How to learn to stop worrying and love The Bomb
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The strategists of Full Spectrum Dominance envisioned control of pretty much the entire universe, including outer and inner-space, from the galaxy to the mind. The control of energy, particularly global oil and gas resources, by the Big Four Anglo-American private oil giants— ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil, BP and Royal Dutch Shell—was the cornerstone of their global strategy.
Washington would spread democracy after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But it was to be a special kind of democracy, if you will, a ‘totalitarian democracy,’ welding American economic, political and cultural hegemony together under the military control of NATO.
On its own website, Sharp’s institute admitted to being active with opposition ‘pro-democracy’ groups in a number of countries, including Burma, Thailand, Tibet, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, as well as Serbia.36 Conveniently, his target countries entirely coincided with the US State Department’s targets for regime change over the same time period. The word ‘democracy,’ as the ancient Greek oligarchs well knew, was a double-edged sword that could be manipulated against one’s opponents, with the directed fury of an enraged mob.
George F. Kennan, US State Department Director of Policy Planning. In 1948, in an internal policy memorandum classified Top Secret, he outlined the foreign policy objectives of the United States as it was creating the post-war empire to be known as the American Century.
Kennan’s thesis, eventually declassified, was stunningly clear: We have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population….In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships, which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.14
The American architects of post-War power -– centered in and around the powerful Council on Foreign Relations, the Rockefeller Foundation and, above all, the Rockefeller faction in US politics and economics — had adopted Mackinder’s geopolitical view as their own. The leading strategists within Rockefeller’s faction, including Henry Kissinger and, later, Zbigniew Brzezinski, both men part of the powerful Rockefeller faction in US politics, were trained in Mackinder geopolitics.
Moscow shocked Washington by testing its own atomic bomb in 1949 and hydrogen bombs soon thereafter. When the Russians demonstrated the ballistic missile delivery capability to deploy them by its bold launch of the Sputnik space satellite in 1957, US policy elites were forced to put their dream of nuclear first strike, called ‘nuclear primacy,’ on ice. It was to remain on ice for more than a half century until Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and a small clique of neo-conservative war hawks in the Administration of George W. Bush resurrected it after September 11, 2001. The ‘Bush doctrine,’ the policy of pre-emptive war, now included the doctrine of pre-emptive nuclear strike.
After the Bush Administration unilaterally declared an end to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and de facto nullified the Start II Treaty in 2001, Russia stopped withdrawing and destroying its SS-18 MIRV-ed missiles.
Significantly, and for the first time since Henry Kissinger’s National Security Strategic Memorandum-200 during the Ford Administration, the US Army stated that among its official ‘missions’ was the control of population growth in raw material rich countries.9
The 2008 document cited ‘population growth’ as the predominant threat to the security of the US and its allies, and it called for wars to control raw material resources.
In comparison with the rest of the world’s military spending, the sums spent by Washington were even more impressive. The United States was far and away the global leader in military spending: in 2008 it spent more than the next 45 highest spending countries in the world combined....Knjigu u PDF formatu možete preuzeti putem ove veze:
...When the combined military budgets of the United States and all its NATO allies as well as key Pacific allies Japan, South Korea and Australia were totaled, the US-dominated alliance spent annually $1.1 trillion on their combined militaries, representing 72 percent of the world’s total military spending.3
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