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U.S. and the world
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The U.S. and the world
The U.S. is a fairly rich
country, but it has secured this prosperity for decades through the
exploitation of underdeveloped countries, global market control, and military
superiority.
The U.S. primarily sells
franchises, manufactures technical goods, and exports a majority of them to
poorer countries. Those usually pay with raw materials or agricultural goods.
Actually, both sides should be interdependent here. But the United States
financially supports her own agriculture (subsidies), creating a food surplus,
which reduces the price of agricultural products on the international market,
technical products remain expensive by comparison, and thus part of the
profits returns and can be pumped into agriculture again. A loan is then
forced on the developing country on the condition, for example, of growing
coffee or cocoa, since the prospect of profit with these products seems much
higher. However, since this market is also controlled by the U.S.A., the poor
country has to sell her coffee or cocoa without any major profit and gets
into a spiral of debt. If such countries, such as Zimbabwe, try to break out
of it by simply cancelling the disadvantageous contracts, an embargo will be
imposed on them.
The Arab oil-producing countries are
not spared either, since they enjoy the protection and support of the U.S.A.,
but that means in return that they have to offer their oil in dollars. Oil
consumption has risen steadily since the end of World War II, which means
that larger and larger amounts of dollar are needed on the international
market. The U.S.A. now has nothing else to do but print money (today, we add some zeros in a computer account) and throw it on
the market; a free income for those who print the money. When the Iraqi
dictator, Saddam Hussein, who was first backed by U.S.A. against Iran,
announced that he would not sell his oil in dollars but in other currencies,
he was overthrown.
There are 3 waterways on Earth
where most of the world trade is carried out: the channel of Panama, the
channel of Suez and the Strait near Singapore. Whoever has them in hand
controls the world trade.
In 1989, the area around the
channel of Panama was occupied by U.S. troops because the channel usage
contract had expired and the country's Prime Minister, Noriega, wanted to
pursue his own policy. He was then interned and convicted in the U.S.A. of drug
trafficking.
Whoever controls the coast of
Somalia also has the entrance to the channel of Suez in hand. Now, we are
talking about pirates who are supposed to make the trade route unsafe. You
can almost read the number plate of a car via satellite, so preventing piracy
shouldn't be a problem at all. But as an excuse to station a navy there, that
doesn't sound bad.
A dictatorship is supported in
Singapore, a gruesome war was fought in Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge in
Cambodia was supported to "secure" the waterway.
After the Second World War,
buffer zones were built around the communist block to surround it. From
Finland, Germany to Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and India, Singapore,
Taiwan to Japan and South Korea.
The marshal plan and trade
contracts with special advantages had the goal to strengthen these countries
economically. For example, if Germany, with its much-vaunted economic
miracle, were in North Africa, it would be as poor as Morocco today.
The wars in Korea and Vietnam
served the same goal. One could ask the question who prevented whose
extension: the “free” world, that of communism? Or the other way around?
After all that has been written
down so far, the author, even as a native of an industrialized country, has
to consider whether it is really due to his people that it, for example
Western Europe, lives so well or whether its prosperity is not simply a
result of the existing balance of power in the world. And how long will it be
possible to maintain inequalities in the world?
It is clear, of course, that a
relatively democratic world ruled by the U.S. is better than one by a
Christian, Muslim, Communist, or worse Nazi, fascist (Hitler, Mussolini,
Franco, Horthy) great power.
After the Second World War, the
U.S.A could take control of the world market and secure economic benefits for
herself and her allies. Today, the situation has slightly changed and we have
to find that the competition is getting stronger. The industrialized
countries are reacting to this with protectionism and the promotion of
personal loans or consumer loans in their own countries in order to be able
to constantly increase consumption. But this inevitably leads to capital
bubbles and crises. This creates unfair criticism of capitalism.
There is still a potential of 6
billion unsatisfied buyers in developing countries. The industrialized
countries would only have to get used to the idea of no longer being the
sole rulers on earth, which will happen sooner or later anyway.
And then there is the cosmos,
which we are conquering. But to do this, humanity as a whole would have to
learn to work together. Because it is infinite and so are its opportunities,
for example, economic growth.
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Mittwoch, 5. August 2020
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