by Ghassan Kadi
The more pre-election, post-election and even post-inauguration promises that President Trump breaks, the harder he makes it for himself to “Make America Great again”. But this narrative herein is not based on the political rhetoric and broken promises, rather, it is about a hypothetical scenario that questions if America is realistically able to bring Trump’s slogan to fruition.
“Make America Great Again” is a catch phrase that implies a restoration process of a bygone station of greatness. So before one explores the chances of success of such an ambition, one ought to go back to the basics of how and when America was great in the first place.
Admittedly, America has historically been a country of dreams for many. The pop culture of the 1960’s has even had songs about wanting to live in America and surfing USA. The dream has been realistic and fathomable, especially for Europeans who wanted to seek a better life, and thus the flow of migration began as soon as settlement began, and that flow was later on mirrored by the rest of the world, and it did not stop as yet.
But historically also, America was never a dream for its native people; quite the contrary. The influx of white migrants into America has resulted in one of the greatest, bloodiest and definitely the longest lasting genocides that spanned for over four whole centuries.
As for the young African men and women, even boys and girls, who were raided and stolen from their tribes and villages, taken away from their parents, loved ones and friends, to be sold and traded as slaves, put to hard labour, raped and killed, there was nothing for them to dream for at all in regard to America.
A dream for some and a nightmare for others, it would be hard to say that defining America as a dream has ever been a description that has been ubiquitously endorsed during its early-mid stages of nation-building. Did the global consensus change later on?
As the new nation that became known as the United States of America became independent in the late eighteenth century, another century later, it suffered from a brutal civil war and the new nation was not really able to stand on its feet and have its place on the global scene until the union was saved and Lincoln managed to pass his 13th amendment.
As a result, America prospered, and later on, late in the nineteenth century, America became the biggest global economy, and in hindsight, the few decades that followed up until WWI, America came the closest ever to being great at different levels. President Woodrow Wilson made it clear that the USA did not join the war for any gain of territory or to build an empire. He was instrumental in setting up the “League of Nations”, the predecessor of the UN.
All the while ignoring that the 13th amendment did not stop racial segregation and we shouldn’t, ignoring that racial inequality persisted and we also shouldn’t, was this short period, the few decades spanned in between the presidencies of Lincoln and Truman enough to classify America as a great nation?
To answer this properly, we must define greatness from a humane perspective. After all, if we allow ourselves to base greatness on wealth, we will have to accept that the Rothschilds, the Soroses and the Rockefellers are the greatest people on earth, but are they? Who is a greater person George Soros or Jonas Salk who invented the anti-polio Salk vaccine and donated it to the world and refused to take any royalties?
The real greatness of people and nations ought to be gauged by their contribution to humanity, easing its pain, spreading knowledge, spearheading liberation and enlightenment, and not by their wealth.
Or is greatness a subject of might? The post-WWII era in which America was elevated to the level of the world’s first nuclear power and most powerful nation, has left behind a legacy of wars that began in Korea and went on unstopped to Syria and counting, and has left a trail of destruction, tens of millions of civilians killed, mostly from impoverished developing countries. Economies were destroyed, infrastructures decimated, which again begs the question, how and when exactly was America ever great?
Whilst America did offer great opportunity for a great number of select people for a great number of years, based on the proper and relevant criteria of greatness, it can be fair to say that America was never really great.
Surely, many people were attracted to America to go and live there and partake in the big “American Dream”, be able to buy a Chevy, buy a house in the suburbs and send their kids to the best schools and universities in the world, all the while have the best doctors and hospitals at their beck and call. But in reality, what is the percentage of Americans who were able to afford those luxuries even during the years of economic boom?
Whilst it might be true to say that in the 1950’s – 1970’s or so, America might have had a living standard that was higher than most other nations, the standard is shrinking at an alarming rate. With nearly 50 million Americans currently on food stamps, it becomes imperative to realize that today’s USA is a country that is wrought with poverty.
But poverty is not America’s only current problem, and when Trump claims that he wants to” Make America Great Again”, assuming he means it, one wonders if he is simply talking about rebuilding America’s financial prowess.
So if Trump’s take on greatness stops with money, how far can the best ever financial reform process go? Not that there is any sign of it coming from the Trump administration, not that we can see that he is keeping his word by putting America first and stopping all wars, but we must remember that we are looking at a hypothetical situation here, one that has nothing to do with Trump.
In other words, is America able to become great again if Trump was indeed serious about his promise?
The formal and declared American debt stands at nearly $20 trillion dollars, and if calculated on a per capita basis, the figure amounts to $60,000 per every man, woman, and child. But this debt is the tip of the iceberg. With collapsing infrastructure like roads, dams, river levees, schools, airports etc, the restoration of those public facilities constitutes overhead costs that are not budgeted for. They are simply ignored and allowed to decay and rot. These are referred to as “unfunded liabilities”.
It is hard to put an accurate figure on the value of those unfunded liabilities and the estimates vary greatly from a low of $150 trillion to a high of $350 trillion. At the higher estimate figure, the individual debt balloons to nearly $9 million, again, for every man, woman and child. But even at the lower end, the per capita figure is shyly short of $4 million.
When we make balance sheets we have to look not only at liabilities, but also at assets. The estimate of America’s total assets is another elastic figure that also varies from $300 to $550 trillion. That said, if the liabilities figure is indeed in the vicinity of the high $350 trillion figure and that of assets is in the vicinity of the low $300 trillion, then America could well and truly be literally insolvent.
We must remember here that even if the high $550 trillion figure is the correct figure of assets, it does not truly mean much because much of the sub-estimates are based on untapped natural and human resources and are based on today’s value of commodities that can easily crash.
Apart from material assets, there was a time when people around the world talked about “the latest thing from America”. America was the world centre of research and development and innovation in all fields of science and technology, but today’s America does not produce enough engineers, doctors and scientists who can bear the load of a techno-financial revolution that can take America out of the trouble it is facing. When we look today at developments such as China’s massive ultra-fast railway, we can foresee that we are not far from talking about “the latest thing from China”.
On the other hand, the slick, “low budget”, and highly advanced Russian military technology has given America a run for its money. The Russians have been playing their game very smartly, exposing the Americans to a taste of what’s up their sleeve, and –God forbid- in the event of a major escalation between the two super powers, America may find itself with bases and fleets exposed as sitting ducks facing an invisible enemy. It is highly likely that the Russians are not trying to “show off”; as it were, but they are sending strong and clear messages of deterrence to their “American partners”.
Back to economy, it seems likely, as a matter of fact we can safely say that it is highly probable that the demise of the American economy has gone too far and beyond repair. It is also possible that Trump has come to this realization after his inauguration, and that after reaching this realization, he made his U-turn on his promises on the basis that all he has left up his sleeve is a stash of nukes and a mighty war machine.
To reconsider the definition of greatness, does President Trump believe that might alone brings greatness and that by escalating the global bullying role of the United States of America he is going to “Make America Great Again”?
America is certainly a nation that has the highest military budget, largest navy and more off-shore military basis than the rest of the world combined, it has had the world’s biggest economy for many decades and continues to enjoy this status, but has never been a great nation that has spread knowledge and wisdom to the rest of the world. It has used its military might in the past to pillage poor countries and its current financial woes are literally impossible to resolve.
But when it comes to military matters, what is pertinent is that most, if not all, American military ventures have failed to achieve their objectives. After reaching a stale-mate in Korea, a total defeat in Vietnam, after two decades into the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, America is still incapable of gaining the upper hand on the ground.
So if the military is the only trump card left up Trump’s sleeve in order to “Make America Great Again”, on what grounds is he basing his assumption that he can confront and subdue Russia and China combined given that the 125,000 strong American army that invaded Iraq in 2003 was not even able to control the streets of Baghdad?
Ironically, Obama and Trump have both won their campaigns using slogans that are based on desperation; from “Yes We Can” to “Make America Great Again”, the slogans were effectively used to lure in voters who cognize that America is in deep trouble and needs a saviour. Obama has failed and left America with twice the official debt that he inherited on his inauguration day, and Trump will not be able to do much, because like a rusty old car, America is too far gone, and I feel sorry for the good people of America, and there are many of them, including some very good and dear personal friends.
Three comments:
(1) “As for the young African men and women, even boys and girls, who were raided and stolen from their tribes and villages, taken away from their parents, loved ones and friends, to be sold and traded as slaves, put to hard labour, raped and killed, there was nothing for them to dream for at all in regard to America.”
Who, exactly, raided these African villages and kidnapped men, women, boys, and girls?
(2) Can it be argued that America was ever great in the sense that all people stood up for the highest moral principles? Some did, but as the quality of immigrant stock declined, America became more a place for consumer greatness rather than moral greatness. The wealth of the nation was squandered making the nation rich, not great.
(3) As the nation now assumes the role of ever greater raw materials predator, what policies or grass roots programs are in place to offer some hope for moral leadership?
James, I guess you’re one of those who think Africans would willingly sell close to 100 million of their kids, mothers, daughters and sons to brutal foreigners into a brutal animal chattel slavery system. It easy to spew the same mindless western propaganda, today it’s Saddam with weapons of mass destruction, Gaddafi’s black soldiers raping Bengazhi’s population with Viagra and now Assad gasing his population ?!? When it comes to wars of pillage and conquest in foreign lands the western beast will always lie to dissimulate their savage and nefarious plans. Unfortunately, the historical record is clear, the european bondsmen wrote in THEIR OWN memoirs starting in the 15th century how they terrorized and raided the African coast to capture unwilling africans. The bondsman and the archivists of several multinationals of the days like the Royal African company (britain) and the Dutch east indian company (VOK) clearly describe how they fomented local wars, before waging total multi-generational wars in Africa over centuries to expand the raiding of africans captives inland. The whole western African coast of Africa is littered with Slave dungeons and forts built by all the dominant western european (Portugese, British, Dutch, French, Spanish, Denmark,etc) powers. From El-mina, to Goree, to Bimbia, there are dozens and dozens of forts and castles with artillery and canons pointed inland to repel and defend against resisting African attackers. When the slave trade was outlawed, savage Yankee slave traders went all the way to the pacific to unlawfully capture and raid Polynesians and other melanated pacific islanders to sell them into slavery in the Americas.
The bondsmen in their own words on how they terrorized the African coast for decades and went about their inhuman business in the new world: https://archive.org/details/conquerorsofneww01helpuoft
First account book by William Bosman written in 1705 by the ”COO” in charge of the war operations (fomenting war, terrorism and destruction) in the Gulf of Guinea for the Dutch east indian company(one of the biggest multinationals involved in the brutal slave trade. New Voyage to Guinea vol 1 https://archive.org/details/nouveauvoyagedeg01smit
The white Pacific a great book by Dr Gerald Horne describing how following the US civil war and the abolition of slavery, Yankee slave raiders went all the way to the pacific to unlawfully raid slaves. The increase in production required an increase in labor; so the lazy americans rushed to fill the vacuum. Freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. Forefathers of the same idiots who will repeat ad-nauseum that the civil war wasn’t about slavery… https://www.amazon.com/White-Pacific-Imperialism-Black-Slavery/dp/0824831470
18th Ancient map of the western African coast, the most militarized in the world at that time, with dozens and dozens of forts, dungeons and castles. Why such elaborate protections if the commerce with the Africans was consensual ? Well, we know it was everything but. The Ashanti one of many African kingdoms fought over 150 years with the british. Countless others such as Queen Nzingha of Kongo, fought decades to prevent and twarth the slave trade but were overpowered by Europe’s military superiority. ttps://www.google.ca/search?q=How+many+slave+forts+on+the+west+african+coast&rlz=1C1VFKB_enCA693CA693&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV8PHYl_XTAhXJiVQKHX6uC5YQ_AUIBigB&biw=768&bih=403#tbm=isch&q=All+slave+forts+on+the+west+african+coast+map&imgrc=tTmK-coLIcHVCM:
“James, I guess you’re one of those who think Africans would willingly sell close to 100 million of their kids, mothers, daughters and sons to brutal foreigners into a brutal animal chattel slavery system.”
That was exactly what i was thinking when i read his comment.
More books that James should read: The Slave Trilogy by Thorkild Hansen, about the Danish-Norwegian slavetrade:
Coast of Slaves (Slavernes kyst, 1967); Ships of Slaves (Slavernes skibe, 1968); Islands of Slaves (Slavernes øer, 1970).
The father of a good friend worked in Africa, and made it clear that there are **tribes** that war upon each other. I would believe him before some book
which proves … what, exactly?
The very nature of tribal societies, tribal warfare and the limits to ethical development brought about by the limits of the tribe make it socially acceptable for one tribe to kidnap members of another tribe.
I find it curious that to apply this logic to the smaller tribal units in Africa is disapproved here, but to apply it to large units such as “The Jews” or ‘The Roman Catholics” is not so much. Not to disagree with The Saker (at least not on this point), but the same mechanism applies for large and small tribes. This, it is entirely plausible that 100 million African did not sell their children into slavery, but sold 100 million of ‘the other tribe’ into slavery.
Also, do you think it plausible that white slavers journeyed inland and successfully raided villages, and were able to return to the coast with their human loot? I do not; I think that idea is absurd.
Either you think it plausible, or you think it absurd but wanted the cheap glory of telling me which books to read.
No,you are right. Historical reports say, depending on the area of Africa. It was different tribes that sold conquered tribal peoples to the European slave traders. Who themselves stayed in the coastal towns. Almost never did Europeans take a “direct” part in capturing the slaves. The other great slave catchers were Arab traders. Who did actually go inland and take part in catching the slaves. More slaves were traded by Arab traders to the Middle East from Africa. Than taken to the America’s by Europeans.Its just rarely talked about that trade. Most movies and books concentrate on the slave trade to the America’s. But you might remember the “pretended” moral reason given for the European Empires seizing territories like Sudan was to “stop” the trade in Sudanese slaves to the Middle East.Once they themselves abolished slavery in their colonies. They suddenly grew a conscience and opposed slavery throughout the World.In was well into the 20th Century that slavery was abolished in the Arabian Peninsula. And even today there are reports of slavery in some countries in Africa like Mauritania.
Blood all around. That’s plausible.
“As the quality of immigrant stock declined…”
Meal fills my mouth satisfactorily when I say that phrase out loud and slow. Try it.
Perhaps you think laborers from Central America see the world through the same abstract lens as Thomas Jefferson.
If I want to read an Islamo-Marxist blog, I will read Kurdish media. This website used to be so good when it was just the Saker…..I really wish we could go back to those days when his blog was really reaching people and making a difference.
Old Ez: “…I really wish we could go back to those days when his blog was really reaching people and making a difference.”
Let’s make The Saker great again?
I haven’t been a regular to this site for as long a time as many, but I have visited enough websites to be able to compare and contrast. The Vineyard of The Saker, as experienced by me during the past year, is far better than most, and especially so because it attracts robust and intelligent comments (and for that, I thank the moderators as well).
For me, the selected contributing authors provide additional material for intellectual stimulation and discussion. I find that opinion and comment can be enlightening whether you agree with it or not. My caveat is that an article, or comment, must contain the essential elements of considered thought and analysis.
Do you believe that a nation can be truly great when it relies on exterminating other nations, infiltrating and overthrowing elected leaders around the world and using black people as slaves? I don’t think that is greatness. And my thoughts have nothing to do with communism.
Actually, I am often accused of being a crypto-Muslim and also of being a Leftist. As for reaching people or making a difference… … well, you are welcome to think that we don’t. I never saw that as a popularity contest.
Cheers!
Its not the Saker blog thats chaning its face, its some members here that are showing their true colors.
Old Ez – I have to agree. Problem is there’re simply too few first rate analysts (Auslander, Nasrallah are two) and the Saker wants to include others for scope (I guess). I would prefer he publish the best only. Quality shouldn’t be compromised.
“The Saker” used to be a great source of information and analysis sadly it’s becoming a venting forum for old disgruntled Communists and dare-I-say (some) Cultural-Marxists. But it still can get it’s glory back!
I have nothing against America bashing but if you wanna do it do it with facts not with emotions.
You sound like a troll. Why are you here in the first place If this website according to you is loosing value? In my opinion it has been improving, every week slowly but surely our community is getting bigger and better. It seems like you were offended by this article. Please then argue your perspective and let’s discuss Luke we always do do in the community of The Saker. Don’t come here and attack the character of this community if you disagree with an article that was posted and start insulting The Sakers work. What have you done? Is anyone here reading your blog with all of your informative work on current issues in this world? No,so rather keep your mouth shut and learn and participate constructively.
“I have nothing against America bashing but if you wanna do it do it with facts not with emotions.”
Well, we’ll see about that. Here a site with some historical facts that you may relate to America bashing:
http://mtwsfh.blogspot.fr/
On the main page you’ll find links to periods from the year 1620 up to and including 1952. I’ll list them here:
ALL OF MTWSFH
1620: Lie Number One, The Pilgrims
1763-1783: Lie Number Two, The American Revolution
1783-1799: Lie Number Three, The Miracle of Democracy
1800-1849: Thirty Five Invasions And A Genocide
1850-1859: Invasions, Racism, Slavery and Ethnic Cleansing
1860-1864: The Civil War, But First, Let’s Kill Some Indians And Get Rid of the Jews
1865-1869: The Final Solution To The Indian Problem And The Invasions Keep On Coming
1870-1884: More Invasions, More Racism, More Ethnic Cleansing. Happy 100th Birthday America.
1885-1894: The U.S. Steals Hawaii, Four Thousand Lynchings, Shooting Workers in the Streets and Planning For a Splendid Little War
1895-1899: The Spanish-American War, A Sordid Little War
1900-1904: The Philippines, A Full Dress Rehearsal For Iraq
1905-1909: Treacherous Muslims and Ze Quest For Ze Master Race
1910-1912: Invasions, Apartheid, Lynchings, Censorship And The Quest For The Master Race But No Conspiracies
1913-1914: Destroying Democracy in Mexico and the Federal Reserve Scam
1915-1916: Dangerous Singers, Lynching Jews and Niggers Speaking French!
1917-1918: Now The Great War’s A Good Thing, Fascism In America, SettingThe Stage For Old Adolf Plus The Miracle Of Free Speech
1919-1920: A Summer Of Blood, Lynching Will Brown And J. Edna Hoover Takes The Stage
1921-1922: Setting Up The Hitler Project, Giving Away The Nation’s Oil, Mass Murdering Black Americans And Poisoning All Americans
1923-1924: Destroying Rosewood, Racial Purity In Virginia And Prescott Bush And The Boys Get Old Adolf Started
1925-1926: Legislated Ignorance, Dupont’s Supermen, Hoover In Drag And Murdering Nicaraguans
1927-1928: Sterilizing Americans, Slaughtering Miners, Making Your Boyfriend FBI Assistant Director, Invading China And Dive Bombing Nicaraguans
1929-1930: The Crash of ’29–A Federal Reserve Production, Racist Pseudoscience, Murdering Workers (Again) And The Dulles Brothers Help Old Adolf
1931-1932: Admiring Mussolini, The Depression Ain’t So Bad For Some, Murdering U.S. Veterans And Killing Puerto Ricans And Black People For Science
1933-1934: The Dust Bowl, Gangsters In Pinstripe Suits, Pimping For Hitler, The Merchants of Death And An All-American Coup
1935-1936: Arming The Nazis, Gangsters For Capitalism, Hanging Out With Hitler, Blackmailing Hoover And Truth, Justice Or The American Way
1937-1938: Lebensborn U.S.A., Murdering Workers (Again), Murdering Puerto Ricans (Again), Arming Adolf (Again) And Outlawing The Killer Weed
1939-1940: War’s Just Good Business, Shortselling Czech Stock, Torturing Veterans’ Kids, Crushing Dissent And The Hitler Project Boys Hedge Their Bets
1941-1942: Lobotomizing Rosemary, Shock And Awe, Playing Both Sides Of The War And Concentration Camps In The Land Of The Free
1943-1944: GM Builds Jet Engines For The Nazis, Apartheid In The Workplace, Beating Up Hispanics And The Hitler Project, Plan B
1945: Bullshit At Nuremberg, Kissinger Joins The Boys, Experiment In Hiroshima, Installing Fascists And It’s Not A War Crime When We Do It
1946: Stealing A Hundred Billion Dollars, The Mafia Finances Tricky Dick, Rewarding War Criminals And It Ain’t Over Yet For The Master Race
1947: Thoughtcrime In America, Nazi Immigration, Subverting Democracy, No Nigras On The Freedom Train And Mickey Mouse Is A Commie Rat
1948: Trying To Kill Robeson, Promoting Fascism, Mass Murdering Koreans, Lebensraum For Jews And Spying On Everyone
1949: Bombing China, Lying To The World, Destroying Democracy, Silencing Uppity Niggers And Forrestal Goes Flying
1950: The CIA’s European Union, Torturing Puerto Ricans, Mass Murdering Koreans, The Red Scare Hoax and George Orwell Was Right
1951: Prescott Bush Gets His Nazi Prize, No Nuremberg Principles Here, Germ Warfare And What Mafia?
1952: The Ike Project, Torturing Albizu Campos, Murdering For Bananas And J. Edna And Clydie Go On Vacation.
Enjoy!
Jac
Ghassan Kadi wrote:
“Whilst it might be true to say that in the 1950’s – 1970’s or so, America might have had a living standard that was higher than most other nations, the standard is shrinking at an alarming rate.”
In other words, what the Russians see on American TV shows and in movies has next to nothing to do with the living standards of most Americans. How most Americans live, work, and think according to Hollywood has little to do with reality, but the Russians think everyone in America is happy, healthy, and wealthy.
Are the living standards in Russia continuing to rise. The American living standard has been falling since the early 1970’s (after Nixon took the USA off the gold standard and when de-industrialization began). Germany lowered wages, but it never de-industrialized. Therefore, it would be ideal to see Russia achieve the same living standards as found in Germany.
American factories have been relocating to slave labor camps in China and in Mexico for several decades. Would the Russians enjoy trying to survive on imports while enduring unlimited immigration and having the gay agenda forced upon them. Perhaps there would not be so many people trying to leave Russia to chase after an illusory American ideal if they were to know the truth.
Yes, America has projected a false image of what life is like for most people in the USA, showing the power of tv, pop videos, and movies as propaganda tools.
From the Belly of the Death Star:
Most Americans know that we are in trouble but the wishful thinking, denial phase of the process can be summed up by what a neighbor wistfully said, ” I think things are getting better,” ( And when I tried to hide my incredulity, added defensively ) “Well, we are Trying.”
Oh, yes, it counts to Try and in some alternative worlds you even get a prize for it.
In this world, however, the current political theater in the USA masks a death process occurring on many, many levels. Let us hope the resurrection comes with some redemption.
‘Who, exactly, raided these African villages and kidnapped men, women, boys, and girls?’ @james speaks
Well, it could have been about every sea using nation in the world. No one has a clean sheet on this. In fact, the Arab and North African slave traders were the worst.
Good article. The USA is broke but we all look the other way. Like the Deutsche Bank, that is even less solvent than Lehmann Brothers in 2008, but we all look the other way and rely on ‘hope forces’ doing the magic. We can thank Obama for that, he made more debt than all former presidents combined.
Let me add a fragment of George Carlin, stating that the only thing Americans are good at, is ‘bombing brown people’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDw-zFFhFgc
That military might worries me. The big buildup of NATO forces in Poland and the Baltics, with military parading at the Russia border is dangerous. And this is meant to give a message against ‘Russian agression’. When soldiers are parading at the border, thousands of miles from their own countries, then who is being agressive here? I have never heard any Russian politician or general proclaiming that they want to invade the Baltics. The only one that has stated that, was Zbigniew Brzezinski and then it is raised to ‘truth’. The fact that most troops are concentrated in Lithuania and Poland is at my guess no coincidence. In between is Kaliningrad. I do hope that NATO is not considering to take away the Baltic fleet haven, as they have tried to take away the Sevastopol haven. Russian troops are now on hair-trigger alert, and just an ‘incident’ can have devastating results for all of us. They are playing with fire.
Finally, an analysis of the latest ‘strategy’ of Brzezinski: http://katehon.com/article/zbigniew-brzezinskis-american-new-strategy-towards-russia-and-china
In short: expext more wars.
Mr. Gadi you write: “But when it comes to military matters, what is pertinent is that most, if not all, American military ventures have failed to achieve their objectives. After reaching a stale-mate in Korea, a total defeat in Vietnam, after two decades into the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, America is still incapable of gaining the upper hand on the ground.”
It seems to me that the Deep State has achieved its objectives which was perpetual war, profits for the military-industrial-security complex and subduing a nation to their will (their own people as well as their vassals).
The United States (as opposed to the America which is a continent) was never great – blood spilt for profit does not make one nation great.
“But when it comes to military matters, what is pertinent is that most, if not all, American military ventures have failed to achieve their objectives”
That is debatable. I feel disposed to believe that as long as the West in general and the US in particular remain the well-fed parasites that they are the objectives, in fact, are achieved. Add to this also the overt Zionazi joy and delight in mayhem, squalor, violence, and the misery of people and it becomes pretty obvious that unending wars are highly pleasurable and satisfactory to their instigators.
America turned out some wonderful homoeopathic practitioners – world class – who happened to save and improve many, many lives. I agree with a lot of the article but saying that it “has never been a great nation that has spread knowledge and wisdom to the rest of the world.” is going too far.
“I agree with a lot of the article but saying that it “has never been a great nation that has spread knowledge and wisdom to the rest of the world.” is going too far.”
The nation itself has indeed not spread much more than disinformation and chaos, it were some bright American individuals who have done good work for humanity, often hindered by their government, whether directly or indirectly.
Think of people like Royal Rife, if the ‘great’ nation would have helped instead of destroyed him, America and the world would now be a place of healthy people. There are countless other examples of cases like his. The same is true in Europe as well, and for the same reasons.
Old pilots always used to joke: “Hi, I’m from the FAA and I’m here to help you. ;-)
By all accounts, the future of humanity for the 21st century and even the next millennium is in Eurasia. The West had their chance, and they squandered it.
Syria and Ukraine is where the Uni-polar world is dying, and a new paradigm shift for a Multi-polar world is being born.
So, no matter how much the Jewish-Christian Zionists and Talmudic maniacs huff, puff, maneuver, plot , scheme, subvert, kill and conspire, its all but over for the good ole days for the west.
The noose has come full circle for the citizens of the United States(now with the placement of Trump), who were effectively sleeping at the wheel while the diabolically cunning and deceptive Talmudic adherents seized power gradually, like the frog placed in ever increasing heating water and ends up boiled alive because it couldn’t interpret what was happening. America is cooked.
The influx of white migrants into America…</I.
They were English moving to the colonies on land purchased from the injuns
One sees the fundamental error in this attempt to conflate the Colonists with the invaders from the South.
The white men who wrote the Preamble to the Constitution knew they were creating a country for themselves and their prosperity.
As for Lincoln, he hated the idea black and white were equal and he never stopped trying to get them to agree to be deported to Latin America and work as coal miners.
Lincoln was a world class war criminal who destroyed state sovereignty (Karl Marx backed the northern war of invasion agains the south) and while he may be an object of worship to those not American, he git wha he deserved – and ABS does not mean the huge statue in Washington
Ghassan, not just black and indians. The railways were built by indentured Chinese coolies. During the nineteenth century many immigrants paid their fare or other debts by being bondsmen: 7 years of servitude to your master. Many people served more than one term. And after emancipation, black who showed up with no job (unemployment was illegal) were put in jail, and the person who “redeemed” them by paying their fine, could haul them off for 7 years of bondship, to pay the debt.
America has never been the land of equality and freedom that is held up as an historical ideal.
Look at a map of America in the nineteenth century: America had war with Spain (Florida) and Mexico (Texas to California), 3× with Canada, “bought” the West and Alaska, not to mention Panama, Guam, the Phillipines, Hawaii, Porto Rico, etc. During the nineteenth century America exercised the Monroe doctrine (central and south America was the back yard) and they interfered politically all the time in on the side of the owners’ class or their own business interest. It started in Haïti, just after Independance, the founding fathers were afraid the example of the slave who freed themselves and established their own state would contaminate the slaves in America.
America has always been a story of conquest: a new continent, new resource, and like the Roman Empire, continual expansion.
What was upmost in the leadership’s mind after WW2? Worried about the economy flattening out, hence the forced open door policy in the rest of the world, to expand the “market”. The atomic bomb was used basically to reinforce this policy.
After WW2 America has never had another war or declared a casus belli, just interminable interference in the rest of the globe. Like the Roman Empire, it is expansion or stagnation.
What about exports? One of the more profitable American exports is ironically its culture!! Also armaments and CIA type plotting, with 800 military bases in 140 countries, for which the rest of the world pays because America prints the world currency.
Was America ever great? Before the advent of TV education was the highest value. Libraries and schools were considered the chief end of public life (after all, there has to be some ultimate end). Now Americans are the most entertained and dumbed down people imaginable. In the nineteenth century and beyond, America became a great economy by paying its workers high wages so they could afford the products of their own manufacture. Yes there were some great things about America, but much of that is in the rear view mirror. America has lost any notion of a common cause or a cultural social imperative. But for fifty years all the loud bleating about freedom and setting an example is just shouting down the abject emptiness and hypocrisy.
I am puzzled that the media, etc., have failed to note that Trump is just the latest to claim he can promote a revival of America. Reagan used a similar slogan: “Morning in America” (though I forget which year that was—’80 or ’84). And you can actually go back as far as JFK, with his “Get America Moving Again” slogan (if I remember it right) in 1960. And voters fall for it every time.
To fix what’s wrong, we have to face what’s wrong and to understand it. That doesn’t happen. Hence the unending wishful thinking.
Whilst sharing chocolate cake with Xi Xinping, Donald Trump demonstrated exactly how his administration planned to make America great again — supposedly launching 59 cruise missiles at a diused Syrian airforce base.
Then we heard crickets for a-while. The Russians were also relatively circumspect and the reasons for this are understandable given their understanding of who controls most of the planet.
You, dear reader, are a tax cow. Chattel. A surplus-deplorable. Nothing more and infinitely less if they decide it is so. And they have decided. Today it is America and Europe’s turn to experience what Russia and China experienced during the 20th century.
Donald Trump is Tsar Ncolas 2.0 and 100 years later the Bolshevik revolution is coming to Main Street USA.
The Zionists have promised and Trump will deliver. That’s how you make America great again — kill anyone who disagrees.
Truthfully, it didn’t really happened, the attack on Syria was entirely falsified but the show was convincing to infiinitely credulous plebes who still subscribe to the falsified memes of consensus reality.
Xi and his fellow Chinese communists decided to confirm their long standing partnership with the Anglo-Zionist oligarchy and hire none other than Erik Prince, he of Blackwater/Xe fame and current chairman of Hong Kong-based Frontier Services Group (FSG), to build two operational bases in China (read that again), one in northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the other in southwest Yunnan Province — obstensibly to guard the Silk Road but more truthfully to guard the long standing opium trade which has empowered the present day criminal elite of all nations but especially of the US and China.
Beijing Hires Princely Fox to Guard their OBOR Henhouse
http://journal-neo.org/2017/04/30/beijing-hires-princely-fox-to-guard-their-obor-henhouse/
China’s leaders and the oligarchy which controls it, as mentioned — are direct decendants of Chinese opium traders who collaborated first with Britain and then with America, to import opium to China because the British in particular had nothing the Chinese wanted to buy and the British Empire was sufferening a tremendous balance of payments deficit in the first half of the 19th century. Roughlly 130 million Chinese, by some estimates, were killed by these gangsters in the 1800’s alone century alone and these blood soaked criminals later worked together to overthrow ancient Imperial China and later Nationalist China, killing hundreds of millions more, to make way for the great Zionist social experiment known variously as Marxism, Communism, Maoism and so on. Russia experienced a similar experiment under the Bolsheviks, as did smaller countries like Canbodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The present day Chinese oligarchy owes a tremendous debt of gratitude to the Anglo-American elite going back almost 200 years, and which recently helped make China the rising industrial and economic power it is today.
So yes, America wil be great again, because those who invent reality have pre written history and now all they need if for you to dig your own grave and build your own death camp.
Somehow I don’t think any of you get it. Yet you often say it obliquely. It is not that the U.S. was ever a “great” country in humanitarian terms. It was always a place where newly arrived immigrants were free to grab what they could–with moral justification or not. Sometimes this had positive results and other times negative ones. Its greatness, if any, lies in the historical fact that for those who could it was an opportunity to both build and plunder on the grand scale. As such it has been a wonder for many to marvel.
The real issue is that the U.S. is really a conquered nation. A natural consequence of the basic motive above. Later arrivals have exploited the earlier ones. Now The neocons have mastered it all and behind a pseudo democracy rule a plundered land and preside over a great military machine. One which you can argue is hollowed out by that plunder– if you will. Still likely strong enough to inflict major damage.
The relevant question is not greatness, real or imagined, but the prospects of the neocons and their ilk for victory or defeat. This is likely the next age where with reason or not someone will bet that they can win it all if they but exert themselves; no matter the claimed risk.
Napoleon tried it and so did Hitler. We have yet to give a name to the next candidate for the title of world emperor but one must expect that he will come. What do you suggest doing about it?
Since 1978 the United States has been celebrating a rabbi’s birthday although they call it “Education and Sharing Day, USA.”
Here’s what Trump had to say regarding the day:
“Education and Sharing Day recognizes the remarkable efforts of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, to use values-based education to drive our Nation’s children toward the American Dream. …”
But,
“Unbeknown to the vast majority of US citizens, but available for consultation at the US Library of Congress, this statute declares that the “Seven Noahide Laws” (from the Jewish Babylonian Talmud) are the principles upon which the USA was founded, and that it is America’s responsibility to transmit these “ethical values” to future generations in the United States and the world. Regarding these so-called “ethical values”, for your information, the Seven Noahide Laws set up a two-tier judiciary, one for Jews and one for non-Jews.
For example, under the section “Laws Before Sinai”, one learns that, with few exceptions, the breaking or transgression of the Noahide Laws is punishable by death by decapitation. Blasphemy, idolatry, adultery fall into this category. Furthermore a Jew may rob, rape or kill a Gentile with impunity. But woe betide the hapless, blasphemous or adulterous Gentile or the non-Jew accused of slaying, despoiling or sexually aggressing a Jew.”
Read more at the Oceania Saker:
http://www.vineyardsaker.co.nz/2017/04/19/yahwism-the-cult-at-the-heart-of-the-judeosphere-and-the-global-terror-trade-by-paul-matthews/
Text of US Congressional Bill:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-joint-resolution/104/text
If we want to understand AngloZionist mindset and methods we need to look no further. Israel Sahak in his “Jewish History” has provided ample examples of Talmudist propensity for hair-splitting, twisting words, making white black and black, white. So since 1978, every year, by law, Americans are made to celebrate the occasion of their mental entrapment by the Machiavellians, men who are good with words, men like Schneerson and his successors, who pull the levers of power in good ole USA. “Make America great again” indeed.
A couple of points…
You didn’t mention how the Africans came into the story of the US.
European migration to the US was high after the depression, yet since the 60s when the Epicentre of cultural development and societial improvement returned to Europe, the former very much England, the migration of Europeans to the US has dropped dramatically. In their place have come poorer folk from Asia and Latin america, migrating mainly to escape ever worsening poverty.
Essentially, Europeans have not been moving to the US en masse for many decades…
Sovereign debt is $20 trn, give or take a few billion. This is over 100% of GDP. This would not be a serious problem by itself. After all Japan has a sovereign debt which is 250% of GDP. However in addition to the unfunded liabilities there are also corporate and household debts to factor in. This would basically double or treble outstanding debt levels.
But of greater importance is the trend line, and this shows that the US is simply going deeper and deeper into debt without any possibility of paying those debts back. This means a default, either a straight repudiation of all existing debt, or a default by the back door: hyperinflation.
This is absolutely inevitable and there will be global repercussions.
Like all previous empires the USA has become overstretched, and like all empires it has been bankrupting itself trying to hold together a system which is visibly disintegrating. Unfortunately the ensuing black hole that was once the USA may well pull the rest of the world into the abyss it has created for itself.
As a non-American it is hard for me to see just how the project went so badly wrong.Just think of all the many many advantages the country had over the rest of the world to start with and then think how after WW11 it also had the world`s reserve currency to feed off. America should have and should have been the best country to live in and be born into in the world instead of what it has turned out to be. It never truly gained independence from GB , in the financial sense ,and after WW1 took over it`s Empire-playing role in the world using the same violent methods. The Saker has described very well the Anglo -Zionist -American phenomena which has always seen world hegemony as it`s goal and ever intended either Britain or America to be ” great ” on their own but the elites of both would rule the world.
So , that is where the US of A has gone wrong in my opinion and it has been planned just like it is now every step of the way , it is all deliberate .
Spot on very interesting perspective.
Make America Great again?
America has always grated.
The greatness of America lies in the concepts embodied in the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution, not in its imperfect execution of those ideas. The grand Republic envisioned by our founders is a work in progress, no easy feat to achieve considering the revolutionary ideas put forth just two centuries ago.
The slogan should read “Make America The Way It Was Intended To Be”.
Nobody said it was going to be fast and easy.
Fast, slow? I dare say never. The swamp has made it impossible.