{"id":336490,"date":"2017-11-25T02:41:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T01:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-enemy-list-prospects-and-perspectives\/"},"modified":"2017-11-25T02:41:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T01:41:33","slug":"us-enemy-list-prospects-and-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-enemy-list-prospects-and-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"US Enemy List: Prospects and Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/11\/us-enemy-list-prospects-and-perspectives\/american-hegemony_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/American-hegemony_1-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-74201\"   \/><\/a>For almost two decades, the US pursued a list of \u2018enemy countries\u2019 to confront, attack, weaken and overthrow.  This imperial quest to overthrow \u2018enemy countries\u2019 operated at various levels of intensity, depending on two considerations:  the level of priority and the degree of vulnerability for a \u2018regime change\u2019 operation.<\/p>\n<p>            The criteria for determining an \u2018enemy country\u2019 and its place on the list of priority targets in the US quest for greater global dominance, as well as its vulnerability to a \u2018successfully\u2019 regime change will be the focus of this essay. We will conclude by discussing the realistic perspectives of future imperial options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prioritizing US Adversaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            Imperial strategists consider military, economic and political criteria in identifying high priority adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>            The following are high on the US \u2018enemy list\u2019:<\/p>\n<p>1)      Russia, because of its military power, is a nuclear counterweight to US global domination.  It has a huge, well-equipped armed force with a European, Asian and Middle East presence.  Its global oil and gas resources shield it from US economic blackmail and its growing geo-political alliances limit US expansion.<\/p>\n<p>2)      China, because of its global economic power and the growing scope of its trade, investment and technological networks.  China\u2019s growing defensive military capability, particularly with regard to protecting its interests in the South China Sea serve to counter&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/11\/us-enemy-list-prospects-and-perspectives\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For almost two decades, the US pursued a list of \u2018enemy countries\u2019 to confront, attack, weaken and overthrow. This imperial quest to overthrow \u2018enemy countries\u2019 operated at various levels of intensity, depending on two considerations: the level of priority and the degree of vulnerability for a \u2018regime change\u2019 operation. The criteria for determining an \u2018enemy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-336490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}