I would have to say the United States, though surely imperfect, has been a net force for good.
That certainly is what they attempt to teach in the history books ....
but then the government is largely in control of education these days ...... and has been for some time .....
Mmmmm .....
Of course, it is certainly true that
the Nation of the United States is not the same thing as the relatively small number of people that worm their way into the government of the United States, or otherwise attempt to influence it.
We were reluctantly drawn into two World Wars and saved Europe TWICE.
Might be more facts there that are not necessarily in agreement ..... ones that would indicate that we weren't quite so reluctant ..... in fact, could be that there were
some that weren't reluctant at all
but were rather enthusiastic about the possibilities ......
One doesn't necessarily have to rely on the mainstream media for such info - indeed, it is likely that you won't find it there - instead one can read books and scholarly publications which rely on
primary documents.
After that, we successfully contained Communism for 45 years...
..... after having had the Bolshevik Revolution itself funded from our shores. Of course, the cost of doing that generated
enormous profits (for a fairly select few) - which of course
had to be paid for by someone. (Keep that little factoid in mind next time you sign off on your 1040 and stick it in the mail with a check)
The following is from
"Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution" by Antony C. Sutton (Arlington House, 1975), p. 170:
". . . there is considerable evidence of transfers of funds from Wall Street bankers to international revolutionary activitites. For example, there is the statement (substantiated by cablegram) by William Boyce Thompson - a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a large stockholder in the Rockefeller-controlled Chase Bank, and a financial associate of the Guggenheims and Morgans - that he (Thompson) contributed $1 million to the Bolshevik Revolution for propaganda purposes.
Another example is John Reed, the American member of the Third International executive committee, who was financed and supported by Eugene Boissevain, a private New York banker, and who was employed by Harry Payne Whitney's Metropolitan magazine. Whitney was at that time a director of [the Morgan-controlled] Guaranty Trust. . . . Ludiwig Martens, the first Soviet "amabassador" to the United States was (according to British Intelligence chief Sir Basil Thompson) backed by funds from Guaranty Trust Company.
In tracing Trotsky's funding in the U.S. we arrived at German sources, yet to be identified, in New York. And though we do not know the precise German source of Trotsky's funds, we do know that Von Pavenstadt, the chief German espionage paymaster in the U.S., was also a senior partner of Amsinck & Co. Amsinck was owned by the ever-present American International Corporation - also controlled by the J. P. Morgan firm."
Mr. Sutton also wrote
"Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler" and
"Wall Street and FDR"
You may read about who he was here:
Antony C. Sutton
sometimes fighting proxy wars in SE Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East...
As someone once said:
"Follow the money ......"
War is politics by other means. Regrettably, war is man's signature.
I would differ .... most reasonable men would agree that they would prefer peace to war ..... (but not necessarily at any cost)
If that is true, it must therefore follow that those who
actually want war must be but a small percentage of the population.
War is the signature of a relatively small number of men (I would maintain they are madmen - true psychopaths), who in their lust and greed,
sucker entire populations into participating (and paying), while they themselves stand quietly in the background, reaping the rewards, collecting the profits ..... having never once bore arms themselves personally.
In trying to understand
why someone would
want war, one has to be willing to look at many things ...... some of them not necessarily all that pleasant .... indeed,
many things in this world are often not what they seem to be.
