At the end of the day, every naughty boy gets punished in one way or another, if by removing much of his freedom, sanction toys or plays he likes and even contained to parental house arrest. Yes this happens when responsible parents have the interest of the child in mind and try to prepare him for a disciplined life ahead of him.
In my allegory the US society received his punishment by having Obama elected as president, a person who conducts internal and external policies which are completely opposite to his pre-election promises and populous campaign. Any one opposing his “change of hearth” on policy matter is send to the proverbial “political Siberia” He surrounded himself with only those people who believe in him fanatically or have very serious economic vested interest for Obama to stay in power or know that Obama can be used as their puppet to achieve their narrow interest of personal enrichment beyond imagination.
In a nutshell the US as a state and society is harshly punished for it’s indulgence which started a after the Reagan administration and really accelerated under Clinton a master in deceit and self serving policies ( does any one remembers the so called “suicide" of an attorney on the White House grounds or Clinton definition of sex? or having or not having "sex with this woman" by taking advantage of his position in power)
Unfortunate within the world confines the story is very very different from my allegory in my fist paragraph, every naughty nation get punished the weaker one by startling sanction, the stronger one by eroding their world credibility and labeling them “rouge state” but not by standards of morality and the good of the state future but by weakening the “rouge state” into accepting the terms and conditions of the emerging power to establish themselves within the world.
This flip of fortunes is mainly economic driven and the one with the “riches” calls the shots and not the one who is right, no matter if those state riches where obtain by exploiting their own population other nation or plain plunder.
Russia tried it but was to openly brutal toward any one who was not adhering to their interest from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, S.E Asia and their own population therefore after 2 generations more or less their policy failed
Come China who is fast at learning the power game and play softball but with not less hideous goals of propagating their own interests on the expense of others, and they succeed at it very well running a country under a queasy totalitarian rule by comity propagating an ideology that has nothing to do with personal freedom of choice or thought or the very basic human rights issues - but China due to their hordes of rural poor population transforms them into queasy slaves to enrich the state and hurt their economic competitors, by iron fist policies packaged in a soft velvet glove for the outsiders to see, and by thus amassing huge state wealth
The net result is very aggressive and ruthless emerging power which tramples on every value the Western World cherish advances in Africa S. America Central Asia with a policy of colonialism and imperialism with a velvet glove, under the pretenses of “free trade which is sorely very one sided.
And how are the “former powers” of the Western World dealing with this cynical expansion? The EU have no backbones and resort to threaten those states that are small change in their power by exercising “their EU interest” on states that do not have the "means” to make a dent in EU economic power and completely ignore the real and present dangers of submitting their hard earned social value to a powerful rouge state or totalitarian regime run by “committee”
Until now the only “state standing” was the US in a way policing the world for better or worse with a major flaw embedded in its culture – Keep the electorate happy no matter the worldwide economic hardship and massing military expenses to fulfill the world leadership and propagating the concept of a free world, with personal freedom of choice or thought or the very basic human rights issues. US electorate was coerced into thinking that such leadership comes for free and US interest will be served for free, and all this at the same time, forgetting that it has cost many hundreds of $ billions over 2 generations to remove the Russian expansionist threat.
All this was achieved by wrongly exploiting the might and industrial powers of the US to enrich the few and initiating the “trickle down” policy, which when this policy stopped to be effective and under the Clinton administration to resort to plain thievery and deceit with the government finances, social security savings and future medicare coverage. They plainly robbed the bank to satisfy the electorate to splurge on a binge of consumerism and keep it happy by hiding the sorry fact that the available income of its electorate is stagnating or even shrinking if adjusted to real inflation and use a bunch of thieves and swindlers employed by WS to reflect on the country riches via the ill conceived mirror of the financial markets which are based on fraud manipulation an deceit. Yes the stock market reflect the health of our economy – and given the human nature there are some correction in prices from time to time – what a lie – the stock market did not predict the recent economic crisis similar to the great depression 3 generation ago!!
In summary going back to the start of my writings the US as a state behaved like a naughty kid but now in a warm carrying home but in a merciless world where by at every corner there is some one with a knife to grind or better said “stick it to into you” so after successfully eliminating the rouge Russian empire the US with it s self deluging way thinking of itself still as the preeminent world power received its punishment trough China policies which render the US interest to dust and steam rolls everything the US society believes in. Even a buffoon like Shaves recognizes the US weakness and uses it for his personal gain, Iran completely ignores the Great Satan and its punishment power and even relative friendly Brazil thumps its nose to the former Western Powers allying himself with Iran and Venezuela and trying its own world agenda of supremacy
Obama bowing before every powerless monarch or Arab sheik running a totalitarian state ruled by middle ages religious laws and with blood on his hands, a sign of new political attitude only reflects the utter weakness of the US as a state. Obama irrelevancy is obvious almost on any world even of some meaningful importance, and was strikingly clear now at Copenhagen most world power actually proved to him his irrelevance on the world scene if from a political or economic point of view. |
