{"id":983196,"date":"2023-02-05T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=137540"},"modified":"2023-02-05T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T19:11:07","slug":"the-us-empire-is-starting-to-fall-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/05\/the-us-empire-is-starting-to-fall-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Empire is Starting to Fall Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In order to understand why, the nature of imperialism, and thus of all<\/i> empires, needs first to be explained (especially because almost no one knows about this):<\/p>\n

Whereas a merely domestic dictatorship is no danger to other nations, an international dictatorship \u2014 or \u201cempire\u201d \u2014 is<\/i> a danger to other nations, because every empire (i.e., each of the individuals who actually control<\/i> it) craves to increase or expand<\/i> its (their) control, and because this imperialistic craving is or ought to be part of the very definition of<\/i> \u201cempire\u201d because every empire is built in that way <\/i>(insatiable desire for growth), and also because any empire is heading for extinction to the extent that<\/i> it quits this aspiration and abandons any area that it formerly did<\/i> control. The difference between the regime of Franco in Spain, and the regime of Hitler in Germany, that necessitated a World War (specifically WWII) in order for other nations to protect themselves from Hitler\u2019s fascism but not<\/i> from Franco\u2019s fascism, was precisely that Hitler\u2019s was imperialistic and Franco\u2019s was not<\/i>. If Hitler and Hirohito and Mussolini had not been<\/i> imperialistic, then there would have been no WWII<\/i>. (The public in every nation were opposed to entering war against the imperialistic fascists but ultimately only the most rigid fools could any longer deny that the only alternative to war against the imperialistic fascists would be surrender to them \u2014 and so there was<\/i> WWII. Isolationism and preaching \u2018peace\u2019 in the face of imperialists is short-sighted foolishness. That foolishness ends by being invaded: by means of subversion, sanctions, coup, and\/or military action.) There can be no peace with an empire, unless it\u2019s an expired one. Empires are the very engines of war, and of nearly constant war.<\/p>\n

Starting from 25 July 1945<\/a>, America became imperialistic \u2014 adopted, in fact, the goal of taking control over the entire world \u2014 when its new President, Harry S. Truman, decided to accept the advice from his hero, General Dwight Eisenhower (supported by the British imperialist Winston Churchill) for the United States to become not only an empire but the ONLY empire (which Churchill\u2019s nation U.K., would, Churchill hoped, secretly control behind-the-scenes<\/i>) and take over the entire world, but especially win the Soviet Union \u2014 and so the \u201cCold War\u201d that was to be (so the fool Truman was led to believe) \u2018between communism=dictatorship versus capitalism=democracy\u2019 started and then became permanently installed by Truman\u2019s immediate successor, President Eisenhower. Those two Presidents actually created<\/i> the military-industrial complex (MIC) or the U.S. Government that would become controlled by the largest corporations (such as Lockheed) whose main or entire market would be the U.S. Government and its vassal-nations or \u2018allies\u2019 (such as Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the entirety of the former British Empire), which would be the customer-Governments for<\/i> those U.S.-and-allied, or imperial, weapons-manufacturers. And, when the biggest weapons-manufacturers control the Government, rather than the Government controlling the biggest weapons-manufacturers, that isn\u2019t merely capitalism, but it is dictatorial capitalism: it is \u201cfascism.\u201d In fact: it is imperialistic<\/i> fascism \u2014 the most dangerous type of Government that exists in the modern era.<\/p>\n

What Churchill in 1946 dubbed \u201cthe Special Relationship\u201d (the umbilical cord connecting the U.S. to the U.K.) had actually been invented by the British magnate Cecil Rhodes<\/a>, privately, in 1877, before it was institutionalized by Rhodes in his will<\/a> upon his death in 1902. One of his friends and followers was the then-young Winston Churchill<\/a>. The 1911 book Cecil Rhodes: His Private Life<\/i><\/a>, says of Rhodes (p. 256), \u201cHe was very much entertained by Mr. Churchill\u2019s ready wit and clever conversation, and he listened intently to his views on the political questions of the day. He admired his intellectual powers, which, in conjunction with his dash and \u2018go,\u2019 he said must inevitably bring him to front.\u201d Whatever else might be said of Rhodes, he was both extraordinarily prophetic and extraordinarily effective. (Likewise so, is Rhodes\u2019s follower in the present day, George Soros, who cites the philosopher Karl Popper but acts like, and channels, instead, Cecil Rhodes.) However, now, after Rhodes\u2019s operation\u2019s enormous success, starting on 25 July 1945,<\/a> it is taking desperate gambles to continue in control, which gambles are effective only in a short-term sense<\/a> because the sheer corruption within it is rotting it out<\/a> so much as to be bringing it down. And that is what is happening.<\/p>\n

The U.K.-U.S. operation is now in its decline-phase and is responding the more desperately and destructively as that decline becomes evermore clear. Its arrogance is placing such pressure upon their vassal-nations as to be increasingly forcing a breaking-up of \u201cThe Western Alliance\u201d \u2014 the (U.K.)-U.S.-and-allied countries. Yet, at the same time, the U.K.-U.S. alliance is doing all it can to bring some of its vassal-nations, such as Japan, South Korea, Finland, and Sweden, even more tightly into the fold. However, any success in that regard will come at a higher cost to the U.K.-U.S. empire than has been the case in the past. To most observers, the decline and fall of \u201cThe West\u201d is now at least as apparent as what had been the case during the Roman embodiment; and if the U.K.-U.S. will persist now, the result will be even more catastrophic than what happened to the empires of Germany, Italy, and Japan from WWII. It will be even uglier than WWII.<\/p>\n

On February 3, I headlined “RT: NATO Nations Start to Go Public About U.S. Government\u2019s International Dictatorship<\/a>” and remarked upon how amazing it was that on that date, both T\u00fcrkiye and Hungary were publicly insulting the U.S. Government. Such boldness and independence from two of the current era\u2019s lone remaining empire\u2019s vassal-nations (or at least they had been, up till that point in time) is historically unprecedented. How the U.S. dictatorship will be able to continue to call itself a \u201cdemocracy\u201d after having been declared simultaneously by two of its vassal-nations to be instead an arrogantly bullying dictatorship, seems hard to fathom. Maybe it will even cause some other of the dictatorship\u2019s vassal-nations, such as Japan, South Korea, Finland, and Sweden, to have second thoughts about drawing themselves even closer than they already are.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s Government is on the war-path and has been since 1945, in the name of \u2018freedom, democracy, and human rights\u2019 but lying all the way and now getting too close to the precipice of WW III. How many of its \u2018allies\u2019 will stay with it to that end?<\/p>\n

There is sound reason why global polls show that America is the #1 country that is cited as posing the world\u2019s biggest threat to peace<\/a>. Global polls didn\u2019t exist during World War II, but if they had, then America certainly wouldn\u2019t have been viewed that way then; probably Nazi Germany would have been. And America has risen to take its place.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Congressional Research Service\u2019s list of U.S. invasions (including increases in existing invasions) lists and briefly describes 297 such invasions after WW II (i.e., during 1945-2022, a 77-year period), and is titled “Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2022<\/a>.\u201d That 297 U.S. invasions in the past 77 years is more than all of the instances put together during 1798-1945 \u2014 a 147-year period. And none of those<\/i> 297 invasions was defensive. All were unConstitutional. Most of them were purely<\/i> aggressions (some in order to help a foreign tyrant suppress his own population). America\u2019s Founders had insisted there be no \u201cstanding army\u201d in this nation. Until Truman established the \u2018Defense\u2019 Department and CIA in 1947, there wasn\u2019t any. That created America\u2019s military-industrial complex.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Ukraine\u2019s and Russia\u2019s Defense Ministers agree (but NATO disagrees) that the war in Ukraine is between NATO and Russia, not between Ukraine and Russia<\/a>; this is already WWIII, and the only significant question about it now is whether it\u2019s going to reach a final nuclear stage. This will depend upon how far Washington is willing to go in order to persist in the objective that Hitler had, to control ultimately the entire world. And the likelihood of its going all the way to global annihilation will considerably reduce if the U.S. empire soon starts to break up. Which could happen, starting soon.<\/p>The post The US Empire is Starting to Fall Apart<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n

This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In order to understand why, the nature of imperialism, and thus of all empires, needs first to be explained (especially because almost no one knows about this): Whereas a merely domestic dictatorship is no danger to other nations, an international dictatorship \u2014 or \u201cempire\u201d \u2014 is a danger to other nations, because every empire (i.e., [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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