For the sake of America’s safety and world peace, the U.S. ought to instantly abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favor of diplomacy and peaceable co-existence.
In 1992, U.S. foreign-policy exceptionalism went into overdrive. The U.S. has all the time seen itself as an distinctive nation destined for management, and the demise of the Soviet Union in December 1991 satisfied a bunch of dedicated ideologues—who got here to be generally known as neoconservatives—that the U.S. ought to now rule the world because the unchallenged sole superpower. Regardless of numerous overseas coverage disasters at neocon fingers, the 2024 NATO Declaration continues to push the neocon agenda, driving the world nearer to nuclear struggle.
The neoconservatives had been initially led by Richard Cheney, the Protection Secretary in 1992. Each President since then—Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden—has pursued the neocon agenda of U.S. hegemony, main theU.S. into perpetual wars of selection, together with Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Ukraine, in addition to relentless eastward enlargement of NATO, regardless of a transparent U.S. and German promise in 1990 to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO wouldn’t transfer one inch eastward.
The core neocon thought is that the U.S. ought to have army, monetary, financial, and political dominance over any potential rival in any a part of the world. It’s focused particularly at rival powers reminiscent of China and Russia, and subsequently brings the U.S. into direct confrontation with them. The American hubris is beautiful: many of the world doesn’t need to be led by the U.S., a lot much less led by a U.S. state clearly pushed by militarism, elitism and greed.
The neocon plan for U.S. army dominance was spelled out within the Venture for a New American Century. The plan contains relentless NATO enlargement eastward, and the transformation of NATO from a defensive alliance towards a now-defunct Soviet Union to an offensive alliance used to advertise U.S. hegemony. The U.S. arms trade is the key monetary and political backer of the neocons. The arms trade spearheaded the lobbying for NATO’s eastward enlargement beginning within the Nineteen Nineties. Joe Biden has been a staunch neocon from the beginning, first as Senator, then as Vice President, and now as President.
To realize hegemony, the neocon plans depend on CIA regime-change operations; U.S.-led wars of selection; U.S. abroad army bases (now numbering round 750 abroad bases in at the very least 80 international locations); the militarization of superior applied sciences (biowarfare, synthetic intelligence, quantum computing, and so on.); and relentless use of data warfare.
The hunt for U.S. hegemony has pushed the world to open warfare in Ukraine between the world’s two main nuclear powers, Russia and the US. The struggle in Ukraine was provoked by the relentless willpower of the U.S. to develop NATO to Ukraine regardless of Russia’s fervent opposition, in addition to the U.S. participation within the violent Maidan coup (February 2014) that overthrew a impartial authorities, and the U.S. undermining of the Minsk II settlement that referred to as for autonomy for the ethnically Russian areas of jap Ukraine.
The NATO Declaration calls NATO a defensive alliance, however the details say in any other case. NATO repeatedly engages in offensive operations, together with regime-change operations. NATO led the bombing of Serbia to be able to break that nation in two components, with NATO inserting a serious army base within the breakaway area of Kosovo. NATO has performed a serious position in lots of U.S. wars of selection. NATO bombing of Libya was used to overthrow the federal government of Moammar Qaddafi.
The U.S. quest for hegemony, which was smug and unwise in 1992, is totally delusional immediately, because the U.S. clearly faces formidable rivals which can be in a position to compete with the U.S. on the battlefield, in nuclear arms deployments, and within the manufacturing and deployment of superior applied sciences. China’s GDP is now round 30% bigger than the U.S. when measured at worldwide costs, and China is the world’s low-cost producer and provider of many vital inexperienced applied sciences, together with EVs, 5G, photovoltaics, wind energy, modular nuclear energy, and others. China’s productiveness is now so nice that the U.S. complains of China’s “over-capacity.”
Sadly, and alarmingly, the NATO declaration repeats the neoconservative delusions.
The Declaration falsely declares that “Russia bears sole duty for its struggle of aggression towards Ukraine,” regardless of the U.S. provocations that led to the outbreak of the struggle in 2014.
The NATO Declaration reaffirms Article 10 of the NATO Washington Treaty, in keeping with which NATO’s eastward enlargement is none of Russia’s enterprise. But the U.S. would by no means settle for Russia or China establishing a army base on the US border (say in Mexico), because the U.S. first declared within the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 and has reaffirmed ever since.
The NATO Declaration reaffirms NATO’s dedication to biodefense applied sciences, regardless of rising proof that U.S. biodefense spending by NIH financed the laboratory creation of the virus which will have precipitated the Covid-19 pandemic.
The NATO Declaration proclaims NATO’s intention to proceed to deploy anti-ballistic Aegis missiles (because it has already performed in Poland, Romania, and Turkey), even supposing the U.S. withdrawal from the ABM Treaty and placement of Aegis missiles in Poland and Romania has profoundly destabilized the nuclear arms management structure.
The NATO Declaration expresses no curiosity in any respect in a negotiated peace for Ukraine.
The NATO Declaration doubles-down on Ukraine’s “irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration, together with NATO membership.” But Russia won’t ever settle for Ukraine’s NATO membership, so the “irreversible” dedication is an irreversible dedication to struggle.
The Washington Submit reviews that within the lead-up to the NATO summit, Biden had severe qualms about pledging an “irreversible path” to Ukraine’s NATO membership, but Biden’s advisors brushed apart these issues.
The neoconservatives have created numerous disasters for the U.S. and the world, together with a number of failed wars, a large buildup of U.S. public debt pushed by trillions of {dollars} of wasteful war-driven army outlays, and the more and more harmful confrontation of the U.S. with China, Russia, Iran, and others. The neocons have introduced the Doomsday Clock to simply 90 seconds to midnight (nuclear struggle), in contrast with 17 minutes in 1992.
For the sake of America’s safety and world peace, the U.S. ought to instantly abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favor of diplomacy and peaceable co-existence.
Alas, NATO has simply performed the alternative.
