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Clearing House (ICH) bracht gisteren een artikel over de vele VS bases over
de wereld. De schrijver, Belen
Fernandez stelt dat met al die bases het
grondgebied van de VS internationaal grenst aan een groot deel van de
landen die onze aarde rijk is. Daarmee is de VS een (uiterst
gevaarlijk) imperium, groter dan de wereld ooit zag……..
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The Long Reach Of The US Border
No
matter where you are in the world, you are likely to stumble upon the
US border-without-borders.
While
it might be tempting to blame US President Donald
Trump and
his special brand of counter-reality for
the frenzied expansion of the US border into international spaces,
the concept of the border itself evolved some time ago into something
encompassing much more than physical territorial limits
Just
ask the victims of the post-9/11 “war on terror”, which has
eliminated countless human lives for the ostensible purpose of
securing the US homeland.
While
the US has over the decades repeatedly been up in arms over perceived
enemy intrusions into its own ‘backyard’ – see, for example, the
Soviets in Cuba or the more recent ruckus over Iran’s supposed
infiltration of Latin America – the country persists in trampling
over other backyards at will.
Beyond
the matter of forcing international airlines to get on board with
every US whim in terms of security
measuresand
other life-complicating activities, there’s nothing like ubiquitous
military bases to reinforce the notion that the world in fact belongs
to America.
In
his 2015 book Base Nation: How US Military Bases Abroad Harm America
and the World, American University’s David Vine reported that, as of
that year, the US “controlled approximately 800 bases”
outside the country.
This
had resulted in a situation in which, he said, “we probably have
more bases in other people’s lands than any other people, nation, or
empire in world history”.
Vine
went on aptly to note that, for most Americans, “the idea of
even the nicest, most benign foreign troops arriving with their
tanks, planes, and high-powered weaponry and making themselves at
home in our country – occupying and fencing off hundreds or thousands
of acres of our land – is unthinkable”.
Thanks
to imperialism’s gloriously hypocritical logic, of course, America’s
disproportionate global footprint hasn’t stopped the US political
establishment from regularly accusing selected nemeses of meddling in
the internal affairs of other nations.
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