{"id":202963,"date":"2020-02-25T08:51:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T08:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202963"},"modified":"2020-02-28T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T08:20:13","slug":"how-to-know-if-america-is-your-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202963","title":{"rendered":"How to Know If America Is Your Enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse \u2013 Strategic Review Feb 24, 2020<\/h1>\n
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US troops arrive at Afghan base. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

If your country is friendly toward Russia, China, or Iran, then today\u2019s American Government is probably applying subversion, economic sanctions, or maybe even planning a coup, or (if none of those will succeed) probably is war-gaming now for a possible military invasion and permanent military occupation, of your country. These things have been done to Russia, Iran, China, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba, Ukraine, Georgia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and some other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, after the 9\/11 attacks in America, the U.S. Government has added another system for selecting countries to immiserate, and those are mainly the countries that already suffer the most misery \u2014 some of them are countries that were listed above, but others (many others) are not, and are selected instead largely because they are already in misery, and also because America \u2014 that is, the Deep State which controls it, America\u2019s hundreds of billionaires, who control international corporations and the press in America, and not just control the politicians who win public offices \u2014 wants to control the given target country in order to extract its natural resources or simply in order to place some of U.S. military bases there so as to be better able to invade other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

This relatively new category of America\u2019s targeted enemies was invented, mainly, in 2003 and 2004, by\u00a0Thomas P. M. Barnett<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a Professor at the U.S. Naval College and columnist and writer for various popular magazines, as well as of best-selling books. His 2004 book\u00a0The Pentagon\u2019s New Map<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>, presents that map, to show the areas, mainly around the Equator and including all of Central America; plus all of South America except Chile, Argentina, and Brazil; plus all of Africa except South Africa, all countries of which are supposedly not connected to globalization \u2014 i.e., they are Third World instead of First World \u2014 and he says that they are unstable and therefore need to be policed by the world\u2019s policeman, which is the U.S. Government, to serve there as the judge, jury, and executioner, of anyone who lives there and who resists that judge, jury, and executioner. His key statement is on page 227, \u201cA country\u2019s potential to warrant a U.S. military response is inversely related to its globalization connectivity.\u201d Here is the map, which shows which countries are supposedly high globalization connectivity and therefore inappropriate for America to sanction, coup, or invade and occupy; and which countries are supposedly low globalization connectivity and therefore appropriate for America to sanction, coup, or invade and occupy:<\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/archive.is\/2Pjqp<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

As can be seen there, the following countries are not to be policed by the U.S. Government: Canada, U.S., Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, UK, Greenland, Iceland, EU, Switzerland, Ukraine, Georgia, South Africa, Russia, Mongolia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, N.Z.<\/span><\/p>\n

He calls those the \u201cGlobalized Functioning Core.\u201d All others are \u201cthe Non-Integrated Gap\u201d countries, America\u2019s virtual free-fire zones, to control so as to \u2018prevent terrorism\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of international law being what the United Nations says it is, this \u201cnew map\u201d theory says that international law in the \u201cNon-Integrated Gap\u201d countries should be what the U.S. Government says it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Barnett\u2019s theory, as he expressed it in its original version in an\u00a0Esquire<\/em>\u00a0magazine article titled\u00a0\u201cWhy the Pentagon Changes Its Maps<\/strong><\/span>:<\/a>\u00a0And why we\u2019ll keep going to war,\u201d he listed these countries as \u201cTHE GAP\u201d or third-world countries, \u201cMy list of real trouble for the world in the 1990s, today, and tomorrow, starting in our own backyard\u201d (and these are listed here by the names that he gave to them): Haiti, Colombia, Brazil and Argentina, Former Yugoslavia, Congo and Rwanda\/Burundi, Angola, South Africa, Israel-Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Somalia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, North Korea, Indonesia.\u00a0Then he listed \u201cCORE MEMBERS I WORRY WE MAY LOSE:\u201d China, Russia, India.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, if you live in any of those countries, then Barnett, and the many U.S. generals who respect his theory, and the U.S. billionaires, who want the resources in those countries or else just want military bases there, view you as an enemy, not as a citizen of a sovereign foreign country. His\u00a0Esquire<\/em>\u00a0article says, \u201cit is always possible to fall off this bandwagon called globalization. And when you do, bloodshed will follow. If you are lucky, so will American troops.\u201d He assumes that you need a \u201cpoliceman\u201d from America because what your own country provides is too primitive. And, \u201cConversely, if a country is largely functioning within globalization, we tend not to have to send our forces there to restore order or eradicate threats.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On 22 August 2017, Thierry Meyssan at Voltairenet headlined\u00a0\u201cThe US military project for the world<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and gave his progressive critical interpretation of Barnett\u2019s theory by placing it into the long-term evolution of U.S. geostrategy. On 26 September 2004, Razib Khan gave his admiring racist-fascist or ideologically nazi interpretation of it, under the headline\u00a0\u201cIQ And The Non-Integrating Gap<\/strong><\/span>\u201d<\/a>. He assumed there that lower-income countries are \u201clower IQ\u201d and therefore need to be directed according to the master\u2019s whip, not as sovereign countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book\u2019s publisher places online an informative excerpt from the work. under the headline\u00a0\u201cAn Operating Theory of the World<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u201d and Barnett says there:<\/span><\/p>\n

As the \u201cvision guy,\u201d my job was to generate and deliver a compelling brief that would mobilize the Defense Department toward generating the future fighting force demanded by the post-9\/11 strategic environment. Over the next two years I gave that brief well over a hundred times to several thousand Defense Department officials. Through this intense give-and-take, my material grew far beyond my original inputs to include the insider logic driving all of the major policy decisions promulgated by the department\u2019s senior leadership. Over time, senior military officials began citing the brief as a Rosetta stone for the Bush Administration\u2019s new national security strategy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The strategy remains in force, though there now is a return to focusing on the main enemies being Russia, China, and Iran. The \u201cgap\u201d countries are currently viewed not only according to the \u201cgap\u201d but also according to their relationships to Russia, China, and Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As a rule of thumb, if a country is friendly toward Russia, Iran or Iran, the U.S. will view it as a potential target for sanctions, subversion or outright regime change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,78,61,51,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_war_on_terror","category-china","category-Commentary","category-Iran","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202967,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202963\/revisions\/202967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}