CRISIS ENGINEERING

Why do many of the problems that arise in countries have an artificial and deliberate origin? When the crisis is a fabulous business

 

By Sidney Hey

The bursting of the mortgage bubble in 2008, born out of a gigantic systemic scam that caused a great recession, not only ruined thousands of American families but also dragged down all the banks, companies and governments living in the shadow of policies dictated by Washington. It was hoped that the arrival of the Democratic administration with Barak Obama as president would solve this problem. He financially bailed out the banks, the same banks that had manufactured this gigantic swindling bubble.

This puts on the table the evidence that the US government not only serves the establishment but is also a central part of the global problems that it then pretends to solve by offering prescriptions that end up benefiting its own interests.

In the current global economic-financial crisis that Washington and the media conglomerate are trying to pin on Russia for its intervention in Ukraine, the US government's political interference is once again being exposed. The rise in energy, food and especially grain prices was not the result of Russian President Vladimir Putin's designs, nor was it the result of the launch of the Special Military Operation.

On the contrary, and something that the collective Western media is silent about, the price inflation that has complicated the areas of production, transport and food supply globally is the responsibility of the US, and not because of a failure of calculation or carelessness in the management of finances. Quite the contrary. Here, too, there is a deliberate attempt to create the conditions for the US to come to the rescue.

In the course of this sinister game, it is the poorest countries (and those impoverished by its interventions) that suffer from the rising cost of fertilisers, access to grain, not to mention the technological tools needed to maintain their infrastructures.

But this scenario was made possible by Washington's instigation of NATO's involvement in Ukraine, emboldening the Kiev regime and provoking Russia's intervention. As can be sensed, there are no coincidences here, much less a Russian intention to voluntarily jump into an armed conflict.

It was all very well calculated and long in advance. Washington has been waiting for such an opportunity since 1991, which is why it worked tirelessly to create one. The RAND Corporation's report on how to seek to weaken Russia was only a precedent for an idea and a plan long before preconceived by the US neo-conservative elite. Biden is only the (sacrificial) pawn to kick-start this and in that plan, the withdrawal from Afghanistan was the first sign that Washington was planning something long term.

Leaving Afghanistan in a state of collapse was a strategy of controlled chaos to leave an unstable region that over time could affect certain neighbours. At the time, we believed that the target was Iran (which is probably true, only secondarily), but today it is clear that the central interest of this stratagem is fixed on instability in the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, and this is being proven by the catastrophe in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Within this plan, Europe, and more precisely the EU, is used as a development platform for the US, using its useful NATO partners (Poland, Romania and the Baltic states), to extend its dominance over Russia's borders. The price for this subalternity of European politicians is inflation, rising prices and high production costs, partly due to the loss of access to cheap gas from Russia. When Germany realised this (despite US support) and continued supplying Russian gas, Washington simply cut off access by blowing up the Baltic pipelines. There the crisis was consolidated so that Europe became dependent on the US.

But the consequences on the economy and production of European countries do not only stem from events such as the sabotage of the Nord Stream I and II pipelines. The trade and financial sanctions imposed unilaterally by the US against Russia, which have not worked out as expected, are the other leg of the economic cataclysm that is shaking not only Germany but all European countries such as France (which is being expelled from Africa) and, worst of all, all citizens.

This is not the first time that the US and its British partners have played these sinister hunger games. They have done it everywhere and on every scale. Recall how Kissinger, taking advantage of the Arab-Israeli war and the 1973 oil crisis, manipulating the parties, re-boosted US hegemony, battered by the defeat in Vietnam, mainly to unseat two emerging commercial powers like Germany and Japan.

Another example of this was seen when they invaded Iraq in March 2003, the southern city of Basra was impregnable to the British and they were in no mood for carnage. To surrender it, they cut off the drinking water supply and their planes deliberately bombed food stores and shops so that the population would put pressure on the defenders.

With this in mind, why should the Germans or even all Europeans be any different from the poor Iraqis? It's nothing personal, it's business.

Today, it is Europe which, because of the obsession of its political leaders, is under this game of planned impoverishment that provides the US with two major objectives: The subjection of European and EU governments to its “defence” policies under the direction of NATO; as captive customers and obliged to buy from them energy, grain and of course, their technologies that bring monumental profits to US agribusinesses and energy corporations.

This engineering of necessity also extends to poorer countries, especially in regions of the global south such as Africa and Latin America, which seem to have recently become conscious of seeking new and more advantageous alternatives to interrelate along the lines of multipolarity. But until this process is consolidated, they will have to put up with this engineering. To ensure this great trap of manipulation and indebtedness, Washington will give facilities to those who cannot pay, and for this purpose, there are its important geopolitical tools such as the World Bank and the IMF.

That is American democracy, as inconsequential as it is implausible. Of course, Europeans already know this, but more importantly, their politicians and governments have already become aware of this manipulation. It remains to be seen whether they have the courage to cut the chains that imprison them.