Imperialism is Planning New Wars

Imperialism is Planning New Wars

The deepening structural crisis of capitalism and the economic and political consequences of the decline of the U.S. and the imperialist countries of Europe are creating new potential conflicts in the international situation of transition. History tells us that these situations can lead to more instability, tensions and armed conflicts. And there are plans for war in the U.S. and NATO for several continents.

By Ricardo Abreu

German Imperialism is not willing to cede power without resistance. A recent example is what happened after the Brazil-Iran-Turkey agreement. The agreement was a diplomatic victory for the defending forces of peace, sovereignty and self-determination of peoples, and uncovered the real intentions of U.S. imperialism and its European allies, who are not interested in peace, but to limit the technological development of other nations to ensure their monopoly of nuclear energy even for peaceful purposes, and encourage the subordination of countries to an international order based on oppression and imperialist war.

The U.S. may trigger a "preventive war" against Iran

The approval of new sanctions on Iran in the UN Security Council, and imposing additional unilateral sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union, are aimed at maintaining the current system of global power, characterized by U.S. hegemony, and stifling the trend towards multipolarity and new roles that may include international countries like Brazil.

The new military and national security strategies of the U.S. President Barack Obama rhetorically promise cooperation and multilateralism. In practice, however, they maintain the course to impose their interests by force and war. According to these new strategies, the U.S., claiming priority for the prevention of nuclear proliferation, authorizes themselves, on behalf of their "vital interests or their allies, like Israel, to carry out an attack with nuclear weapons in "extreme" conditions against any country, although they do not possess nuclear weapons, as in the case of Iran.

Indeed, it is the continued policies of "preventive war" and "endless war" of George Bush. In other words, to maintain U.S. power by military force, whatever the cost to humanity.

The facts contradict the rhetoric. After a year and a half of Obama, it becomes increasingly clear that the interests of imperialist power spoke louder than the campaign speeches. The U.S. will invest, in 2011, 780 billion dollars on its military, a record budget since the end World War II that exceeds the 2000 budget by 49%, which is larger than the combined military spending of all other countries. The U.S. insists on maintaining military bases around the globe, as in the African island of Diego Garcia in order to direct a possible attack on the Middle East and Central Asia.

The U.S. and NATO are being trained for what they call "Conventional Prompt Global Strike." With the alteration of the character of NATO, which will operate on all continents and seas, to the Falkland Islands and other nearby territories of South America there are actual or potential military bases of the aggressive alliance. U.S. special forces, specializing in clandestine actions of war, on intelligence missions, subversion and "destabilizing" targeted countries, already operates in 75 countries, while a year ago they were in 60 countries. "The world is a battlefield," said a senior official of the U.S. special forces.

Aggression against Iran intensifies. For imperialism, it is necessary to contain Iran and regain Turkey, former ally and NATO member, in order not to "destabilize" their control in the Middle East and Central Asia. The U.S. and Israel are preparing for a possible military intervention by moving naval forces through the Suez Canal into the Gulf, near the Iranian coastline. They negotiate with Saudi Arabia on the use of airspace in eventual bombings.

The itinerary is similar to the U.S. war against Iraq, diplomatic pressure, sactions by the UN, a media campaign based on falsehoods, allegations of any breach of the sanctions, and the plan for military intervention, directly or through Israel . Many political leaders, scholars and military experts on the subject, including from the U.S., raise the possibility of war against Iran as "Obama's war" like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were wars of Bush, continued by Obama.

U.S. military escalation in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America

In Central Asia and the Middle East, strategic regions for global imperialist domination, the U.S. and its NATO allies increase their military troops in Afghanistan, prolonging a war that is already longer than the aggression against Vietnam, and extending the military occupation in Iraq. Yet they still cannot win against the popular national resistance and these countries. Recently, this failure in Afghanistan toppled the president of Germany, who was forced to resign after committing the indiscretion of publicly confessing the real neo-colonialist interests in the region. Yankee "diplomacy" is pressing Azerbaijan to install new military bases in that country, similar to those that exist in Kyrgyzstan and in other nearby nations.