The menace of British-style geopolitics is proceeding on track to the point we are currently seeing every kind of subject—from the COVID-19 pandemic on Earth, to reaching for the stars in heaven—portrayed as us vs. them, which is the applied form of the classic British Great Game of exerting control, by playing off all the suckers against each other. Right now we have the extreme case of the U.S. warhawk franchise of British geopolitical circles, rampaging against China, and continuing against Russia. In that light, there is a newly released U.S. “Defense Space Strategy” document. This is especially dangerous in the context of instability and nuclear weapons.
The antidote to this madness is presented in the discussion process associated with the series of Schiller Institute international conferences, whose next one is the June 27 day-long event titled, “Will Humanity Prosper, or Perish? The Future Demands a ‘Four Power Summit Now.’“
Instead of that perspective of common interest, look at the confrontationism targetted against China and Russia, before an otherwise very important, strategic meeting between U.S. and Russian officials on June 22 on nuclear arms control talks. The U.S. lead negotiator is Marshall Billingslea, Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov leads his side. The meeting is in Vienna.
On June 19, one of the Americans on the delegation, Robert Wood, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, held forth that, “we cannot turn a blind eye” against the “growing challenges from Russia and China,” speaking in a CBS interview. First, he insisted China come to the Vienna negotiations, even though only the day before, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said, China would not. Wood told CBS, “It is long overdue for China to come to the table…” He said, “We’re not going to allow Russia and China to continue to move forward on their modernizations and increasing the stockpiles of nuclear weapons…”
On June 17, a major salvo came against “adversaries” China and Russia, in the U.S. Defense Department’s release of its new “Defense Space Strategy.” The press release states that the new policy document, “identifies how Department of Defense will advance space power to be able to compete, deter, and win in a complex security environment characterized by great power competition.” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said at the Pentagon press conference, that “our adversaries have made space a warfighting domain and we have to implement enterprise-wide changes…for this new strategic environment.” He said that China and Russia present “the most immediate and serious threats to U.S. space operations…” Specifically, “Chinese and Russian strategic intentions and capabilities present urgent and enduring threats to the ability of the Department to achieve its desired conditions in space.”
And thirdly, today comes another targeting of China. Peter Navarro, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy for President Trump, reiterated once again his rant that China caused the pandemic. The virus “came out of China.” They “hid it” They “spread it” through hundreds of citizens flying abroad. “That’s a fact.” He said, “That virus was a result of the Chinese Communist Party.” The career China-hater added that, in the book he wrote in 2006, look on page 150, “I predicted China would create a viral pandemic…”
These lies and ploys are the short road to Hell. They are the same kind of anti-truth that Russian President Vladimir Putin is countering now in his newly published article, based on full documentation, on what led into World War II, and what were the true heroic figures and dynamics, not the dangerous myths. (See: “The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II,” National Interest, June 18).
Spread the word this week, for one and all to participate in the June 27th Schiller Institute conference.
