Another Strategic Blunder by Arrogant, Stupid U.S. Empire Drives Russia and China Together

Day by day, it becomes ever more clear how lame-brained the U.S.’ ill-advised aggression and subversion in Ukraine is.

Russia and China have just signed a 400 BILLION dollar deal for Russia to supply natural gas to China for the next 30 years. This is a direct result of U.S. aggression in Ukraine and the last several months of threats of economic warfare against Russia by the U.S. (with its European lackeys in tow). One line we hear over and over is how “Europe must cut its dependence on Russian oil and gas.” The Russians have ears too.

The U.S. faces only one serious potential rival in the coming decades: China. With more than four times the population and a rapidly growing economy (still over 7% a year vs. the U.S.’ anemia 2% or so), China presents a major strategic “challenge” (problem or threat) to U.S. dominance not just in the Far East, but elsewhere. Already China is an important economic presence in Africa and is moving into Latin America.

The obvious response for the U.S. is to create a “balancing coalition” of nations including itself and nations around China (Japan, Russia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines- which just signed a military base deal with the U.S., plus India and Taiwan). Instead it is behaving hostilely towards Russia and now even driving it into a hug with China!

An imperialist with a brain knows that a fundamental principle of power politics is to keep adversaries divided, not united. So here’s the USA, driving two of its main adversaries into each others’ arms. Smart. And this emperor, Obama, is supposed to be the intelligent one, unlike the last emperor!

This is not the sole idiocy the U.S. power-controllers have pulled in recent history- far from it. The invasion of Iraq, the diving into the sinkhole of Afghanistan without a realistic plan, the invasion of Vietnam (and Cambodia), and tacitly inviting North Korea to invade South Korea in 1950 are other examples of dumb moves- dumb in terms of the interests of the U.S. imperialists! But because it is so powerful, and has no powerful neighbors that can threaten it, the U.S. can get away with insane crap that would gravely weaken or even destroy another different nation. Now matter what strategic blunders the U.S. makes, it STILL always comes out on top! It’s almost like the cartoon character the Roadrunner.

Besides, the U.S. usually knows what moves others are planning- since it spies on everything and everyone.

The policy of petty spiting of Russia by stealing the assets of businessmen who have ingratiated themselves with Putin (imagine if some nation tried to steal the money of businessmen close to Obama? The U.S. media and politicians would have a shit-fit!), denial of travel visas, and threats of economic warfare by boycotting Russian fuel reminds one of another fictitious animal character: the Big Bad Wolf that threatens to huff and puff and blow your house down. Ironically, while Western yakkers like to ignorantly speculate about Putin “doing this for domestic political reasons,” Obama is in fact driven in part by domestic political considerations- the fear of being attacked by the GOP and looking “weak.”

Just once, I’d like to see a U.S. President call out that bullshit macho-baiting and explain that power has limits, that the U.S. isn’t the boss of the world, that other nations have interests, and stop living in terror of “attacks from the right.” In other words, LEAD.

But leaders don’t become presidents in America. In fact, sometimes they get assassinated, like Martin Luther King, Jr. The system in America systematically prevents the rise of true leaders. True leaders are a threat to the status quo. The U.S. needs cynical con men and actors to playact “leadership,” spouting hypocritical rhetoric.

Oh well, it won’t last forever. Nothing ever does.