COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY NATALIE NOUGAYREDE IN THE
GUARDIAN
Response to another
reader’s comment:
Merkel is indeed a disaster.
Across the board, in every major area of policy.
And the main reason for that is that she is a slavish
follower of American policy, exactly as is Natalie Nougayrède in her own way.
And American policy today is the most destructive by any
major power in many decades, indeed, since the pre-WWII world.
America's establishment feels things slipping away, and it
reacts by being hyper-aggressive, trying to secure their control of affairs.
The world is unquestionably moving towards a multi-polar
reality, and the American establishment - which had after WWII the world as its
oyster, so to speak - does not want to accept the growing new reality of its
relative diminishment.
That is the basis of the ghastly policies which have given
us 15 years of Neocon Wars as America's establishment seeks to hold onto
"full-spectrum dominance" everywhere that counts.
Weak leaders in Europe - Merkel, Hollande, Sarkozy, Cameron,
Blair - have greatly assisted in this effort.
I almost think Merkel still thinks as an old East German,
fearful of Soviet power and eternally grateful to the United States for being
there. She is utterly blind to what America does today, accepting, for example,
with never a whimper of opposition horrible things like America’s proxy war in
Syria.
