Thierry Meyssan: All empires are mortal, the “American empire” too
Thierry Meyssan: All empires are mortal, the “American empire” tooVoltairenet - Apr 24, 2023
Last week, I wondered about the reality of the rivalry between the United States and China. Perhaps the “Thucydides trap” is just a smokescreen that masks the impending disintegration of the “American empire”.
In this article, I summarize his career that Westerners have not understood, and I invite you to think about what may happen when he disappears.
The USSR collapsed on itself, not from the war in Afghanistan (1979-89), but from the Chernobyl disaster (April 26, 1986). The Soviets suddenly realized that the state no longer controlled anything. Members of the Warsaw Pact, which Leonid Brezhnev had made vassals, revolted. Churches, Communist Youth and Gays in East Germany brought down the Berlin Wall [1]. Not only did the USSR not react, but it abandoned its allies outside Europe, notably Cuba. Party First Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev transformed himself from reformer to liquidator. The USSR broke up, creating many new independent states. Then it was the descent into hell. A few “New Russians” appropriated public property and waged machine-gun warfare in the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Production collapsed. It became difficult to find food in many Russian regions. Life expectancy fell sharply by fifteen years. The fall was so brutal that no one would have thought that the country would recover quickly.
Simultaneously, the United States imagines what it could do without a rival. President George H. Bush Sr., speaking before the assembled Congress on September 11, 1990, launched the idea of a “New World Order”. He just staged a war in the Gulf that almost every state in the world is joining. Even before the dissolution of the USSR, the United States became the superpower that no one disputes [2]. The Straussian Paul Wolfowitz develops a doctrine aimed at preventing the emergence of a new competitor, which would take the place of the Soviet Union. He points without hesitation to the political project of François Mitterrand and Helmut Köhl, the European Union, as the enemy to be defeated. This was flawed from the outset with the obligation to have all the States of the Warsaw Pact and the former USSR adhere to it until its institutions became impracticable and the inclusion in the Maastricht Treaty of defense of the EU by Washington.
The Pentagon is so sure of no longer having an adversary equal to it that it demobilizes 1 million men once Iraq has been crushed. The research and development units of the armies are dissolved. President Bush Senior believes that this war is the last and that an era of prosperity is beginning.
