The US is Declaring War on the World to Ensure its Supremacy

The National Security Strategy of the United States, released a few days ago, is a document that declares the country’s objectives of militaristic and economic dominance of the world at any cost in unmistakable terms. The document says that it would “ensure that America remains the world’s strongest, richest, most powerful, and most successful country for decades to come.”

There cannot be any problem if a country wishes to be number one in the world, but what the United States does in in pursuit of such an ambition is what makes the world a highly unsafe and dangerous place for all others. The US wants to dominate the world in every spheres through sheer use of force. It does not want to pursue a policy of mutually beneficial cooperation and cohabitation. Instead, it wants to rely on suppression, economic exploitation and use of its brute military power.

The United States has always pursued such a policy, and it has always used force to destabilise and destroy its critics and opponents, despite its lip sympathy to a global system of cooperation based on the principles enshrined in the charter of the United Nations, a system that it helped to build in the post-war years. Even then it used unilateral force in most parts of the world, cynically removed great leaders from other parts of the world that it disliked — from Patrice Lumumba in Africa to Salvador Allende in Chile to Saddam Hussein in Iraq. They even used assassination and other heinous acts like poisoning to get rid of leaders on the CIA hitlist. The list of its victims are long and they come from every part of the world.

Now the situation is taking a turn for the worse. For many decades, it has been doing everything to destabilise the Arab nations that posed a threat to its dominance in West Asia and also to safeguard the interests of Israel. The result has been immense misery for vast numbers of people in countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, etc., besides creating a genocidal situation in Gaza, resulting in a massive flood of refugees from these parts to the rest of the world. They did the same in Afghanistan in recent times and in Viet Nam a few decades ago.

Now the US is playing the same double game in Ukraine and even in Western Europe, for many decades its closest ally in its moves for global dominance and economic exploitation. When Putin’s Russia attacked Ukraine and forcibly took over parts of its eastern border regions, initially the US authorities supported Ukraine and provided arms and other facilities to them. In fact, in the initial period of the war which has entered fourth year, Turkey had almost worked out an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to put an end to the war, but it was scuttled by western powers led by the US. Now the US is cynically abandoning Ukraine asking Zelensky, its president, to be realistic and surrender to Russia!

The same appears to be the experience of Western European countries like the UK, France, Germany, etc., who have stood with the US in the NATO alliance. Initially Trump declared that the US would not be able to bear the cost of NATO expenses and asked its members to step up defence expenditure. When most of these countries have substantially increased their defence budgets despite other pressing needs, Trump has insulted them saying that the European leaders are weak and their countries are decaying. He might to be right when asserting that these Western European leaders are weak and their countries decaying. But the truth is that the US itself will have to bear responsibility as it had prided itself in being the “leader if the free world” until only a few years ago.

Hence the present western world is presenting us an interesting picture: For many decades the US and its Western allies stuck together to exploit and plunder the rest of the world, and now they are fighting against each other. The ultimate result is that he world is growing much more unsafe. It is time for the rest of the world to come together to safeguard their own interests.

Mohammad Elyas Thumbe
National General Secretary