Jack of Harts

Many strong-minded individuals in The West saw the fall of the Soviet Union as a way to build a New World Order where no one stood against our power. They promised Russia they wouldn’t expand NATO towards them, and then instantly began absorbing former Warsaw Pact nations into NATO. What could Russia do? Protest? They were bankrupt. And the many nations that weren’t Russian and didn’t like being in the Soviet Union really wanted in on that NATO thing. I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t want a hungry Russia looking at me after fifty years of Soviet rule. I would want friends backing me up, thank you very much.

But if you are the sole unipolar superpower in the world, what do you do when nations don’t want to do what you want them to do? You either shrug and let it go… or you don’t. And the Neocons that infected both parties did not want to let it go. They had power, and they were going to use it to get what they wanted. And any nation that disagreed just ate some bombs. Or some uranium-tipped bullets. Or some USAID-funded street protests. Or a totally-locally-led rebellion that toppled a government in hours. Or maybe they just had a tyrant that needed taking care of. Or maybe they sent a terrorist attack against us.

Yugoslavia. Libya. Syria. Georgia. The Country, not the State. Iraq. Ukraine. Afghanistan. These are the big names. The ones that made the news in America. Care to guess how many other nations we touched with USAID and other fingers of our foreign policy? Go ahead and look. You might be surprised by the names you see. And then ask yourself, how many of those names are better off now than they were in 1990? Or go back to 1980 and look. 1970. 1960.

The Neocons didn’t appear fully formed in 1990 and start their work with no history of their previous actions. Look at the world we have today and compare it to the world of the past, and ask yourself… do you like what absolute power has built?