THE UNITED STATES OF ALL AMERICA?
What could be the real purpose of the Trump-Vance
administration's domination of the American continent from north to south?
By Sidney Hey
The day we least expected finally arrived: Washington has decided to extend its political and territorial jurisdiction from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, no less, and it is Donald Trump who has kicked things off. Gone are the euphemisms, the lies dressed up with the word “democracy” and the double talk to disguise what the US has always done: use its power to crush others.
In this plan, Donald Trump and his followers have set
in motion a renewed ruse to sustain their new national security policy, which
involves their geopolitics so as not to lose any more influence than they have
already lost in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and, at this moment, Africa. In
theory, this “Americanist” stance leaves NATO aside, but this is not quite the
case.
Let us not include Canada in this equation, as Trump
did not need to say ‘it should be another state of the Union’, since it already
behaves as one. The issue is Latin America.
This highlights the failure of the hegemony of
internationalists in Washington who (according to Donald Trump) have weakened
‘America’. What we see today in Argentina and Venezuela is part of a desperate
policy, a strategic continental retreat to try to cut off Chinese influence and
rebuild the flagging US power so that once it is restored (which could take
decades), it can counterattack again.
This strategy adopted by Trump and MAGA in the view of
the most Russophobic neoconservatives (closely linked to the British)
represents a capitulation to the expectations that had been brewing since 1989
to literally weaken and break up Russia into a bunch of independent states
obviously hostile to a federation and thus take control of the ‘Heartland’[1]. This obviously constitutes more than a
deliberate retreat; it is a withdrawal that smacks of flight and exceeds in
magnitude and strategic consequences that of Afghanistan during Joe Biden's
term.
Interestingly, one of the arguments supporting this
geostrategy would be the ‘fight against narco-terrorism’ in the hemisphere,
which we see with all the military build-up in the Caribbean. But we are sure
that a large part of public opinion (both in the US and throughout the hemisphere)
does not buy this. If this concern about combating the scourge of drug
trafficking were real, there are many situations in which they are involved
that should not exist or, even more so, they should be explaining
inconsistencies that undermine this supposed legalism that Washington is trying
to impose.
During the Vietnam War, the US Air Force's logistical
routes became channels for drug trafficking, using ingenious ways to camouflage
the drugs, one of which was to stuff corpses with packages of the substances.
At the time, this was taboo, and although it was known within military
intelligence circles, silence was imposed for the sake of the institution's
image.
In the 1980s, when the Reagan-Bush administration
maintained its policy of clandestine interference in Latin American
governments, under the pretext of assisting Central American ‘democracies’
threatened by Marxist guerrillas in Nicaragua and El Salvador, the CIA provided
assistance and funding for its own counterinsurgency programmes (with the
involvement of other agencies such as the Mossad[2])
with money from cocaine and arms trafficking, which ended in a well-known
scandal called ‘Iran-Contras,’ exposing Colonel Oliver North who, in addition
to maintaining silence and obtaining benefits for it, was only a simple errand
boy for a much broader and more opaque government structure linked to the ‘Deep
State.’
Within these relationships, and arising from US
interference, the CIA created its own cartels in the hope of cornering the
business and turning it into an inexhaustible source of funding that would
allow it to sustain its operations anywhere in the world. This dirty scheme
gave rise to the so-called ‘Cartel of the Suns’, and Manuel Noriega could have
told us how much old George H. Bush had to do with all this.
After losing the black heroin trade in Afghanistan,
the CIA's main trafficking routes settled in Ukraine, where they have benefited
from the cooperation of local mafia organisations such as Khimprom[3],
linked to the pro-Nazi regime, which is as corrupt as any other that the
Americans have managed to buy. The situation in Ukraine is not new. Since 2002,
the US Department of Justice has been aware of this[4].
It is no coincidence that the arms trade and bulk drug smuggling have become
part of a landscape that involves Volodymyr Zelensky himself and his people, as
revealed in an early United Nations report from April 2022[5].
Do you think this business has declined today?
In view of this background and the unpalatable double
standards to which bureaucrats from all administrations in Washington (Democrats,
Republicans, MAGA) have accustomed us, the supposed fight against drug
trafficking that Trump is now flaunting through the media corporation's
propaganda machine, attempting to give it a legal framework - which, judging by
the US record, it does not have - it is clear that this is only a strategy with
other aims.
From all this, we can conclude that this US strategy
is doomed to fail, and not because Venezuela can withstand a military assault
under the media hype of a farce such as the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to
Corina Machado, or because tomorrow all the governments in the region will
unite to protect Caracas. It has already failed for the simple reason that
public opinion (especially among young people) is very well informed about who
the US is and what it has done throughout the 20th century and so far in the
present century in the region and the world. Therefore, they will be able to
buy puppets like Corina Machado, Juan Guaidó, Capriles, the Milei brothers,
Macri and other puppets who can influence with the resources we have seen.
[2] Specialists in torture tactics,
counterinsurgency, and weapons skills were present in the region, especially in
Colombia in 1987, when they trained paramilitaries and other assassins who
worked in the shadows of the law. They also imparted these dirty skills to
Christian Phalangists in Lebanon and to military forces in several Latin
American countries.
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