Re: The global power game

From: cLIeNUX user (r_at_cLIeNUX.)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 07:32:33 -0000

humbubba@smart.net
>I think this guy has hit the nail on the head as to what is really
>happening in this world.
>
>Originally published by The New Statesman - Dec 6, 2004 issue
>Reposted by From the Wilderness - posted Dec 2, 2004
>http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/120204_now_never.shtml
>
>It's Now or Never for Washington
>
>America's real aim in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics is to
>seize control of vital resources before China and India can challenge
>US dominance.
>

Much like the Nazis, but without the tactical skill. It wouldn't matter
though. Degeneracy is degeneracy.

><big snip>
>
>America's drive to dominate the old Soviet Union represents a gamble
>by
>today's only superpower to seize the highest-value chips on the table
>before
>China and India join the game. If China can add access to post-Soviet
>energy
>to the Chinese hand, it will be game on for a real new cold war. Many
>of the
>predictions among Washington neoconservatives about China's growing
>power
>recall the fear among German militarists that the window of
>opportunity for
>a global role was closing by 1914. Washington's drive to seize maximum
>advantage before the inevitable waning of US power recalls the
>Kaiser's cry
>80 years ago: "Now or never!"
>
>[Mark Almond is a lecturer in modern history at Oriel College, Oxford]
>
> *

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