Eric Zuesse
On Saturday, September 12th, United
Kingdom’s Labour Party elected as its leader and their candidate to
lead the UK, Jeremy Corbyn, who has been the most vocal British critic
of the UK’s serving as the lap-dog of an aggressive imperialistic United
States of America.
Simultaneously, the leader of German
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own Christian Social Union Party, Horst
Seehofer, a man who, prior to his being appointed to be the Party-chief
had been Chancellor Merkel’s Agriculture Minister, has now turned
against Chancellor Merkel (who until now was the most powerful leader in
all of Europe) and denounced her policy on the refugee crisis, and has
now stated publicly that Germany should instead ally with Russia and
against NATO on the entire Syrian war.
This public statement, which is really a sea-change in history, was reported Friday night, 11 September, in Germany’s leading magazine, The Mirror, Der Spiegel, and
it represents the breaking-point in Germany’s foreign policy, finally
yielding now to the rapidly rising anti-Americanism within Germany that
results from America’s prioritizing America’s war against Russia as
being a more important goal than the global war against Islamic jihad,
which is clearly the most pressing threat to national security not only
within Germany, and not only within all Western countries, but even
within Pakistan and many other countries that have majority-Islamic
populations, as well as in India, China, and other nations around the
world.
Seehofer’s statement simply cannot be
ignored by the Chancellor, because it comes from the leader of her own
Party (“Christian Social Union” is the Party’s name in Munich and
throughout Bavaria, but elsewhere in Germany the Party is called instead
the “Christian Democratic Union”). She has mainly ignored German public
opinion thus far and cooperated with U.S. President Barack Obama’s war
against Russia, which Obama is waging via his proxies in Ukraine, Syria,
Libya, and elsewhere. But Merkel now will have to bend; and this could
end up breaking NATO itself, since NATO is the international military
alliance that was originally against the Soviet Union and that then
became against Russia as soon as the Soviet Union ended communism and
broke up into Russia and the other nations of the former Soviet Union. That
continuation of the Cold War, now against Russia alone, even without
the former ideological excuse of there being communism, was initiated by U.S. President George Herbet Walker Bush himself. It was reluctantly picked up by then West-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose protégée was Angela Merkel. “Bush
made his feelings about compromising with Moscow clear to Kohl: ‘To
hell with that!’ he said. ‘We prevailed, they didn’t.’” (This
“compromise” was that NATO not expand “one inch eastward”; the promise
that Bush’s own Secretary of State had made to the then-Soviet leader,
Mikhail Gorbachev, and on the basis of which Gorbachev allowed the
Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact to end and East Germany to be taken by West
Germany.)
And so, the Cold War never really ended
in the West (though Gorbachev was promised that it would); but, now, it
might be finally forced to end, without a nuclear war (which continues
to be the U.S. threat but becomes far less likely without there being
allies for that on America’s side), because the current U.S. President’s
intensification of the long-suppressed ongoing U.S. war against Russia
is becoming too much for Germany, and for many other countries within
the NATO alliance, to continue supporting. A serious international
movement to destroy all nuclear weapons might even begin now.
The only NATO member-nations that are still highly supportive of America’s ongoing war against Russia are some former member-nations of the former Soviet Union and of the Soviet Union’s equivalent of NATO, the Warsaw Pact, which
broke up in 1991 when the Soviet Union itself did. Poland, Latvia,
Lithuania, and Estonia, are among the now-NATO, former Soviet and Warsaw
Pact, nations that are as anti-Russian as is the American ruling class
(which President Obama represents). However, America’s former allies
when the United States used to be a democracy, the West-European
nations, are now starting to abandon the U.S., and so too are some of
the East-European nations that were formerly under the Soviet yoke, such
as Czech Republic, and Hungary.
America’s deepest control extended
especially into two nations: UK, and Germany. However, the decision that
George Herbert Walker Bush made in 1990, and that has been adhered to
by his successors, to continue the former Cold War until Russia itself
is defeated and becomes added to the America Empire, is now being
increasingly abandoned by America’s formerly obedient vassal-nations.
The American Empire has reached its zenith, and is now breaking apart.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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