April 10, 2024 (EIRNS)—Argentine patriot Rubén Darío Guzzetti, a longtime friend of the Schiller Institute, has written an excellent article, “The Threatened Empire Tries To Recolonize Our America,” warning that the Western imperial system is doing enormous harm in the Western hemisphere despite the fact that it’s in a state of decline. In fact he says, the period of greatest anguish, chaos, uncertainty and danger that mankind has experienced throughout history, almost always has “coincided with the periods of decline of empires.” Right now, he says, “we are experiencing the complex transition of the end of Anglo-Saxon unipolar domination of the West,” and that makes it dangerous.
Guzzetti gives several examples. NATO, for one, is failing in Europe. It has not weakened or dismembered Russia, but now it’s going after China, unsuccessfully. Thus, it opts for terrorist acts against the civilian population, as in Moscow recently.
The genocide in Gaza has also created problems for the West, isolating the U.S. and turning public opinion against it internationally. Despite provocations against China on the Taiwan issue, China continues to grow, expanding its commercial and economic influence. Finance Ministers of the BRICS just met at the Valdai Club’s annual meeting to discuss creating a currency that would serve as an alternative or complement to the dollar to be used by member nations at first for trade transactions.
Guzzetti warns that given its decline, the Western empire is trying to “recolonize our continent.” That means deploying the U.S. Southern Command, using the dozens of existing military bases, counting on the local oligarchies to help in controlling natural resources and launching destabilization operations against Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico and Argentina. In Argentina, commander of the U.S. Southern Command Gen. Laura Richardson, just visited to counter China’s presence in the country and announce construction of a joint U.S.-Argentine port to be built in Tierra del Fuego.
But, he points out, there is another part of the world which continues to develop, “expressed by the BRICS-Plus, ASEAN and its partners, and the Initiative of the New Silk Road, announcing a new world with a shared future.” The empire has reacted brutally to its collapsing capitalism, he says, “as has occurred in other moments of history…. The difference is that in this situation, its increasing weakness is met by a powerful development front, led by China, Russia and many emerging countries that no longer tolerate Western tutelage and thuggery and proposes a world of cooperation instead of savage competition. That is, replace the troglodyte `winner takes all’ with `win-win.’”
