George F. Kennan identified America's dilemma

Diplomat, scholar, and statesman, Kennan saw the dilemma explaining America today.

The above map comes from MAPPORN and is one of many projections of how a new map of Eurasia would look. The goal of the USA is to reduce Russia to bite size chunks and run it just like it runs the EU as a collection of puppet states. This map is also akin to the carving up of the Middle East by the British over a hundred years ago.

Historians attribute many of the problems haunting the ME today originate with the arbitrary carving up of the Ottoman empire with out regard for complex ethnicities; laying the way for the future strife we see today. It is unlikely this map actually originated with the UN ?

Manufacuring strife has become the way of the world.

George F. Kennan(1904-2005)

George F. Kennan can be considered the godfather of US foreign policy, though his wisdom and judgments were subverted by his contemporaries and successors. Keenan was a diplomat, an ambassador to Russia, a Director of US Policy and Planning, and the author of books on the critical issues of his time.

As war mongers sunk their teeth deeper and deeper into the American psyche Keenan and many others were rendered dissidents in their own country. Some like, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King paid with their lives.

Keenan in his capacity as Director of Policy and Planning was part of the task force that founded the CIA. Where it was conceived as an intelligence agency it quickly became a hive of covert operations under its first director Allan Dulles, directed at subverting and overthrowing foreign governments he and brother John Foster found not to their liking in their secret war on the world. In later years Keenan was appalled at the sinister role the CIA came to play in US foreign policy.

He we was mortified when under Clinton and Bush NATO expanded Eastward. He like so many other experts and diplomats saw this expansion would inevitably result in the war we are seeing today.

Kennan’ golden insight has been with me for a very long time, dating back to when my political awareness was in its infancy. It is a comment that is so pungent it sticks with you— and one of those insights becoming seminal to one’s political and historic mindset. As I was to learn in later years he had many profound and sagacious insights into the nature of his home land.

When countries choose empire over nationhood and true democracy, its patriots become dissidents. Kennan became a dissident in his own country as America marched down the road to empire building and perpetual war.

In the quote following Kennan identified the dilemma facing America, then and now as it goes to the very essence of the present world crisis:

Kennan saw the 50/6.3 dilemma the US faced and it would be become the essential building block of US foreign policy. For all its wealth and prosperity it had a huge population deficit compared to Eurasia and would have to be skillful in holding its own as a major world power.

Keenan rightly pointed out the altruism and benefaction the US could extend to the rest of the would be limited by its minority position.

Was there a middle ground that would be just and fair for all?

The issue had already been decided as the US had already established its credentials as a ruthless interventionist imperialist. It would use its WW ll legacy as a springboard for global hegemony. Any suggestion of altruism toward the rest of the world was a moot point as Washington’s reply was to start a Cold War with the USSR, the gratuitous bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, wars in Korea and Vietnam( both of which it lost). With many more to follow.

America’s conclusive response was to show absolutely no altruism or benfaction toward the rest of the world; rather it would hold the world incontempt and recklessly exploit it. To justify its hegemonic ambitions it would lay claim to being the “exceptional” and “indispensable” nation to justify its Napoleonic megalomania. Building the world’s largest military and maintaining NATO are the blunt instruments at its disposal.

Where the US could have practiced the win-win reciprocal expansionism China is now practicing where both parties benefit, it opted for jackboot-gunboat-winner-take-all imperialism, sacrificing its democracy and population to its warfare state.

Decades later we are the seeing of the leveling of the playing field. The USA is a faltering empire and Eurasia has awoken and is insisting on its rightful place in the world.

To think of all the incalculable strife the world has gone through to get where we are today at the dawning of a more just new world order: or sinking into the tar pit of global fascism?

Are we going to let a destitute empire hold the world hostage to its violent megalomania?

Kennan is only one of a very long list of American sages pushed into obscurity by the warfare state. In his 1983 book The Nuclear Delusion he addresses the plague of nuclear weaponry which we still have not addressed, but only exacerbated. It will remain unresolved until such time as we construct a new world order that recognizes our pitiful indifference to resolving the issue. Where there is no concerted political will there is never a solution.

Are we so inured to war, violence and militarism we cannot see alternatives?

Kennan also observed that as long as we constantly prepare for war it is inevitable. We are slaves to it and the cretinous ideologues who perpetrate it.

Is there an emancipation pending?