It happened that with the rise of
Civilization, the tribes in the same neighborhood got together and formed a
nation. Seeing that the move served its constituent tribes well, the nation decided
to go on the conquest of other lands, thus added more power and riches to its
possessions.
This is how empires rose, became masters
of the known world at the time, reached the zenith of their glory, started the
process of decay and were destroyed eventually. When this happened to the last
of the ancient empires, and with the subsequent discovery of the Americas, it
looked like this episode of human history had come to an end. The general
belief was that everyone will henceforth remain where they are, and mind their
own business. But that belief was soon shattered.
Something unexpected had taken roots. It
was the burgeoning and sudden rise of a scientific, technological and
industrial revolution that began to sweep Europe. In no time at all, a whole
new paradigm was opening up, offering more to the Europeans than the discovery
of the Americas. It offered them the previously neglected resources of Africa,
Asia and Australia in addition to the gold and silver they were already looting
in the Americas. Now hungry for the base metals and other resources that fed
the Industrial Revolution, a new era of inter-European wars and overseas
colonization began; one that lasted a couple of centuries.
With a world that was made smaller by the
new modes of transportation and communication, it was inevitable that the
European wars spread to other parts of the world and become World Wars. With
two of them happening in the twentieth century, a brand-new paradigm had
imposed itself on the world. It looked at the end of the Second World War that
the entire planet had become America's turf to police and maintain in a
peaceful state.
Whereas America was technologically,
militarily and economically capable of doing the job, she was culturally and
diplomatically not up to it. Aware of this deficiency in the American
establishment, the old colonial powers of Britain and France stepped in, led
America by the nose, and had her spend wealth and lives fulfilling their
respective agendas while still believing she was carrying on with the task of
maintaining the world in a peaceful state.
Whereas America was hanging on to that
false belief, it became evident to the world, including Britain and France,
that the belief was more than a farce; it was a danger that threatened the
whole world, including everything they had achieved at a very high cost. All of
this was happening because America was being sucked into the vortex of a new
wannabe colonial power that latched-on to America's body like a leech. It was
the worldwide Jewish movement that was sucking America's blood and turning the
superpower into a war machine dedicated exclusively to serve the Jewish dream
of world conquest.
This being the new paradigm that took
roots in the Middle East at the start of the twenty-first century, it was from
this region––most notably the Persian Gulf––that the challenge to America's
policing status was to be flagged more so than anywhere else. Whereas the
Chinese and North Koreans are now challenging the American navy in the Far
East, and whereas the Russians are challenging the American navy in the Eastern
Mediterranean, there is no sign that the situation in those places is about to
explode. Not so in the Persian Gulf where the entire region is beginning to
look like a powder keg liable to explode at any time.
This brings us to the article that came
under the title: “Iran is surviving in spite of Trump's 'maximum pressure,'”
written by Simon Henderson and published on September 25, 2019 in The Hill.
Here is how Henderson began his presentation:
“Tensions in the Persian Gulf remain high.
The Iranian leader is repeating a position of the Islamic regime: The security
of the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the sea of Oman is indigenous. In
other words, there is no role for the United States Navy”.
Iran being a developing country, you might
think it would not dare challenge superpower America. But Iran is doing just
that and getting away with it. Why is that? Well, according to Simon Henderson
these are the reasons: The US policy to force Tehran to make concessions by
curtailing its oil exports was labeled maximum pressure. Tehran's response to
the policy merits the same title. Just who is winning is not clear. There are
several fields of combat: diplomatic, economic, military and political spin.
This means that the old adage: “might
makes right” can no longer be relied on to make things happen for America.
Getting its nose bloodied and its reputation tarnished fighting wars that
served the old colonial powers, and continuing to fight so as to serve the
Jewish lust for possessing the world, the American establishment is beginning
to ponder the idea of retrenching.
The haggling is ongoing right now inside
that establishment regarding the choice that the country must make between
staying in the current paradigm or jumping into that of retrenchment.