Posted on 11/12/2022 1:19:10 PM PST by Cathi
Excellent conversation with Garland Nixon about the United States plan for stealing Europe's industry in order to reindustrialize the U.S allowing it to become more competitive with China and to maintain hegemony.
Europe had to give up low cost Russian gas and oil to weaken them enough that their industries would be forced to relocate here or go bankrupt. Europe is in the process of a complete collapse.
He believes that the U.S. always uses their vassals and then discards them as empires have throughout history.
One of the most interesting points he makes is that the U.S. like Britain in the past develop relationships in Latin America, Africa, Asia in order to expropriate their wealth. But, politically the U.S. in running into Russia and China's successful efforts to form partnerships all over the world and those countries are moving away from the U.S.
Lots of interesting detail in the YouTube video.
I watched this yesterday. Garland is excellent.
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Garland Nixon
Biography
Washington D.C. radio talk show host.
Democratic strategist
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8417998/bio
Have you listened to him? He’s anti-war and i can’t think of one D who would hire him.
China has been pulled out of poverty because the USA gave it, and allowed it to steal, trillions of dollars worth of technology.
The world has benefited immensely by pax Americana, and before that, pax Britannica.
“He’s anti-war and i can’t think of one D who would hire him.”
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He makes clear that both parties are controlled by their donors...the Military Industrial Complex.
You are right.
Pax Americana means business for everyone. America befits from it, but so does its business partners as well - it’s a win win for all.
America has done this in a rather fair-play manner and didn’t see coming the cheating and the stealing by China.
Imperialism 101
Chapter 1 of Against Empire by Michael Parenti
Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject of imperialism has been sanitized, so that empires become “commonwealths,” and colonies become “territories” or “dominions” (or, as in the case of Puerto Rico, “commonwealths” too). Imperialist military interventions become matters of “national defense,” “national security,” and maintaining “stability” in one or another region. In this book I want to look at imperialism for what it really is.
Across the Entire Globe
By “imperialism” I mean the process whereby the dominant politico-economic interests of one nation expropriate for their own enrichment the land, labor, raw materials, and markets of another people.
The earliest victims of Western European imperialism were other Europeans. Some 800 years ago, Ireland became the first colony of what later became known as the British empire. A part of Ireland still remains under British occupation. Other early Caucasian victims included the Eastern Europeans. The people Charlemagne worked to death in his mines in the early part of the ninth century were Slavs. So frequent and prolonged was the enslavement of Eastern Europeans that “Slav” became synonymous with servitude. Indeed, the word “slave” derives from “Slav.” Eastern Europe was an early source of capital accumulation, having become wholly dependent upon Western manufactures by the seventeenth century.
A particularly pernicious example of intra-European imperialism was the Nazi aggression during World War II, which gave the German business cartels and the Nazi state an opportunity to plunder the resources and exploit the labor of occupied Europe, including the slave labor of concentration camps.
The preponderant thrust of the European, North American, and Japanese imperial powers has been directed against Africa, Asia, and Latin America. By the nineteenth century, they saw the Third World as not only a source of raw materials and slaves but a market for manufactured goods. By the twentieth century, the industrial nations were exporting not only goods but capital, in the form of machinery, technology, investments, and loans. To say that we have entered the stage of capital export and investment is not to imply that the plunder of natural resources has ceased. If anything, the despoliation has accelerated.
Of the various notions about imperialism circulating today in the United States, the dominant view is that it does not exist. Imperialism is not recognized as a legitimate concept, certainly not in regard to the United States. One may speak of “Soviet imperialism” or “nineteenth-century British imperialism” but not of U.S. imperialism. A graduate student in political science at most universities in this country would not be granted the opportunity to research U.S. imperialism, on the grounds that such an undertaking would not be scholarly. While many people throughout the world charge the United States with being an imperialist power, in this country persons who talk of U.S. imperialism are usually judged to be mouthing ideological blather.
The impoverished lands of Asia, Africa, and Latin America are known to us as the “Third World,” to distinguish them from the “First World” of industrialized Europe and North America and the now largely defunct “Second World” of communist states. Third World poverty, called “underdevelopment,” is treated by most Western observers as an original historic condition. We are asked to believe that it always existed, that poor countries are poor because their lands have always been infertile or their people unproductive.
In fact, the lands of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have long produced great treasures of foods, minerals and other natural resources. That is why the Europeans went through all the trouble to steal and plunder them. One does not go to poor places for self-enrichment. The Third World is rich. Only its people are poor—and it is because of the pillage they have endured.
Shutting down your energy production is a funny way to reindustrialize.
That’s not how our EU allies see this playing out. They have plans for those hundreds of billions of future US dollars.
https://www.gmfus.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/A%20Modern%20Marshall%20Plan%20for%20Ukraine.pdf
I think they are going to be disappointed...:-)
I’ll be interested in seeing just how big the next “aid” package will be now that there’s no election rigamarole to worry about for two years. I’m thinking $50B.
The Biden Administration has already indicated they intend to get a $50 billion package before the new Congress is seated. Though with the way this election went the new Congress is going to look pretty much just like the old one did...:-(
In other words, a warmongering landslide.
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Interesting
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