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In 1492, 500 years of global terror began. White Christian invaders arrived in the Americas. One hundred million residents were slaughtered in by a campaign of deliberate mass murder and the spreading of European diseases. Two forms of colonialism and imperialism were pursued here. In Spanish and Portuguese America, there was a limited element of settler imperialism and more a system of traditional imperialism. The Spanish and Portuguese rule was not a happy affair for local residents. Due to the intolerant nature of Christianity, all forms of local religion were persecuted in a truly murderous campaign, and vast amounts of local civilization was destroyed—the records, the architecture, and so on. This was all obliterated by the incoming Christian invaders.
Now, in the north—specifically the British colonies
which later became America—you had a truly ruthless campaign of settler
imperialism, where the goal was not just to conquer the land but to force the
initial inhabitants off the land and take that for white imperial control. The
Bible was a key part of this, and the white American settlers repeatedly
referred to the campaign of racial extermination and land seizure that was an
integral part of the Jewish Old Testament. This was an integral part of what
happened, and this would serve as a very specific model for Hitler's plans for
the racial occupation of the western parts of the Soviet Union. This was very
specifically copied.
These were long-term trends. Though the Spanish and
Portuguese rule ended, their system remained in place.
SECOND WAVE OF IMPERIALISM 1800-1945
Now, in the 19th century, there was a second wave of western imperialism. Britain had already built up a base of power in India, and in the 19th century, Britain seized control of the entire Indian subcontinent and related areas such as Singapore and Malaya. The British also seized control of significant parts of Africa. The French seized control of significant parts of Africa, and after World War One, the German parts of Africa were split up between England and France, and England seized parts of the Middle East from Turkey in a total violation of the promises made by T.E. Lawrence to the Arabs. Also, at that time, Britain established in Arab lands a state for the Jewish populations under its control, which had been subject to all sorts of crazy persecutions due to the Anti-Semitism stirred up by the Christian Church. So this was yet another problem. France also expanded into Indochina. Holland seized control of Indonesia.
THE MODERN 30 YEARS WAR 1914-1945
This second wave of colonialism was not very successful. It lasted only 100 years. A key point in this was the dysfunction and failure of the whole Christian imperial system. In 1914, it looked like it was the wave of the future. However, these states got into a power struggle with each other which culminated in World War One and World War Two. It's very important to see World War Two as simply an extension of the power struggle that started in World War One. It is important not to buy the nonsense that America was somehow fighting for freedom and stuff like that. This was a ruthless struggle for power.
It's an important point of World War Two to understand that a good part, if not the majority, of revolutionary movements against the European powers sided with Germany and Japan. For example, in Indonesia, Sukarno's independence movement—fought alongside the Japanese all the way through 1945, even though it was obvious Japan had lost the war. This was a growing tide of unrest against the Western imperial powers. So, by the 1960s, the Western powers had been forced to withdraw from almost all their colonies.
RETREAT OF WESTERN POWER 1945 TO 1991
Now, after World War Two, the Western powers would like you to believe that they suddenly had some great crisis of conscience and decided it was mean and nasty to be colonialist, and out of the goodness of their little hearts, they departed. This is absolute nonsense. It's absolute nonsense. The European powers—and America could be considered a greater part of the European powers—were greatly weakened by what you might call, the modern 30 Years' War. Meanwhile, the hostility to their rule had grown.
A big problem was the total collapse of the British Empire. This was one of the most murderous empires in history, killing over 50 million people. After World War II it was bankrupt. America became the leader of European imperialism. In 1947 England faced total financial collapse, and America had to set up the Marshall Plan to prevent this. In return Britain agreed to be an extension of US imperial power, a role that would continue right into the disastrous and criminal invasion of Iraq in 2003.
As we said, western imperialism didn't work very well as a system of imperialism. A particularly horrible situation occurred in India, where the British withdrawal was so disorganized and so poorly managed that millions upon millions of people were slaughtered like cattle in the chaos that followed. A very important point to understand about the British withdrawal from India is the incident that triggered it, which the West doesn't really like to talk about. The British tried to put on trial the supporters of Subhash Bose, who had fought on the side of Germany and Japan. However, their war against British imperialism was so popular that that led to riots all over India, and they had to back off. Today, there's a huge statue commemorating Subhash Bose in the capital of New Delhi, which was set up by Mr. Modi. So that's an important point to keep in mind.
Now, it's another point to keep in mind about decolonization is that without the existence of the military power of the Soviet Union, and to a lesser extent China, this probably wouldn't have happened, because the Western powers faced the threat of a superpower that was committed to decolonization. So that's a very important point to keep in mind.
Now, decolonization, unfortunately, was followed by a campaign of neocolonialism, which tied the new states into a system of economic servitude. It was also connected to a ruthless campaign launched by America to crush regimes that it felt it couldn't control. This started out in Vietnam, where America, England, and France came together, the Atlantic Alliance, as they say. And what did they come together to do? They came together to crush the power of the Vietnamese independence movement headed by Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh and others called for free elections. This was definitely not wanted by the great fighters of freedom in the West, and they suppressed it, starting a series of events that led to a war which killed 5 million human beings and, to this day, poisoned a good part of Indochina with a ruthless campaign of chemical warfare launched by the United States. Indeed, the Agent Orange chemical warfare campaign was the largest use of chemical weapons against civilians since the First World War—hardly a very inspiring moment for America.
THE RETURN OF COLONIALISM 1991-2016
Now, as history evolved, the Soviet Union eventually collapsed. The problem here was that this was a shield for the developing nations. The collapse of the Soviet Union shifted the world balance of power back to the West, and what followed was a period of recolonialization. Since the military shield of the Soviet Union could no longer be deployed, the developing world was at the mercy, to an extent, of the US. Meanwhile, in the US, imperialist forces took the opportunity of the collapse of the Soviet Union to expand US military power rather than cut it back, to try to, in a mad scheme, to try to take over the world. This led to truly horrific atrocities, starting with the starving to death of 500,000 children in Iraq, which Madeleine Albright, the US Secretary of State, thought was just great. It proceeded to get a lot worse. George W. Bush invaded Iraq, killing off a million people and plunging the country into total disaster. Ultimately, America spent 8 trillion dollars and killed 4 million people and counting on a series of wars around the world—particularly horrific was the use of sanctions against countries such as Syria, where hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered as a result of Western sanctions, previously mentioned in Iraq.
Now, during this period, the underpinnings of American power were eroding due to the corruption of the American financial elites. Money was sent overseas for investments, and America began to self-destruct internally. Fantasies were made about how shipping factories overseas would create wonderful things at home, which was all nonsense, and it ended up that America went from being the world's largest creditor, a position it had held since 1916, to being the world's largest debtor, and the debts just kept growing. So this was a very serious problem. It was also a serious problem for America that China began to emerge as a major economic power.
THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 2016 TO TODAY
In 2016, the world changed. China passed America as the world's largest economy when measured as purchasing power parity, which is the only intelligent way to measure economies. Meanwhile, at home, the ruling elites could no longer just convince the American people that everything was great, the economy was wonderful, and so on and so forth, and they elected a Mr. Donald Trump. This plunged America into a deep state of internal conflict, and also, very ominously, since the elites could not accept their defeat, they tried to blame their whole disaster on a foreign power: Russia. And this was used to fuel a very dangerous military campaign against Russia.
Then the failed US system completely failed to deal with COVID, producing one of the highest death tolls in the world and total political chaos at home, producing the election of an elderly representative of the establishment, Joe Biden. Biden's mental health was dubious from day one and went downhill since he was in office. As in 2016, the overwhelming majority of the American people were opposed to the choice of the Democratic Party ruling elites. That didn't bother the Democratic elites at all. They put Joe Biden out there as their candidate anyway. The result was the disaster of 2024, when Biden had to resign as a candidate—because he was obviously mentally ill. This set in motion the reelection of Mr. Trump.