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.
