It's the Hegemony, Stupid!

The US empire always stresses its ultimate goodness.

In everything it does, no matter how wrong, illegal, horrid, upside-down, illogical and just bat-shit crazy, the officials of the US regime never miss a chance to present it as the most benevolent and selfless act of charity.

Along with its absurd discourse and reasoning, the US regime-as all good psychopaths-always seems to have a scapegoat ready and waiting, should any of its plans go awry.

When confronted about any of its failures and blunders, US regime officials never admit mistakes. They never admit that something they’ve done shouldn’t have been done.

The official answer to such questions is something akin to, that if the US is unable to get its way, it is the fault of some 'bad' person somewhere.

This seems to be the current strategy of the US regime toward Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, or any nation that dares to say ‘no’ to the US empire.

The US regime scapegoats, and falsely accuses these nations' governments of doing something they did not do. Or it deliberately provokes them with false flags, lies, sanctions and other forms of pressure. Then it uses any negative effects of these lies, provocations and sanctions as ‘evidence’ of those countries governments ineptness, corruption, and as an explanation for any economic and social problems they experience.

We can see this on display in Iran, where the US regime’s sanctions have caused economic difficulties which have caused problems with obtaining medicine, food and other crucial items. When protests break out, the US regime states that it ‘stands with the Iranian people.’ US regime does this at the same time it make Iranians lives difficult.

The US empire is also doing this in Venezuela.

The US uses cuddly human rights rhetoric. It professes to care so much about the people it hurts. When someone points out the glaring contradictions, the US regime spokes-creatures immediately blame the president and government of the ‘enemy’ nation for it all.

The US empire’s role in causing these difficult conditions is ignored.

The US regime manipulates the public with the notion that the US is a benevolent country, and that the sanctions, pain, and death it administers on other nations is all because some leader there is ‘forcing’ the US to do so, and that the US does not want to do it; but it has no choice.

But this was, and is a false premise.

The only thing 'forcing' the US empire's hand seem to be leaders of countries with independent policies and who insist on their sovereignty.

For the US, it is not about liberation. It is about domination.

It does not matter who rules Russia, China, Syria, Iran, or North Korea. If the current governments and systems in those counties were to disappear and give way to someone and something the US wants, it would not matter to the US regime. The US empire would not treat these people any kinder. It would not leave them alone. The US empire would still be hell-bent on dominating them, full force.

Yes, the sanctions would probably be lifted and bank accounts unblocked, but the country and its resources would be taken over by US corporations and bilked for next to nothing. The country would be saddled with enormous debt. The people themselves would not benefit much from it. And that would be all on top of losing their freedom and sovereignty. Not worth it.

If, say, North Korea was absorbed into South Korea and both countries were finally unified, it would not change a thing for the US empire. It would not leave the Korean peninsula. It would just put more of its forces into the Northern part to harass China.

For the US, it is not about right or wrong. It is all about world hegemony.

US regime officials like Pompeo like to run around and accuse China and Russia of trying to ‘spread their influence,’ but what he is actually worried about is that those two countries are undercutting US influence. He has no problem with bribing, threatening, and arm-twisting foreign leaders to do US bidding. Whenever this succeeds, life for those nations gets more complicated in the long-run, to put it mildly.

Everything the US regimes say and do is about domination and control of others, with no exceptions. Once people accept this simple fact, then things will start to make a lot more sense.

The US isn’t interested in democracy, sovereignty, free elections, human rights, free markets, or this or that minority, ethnicity or religious sect. These are just play-things for the US empire to exploit to sow division and chaos, but the ultimate aim is the domination of others and suppression of anyone who does not agree with US dictat.

The recent illegal parliamentary coup in Bolivia by US intelligence and their bought-and-paid-for stooges in the government, police and military there is a case in point.

Real democracy and sovereignty of Bolivia has been destroyed, and the country will now be worse off as a result.

For the US, it is never about democracy and freedom (except for itself only). It is about global hegemony. All else is bullshit.

Cracked Up

Shrieks emanating from frightened US vassals have been heard all over Europe recently after French President Emmanuel Macron dared to utter sacrilegious words against the Holy Mother Church of NATO.

Macron dared to commit the ultimate blasphemy by calling NATO ‘Brain-dead,’ and daring to suggest that Europe must change its relationship with Russia and end the tensions.

While Macron is certainly no real reformer of any kind, and mired in the slop of US domination himself, he is nevertheless correct in his assertions about NATO and Russia.

NATO has been ‘brain-dead’ since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Its reckless actions since then certainly prove this prognosis.

The end of communism in Russia and E. Europe should’ve heralded a new age of cooperation and an end to old cold-war mentalities and tensions.

This is what Russia expected and hoped for. It sacrificed a lot, and gave the US and Western Europe the benefit of the doubt.

But unfortunately, Russia’s deeds were not reciprocated. The US arrogantly announced a ‘victory,’ and quickly started to incorporate ex-communist countries into NATO, which was kept alive even after the Warsaw Pact was disbanded.

Since then, NATO has absorbed more members, moved further East, and now it stretches all the way up to the Russian border.

It has also attacked and bombed countries under false pretenses and caused chaos, death, and serious refugee crises which plague Europe to this day.

It ravaged the Balkans, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and is working on Ukraine.

But all this has created problems, and today NATO is experiencing a host of issues, from lack of funding by member-states, out-dated equipment, lack of coordination, and differing levels of military preparedness, or lack thereof.

The older members are also experiencing NATO fatigue, and resent having to be forced into doing what the US wants, and made to buy shoddy US equipment like the F-35.

Add to this the uncertainty that NATO can really accomplish its mission. So far, NATO has only faced rusted-out 3rd world militaries. It has not yet gone against a strong opponent.

If it does, what will happen?

Will NATO be able to fight and win? Will it suffer damage and disintegration, or will it have to call a ceasefire and an armistice and gain nothing in the end? Will its member-states do their job, or will the confusion and lack of sound coordination, training and modern equipment cause too much confusion and result in great losses and capitulation?

Any sane person can see that NATO’s success is not guaranteed, and any war with a strong opponent will end in failures for the alliance. This much is certain. The only question is the extent of those failures.

The reality is not so rosy for NATO, and its commitments look good only on paper. This is all compounded by the recent failure of US forces and defense systems to intercept missiles launched by the Houthis from Yemen against Saudi oil refineries.

The picture looks bleak when it comes to the true US ability to defend its vassals.

The US simply has no money to maintain NATO, and that’s why it is putting the squeeze on other member-states.

But does it pay to stick to the 2% of GDP spending target not knowing if this investment will actually help? Those countries who do meet this spending limit and assume that it will guarantee them victory are fools, and are wasting their resources that could be used for better, non-military purposes.

Emmanuel Macron has said something that needed to be said for a while, and has caused cracks in NATO’s feel-good propaganda.

Deluded fools like Polish president Duda and Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki immediately came out to defend the hapless NATO alliance and to quickly paper over those cracks with the oratory equivalent of chewing gum, sticking to the official propaganda script of it being ‘The most successful alliance in history,’ and needed to ‘defend Europe from the Russian bear, whose hot breath is felt on Poland’s neck.’

But the hot breath Poland is feeling does not come from the East; it comes from the west, from Washington DC, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, US oil and gas interests, and the organized Jewish zio-goons whose boots on Poland’s back are keeping it down and enslaved.

It is absurd for any country to see NATO as the cornerstone of its security, and shun civilized and far less costly ways of diplomacy with Russia.
 
It is also absurd to think that NATO's problems are purely financial, and that if all members spend what they are required to spend on their militaries that all will be well and good. This is what the Polish wing of NATO wrongly thinks.

The constant scaremongering by such pathetic NATO true-believers leads one to think that these people actually want war more than anyone in Russia does. They seem to think that a war against Russia is winnable, and that the NATO legions will enter Moscow one day triumphant, and subdue the entire country to the wishes and whims of NATO’s US overlords.

But this is but a pipe-dream, and an old Polish fantasy of trying to control the East, a fantasy which Poland had for 350 years; but it has long-lost this battle to Russia.

NATO has grown to be a religion. It’s church is in Brussels, Belgium. It has its Pope, Mr. Stoltenberg, its bishops and priests (generals and member-state defense ministers), its missionaries which are the soldiers, and its congregation which are the citizens of the member-states. Lackluster US-made weaponry are its holy relics. It’s charter is its gospel, and it promotes itself as the salvation of the world, as a crusading army, ready to defend the most important US strategic, economic and military interests no matter how much death and destruction it leaves in its wake.

NATO exists not to protect the EU from Russia, but to keep Russia as an artificial enemy that can be used to further the profits, careers and paychecks of the US military industrial complex, and the legions of NATO and western-paid security ‘experts’ who can always be counted on saying and writing the right things to keep NATO alive long past its shelf date, and money flowing into weapons makers coffers. NATO is, above all, a racket; a multi-billion-dollar money sucking racket.

But it is not all doom and gloom. Because the fact is, that if NATO ever tries to fight Russia it will lose and be destroyed. The NATO high priests know this damn well. That is why NATO will not go to war against Russia. It will only preen and posture. 

Russia is only an excuse, not the real reason for NATO's crooked existence. 

Brain-dead isn’t even a strong enough word to describe NATO. The proper word to describe it has not yet been invented.