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Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World
The Pentagon has released its “National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015,” June 2015. http://news.usni.org/2015/07/02/document-2015-u-s-national-military-strategy
The document announces a shift in focus from terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean. Governments that challenge international norms are sovereign countries that pursue policies independently of Washington’s policies. These “revisionist states” are threats, not because they plan to attack the US, which the Pentagon admits neither Russia nor China intend, but because they are independent. In other words, the norm is dependence on Washington.
Be sure to grasp the point: The threat is the existence of sovereign states, whose independence of action makes them “revisionist states.” In other words, their independence is out of step with the neoconservative Uni-power doctrine that declares independence to be the right of Washington alone. Washington’s History-given hegemony precludes any other country being independent in its actions.
The Pentagon’s report defines the foremost “revisionist states” as Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. The focus is primarily on Russia.Washington hopes to co-op China, despite the “tension to the Asia-Pacific region” that China’s defense of its sphere of influence, a defense “inconsistent with international law” (this from Washington, the great violator of international law), by turning over what remains of the American consumer market to China. It is not yet certain that Iran has escaped the fate that Washington imposed on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Ukraine, and by complicity Palestine.
The Pentagon report is sufficiently audacious in its hypocrisy, as all statements from Washington are, to declare that Washington and its vassals “support the established institutions and processes dedicated to preventing conflict, respecting sovereignty, and furthering human rights.” This from the military of a government that has invaded, bombed, and overthrown 11 governments since the Clinton regime and is currently working to overthrow governments in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina.
In the Pentagon document, Russia is under fire for not acting “in accordance with international norms,” which means Russia is not following Washington’s leadership.
In other words, this is a bullshit report written by neocons in order to foment war with Russia.
Nothing else can be said about the Pentagon report, which justifies war and more war. Without war and conquests, Americans are not safe.
Washington’s view toward Russia is the same as Cato the Elder’s view toward Carthage. Cato the Elder finished his every speech on any subject in the Roman Senate with the statement “Carthage must be destroyed.”
This report tells us that war with Russia is our future unless Russia agrees to become a vassal state like every country in Europe, and Canada, Australia, Ukraine, and Japan. Otherwise, the neoconservatives have decided that it is impossible for Americans to tolerate living with a country that makes decisions independently of Washington. If American cannot be The Uni-Power dictating to the world, better that we are all dead. At least that will show the Russians.
30 Comments on "Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World"
freak on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 4:49 pm
The creation of controlled opposition is exactly what this is.
The dark sides main tool is deception. We can see that deception in the left right democrat republican fake opposition. All controlled by the same slave masters at the top. And surely the same thing is taking place with the Russia China vs the West likely deception. The feud with Russia is controlled opposition. Not saying controlled opposition won’t become war.
Remember they want to create a one world global bank religion and government to rule over all.
There are some deep thinkers on the web who feel it’s all just a globalist smoke screen. That the deals have been already made and promises by the NWO have been made to both China and Russia. That they will be allowed to form a Yang to the NWO Ying. An so we have the formation of the bricks.
Henry Kissinger himself promised the Chinese they would take the lead in the building of the NWO one world government back in the 1970’s!
The idea is to coax all countries of the world to choose a faux opposition side military economically and become a member of their chosen sides international banking system.
Thereby tricking all the countries of the world to become pawns of the BIS AND IMF INTERNATIONAL BANKING SYSTEMS by making the choice they think is their own! All we are witnessing now is just everyone jostling for elbow room at the International Banking table, and locking down access to their homelands borders and resources before they become finalized by International agreement… nothing more.
Sure there might be some petty skirmishes and short wars for access to others resources, but there will be no great global world war unless all the sides agree it is in their own best interests, such as to spur economic industrial growth and control population growth by killing off a few billion of useless eater’s.
Boat on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 5:07 pm
The United States has publicly advocated industrial privatization, market liberalization, and fiscal reform, as well as legal and regulatory reforms to open up the economy to foreign trade and investment, as the best way to achieve prosperity and true independence and sovereignty.
That is not dictating by the US, just common sense agreements among countries who know trade is the answer to a better life style for its citizens.
penury on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 5:08 pm
I always look forward to Paul Craig Robert’s reports. Truth without the slanted commentary.
Boat on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 5:44 pm
There are some deep thinkers on the web who feel it’s all just a globalist smoke screen
Lol I get a kick out of that. So lets say we are two different countries and want to trade wheat for ore. There has to be an agreement of terms for the trade to happen. If there is a later problem with one of the parties there has to be rule of law to arbitrate the difference. So yea, call it globalization, run by slave masters whose only purpose in life is deception. Yes, no slant to the writing and the comments.
joe on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 5:50 pm
The US accepted the role of global hegemon in the post soviet era in which we live. Russia may be a target of US military strategy, but who follows international norms, and what does that mean? Obviously US military strategy does not have say Robert Mugabe an horrendous dictator in Zimbabwe, (they have no oil there) in its sights. The job of the military is to ensure that capitalism thrives.
shortonoil on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 7:14 pm
The lunatics have taken over the asylum! There is nothing more energizing than playing Russian roulette with a few H bombs. Good thing God is on our side.
Apneaman on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 7:54 pm
Boat, that better lifestyle is still only enjoyed by a minority of people on the planet and it is driving over a hundred species a day to extinction (we are not immune). All this has been repeatedly pointed out to you and links provided dozens of times by a number of commenters since you showed up, but you just keep repeating the same old tired talking points. Obviously you don’t care about the facts and data and you don’t read the links because you have already decided to stick with the story that feels the best. No one here ever argued that industrial civilization and capitalism have not created a bunch of nifty goodies for them and their families, what the problem is, is that there are too many people doing it and doing more of it every year and it has changed the chemistry of the oceans, land and atmosphere to the point where it is now an existential risk to apes. The degree of changes has only ever occurred before over tens of thousands of years; not 265. Were like yeast bragging how much nourishment were getting as we eat ourselves out of existence. Constantly pulling out and reading off the econ 101 excuses playbook – “Standard responses and rationalization to human and environmental externalities” AKA – yabut, is a peculiar side effect of most big brained moralizing apes who can’t admit they are following their evolutionary programming like every other living thing. Capitalism is just the most efficient system we came up with to facilitate the Maximum Power Principle. I guess we should be grateful we weren’t on the wrong end of it our whole lives like most. That imo is one reason (self preservation) not to give up one’s advantage/power after decades of abusing it. The barbarians really are at the gate – waiting.
OVERSHOOT LOOP:
Evolution Under The Maximum Power Principle
http://www.dieoff.org/
Apneaman on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 7:59 pm
joe to say the US accepted hegemony makes it sound like an unwanted burden (sound familiar white man) and that is pure propaganda. Hegemony is always taken….always.
Makati1 on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 8:30 pm
As I have said before, insanity rules inside the Beltway. The elite see their lifestyles threatened by us “useless eaters” and will try to keep it going at ALL costs, even nuclear.
Less than 10% of the planet’s 7+ billion population enjoy the fruits of capitalism but some here assume that that is OK. It is not and they will soon join the other 90% in the real world.
Jimmy on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 10:16 pm
The death throes of empire.
http://www.extraenvironmentalist.com/2013/05/20/episode-60-days-destruction/
Jimmy on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 10:20 pm
I believe the old saying is ‘never ask the barber if you need a haircut’. What do people expect The Pentagon to say, ‘times are slow cut out budget’?
apneaman on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 10:43 pm
Thanks, Jimmy those extra guys do great lengthy interviews.
Davy on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 11:15 pm
The sad truth is our options for solutions to the rebalance of consumption and population have become limited to the death of billions. This needs to be done quickly let us say within 10 years. Yes the solution to our problem is the quick death of billions quickly. I am being honest here. I am a lover of my fellow man and life. I have come to no other conclusion for a solution that will work and in time.
This will not leave us with complex modern man. It may allow survival of our species in a small band of scavengers that may be the seeds of a new race of postmodern people. This holocaust would be just to save the earth from a climate and ecological Armageddon. Modern man is finished. We are the last of the Mohicans friends. We here on this PO site today are like the stars in a Hollywood blockbuster movie.
I am no advocate of playing God and pulling the trigger. I will genuflect to Nature and let her handle our destiny. The sad truth is other may at some point find another great war as a solution because in some way it is a solution. Not a solution like these people may think but a solution for Nature.
I am not sure how long it will take with Nature but I see the worst starting in 10 years. For us the worst will seem to start by the end of the year as economies start to collapse by our modern standards. Watch Greece and failed stated in the third world for the unfolding of this process. Watch the inner cities and regions across the globe decaying. This will be widespread and total. No one will escape the pain and suffering.
If we are lucky enough to be spared a great war by a group wanting to play God then we have an epic decade ahead of us. This will likely unfold in varying degrees of intensity. We will have the opportunity for great heroics. The best and worst of us is going to come out in this bottleneck. This has always been the case in great events the last being WWII.
Looking around at modern life I wonder sometimes if there is any “best” left of humans. There is but it is drown out by a race of apes bent on personal consumption in an orgy of enjoyment and thrill seeking. We are bent on opening doors of life where we don’t belong. We are our own worst enemy and the enemy of all life on earth. We are Natures tool of extinction and in that sense we have a place in evolution.
All that doom and gloom said we in our local are not a part of this. We as individuals were never meant to be global apes. We are individuals struggling to live and make sense of being mortals with family we love. We want happiness and happiness for those we love.
In that sense and in the sense of this greater tragedy we should go local. We need to start preparations for resilience and sustainability in the short term to survive these momentous events. This preparations are likely only short term because the long term is still uncertain.
My optimistic analysis thinks 500MIL people can survive this bottleneck. The doom side wonders if thousands can manage a meager existence. If you want to be a part that survives then you better start preparing now. I am too old to make it through this but maybe my kids will.
apneaman on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 1:21 am
Empire of Bases 2.0
Does the Pentagon Really Have 1,180 Foreign Bases?
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175338/
apneaman on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 1:23 am
On Not Noticing America’s Empire of Bases
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-engelhardt/on-not-noticing-americas-_b_7585968.html
theedrich on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 4:37 am
Oddly, most of the commenters on sites like this one are politically correct in the extreme, doing their best to prove how the impolitic are really all agents of the (Jewish and Christian) devil. The usual tactic, by Ø-worshippers such as funnyman Ron Patterson, is to declare war on “racists” who dare to notice the correlation between such things as genetics and behavior. We must never point out that the world is being swamped and destroyed by “cultures” (the usual codeword for race) that have never accomplished anything and are invading the countries of the self-flagellating White man whose pay-now-fly-later religion preaches White Guilt. The State Department and the Pentagon, of course, give this religious dogma a slightly different twist, not limiting it to Whites: anybody who has resources of any kind and does not kneel before them is ipso facto diabolical and must be subverted by “freedom movements” and other clandestine means — false-flag or otherwise. Of course, Russia and China are doing their best to counter Yankee domination, but so are the narcotics and human-smuggling rings of the world. Most of all, various agents (state-supported or otherwise) are simply purchasing U.S. political influence through bribery. It was long ago that the U.S. ceased being a nation and became an imperial bribe-ocracy. Everything is painted in religious terms for the clueless masses while being in fact manipulated through a combo of cutthroat political operations, media propaganda and financial contributions (ostensibly to worthwhile causes, of course). Most of the influential U.S. businesses have long been importing ThirdWorld sludge to do their dirty work for very low wages. Meanwhile the Demonic Party (and its “loyal opposition”) has been untiring in its efforts to pervert American demography and, for political gain, to turn the country into another Third World sewer. The elites, of course, cannot publicly admit what they are doing; but in fact it is only short-term gain that moves them. Hence the Pentagonal lunge for absolute global power. Nietzsche was right over a century ago: the dominating principle of world history is der Wille zur Macht.
cottager on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 5:50 am
BS. Invading neighboring countries, annexing parts of them IS not “in accordance with international norms”. Steeling and killing in the middle of the street IS not in accordance with norms also. Russia has no friends, US has.
Boat on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 7:19 am
I feel frisky today so lets take this idiot on.
It was long ago that the U.S. ceased being a nation and became an imperial bribe-ocracy……So when did that change. When was the US not corrupt and run by the rich. I bet I can find plenty of corruption during any time period. The US is made of humans after all.
Most of the influential U.S. businesses have long been importing ThirdWorld sludge to do their dirty work for very low wages.
Of course. The US at it’s core are all sludge including the 17% Germans that immigrated. Me being Swedish makes me a more rational sludge.
The elites, of course, cannot publicly admit what they are doing; but in fact it is only short-term gain that moves them.
Of course and how could it be any different in a capitalistic system. This is not new news. And you to can start a business, hire low wage immigrants probably illegal if your down south.
So tell me Mr.threedrich, our sludge can come up with a 620 billion per year military. What does yours compete with.
penury on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 11:29 am
Davy, I most agree with your post. The truth annoys a lot of people but, nature bats last,( and owns the pitcher) humans are burdened with the hubris of divine creation and the belief that there deity will prevail over all.
BobInget on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 12:26 pm
Short on words andoil says it best.
Filled with anxiety and fear, holding my breath for the next boot to drop.
apneaman on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 1:35 pm
cottager, where do you get your information from?
4 biggest threats to global peace: Guess who’s No. 1?
Nope, it’s not China, Iran or Israel: The U.S. is the country viewed most negatively, according to a global survey
“According to the poll, 24 percent of the surveyed countries ranked the United States as the greatest threat to world peace today, followed by Pakistan at 8 percent, China at 6 percent and four countries (Afghanistan, Iran, Israel and North Korea) tied at 5 percent.”
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/09/the_top_4_threats_to_global_peace_guess_who_is_number_one_partner/
apneaman on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 1:40 pm
US Bombing campaigns since 1945
Countries the US has bombed since 1945 is in fact only the most visible aspect of US Intervention abroad. In practice, US led assassinations and overthrows of legitimate governments and interference with elections may be just as significant as the actual bombings listed here.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US_Bombing_campaigns_since_1945
BobInget on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 5:27 pm
FYI
Yesterday, the Somali terror group, Al-Shabaab, indicated it could soon scrap its allegiance to Al-Qaeda and pledge loyalty to rivals ISIS, instead.
Islamic State invited the East African jihadi group to join forces with them through a propaganda video released in March, urging it to wage jihad on neighboring Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania
Now, Al-Shabaab members and sources within the Somali army suggest the invitation will be accepted and the group, which commands around 9,000 fighters, will soon extend ISIS’ self-proclaimed caliphate to East Africa.
The decision comes at a time when many of Al-Shabaab’s local and foreign leaders are being killed by commando raids and drone strikes, the group is rapidly losing territory and its money is running out as a result.
Security expert, Ryan Cummings says that ISIS’ desire to merge with Al-Shabaab is part of its international expansion plan.
“Al-Shabaab is the largest jihadi movement in East Africa and central to the core mandate of ISIS is the unification of the Muslim world,” a counter-terrorism expert told CNN at the time.
Ryan Cummings added that a merger “would be a significant ideological victory for the group (ISIS). It would be massive from a public relations perspective, which is central to the Islamic State’s operations.
“The Islamic State still wants to create the perception that it’s growing and branching out to various parts of the world. The only way that it will be able to achieve this will be to have groups serving as an extension in their various areas of operation.”
Poster’s note:
First Boko Haram merged with ISIS now we see
Al Shabaab also forging alliances.
This new partnership puts ISIS on two continents. Translation, Syrian proxy civil war morphed into a world war by any definition.
BobInget on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 5:38 pm
Answer this.
Were it not for Saudi & Iraq’s oil wealth would the US aiding Saudi Arabia in its genocidal war on Yemen?
Democracy Now!
Aid groups are warning Yemen is on the brink of famine as the Saudi-led attack intensifies. More than 3,000 people, including 1,500 civilians, have died in Yemen since the U.S.-backed Saudi offensive against the Houthi rebel group began on March 26. According to the United Nations, 80 percent of Yemen’s 25 million people are now in need of some form of humanitarian aid, and more than one million Yemenis have fled their homes, as a Saudi naval blockade has cut off food and fuel supply lines for much of the country. Monday was reportedly the deadliest day since the fighting began, with over 176 people killed, including 30 people at a market in the northern province of Amran and 60 people at a livestock market in the southern town of al-Foyoush. To talk more about Yemen, we are joined by two guests. Farea Al-Muslimi is a co-founder of the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies in Yemen. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. And here in New York is Matthieu Aikins, award-winning foreign correspondent. He’s a fellow at The Nation Institute. He was in Yemen last month reporting for Rolling Stone magazine.
Makati1 on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 11:34 pm
Boat, “So tell me Mr.threedrich, our sludge can come up with a 620 billion per year military…”
That should continue with: “… that cannot win a self imposed war against a bunch of poorly equipped, 3rd world, back country farmers, in 12+ years of trying.”
The US has not won a war since…Hmmm. WW2? Nope! Jumped in at the end to get credit and some European Bases! WW1? Nope! Again, we dropped in at the end to get some credit for ‘helping’. Maybe the Spanish American War? Yes! So, in 1898, we were able to win a war and take some colonies from Spain. But, we have not won one since. Some military…lol. The only war it could ‘win’ would be nuclear and there are NO winners in that kind of exchange.
Davy on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 1:11 am
Folks, now Mak is rewriting world history. I don’t know about you but I am grabbing the popcorn this should be entertaining. LOL *>* Nuff said.
Boat on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 6:13 am
The US military can and will win conflicts if they are ordered to. Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam etc are all examples where presidents took the nation to war and after a time period the public withdrew support. You know these things but like to present a warped view instead.
R1verat on Mon, 13th Jul 2015 9:27 pm
Don’t feed the troll….
theedrich on Fri, 17th Jul 2015 6:03 pm
How interesting, idiot Boat, to read your rant: “The US at it’s core are all sludge including the 17% Germans that immigrated. Me being Swedish makes me a more rational sludge”
Glad to see that you have self-identified as a descendent of the peninsular Swedish leftists. Your ancestors have hated the Germans ever since Gustavus Adolphus decided to invade and make war upon Europe’s mainland; so I can understand your irrationality in that regard. Given that the Swedes have long forgotten their own vigorous ancestors and been protected from history by their geography, it is understandable that so many of them are White genosuicidists. You can be forgiven for your psychopathy, since independent thinking is not a national characteristic of the Swedes. You also tend to follow the hypocrisy of those master hypocrites, the English. Clearly, nothing will change your mind until you actually get the ThirdWorld savagery you wish for.
I’m not sure what you mean by “[O]ur sludge can come up with a 620 billion per year military. What does yours compete with.” The sludge in the U.S. consists of the ThirdWorld and low-IQ dross that depends upon handouts (from guess whom?) for its very existence. Or upon crime. Using White Guilt, the government, as all can see, is currently waging a psywar of extinction on the White population — which is trapped by its own Christian lies and fabrications. As your god, Ø, successfully destroys the basic stock that built this country, not only that foundational population, but your ilk as well, are going to find out what the termination of evolution really means.
Boat on Fri, 17th Jul 2015 7:35 pm
threedrich,
You may know more about where my great grand parents came from than I do. Haven’t been to Sweden, haven’t read about Sweden and I could care less.
I do know my great grandaddy immigrated, dug a hole in the side of a hill and raised 13 children. After the 5th child had enough money to build a house. My grandad farmed with a team of horses on 360 acres, ran 20 cows and crapped in a outhouse till my dad got out of WWII and bought him a tractor and installed some plumbing. Yep that’s what us sludge does. We work and build.
The 620 billion I refered is the amount we spend on our military. The next is China at around 150 billion, Russia 70 billion, Iran 6 billion. Personally we should cut our military in half but thats just me. Point is, we got money to burn on pointless products.
Most of the so called handouts go to retired folks social security and Medicare on. The US also spends around 420 billion a year for interest on a 18 trillion dollar debt mostly run up by senseless wars. Not to mention these deductions should happen and then attack the poors income stream.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/09/the-rich-get-government-handouts-just-like-the-poor-here-are-10-of-them/