Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

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THE USA’S POSTWAR STRATEGY AND THE REASON FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM IT

… The USA entered the world wars with the understanding that the age of empires was creating monopolies and war, rather than markets and peace between countries.

The US postwar policy was:
… 1) to prevent another world war by creating open markets to raise undeveloped countries into prosperity, dependent upon each other for trade, and incentivized to be ‘good world citizens’.
… 2) to prevent the formation of or expansion of empires that prohibited free trade and led to the world wars.
… 3) to prevent local wars by limiting governments to economic development, human rights, and respect for borders.
… 4) to ensure petroleum was available to world markets;
… 5) to ensure communism did not spread to the middle east or the rest of the world, and threaten all of the above, restoring empires and destroying free trade.
… 6) And once Islamist theoreticians learned from the communists and imitated the communists then we were stuck in the same position. With Islamic terrorism instead of the communist terrorism of the previous generations.
… 7) And we sacrificed so much to raise china, and they turned on us.
… 8) There are only three hostile empires with imperial ambitions, trying to overthrow world free trade and the US attempt to prevent more world wars: Russia, Iran, and China.
… 8) And we have hurt our economy, hurt our lower and middle class and lost our people in world conflicts trying to do so.

SO;
… a) This strategy raised the world out of ignorance poverty starvation and disease.
… b) Was the USA clear about it instead of wrapping it in ‘democracy’ nonsense? No.
… c) Was the USA consistent in the application? No.
… d) Did the USA make mistakes in doing so? Very much so.

AND;
… Do we know why the USA made mistakes? In retrospect, yes. The modern state invented by england, consisting of rule of law, constitution, and participatory government, requires the prior formation of:
… a) nationalism over tribalism or familism.
… b) a universal military service, and franchise with rigorous training and indoctrination that institutionalized that nationalism.
… c) a constitution, rule of law, and judiciary from that military that can reliably punish crime, corruption, and sedition. And a police (Sherrif) force that enforces it.
… d) a majority middle class because of that success fully production of rule of law by that judiciary
… e) and most difficult of all, a population with an IQ sufficient to create a majority middle-class polity. And that right there … that’s the problem.

THE RESULT;
… We tried to spread a high-trust, 100+ IQ political system. While it was possible in India because of the caste system and hindu religion, despite an IQ 85 population. When we tried to spread it to 85(MENA) and 75(AFRICA) with LOW TRUST, familial, tribal, or fundamentalist civilizations it’s impossible.
… So that is why we gave up on modernizing the world, the same way we gave up on colonizing and governing the world. Because outside of east Asian and Europe, the populations of the world do not have a demographic distribution capable of an economy sufficient to form a majority middle class on world markets, that can succeed by free trade.
… Instead, those countries fight us at every opportunity.
… And so the USA is withdrawing from our mission to raise the world into modernity, because the world is unfit for it.
… And so the world needs multi-polarity, where we have advanced federations of ever-developing countries, less advanced stagnant authoritarian countries, and far less advanced impoverished despotic countries.
… And when we stop defending world trade at least two billion people that we have raised out of poverty will die of starvation. And another billion of war. And we, on our oceans, and our islands will be just fine.

I hope this helps.
Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute