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.