After World War II the United States faced a world devastated by war and foreign economies ravaged by debt. America suddenly found itself with large gold reserves, a large manufacturing capacity, and a skilled labor force expanded by our returning veterans. Our government unleashed the entrepreneurial spirit of Americans. Production by itself was insufficient; to sell a widget someone must be able to buy the widget. In order to prosper, America designed the Marshall Plan to assist 16 European nations in achieving economic recovery in order to become viable trading partners. Most other regional areas represented sources of raw materials and became consumers of our finished goods. While Churchill referred to the plan as an unselfish act it must be realistically viewed as a necessary win-win operation.
In subsequent decades America squandered the good will we enjoyed throughout much of the world. The foreign policy of the United States (as Europe’s nations) seemed bent on economic expansion without regard to its consequences abroad. [Author’s note: For background on the impact in Latin America, generally, and in Panama, El Salvador and Guatemala, specifically, go to the postings under “Force for Liberty or Oppression?”, parts 3 through 6] Economic expansion gave way to expanded influence and many may argue persuasively that its intent was to control and manipulate foreign interests. After the fall of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (i.e., USSR) the United States gained world supremacy. America was the most advanced militarily and the US dollar was the world’s reserve currency. Someone also thought that it would be a good idea that we become the world’s policeman. All this and the costs of foreign assistance and nation building outside of our nation led our policy-makers to borrow ever increasing sums of money to maintain the illusion of solvency. Today most of us know differently; our national debt is poised to bankrupt us. We are in good company, however, as most of the industrialized world shares our economic woes.
In 2011 the People’s Republic of China is poised much as the United States was after World War II, or is it? Some of the similarities include: it has large cash reserves and it is solvent, the world economy is teetering and depends on its loans and investments, its economy is poised to grow rapidly due to a large labor force and consumer sector, and it has been modernizing its Armed Forces for a world presence in the very near future. It, too, is purchasing raw materials from developing nations around the world as we and Europe have done. But that is where the similarities end and the differences begin.
The differences between a post-WW II America and the PRC today define its strategic weakness. The PRC has a largely subsistence based, agrarian society totaling a billion people. Its culture does not embrace individual innovation and productivity and the demographics have been politically skewed to such a degree that most men in that nation will never be able to marry. For decades, natural selection was trumped by political selection. As a consequence female babies were often drowned by the parents in order to have the officially sanctioned “one child per family”, the boy that is. The economy is directed by the State and the State’s iron grip on the population is firm, for now. The large population of males and a large military make the probability of combat inevitable. A PRC attack on Taiwan will signal the start of belligerent operations that will eventually lead to our shores.
Another key difference is the PRC’s economic ties with Europe and America. Our economies have not been devastated by war but by irresponsible spending and too many expansive entitlement programs. Ironically, European Union nations recently began adopting a more capitalistic platform to salvage stagnant GDPs. The US, on the other hand, can’t seem to emulate the European socialist models that the EU largely repudiates quickly enough. Herein lays the quandary and the solution.
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”
Sun-Tzu
The PRC requires the United States and Europe to have stable economies capable of absorbing its goods and services. Assuming this is true, for how long? The answer is that the PRC will bolster our economies only until it has transitioned to a sustainable internal market-based economy. At that moment its economic sustainability for a century or more will only depend on foreign raw materials and labor. This means that the economies of Europe, America and the rest of the world become irrelevant to the PRC and it will begin to collect its loan-based collateral (i.e., land, buildings, infrastructure, commercial and residential real estate, production contracts, oil, coal, natural gas, etc...). The Third World will remain the Third World except that the United States and Europe will join the Third World.
We will be directed by the policies of the People’s Republic of China implemented and supervised, respectively, by the American and European puppet-masters. Sympathetic American political hacks will do the master’s bidding, not We the People but the PRC. The Supreme Court will be populated with Progressive Justices who will rule that the New World Order trumps the Constitution. Out go our liberties and protections and in comes tyranny. The PRC will instruct and supervise the crushing of the American spirit and teach the new Homeland Security the finer points of internal terror and subjugation of the population (i.e., you and me). A new world currency will replace the US Dollar, private enterprise will fade away and the US Armed Forces will be downsized and sub-contracted out to do Beijing’s bidding. The blow will be more crushing when the artificially devalued Yuan at 15 cents to the dollar is allowed to surpass the dollar. Our collective debt will have increased to ensure indebted servitude. I just haven’t figured out which Chinese dialect we will be required to learn; Mandarin?
“The most enslaved is he who thinks himself free without being free.”
Goethe
The destructive process to America will give credence and affirm what conspiracy theorists have suspected for decades. Banking interests (starting with our own Federal Reserve) will simply input new currency symbols in its programs and blindly go forward into this new world order. The likes of George Soros and others of his ilk will always be content with their illusory status and power. Even Soros will obey his new masters or he will be eliminated by them. Too many of our corporate leaders, unions and politicians will swear allegiance to the new system. Their clarion cry will tout the need to avoid economic calamity. The very condition that has been systematically forced upon the America people. Our World War II era immigrants of European extraction need no explanations; they see the fingerprints of fascism all over the place. The PRC supports North Korea, it courts Russia and Iran, and it is a source of cash to many African and Latin American nations. The coalition of the willing is being formed; willing to oppress, willing to destroy, willing to extend tyranny. The operative question is when will America’s intelligence agencies and our Armed Forces awaken to the ominous threat to the US as a nation and to its Constitution?
“Force without mind falls by its own weight.”
Horace
Now that’s a weight off my shoulders!!! In combat it is the uncertainty factor that drives us mad. When the intelligence is actionable and conditions favorable, combat becomes the efficient application of necessary force to overwhelm and destroy the enemy. To make this work for us we must understand and adopt the correct strategy to be employed. The correct strategy trumps excellent tactics (case in point, Vietnam for us and Afghanistan for the Soviets).
“My center is giving way; my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I shall attack!”
Marshal Foch
The first element of the new United States strategy is simple: communicate with friends and family. Now it is easy, under the yoke of a Progressive dictatorship it will not be easy. We need 34 States to call for a constitutional convention. At that convention we can fire judges, impose term limits, and resolutely fire all federal employees that were part of the debt creation process. The convention will declare the unilaterally imposed deficit spending unconstitutional and refuse to pay. We disband the Federal Reserve, reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy and keep the US Dollar. The world and the People’s Republic of China can then figure out what they will do on their own. By the way, associated with this is that our personal debt will be forgiven in that this debt was not approved by We the People and was intentionally foisted upon us by unscrupulous bankers and its agents in business and government. The United States keeps its Constitution, we pay a price for rebuilding America but we get to keep America and our freedoms.
“Guard against the postures of pretended patriotism.”
George Washington, 1796
So, yes, I am suggesting that we eliminate the Progressive influence in our courts and in our government at State and Federal level and fall in line with our Constitution once again. Stop buying “Made in China” and do not support companies that have exported their manufacturing to the PRC. Without the consumption of the United States the PRC economic development model will fail and the Chinese people will rise up against its abusive and dictatorial regime. By saving ourselves we save the world. The temptation for military action on the part of the PRC will be suffocated by the death-throws of its tyrannical regime’s demise.
“The American Revolution is intended for all mankind.”
Thomas Jefferson
After all this we must live up to our principles, we must focus on America and allow other peoples and nations to freely choose their own course. We must stop pandering to tyrants while they oppress their citizenry, we must break our silence and comment based upon our Constitutional principles, and we must reform America before thinking we can reform others elsewhere. Most importantly, we must regain our egalitarian heritage given to us by our Founders. Americans are free to be all we can be and to become wealthy in the process. We should not and cannot abide by those that because of an Ivy League lineage or a sizeable amount of wealth feel that they are somehow superior to and in a social class above their fellow citizens.
“Government is instituted for the protection, safety, and happiness of the people, and not for the profit, honour, or private interest of any man, family, or class of men.”
Mercy Warren, 1788
And for the Liberals in the audience: If we curtailed our foreign aid and armed forays abroad there would be more than enough money available for deserving domestic social programs. Keep in mind that if you spend it abroad you cannot spend it at home. And spending what we don't have got us to where we are today.
“To reason with despots is throwing reason away. The best of arguments is a vigorous preparation.”
Thomas Paine, 1792
Read, learn and think about the American Revolution. It is the only unique political model made reality in recorded history. We were free in 1776; we are somewhat free today and are presently at risk of losing it all. What will you do? Think about it; I depend on you and you depend on me.
“If man hasn’t discovered something that he is willing to die for, he isn’t fit to live.”
Martin Luther King
Should we not act and do nothing we will invite the most harrowing of times that will try our very souls as Americans. I would prefer the high road without violence and suffering but to do nothing now will lead to the need to reclaim our American Revolution by any means and on every street. This is not a threat; it is the reasoned conclusion arrived at through the trend-lines of history. Much of that history is our very own. The party is over, take two aspirin and let’s get real.
“The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.”
William Jennings Bryan
Strength and Honor. And may God Almighty watch over us.
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We live in our small corner of the world, feeling protected and sure that we will stay in this state of bliss forever but we also live unaware of the machinations of this small group of unscrupulous, power-hunger men who do not think even for a moment the implication of their actions on the population.
ReplyDeleteI just think it is unfair that we have no saying at all in this matter. We should take control of our destiny.
I guess one act at a time will suffice by now.