Ovi Magazine Issue #24: Nationalism - Published: 2013-01-31

Theme
In 1945 the USA strode the world, except where
Stalin strode the world, and later where Mao Tse
Tung strode the world. The Cold War that ensued
caused a serious change in the nation’s psyche.
Now it was the leading reactionary power, and
all the many wars it engaged in soured many
of the citizens, and corrupted the judgment of
the military and political leaders. First it was
Korea, then it was Vietnam, then on and on, until
an entire apparatus of spying and manipulation
dominated the many departments and agencies
of foreign policy, always with the aim in view of
manipulating the small developing nations to be
agents of US desires, no matter how injurious to
the ally. Usually the game is to aid and comfort
every rich and reactionary elite in any given
nation, no matter how unworthy of power the
elite may be.
government grows every ten years to greater and
greater degrees, which also means to more and
more absurd degrees. No babushka in Siberia can
go out at dawn to milk her cow, that a satellite
hovering overhead will record the fact, all in the
pursuit of security for the dominant power in the
world. No one could have predicted this paradox
in previous generations: the world’s most secure
power, whose ideology is “freedom” and nothing
more, spends its substance anticipating every
move of every suspected, possible, sub rosa, and
fictitious enemy. Since none of these suspect states
is comparable to the USA in power or wealth, it is
not a mission worthy of a great power.
Even to this day there has been no end to
this. Kissinger and Nixon murdered so many
idealists that they actually ruined all the nations
concerned. Everyone who was a reactionary,
or a Fascist, could rely on support from these
doctors of death. As a result the resurrection of
aristocratic Fascism rose as from the dead in all
the peripheral regions, from Greece to Argentina
and Chile to parts of Yugoslavia and Iran. A very
grim record indeed. And all of it justified by the
slogan of “freedom”!
It is difficult to say which of these cases
is the happier one. Nations sometimes
grow into empires, and empires generally
have devious amd surreptitious means
of control. The extent of the security
bureaucracies commanded by the US
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