[PEN-L:6716] Forward of a hypothesis on bourg. vulgar economic motives

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is from  a son of Karl Mark,  hypothesizing bourgeois, vulgarly materialist motivation for the war on Yugoslavia.

Charles Brown

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The consequences of the Kosovo debacle will take time to work themselves
out. But the chances of disgraced Nato being resurrected seem small, and
the Atlantic dimension is therefore going to be transformed. US hegemony
is under threat not just in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Balkans, but
in the EU too. The intertwining of financial, corporate and military
structures and process, and the reciprocity of effects among them, is a
key feature of modern imperialism and a clue to the flexibility,
dynamism and overwhelming political power enjoyed until now by the US.
But leverage works both ways, and from being in a win-win situation the
US now faces a lose-lose situation. Loss of military-political control
over Europe is dangerous for US corporate and financial hegemony and
directly imperils the supremacy of the dollar. Financial convulsions
cannot be far behind and as Russia spins out of control, there seems
little left to keep the Wall St bubble inflated. But that is not the
worst of it. The 'disinterested humanitarians' of Downing St and the
White House needed to win in the Balkans to be sure of securing
Caspian and Persian Gulf energy supplies in the coming decades. Their
failure is no encouragement to their client states in the Gulf or
Georgia and Azerbaijan in the Caspian/Caucasus region. And what are the
chances now of the US/Europe dominating Russian oil and squeezing China
out of the energy-rich Kazakh, Uzbek and other Central Asian states?
Nil.

The blindingly-obvious ultimate reason for Nato's military failure is
the absolute lack of militarism among the 600m citizens of Nato
countries. Arcade war is OK, war-war definitely not, especially when it
takes place near Adriatic tourist centres. The mass psychological
reconstruction of Nato populations is perhaps the most urgent necessity
which the imperialist states, their war makers and ideologists, face.
Unless popular pro-war feelings can be whipped up, it is clear that not
just Nato is a white elephant: the Revolution in Military Affairs, which
was supposed to guarantee push-button control of human affairs, is just
a hollow farce.