exercises are meant to put pressure on Russia and scare it into submission so that US and Germany can realize their ‘Drive to the East.’
Just like fascist Germany and its satellites during WW2, Germany, the rest of NATO and US seem to be once again ganging up on Russia. The parallels are startling, and Russia has cause for worry. It sees history repeating itself.
Once can just take a look at the map of the current EU member countries and the map of German conquests and control during WW2 to see the similarities, with the drive to the east still in action.
Coincidentally, Eastern European states that during WW2 were allied with Germany against Russia, or were historically hostile to it before the war, are today part of NATO.
This is why it is imperative for Russia, China and all others who’ve been burnt by this lunacy in the past to band together and setup alternate financial institutions and economic organizations to replace and counter those of the west. They must also work closely together in the defense sphere and develop military capabilities that will put them on-par with the west, if not ahead.
They must setup military cooperation with other countries, and establish military bases in the western hemisphere to put the US on notice. Russia and China must start to reciprocate US moves.
But fortunately, Russia and China have proven to be hard nuts to crack. The US has tried fake protests IN China and sanctions against Russia, but to no avail. US gambit of using Ukraine to serve as a club to beat Russia over the head has backfired, and Russia has taken control of the coveted Crimean Peninsula, and is supporting Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine who don’t recognize the Kiev regime which came to power by force.
Both Russia and China have also limited and neutralized the work of western NGOs who have been shown to meddle in and interfere in both countries internal affairs, manipulating the public, and under the guise of democracy promotion funded, advised and supported pro-US candidates.
The ultimate aim of joint US-EU imperialism is the subjugation of the Eurasian continent. Gaining control over Russia will clear the way to China. This is the plan. Ignore the western concern about democracy, free elections, and human rights. That’s just PR bullshit.
Old German expansionism has today been repackaged as the 'European Union.' The US, NATO, and the EU are Hitler’s Heirs.
When it comes to sponsoring, carrying out, and engaging in acts of terror of any kind, the US stands alone as the undisputed leader.
One of the worst types of abuse that the US subjects other nations to comes from its control (albeit diminishing) of the key levers of financial authority worldwide.
From controlling the SWIFT system for global financial transactions, the IMF, World Bank, as well as having control over foreign banks and corporations by allowing them to operate in the US market, the US exerts a strong influence on monetary and economic matters, and has the power to use all of these organs to make or break countries that don’t want to conform to US political, economic, and strategic demands.
The US engages in nothing short of international financial terrorism to get its way.
Back in 2014, the US strong-armed the EU to put sanctions on Russia over the mess that the US/EU and NATO stirred up in Ukraine. Any country that refused suddenly found itself sued or ‘under investigation’ by the US Treasury Dept. or some other US regime outfit, accused of engaging in some shady dealings, and YIKES, the so-ever evil ‘support for terrorism’ charge, and threatened with huge fines.
Also recall when France was involved in the Mistral ship sale to Russia. After the EU passed sanctions on Russia, the Obama regime demanded that France scrap the sale.
At first, France refused, but suddenly found its banks under scrutiny by the US government. France later relented, and broke the deal with Russia, which put a further dent in the French economy already ailing from the effects of Russian counter-sanctions on the EU.
But there are more extreme instances of US economic terrorism which have destroyed other countries’ economies, and more may follow.
The TTP and TTIP trade agreements currently being pushed by the US behind closed doors, and without any public scrutiny, would put the interests of US-based financial institutions and corporations above other nations’ sovereignty.
These agreements will make national governments subordinate to the whim and will of private enterprise. Democracy and the will of the people would be relegated to window-dressing. No longer would elected representatives have any power to legislate, and any laws they try to pass that primarily benefit the interests of their citizens will be immediately struck down and nullified if those laws in any way, shape, or form hamper US corporate profit-making.
These ‘free trade’ agreements are a desperate, last ditch attempt by the US regime to turn the world into a US-owned plantation, staffed by foreign slaves. The US is doing this to hold on to its waning influence, abnormally high living standard fueled by cheap credit, stave off other countries’ attempts to move away from the US-imposed financial order, the petrodollar, and from forming alternate institutions and ways of doing business that are more cooperative and multi-lateral, and ones over which the US doesn’t have control over.
Many, if not all of these countries which are currently involved in these ‘free trade’ negotiations know that these deals are inherently bad. But they are afraid that if they don’t sign on to them, the US will later use its influence to lock them out of its economy, the economies of other member states, or purposefully make their economies suffer until these countries relent and become US plantations.
To be fair, the EU plays the same way. It bombards the continent with propaganda that there is no other way than the EU way; that the EU is synonymous with a ‘prosperous Europe’ regardless of any and all evidence to the contrary; that the EU IS Europe, that if countries don’t join in they’ll crash, burn, and die horrible economic deaths; that they’ll be left behind by prosperity, and that there is NO other way for these countries to go on, except within the EU.
This is pure and utter bunkum, whether preached by the EU for its own selfish interests or by the US for its own. Of course, all this doomsday EU propaganda agitation is a cruel, self-fulfilling prophecy of the EU’s own making.
For if any country resists EU subjugation, the EU deliberately locks them out of economic trade and other opportunities by default, thereby creating the false perception that only the EU can offer those countries economic salvation, and that left to themselves those countries stand no chance.
No country should ever be forced into doing anything under the threat of having its economy ruined if it doesn’t comply with some other country's demands and diktat. But this is the very tactic that the US and other western countries have been using for a long time to high-jack other nations’ economies and governments.
This is all another example of economic terrorism by extortion. It’s the same old mafia tactic of ‘do this, or else . . .’
These kinds of economic terror tactics used to be applied to poorer, non-western countries by wealthy western ones.
But in the last 20 years or so this has changed, for the worse. These tactics are now being applied to the citizens, cities, and institutions within the countries doing the extorting.
Bail-outs, bail-ins, bankrupting cities and appointing un-elected managers who sell off anything of value, stagnant wages and increased rent payments are all recent, local examples of economic terrorism that has been unleashed on the rest of the world for nearly a century.
In the past, the US gained control of other nations by concocting phony and inaccurate economic studies in order to shove billions of dollars of unnecessary, counterproductive loans down the throats of poor countries that couldn't even afford to take them. The US, IMF, World Bank then promised those countries fairy tales of economic prosperity, and how these loans would more than pay for themselves after the proposed improvements are made.
But this was just a ruse; a con. Those loans were not meant to improve those countries, but to turn them into perpetual debt slaves. Then the countries who took on these loans found themselves unable to pay them back.
It is at that point that the extortion racket truly kicks into high gear: in order to pay back the loans, the countries are forced to sell off their public assets like water, sewage, electricity grids and generating stations, public lands, mines, etc. to the west for pennies.
Those countries are also required to adopt laws and policies that favor the loan-givers; laws which cause further chaos, economic misery, and which may undermine national security.
Any country that resists these economic hit-men finds its leaders assassinated, governments overthrown, and itself bombed and invaded. A modern example would be Ukraine, Iraq, Honduras in 2009, Russia and Iran today. None of these countries wanted to remain subservient to US wishes, and were either destabilized or sanctioned, or both.
It is recommended that anyone who wants to get a more personal testimony about this US-driven international economic extortion racket read the book by an ex-economic hit-man John Perkins, titled ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit-man.’ The book originally came out twelve years ago, but an updated version of it was recently released.
Whatever crafty, pleasant-sounding names any US-inspired trade deals go by, NAFTA, CEFTA, TPP, TTIP-and whatever feel-good cuddly propaganda is rolled out to pitch it, they are all nothing less that US economic terrorism that will inevitably make the lives of the people in the countries whose leaders are naïve enough to sign up to them undeniably worse in the long-run.
There was, is, and never will be such a thing as ‘free trade.’ Everything has its costs.
