Saddam's violent removal by the US was as much a proxy war against Europe's rise and that of the Euro as it was about slapping down yet another cocky Middle Eastern ruler who imagined he could grow a brain. The effort backfired because the intention to steal Iraqi oil to pay for all the expanses could not be realized, thanks to Iraqi resistance. That the US had failed to factor in the inevitable resistance is quite astonishing, but the current US Administration appears to be somewhat IQ-challenged.
Instead of getting cheap oil, the American invasion directly resulted in the opposite effect coupled with further soaring of America’s national debt. A ‘bad investment’, as someone coldly put it.
And this time there was no Kuwaiti or Saudi promise to cover the US military costs. 'Rent-a-mob-to-control-Saddam' was no longer the Kuwait/Saudi policy.
Increasing Russian dissent is also a direct reaction to the same US militarism and oil-grabbing tendencies. The US' war and fear mongering drive to protect its 'interest' is not driven by concern for interests on loans. It is a concrete, unabashed form of militarism based on a war economy and driven by a deluded corporate drive for world hegemony and the control of oil resources. A project that is already doomed to fail, as the US economy heads toward self-waterboarding; drowning in an ocean of debt with inadequate hard production capacity to underwrite the dollar's underserved value.
In sum, the US financial sector has diminishing influence in a multi-polar world, the appearance of which appears to have escaped most Americans or major media organs. The current US warmongering is little more than the desperate cries of a dying empire too arrogant to seek medical help. The sooner America wakes up to the reality of a new world order, the easier it will be for us all. For now, most of us in Iran pray that there will be enough enlightened American brothers and sisters who care enough for humanity to make sure that there is no more war inflicted on the Middle East region for the sake of dollars and oil. We didn’t expect this from the land of the free. Some of us, including me, still believe that there is hope.
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