Chas Freeman: U.S. Restoring Empire & War On Eurasia

Instead of pursuing delusions of grandeur, the US should seek mutually beneficial cooperation with the rest of the world.

It was actually 600 years of raping, pillaging and genocide on four continents, Australia, America, Asia and Africa, only the penguins of Antarctica avoided the onslaught. But it seems given Gaza that genocide is quite acceptable now. It was only when genocide was carried out on white people from 1939 to 1945 that it was a bad thing.

I wrote this little essay 2 years ago, apparently Marco Rubio is taking a different lesson from history. For the last 500 hundred years before the beginning of the collapse of colonialism in the 1950s, Europe had been colonizing the rest of the world, mainly for its endless resources and cheap labor to feed its own economic growth. The West had been fighting wars among themselves for colonies and control of raw materials and energy. Ever since the end of the WW2, independence movements across the globe had first set free countries in Asia, followed by Latín America, the Middle East and lastly Africa. The West is, now, no longer able to get free resources or labor or land, to support its dominance over developing countries, or the global South in general. Under these circumstances, Europe, or the West including Japan, is losing its own economic independence; they are relying heavily or existentially on the support of the U.S. In the meantime, on the other hand, the global South with the cooperation among the BRICS COUNTRIES like China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa and so on, are focusing on their own economic growth and social development. The new world order is emerging with multipolarity and international democracy for shared prosperity. The West is feeling the heat and threat of its hegemonic collapse. That’s why they are following the marching order of the U.S., in its proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. The European countries have become totally dependent on the U.S. for its resources and strength. Without their old colonies, they submit themselves now completely to the hegemony of the U.S. However, with the united front between China and Russia, the global south is awakening to a new world order. They see their hope and prosperity in China’s BRI as well as the strategies of the BRICKS. That’s why the West can not defeat Russia in Ukraine because it doesn’t have the unlimited resources it used to enjoy with their colonies gone forever. The bottom line is how can the West or NATO expect to beat the united front between Russia and China in the long run without getting into a nuclear Armhcsageddon?!

Chas and Glenn are a team worthy of each other.

Always love listening to Ambassador Freeman. He is so calm, measured, reasonable, and impeccably well mannered. Add all that to a brilliant intellect , wide ranging deep knowledge, and wisdom. To me he is the epitome of a diplomat.Wish we had a hundred more just like him.

Thank you ambassador Freeman! Good geopolitical analysis as usual !!

Chas has a calming voice💗

Always a great pleasure listening to the Ambassador. He is highly educated, reasonable and wise.

Yes, Amb Freeman, we do enjoy your “lengthy convoluted answers” very much indeed.

Chas Freeman is such a ray of light in this dark times!