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It is the United States whose National Endowment for Democracy and its subsidiaries, and government-backed NGOs, interfere nonstop in the internal affairs of other nations to extend our democratist ideology.
When did the political systems of 193 countries become business of the government of the United States? And who elected us Americans to compose the values for the programs that rule other lands?
Consider: On taking office, President Joe Biden vowed to center his diplomacy “on the defense of democracy and the security of human rights.” At his Top for Democracy, he said it was America’s intent to carry out the boosting of democracy and human rights worldwide.
Yet no country bristles more than we Americans do when we find foreign regimes meddling in our politics or governmental elections.
Why? Historically, Americans have actually teamed up not just with democracies however also with autocrats, totalitarians, queens and tyrants.
George Washington danced a jig when he discovered an alliance had actually been created with the France of King Louis XVI to combat beside us in our war of self-reliance against the England of King George III, in whose army Washington had himself fought in the French and Indian War.
In the War of 1812, the United States battled the exact same British opponent as Napoleon was battling, which might describe why the British enthusiastically burned our Capitol and White Home in August 1814.
In World War I, we “make-the-world-safe-for-democracy” Americans were wartime allies of the British, French, Russian and Japanese empires.
At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, President Woodrow Wilson signed the documents that parceled out Germanic lands and individuals against their will and in violation of Wilson’s own proclaimed teaching of self-determination.
Against Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945, our primary allies, whose armies did most of the combating and dying, were Joseph Stalin and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Neither was a democrat.
Throughout the Cold War, we were at times allied with South Korean dictators, Argentine generals, Greek colonels, the shah of Iran, Gen. Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Latin American despots, African kleptocrats and various royals across the Middle East.
The world’s largest democracy throughout the Cold War was India, which agreed Moscow, while autocratic and Muslim Pakistan associated us.
Have something to say about this column?Visit Gab– The social media network that champs complimentary speech– Remark without Censorship!Or visit Pat’s FaceBook page and publish your comments … President Richard Nixon’s fantastic diplomatic accomplishment, the 1972 opening to China, developed a detente in between the world’s greatest democracy and its most monstrous and murderous tyranny. U.S. elites were elated.
The point of the recitation? In times of crisis for our republic, we have typically discovered allies in autocrats and totalitarians while democracies such as India and Sweden remained basically neutral. Nations judge good friends not by
the ideology that they proclaim but by how they behave when a crisis comes. When the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973, autocratic Portugal enabled the use of the Azores for U.S. planes carrying tanks and weapons to Israel. A few of our other allies remained neutral. Lately, we have been preaching the superiority of our democracy as a political system for all individuals, as it manifests”universal values.”However if tomorrow the kings of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, and the emirs of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, was up to
popular uprisings in the name of democracy, how advantageous would this be to the U.S.? A decade back, when the Arab Spring produced
free elections in Egypt and the Palestinian territories, the big winners were the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Again, when did the political systems of foreign countries that do not threaten or attack us become an American concern? When did they become any of our business? View the Latest Videos on Our Buchanan-Trump YouTube Playlist! During the Cold War, Stalin enforced
communism on that half of Europe he had conquered in The second world war. Nikita Khrushchev brayed,” We will bury you!” and,”Your grandchildren will live under communism.”However Russian President Vladimir
Putin does not state,”Your
grandchildren will live under communism”or
under autocracy. Or under Russian rule. Nor does the China of Xi Jinping, who preaches the supremacy of his system, attempt to enforce communist ideology on his neighbors who have actually not accepted it. China is communist to the core, however outside the areas it declares as its own– such as Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Inner Mongolia– it does not enforce its ideology.
It does not impose Communist Party rule. It was the U.S. under President George W. Bush that preached a worldwide crusade for democracy. It is the United States that today backs color-coded revolutions to overturn programs in the Balkans, Caucasus and Near East. It is the United States whose National Endowment for Democracy and its subsidiaries, and government-backed NGOs, interfere incessantly in the internal affairs
of other countries to extend our democratist ideology. A lot of autocrats are nationalists, not transnational crusaders. It is not Putin who is dividing the world based upon ideology. It is Biden who sees the world as divided in between saints and sinners, democrats and autocrats and, by browbeating and conversion, seeks to grow the camp of the saints. Pakistan is welcomed to the democracy top, while NATO ally Hungary is blackballed. In the fantastic power struggle of today, amongst America
, Russia and China, it is the Americans who are waging unrelenting ideological wars. And ideological wars often end in shooting wars.
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