“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.