Quote (thesnipa @ Aug 2 2023 01:42pm)
personally i find this theory to be smart, but too smart for those involved. the war on terror was just pumping money into corporations that would make the weapons and items for reconstruction. even back to post-WW2 the reconstruction of germany was done purely to have an ally subject to our whims and pump cash to companies that made the items via US tax dollars. and chinese outsourcing was more about making a quick buck IMO than the new world order running a psy-op on chinese culture.
they may have been tertiary goals, but it was primarily motivated by $$$.
That thought does make me doubt my beliefs for sure, I might be seeing 4D chess when they are really playing checkers.
I just see the war on terror as a drastic change in how US foreign policy was conducted and I don't think it would have been motivated purely by financial gain.
I think the reconstruction of Germany was more about creating a western controlled bulwark against communism and stopping the resurrection of fascism while also extending US influence through Europe via a stranglehold on manufacturing. I think a lot of that stuff was based on heartland theory and it's various offshoots.
I don’t think the term psyop is really appropriate in this context, IMO the general thinking was that China would naturally gravitate to a western liberal style democracy over time and allowing US corporations to operate there would speed up the process. Making tons of money was obviously nice but not worth the long term cost of destroying US industry.
They probably didn't read it, why would they value his views at that point(2014)? His theory had already failed in their eyes and if my theory about the war on terror is correct they were already more than a decade into their strategy of containing China.
And I checked out that link, very interesting. My opinion is they were all correct in some ways and wrong in others, I don't think any of their theories completely explain things but I do think they offer valuable perspective. I need to read clash of civilization, I have read summaries of it but not the actual book.
Haven't heard of Betts, will check him out for sure, thanks!
This post was edited by DizzyBusiness on Aug 2 2023 11:57am