Posted on 10/27/2017 3:09:57 PM PDT by davikkm
After World War II, the United States became the most powerful and most militarily active nation in the world. The real reason the US decides to go to war is not for the reasons we are sold through the mainstream media. It’s not about getting rid of evil dictators or for humanitarian reasons. It is not even about defeating terrorism. The real reason the US is always at war is purely to protect its economic hegemony.
Once the second world war ended, the developed world was so devastated that the US easily rose to become the world’s most powerful nation. To ensure that their power would last generations, the US created the Petrodollar System. This system was created when the Nixon administration made a deal with Saudi Arabia in the 1970’s. The US agreed to supply Saudi Arabia with weapons if they sold all their oil in US dollars. Once the Saudis collected dollars from oil sales, they would buy US Treasuries to earn an investment return.
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How did the Korean War, the Vietnam war, the invasion of Grenada, or the conflicts in the Middle East protect or advance US economic hegemony?
The German Army marches for the Fatherland.
The French Army marches for Glory.
The British Army marches for the Queen.
The American Army marches for Souvenirs.
How come you don’t post any more of Ruby’s stuff?
Is it because she is a retarded kookwad with medals and ribbons?
Typical Marxist rubbish.
In fact, there's a long list of "real reasons" which certainly include the economic consequences.
But Americans won't fight & die for economics alone so there must also be higher purposes such as world peace, political freedom, private enterprise & justice.
And given the rotten state of much of humanity (Saddam Hussein comes to mind) such higher purposes are usually not hard to find.
Congress hasn’t declared War since WWII.
As you said. Typical Marxist rubbish.
Mostly it’s propaganda produced by those still butt-hurt over the USSR losing the Cold War. The rest is just the usual thumb-sucking idiots trying to sound cool.
Even if this ridiculous charge is true, so what? Every nation, every tribe, every clan, every family on earth fights for its survival. In terms of nations, that means fighting for economic advantage, or "hegemony" as the marxists like to say.
Of course, the charge isn't true to begin with ...
People who use the word “hegemony” wish they had control over one.
No, we pass the Iraq resolution authorizing the use of military force after 9-11.
PIAPS was all for it. She had extra intelligence that said Saddam had weapons of mass destructions.
Ridiculous. Here is why oil is traded in dollars.
And then there’s the Bretton Woods Conference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_Conference
Well, LBJ’s buddies, Brown and Root made out quite well in Vietnam, quite well indeed, for example.
I don’t think it’s an ‘either/or’
There are a lot of Americans willing to fight and die for God, Liberty and Country. There are a lot of cynical bastards running corporations who are quite happy to sell lots of goods and services even if it means American kids die in deploying or using the same.
Ike warned us.
Essentially, if people can make a profit doing it, people will do it, be it selling single cigarettes on a ghetto street or contributing to candidates who are in favor of ventures from which they will profit.
Lots of companies made lots of money on all of those conflicts you list. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have done what we did ( a separate discussion), but I know if I worked building missiles and guns I would have a pretty easy time rationalizing our use of them, as would anyone. that’s just human nature. Follow the money.
That doesn’t mean that there aren’t really bad people who should be killed, or vital interests where we should go in and kill people and break things earlier rather than later.
True. As guarantor of the economic & political systems the US often goes to war simply to prevent a larger conflagration that might destroy the existing order. Britain did it before us. Japan was supposed to grab the brass ring afterm us. Perhaps China? I doubt that. Too many internal contradictions therem
Instead, we SPENT billions rebuilding Germany and Japan, and in fact enabled them to become our economic rivals.
So the "hegemony" argument really doesn't hold water. Not that it would be horrible if it did.
One word: Petrodollar
We go to war to protect the petrodollar.
How many petrodollars were at stake in the Vietnam War or the Korean War?
The information is out there. Do your own homework.
There is no connection between oil and either Vietnamese and Korean wars. None.
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