Empire Planners

[G]overnment officials have an amazing capacity not to learn. Their “solution” is
always to show resolve through military and/or police action. Nothing is “won,”
nothing is achieved, and the main product is more blood in the streets. —William Astore

As history wears on, I admit to being pretty amazed how many initiatives the Powers That Be cook up are based on old recipes. Thus, liberalism has morphed into neoliberalism, colonialism has become neocolonialism, monarchy and aristocracy have been exchanged (some places anyway) by corporate overlords, and slavery has … well … not changed very much. People may not be property anymore (exceptions hidden from view); they are instead indebted and indentured for entire lifetimes. The pretense is that one can lift oneself out of slavery and buy one’s freedom if only enough money is marshaled and paid to one’s de facto owners, but impediments are everywhere and notoriously difficult to overcome unless one is connected and/or protected somehow.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has been in the news recently following its annual meeting, which this time around included a serious dressing down by members of the Trump Administration who asserted, for better or worse, that American sovereignty and interests will no longer be coordinated with or subservient to multinational organizations such as WEF, WHO, UN, and NATO. If the U.S. can make withdrawal from international agreements stick beyond the current administration, I would be surprised. More likely they will either be undone by the next administration (or the next swing of the political pendulum) or succeed in uniting the world (all those middle powers suffering mightily under depredations of one or more great powers) against the U.S. But the real surprise going largely unnoticed is that these groups and the U.S. are nonetheless busy enacting plans for world governance and Western domination formulated in the first half of the 20th century. The names and details of initiatives change over time as the public gets wind of maniacal concentration of power and forced forfeiture of freedoms. It’s frankly amazing that warmed-over plans so commonly stem from a relatively brief time period (immediately before and after WWII) when Axis powers had been defeated and a good portion of the world map was soft and malleable, open to being carved up into spheres of influence according to the desires of the victorious Allied powers. The two principal examples of which I’m aware are the Technate of America and the Greater Israel Project. Others lurk beneath the surface.

Empires throughout recorded history rise and fall with some inevitability, those the intervals are uneven. Many books and analyses have been written on the subject and I have no particular insights into the megalomania that would prompt individuals or organizations to seek unobstructed dominance over large portions of the map. Two individuals whose successes were legion but legacies are now regarded with disdain are Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. Faded or lost political and/or economic entities include ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the Dutch West India Company and (British) East India Company, the British Empire, and now the unacknowledged American Empire. Attempts to shore up and reassert the American Empire are clearly underway, many of which appear to be aggressive, overweening, and flatly illegal according to international law. Remains to be seen if the American Empire can withstand larger cycles of decline and social disintegration all pointing to eventual collapse.