TradCatKnight: The Not-So-Grand Strategy Behind America’s Warring Around

The Not-So-Grand Strategy Behind America’s Warring Around

The Not-So-Grand Strategy Behind America’s Warring Around

By F. William Engdahl

http://tradcatknight.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-not-so-grand-strategy-behind.html

It’s getting pretty crazy, the warring around of Washington since the Trump Project took office January 20. The question is whether there is a true strategy behind the dramatic escalation of Trump Administration military aggression around the world. There definitely is in my view, and it’s not good for world peace, not good for the United States and the rest of the world . 
First, just a week into office, the new President authorized a Navy Seal illegal attack in Yemen’s civil war in which one Seal was killed and four wounded, allegedly intervening to hit the Al Qaeda in Yemen terrorist organization, yet another spin-off of the CIA’s Afghan Mujahideen. Then on April 7, a Syrian false flag sarin bomb allegation, with no independent international verification, was used by Washington as excuse for the US Navy to launch 59 US Tomahawk missiles to try to destroy a key airbase of the legitimate government of Syria. Videos, most faked, showing dead or suffering children was the offered pretext as well as the alleged disgust of Ivanka Trump, the President’s alarmingly influential daughter.

Before the world could even take stock of what Washington was doing in Syria, the illegal –according to the UN Charter which USA is a signatory to– Syria attacks were followed on April 13 with an equally illegal bomb attack on Afghanistan, which according to former President Karzai killed innocent civilians. There, seemingly out of the blue, just for good measure lest the world think a President Trump is a pussy as in slang for coward, the US President approved dropping of something called MOAB, or GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB)- in military speak, Mother of All Bombs–the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal, allegedly killing 90 ISIS terrorists in caves, hardly a game-changer. 
That in turn has been followed by the April 14 announcement of Washington’s Africa Command (AFRICOM) sending troops of the US 101st Airborne Division into the oil-rich geopolitically strategic Horn of Africa state of Somalia, the first US “boots on the ground” in Somalia since the ill-fated 1993 Battle of Mogudishu that inspired little more than a Hollywood movie, Blackhawk Down. The Somalia pretext is to eradicate the Saudi-financed al Shabaab Wahhabite terrorist organization. 
Now the US President is saber-rattling using North Korea and its mentally-unstable 33-year-old dictator, Kim Jong-Un, and his missile threats as pretext, sending the ships of the Seventh Fleet to the Korean Peninsula and tweeting threats of USA striking pre-emptively with conventional weapons against North Korea if China doesn’t get her rogue neighbor “under control.” 

Fundamental Heartland Geopolitics

These alarming incidents of a US show of force, or the appearance of same, are by no means random. It’s all at the heart of fundamental US geopolitical strategy since 1945. All, including the decision by the US patriarchs to bring something called the Trump Project to Washington, is part of a not-so-grand Anglo-American strategy of world domination. As a reaction to increasingly aggressive and economically painful policies of Washington since the US-triggered global financial crisis of 2008, China, Russia and a host of other nations including most of Eurasia and the countries of the BRICS, have begun to work seriously to create an alternative to the US dollar system that is destroying their economic stability. 
As a reaction to the blatant US coup d’ etat in Ukraine in February 2014, designed to drive a huge wedge between Russia and the EU, notably Germany and German industry, Russia began to turn to her east, especially to growing economic and military cooperation with China. 
For her part, the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, responded by inviting Russia and the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union—an emerging five nation economics union of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan as an integrated single market of 183 million people and a gross domestic product of over 4 trillion US dollars—to join China’s mammoth One Belt, One Road (OBOR) ports and high-speed rail infrastructure project. China’s OBOR at present spans all Eurasia land space and beyond to Western Europe and to Iran and potentially other Persian Gulf oil states, to Egypt and perhaps to Turkey. That multi-trillion dollar economic network is transforming the economic center-of-gravity of the world to Eurasia. Additionally, it is creating a natural alternative to the dollar in form of national gold-backed currencies as China and Russia build up their central bank gold reserves. 
Under the Obama Presidency, the US and its patriarchs and their geopolitical strategists such as Rockefeller-adviser Henry Kissinger, realized that they were in danger of losing everything, losing world hegemony. The badly-bungled US wars in the oil-and-gas-rich Middle East since 2003 and especially the bold Russian acceptance of Bashar al-Assad’s request for military support against US-trained ISIS and Al Nusra terrorists signaled the twilight of American global power and influence were deeply disturbing the American quest for control of world oil and gas. Washington was becoming viewed in the words of the late Mao as a “paper tiger.” 
Even the President of the small former US colony, the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, was openly defying Washington in his colorful way, and negotiating an alliance with China and Russia and a “separation” from Washington by late 2016. Another pivotal state from the standpoint of Eurasian geopolitical control, Turkey, was also shifting out of the US orbit towards rapprochement with Russia, especially following a failed July, 2016 CIA coup attempt using the Turkish networks of their CIA asset, Fethullah Gülen. The states of the EU were increasingly getting fed up with Washington-ordered economic sanctions against the Russian Federation. 

Who controls the Heartland…

To understand the strategy that links the various military actions in the first days of the Trump presidency it’s only necessary to grasp the essential axioms of Anglo-American geopolitics as formulated by the grand master of British geopolitics, Sir Halford Mackinder, nearly a century ago at the Versailles “peace” talks following defeat of Germany after World War I. 
n his 1919 book, Democratic Ideals and Reality, Mackinder in three brief sentences reveals the essence of British and after 1945, of American foreign policy. Mackinder wrote: 

• Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland;
• Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island;
• Who rules the World-Island controls the world.

For Mackinder, the Heartland was the Eurasian expanse of Russia and China and surrounding states. East Europe included Germany, Poland, France, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria. The World-Island was the vast expanse from Continental Europe across Eurasia and down to the oil-rich Middle East. 

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