Empire in decline – the last warning |
To begin with, I wish to
say that if somebody is critical of American policies or generally of the
Western politics, it does not imply that he is anti-American or anti-Semitic.
Simply he might be tired of being constantly instilled who is the enemy and
then brainwashed by the same media that who was the enemy then is now the ally
and vice versa. The already deceased
Vaclav Eminger, survivor of fascist and communist working camps, during his
entire life was aptly pointing to the current covert threats. Silent threat for
Australia http://www.szcpv.org/04/odboj.html Unfortunately, as the
recent reality shows, his warnings become more and more apparent. On the one
hand, without America we would have hardly got rid of the two most atrocious
totalitarian regimes in Europe – fascist and socialist, which left millions of
victims. However, historic facts confirm that political controversies of USA
must dismay even the hard-line champions of America. The biggest mistake of
Europe was its wicked pact with Stalin endorsing his dictatorship regime, which
with evident consent of the allies spread and took control over most of Eastern
and Central Europe for many decades. With the inception of
Cold War, running out of steam in its nuclear hegemony, America had to change
its political position. Its former allies became its enemies and vice versa. This is well
demonstrated in the former Yugoslavia, which during World War II thanks to the
support of USA and allies was able to successfully run a partisan war and
despite heavy losses block several German divisions. Furthermore, Josip Broz
Tito was able not to yield to Stalin and sustain independence and sovereignty
of his country until his death, starkly upsetting former USSR and its
satellites. Therefore also a great number of migrants could have fled to the
West via former Yugoslavia. During the occupation of Czechoslovakia in August
1968 almost a million of Yugoslav volunteers were ready to help Czechs and
Slovaks. However, the former ally of the West and bastion of liberty during the
Cold War became a ‘problem country’, in which NATO carried out the biggest
military operation since the end of World War II. By blaming Serbian army for
the genocide of Muslims, the ultimate goal to divide Yugoslavia and declare
independent Kosovo with a Muslim majority could be justified. The mujahedins who when
aided by CIA and Stinger missiles resisted the Soviet occupation army for eight
years, were then called warriors for freedom by Radio Free Europe and Voice of
America. And now they are considered terrorists and there is another occupation
army in Afghanistan today (I wish to note that Bin Ladin was a CIA agent at
that time). The
three mentioned faux pas of America and the West in general, analyzing the
words of Vaclav Eminger, could not match the cardinal and fatal error – the
fact that USA decided to commit a gradual and slow economic suicide by
converting the most populated and communist state into the biggest factory of
America and eventually of the entire West. Thanks to unforgivably
smug and complacent greed of captains of flagship industries and American
capital, China, in stark contrast of obstinate Soviet communists, was able to
obtain sophisticated technologies from the West absolutely free and without
credits of the World Bank. To claim that communism
has fully disappeared is misguided and insincere. Communist China, thanks to
its high exports, becomes an economic and gradually also a military superpower
which can afford it in contrast to hugely indebted US. The expansion of Chinese
automotive industry in South America is only the beginning. It
may be worthwhile to question not only why USA made many of its own citizens
redundant, but also why they did not help South America, for instance, where
there was similarly cheap labor market there and from the point of eliminating
pro-Marxist trends it would have been more productive. The answer is again a
reckless calculation – Chinese workforce was cheaper. The eight years of Bush
governance fully revealed that the American economy as once the economy of the
former USSR was actually standing on its last legs. The collapse of WorldCom
and Enron, abrupt decline in export, huge capital transfers as well as current
mortgage crisis in line with foolhardy financial policies of Bush administration
that when started its mandate drastically lowered interest rates and then after
50% depreciation of US dollar sharply increased them, made already hundred
thousands of Americans homeless. Moreover, without positive results, G. Bush
used tremendous economic resources of taxpayers obsessively fighting against
terrorism that was often triggered by the own US behavior. Contemporary
America is a sick country that needs change. As argued by one of the
presidential candidates in the upcoming elections John Edwards: ‘while
companies as ExxonMobil make record profits, middle class gets weaker and
200,000 American men and women – war veterans who took pride wearing military
uniform – are homeless people now, sleeping under the bridge’. The Clinton’s presidential
campaign was run under the captive slogan: “It’s
the economy, stupid”. In contemporary global economy this applies even
more. Only a silly man can believe that a world conflict can result in
one-sided victory. When Ronald Regan started his presidency, Gorbatschov
understood that the USSR was in trouble to compete with American economy at
that time. Today, on the contrary
it is USA which are in economic trouble with an astronomical deficit and 70%
depreciation of the currency since the inception of Bush administration. This
leads to dented trust towards American dollar and could eventually mean gradual
transition of international commerce into other more reliable currencies (Iran
already does not sell crude oil in dollars). China that has its
economy based on exports rather than mortgage loans, with its billions of
foreign currency reserves now bails out American banks affected by subprime
mortgage crisis. It is high time to wake
up and if the November elections in the US shall not stop the current downfall,
we all will be even harder affected according to the most pessimistic
forecasts, including Europe. It is high time to
apprehend that there are much bigger threats to the West than Iran, as hinted
by G. Bush. I pray that this is
apprehended by our Israeli ‘brothers’ who have strong influence on most of
American economy. I pray that they are not the first who would deposit their
capital in Chinese and foreign banks, because now we are in the same boat. And
as argued by the former presidential candidate and advisor Patrick Buchannan in
his book Death of West, ‘without USA,
Israel will be a lame duck in the future’. It would be very naïve to think
that China, which already attacked its allies twice (in 1968 the former USSR
near Ussuri River and in 1979 Vietnam), will be always kind and friendly while
defending its own economic interests. Historical experience should caution us,
as it is said metaphorically: ‘Moses managed to lead Israelites out of Egypt
and Stalin out of Politburo’. Jozef Paluch – Chicago,
16 January, 2008 |