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.