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but does it really matter?
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How
many wars the United States have won since the end of WWII? In his
new movie "Where to Invade Next", Michael Moore gives a
straight answer: none. However, maybe the real question should be:
what is of most importance, victory or war itself?
After
the humiliating war in Vietnam, which cost the US a major influence
in Southeast Asia, and led to the overheating of the US economy due
to long-term government spending on weaponry, the military operations
of the US can hardly be considered failed.
The
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may have brought chaos in the wider
Middle East but also led to the encirclement of Iran, while they
redistributed the pie of oil fields and pipelines which were about to
pass in the hands of European and Chinese companies.
The
bombing of Libya may have led even to the death of the American
ambassador in Tripoli, but deprived from Europe an alternative energy
source, increasing its dependence on the Americanized oil monarchies
of the Persian Gulf - note that the same thing happened with the
civil war in Ukraine, through which the geostrategic flirting between
Berlin and Moscow was interrupted.
Even
the seemingly uncontrollable creation of jihadists, first in Libya
and then in Iraq and Syria, still operates today as a benefit, rather
than a loss - it allows the implementation of the "divide and
rule" doctrine.
The
most important, however, according to many analysts, is that the US
economy is now so inextricably linked to the war - from the weapons
companies and the research and development sector, to construction
companies that undertake the reconstruction of devastated areas - so
that the continuous state of war is prerequisite for its survival.
War
is no longer an end in itself, and victory or defeat, at least as
defined in previous centuries, are of secondary importance. The
actual defeat does not concern the US military. It concerns the US
economy.
Source:
This
is actually a modern type of political control as described by Adam
Curtis in his short film: fa.ev/p1/
The
line between good and bad, victory and defeat, ally and enemy is not
clear at all and can be altered any time. Absolute confusion and
chaos fuel the US and the Western economies, but maybe the time has
come to pay the price through the huge refugee crisis, which the West
and especially Europe suddenly appear unable to handle.
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