American Election Is Not a Reset For Better Global Relations!
(2020-11-08 at 23:00:18 )

American Election Is Not a Reset For Better Global Relations!

One contradiction about the United States of American presidential election is this: for all the intense media attention and commentary around the world one would expect the result to perhaps portend immense consequence. The mundane reality, though, is that there will be little of appreciable consequence for United States relations with the rest of the world.

The United States will continue to conduct itself as if it is above international law, interfering in other nations affairs, abusing its privileged dollar fiat currency, and unilaterally using violence and war to enforce its objective when it deems necessary.

Every United States of American president over the past century has engaged in all of these criminal practices. How could we expect any difference with a change of face in a system dictated to by the same corporate power? Only when the system of power fundamentally changes then can we expect to see meaningful change towards the better.

It looks like Democrat contender Joe Biden has won enough votes to gain the White House against incumbent Republican President Donald Trump. The idiosyncrasies of the United States of American electoral system mean that tallying of votes drags on for several days beyond the official election date on November 3. Given the closeness of the race there will also be legal contesting of the results, especially from the Donald Trump campaign which at an early stage has made dubious claims about ballot fraud.

However, as noted above, it hardly matters who finally wins the White House and is inaugurated as the 46th president on January 20. Donald Trumps past four years have amply demonstrated that any hopes for an improvement in United States-Russia relations have been dashed.

Donald Trump was not merely held hostage by a revival in Cold War anti-Russian prejudices among the Washington,D.C. establishment. He lent his own personal touch to deteriorating bilateral relations with such policies as undermining arms controls negotiations as well as attacking Russian energy trade with Europe through the Nord Stream pipeline.

For his part, Joe Biden has voiced more vehement antagonism towards Russia than Donald Trump. There are reasons to be wary of any new White House and how United States foreign policy could become marginally even more aggressive.

What is patently clear is how bitterly polarized and divisive United States domestic politics have become. This is due to the historic failing of the two-party system which has, over decades, left whole swathes of the population, in particular the majority working class, alienated from the political class.

There is irreparable distrust and distortion among the United States of American populace. To the point where it would seem impossible for any nominal winner of the election to be able to command a mandate.

A tried and trusted mechanism for galvanizing is to "unite" the people by rallying them around the flag against some designated foreign enemy.

Given the increasing unwieldy, fractious nature of United States of American society, it is all the more imperative for the United States ruling class to impose some level of coherence in order to restore the essential authority of governing power. With this paramount need to shore up a sense of authority, it can therefore be expected that United States of American foreign policy will become more aggressive and militaristic in the next four years.

So any notion that the presidential election might permit some kind of benign reset in United States global relations is woefully misplaced.

The United States ship of state has been on a sped-up course for collision and conflict for many years, if not decades. Changing a captain figurehead in the bridge is not going to change the baleful course that is determined by the power interests of Big Business, Wall Street and the Pentagons military-industrial complex in the pursuit of United States of American capitalist profits.

That being said, however, the rest of the world should not let its wariness of Washington,D.C.s misconduct allow it to become transfixed by Americas flailing global ambitions.

The world has changed dramatically from the bygone days of the United States as a formidable superpower. New centers of power have emerged in a multipolar world, in particular the paradigm shift in the global economy to China and Eurasia. Russia and China are steadily solidifying their strategic economic partnership. They will and should continue on this path of co-development with other nations, and let Washington,D.C. stew in its own failures.

In a very real way, the rest of the world should stop paying so much attention to the United States of American spectacle.

It is like watching a "reality TV show" which has little consequence except sapping the viewers energy.

Better to get off the proverbial couch and get on with building an alternative, real world.

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