DISTORTED PERCEPTIONS

Why do US administrations continue to believe they are the exemplary democracy when the facts prove otherwise?

 

By Sidney Hey

It was those chilly days in December 2013 when the street unrest in Ukraine was beginning to gather speed and foreign hands were already operating behind many of the groups organising the anti-government protests. Far away at the same time, but under different circumstances, other groups of men arriving covertly in Syria to be trained in secret camps in Turkey, Jordan and the region bordering Iraq were also under the care of foreign instructors who would prepare them for what in a few months would be presented by the media as the new wave of Islamist terrorism.

In both cases, the hand of Washington, then under the Democratic administration of Barack Obama, was involved. And so it was. The supposedly hopeful change that Americans had hoped for after the long night under the neo-conservative Bush/Cheney administration was only a continuation of that nightmare.

Both situations were the usual clandestine operations to alter the political situation in states that bureaucrats in Washington consider a target for overthrow. As can be guessed, democracy has nothing to do with this kind of manoeuvring, and even less so when blood has been spilled as a result. In the case of Ukraine, the direct involvement of the US State Department in the orchestration and implementation of what would lead to the February 2014 coup d'état was confirmed by the telephone conversation between Victoria Nuland and the then ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt, which was recorded and publicly exposed on the internet and later repeated by various media outlets around the world.

At the time, Washington was outraged that this conversation, not its content, was aired.

In the case of Syria, we now know with certainty that there was never a revolution as the Anglo-American media and their European cronies had claimed. In September 2013, a never identified commando managed to escape from Abu-Graib several leaders of “Al Qaeda” and the then known “Islamic State of Iraq”, among them Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. How they were able to escape from Baghdad without outside help was never explained. That answer was to be revealed only a few months later. That answer would be revealed only a few months later. All these fugitives would later reappear in Iraq along with other mercenaries who were recruited by the CIA and mobilised in the region with the help of their Turkish colleagues from MIT and the Mukhabarat of the Qataris to form “ISIS”.

Of course, at the time, the White House and the State Department were playing dumb about these events even though the extent of their involvement was already clear.

Now ask yourself, what is so democratic about these Anglo-American implications? But let's also not forget other governments such as Australia, which has long been involved on the Indo-Pacific chessboard at NATO's behest. Why should Australia be Washington's second cop in Chinatown? The government should be aware that the big island is just another sacrificial pawn in these Atlanticist games.

Let us not overlook the fact that the weaponisation of these situations, the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people and the creation of regional instability in each of these sectors was, curiously, planned by the “war party” of neo-conservatives and Zionists with undeniable influence in the White House.

At the time, Joe Biden was seconded by Obama and alongside them, Hillary Clinton continued to influence foreign policy with her expertise in machinations and hoaxes to try to justify interventions in the name of democracy, freedom and American values.

If we were to put it in a psychoanalytic context, one could say that this is a typical case of psychopathy, but since we are talking about a state, can an entire political administration be psychopathic? While this is usually an affliction of individual subjects, and in this case the Americans have been having presidents and secretaries of state with this apparent diagnosis, how do the rest of normal thinking officials tolerate it, and are citizens psychopaths too?

This image culture that US politicians have enshrined as a religion today leads to a senile president trying to show sanity in the midst of chaos when in reality he does not know who he is when he looks in a mirror. Creepy indeed, don't you think?

To use the saying "politics is the art of the possible" to carry out true immoralities is not only unacceptable, but would be a covert validation of the Machiavellian saying “the end justifies the means”... Really, can we tolerate in a democracy that violating the law and the sovereignty of others and human rights is justifiable?  

These two examples from contemporary history alone are replete with horrifying situations that the US would like to erase from the memory of the people of this world. People have long since realised in whose hands we are in, and that is why they understand very well what is really going on in situations such as those in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip.

While it is easy and even understandable to personify those responsible for these calamities with names and surnames such as Joe Biden, Ursula Von Der Leyen, Josep Borrell or Benjamin Netanyahu, the implications go beyond these simple and transitory characters.