{"id":384894,"date":"2018-11-13T16:36:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=384894"},"modified":"2018-11-13T16:54:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:54:52","slug":"the-meaning-of-a-multi-polar-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/the-meaning-of-a-multi-polar-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of a Multi-Polar World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, we live in a mono-polar world. Here is how U.S. President Barack Obama proudly, even imperially, described it when delivering the Commencement address to America\u2019s future generals, at West Point Military Academy, on 28 May 2014<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States is and remains <\/i>the one indispensable nation<\/i><\/b>.<\/i> [Every other nation is therefore \u2018dispensable\u2019; we therefore now have \u201cAmerika, Amerika \u00fcber alles, \u00fcber alles in der Welt\u201d.] That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come. \u2026 America must always lead on the world stage. If we don\u2019t, no one else will. \u2026 Russia\u2019s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China\u2019s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us. <\/i>[He was here telling these future U.S. military leaders that they are to fight for the U.S. aristocracy, to help them defeat any nation that resists.] \u2026 In Ukraine, Russia\u2019s recent actions recall the days when Soviet tanks rolled into Eastern Europe. But this isn\u2019t the Cold War. Our ability to shape world opinion helped isolate Russia right away. <\/i>[He was proud of the U.S. Government\u2019s effectiveness at propaganda, just as Hitler was proud<\/span><\/a> of the German Government\u2019s propaganda-effectiveness under Joseph Goebbels.] Because of American leadership, the world immediately condemned Russian actions; Europe and the G7 joined us to impose sanctions; NATO reinforced our commitment to Eastern European allies; the IMF is helping to stabilize Ukraine\u2019s economy; OSCE monitors brought the eyes of the world to unstable parts of Ukraine.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Actually, his \u2014 Obama\u2019s \u2014 regime, had conquered Ukraine in February 2014 by a very bloody coup<\/span><\/a>, and installed a racist-fascist anti-Russian Government there<\/span><\/a> next door to Russia, a stooge-regime to this day, which instituted a racial-cleansing campaign to eliminate enough pro-Russia voters<\/span><\/a> so as to be able to hold onto power there. It has destroyed Ukraine and so alienated the regions of Ukraine<\/span><\/a> that had voted more than 75% for the democratically elected Ukrainian President whom Obama overthrew, so that those pro-Russia regions quit Ukraine. What remains of Ukraine after the U.S. conquest is a nazi mess<\/span><\/a> and a destroyed nation in hock to Western taxpayers and banks<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, Obama insisted upon (to use Bush\u2019s term about Saddam Hussein) \u201cregime-change\u201d in Syria. Twice in one day<\/span><\/a> the Secretary General of the U.N. asserted that only the Syrian people have any right to do that, no outside nation has any right to impose it. Obama ignored him and kept on trying. Obama actually protected Al Qaeda\u2019s Syrian affiliate against bombing by Syria\u2019s Government and by Syria\u2019s ally Russia, while the U.S. bombed Syria\u2019s army<\/span><\/a>, which was trying to prevent those jihadists from overthrowing the Government. Obama bombed Libya in order to \u201cregime-change\u201d Muammar Gaddafi, and he bombed Syria in order to \u201cregime-change\u201d Bashar al-Assad; and, so, while the \u201cU.S. Drops Bombs; EU Gets Refugees & Blame. This Is Insane.\u201d<\/span><\/a> And Obama\u2019s successor Trump continues Obama\u2019s policies in this regard. And, of course, the U.S. and its ally UK invaded Iraq in 2003, likewise on the basis of lies to the effect that Iraq was the aggressor<\/span><\/a>. (Even Germany called Poland the aggressor when invading Poland in 1939.) <\/span><\/p>\n

No other nation regularly invades other nations that never had invaded it. This is international aggression. It is the international crime of \u201cWar of Aggression\u201d<\/span><\/a>; and the only nations which do it nowadays are America and its allies, such as the Sauds, Israel, France, and UK, which often join in America\u2019s aggressions (or, in the case of the Sauds’ invasion of Yemen, the ally initiates<\/i> an invasion, which the U.S. then joins). America\u2019s generals are taught this aggression, and not only by Obama. Ever since at least George W. Bush, it has been solid U.S. policy. (Bush even kicked out the U.N.\u2019s weapons-inspectors, so as to bomb Iraq in 2003.)<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words: a mono-polar world is a world in which one nation stands above international law, and that nation\u2019s participation in an invasion immunizes also each of its allies who join in the invasion, protecting it too from prosecution, so that a mono-polar world is one in which the United Nations can\u2019t even possibly impose international law impartially, but can impose it only against nations that aren\u2019t allied with the mono-polar power, which in this case is the United States. Furthermore, because the U.S. regime reigns supreme over the entire world, as it does, any nations \u2014 such as Russia, China, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Ecuador \u2014 that the U.S. regime (which has itself been scientifically proven to be a dictatorship<\/span><\/a>) chooses to treat as an enemy, is especially disadvantaged internationally. Russia and China, however, are among the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and therefore possess a degree of international protection that America\u2019s other chosen enemies do not. And the people who choose which nations to identify as America\u2019s \u2018enemies\u2019 are America\u2019s super-rich and not the entire American population, because the U.S. Government is controlled by the super-rich and not by the public<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, that\u2019s the existing mono-polar world: it is a world that\u2019s controlled by one nation, and this one nation is, in turn, controlled by its aristocracy, its super-rich<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

If one of the five permanent members of the Security Council would present at the U.N. a proposal to eliminate the immunity that the U.S. regime has, from investigation and prosecution for any future War of Aggression that it might perpetrate, then, of course, the U.S. and any of its allies on the Security Council would veto that, but if the proposing nation would then constantly call to the international public\u2019s attention that the U.S. and its allies had blocked passage of such a crucially needed \u201cprocedure to amend the UN charter\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and that this fact means that the U.S. and its allies constitute fascist regimes as was understood and applied against Germany’s fascist regime, at the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1945, then possibly some members of the U.S.-led gang (of the NATO portion of it, at least) would quit that gang, and the U.S. global dictatorship might end, so that there would then become a multi-polar world, in which democracy could actually thrive. <\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy can only shrivel in a mono-polar world, because all other nations then are simply vassal nations, which accept Obama\u2019s often-repeated dictum that all other nations are \u201cdispensable\u201d and that only the U.S. is not. Even the UK would actually gain in freedom, and in democracy, by breaking away from the U.S., because it would no longer be under the U.S. thumb \u2014 the thumb of the global aggressor-nation. <\/span><\/p>\n

Only one global poll has ever been taken of the question \u201cWhich country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?\u201d<\/span><\/a> and it found that, overwhelmingly, by a three-to-one ratio above the second-most-often named country, the United States was identified as being precisely that, the top threat to world-peace. But then, a few years later, another (though less-comprehensive) poll was taken on a similar question, and it produced similar results<\/span><\/a>. Apparently, despite the effectiveness of America\u2019s propagandists, people in other lands recognize quite well that today\u2019s America is a more successful and longer-reigning version of Hitler\u2019s Germany. Although modern America\u2019s propaganda-operation is far more sophisticated than Nazi Germany\u2019s was, it\u2019s not entirely successful. America\u2019s invasions are now too common, all based on lies, just like Hitler\u2019s were.<\/span><\/p>\n

On November 9th, Russian Television headlined “‘Very insulting’: Trump bashes Macron’s idea of European army for protection from Russia, China & US\u201d<\/span><\/a> and reported that \u201cUS President Donald Trump has unloaded on his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, calling the French president’s idea of a \u2018real European army,\u2019 independent from Washington, an insult.\u201d On the one hand, Trump constantly criticizes France and other European nations for allegedly not paying enough for America\u2019s NATO military alliance, but he now is denigrating France for proposing to other NATO members a decreasing<\/i> reliance upon NATO, and increasing<\/i> reliance, instead, upon the Permanent Structured Cooperation (or PESCO) European military alliance<\/span><\/a>, which was begun on 11 December 2017, and which currently has \u201c25 EU Member States participating: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden.\u201d Those are the European nations that are now on the path to eventually quitting NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once NATO is ended, the U.S. regime will find far more difficult any invasions such as of Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Syria 2012-, Yemen 2016-, and maybe even such as America\u2019s bloody coup that overthrew the democratically elected Government of Ukraine and installed a racist-fascist or nazi anti-Russian regime there in 2014<\/span><\/a>. All of these U.S. invasions (and coup) brought to Europe millions of refugees and enormously increased burdens upon European taxpayers. Plus, America\u2019s economic sanctions against both Russia and Iran have hurt European companies (and the U.S. does almost no business with either country, so is immune to that, also). Consequently, today\u2019s America is clearly Europe\u2019s actual main enemy. The continuation of NATO is actually toxic to the peoples of Europe. Communism and the Soviet Union and its NATO-mirroring Warsaw Pact military alliance, all ended peacefully in 1991, but the U.S. regime has secretly continued the Cold War, now against Russia<\/span><\/a>, and is increasingly focusing its \u201cregime-change\u201d propaganda against Russia\u2019s popular<\/span><\/a> democratic leader, Vladimir Putin, even though this U.S. aggression against Russia could mean a world-annihilating nuclear war.<\/span><\/p>\n

On November 11th, RT bannered \u201c\u2018Good for multipolar world\u2019: Putin positive on Macron\u2019s \u2018European army\u2019 plan bashed by Trump (VIDEO)\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and opened:<\/span><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s desire to create its own army and stop relying on Washington for defense is not only understandable, but would be \u201cpositive\u201d for the multipolar world, Vladimir Putin said days after Donald Trump ripped into it.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEurope is \u2026 a powerful economic union and it is only natural that they want to be independent and \u2026 sovereign in the field of defense and security,\u201d Putin told RT in Paris where world leader gathered to mark the centenary of the end of WWI.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

He also described the potential creation of a European army \u201ca positive process,\u201d adding that it would \u201cstrengthen the multipolar world.\u201d The Russian leader even expressed his support to French President Emmanuel Macron, who recently championed this idea by saying that Russia\u2019s stance on the issue \u201cis aligned with that of France\u201d to some extent.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Macron recently revived the ambitious plans of creating a combined EU military force by saying that it is essential for the security of Europe. He also said that the EU must become independent from its key ally on the other side of the Atlantic, provoking an angry reaction from Washington.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Once NATO has shrunk to include only the pro-aggression and outright nazi European nations, such as Ukraine<\/span><\/a> (after the U.S. gang accepts Ukraine into NATO, as it almost certainly then would do), the EU will have a degree of freedom and of democracy that it can only dream of today, and there will then be a multi-polar world, in which the leaders of the U.S. will no longer enjoy the type of immunity from investigation and possible prosecution, for their invasions, that they do today. The result of this will, however, be catastrophic for the top 100 U.S. \u2018defense\u2019 contractors<\/span><\/a>, such as Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Raytheon, because then all of those firms\u2019 foreign sales except to the Sauds, Israel and a few other feudal and fascist regimes, will greatly decline. Donald Trump is doing everything he can to keep the Sauds to the agreements he reached with them back in 2017 to buy $404 billion of U.S. weaponry over the following 10 years<\/span><\/a>. If, in addition, those firms lose some of their European sales, then the U.S. economic boom thus far in Trump\u2019s Presidency will be seriously endangered. So, the U.S. regime, which is run by the owners of its \u2018defense\u2019-contractors<\/span><\/a>, will do all it can to prevent this from happening.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, right now, Chris Hedges reports<\/span><\/a> that Ecuador is in the process of killing Julian Assange, who is a major and well-known bane of America\u2019s sellers to the U.S. \u2018Defense\u2019 Department. Hedges wants to keep his American aristocratic funder (the owner of Truthdig), and so he doesn\u2019t say that \u2014 nor how \u2014 the U.S. regime itself is actually forcing Ecuador\u2019s Government to do this. Hedges seems not even to care much about the ultimate perpetrator of this slow murder that he describes as being in process. Hedges instead focuses only against what Ecuador\u2019s President, Len\u00edn Moreno, is doing, that\u2019s slowly murdering Assange. He also implicates Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, the U.K. government, and U.S. V.P. Mike Pence. But actually, the top decision-maker, who ordered this crime, this murder, is Donald Trump, who won the U.S. Presidency with Assange\u2019s investigative-journalism help. That\u2019s the kingpin, and all the others are merely soldiers in the U.S. President\u2019s organized crime. They all represent the U.S. aristocracy, but only Trump is the commander here. The U.S. regime \u2014 first under Obama, and now under Trump \u2014 is 100% of what\u2019s forcing Ecuador\u2019s Government to kill Julian Assange inside its London Embassy. Ecuador is doing this job, for the U.S. regime, so excruciatingly that Assange will either soon be committing suicide, or else he will die more slowly, from the ever-increasing \u201ctorture\u201d<\/span><\/a> that Ecuador\u2019s Government is applying, and which is also destroying Assange\u2019s health. Or else, he will give himself up to the American \u2018justice\u2019 system (which Assange\u2019s mother, Christine Ann Hawkins, explained on November 3rd<\/span><\/a> would likely mean either to charge him with \u2018espionage\u2019, or else to apply indefinite detention at Guantanamo, without charge, trial or any access to the public). There will then be \u2018news\u2019-coverage by the American propaganda-media<\/span><\/a>, to demonize him. Ecuador\u2019s President wants to do his job for his U.S. masters (the U.S. aristocracy) but not to get blame for the inevitable result. All along the line, the aristocracy know how to preserve deniability, and advise their agents so as to shift blame downward, whenever they can\u2019t succeed in shifting it to the victim that they\u2019re destroying. However, the ultimate blame belongs truly to the owners of the U.S. regime. Even most \u2018alternative news\u2019 media might not (and they, in fact, do not) report this fact (because most of even the \u2018alternative\u2019 media are owned by aristocrats), but it\u2019s clearly the case. And most of the public don\u2019t care much about it, anyway, and continue to subscribe to those \u2018news\u2019 media, which the aristocrats are actually controlling, and to buy the products they advertise, producing yet more income for the aristocracy. The public thus helps the aristocracy to fund the aristocracy\u2019s propaganda-vehicles, to control the public, to vote for the aristocrats\u2019 candidates, and so control the government.<\/span><\/p>\n

A multi-polar world could enable this to change. But it can\u2019t change in a mono-polar world. Julian Assange has been trapped by, and in, this fascist mono-polar world. He is its enemy, and they are murdering him; but, above all, Donald Trump is murdering him.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this is not a partisan operation on behalf of only a faction of the U.S. aristocracy. The Hedges article links through to an important June 29th news-report in the Washington Times<\/i>, titled \u201cMike Pence raises Julian Assange case with Ecuadorean president, White House confirms\u201d<\/span><\/a>. It makes clear that Moreno is doing the bidding of the White House, and that the White House is \u201cheeding calls from Democrats wary of Mr. Assange.\u201d America, after all, is a two-party dictatorship: both parties represent the same aristocracy<\/span><\/a>, and murdering Assange is in the agenda of both of its factions, not of just one of the two parties. The U.S. aristocracy are united on this matter. And that\u2019s how this mono-polar world<\/span><\/a> is being run.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at The Saker Right now, we live in a mono-polar world. Here is how U.S. President Barack Obama proudly, even imperially, described it when delivering the Commencement address to America\u2019s future generals, at West Point Military Academy, on 28 May 2014: The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":384901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[2842,115,32,96,3604,535,1034,524,755,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-384894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-assange","10":"tag-barack-obama","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-global-news","15":"tag-independent-media","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-usa","18":"tag-warfare","19":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384905,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384894\/revisions\/384905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}