Of Aidan O'Brien

Source: Comedonchisciotte
Gore Vidal preferred chaos to order. With his wisdom he believed that centrifugal forces created fractures and spaces in which freedom could fornicate.
Seeing how things are, this is the best we can hope for. However, we could also be satisfied with what happens around us. Why the deceptive plot of the Anglo-American gang, which filled the last ones 200 years of liberal imperialism, it's losing steam. The great illusion is falling apart.
The large chessboard is also not in the best condition. The Anglo-American strategy to control Eurasia has been torn apart by the Eurasians. The grandfather of ISIS, Zbigniew Brzezinski, he's probably rolling in his grave. According to him, geopolitics was just hegemony. And that's one thing that, at the moment, no one owns, least of all Anglo-Americans.
The consequence of all this is that in the Middle East there is room for an Assad and an Ali Khameini, for a Kim Jon-un and a Xi Jinping in the East. And for a Putin everywhere. And in Latin America there is room for a Maduro. And there is still a Castro too.
And the spaces where chaos reigns are not diminishing at all. As Steve Bannon recently said referring to North Korea, but the thing is valid everywhere, there is no military solution. And he might well have added that there is no economic solution either. And not even an ideological solution.
A few years ago the Anglo-Americans would have invaded and carpet-bombed the regions of chaos without a second thought. And only yesterday the use of mercenaries was the current tactic. Russia has though, for his part, put a spoke in the wheels of all this shameless Anglo-American aggression.
The result was that the UN Security Council will no longer give its approval to "humanitarian wars". And the use of "Islamic fundamentalism" was blocked. All the Anglo-Americans can do is nuke the world or keep quiet.
Until a few years ago, the Anglo-Americans could have used economics to eliminate or keep chaotic spaces under control; sanctions, Shock therapies and policies aimed at structural adjustments were their alternative weapons of mass destruction. But even these Bretton Woods bombs are now of little or no value. How come? I BRICS. O, in other words, at dinner.
Today, the Anglo-Saxon system is no longer as powerful as it once was. In the 1955 the Bandung Conference, in Indonesia, it had been the attempt to create a space for the freedom of chaos, but it had not had the military or economic strength to assert itself. Today it is different.
Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, the non-aligned nations that emerged from the Bandung Conference have produced and accumulated sufficient capital to realize their desire for the 1955.
Equally significant are the relationships that these nations have established with a reborn Russia. The latter added significantly to the military force that the non-aligned movement could oppose to the Anglo-American Empire..
The passage of time has seen the decline of the political and economic monopolies of the Empire. The non-aligned movement plus Russia, the Third World, i BRICS, or whatever you want to call them, they have arrived, in the end, to have a sufficient industrial base to build liberating chaos.
Alternative banking and trading systems slowly but surely emerged at the height of 20th century national independence struggles that damaged London and Wall Street.
And the protagonists of this New World Disorder are proving to be the great Russian and Chinese revolutions of the last century. The absolute independence that these global events have given to Russia and China has been revealed, at a minimum, a long-term event.
Over time, the values ​​of the Enlightenment have successfully taken root. Despite the cynicism, fatalism and pessimism (postmodernism) of the Anglo-American world, reason has found fertile soil in the lands originally despised by the Enlightenment.
They are now the Anglo-Americans (and their European clones and clowns) to rely on religion, to hysteria and lies. They are the ones who build great walls. And they are the ones who want to hide behind protectionism. Liberalism long ago had its chance to live up to its ideals but, for the love of money, he chose to do differently.
George F. Kennan, American theorist of great influence, had best expressed his ideological belief in 1948 (Memo PPS23) when he officially recommended that the United States forget about democracy, global standards of living and human rights if you wanted (continue to) maintain control of planetary riches.
At the time, the aims of liberalism were kept secret, but now they are known (at least outside the official media). In first place there has always been Anglo-America and the (his) financial power, Trump made this absolutely clear today. Anglo-Americans have long since severed their ideological ties with the world (assuming that, first, they had some).
The unprincipled ruthlessness that Kennan had demanded and obtained from Anglo-America wore, in the 1950s, the shoes of freedom. Today his clothes are just a farce.
Uncomfortable laughter, embarrassment and disbelief are now the sensations one feels when one thinks of Anglo-America, at least in the extra-NATO world. It's not just about Trump, of Russia-gate, in Bolton, by Theresa May, about the Skripal poisoning and stories about chemical attacks in Syria. One more false than the other. It is also about the financial bubble and military expansionism. More and more irrational and ready to explode.
To underline everything, and also to act as insurance for all of us, there is the cowardice of the Anglo-Americans. Like school bullies, they only target the weak and defenseless. Or it would be better to say that, like psychopathic serial killers, they only choose the weak and defenseless.
So the chances are that Washington or London will take on the Russians head on, the Chinese, the Iranians, the North Koreans, Venezuelans and Syrians are scarce. Against a well-organized defense the Empire is a coward.
Anglo-Americans can rant and rant all they want, the rest of the world will steer clear of them and NATO, just as you avoid a madman in the middle of the street. There are roads, bridges and railways to be built in Eurasia and also in Africa. And in Latin America there is still room for a Bolivar and a Che to build something new.
The Anglo-Americans today are absolutely useless. The Empire is empty. Over the past twenty years its global authority has rapidly waned. Pray with hands dripping blood. His sermons are lies. And his precious money, just waste paper. His New Order is in chaos. And the world is better for this reason.
The free world is finally emerging.
Source: www.counterpunch.org
Link: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/13/i-love-the-smell-of-imperial-meltdown-in-the-morning/
Selected and translated for www.comedonchisciotte.org edited by MARKUS