Against the Hamster Wheel of The US Foreign Policy
Amid Russia’s illegal military aggression against the sovereign state of Ukraine, the United States of America and its NATO allies still have not developed a soberly comprehensive strategy to this existential threat with the potential of destroying the political, financial, economic, and cultural foundations of the Free World. Founded on the principle of an alliance that is politically and morally just only when limited to a reciprocally effective defense pact, NATO has survived for more than seven decades because its member states’ domestic and foreign policies have been closely related to each other.
Contrary to this eminently rational proposition, the Russian cultural self-aggrandizement and illegal territorial usurpations have cemented the ruthlessly imperial ethos of the exceptional tyrants who have permanently represented the superiority of allegedly valid domestic and foreign policies. The ever-present isolated Russian notion of the mastery of the world and the belatedly emerging friendless Chinese claim of universal political and cultural superiority, based on the ancient Han racism, are rooted in the catastrophically erroneous assessment of real powers across the globe. The presently emerging rivalry between the revanchist Russian Federation and NATO on the one hand and the absurdly vainglorious People’s Republic of China and NATO on the other, cannot and will not end exclusively by the force of military means because ephemeral military victories have given birth throughout history to obsessive hatred as well as all-consuming resistance by the losers. While Presidents Putin and Xi have placed their disjointed aspirations on the discombobulated domestic conditions in the United States of America and many other NATO member states, they are attempting to fundamentally change the world in line with nothing but the very tyrannical lies as well as hoaxes that have already produced violent chaos across the globe.
Today, American society is divided between itself and each other. The aggressive questioning of the very identity of the Union as a Constitutional Republic and the “us versus them” mentality of the political as well as cultural confrontations make the irreconcilable enmities between the status quo and its alien nature to the emerging illusionary alternative world abundantly clear. Self-erected cul-de-sac of false narratives and ersatz truths hijack ideologically blinded media influencers, legislators, and governmental organizations. As a result, most Americans lost their sense of reality and withdrew into their artificially created vacuums. Stuck with a mentally deficient President, a laughably incompetent Vice President, an underqualified cabinet, and a partially amateurish Congress, it is enormously challenging to govern the United States of America in the name of the people and even more arduous to show the way out of this misery for its allies as well as friends.
Nonetheless, to develop a coherent strategy to win the fight against all the destructive enemies of freedom at home and abroad, the United States of America must do more than defend the status quo. To achieve a constructively creative foreign policy, restoring patriotic constitutionalism must be the core principle around which all Americans can and shall unite. Minority tribalism, advocated so violently by power and money-hungry false prophets armed with the whimsical arbitrariness of victim-centered ideologies, must be replaced by an America that is a restored human paradise of harmonious coexistence. Moreover, the American people need leaders like the founding fathers and, more recently, Ronald Reagan to remind everybody that the proof of American greatness is in this great nation’s past and its even more promising future. More succinctly, the present status quo, in which some benefit more than others – and mostly undeservedly – must be stripped of its destructive sectarianism by minority swindlers and replaced by the public spirit of loyalty to the nation.
Great nations have always led by example. Throughout the 20th century and the approaching first quarter of the 21st century, there have only been a single genuinely great nation – the United States of America. Its greatness has been based on the founding fathers’ belief that the project of the United States of America is larger than the personal ambitions of individuals, political parties, and even the three branches of government with their interests. In American political history, productive majorities have always been built by patriotic associations and never by insanely destructive cults of marauding fringe elements of society. For all these reasons, neither domestic progress nor successful foreign policy can be executed on harmful plans and theories.
American foreign policy has yet to be working as it did before 1990. It must be changed. The United States of America’s place and role in the world must be thoroughly reevaluated and discussed objectively without political bickering and sloganeering. As a first step in this direction, the concept of national security must be redefined from a primarily defensive posture to a well-grounded coherent offensive strategy. George F. Kennan’s containment and ubiquitous restraint must be combined with seriously overwhelming offensive capabilities.
The alternative would be a world in which a tyrannical Russia and a racist China would create an avalanche of disgruntled and revengeful states that ultimately would destroy the world in their spiteful conviction that they are saving it. The Euclidean point of lasting peace and stability must be found to avoid such an outcome. The United States of America needed to prepare for this terrifying prospect. To live up to its past and promising future by continuing to lead the world, America needs the unifying courage of its brave men and women and the endurance of its future generations.
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