Trapped in the middle

AS many have expected, there has been no change in the bellicose foreign policy of the United States whoever gets to sit in the White House, Democrats or Republicans.

American politicians of whatever color have ended up as mere “executioners” of the will and interests of the mighty ‘military-industrial complex’ whose domination of American society and daily life we were warned about by Republican Pres. Dwight Eisenhower during his farewell speech in 1961, before Democratic Pres. John Kennedy replaced him at the helms of the American Empire.

The history of modern America teaches us that the war started by a Republican US president would be intensified by a Democratic US president. Take the case of Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Well, in North Korea, the aggression was started by Democratic Pres. Harry Truman but was intensified by Republican US Army General Douglas MacArthur before Eisenhower conceded that enough is enough and agreed to a “draw” thru the signing of an armistice in 1953.

Still, the reality is clear: People of the world cannot trust anymore the words of any US President because the words of US State secretary John Foster Dulles under Eisenhower still ring true to this day: “America has no permanent friends, only permanent interests.”

Translation? America’s government is both amoral and immoral since the corporate interests of the military-industrial complex always come first. Whatever else it said is just hypocrisy.

And part of their interests is this obsession with the “containment,” nay, the actual subjugation of China, which, to the mind of US Imperialism, has been the reason why their corrupt and incompetent Chinese puppets, the Koumintang, ended up in Taiwan and their planned subjugation of the entire Korean Peninsula and the rest of Southeast Asia, Vietnam, most especially, have all been frustrated.

That our observation that the world is in much peril under a Democratic US president is very much evident under Democratic Pres. Joe Biden who is now convinced that the US’ “Trade War” versus China under Republican Pres. Donald Trump was an utter failure.

As the World Socialist International has warned, the US, under Biden, has become so desperate to get any excuse to launch a war against China that it has now concentrated so much effort to deodorize the stench of its claim that China’s ‘biological weapons’ laboratory in Wuhan, is to be blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic—despite this being wholly proven wrong by health experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) as far back as February this year.

And what of China? There is no doubt that China is on the rise and this cannot be prevented by any power on earth.

We know that China is not a bellicose country like the US and the Europeans. But, definitely, it will fight.

For the Chinese, a “century of humiliation” by the West is enough.

With “primitive weapons,” China fought US Imperialism to a draw in Korea. Heck, with the same primitive weapons, it even fought the Soviet Union, again to a draw, in 1969.

In other words, if US Imperialism and its Western lackeys are itching for a fight, they would find themselves in a tight fix soon enough. For China is today, a very modern country. Not bellicose but not a coward either.

And minus the use of their respective atomic arsenals—which Biden said he would use—the world would be “lucky” if the next global war lasted 20 years, given the resources both sides can muster.

And which brings us to the purpose of this editorial: What about the Philippines?

Should another global war occur, we are right smack, and trapped, in the middle of it, make no mistake about it.

And unless we stick to the wise, independent foreign policy of Pres. Duterte, woe that we end up poorer than before and worse, “vaporized.”