This article was originally published by the Trends Research Institute. It has been republished here with permission from the author.
In the 1930s, the US, Great Britain, and the Netherlands set a course for World War II in the Pacific by conspiring against Japan. The three governments seized Japan’s bank accounts in their countries that Japan used to pay for imports and cut Japan off from oil, rubber, tin, iron and other vital materials. Was Pearl Harbor Japan’s response?
Now Washington and its NATO puppets are employing the same strategy against China.
Protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, and Yemen arose from the people protesting against Washington’s tyrannical puppet governments. However, the protests against Gaddafi, who is not a Western puppet, appear to have been organized by the CIA in the eastern part of Libya, where the oil is and where China has substantial energy investments.
Eighty percent of Libya’s oil reserves are believed to be in the Sirte Basin in eastern Libya, now controlled by rebels supported by Washington. As seventy percent of Libya’s GDP is produced by oil, a successful partitioning of Libya would leave Gaddafi’s Tripoli-based regime impoverished.
The People’s Daily Online (March 23) reported that China has 50 large-scale projects in Libya. The outbreak of hostilities has halted these projects and resulted in 30,000 Chinese workers being evacuated from Libya. Chinese companies report that they expect to lose hundreds of millions of yuan.
China is relying on Africa, principally Libya, Angola, and Nigeria, for future energy needs. In response to China’s economic engagement with Africa, Washington is engaging the continent militarily with the US African Command (AFRICOM) created by President George W. Bush in 2007. Forty-nine African countries agreed to participate with Washington in AFRICOM, but Gaddafi refused, thus creating a second reason for Washington to target Libya for takeover.
A third reason for targeting Libya is that Libya and Syria are the only two countries with Mediterranean sea coasts that are not under the control or influence of Washington. Suggestively, protests also have broken out in Syria. Whatever Syrians might think of their government, after watching Iraq’s fate, and now Libya’s, it is unlikely that Syrians would set themselves up for US military intervention. Both the CIA and Mossad are known to use social networking sites to foment protests and to spread disinformation. These intelligence services are the likely conspirators that the Syrian and Libyan governments blame for the protests.
Caught off guard by protests in Tunisia and Egypt, Washington realized that protests could be used to remove Gaddafi and Assad. The humanitarian excuse for intervening in Libya is not credible, considering Washington’s go-ahead to the Saudi military to crush the protests in Bahrain, the home base for the US Fifth Fleet.
If Washington succeeds in overthrowing the Assad government in Syria, Russia would lose its Mediterranean naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus. Thus, Washington has much to gain if it can use the cloak of popular rebellion to eject both China and Russia from the Mediterranean. Rome’s mare nostrum (“our sea”) would become Washington’s mare nostrum.
“Gaddafi must go,” declared Obama. How long before we also hear, “Assad must go?”
The American captive press is at work demonizing both Gaddafi and Assad, an eye doctor who returned to Syria from London to head the government after his father’s death.
The hypocrisy passes unremarked when Obama calls Gaddafi and Assad dictators. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the American president has been a Caesar. Based on nothing more than a Justice Department memo, George W. Bush was declared to be above US statutory law, international law, and the power of Congress as long as he was acting in his role as commander-in-chief in the “war on terror.”
Caesar Obama has done Bush one step better. Caesar Obama has taken the US to war against Libya without even the pretense of asking Congress for authorization. This is an impeachable offense, but an impotent Congress is unable to protect its power. By accepting the claims of executive authority, Congress has acquiesced to Caesarism. The American people have no more control over their government than do people in countries ruled by dictators.
Washington’s quest for world hegemony is driving the world toward World War III. China is no less proud than was Japan in the 1930s and is unlikely to submit to being bullied and governed by what China regards as the decadent West. Russia’s resentment to its military encirclement is rising. Washington’s hubris can lead to fatal miscalculation.
That America is playing a very dangerous game there can be no doubt. But it is broke and even worse it is up to its neck in debt to China. So it had to come out into open and it is now obvious that it is heading for Russia via Libya, Syria and Iran. So where does that leave China?
I have been wathching China’s English language CCTV recently and I expected that like Russia’s RT it would be very much against the war in Libya but that is not the case and it seems to be sparing no effort to undermine the Libyan Government as if it could not wait for it to be overthrown.
This would be very strange until you realise that the Americans are not now expected to pay their debts to China in cash so maybe they are paying it in kind with Libyan oil. The only problem with this scenario is where does this leave the EU which is dependent on Libyan oil.
Germany has been against this war all along and now the EU part of Nato has taken over control of the Libyan operation and I gather American ships have left the scene. In the last few days the rebels in the desert have seen Libyan forces take back most of the important oils towns and are now crying that the invasion forces are not doing enough for them.
When you consider that for the EU it would be madness to change the status quo and that they should overthrow the Libyan government to have the oil given to China by Uncle Sam would be the ultimate insult. So it appears that America will have to go further afield if it wants to pay its debts to China in stolen oil.
By the way It has been reported that a ship has now left Libya with 1m barrels of oil. What is the big secret about where it is going? My guess is it is headed for China as part of an American deal already made with China.
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786:
ABOUT 59 YEARS BACK A POET IN PAKISTAN WROTE AN INTERESTING POEM ON WORKING OF ” UNO ” IN THOSE DAYS. HE SAID “U” OF “UNO”
INDICATES ” USA “, THE REST IS “NO” “NO” “NO”.
Mr. Roberts…
Fantastic.
if i had one thing to tell the american people would be to quote you.
“The American people have no more control over their government than do people in countries ruled by dictators.”
786:
MY PERSONAL OPINION IS THAT NOT ONLY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T HAVE MUCH CONTROL ON THEIR GOVERNMENET [ EXCEPT JUST BEFORE EVERY ELECTION ], BUT RATHER, THEY DON’T HAVE THE FULL KNOWLEDGE WHAT THEIR GOVERNMENT IS DOING AND WHAT REPERCUTIONS THESE SERIOUS AND DANGEROUS ACTIONS WILL BRING TO THIS COUNTRY WHO WAS ONCE LOVED BY POOR PEOPLE AND POOR COUNTRIES AS THE CHAMPION OF DEMOCRASY, FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE.
IT LOOKS FUNNY TO ME [ BEING A REPUBLICAN, WHO WOTED FOR MR. OBHAMA IN THE LAST ELECTION ] THAT HE IS DOING EXACTLY THE SAME MISTAKE MR. BUSH MADE IN ATTACKING IRAQ, AND MR. OBHAMA HAD CRITISISED EVERY THING MR. BUSH HAD DONE IN IRAQ.
THE NET RESULT OF IRAQ WAR IS AL-QAIEDA GETTING GREAT PUBLICITY, AND INTRUDING IN IRAQ TREMONDESLY, WHICH WAS NOT THE SITUATION IN MR.SADDAM’S DAYS, BECAUSE HE HATED SUPERIORITY OF RELIGEOUS PARTIES.
Unbelievable article for US press…
Great respect.
Go ahead, Obama! The weaker the EU the closer Germany to Russia. This alliance is the nightmare pf US geopolitics.
Удивительно что в тоталитарной америке дали такое написать.
OMG This person can be assasinate in US
And respect from Kazakhstan Observer
786
786:
ABOUT 59 YEARS BACK A POET IN PAKISTAN WROTE AN INTERESTING POEM ON WORKING OF ” UNO ” IN THOSE DAYS. HE SAID “U” OF “UNO”
INDICATES ” USA “, THE REST IS “NO” “NO” “NO”.
The US has 3 problems: Unemployment, energy crisis and debt. Moreover the US has something no country in the world has in such a great amount: Oceans. The solution of all lies in the sea. Offshore wind power, oil from saltwater algea, food from sea farms, oil from deep water drilling, wide resources of precious metals. Especially oil from salt water algea will lead has big labour potential and big money. Moreover the US has the biggest shale gas reserves in the world. By transforming the vehicle fleet to CNG, this will lead to massive labour need. At the same time the US has just to wait, since China will be more and more expensive in near future and that will lead to the same results like in the US.
Finally a world war will lead to extinction of mankind, and the US will not be excluded. There is no day after nuclear war.