US/Foreign policy
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United States Foreign policy is, so goes its official narrative, an aggressive promoter of freedom and democracy. James A. Lucas, estimated in 2015 that the US had killed perhaps 20-30 million foreigners since 1945.[1]
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“The US/Saudi/Israeli alliance against Iran is the most important geo-political factor in the region today. It is high time this alliance stopped both funding ISIS and pretending to fight it; schizophrenia is not a foreign policy stance.”
Craig Murray (20 December 2018) Template:Cn
Official narrative
The US is a force for good in the world. Attacks on foreign countries are well understood as "humanitarian intervention" intended not to fulfil the secret purposes of the US deep state, but by purely altruistic concerns. The commercially-controlled media generally presents a realistic bigger picture of world events. Those caught defying this modus operandi, such as Edwin Wilson, are the exceptional "bad apples", not the rule. {{#subobject: |Has superobject=US/Foreign policy |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Craig Murray|+sep=, |Has text=“Anybody who believes that a country's internal democracy is the determining factor in whether the West decides to move for violent regime change in that country, is a complete idiot. Any journalist or politician who makes that claim is more likely to be a complete charlatan than a complete idiot. In recent years, possession of hydrocarbon reserves is very obviously a major factor in western regime change actions.” |Is about=US/Foreign policy,US/Foreign policy, oil, gas, hydrocarbons, coups, democracy|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=January 2019 |Sourced from=Craig Murray's Blog |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=Craig Murray's Blog |Has sourceURL=https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/01/the-coup-in-venezuela-must-be-resisted/
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“Anybody who believes that a country's internal democracy is the determining factor in whether the West decides to move for violent regime change in that country, is a complete idiot. Any journalist or politician who makes that claim is more likely to be a complete charlatan than a complete idiot. In recent years, possession of hydrocarbon reserves is very obviously a major factor in western regime change actions.”
Craig Murray (January 2019) [2]
History
In 1823, US president James Monroe expounded the US Monroe Doctrine that the US would oppose European nation states colonies in the Americas. At that time, the US military was relatively weak, but this doctrine continued to guide policy for a long time.
US relative military power increased after the hugely destructive WW1 sapped the strength of Britain and the other European nations. Although involved in this and in WW2, neither war was fought on US soil, and the US was on both winning sides.
Cold war
- Full article: Cold war
- Full article: Cold war
After 1945, the US emerged, with nuclear weapons, engaged in the Cold War with the other 'superpower', the USSR. Open wars were few (with the notable exceptions of the Korean War and the Vietnam War), and the focus was on covert, CIA-sponsored, assassinations and regime change operations.
Operation Gladio
- Full articles: Operation Gladio, Operation Gladio/B
- Full articles: Operation Gladio, Operation Gladio/B
At the close of WW2, a pan-European network of terrorist cells was set up under the moniker "stay behind network". Originally set up with the express intention of only being activated in case of a communist invasion, this carried out violent acts, including assassinations and false flag attacks which were used to manipulate public opinion. This was briefly investigated, mainly in Italy, after a spate of bombings in the 1970s and 80s. Sibel Edmonds, the most gagged individual in US history, has claimed that the US pentagon has an office codenamed Gladio/B which substituted Moslems for anti-communists.
Post-USSR
Post 1989, the US has continued to intervene overseas. These have becoming increasingly more ambitious as the influence of the US deep state has replace that part of the democratic process which actually respected the will of the citizens.[3] In the 21st century, effective control of groups such as Al Qaeda has allowed the post 9/11 "war on terror" to be exploited as a general purpose casus belli. In countries such as Libya, aggressive foreign intervention has been portrayed by the commercially-controlled media as "humanitarian intervention".