John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY PROF MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY IN RUSSIA INSIDER
"Dismantle NATO, Close Down 800 US Military Bases, Prosecute the War Criminals"
All stuff we'd love to see, but I'm afraid it's just empty, almost childish dreams to talk about any of it actually happening.
American imperialism can end only through almost revolutionary changes inside America.
Changes to end plutocratic dominance, which would include things like the wealthy paying fair taxes and gigantic monopolies being broken up, changes to end America’s bought-and-sold election practices, changes to end the terrible influences of powerful lobbies over national policy, changes to end the reign of the psychopaths at CIA, changes to cut drastically the grotesque size and waste of the Pentagon, and new laws to protect ordinary citizens from the unhealthy workings of all those forces.
Not one of those changes is even remotely possible for the foreseeable future.
So, with no engine inside the US to drive those changes, there can be no change in the polluted "environment" that they now generate in the world.
The world is changing right under the US's nose, and the US has long been losing global economic dominance, but it will be generations likely before the US establishment can be seriously affected.
Unless of course, we have a world economic catastrophe or a war. Each of those are revolutionary situations bringing sudden and unpredictable change.
Both of those are unfortunately real possibilities given the way the US establishment is furiously lashing out and stirring things up everywhere in its new drive to dominate by force where it cannot hope to peacefully compete.
