{"id":343116,"date":"2023-03-10T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=343116"},"modified":"2023-03-09T05:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T10:34:23","slug":"u-s-to-the-world-well-rule-you-or-well-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2023\/03\/u-s-to-the-world-well-rule-you-or-well-kill-you\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to the World: We\u2019ll Rule You, Or We\u2019ll Kill You"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Eric Zuesse, The Duran<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

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Anyone who has read the many official and unofficial U.S. Government statements about the U.S. Government\u2019s relationship to the rest of the world knows that that Government\u2019s attitude equates competition as being hostility, and so demands that every\u00a0other<\/i>\u00a0nation will ally itself to the U.S. Government, or else will be an enemy of that Government.<\/p>\n

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U.S. President George W. Bush stated it this way, in a 16 February 2002 speech to U.S. troops about \u201cthe coalition the Secretary of State\u2019s working on\u201d at that time, a \u201ccoalition\u201d that would \u201cstand squarely with the United States in the defense of freedom,\u201d and which was otherwise undefined except to say that any nation which would\u00a0not<\/i>\u00a0join this undefined coalition with the U.S. Government would\u00a0thereby<\/i>\u00a0\u201cstand with tyranny\u201d: \u201cEither you\u2019re with us, or you\u2019re against us<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u201d he threateningly said to any Government that would NOT subordinate themselves to \u201cstand squarely with the United States in the defense of freedom\u201d as the U.S. Government might subsequently come to define what that means. He said this after the 7 October 2001, to 17 December 2001, U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, but\u00a0before<\/i>\u00a0the 20 March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n

And, then, there was the\u00a028 May 2014 statement by U.S. President Barack Obama, to graduating cadets at the West Point Military Academy<\/span><\/a>, telling them whom they would be fighting against when they graduate:<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come. \u2026 Russia\u2019s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China\u2019s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us, and governments seek a greater say in global forums. \u2026 It will be your generation\u2019s task to respond to this new world.<\/i><\/p>\n

He was telling the U.S. military that America\u2019s economic competition, against the BRICS nations, is a key matter for America\u2019s military, and not only for America\u2019s private corporations; that U.S. taxpayers fund America\u2019s military at least partially in order to impose the wills and extend the wealth of the stockholders in America\u2019s corporations abroad; and that the countries against which America is in economic competition are \u201cdispensable\u201d but America \u201cis and remains the one indispensable nation.\u201d ONLY America is \u201cindispensable\u201d; all OTHER nations are \u201cdispensable.\u201d This, supposedly, also authorizes America\u2019s weapons and troops to fight against countries whose \u201cgovernments seek a greater say in global forums.\u201d In other words, he was telling these future generals: they would be tasked to stop the growing economies from growing faster than America\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Unlike Bush, he wasn\u2019t saying that America\u2019s enemies were Governments that wouldn\u2019t join its \u201ccoalition\u201d that would be \u201cin the defense of freedom\u201d but that the enemies would instead be \u201crising middle classes compete with us, and governments seek a greater say in global forums. \u2026 It will be your generation\u2019s task to respond to this new world.\u201d He was addressing America\u2019s future generals and telling them that nations such as that \u2014 and Russia, and China \u2014 are America\u2019s enemies, whom they will be tasked to conquer.<\/p>\n

The latest official embodiment of this it\u2019s-our-way-or-the-highway official U.S. Government attitude is the 6 February 2023\u00a0\u201cANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT OF THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY\u201d<\/span><\/a>, which identifies China as America\u2019s #1 enemy and Russia as America\u2019s #2 enemy. It says:<\/p>\n

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by Eric Zuesse, The Duran: Anyone who has read the many official and unofficial U.S. Government statements about the U.S. Government\u2019s relationship to the rest of the world knows that that Government\u2019s attitude equates competition as being hostility, and so demands that every\u00a0other\u00a0nation will ally itself to the U.S. Government, or else will be an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[150152,150151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}