{"id":128245,"date":"2019-09-19T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=128245"},"modified":"2019-09-19T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:00:51","slug":"nsa-robert-obrien-another-american-imperialist-neocon-warmonger-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=128245","title":{"rendered":"NSA Robert O\u2019Brien: Another American Imperialist, Neocon Warmonger and Dangerous Security Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump\u2019s New National Security Advisor Is Dangerous, But He\u2019s the Current Norm.<\/b><\/h1>\n

Here\u2019s Why One Must Be Evil to Be a Leading Scholar of International Relations:<\/em><\/h2>\n

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by Eric Zuesse<\/div>\n
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Robert O\u2019Brien is a respected authority on international relations and now replaces John Bolton as U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s National Security Advisor. He is a neoconservative who feels that Barack Obama wasn\u2019t nearly enough of a neocon. However, the differences between the two are a matter of degree, and not of type. O\u2019Brien is a Republican who served in the Obama Administration as well as in the G.W. Bush Administration, and in the Trump Administration, and he represents only mainstream U.S. scholarly views about international relations. Here are some of his views, as stated in his 2016 anti-Obama book While America Slept<\/i><\/a>:<\/div>\n
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The overthrow of \u201cPutin puppet Viktor Yanukovych”<\/a> in 2014 Ukraine was a democratic revolution, not a bloody coup that removed the democratically elected President<\/a> and which was entirely illegal<\/a>. Communism was finally crushed in Ukraine, because of this \u201crevolution,\u201d he says. \u201cNotwithstanding the war and punishing economic circumstances, Russia\u2019s invasion and occupation have inflicted on them, Ukrainians are happy today<\/a>. They showed the world that they remain unbowed in the face of aggression.\u201d \u201cLiberty and the Rule of Law are Universal Values\u201d and the U.S. Government needs to impose them globally. Because of Obama, \u201cChina, Russia, and Iran engaged in significant arms buildups even as America drew down,\u201d while \u201cthese nations grabbed territory in the South China sea, Eastern Europe, and across the Middle East.\u201d Limits need to be removed from the defense budget he says, so that America can impose democracy and legality everywhere.<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s all fantasy. For example: As a result of the February 2014 U.S. takeover of Ukraine: Ukrainians became amongst the unhappiest people on the planet<\/a>, and the Government\u2019s debt doubled<\/a>, and Ukraine\u2019s GDP plunged 50%<\/a>, and the incomes of Ukrainians plunged 50%<\/a>, and two regions which had been in Ukraine (Crimea and Donbass) broke away from the U.S.-imposed nazi Government that wanted the residents in those areas to be killed or else expelled into Russia<\/a>.\u00a0 Why were the residents impoverished while the Government\u2019s debt doubled? Where did that money go? All of that debt-increase was borrowing in order to be able to afford the war against Donbass. O\u2019Brien says “Ukrainians are happy today”<\/a>, but, by all objective measures, they\u2019ve not been less happy except during World War II \u2014 they disliked Hitler and Stalin even more than they disliked the 2014-installed U.S.-coup-regime.<\/div>\n
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Robert O\u2019Brien is an even stronger believer in the statement that President Obama so often stated, that the United States is \u201cthe one indispensable nation\u201d<\/a>, which means that all others are \u201cdispensable.\u201d That\u2019s the core belief of neoconservatism, and O\u2019Brien is so extreme a believer in it as to attack Obama for having not been as extreme as he himself is.<\/div>\n
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The entire range of neoconservatism is, however, the norm in U.S.-and-allied international relations. Extreme as O\u2019Brien is, he\u2019s merely extremely normal for a top person in international relations, in any country that\u2019s allied with the United States today.<\/div>\n
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To study international relations isn\u2019t evil, but to rise to the international top in that field is evil, because the international top in this field can\u2019t be reached unless the writer is propagandizing for the world\u2019s leading power and is therefore an imperialist, and that\u2019s a reliable definition of what it means to be evil in international relations.<\/div>\n
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Imperialism is \u2018justifiable\u2019 only<\/i> on one basis, supremacism; and that\u2019s the belief in might-makes-right, which is also the core belief in fascism \u2014 which is intrinsically evil. This is the reason why Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco, were commonly called \u201cfascist,\u201d even though only in Italy was the tyrant\u2019s political party named that with a capital \u201cF\u201d. The ideology is lower-case, \u201cfascism\u201d \u2014 this is simply the might-makes-right belief, and this ideology has existed ever since the dawn of civilization itself. Mussolini didn\u2019t invent it, but he updated it, so as to call<\/i>\u00a0 it \u201ccorporationism,\u201d and, synonymously, \u201cfascism.” He called it that in order to enable the prior aristocratic system, feudalism, which was based upon ownership and control of land, to become \u2018updated\u2019 to \u201cfascism,\u201d which is based instead upon ownership and control of corporations. Now in the industrial era, ownership of shares of stock replaces ownership of acres of land, the aristocratic system which had prevailed in the pre-1600 human era, the agrarian era. And this is the modern<\/i> form of feudalism: fascism. They\u2019re just different eras of supremacism.<\/div>\n
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Another good example of a leading scholar of international relations is Harvard\u2019s Graham Allison, whom I have previously discussed in regards to his views regarding Russia<\/a>. This time, however, I shall discuss his views regarding China, and I also shall discuss his views concerning existing U.S. foreign policies relating not only to China and Russia but to the entire non<\/i>-U.S. world. As you will see: he agrees with Barack Obama that \u201cThe United States is and remains the one<\/i>\u00a0 indispensable nation. That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come.\u201d<\/a> In other words: Allison believes that every other<\/i>\u00a0 nation is \u201cdispensable.\u201d That view is American supremacism \u2014 America\u2019s form<\/i>\u00a0 of fascism. It\u2019s also called \u201cneoconservatism.\u201d This is how one becomes appointed to \u2014 and he leads \u2014 Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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