Being an American it is
sometimes difficult to see the world through anything other than rose colored
glasses. Think about it.
Our principle source of
information on foreign policy is a media that long ago stopped reporting the
news and decided to make the news. Their
principle source for information are bureaucrats and politicians working for
agencies like the State Department, the intelligence agencies, and groups like
NATO and the United Nations.
Then there are the
international banks, international corporations, international financing
mechanisms like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank not to mention
the vast array of foundations, think tanks, pharmaceutical companies supplying
drugs to third world countries, defense contractors (including the most
powerful of all the arms dealers) among the many special interests with a
special interest in foreign affairs and all the money, power and perks found
around such money pits.
The world has been
controlled by these foreign affairs special interests since the beginning of
the 20th century and the dawning of world wars.
The sad part of the truth is that they have all joined forces to find ways
to use government and private resources to manipulate events around the world
for the purpose of altering the foreign policy balance.
The sadder part of the
truth is that in the course of their manipulation they are totally devoid of
humanitarian principles and international law but serve a higher purpose,
feeding greed and accumulating wealth.
Of course the media consistently paints a picture of serving the higher
good by these groups but what they really meant was serving a higher god and
their god is greed manifested in power and wealth.
We have pretty much been
lied to about sinister purposes behind the foreign affairs of the past century
and most certainly been lied to about the worst abusers of misdirected foreign
policy. Maybe we will wake up, or maybe
we will keep having "isolated" conflicts that leave hundreds of
thousands of people dead, millions and millions of people condemned to refugee
camps, and more and more of the world's natural resources in the hands of
people loyal to no government but their god Greed.
Look around you. Listen to what the media is telling you. The cover story of the day is "Putin
is a bad guy - he wants to recreate Russia ." You hear it from the mouths of the Obama
administration, it is parroted by the news media, echoed by our allies around
the world (although with far less enthusiasm than in America ), and applauded by Wall
Street and the international banking community.
They also tell you Putin
has no respect for international laws, international treaties nor international
banking since he is destabilizing the world financial markets.
If I were the America public
I would search a lot deeper into the motives behind those condemning
Putin. So far the Russian forces have
done nothing more than to protect Russian assets in Crimea, namely a huge naval
base on the Black Sea .
As a result he has earned
the wrath of Obama and been bombarded by cream puffs called sanctions, economic
sanctions at that, and oh yeah, Russia
was tossed from the G8. Now we seem to
have a long history of using tough economic sanctions to punish errant nations
and force compliance with our will.
But only once in the past
66 years have US economic sanctions really worked and that was when we
sanctioned our own closest allies, Great Britain ,
France and Israel during the
Suez Canal crisis of 1956. The three were going to invade Egypt in response to the Egyptian
nationalization of the Suez Canal and the
Americans stopped them dead in their tracks when President Eisenhower started
dumping British pounds on the world monetary market and cut off all American
oil and gas to the three allies.
It might have been the
only time in world history that an invasion was stopped by economic sanctions
and probably the last time in history that sanctions actually served people
rather than the financial interests impacted by the area. No lives were lost in a costly invasion that
would probably have resulted in major damage to the canal and massive
disruption of the world economy since it was the gateway for oil to the western
world.
So the bottom line is,
economic sanctions don't work.
Just ask the Cubans who
have lived with them for over 50 years. In
truth, economic sanctions only hurt the people in those countries who are
already victims before we got involved.
Then there is the issue of
violating international law, etc., etc. So far no one has proven Russia or Putin
violated international law. On the other
hand, the history books are filled with American violations of about every
international law and treaty that exists dating all the way back to our
treaties with the Native Americans.
People need to understand
we have made it a practice to ignore the law, local, state, federal or
international whenever it was useful for the economic interests of, well,
certainly not our nation but more appropriately the financial manipulators who
use our treasury as their money and our military as their private army.
Wake up...The latest NSA
mess has proven our government totally ignores laws protecting things like privacy
or unreasonable search and seizure and has run ramshackle over our Constitution
and Bill of Rights. It also violated
every international law and treaty we have with our allies and everyone else.
Is drug traffic
illegal? Not if our intelligence
agencies are involved like in Asia and South America .
How about the ultimate
abuse, political assassination? We've
been there and done that.
Illegal invasions like we
say Putin is poised to undertake in the Ukraine ? Ask the Iraq
or Afghanistan
governments how they feel about that.
Indirectly we are behind
many more abuses of international laws and treaties like triggering the Arab
spring revolutions and so many more I could write a book.
Yet our president and
media stand up and declare Putin and Russia to be acting illegally and
like a bully? We, our government, needs
to look in a mirror before it starts condemning anyone for illegal activity.
And while we are at it, I
have cited a litany of ways we have directly violated international laws and
treaties but there are far more indirect methods that have been used so other
people take the blame.
Foreign policy today has
little to do with assuring the quality of life for people, or their health, education
or welfare. Those who think we are
spreading democracy throughout the world so we can thus protect the lives,
freedom and opportunities for the suppressed masses have got it all wrong.
In the vast majority of
the cases our foreign policy supports a financial concern of someone other than
the American people and that is a bigger crime than the crimes we already
commit violating international laws and treaties.
We need an independent
re-evaluation of our entire foreign policy strategy. We need to know if NATO and all other
international groups serve the agenda to help people or just help special
interests.
Putin was upset because
the Ukraine
wanted to join NATO and the European Union and we were behind the scenes making
sure it happened. What does a country
like the Ukraine have to do
with a North Atlantic defense group? Maybe NATO has outlived it's usefulness and is
now creating conflict to justify it's existence?
Maybe it's time to stop
being hypocrites and start being leaders in finding peace, not causing war and
unrest.
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