“LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES AND OTHER WEEDS”

When those who present themselves as the best end up being worse than those they point to

 

By Danny Smith

Contemporary generations, and in particular those of the last thirty years, have been endlessly hearing the mantras of “freedom”, “democracy” and “human rights” coming from the self-proclaimed leader of the New World Order declared by US President George H. Bush after the end of the 1991 Gulf War. As soon as this global “Status Quo” was declared, they began to see what those words meant for Washington and the real intentions behind them.

Only the so-called "liberal Democrats" support this and consequently, they struggle to maintain this narrative. But the harsh reality has been knocking down one by one their simulated respect for these values ​​that the West (USA, Great Britain and the EU) claimed to defend. It is not necessary to talk about the fruits of his foreign policy. We saw very clearly how the US police forces have murdered -and continue to murder- people for the sole reason of their skin color (George Floyd's case) or their Latino origin (Adam Toledo's case). Let's not name the aberrations of the torture camps such as "Guantánamo" in Cuba, "Abu-Graib" in Iraq and twenty other similar facilities around the world dedicated to Muslims who did not adhere to Washington's story.

When we hear cries from Washington against the brutality of other "regimes" against their citizens or that their rights are not respected or simply and simply they sin by not being democratic, we are witnesses of mere and empty political actions loaded with hypocrisy that only seek political gain and economic.

The concerns of Western politicians are only impositions and manipulations. The results that came behind each of the occasions that Washington and its allies have used these discursive strategies are controversial and that is why their current concerns about Ukraine fall under understandable disrepute. We could make an extensive list of inconsistencies and bestialities that contradict his flowery speeches, but just by looking closely at what is happening in Eurasia today, we see how those issues are recreated in Ukraine.

Within this political "tribe" of "liberal democrats" all kinds of specters are gathered that use the same blanket, trying to cover up the dirtiness of the sectors to which they belong. Ask yourself, but what does freedom have to do with interventionism, democracy with hegemonism and the exercise of torture with human rights? For their common sense, the answer is clear, but for these characters with this flashy badge, it is not so, and when they try to explain, they go off on a tangent.

To speak of "liberal democracy" is to speak of "globalism" which is nothing more than the ultimate goal of Anglo-Saxon hegemonism headed by the US. To do this, the "end of history" that Francis Fukuyama cried out for in the early 1990s means the destruction of nation states and the global digitization of the economy for the benefit of a global elite (World Economic Forum -WEF-) with its center... in Washington. and Brussels (NATO).

People with common sense and who maintain healthy thinking, who live without the need to harm others to benefit financially, there is no possible synonymy between these meanings. But for the intellectuals and philosophers who work to elaborate doctrines and theses that wash the face of those sectors that need to harm others (especially if they are not Westerners) to obtain economic benefits, the theories and fabrications take on a philosophical aspect and in some cases of metaphysical and spiritual scope.

The censorship that has been imposed today on one part of the conflict is also not something related to democracy and much less to freedom of expression, but we see how these "liberal democracies" have cut off access to the media and sources of information. under the pretext that they are only propaganda channels. But we know that this is just a childish excuse to try to silence various inconvenient issues that the Russians have discovered on the ground in the last week and that especially involve the US.

Biden's claims to present himself as the leader of the current crisis (despite the propaganda) have fallen into a resounding failure. The sanctions against Russia, despite their aggressiveness, have not had the expected effect and are only deepening the global economic crisis, hitting the EU directly. If that wasn't enough, he tries to extort money from China with the same threat without realizing that it could bankrupt the entire financial system starting with Wall Street. This also puts on the table the odious tactic of "financial terrorism" that the West uses to soften positions.

Here as in all previous wars, the issue is money and power; the allegations to a defense of human rights or respect for international law are mere gibberish without content.

Exactly on March 18, 2003, twelve years ago, US troops launched their brutal invasion of Iraq. Isn't that ironic? In that case, the "international community" -an entity that still does not have a definition- closed its mouths and the media tried to disguise in the most scandalous way what was an open violation of international law. That helped the US to occupy that country and devastate it in such a way that more than a million and a half Iraqis were killed by this situation. And where were the sanctions for Washington and its representatives? The "liberal democrats" far from being scandalized, in those days applauded enthusiastically.

Nor have we seen a similar echo about the intervention in Libya and Syria and its intimate link in the recruitment, training and arming of armed gangs such as "Al Nusrah" (a subsidiary of Al Qaeda) and "Daesh" (ISIS) that have been detected participating on the side of the Ukrainian side (mobilized by Turkey). That the media says nothing and that much of that information has been deleted from the internet does not mean that it has not happened.

Today the “liberal democrats” believe that they are the crusaders in a cause that Vladimir Putin personifies, but as the saying goes “they only try to cover the whole forest with a finger”. Neither they are better than the supporters of the Russian president nor is Putin moved by their propaganda.

What has happened serves to rethink not only the global security system (monopolized by the US) but also to rethink a truly impartial international criminal jurisdiction without hateful exceptions.