Time for a little bit of historical perspective. Money and power are simply aspects of each other. The reduction first of local autonomy during the nineteenth century was through a global expansion of the European colonial enterprise and do understand this as enterprise. This was dispersed in exchange for local governance supported by a global financial system which achieved exactly the same thing.
What was also induced was locally managed evolution to modernity. Thus all countries where touched and directed forward toward modernity. The authoritarian version of modernity has competed with a corporate version of modernity. Political dispensations have all facilitated this rise of modernity as much as possible.
The USA continues to have the largest economy and its allies are all deeply integrated so it is not just the USA but a trade bloc of over one billion and climbing. Thus the USA has the capacity to imposes rules and does. This is difficult to stomach without political representation. This will be the way forward. After all it is necessary to impose a common economic system. That is why China is been brought to heel and been forced to accept a level playing field.
All this is presently ruled by the American people. Please think about that.
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Ruler of the World
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Recently released secret documents from Chinese company Huawei provide insights into how the U.S. Empire rules the world. According to the Washington Post, the documents reveal that Huawei secretly helped North Korea “build and maintain the country’s commercial wireless network.”
What’s wrong with that? you ask.
It violates U.S. sanctions against North Korea!
What do U.S. sanctions have to do with commercial relations between a Chinese company and North Korea?
Well, as the ruler of the world — or, in
common parlance, as the world’s sole remaining empire — the U.S.
Empire’s rules and regulations apply to everyone in the world. If anyone
anywhere in the world is caught violating them, he will be summoned to
the United States to face criminal and civil prosecution.
What about President Trump’s lovefest with North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-Un?
Irrelevant! Just because the president of the United States has fallen in love with North Korea’s communist dictator and salutes his communist generals,
that still does not relieve foreigners from complying with the Empire’s
edicts prohibiting commercial ties with North Korea without the
official permission of U.S. officials.
That’s how the Empire works — its rulers
are free to fall in love with anyone they want but that still doesn’t
relieve foreign governments and foreign companies of their duty to
comply with and obey the rules and regulations of the U.S. Empire.
Anyway, everyone is supposed to know that
North Korea is a communist regime and that communism is bad. That’s in
fact why the Empire has maintained a harsh economic embargo against the
Cuban people for more than 50 years. Since the Cuban people have refused
to oust their communist regime with a coup or a violent revolution, the
U.S. Empire has continued to target them with impoverishment and death
through economic sanctions, the same thing they are doing to the North
Korean people and, well, for that matter, the Iranian people.
Like Huawei’s helping North Korea to
build and maintain a wireless commercial network, woe to the foreigner
who does business with communist Cuba in violation of the U.S. embargo.
He will be prosecuted, fined, and imprisoned for daring to violate the
rules and regulations of the Empire.
In fact, woe to the American citizen who
travels to Cuba and spends money there without the official permission
of his rulers. He too will be viciously prosecuted, fined, and
imprisoned by the Empire.
Notice the operative words: “without the
official permission of his rulers.” You see, apparently trading with the
Cuban Reds is not bad per se because U.S. officials do grant official
permission to some Americans — the privileged ones — to travel to Cuba
and spend money there. That’s how the Empire works — if you approach it,
show respect, bend the knee, and plead for permission to trade with
others, they might (or might not) let you. What’s important is that you
ask permission. That’s how “freedom” works under an Empire.
Of course, there is a big exception when
it comes to trading with the communists. That exception is North Vietnam
or, excuse me, Vietnam, a country that is headed by a communist regime
that killed more than 58,000 American men who were sacrificed by the
U.S. Empire in a violent war against communism. Apparently Vietnam’s
communism is not so bad anymore because U.S. Empire officials have
granted Americans official permission to trade with the Vietnamese
Reds.
In his Fourth of July, 1821, address to Congress, entitled “In Search of Monsters to Destroy,”
U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams accurately predicted what
would happen if the U.S. government were ever to abandon its founding
principle of non-interventionism in favor of a worldwide interventionist
empire:
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet upon her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world.
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