When the empire plays the role of tactical peacemaker... What next?
All the world wants peace in Ukraine, but will it be authentic and what comes after?
As long as the US is the world’s leading warfare state and the world community its hostage, its role as tactical “peacemaker” must be challenged.
Recent events suggest that world peace is becoming increasingly elusive. Too many words have been spoken and written, while decisive action and fealty to the truths of our times are scarce. Where prevarication prevails, peacemakers must rise and assert themselves at the highest levels of diplomacy. The fate of nations often hinges on the battle between altruistic diplomacy, with its commitment to the greater good, and devious connivance, driven by secrecy and self-interest.
As situations grow increasingly dire, messaging must become progressively more explicit, targeting the very core of the problem. The forces driving the vortex of self-destruction must be clearly and succinctly identified.
It must first be clearly understood America exists as two commingled entities. First there is the Republic which is constituted for the last 260 years and is the union of 50 states.
The Empire seated in Washington operates as an agency for waging war and asserting hegemony over the world. It wields illegitimate power, both over the Republic and the global stage, acting parasitically upon the Republic. True to the cyclical nature of empires, its decline has become precipitous—dangerous and unpredictable in its fall.
There is nothing exceptional about the decline and fall of empires, as five have collapsed in the past century.
The birth of the American empire took place during the post-war decades of the 1950s and 1960s. While numerous events signaled its emergence, only the comprehensive hindsight of history reveals how a powerful and affluent democracy transformed into a warfare state—an updated iteration of the defunct British Empire that collapsed with World War II. The American Dream was ultimately replaced by the American Nightmare: a cycle of endless wars and the plundering of the Republic to fund them.
While some empires decline gradually, others collapse abruptly and with great violence. We are now witnessing the reckless arrogance of an empire in full collapse, stubbornly refusing to acknowledge the transient nature of the universe in which we exist.
History is marked by pivotal moments where certain events have profound consequences for the future. One of the most significant was the official collapse of the USSR in 1991. With the clash of civilizations at an end and the Cold War over, the world stood on the brink of tremendous potential—a peace dividend and the promise of a new, more just global order.
This was not to be, as the empire had become deeply embedded. Unelected ideologues and powerful lobbies controlled the levers of power, and it was a triumphalist moment for them. They seized the opportunity to consolidate the empire and pursue absolute global domination. Where peace should have prevailed, a subsequent coup d’état gave the empire even greater momentum. The event of 9/11 served merely as a reassertion of the empire’s ongoing war against the world.
Even so, historian Chalmers Johnson and others who followed, documented the empire’s decline. Johnson’s trilogy, 2000, 2003, 2007, stands as a seminal account of the true state of the Republic and its entwined empire."
Triumphalism is an unsustainable arrogance.
As long as the empire is determined to wage war on the world, with the focus on taking down China it cannot be trusted as an honest broker or capable of binding agreements.
It is and always will be the nature of empires to be absolutely ruthless, with no friends or allies, serving only its self-interest, disdaining the rule of law and human rights. This is the record of history. A foot note to history is that empires are the most dangerous and capricious in the desperation of decline.
As the present fiasco persists it will take decades to reconcile. There are no quick fixes. Decisions made now are going to echo into the future like the Post WW ll era and after the collapse of the USSR in1991. We are at another critical historic pivot point.
In Ukraine the US must “manipulate" the peace. It cannot admit Russia has won the war, nor can it allow terms of peace that would allow Russia seen as the winner. Russia has had long standing terms for peace dating back to a negotiated settlement that was sabotaged by British prime minister Boris Johnson in April of 2022.
As long as the US is the world’s leading warfare state and the world community its hostage, its role as tactical peacemaker must be rigorously challenged.
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And, I'd add, citizens on the ground in the western world, need to do all they can to stabilize their local societies and economies as this slow motion train wreck happens. We need to build on the ashes of what is being destroyed by the empire and its allies.
Knowing how the US and UK have always been DIRTY PLAYERS...I would not hold my breath. Being like minded...no wonder they get along so well.