THE COLD WAR NEVER ENDED — BECAUSE US AMBITIONS FOR A GLOBAL EMPIRE DICTATING TERMS NEVER STOPPED

If you watch or read the mainstream media in the United States and Europe, they would have you believe for PR purposes that the ultimate objective of US and European foreign policy has been about ensuring compliance with international law and global security, or the more common one we hear in liberal-leaning outlets which is “fighting and preventing authoritarianism around the world in the name of global democracy.” However the lack of journalistic integrity among the New York Times commentators and Fox News pundits who repeat these lines without even the slightest question of the facts or concern about their public image and rock bottom ratings seems to know no limits.

It doesn’t matter who the President is or which one of the two parties are in power because the bipartisan consensus when it comes to US foreign policy has always been to enforce a global regime where the conditions for Western capital accumulation can thrive without any disruption or regulation. It is the natural conclusion of the rise of financial capitalism and the merger of banking and industry, as we saw in the aftermath of the Panic of 1907 when JP Morgan and his coalition of investment bankers monopolized large sectors of the American economy in the name of saving the monetary system from collapse.

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And when the Great Depression hit the United States, the role of the New Deal coalition was to prevent an American working class revolution inside what would become the imperial core by 1945. Yes, it came with many workers benefits, financial regulations and social programs but it should be noted that those only came to be on the pressure of the Communist Party USA and have largely eroded since the 1980s as the era of neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus resulted in the complete capture of government by Western multinational corporations.

I should note that the architects of the American global financial capitalism and the Federal Reserve system, such as JP Morgan and Paul Warburg, had their entire careers built and financed through the banking sectors within the old colonial powers of Europe from the Rothschild family to Jacob Schiff. So it wasn’t just the establishment of a new imperial order but in many ways was the re-colonization of the United States by Britain. The merged Western banking elite would later become instrumental in the war efforts of Britain and France during the Global Inter-Imperialist War known as World War I, and even worse, American financial institutions like Chase National Bank and British bankers such as Montagu Norman, along with various industrialists such as the Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Standard Oil were instrumental in the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany’s war efforts.

All of them agreed on one issue in particular which was that there needed to be a strong and viciously anti-communist Germany that could destroy the Soviet Union. The Cold War began long before 1945 as the Western states in the imperial core were seeking to destroy the Soviet Union, beginning with the 1918 invasion, almost as soon as the October Revolution was successful and Lenin’s new Bolshevik government broke the feudal landlord and financial capitalist class through the redistribution of land to poor peasants and the cancellation of all debts Russia owed to European banks. The Red Scares served the same purposes to prevent a similar labor uprising in the United States, Britain and France. And the US’ imperialist aims continued well after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The Cold War served as an attack on the Russian and Chinese Revolutions for one reason only and that was because the Soviet Union and China provided a model for all states in the Global South seeking independence and liberation from the exploitation, corruption and subordination that defined the imperialist grip of Western colonial powers. Toward the end of achieving global domination, the United States and its post-1945 European vassals sought to prevent any socialist, populist or other national liberation movements in the Global South from taking power, while also preventing sovereign economic development outside of Western-dominated capital markets and supply chains, because these phenomena would cut off Western access to cheap resources and labor.

The US has weaponized financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank to enforce the global hegemony of the US dollar and turn countries into permanent debt slaves while using military alliances such as NATO and national security agencies like the CIA as the armed bodies of political enforcement. In order to achieve these objectives, Washington has completely thrown international law out the window, invading, destabilizing, strangling or interfering any foreign countries that falls out of line with the interests of Wall Street banks like BlackRock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, as well as the oil lobbyists like ExxonMobil and Chevron.

That’s what inspired the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq and Iran, as well as the embargo on Cuba, regime change in Venezuela, Libya, Syria and the Congo, the NATO proxy war in Ukraine, the encirclement of Russia and China with Western military bases, the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the genocide in Gaza, and much more. These US-driven conflicts have also served as their own profit-making scheme with the military-industrial complex making great profits through defense contracts, whether it be weapons manufacturers like Boeing and Lockheed Martin or Silicon Valley technology giants like Palantir.

Perhaps one of the the greatest examples of the West’s disregard for international law compared to those countries that are in the crosshairs of the United States would be distinction between Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2007 speech and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s 2026 speech at the Munich Security Conference.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning about the dangers of a US-led unipolar liberal global order at the 2007 Munich Security Conference:

“What is a unipolar world? However one might embellish this term, at the end of the day, it refers to one type of situation namely one center of authority, force, and decision-making. It is a world in which there is one master, one sovereign. And at the end of the day, this is pernicious not only for those within the system but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within. Unilateral and frequently illegitimate actions have not resolved any problems.

We are seeing a greater and greater disdain for the basic principles of international law and independent legal norms are as a matter of fact coming increasingly closer to one state’s legal system. One state and of course first and foremost the United States has overstepped its national borders in every way. And of course, this is extremely dangerous.

It results in the fact that no one feels safe because no one can feel that the international law is like a stone wall that will protect them.”

The West said that the Russians were paranoid. However, Marco Rubio openly confirmed Putin’s fears at the 2026 Munich Security Conference by calling for the revival of Western colonial imperialism:

“This is the path that President Trump and the United States has embarked upon. It is the path we ask you here in Europe to join us on. It is a path we have walked together before and hope to walk together again. For five centuries, before the end of the Second World War, the West had been expanding – its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.

But in 1945, for the first time since the age of Columbus, it was contracting. Europe was in ruins. Half of it lived behind an Iron Curtain and the rest looked like it would soon follow. The great Western empires had entered into terminal decline, accelerated by godless communist revolutions and by anti-colonial uprisings that would transform the world and drape the red hammer and sickle across vast swaths of the map in the years to come.

Against that backdrop, then, as now, many came to believe that the West’s age of dominance had come to an end and that our future was destined to be a faint and feeble echo of our past. But together, our predecessors recognized that decline was a choice, and it was a choice they refused to make. This is what we did together once before, and this is what President Trump and the United States want to do again now, together with you.”

A global corporate oligarchy driven solely by the ambitions of financial profit and political power has been the primary architect of US foreign policy going all the way back to the early 20th century. It does not discriminate against any one country and it’s not conditioned by which one of the two parties are in power. Trump may be to some extent discarding the PR cover of “fighting authoritarianism and ensuring global security”, earning himself the scorn of liberals, but both he and Joe Biden, as well as Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are all serving as gangster hitmen for monopoly finance capital, waging a war against sovereign states struggling for liberation from imperialism. Trump represents the Theodore Roosevelt wing of US imperialism while liberals make up the Woodrow Wilson faction.

And as the US empire follows in the same footsteps as Ancient Rome and faces almost certain total collapse and societal decay, beginning with the 2008 financial crisis and taking further shape with the establishment of BRICS as an alternative to Western capitalism, the replacement of productive industry and manufacturing with the gig economy and the menial service sector, the crushing of working class Americans through debt and price gouging in basic necessities, and the global energy crisis caused by US aggression and sanctions against Iran and Russia, Washington’s military machine continues to act out more and more violently. However, much like the outcome of the wars of expansion launched by Hitler and Napoleon, this will only accelerate the decline and eventual defeat of the US empire.