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8 Dec, 23 tweets, 8 min read
US Hegemony Doesn't Make The World More Peaceful, It Makes It More Dangerous

How real is "Pax Americana" if US unipolar hegemony can only be held in place by endless violence and brute force that's is driving us toward confrontation with Russia and China?
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/us-hegemony-…
A Republican senator who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee stated on a Tuesday Fox News appearance that he strongly supports keeping US military action on the table if Russia invades Ukraine, up to and including a first-use nuclear attack.
Top Biden administration diplomat and neoconservative Ukraine coup plotter Victoria Nuland didn't go quite as far, but did assert that a perceived attack on Ukraine would see Russia financially cut off from the entire world.
rt.com/russia/542522-…
The Russian invasion narrative is flimsy, and could be designed to frame Russia as the aggressor should an attack on rebel-held territories in eastern Ukraine by NATO and Ukrainian forces cross Putin's red line and provoke a military response from Moscow:
Whatever's happening, hawks in the US political/media class keep trying to amp the public up for a direct military confrontation between nuclear superpowers.
What's most interesting about the above tweet is Rothman's unusually honest admission that if the hawks get their way in the event of a Ukraine conflict, people's sons and daughters would be sent to kill and die in a war over something as stupid as "US credibility and hegemony."
That's the real reason you're hearing so much hysterical shrieking about China lately, as well as governments which cooperate with it like Russia. It's got nothing to do with Ukraine, Taiwan, hackers or Uyghurs. It's because they pose a growing threat to US unipolar hegemony.
It's because China is the head of a rising cluster of non-empire-aligned governments which threatens US planetary domination.
It's because Russia and China have been getting closer and closer after western empire managers predicted the exact opposite would occur:
Had the predictions of US empire architects proved correct, the Russia-China tandem described in 2017 by Gilbert Doctorow would never have come to be, and China would have been far weaker and far more vulnerable to US subversion as a result.
consortiumnews.com/2017/10/23/rus…
All the panicked consent-manufacturing you've been seeing from empire managers these last few years is due to the frantic need to course-correct after these forecasts fell flat.
Whatever your opinions on Chomsky at this point in his life, you cannot deny that he is correct here:
The empire determined after the fall of the USSR that the US must prevent the rise of another rival superpower at all cost, and all efforts you see to undermine China and its geostrategic support system are just that resolution playing out as intended.
archive.md/wlBz5
But what are the consequences of that resolution? What does it mean when history's first ever unipolar planetary hegemon must maintain that unipolar hegemony even if it means risking a third world war against an alliance of nuclear-armed nations?
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/erm-i-know-y…
What does it mean when the decline of an empire meets with the imperial doctrine that planetary domination must be held in place by any means necessary and US senators babble on national TV about nuclear first strikes on Russia?

It means the world has gotten a lot less safe.
After all, "Pax Americana" has already killed millions of people and displaced tens of millions in US wars of geostrategic domination just since the turn of this century.
The US-backed assault on Yemen alone will have killed 377,000 people by the end of this year, and the horrors show no sign of stopping.
france24.com/en/live-news/2…
Unilateral starvation sanctions on disobedient populations are deliberately murdering civilians around the world. And now, no longer able to make due with simply smashing weaker nations, we are being fed propaganda about the need for military confrontation with Russia and China.
The western media have been screaming that Russia is about to invade Ukraine any minute now for years on end.
The narratives we're being fed about Taiwan are blatantly propagandistic.
All they're doing is brainwashing the public into consenting to aggressions which are so dangerous that, all by themselves, they completely invalidate the argument that US unipolar hegemony makes the world safer or more peaceful.
It doesn't have to be this way. There's no reason nations can't just cooperate with each other for the common good instead of waving armageddon weapons around over the ideas held by a few idiots about the need to dominate an entire planet.
US Hegemony Doesn't Make The World More Peaceful, It Makes It More Dangerous (Audio)

"There's no reason the US needs to imperil us all with these insane unipolarist aggressions, and everyone should stop supporting it in doing so."
soundcloud.com/going_rogue/us…

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6 Dec
Most people are deeply unconscious and patterned. Ruling elites are no exception, in fact they're MORE unconscious. It's a common mistake to think of these people as rational actors; really their minds are running on autopilot in response to conditioning put in place long ago.
That's why you'll see them continuing policies which destroy the biosphere they depend on for survival or escalating military aggressions between nuclear powers. They're not making cool, rational decisions, they're acting out impulses within themselves that they don't understand.
You'll see people say "They wouldn't nuke themselves, it's irrational" or "If the climate situation was really that bad they'd have taken drastic action long ago," but this assumes you're dealing with rational minds and not what are essentially neurological computer programs.
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6 Dec
I keep seeing this claim in conspiracy circles that these dangerous escalations against Russia and China are a hoax being staged to distract people from the "Covid scam", which is among the dumbest theories I've ever heard about anything. Just seriously sloppy thinking. Come on.
But you can see how this happens for people who've decided that Covid is the be-all end-all issue of our day and that any government implementing Covid measures or vax mandates is part of a one world government. If it's a one world government why are they hostile? Must be a hoax.
In reality there is no one-world governmental body and the hostilities between the US-centralized power alliance and unabsorbed nations like Russia and China are very real, and governments don't move military equipment around the globe for a "distraction". That's not a thing.
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6 Dec
When the nukes start flying,
when we see the mushroom cloud growing on the horizon,
when reality comes crashing down in the most overt way possible,
when the realization slowly dawns that this really is the end,
none of our old stuff will matter anymore.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/in-that-fina…
It will not matter if you are American, Russian or Chinese.
It will not matter if your skin is darker or lighter.
It will not matter if you feel like a man or a woman or both or neither.
It will not matter if your politics are left, right or center.
It will not matter who you voted for.
All that will matter, in that final moment,
is that it is ending.
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3 Dec
"How come you still write about the world like nothing's changed since Covid?"

Because as far as my line of commentary is concerned nothing has. We're still hurtling toward armageddon and dystopia just as I was describing before 2020, it just has new justifications and details.
We're still headed for disaster unless the people rise up and use the power of their numbers to turn us away from the trajectory toward doom, and that's still not going to happen as long as people are being propagandized. This is all still the case just as it was in 2019.
The emotions of the Hot News Story of the Day often make it hard for people to clearly see the horrific nature of the status quo that has already been in place for a long time, the abuses of which have been far, far greater than the Covid-related ones.
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2 Dec
The first cold war was colored by a healthy fear of nuclear annihilation, support for detente in mainstream political factions, and an understanding that this was a situation we should ideally get ourselves out of as soon as possible. This new cold war features NONE of these.
And this new cold war is against TWO nuclear powers, not just one. Twice as many unpredictable moving parts. Twice as many things that can go cataclysmically wrong. And this one's got a whole new dimension of danger in the race to put weapons in space. Our odds aren't good.
I probably won't feel such an urgent need to keep talking about this once I start seeing some real sustained acknowledgement in mainstream circles that there is a very very dangerous game being played here and heroic efforts need to be made to de-escalate it.
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1 Dec
Covid is interesting in that it has a propaganda campaign that everyone's aware of and encouraged to participate in. So you'll see things like Dore getting slammed for talking about his adverse vaccine reaction, not because it was false, but because it hurt the propaganda effort.
There's no basis whatsoever for the belief that Jimmy lied about having adverse reactions, but he got raked over the coals anyway. You see things like that all the time: people forcefully discouraged from talking about raw facts because it might hurt the vax campaign or whatever.
You are free to believe this propaganda campaign is a good thing, or that it's a necessary evil, but you can't deny that it's a propaganda campaign. There's a concerted effort to manage perception, and the rank-and-file public is actively participating in that effort.
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