Niall Ferguson discusses the end of empires and the economics of debt repayment overtaking defense spending as a potential cause of withdrawal for imperialist exercise of power. He goes through a nice history here of imperialist practice and then discusses the implications of this point that are starting to face the U.S. today.
As we see the impossibility of a world dominated by America with everybody either falling into line with policies that serve U.S. national interests or getting obliterated by the military might that backs the American Empire's soft power, we must recognize that empires have never recognized that it is no longer feasible to maintain empire, contrary to what many scholars of international relations would have us believe. Historians like Chalmers Johnson may cite the British as an example for the U.S., an example of an empire that accepted it could no longer maintain its overseas operations and colonialism and withdrew peacefully into a sovereign nation state. However, this concept of the history of British Empire is in many ways false.
The two World Wars were initiated largely as a result of the necessary manipulations that must occur in international relations when there is an imperialist power. Germany's rise prior to WWI initiated heavy behind-the-scenes manipulations largely influenced by the British power and WWII witnessed fascism backed by international financier and corporate Anglo-powers built in order to take on the Russian threat turn unpredictably towards Western Europe. It was perhaps this strategic blunder that ended British imperialist divide-and-conquer rulership, but with the rise of American power in the post World War II era the industrial and military might of America was to be used in order to protect the speculative financial power of the City of London and its creation within America on Wall Street. Thus the British Empire never ended, it became the Anglo-American Empire.
Out of the ashes of World War II rose a neo-imperialism that has used indigenous rather than foreign colonial masters, international financial institutions, and American military intervention to create a world that still sees the majority of the southern hemispheres natural resources go to the Western Europe and America. The machinations for another World War are being set forth before our eyes as a result of the collapse of the financialized, imperialist order and even as the sovereign nation state status of America is destroyed we must know that the real enemy of humanity is a set of principles and actors that embody and encompass them, not the American nation state.
We must rightfully enter a war with the ideology that is imperialism, the economics of Pharaoh; where religion is wealth, power and satanic passion for the life of this world. In failing to recognize that Niall Ferguson, as a realist and Harvard/Oxford defender of “benefit of empire” (as if there is such a thing), fails to grasp that the world today can only be understood by looking at ideology. Seeing the world through a lens of nation states that serve their own interests prevents one from truly understanding that the American Empire is not one country's arrogance forced on the world through a series of private influences that span the globe. The American Empire is a truly global endeavor. While the bankruptcy of its military means it may not continue in long protracted wars that does not rule out the possibility of creating World War III in order to preserve Western civilization’s domination. Therefore, this lecture and the lecturer are important to listen to, but only in so far as they help to create an antithetical Islamic solution for the global empire today will the world be able to work its way from underneath the shackles of imperialist control.
For an important historical breakdown of the efforts of the British Empire to maintain their imperialism even after realizing that British might was no longer suitable for their cause please read Carol Quigley's book published posthumously in 1981.... the book was written in the 1940's but captured a pretty good snapshot of the mechanisms for power and control that went on to infiltrate America and create the conditions for indigenous imperialism there today. The pdf is below, and these themes will become all the important at islampolicy.com as we build our delivery capacities and develop increased conversations here over time. Please take time to watch, listen and read to the material on this site in the meantime as we prepare to initiate the discourse that will contribute to Islamic resistance to the satanic imperialist mechanisms that govern the world today and substitute them with divine laws and liberation based on obedience and understanding in submission to Allah and the Prophet Muhammad (saws).
Carol Quiqley Anglo-American Establishment 285p
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