THE US NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY (NSS): HOW THE US AIMS TO PROLONGUE US IMPERIALISM

Alistair Crooke (CMG) is a one-time decorated Senior British Diplomat and adviser to the EU, and a one-time member of MI6 (Special Intelligence Sevices). His prime area of expertise was in the Middle East and he established 'Conflicts Forum' which aims to encourage engagement between political Islam and 'the West'. His disillusion with UK 'diplomacy' came as the UK and the USA geared up for the conflict in Iraq. Rather than 'diplomacy' they would use military force to crush Iraq and the Palestinian resistance. It has failed dismally, as Alistair Crooke predicted.


Here he deconstructs the US National Security Strategy (the NSS)  as a new way to prolongue the dominance of the USEmpire.

'The core to the Trump geo-politics is revealed in the NSS as the risk of imperial collapse looming in the future. It talks about Atlas holding the globe aloft, and emphasises that the US can no longer continue to shoulder the burden of empire.

The NSS, therefore, is ultimately centred around resolving the economic contradictions that has brought the US to this pass -- burgeoning debt and an out-of-control fiscal matrix which, absent a solution, ordains that Empire will fold.

The core issue therefore becomes how to finance ‘Empire’ against a badly skewed and distorted economic reality. Clearly, the start point was to acknowledge that sanctions have failed. The attempt to lock China (and by extension Russia) out of the economic loop has failed, because they adapted and strengthened their internal economies — and in China’s case, enhanced their relevance to international supply chains.

So, we are seeing a marked shift to a different Imperial ‘model’. The NSS indirectly suggests that without the dominance which allows Big Money and infrastructure investment being coerced into the US economy, and without continued dollar hegemony, the US is in big trouble.

The NSS therefore is not a pivot from Empire; it does nonetheless conclude that the means to (albeit) attenuated American domination does require a ‘Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine’.




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