The Last Time A Foreign Military Threat Was Placed Near The United States Border, The World Almost Ended by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-08-28 at 23:13:17 )

The Last Time A Foreign Military Threat Was Placed Near The United States Border, The World Almost Ended by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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To demand that Russia and China tolerate foreign activities on their borders that the United States would never even think about tolerating on its own borders is just demanding that the entire world lie down and submit to being ruled by Washington,D.C.

It is ridiculously hypocritical for westerners to condemn Russia and China for responding aggressively to the United States empire building up military threats on their borders, because the last time a credible military threat was placed near the border of the United States, the United States responded so aggressively that it almost ended the world.

I point out this hypocrisy not because hypocrisy in and of itself is an especially terrible sin - there are much worse things you can be in life than a hypocrite - but to flag the fact that people who think Russia and China should tolerate United States actions on their borders that the United States would never tolerate on its own borders actually believe the United States should rule the world.

It is worth spending some time learning about the Cuban Missile Crisis for a number of reasons in the 2020s. First, in a time of soaring hostilities between nuclear-armed governments it is probably good to have a lucid understanding of how close humanity came to wiping itself out in 1962, and the fact that total nuclear war was averted by a single dissenting decision by a single Soviet officer on a nuclear-armed submarine that was being bombarded by the United States navy.

Second, in an environment where talk of peace negotiations and compromise are regarded as treasonous Kremlin loyalism it is good to have an understanding of the fact that the only reason we survived that perilous standoff was because Washington,D.C. made compromises and pulled its Jupiter missiles out of Turkey and Italy.

Third, the Cuban Missile Crisis shows how aggressively the United States will respond to a foreign rival placing a military threat near its border.

The Single Dumbest Thing The Empire Asks Us To Believe

The dumbest thing the United States-centralized empire asks us to believe is that the military encirclement of its top two geopolitical rivals is a defensive action, rather than an act of extreme aggression.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) May 1, 2023

As we have discussed previously, the single dumbest thing the United States empire asks us to believe is that its amassing of war machinery near the borders of its top two geopolitical rivals should be seen as a defensive measure, rather than the act of extreme aggression that it obviously is.

The United States empire was the aggressor when it expanded NATO and began turning Ukraine into a de facto NATO member, and it is the aggressor as it accelerates its encirclement of China and opens the floodgates of United States-financed weapons into Taiwan.

We know the United States would never in a million years tolerate such things being done anywhere near its own borders. We know this from the Cuban Missile Crisis, and we know this from the way empire managers talk about potential threats near the United States border.

There are United States presidential candidates openly talking about invading Mexico just to take out drug cartels. Last month John Bolton penned a furious screed demanding aggressive military force against Cuba in response to reports that Havana and Beijing could possibly be in talks for a joint military training facility on the island at some point in the future. Earlier this year Senator Josh Hawley gave a speech at the Heritage Foundation ominously asking his audience to imagine a dark, horrifying future in which the Chinese military surrounds the United States, and his description of this frightening imaginary scenario matched the way the United States military has actually been surrounding China in real life.

"Imagine a world where Chinese warships patrol Hawaiian waters, and Chinese submarines stalk the California coastline," Hawley said. "A world where the Peoples Liberation Army has military bases in Central and South America. A world where Chinese forces operate freely in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean."

This kind of rhetoric illustrates quite clearly that the managers of the United States empire would regard military buildups by Russia and China near their borders as an incendiary and entirely unacceptable provocation  -  an act of war in and of itself.

And apologists for the empire would have you believe that wild discrepancy is perfectly fine and normal!!

Everyone should take time to read this article from the Journal of Military and Strategic Studies on the "Immediate Origins of Putins Preventative War on Ukraine"

It is a careful review of President Putins public statements in the runup to his decision to invade.-Bryce Greene (TheGreeneBJ) March 25, 2023

To demand that Russia and China tolerate foreign activities on their borders that the United States would never even think about tolerating on its own borders is just demanding that the entire world lie down and submit to being ruled by Washington,D.C. It is United States of American supremacism at its worst!!

Saying the United States empire gets to do extremely aggressive things to other nations but those other nations are not allowed to do those same things to them is just saying you think the United States rules the world.

You are saying it plays by different rules, because it is in charge of the planet. You are saying the United States empire has a monopoly on military aggression in the same way the police in your society have a monopoly on violence.

They are allowed to act with extreme aggression on the borders of Russia and China for the same reasons that a police officer can legally tase you, but you can not legally tase a police officer.

If you say Russia and China should let the United States do things on their borders that it would never permit them to do on its own borders, what you are really saying is that you think the United States should be functioning as the police, judge, jury and executioner of the entire world.

That is in fact the mainstream consensus on these conflicts. It normally gets obfuscated and manipulated to keep people from looking at it too closely, but that is in fact the argument being presented here!!

The United States empire believes it is the rightful ruler of this planet, and those who are currently shaking their fists at Russia and China for refusing to accept this are fully behind it in that perspective!

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