It's now or never for Washington

[pberq]

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/120204_now_never.shtml

America's real aim in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics is to seize control of vital resources before China and India can challenge US dominance. By Mark Almond

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With the collapse of one-party states, any justification for western covert intervention in elections died. Yet the methods of the old cold war have continued and even grown in scale. Washington's power elite see the whole world as former president Reagan saw Latin America - indeed, many Reagan administration figures are involved in current events. Cold war methods are still in use - even more so - but now against opponents who do not merit the description "totalitarian", whatever their faults.

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Yet Russia is a bit player in this new global competition. The Pentagon is really aiming at Beijing in its grab for the old Soviet strategic space around Russia. China is booming, but energy is her Achilles heel. Economically and technologically, China's 1.3 billion people seem poised to assume superpower status, but China cannot risk falling out with America. Only access to Russian and central Asian oil can liberate China from dependence on vulnerable sea-borne oil supplies, so the real "Great Game" is between Beijing and Washington. America's real strategic fear is the rise of China and India. Unlike Russia, they are not beset by demographic decline.

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If South America, south Asia and China begin to coalesce, then Washington could find itself confronted by an alternative axis not seen since before the Sino-Soviet split in the early 1960s. But, whereas Mao and Brezhnev represented economic dead ends, the new China and her potential partners have dynamism on their side. Maybe India and China are business rivals, but their old frontier disputes in the Himalayas are frozen. Latin America has nothing to fear from either superpower of the future, nor do Latin Americans nurse visceral resentments of Beijing or Delhi that are in any way comparable to their deep-dyed anti-Yankee feelings.

[PATRICK]

1. Creating hatred and monsters

This is the only result of this warped world view. What IS wrong with any of the other players rivaling the US? Is China intrinsically evil beyond what capitalism or the rebellion against capitalism(Communism) has made
it? Is India a mindless threat? Does America need to be the dominant player seeing as it has less to offer by their warped fear mongering by damning its OWN democracy and destroying its own economic system!

Not only are the Chinese(free from religious compunctions or posing) potentially better and more ruthless business people, but they seem saner. The Hindus seem also saner and more diligent.

If the US goes the way of Stalinism it will fail even faster because of the intrinsic contradictions and suicidal results back home, as well as trying at the same time to be(or seem) a more open and democratic. society!

This is directly contrary to part of the "global" vision. Contrary in the old destructive way as well. Note the new "dream team" that Bush is retooling for this "clever" strategy.

This is a strategy than ensures America will LOSE bigtime no matter if anyone else "wins" after the smoke clears. Might I note that the Dems subscribe to the better half of this madness and are giving our destruction a goodwill assist.

[pberq]

2. Can't find the logic

Well put, Patrick.

I just can't see the logic in what they're doing. Even in terms of their own self-ineterest, it seems like they're committing suicide. We can only hope for some big event to turn this around and get Bush & company out of power. And we can't wait until 2008.