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Confessions of an Economic Hitman goes into great detail about the Bechtel Corporation. Very well written story about a guy who was unwarily caught up in instituting U.S. interests abroad.
I think the term is Imperialistic Warmongering.
Source: Shock Doctrine
Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds. Neoliberal foreign policy is one of torture, of both the people and the economy. Would you like to know more?
Read Naomi Kleins book on the subject. It is a serious eye opener.
https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999
Short version here
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster
Fuck off. Its a prosperous government for corporate interests and the wealthy, not the people. Which is exactly how neoliberal economies are designed to function (thanks Milton Friedman). Don't even talk about "converting through violence" after what Pinochet (with American help I might add) did to socialists and any nominally leftist people; thousands tortured and disappeared after a coup against a DEMOCRATICALLY elected socialist government under Salvadore Allende. You do some fucking research you lying ghoul.
Why change subjects? Can you point to concrete examples of so called Chinese "debt traps"? I can point to an entire book full of real examples of Western economic imperialism http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081/
China's so-called Chinese human rights abuses are orders of magnitude less than America, but I don't hear you crying about America's human rights abuses that include an invasion of Iraq that killed about a million people, destroyed Libya, destroyed Syria, extreme police brutality/police state, global drone assassination programs, etc. Go ahead, prove me wrong.
Anbefaler alle som er interessert i bistandspolitikk å lese Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa av Dambisa Moyo. Jeg synes FrP er en gjeng klovner, men ser man tilbake på alle de pengene som har gått med til bistand så er det grunn til å spørre seg hvorfor det ikke har fungert i Afrika.
The article doesn't really seem to answer the question about Senegalese "wanting" Peace Corps Volunteers, most RPCVs/PCVs know that the host country government has to buy into Peace Corps and local communities have to ask for a volunteer. I think that the interesting thing is that a president of Senegal said that pursuing free markets helped pull a lot of countries out of poverty, and Africa didn't pursue that course so that is a problem and that countries that receive foreign aid haven't been able to develop as fast. I ran across a book on Amazon I didn't purchase:
It seems to promulgate the same idea that massive amounts of foreign aid cause problems as there is, obviously, corruption in a lot of countries and the massive influx of money destabilizes things.
HOWEVER, the Peace Corps, IMHO, isn't foreign aid, it is living with communities to promote change and capacity building, and not dumping in a lot of cash.
I'd take the article and the book (which I haven't read yet) with a big grain of salt as Forbes praises both of them, in addition to the Wall Street journal for the book. But I guess it is good to challenge your beliefs about how development should function and being too proud that America pumps billions into foreign aid every year.
Where men die for rich people to acquire resources and create new cheap labor. Don't believe the patriotic nonsense about bringing democracy, it's about filling the coffers of weapon manufacturers and corporations, stealing other peoples resources and "resetting" other societies to create chaos to create extremely exploitable sources of cheap labor abroad.
Before anyone signs up for the military, or you're in the military you should all read this by a decorated marine War is a racket
Maybe, it's correct to say that divide in America is not between right and left. I personally don't believe that in post-modern world ideology really matters, e.g. China
But, the divide is between globalism and nationalism
We must realize that Cold War is Over, and therefore America or World couldn't be run by post-WW2 order.
We can see that after the end of threat from Soviet Union, American foreign policy doesn't serve interest of American people. Also, Europe and America are no longer in capacity to maintain stability in poorer countries of Africa and Asia. Therefore, room needs to made for regional powers as well.
But, Mega Corporations of the West don't want it happen. As they've vested interest for security of their asset across globe. So, the West needs to maintain military presence around the world.
Also, aging population, which will likely require huge trade deficits is big concern for Developed Nations, including China as well. Therefore, they require their currencies to be global reserves. So, military presence is necessary, in order to implement it's will on weaker countries, as seen in Iraq and Libya.
ref books: - Accidental Superpower - Peter Zeihan - Asia's Cauldron - Robert D. Kaplan
Most of us here expect oil production to peak soon/already, but people still keep posting articles about the details of how/when that's happening.
Same thing with demand destruction, it's interesting to talk about how it may collapse. Zeihan details how different regions of the world will collapse at different rates and why.
I'm not saying people here didn't see this coming or this is all original, it's just interesting to me to see different takes on how it all falls down.
Zeihan wrote a book called, The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.
and Strauss and Howe did it first with the book Generations, though instead of Gen X they called it the Thirteenth Generation (and defined it as starting in 61, with cohorts of 20 years)
Wife and I are child free by choice but the teacher isnt wrong about the demographics shift
Read this if you have a chance
>Over time the government may have been able to take control of the countryside and win over the rural people.
How? There's no real evidence this is how it works. If anything we started losing support from the rural regions over time.
>I’m sure all the soldiers you talked too are experts in nation building
I wonder why they didn't put an "expert in nation building" I'm charge of Afghanistan. Seems like they would know what to do.
Great book on the subject. That lays out the situation in China in the coming decades. It’s going to be a hard and fast fall.
US Sends weapons to Saudi Arabia to orchestrate mass killing and the biggest humanitarian disaster in recent history. They also overthrew Iran's democracy. Read this if you ever get the time to understand how shit like this works. https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081
"Shock Doctrine"- basically bankrupt a country so they will be in debt and then "sell" you (to privatize) their countries natural resources (like water) to sell them back to you. At least what i remember.
https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999
Bezweifel ich um ehrlich zu sein. Der zivilisatorische Höhepunkt wurde zumindest in Europa und Asien erreicht. Der Trend geht zur Deglobalisierung und Überalterung, sodass die Wirtschaft ineffizienter wird und heutige Zukunftsvisionen eher Utopien gleichen
Lektüre dazu: https://www.amazon.de/End-World-Just-Beginning-Globalization/dp/006323047X
If you're interested in this topic. This book discusses it at link. The global population catastrophe has already doomed certain countries to obsolescence and massive famine and economic collapse in the coming decades.
The current collapse of Sri Lanka coming in the pending one of Pakistan and many more to come are just the beginning, as they run out of young workers and consumers (like South Korea now and in a few more years China,) can no longer import the energy they need (China again, among others), are utterly dependent on the global trade network (that the US Navy has protected since WWII) that could collapse at any time, or live in places that have vastly outgrown their geographic areas ability to support the population that is now there (take your pick in the Middle East).
Massive starvation and immigration crises we're going to mark the next couple of decades at least. It's not going to be bad everywhere, as there are the lottery winners of the world that have the ability to produce and grow in manufacture everything they need... for the rest, well just watch the news as it plays out.
I believe it was a chapter in "The End of the World is Just Beginning - Mapping the Collapse of Globalization" by Peter Zeihan, I listen to a lot of audiobooks in the car, so I might be wrong on which book.
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa:
"A national bestseller, Dead Aid unflinchingly confronts one of the greatest myths of our time: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and increase growth. In fact, poverty levels continue to escalate and growth rates have steadily declined―and millions continue to suffer. Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Dambisa Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.
Much debated in the United States and the United Kingdom on publication, Dead Aid is an unsettling yet optimistic work, a powerful challenge to the assumptions and arguments that support a profoundly misguided development policy in Africa. And it is a clarion call to a new, more hopeful vision of how to address the desperate poverty that plagues millions."
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Aid-Working-Better-Africa/dp/0374532125
Boljsa je konkretno za nas. Ker imamo od americanov vec kruha kot od rusov. Mogoce kot predlog za poglobitev v razumevanje sveta danes: https://www.amazon.com/End-World-Just-Beginning-Globalization/dp/006323047X
She will go because we need to reassure them and we will need their help. China will rattle as they always do.
Also an interesting read: https://www.amazon.com/End-World-Just-Beginning-Globalization/dp/006323047X?ref_=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=143f7d37-f188-4150-be82-e9a1d850322d
You should check out the book The End of the World is Just the Beginning, which is all about this. It paints a pretty bleak future for a lot of the world due to demographic decline. You can decide for yourself how much of it to take at face value, but it addresses this question directly.
> if I’m writing to 15 year old angsty European kids
Dude said something like "NATO is the imperialist shield" which is cartoonishly stupid a la some rocky and bullwinkle bit. It's at this point my eyes rolled so hard I could see my own brainstem. That and the apparent belief that NATO is somehow meaningfully separate from America (perhaps de jure it is, but de facto it's utterly pointless to imagine its existence w/o the US).
Anyway I appreciated your perspective (thank you for your service btw, my dad was also a Cpt stationed for a time in Germany). I don't think you or he are unduly apologetic about all of Americas "issues". But even if you're hypercritical of America, it's an obvious fact that its naval hegemony sustains world trade, that American money rebuilt Europe (in a certain sense unfairly), etc. But reddit (like any good democracy) rewards emotive blathering over substantive exchange.
Tangential to some of these themes, you might enjoy this book: https://www.amazon.com/End-World-Just-Beginning-Globalization/dp/006323047X
According to some current theorists, this isn't really a problem. Maybe even the opposite (in a globalized economy). Seems western nations are on a decline; which isn't altogether bad?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/006323047X?psc=1&ref=ppx\_yo2ov\_dt\_b\_product\_details
Geostrategist Peter Zeihan holds that this is all a symptom of global systems failing under global problems.
Howe and Strauss say this is an inevitable consequence of the passing of the last generation with firsthand experiencence of Great Power War
Go read War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler: https://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865
Go read Eisenhower's farewell address: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address
See, it's funny because conservatives also do this, just more effectively. None of them cried about politicizing tragedy when it was creating the DHS after 9/11, for example.