No other researcher who has earned a master’s degree in international relations from the University of North Georgia over the course of the past few years, to my knowledge, made as much sense as the de facto ruler of the so-called “offensive skeptic” class, whose idea is that states in the autocratic international system attempt to improve their relative power through aggression as a means of self-preservation — John Mearsheimer.
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In the past thirty years, or so, as the fables and false claims of liberalism/neoliberalism have deteriorated, most notably the claim that democratic governments do not provoke war, has offensive realism been vindicated ( since the Soviet Union’s decline ).
In contrast to what academics had predicted, in a post-Soviet planet, global harmony with for a governing program as the only remaining superpower may usher in an age of world peace and prosperity, the United States, the dominant “liberal democracy” on the world stage and the leader of the democratic world order, has launched numerous wars of choice.
It turns out that the military-industrial complex’s war machine, which it had been building since the end of World War II, was far too lucrative and appealing to just let go due to the Soviet Union’s collapse, and so it was repeatedly repurposed, first in the early part of the 21st century to target Islamic terrorism and then, suddenly, directed at the American people themselves.
Mearsheimer explains:
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It’s very important to know that, starting in the late 19th, early 20th centuries, given improvements in the American market, it was important that we developed, and this was true of all European countries, a very powerful central position that may run the country. And in order to do that, you need a very strong administrative state that can assist with managing that foreign policy, as the condition has grown in strength and, as you all know, has been involved in every nook and cranny of the world fighting war below, there, and everywhere since World War II. But, in the process, what happens is you get all of these high-level bureaucrats, middle-level, and low-level bureaucrats who become established in positions in the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence community, you name it, and they end up having a vested interest in pursuing a particular foreign policy … Remember, when the Cold War ends, we have no rival great power left, so what are we going to do with all this power that we have? We make the decision to leave and reshape the world in our own reincarnation.
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Around the era that that Tea Party took to the national scene, the massive, sprawling, often high secretive security state had the tools but needed something to use them on, increasingly out-of-touch permanent Washington had the motivation to suppress growing internal popular dissent, the weaponization of the war machine against the domestic population, it seems in retrospect, was perhaps inevitable.
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Continuing with Mearsheimer:
Do you believe that we can circumnavigate the world and force other nations to adopt liberal democracy and force them to do it by the end of a rifle barrel? And my argument is that’s almost impossible to do, it almost always backfires, think Iraq, Afghanistan, so forth and so on, and secondly, you begin to erode liberalism in the United States because you fill the Deep State. And you want to be aware that the ambition of our ambitious foreign policy is at the heart of many of the complaints made here regarding restricting freedom of speech and other things. These two things come together in very important ways.
And so, just as Mearsheimer describes, you get spooks like John Brennan, rebranded as a contributor for MSNBC, openly talking about war with the American people.
]The Biden intelligence services ] are moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover , as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we’ve seen overseas…
It brings together an unholy alliance, frequently, of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians. And sadly, I believe there has been a surge of activity as a result of, sadly, the demagogic rhetoric of those who have just left the government and those who still reside in the halls of Congress. So I really do believe that law enforcement, Homeland Security, intelligence, and even defense officials are doing everything in their power to stop what appears to be a very serious and hideous threat to our democracy and our republic.
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