By Caitlin Johnstone
August 15, 2021"Information
Clearing House" -
You get a lot of moral clarity when you realize
that the US government is the most despotic and
corrupt regime on the entire planet by a very wide
margin. This clarity informs your perspective in a
way that helps you see through a lot of the
propaganda narratives that are laid over the
public’s vision about what’s going on in our world.
Whenever I say the US is the most tyrannical
regime on earth I get a lot of objections from
people, and these are always people who simply
haven’t thought very hard about the horrific
realities of US foreign policy. Sure you can name
some governments who are more brutal and oppressive
toward their own citizenry than Washington, but you
can’t name any who are more brutal and oppressive
overall when you zoom out and look at the
big picture.
The United States is currently circling the
planet with
hundreds of military bases and waging wars which
have
killed millions and
displaced tens of millions just since the turn
of this century. Its sanctions and blockades are
starving people to death en masse
every single day. It works to destroy any nation
which disobeys its dictates by toppling their
governments via CIA coups, proxy armies, partial and
full-scale invasions, and the most
egregious number of election interferences in
the entire world.
There is no other government on earth about which
you can say anything like any of these things. No
other government on earth is doing anything which
rises to this level of evil. Not Iran, not North
Korea, not Russia or China or any of the other big
scary boogeymen we’re told we must be afraid of my
the mass media. You can argue that other governments
have perpetrated comparable evils in the past, but
you cannot argue that any of them are doing so
currently. In our present reality as it actually
exists, the United States is the worst monster, and
it’s not even close.
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There’s really no counter-argument to this. Even
if you’re an intellectual six year-old and still
believed in 2021 that the US uses its military for
beneficent purposes, the fact that
we now know the US military just wasted
trillions of dollars and thousands of lives on a
20-year war which accomplished literally nothing
besides making horrible people rich and lied to the
world about it the entire time should dispel that
childish delusion once and for all.
The fact that the US happens to export the bulk
of its tyranny outside of its borders (though
certainly not
all of it) doesn’t change the fact that it is
more tyrannical than any other government. This just
means its tyranny dominates the entire world instead
of a single nation.
And ordinary Americans don’t even get anything
out of it. It would be bad enough if they were
consenting to their government committing murderous
piracy around the world because all that theft was
enriching their lives and making Americans the
wealthiest, happiest and healthiest people on earth,
but it isn’t. Americans experience some of the
world’s
worst wealth inequality without any of the
social safety nets afforded to people in every other
developed nation, so they’re not even getting a
slice of the piracy pie. They only consent to their
government being the most despotic regime on earth
because they are propagandized.
So in this sense all the accusations the US and
its allies make against governments which refuse to
bow to Washington are in reality a kind of
whataboutism. “Whataboutism” is a word empire
apologists constantly bleat whenever you point out
that the US is perpetrating some version of an abuse
it accuses another government of perpetrating (and
it always is), but in reality they’re the
ones using accusations to try and distract the
conversation from what it should actually be about:
the most tyrannical and abusive government on earth.
There is no legitimate reason to focus on the
abuses of any other power structure as long as the
US and its allies are committing vastly worse
atrocities. The most powerful and destructive
government on earth should be receiving far more
criticism than any other, but instead, because its
propaganda dominates the world, it actually receives
far less criticism. Being clear on this
gross imbalance and the need to correct it is
instructive for anyone with their eyes open, because
it shows where your efforts and opposition should be
directed.
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