The American empire

Victor Davis Hanson mentions that in 1939 the USA had the 17th largest armed forces in the world, smaller than Portugal's.

From that acorn a very mighty oak indeed grew.

The Second World War is the story is of the creation of the American empire, the end of the British empire, something Roosevelt repeatedly said in cabinet he very much wanted, and Britain's new role as America's faithful vassal. 

The accepted Churchillian interpretation of the Second World War is the justification for the American empire, with the Cold War seen as its long continuation. 

In 1945 the USA intended to leave Europe to impoverished Britain to police but Stalin stupidly exposed his hand by starting to take over the governments in Eastern Europe and was seen, understandably but wrongly, as another Hitler.

The Democrats are internationalists (Wilson kept a bust of Gladstone on his desk) anxious to save the world for idealistic reasons. 

Republicans, who had always been isolationists, had their own idealistic reason to make an exception to their rule: they wanted to defend the world from godless Communism.

When the USSR dissolved the Americans should have left Europe and Nato should have ended, but the delights of empire were too seductive. 

Too many interests were invested in Nato.

After the USSR withdrew from the Cold War new Hitler figures had to be found or created.

The Israelis created a bugbear in Iran to frighten the Americans after the end of the Cold War removed any reason for the US to subsidise Israel. They then started believing their own propaganda.

Inept American diplomacy led Russia to invade Ukraine. Putin and Xi became new Hitlers. 

Venezuela and Cuba may well be attacked by America soon if Marco Rubio persuades Donald Trump to do so and even Nigeria too.

The hawks have their Hitlers and the American left has its Hitlers, Trump being one.

For some Hamas is Hitler, for others Netanyahu. The Second World War and the Hitler obsession metastasised long ago.

The suggestion that Britain would have done better to have kept out of war with Germany is rarely made (it was Herbert Hoover's view) or that the post-war arms race and cold war were unnecessary.

If Britain had kept out of European entanglements and France had kept out of the war the two countries would have saved themselves and much of the world unspeakable pain. 

And Europe would not have been ruined forever (it's now  a museum) and colonised by America and Communist Russia.

I haven't read the first volume of Whitney Webb's One Nation Under Blackmail where she deals with the CIA, MI6, the mafia and their intricate connections going back to the Second World War but I should. 

You can read both volumes here.

I strongly recommend the second volume, about inter alia Epstein. A paperback of it can be ordered in Romania from libris.ro - my copy came in two days.

Nato can be viewed as the international deep state.

The original deep state, the Turkish one, was connected to Nato and the Finnish and Swedish deep states brought their neutral countries into Nato recently. 

Something similar may happen in the Republic of Ireland. The Swiss abandoned their neutrality to impose sanctions on Russia after her invasion of Ukraine.

Amongst other things the CIA has controlled English language mainstream media since the 1970s at least and the media in other languages too, As I said before

"If you remember one thing from reading this blog please let it be former CIA man John Stockwell testifying to the Church Commission in 1976 that the CIA had taken over the English speaking media and were on their way to completing the takeover of French and Spanish speaking media."