"The ultimate objective of World War 3 is to dismember the Russian Federation, reducing it to a series of semi-colonies to open the way for the plunder of its vast natural resources"
US-NATO troops are to be positioned close to Russia’s borders. And to maintain U.S. hegemony in where half the world’s population lives, China is put under military and economic pressure by Obama’s strategic pivot to Asia.
US-NATO troops are to be positioned close to Russia’s borders. And to maintain U.S. hegemony in where half the world’s population lives, China is put under military and economic pressure by Obama’s strategic pivot to Asia.
Defence Secretary Ashton Carter’s speech Tuesday previewing the
Pentagon budget for fiscal year 2017 spelled out Washington’s advanced
preparations for military confrontations with the world’s second- and
third-largest nuclear powers, Russia and China.
Delivered to the Economic Club of Washington, DC, an
appreciative audience whose sponsors include the major arms
manufacturers Boeing and Northrop Grumman as well as financial giants
like Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, the defence secretary’s
speech presented an unabashed declaration of Washington’s intentions to
assert its hegemony over the world’s markets and resources by whatever
means necessary, up to and including a nuclear holocaust.
The biggest increase proposed in the Pentagon budget
is the quadrupling of funding for the US military build-up against Russia
in Europe - projected to rise from $800 million to $3.4 billion. In
addition to the 65,000 troops Washington already
garrisons on the European continent, the funding increase will pay for
the “heel to toe” rotation of full armoured combat brigades into the
former Baltic republics, on Russia’s doorstep, as well as other eastern
European countries.
This
proposal represents a flagrant and provocative violation of the
agreements reached with Moscow in the wake of the Stalinist
bureaucracy’s dissolution of the Soviet Union
not to station large numbers of NATO troops on Russia’s borders.
In
addition, large quantities of military hardware, including tanks,
artillery, infantry fighting
vehicles and other weaponry, are to be stockpiled in close striking
distance to Russia to allow for the speedy intervention of additional US
combat brigades from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Poland Bulgaria
and Romania.
As for Obama, the Nobel
Peace Prize-winning president, his role as a rubber stamp for the US
military and intelligence apparatus was briefly noted in Carter’s
remarks Tuesday. Asked whether there would be
a further increase in the number of US troops deployed in Iraq and
Syria, where funding for military operations is also being increased by
50 percent to $7.5 billion, he responded in the affirmative, adding,
“Every time the chairman [of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff] and I have asked the president for more capability to do
that, he said yes, and I expect that will continue.”
The
danger of a new world war arises out of
the fundamental contradictions of the capitalist system,between the
development of a global economy and its division into antagonistic
nation states, in which the private ownership of the means of production
is rooted. This finds its most acute expression
in the drive of US imperialism to dominate the Eurasian landmass, above
all those areas from which it was excluded for decades by the Russian
and Chinese revolutions. In the west, the US, in league with Germany,
has orchestrated a fascist-led coup to bring
Ukraine under its control. But its ambitions do not stop there. The
ultimate objective is to dismember the Russian Federation, reducing it
to a series of semi-colonies to open the way for the plunder of its vast
natural resources. In the east, the Obama administration’s
pivot to Asia is aimed at encircling China and transforming it into a
semi-colony. Here, the objective is to ensure domination of the cheap
labor that is one of the key global sources of the surplus value
extracted from the working class and the life-blood
of the capitalist economy.
"The
historic question confronting humanity is the necessity for the working
class to carry out the world socialist revolution before the capitalist
ruling class can complete its descent into a war that threatens nuclear
extinction. This places the greatest urgency on the political task of
building the Fourth International as the revolutionary leadership of the
world working class".
In
the year and a half since ICFI (the International Committee of the
Fourth International) issued its statement, these contradictions have
only sharpened, intensifying existing wars and
heightening the danger of new ones from the Middle East, to Eastern
Europe, to the South China Sea, while at the same time driving the
working class into increasingly bitter struggles against austerity and
exploitation.
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