“GEOPOLITICAL
INCONSEQUENCE”
Can Joe Biden's
current rhetoric be credible in light of his country's dark and widespread Real
Politik? The uncertainties of an old fox in American politics.
By Charles H. Slim
The world is no longer a place where distances
limited the possibilities of getting to know situations, idiosyncrasies and
experiences of the different peoples that inhabit it. In short, the variety of
existing realities can be seen almost at the same time. Among them and the most
important is the policy in which and thanks to the wonderful era of digital
communications -vehiculated by the internet- there is no longer the possibility
of hiding anything that cannot be exposed by the camera of a mobile phone that
will be replicated by millions with the "click" of the same phone or
mouse thousands of miles away.
With this in mind, it is
clear that geopolitics as such has radically changed and its approach as well.
Today we are privileged witnesses of radical changes in terms of global
geopolitics and especially those involving the powers that are deciding control
of the world. What until the end of the 20th century and the first of this
century governments sharply and hermetically censored or manipulated rudely,
today is within the reach of all those who are interested in matters that
involve relationships and respect for the law. international between nations.
One of the situations that
are taking great interest these days is the referent -and apparent- recompaging
of Washington's foreign policy framed in the decisions made by President Joe
Biden to end the doctrine of perpetual war that began back in 2001-and under
the excuse of 9/11, which at the hands of Donald Rumsfeld and Admiral Arthur K.
Cebrowski spread war and instability in the Middle East and Asia with
remarkable impunity. From then on, the tactic of preventive and dirty war using
mercenaries (such as those who tortured and assassinated Haitian President
Jovenel Moise and his wife), death squads (created by the CIA) and
"proxies" groups (such as the Kurdish FDS militias, or those of the
ELS installed in Syria) was taking shape, having as main testing grounds in
Afghanistan and Iraq and its gloomy improvement against Syria.
It was in these places that
the Americans (with the collaboration of Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey)
managed, trained and ameliorated international terrorism hoaxes of presumed
Islamist leanings such as "Al Qaeda" (a remnant of the CIA
intellectually created by Zbigniew Brzezinski) and the subsequent scarecrow
called "ISIS" that appeared in 2014 that was nothing more than the
improvement of a secret program of the US military intelligence put to work in
2006 (after eliminating the head of the "Al Qaeda-Iraq" hoax, the
Jordanian Abu Muzab Al Zarqawi) and led by General David H. Petraeus to try to
counter the unstoppable actions of the Iraqi resistance.
Another chapter to be
forgotten is undoubtedly the systematic practice of torture, murder and
disappearance of people as witnessed by the CIA flights, the graphic documents
of the infamous concentration camp in Guantánamo, Cuba, the Abu-Graib prison.
and the countless concentration camps spread across Iraq in which military
intelligence officers, CIA civilians (including doctors, psychiatrists, and psychologists)
and Israeli Mossad colleagues committed the unimaginable and most aberrant
against humanity of thousands of prisoners. Iraqis.
Too much garbage exposed to
the light of day that complicates Washington for today to refer to itself as a
moral advisor.
Despite the fact that the
great media powers did everything they could to carry out a damage control,
making use of all the existing arguacies and for having and even trying to
blame all these aberrations on the outsider of Donald Trump, this was useless.
In this way and trying to create an appearance of "return to
legality", Biden (who also approved the lies that drove these wars and
participated in hundreds of civilian deaths from drone attacks) must today play
the role of a driver of those errors and for this to propose a new mystique to
refloat the credibility in which democracies and autocracies enter into
conflict. This has been religiously raised by the obsequious of the region, in
particular some media and the Argentinean Anglophile intelligentsia, who have
already begun to spread this simplistic and reductionist rhetoric as the
"good news" for politics.
But considering these
sinister episodes in the contemporary history of your country and their
consequences for millions of human beings (in which Joe Biden also has a lot to
do), one might ask who are the autocrats and who are the democrats? It seems
that the White House continues with the same discursive tricks and petulance as
always when referring to itself as "the leader of the democracies" of
the world. But in view of its contemporary antecedents, can it be? Or we could
also question; What do Americans understand by democracy? The internal
situation regarding respect for the human rights of US citizens themselves is
another highly debatable chapter of their political-social reality and is not
at all different from the situations that Washington criticizes. Today in the
face of the Cuban crisis, both Washington and its repeaters in Argentina do not
stop making remarks about the violations of human rights on the island and the
"concern" of organizations such as HRW that we have already seen,
have their one-eyed before much more serious violations in which the US and its
allies have a stake.
Likewise, it is known that
this is only a screen. Within the United States, terrible things happened and
are happening that were not born with Trump and of which these organizations
and the obsequious South Americans are inhibited from speaking. Social
inequality, anti-Semitism, arabophobia, Islamophobia and racism (Black Matter
and the policy of the wall for immigrants) are a stale reality that, in
addition to being current, escapes this attempt to cover the sun with our
hands.
When President Joe Biden
speaks of respect for international law when he has proceeded unilaterally geopolitically
and does not make a sincere and timely criticism of the contribution that his
country has made to the chaos in various regions of the globe, his current
position is not credible.
It is certainly very
difficult to make this rhetoric coincide with this factual background. Military
interventionism, subversion and coups promoted by the CIA using its “aid” NGOs
as a cover (USAID), commercial and financial blackmailing that uses unilateral
sanctions (such as freezing of bank accounts and confiscations) without legal
support and The humanitarian consequences that these geopolitical rinses have
caused in millions of inhabitants of various latitudes are not to be despised.
Double standards and double standards are evident. Joe Biden and his Secretary
of State Anthony Blinken may fool themselves or the unwary who do not see
beyond their noses talking about the "danger of the Russian and Chinese
autocracies" or the benefits of democracy and its contribution to it, but
neither Russia or China invaded any country causing the waves of refugees such
as those that the US and its allies have unleashed since the beginning of the
"fight against terrorism" (such as those caused with Iraq, Libya and
Syria), nor do they support states that appropriate of territories and fiercely
oppress its inhabitants. The media that promote these guidelines do not seem to
warn that the coat and tie worn by Western politicians does not give them the
category of Democrats that they hold so much. In light of this, notorious
eloxymoron arises when speaking of "democracy" when deceit,
subversion and war are used to impose it.
Despite this, the South
American media and especially the Argentines who are part of the conglomerate
of the pro-American establishment do hard work to disguise and in others to
deform this sinister reality. In most cases it is pure obsequiousness with a
notable contempt for the non-Anglo-Saxon, especially the Muslims and the Arabs,
but they also show great myopia when it comes to the system they defend so
much. In this sense, they seem to ignore what are the springs and the existing
power tensions between the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
the executive power represented in the White House, which are far from being
considered as part of the “articulation of the democratic life”. There is
little democratic in this relationship and this is projected in the facts of
its foreign policy that costs thousands of people their lives and their
property.
Biden's speech is just that,
a speech. There is nothing that in fact succeeds in proving that your country's
policies are better than others. The tale of promoting freedoms and much-talked
about democracy has only been a figurehead to infiltrate countries and regions
that the State Department seeks to subvert and when that happens, there is no
respect for any freedom. The problem for US politicians (Democrats or
Republicans) is that they confuse freedom with economic consumption, financial
investment and believe that those countries that do not have their junk food
chains, service providers that satisfy them or nightly whiskey bars with
prostitutes and free circulation of drugs (provided by the money laundering
business), there is no possibility of free market development or progress.
Perhaps the description sounds too vulgar or simple, but this is transferable
to the upper echelons of finance and the economy that is digital from New York
and the City of London. Destroying a country, plunging it into misery and
despair has been the tactic most used in the last twenty years by Washington
and its allies to intervene with various purposes with the chant of
"democracy."
But the EU has not been left
behind. It should not be forgotten that -in addition to Great Britain-
partner countries such as France (very present supporting the CIA in Syria),
Germany and other subordinates such as Italy and Spain contributed their two
cents to create chaos in North Africa in 2010 ( what the media called the Arab
Spring) being one of the main reasons for the current instability and the
endless wave of immigrants that has shaken the EU since then. But if that seems
far off, know that recently the European Parliament passed between roosters and
midnight legislation that authorizes governments to intervene and spy on all
private digital communications of all citizens around the globe. Purpose?
Absolute control of what you think. So where is freedom and democracy? This
should not surprise us.
Several years a go it was
discovered that the United States during the administration of Barak Obama, its
intelligence agencies such as the NSA and the CIA had -with the complicity
of local agencies- tapped the communication lines of the leaders of
Germany, France and even Great Britain. Britain despite the fact that before
public opinion they are partners and part of NATO. In reality, for years and
under the cover of secrecy, double discourses and taking advantage of the media
psychosis created since September 11, 2001, these western states -not China
or Russia- have been spying on their citizens under the argument of the
"fight against terrorism" which, as we have already seen, in addition
to having a root in Israel's invasive practices, is only a ploy to achieve
geopolitical purposes. The delusional and paranoid consequences of these
persecutions number in the millions.
So how will Biden make his
speech compatible with the reality of his policies with their global
consequences?