By Matthew Ehret for the Saker Blog
On December 17, 2020 A new US Maritime strategy was unveiled putting into practice the regressive concepts first outlined in the early National Defense Strategy 2020 doctrine which target China and Russia as the primary enemies of the USA and demanding that the USA be capable to “defeat our adversaries while we accelerate development of a modernized integrated all-domain naval force of the future”.
The Pentagon’s Advantages at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power continued by saying “China’s and Russia’s revisionist approaches in the maritime environment threaten US interests, undermine alliances and partnerships and degrade the free and open international order… moreover, China’s and Russia’s aggressive naval growth and modernization are eroding US institutional advantages.”
The document continued to describe that “we must operate more assertively to prevail in day-to-day competition as we uphold the rules-based order and deter our competitors from pursuing armed aggression… ready, forward-deployed naval forces will adopt a more assertive posture in day to day operations”
For anyone who has been paying attention to the vast growth of the Pentagon’s Full Spectrum containment policy around China’s perimeter begun with Obama’s Asia Pivot, it may appear as though these words are not new, but just a continuation of American unipolar agenda, Pacific war games, and psychological projection onto perceived enemies, that have been underway for years. While this is certainly true, it must be noted that they are occurring at a time that NATO 2030 has enshrined an anti-China military posture into the Trans Atlantic security doctrine which had formerly channeled most of its hate purely onto Russia.
The fact is those unipolar zombies programmed to think in no other terms but global post-nation state dominance are deathly afraid of the Russia-China bond of survival which has created a uniquely viable foundation for an alternative economic/security architecture for the world. This model is based on a system of finance that defines money not in speculative but rather long-term development of the real economic foundations of life. It also features a strong emphasis on win-win cooperation as opposed to Hobbesian zero-sum logic dominant among western powers, and it also finds itself driven by OPEN system economic practices shaped by unbounded scientific and technological progress that once upon a time guided America’s better traditions.
With the obvious threat of nuclear war breaking out between a collapsing unipolar order in the west and an emergent Multipolar alliance, it is important to review what possible latent policy traditions may yet be revived within America’s history which certain forces have worked very hard to scrub out of the historical record and memory. This study will take us to the incredible fights that arose over America’s identity at the turn of the 20th century during the period of President William McKinley and the treasonous anglophile President of vice, Theodore Roosevelt.
Monroe Doctrine or Empire?
As Martin Sieff eloquently laid out in his recent article, President McKinley himself was an peacemaker, anti-imperialist of a higher order than most people realize. McKinley was also a strong supporter of two complementary policies: 1) Internally, he was a defender of Lincoln’s “American system” of protectionism, internal improvements and black suffrage and 2) Externally, he was a defender of the Monroe Doctrine that defined America’s anti-imperial foreign policy since 1823.
The Monroe Doctrine’s architect John Quincy Adams laid out this principle eloquently on July 4, 1821:
“After fifty years the United States has, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations, while asserting and maintaining her own.
That the United States does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
That by involving itself in the internal affairs of other nations, the United States would destroy its own reason of existence; the fundamental maxims of her policy would become, then, no different than the empire America’s revolution defeated. It would be, then, no longer the ruler of itself, but the dictator of the world.”
America’s march is the march of mind, not of conquest.
Colonial establishments are engines of wrong, and that in the progress of social improvement it will be the duty of the human family to abolish them”.
It was an aging John Quincy Adams whom a young Abraham Lincoln collaborated with in ending the imperial Mexican-American war under Wall Street stooge James Polk in 1846. When Adams died in 1848, Lincoln picked up the torch he left behind as the London-directed “proto deep state” of the 19th century worked to dissolve the republic from within. The foreign policy conception laid out by Adams ensured that America’s only concern was “staying out of foreign imperial entanglements” as Washington had earlier warned and keeping foreign imperial interests out of the Americas. The idea of projecting power onto the weak or subduing other cultures was anathema to this genuinely American principle.
A major battle which has been intentionally obscured from history books took place in the wake of Lincoln’s murder and the re-ascension of the City of London-backed slave power during the decades after the Union victory of 1865. On the one hand America’s role in the emerging global family of nations was being shaped by followers of Lincoln who wished to usher in an age of win-win cooperation. Such an anti-Darwinian system which Adams called “a community of principle” asserted that each nation had the right to sovereign banking controls over private finance, productive credit emissions tied to internal improvements with a focus on continental (rail/road) development, industrial progress and full spectrum economies. Adherents of this program included Russia’s Sergei Witte and Alexander II, Germany’s Otto von Bismarck, France’s Sadi Carnot, and leading figures within Japan’s Meiji Restoration.
On the other hand, “eastern establishment families” of the USA more loyal to the gods of money, hereditary institutions and the vast international empire of Britain saw America’s destiny tied to an imperial global partnership with the Mother country. These two opposing paradigms within America have defined two opposing views of “progress”, “value”, “self-interest” and “law” which have continued to shape the world over 150 years later.
William Gilpin vs Alfred Mahan: Two Paradigms Clash
A champion of the former traditionally American outlook who rose to the international scene was William Gilpin (1813-1894). Gilpin hailed from a patriotic family of nation builders whose patriarch Thomas Gilpin was a close ally of Benjamin Franklin and leading member of Franklin’s Philosophical Society. William Gilpin was famous for his advocacy of America’s trans continental railway whose construction he proselytized as early as 1845 (it was finally begun by Lincoln during the Civil War and completed in 1869 as I outlined in my previous paper How to Save a Dying Republic).
In his thousands of speeches and writings, Gilpin made it known that he understood America’s destiny to be inextricably tied to the ancient civilization of China- not to impose opium as the British and their American lackies were want to do, but to learn from and even emulate!
In 1852, Gilpin stated:
“Salvation must come to America from China, and this consists in the introduction of the “Chinese constitution” viz. the “patriarchal democracy of the Celestial Empire”. The political life of the United States is through European influences, in a state of complete demoralization, and the Chinese Constitution alone contains elements of regeneration. For this reason, a railroad to the Pacific is of such vast importance, since by its means the Chinese trade will be conducted straight across the North American continent. This trade must bring in its train Chinese civilization. All that is usually alleged against China is mere calumny spread purposefully, just like those calumnies which are circulated in Europe about the United States”.
With Lincoln’s 1861 presidential victory, Gilpin became Lincoln’s bodyguard and ensured the president survived his first assassination attempt en route to Washington from Illinois. During the Civil War, Gilpin was made Colorado’s first Governor where he successfully stopped the southern power from opening up a western front during the war of secession (applying Lincoln’s greenback system to finance his army on a state level) and winning the “Battle of Glorieta Pass”, thus saving the union.
After the war Gilpin became a leading advocate of the internationalization of the “American system of political economy” which Lincoln applied vigorously during his short-lived presidency. Citing the success of Lincoln’s system, Gilpin said: “No amount of argument will make America adopt old world theories… To rely upon herself, to develop her own resources, to manufacture everything that can possibly be manufactured within her territory- this is and has been the policy of the USA from the time of Alexander Hamilton to that of Henry Clay and thence to our own days”.
Throughout his speeches Gilpin emphasizes the role of a U.S.-Russia alliance: “It is a simple and plain proposition that Russia and the United States, each having broad, uninhabited areas and limitless undeveloped resources, would by the expenditure of 2 or 3 hundred millions apiece for a highway of the nations threw their now waste places, add a hundredfold to their wealth and power and influence”
And seeing in China’s potential the means to re-enliven the world- including the decadent and corrupt culture of Europe: “In Asia a civilization resting on a basis of remote antiquity has had, indeed, a long pause, but a certain civilization- although hitherto hermetically sealed up has continued to exist. The ancient Asiatic colossus, in a certain sense, needed only to be awakened to new life and European culture finds a basis there on which it can build future reforms.”
In opposition to the outdated British controls of “chock points” on the seas which kept the world under the clutches of the might of London, Gilpin advocated loudly for a system of internal improvements, rail development, and growth of the innate goodness of all cultures and people through scientific and technological progress. Once a global system of mutual development of rail were established, Gilpin stated “in the shipment of many kinds of raw and manufactured goods, it will largely supersede the ocean traffic of Great Britain, in whose hands is now carrying the trade of the world.”
Gilpin’s vision was most clearly laid out in his 1890 magnum opus “The Cosmopolitan Railway” which featured designs for development corridors across all continents united by a “community of principle”.
Echoing the win-win philosophy of Xi Jinping’s New Silk Road today, Gilpin stated:
“The cosmopolitan railway will make the whole world one community. It will reduce the separate nations to families of our great nation… From extended intercommunication will arise a wider intercourse of human ideas and as the result, logical and philosophical reciprocities, which will become the germs for innumerable new developments; for in the track of intercommunication, enterprise and invention invariably follow and whatever facilitates one stimulates every other agency of progress.”
Mahan Derails America’s Anti-Imperial Identity
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) represented an opposing paradigm which true American statesmen like Lincoln, Secretary of State James Blaine, William Seward, President Grant, William Garfield, and McKinley detested. Sadly, with McKinley’s murder (run by an anarchist ring with ties to British Intelligence) and the rise of Teddy Roosevelt in 1901, it was not Gilpin’s but rather Mahan’s worldview which became the dominant foreign policy doctrine for the next 120 years (despite a few brief respites under FDR and JFK).
Mahan is commonly credited for being a co-founder of modern geopolitics and an inspiration for Halford Mackinder. Having graduated from West Point’s naval academy in 1859, Mahan soon became renowned as a total failure in actual combat having crashed warships repeatedly into moving and stationary objects during the Civil War. Since reality was not his forte, Mahan focused his post-war career on Ivory tower theorizing gushing over maps of the world and fawning over Britain’s power as a force of world history.
His “Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 published in the same year that Gilpin published his Cosmopolitan Railway (1890) was a total break from the spirit of win-win cooperation that defined America’s foreign policy. According to the Diplomat, this book soon “became the bible for many navies around the world” with the Kaiser of Germany (now released from the influence of the great rail-loving statesman Otto von Bismarck whom he fired in 1890) demanding all of his offers read. Later Teddy Roosevelt ordered copies for every member of Congress. In Mahan’s book, the geopolitician continuously asserts his belief that it is America’s destiny to succeed the British Empire.
Taking the British imperial definition of “commerce” which uses free trade as a cover for the military dominance of weak nations (open borders and turning off protectionism simply makes a people easier to rob), Mahan attempts to argue that America need not continue to adhere to “outdated” habits like the Monroe doctrine since the new order of world empires demands America stay relevant in a world of sea power and empire. Mahan writes: “The advance of Russia in Asia, in the division of Africa, in the colonial ambitions of France and in the British idea of Imperial Federation, now fast assuming concrete shape in practical combined action in South Africa” demands that the USA act accordingly.
Attempting to refute the “outdated habits” of rail development which consume so many foolish statesmen around the globe, Mahan states: “a railway competes in vain with a river… because more facile and copious, water traffic is for equal distances much cheaper and because cheaper, more useful”. Like those attacking today’s Belt and Road Initiative, the power of railways is that their returns are not measurable by simple monetary terms, but are rather QUALITATIVE. The long-term construction of rail systems not only unite divided people, increase manufacturing and industrial corridors but also induce closer powers of association and interchange between agriculture and urban producers. These processes uplift national productive powers building full spectrum economies and also a culture’s capacity for creative thought.
The attempt made to justify sea traffic merely because “larger amounts of goods can be shipped” is purely quantitative and monetaristic sophistry devoid of any science of real value.
While Gilpin celebrates the successful awakening of China and other great nations of the world, in the Problem of Asia (1901) Mahan says: “It is scarcely desirable that so vast a proportion of mankind as the Chinese constitute should be animated by but one spirit”. Should China “burst her barriers eastward, it would be impossible to exaggerate the momentous issues dependant upon a firm hold of the Hawaiian islands by a great civilized maritime power.”
Mahan’s adherence to social Darwinism is present throughout his works as he defines the political differences of the 3 primary branches of humanity (Teutonic, Slavic and Asiatic) as purely rooted in the intrinsic inferiority or superiority of their race saying: “There are well recognized racial divergencies which find concrete expression in differences equally marked of political institution, of social progress and of individual development. These differences are… deep seated in the racial constitution and partly the result of the environment”. Mahan goes onto restate his belief that unlike the superior Teutonics “the Oriental, whether national or individual does not change” and “the East does not progress”.
Calling China a carcass to be devoured by an American eagle, Mahan writes: “If life departs, a carcass can be utilized only by dissection or for food; the gathering to it of the eagles is a natural law, of which it is bootless to complain… the onward movement of the world has to be accepted as a fact.”
Championing an Anglo American alliance needed to subdue and “civilize” China as part of the post-Boxer Rebellion, Mahan says “of all the nations we shall meet in the East, Great Britain is the one with which we have by far the most in common in the nature of our interests there and in our standards of law and justice”.
In case there was any doubt in the minds of Mahan’s readers as to the MEANS which America should assert its dominance onto China, Mahan makes clear his belief that progress is caused by 1) force and 2) war: “That such a process should be underlain by force… on the part of outside influences, force of opposition among the latter themselves [speaking of the colonial European monarchies racing to carve up China in 1901 -ed] may be regrettable, but it is only a repetition of all history… Every step forward in the march that has opened in China to trade has been gained by pressure; the most important have been the result of actual war.”
A Last Anti-Imperial Push
The chaos induced by the anti-foreigner Boxer Rebellion of 1899 which spread quickly across China resulted a heated battle between imperial and anti-imperial forces in both Russia and the USA. Where Transport Minister Sergei Witte who spearheaded the development of the Trans Siberian rail line (1890-1905) tried to avoid military entanglement, McKinley was busy doing the same.
The boxers soon attacked the Manchurian rail connecting Russia to China by land and Witte succumbed to pressure to finally send in troops. The reformers of China who attempted to modernize with American and Russian assistance under Emperor Kuang Hsu and Li Hung Chang fell from power as total anarchy reigned. The outcome of the Boxer chaos involved the imperial powers of France, Germany and England demanding immense financial reparations, ownership of Chinese territory and mass executions of the Boxers.
While McKinley is often blamed for America’s imperial turn, the reality is just the opposite.
The Spanish-American war begun in 1898 was actually launched unilaterally by Anglophilic racist Theodore Roosevelt who used the 4 hour window he had while Undersecretary of the Navy (while the actual Secretary was out of Washington) to send orders to Captain Dewey of the Pacific fleet to engage in a fight with the Spanish over their Philippine territories. McKinley had resisted the war hawks until that point but found himself finally bending to the momentum. In China, McKinley, like Witte worked desperately to reject taking territory resulting in great fears from the British oligarchy that a U.S.-Russia alliance led by McKinley and Witte was immanent.
The assassination of McKinley on September 18, 1901 catapulted Mahan-loving Vice President Teddy Roosevelt into high office, who enmeshed America into a new epoch of Anglo-American imperialism abroad, a growth of eugenics and segregation at home and the creation of an independent police state agency called the FBI.
As Sieff writes: “Roosevelt devoted his next eight years in the presidency and the rest of his life to integrating the United States and the British Empire into a seamless web of racial imperialist oppression that dominated Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and that destroyed the cultural history and heritage of the Native North American nations.”
In Russia, the 1902 Anglo-Japan Treaty led to the disastrous Japan-Russo war of 1905 which devastated the Russian navy, ended the political career of Sergei Witte and threw Russia into chaos leading to the fall of the Romanovs (Czar Nicholas II was the last statesman occupying high office that this author is aware of to have actively promoted the Bering Strait Tunnel rail connection in 1906. It wasn’t until FDR’s Vice President Henry Wallace met with Foreign Minister Molotov in 1942 that the idea resurfaced once more).
In his Two Peoples One Friendship, Wallace described his discussions with Foreign Minister Molotov in 1942 saying:
“Of all nations, Russia has the most powerful combination of a rapidly increasing population, great natural resources and immediate expansion in technological skills. Siberia and China will furnish the greatest frontier of tomorrow… When Molotov [Russia’s Foreign Minister] was in Washington in the spring of 1942 I spoke to him about the combined highway and airway which I hope someday will link Chicago and Moscow via Canada, Alaska and Siberia. Molotov, after observing that no one nation could do this job by itself, said that he and I would live to see the day of its accomplishment. It would mean much to the peace of the future if there could be some tangible link of this sort between the pioneer spirit of our own West and the frontier spirit of the Russian East.”
While the “open door” rape of the China was attempted by the Anglo-Americans, a fortunate rear guard maneuver orchestrated by another follower of Abraham Lincoln named Sun Yat-sen resulted in a surprise overthrow of the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and the institution of the Republic of China with Sun Yat-sen as the acting President. While Sun Yat-sen sided with Gilpin and Lincoln in opposition to the Mahanists on the issue of rail and industrial development (illustrated in his extraordinary 1920 International Development of China program which called for 160 000 km of rail, water diversion projects, ports and 1.5 million km of paved roads- illustrated below), the intrigues that sank the world into World War I made any hopes of this early development of China impossible in Sun Yat-sen’s lifetime.
Expressing his own deep understanding of these top down tactics of world history (and the recognition that the same British imperial forces that orchestrated the US Civil War were planning to do the same to China), Sun Yat-sen wrote in 1912:
“We understand too well that there are certain men of power—not to include for the present, certain nations—who would view with a greater or lesser satisfaction an internal rupture in the new Republic [of China]. They would welcome, as a move toward the accomplishment of their own ends and designs, a civil war between the provinces of the North and the South; just as, 50 years ago, there was applause in secret (in certain quarters) over the terrible civil strife in the United States.
Americans of today who were alive in those dark days of the great republic will remember the feelings in the hearts of the people—the bitter and painful thoughts that arose from the knowledge that foreigners were hoping and praying for the destruction of the American Union.
Had the war been successful from the South’s standpoint, and had two separate republics been established, is it not likely that perhaps half a dozen or more weak nations would have eventually been established? I believe that such would have been the result; and I further believe that with the one great nation divided politically and commercially, outsiders would have stepped in sooner or later and made of America their own. I do not believe that I am stating this too forcibly. If so, I have not read history nor studied men and nations intelligently.
And I feel that we have such enemies abroad as the American republic had; and that at certain capitals the most welcome announcement that would be made would be that of a rebellion in China against the constituted authorities.
This is a hard statement to make; but I believe in speaking the truth so that all the world may know and recognize it.”
Today’s Belt and Road Initiative, and strategic friendship established between Russia and China has re-awoken the forgotten vision of William Gilpin for a world of cooperating sovereign nation states. Does the USA have the moral ability to avoid disintegration by accepting a Russia-U.S.-China alliance needed to revive McKinley’s American System or will we slip into a new Great Reset and World War?
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , Senior Fellow at the American University in Moscow, BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation. He can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com
“Does the USA have the moral ability to avoid disintegration by accepting a Russia-U.S.-China alliance needed to revive McKinley’s American System or will we slip into a new Great Reset and World War?”
That, Mr. Ehret, is the question you leave us with. Why? When did the USA ever have a “moral” ability? Europeans were from the beginning the “chosen ones” who came to dominate the continent just like the Ashkenazim have dominated Palestine. Manifest Destiny = Zionism = racism, pure and simple. We will slip into a “new Great Reset and another World War” because of it. Chosenness leads to grandiose imaginings that God is on our side, that somehow all of our raping and pillaging has Devine permission. Our wars become Holy Wars. When we attack Iran to save Trump’s presidency it will be the Christian Zionist’s war to end all wars, Armageddon. The Likudniks and Christian Zionists who surround Trump actually believe this. Trump is their ticket to the Rapture. It all has to happen before January 20th. May Heaven help us all.
There is a prevalent reflexive tendency to paint history with broad black and white brush strokes that causes the mind’s eye to loose sight of the nuance which is often where truth resides. The case of manifest destiny and its perverse misuse is one of those cases. I wrote a study on the two opposing strains of manifest destiny that have co-existed through recent history. I suggest you take a look: https://canadianpatriot.org/2018/10/30/two-confederacies-converge-on-lincoln/
Mr. Ehret,
As an independent and knowledgeable journalist, could you give us your opinion on the following:
1. The kidnapping of two of your Canadian countrymen (Messrs. Kovrig, Spavor) by the communist Chinese government and falsely charged with spying?
2. Are your concerned at all for the national security of Canada with respect to Chinese communist soldiers training with Canadian military forces on homeland soil and the possible disclosure of classified military information to the detriment of the Canadian people?
3. I am unable to find articles you published regarding the Republic of China (Taiwan) ongoing political struggle against the aggressive posturing by General Secretary Xi Jingping. Could you provide a URL link to what you have written regarding ROC’s position so that we can have a balanced understanding of what is going on between the two nations?
Excellent, Matthew. Certainly there were different factions that promoted often competing strains of Manifest Destiny. Globalism, however, has today made those differences moot. Just as Israel has no real borders, so is the AngloZionist Empire always expanding its sphere of influence. It’s in its DNA to be rapacious and exploitative. But as you said, it is now facing a new Great Reset and another World War. The rest of the world simply won’t stand for it anymore, and the new Belt and Road Initiative is the best example of that. Problem is, the Empire has nukes and just like Israel, is willing to use the Sampson Option to take rest of humanity with it when it goes down.
Sir,
It might be worthwhile to enlarge the perspective to understand that the forces which sought global dominance in the 19th century were, in fact, and are the owners of the corporate Israel you cite which in fact, likely projects its orders from its owner much like the US’s CIA does in respect of its role as the North American mirror of MI6. Much as minions within the Chinese government that have taken on the servitude of the Empire and project its desires rather than that of the actual government, you find the infiltration practices of the Empire that long preceded Teddy Roosevelt consistent with millennia old intelligence and persuasion practices that date, actually, from the Oracle at Delphi. However, that goes into the history and is a matter of study al on its own.
The Israeli connection is here: https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/12/02/on-the-british-imperial-roots-of-political-zionism/
Yes well the current situation is whether the US military want Hillary installed as President, the country split into several blocs, endless wars including with Russia, continued lockdowns and vaccine mass murder by Davos Globalists, and the US political and court system corrupt til the end of time. Complete collapse of current civilization.
That will happen if Biden & Democrats gets in.
Window of time to deal with this is rapidly closing.
Same for UK & EU.
Russia and China will see to it that the globalist elites are scared away from suicide – hopefully. If only the Dollar would collapse already, then peace might prevail.
Be careful what you wish for Thomas. The physical economic breakdown of the USA under conditions of a meltdown would have global ramifications on global food production, supply chains, which would result in hundreds of millions of men, women and children dead including in the Eurasian parts of the world. It isn’t the sort of “peace” that you should be hoping for. There is too many points of interconnectivity on a physical platform of mutual coexistence that you have to seriously weigh whether your desire to have empire collapse the way you wish it to to be worth it. Especially when these tens if not hundreds of millions of innocent deaths could otherwise be avoided- as difficult and unlikely as that might be.
We’re going to end up with billions dead anyway, because oil peaked in 2005, shale peaked in 2019 and undersea oil peaked this year. Our farming industry is very dependent upon fossil fuels, and when the oil gets too costly to use for growing stuff, the carrying capacity of our planet will shrink from ~8 billion people to around 1-2 billion. That alone means 3/4 of the world’s population isn’t going to be around for very long.
That’s not even accounting for the fact that we’re entering a new grand solar minimum this year. Fun times.
The elites have known this for a while, and that’s why they want to get as many vaccinated as possible, so that the collapse is manageable under conditions they would like to keep in place. They actually don’t give a damn about who lives or who dies – they just want to stay in control.
However, the risk they are running is huge: If they succeed in bringing about a Great Reset, and China and Russia are *not* on board with it, the Chinese and Russians can simply invade, overrun an already weakened population – and kill off the elites. It’s already debatable as to how the Western Europeans would handle an invasion or war (I think, not very well at all) – and if the US gets its lights put out with a couple of EMPs, electricity in the US will be a thing of the past for years, if not decades.
In any case, China and Russia could simply EMP Europe and the US into the stone age, and nip the Great Reset in the bud: Without electricity, there will be no 4th Industrial Revolution, no cashless banking, and no way to track the masses. It would also force us to become more self-sufficient, more independent – and a hell of a lot more resourceful. Sure, lots of people would die – but that’s exactly what’s being planned for us under the Great Reset, so tell me – hand on heart – what’s the difference?
But it’s not avoidable. The Dollar will come down with a crash like all other Ponzi schemes in history. Why would states be preparing themselves for the event by hoarding gold? Would you rather wish for the globalists’ reset? If mechanisms for continuing trade with gold backed currencies are in place the detrimental effect of the Dollar crash will be limited.
Its also interesting that a good man and reformer like McKinley was assassinated, just like Lincoln and Kennedy.
And there are links across the Atlantic in all instances.
Same for Reagan in 1981 when a certain fat man also seen in Dealey Plaza & Oak Cliff was there.
In McKinley’s case it was an alleged anarchist (aka ANTIFA) who shot him, but who put him up to it ?
the Q and A section of journalist Martin Sieff’s recent lecture “Teddy Roosevelt’s Last Mad Crusade” features a discussion on the global anarchist operations managed by Prince Kropotkin with strong ties to British Intelligence. Emma Goldwin was a key player in this assassination/anarchist/social darwinist movement. Check it out: https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/12/23/teddy-roosevelts-last-mad-crusade-martin-sieff-lecture/
Doesnt surprise me.
SEE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spycatcher
Emma Goldman actually.
Does Martin Sieff talk about “The Society of American Friends of Russian Freedom (SAFRF)”, founded in 1891 in Boston at the instigation of the Russian émigré Stepniak-Kravchinskii (a member of the ‘Circle of Tchaikovski’ and ‘Zemlya i volya /Land and Liberty’, anarchist and assassin himself and close friend of Prince Kropotkin), after he founded the ”Society of Friends of Russian Freedom” in England in 1890? Both societies ‘attracted’ the support of many representatives of the British and American ‘establishment’. The society organized the anti-Russian propagandist campaign of the Russian émigré Breshko-Breskovskaia in 1904-1905 in the USA, raising about $10,000 for the Socialist Revolutionary Party, returning to Russia with the money ‘just in time for the Revolution of 1905! A great supporter was that notorious Russophobe Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb Bank on Wall Street, who financed Russian revolutionaries through this organization, the most known being Trotsky and Lenin. I doubt that they had much to do with Cecil Rhodes ‘secret society’, Milner’s Kindergarten, Round Table!
Good men are often treated appallingly, as far as history is concerned: Just look at Yitzhak Rabin, and what he stood for in terms of Israeli policy, compared to today’s policies. They’re literally a world apart.
Mossadegh in Iran, also, put his people first. That wasn’t good enough for those who regarded Iran’s property as theirs. A similar dynamic is playing out with regard to Russia and her resources, but Russia is a harder nut to crack (not that they’re not trying…)
Assad is another example: He does good by his people, but he just can’t get a break. At some point, I expect someone will drop a bomb on his palace while he’s in it, and he might end up being the next Franz Ferdinand.
This thoughtful and informative article shows inter alia that Lyndon laRouche and the Schiller Institute are in fact continuing a long-standing but mainly suppressed intellectual tradition. However, it does not look likely that this sort of approach will have much influence in the USA in the near future, whether Biden or Trump is inaugurated on 20th January.
My view is that Trump will begin a second term as President on that date, but that this will be in the context of huge political tension with China, although it is conceivable that the tension with Russia might decline, despite the US not recognising the importance of the ‘double helix’.
“Munroe Doctrine or Empire? […] Externally, he [McKinley] was a defender of the Munroe Doctrine that defined America’s anti-imperial foreign policy since 1823.”
Hmmm. The either/or supposition and calling the Munroe Doctrine ‘anti-imperial’ might be just a bit naive, I think. More like one more step in America’s steadfast progression toward replacing the imperialism of European powers with its own. In fact, it began as soon as the French-Indian wars were out of the way. At that point, the colonial elite found it opportune to mount the original revolution against constraints imposed by their former allies on their westward land speculation and expansion.
And, of course, it continues unabated to the current day to the point where one wonders about a European counter-revolution. Unlikely, I suppose, but nuclear weaponry and international currency status are about the only influences the ‘anti-imperial’ empire has left. Any moral ascendancy claims are increasingly preposterous.
Fires can burn down houses. You can choose to blame the fire or you could be smart and blame the arsonist.
Sorry, but I fail to see how that relates to my comment about alleged ‘anti-imperialism’ of either the Munro Doctrine or U.S. history in general.
The Monroe doctrine was ‘anti-imperialist’ only in regards to European ‘imperialism’ in Latin America. In actual fact USA did not respect any of the points enunciated, except point 4: (1) the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of or the wars between European powers; (2) the United States recognized and would not interfere with existing colonies and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere; (3) the Western Hemisphere was closed to future colonization; and (4) any attempt by a European power to oppress or control any nation in the Western Hemisphere would be viewed as a hostile act against the United States.
All Latin America (including Texas, California, New Mexico) was for centuries a dependency of Spain in which the United States interfered.
Andy Singer’s four-frame cartoon said it all, earlier this year:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rtqrht8WPuA/VjvLK-yAHHI/AAAAAAAACYA/h0Gzh-zYWNA/s1600/21319_600.jpg
“The Munroe Doctrine’s architect John Quincy Adams laid out this principle eloquently on July 4, 1821:
“After fifty years the United States has, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations, while asserting and maintaining her own”.
It’s a shame to see the distinguished Mr Adams telling such an obvious lie.
1821 – 50 = 1761.
Independence was declared in 1776 – 15 years later.
Confederation followed in 1781 – 20 years later.
The US Constitution was not drawn up and ratified until 1788 – 27 years later.
At best, he could have claimed 45 years. But the USA as a proper nation state, with a constitution, was created only 32 years before his statement.
As the author of the above paper I must apologize for the misquote by JQA. The actual quote is meant to read: “. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart…”
What happened to McKinley in him being removed reminds me of sorts of what they did to Saskatchewan MP Colin Thatcher in 1984.
Because he was a popular gung-ho nationalist politician (who the voters liked) and threat to the docile don’t rock the boat system imposed on Canada and PM Mulroney, they set him up for murder of his wife and got rid of him for 25 years, and London will have had a hand in that.
His case involved in fabrication of evidence which his own investigators now have proof of, and which the Justice Minister and Dept won’t allow a review of or by the courts, even dating back to the early 1990s. An appalling state of affairs.
There was a lot of underhanded things done during both Thatcher’s (1980s) and Macmillan’s (1959-64) terms in office. Neither of them deserve any respect in history. The same could be said of Churchill for many of the things he authorized. And Eden over the Suez. Even if they didnt know about beforehand they certainly covered it up afterwards.
Thatcher and her minons cooked up that war with Argentina in 1982 to get her re-elected because she was facing total destruction at the polls by then over following contractionary monetarist policies. Al Haig had a role in that (thats why the Argentines only garrisoned the Falklands with second rate conscript troops and didnt fight too hard or send in more) – they got a payoff afterwards. The conflict was also used to test weapons out.
Similarly how Australian PM Harold Holt was also removed in 1967.
One only has to look now at the conduct of Boris Johnson to form the belief he is on the payroll of the Globalists with this pandemic and vaccine push.
Wow. Its rare to see such superb historical analyses, these days. Thank you. Some new data discovered by Dr. Michael Hogan backs up the reputation of Lincoln as truly great human. He took as strong action as he could to censure the criminals who stole half of Mexico through what was the USAs first False Flag. The justification for invading Mexico was based on a totally false report to Congress. Lincoln writes a lot about that. He thought that the USA should conduct its relations with impeccable integrity and fairness. I don’t think he would do well in today’s Republican party, LOL.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-mexico-loved-lincoln-180962258/
You also have to factor in that elements of the US were concerned about external interference in their region (under the Monroe Doctrine of stopping further colonizations in their hemisphere) and this gave rise legitimately to the early MIC.
But since then the MIC has got out of hand since WW2.
They have to invent outside devils and wars to keep the money flowing.
The State Depts policies of supporting corrupt Govts (eg Shah of Iran) also lends into that.
But as it has been said, for every action there comes an equal and opposite reaction and 2020 the tipping point. May have even been 2016 with Trump being elected. And the trend cannot be reversed now. The guilty should accept that and surrender themselves into custody.
Regarding Lincoln and Mexico that was the early notion of forward defense. To prevent a nearby country from becoming a launch point for an attack. And to acquire more territory by bravado.
It occurred to many people that there were the Americans who removed the Shah.
Thats possible as they knew in 1979 the Cold War with USSR would be coming to and end within a decade so they manipulated things to create a “devil” in Iran to perpetuate multi-decade conflicts in the Middle East to line the MIC pockets (not just in US but also UK Germany France).
They got Iraq to attack Iran to run it into debt to the tune of $300bn.
Saddam realized that in the end.
The Shah was installed in 1953 anyway by US & UK and maybe he wanted to retire anyway ?
Result of all this has been 2 Gulf Wars and ongoing conflict.
The loss of America’s soul in more recent times started with George H Bush and the Clintons right thru to Obama where corruption, wars and injustice was the norm.
One might say it started with LBJ thru to Ford, but LBJ did make sure $ were put into peoples pockets despite all this faults. Nixon was corrupt in his own way appointing people like Kissinger, Colson etc… with Ford a lame duck, and Carter was a ringer picked by David Rockefeller to to hold the fort for term.
But H Bush was a snake in the grass. And W Bush & Obama and even bigger ones.
And Clinton a obnoxious swine.
We have seen the consequences of them this year.
But the worm has turned. The US GOP & swing voters have woken up to them in putting in Trump and there will be no going back now to the old paradigm thanks to the 2020 election. People like Romney & McConnell wont be able to get enough votes to to fill a station-wagon to win a primary let alone a election.
The Saturn-Jupiter alignment will in fact signal a new era, an era without the old corrupt elements and Democrats also may find a large block of their people defect too.
This year will also cause massive changes for UK and EU voting and politicians outcomes too.
There has been a fatal miscalculation (particularly over 2020’s pandemic & election) and the end result will be – and can only be – those running the show in US, UK and EU will get the chop – and thats been long overdue.
It was designed to happen eventually anyway because of their arrogance, corruption and incompetence.
“But the worm has turned. The US GOP & swing voters have woken up to them in putting in Trump and there will be no going back now to the old paradigm thanks to the 2020 election.”
It’s amazing that you still see Trump as the answer to our current predicament. Yes, Biden, Obama, and Clinton had to do the little dance in relation to Israel and the Zionists to survive politically, but none of them has done the full-on cheek-to-cheek dirty dance that Trump has done. Yes, a Great Reset is definitely in the works for the USA, because…
“If we get caught they will just replace us with persons of the same cloth. So it does not matter what you do, America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it off piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. Why? Because it is the will of God, and America is big enough to take the hit so we can do it again and again and again. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly and make them suffer for refusing to be our slaves.” – Benjamin Netanyahu
If Bibby did say that whose going to protect Israel ?
Or is he referring to Biden and the Deep State – destroying them ?
Trump’s not the 100% ideal solution but its certainly more sensible than anyone else.
It is fatal to go against someone with popular support.
Look at the reaction to what happened to Kennedy and even many Republicans were saddened and wanted a proper investigation into Nov 63. Had they known in the 60s that LBJ was involved he would have been dragged from the White House and hanged.
Even if Trump wasnt there someone else would surface.
And thats what the Deep State fail to realize – their time is up.
Theyve run the country into the ground and this pandemic and vaccine stunt will backfire on the big time.
And if they get away with putting in Biden, heaven help those who did it as the people will revolt and attack them, States will secede or refuse to co-operate with DC, and the military will defect. Remember that most military personnel are old style populist GOP voters and in a time like this they wont take orders from the enemy.
Mitch McConnell will never be able to walk down a public street again in his home State of Kentucky and feel safe. Same for Romney. Imagine what GOP party people would do to him and others at GOP Conventions in the future ? He’ll be verbally abused and booed etc… If they think all this will go away and everyone will forget about it (including the inadequate $600 relief payment) they are fools. An elephant never forgets.
You are wrong, they protect themselves unlike other us allies ie south korean, japan, nato, etc.
Doug Miller wrote:
“The forces which sought global dominance in the 19th century are the owners of the corporation Israel.
Israel Projects its orders from its owners just like the CIA and the MI6”.
Well said.
Matthew Ehret wrote:
“The economic breakdown of the USA would have global ramifications on global food production, supply chains, which would result in hundreds of millions of people dead including in the Eurasian parts of the world”.
An economic Breakdown of the USA will not affect the food supply in large parts of America, Argentina, Canada, Russia, and Europe.
However China, Africa, India, Pakistan and the Middle East will be hit hard.
The greatest losers of an US Bankruptcy will be the owners of US federal debt, The Global Elite, China, and Saudi Arabia. But how will they ever collect their debt. Against a US military?
A boycott of US products will only affect the MIC, and bring the troops home to rebuild US infrastructure and energy supply.
Disintegrating the US form the China Project will restart US own production, and elevate the US middle class.
By rejecting the US dollars as the world currency, all dollars in the world will come home to roost.
However, the FED can just reduce the M1, M2, M3, M4 money supply, starting with the M4, and going downward, to keep inflation at bay. This will primarily affect Wall Street by deflation.
And who deserves it more than they do?
Oliver Jones wrote:
“oil peaked in 2005, shale peaked in 2019 and undersea oil peaked this year”.
No. Oil production on land has been gradually shut down by the Global Elite since 2005,
Shale Oil production has been gradually shut down by the Global Elite Agents since 2016.
Undersea Oil production has begun its gradual shut down by the Global Elite Agents since 2016.
However, Russia, Turkey, Norway, The US and Southern America, have found plenty of new major oil reserves in the last 2 years. And Russia is pumping oil and gas for full throttle.
So there would be no shortage of oil in the west, unless the Global elite want the west to move toward the 4th industrial revolution.
I fully agree with you on the severe consequences for the Northern hemisphere, of this future dependence solely on electricity, coupled with a solar minimum, and the vulnerable digitalization of the west.
We have been led toward the great reset by Global Elite Agents (politicians). The Global elite have planned a reset for us, and have already placed their bets and assets in their NWO.
They want the ancient rout to china going through Jerusalem, and America be damned.
Santiago wrote:
“There has been a fatal miscalculation (particularly over 2020’s pandemic & election) and those who has been running the show in US, UK and EU will get the chop, and thats been long overdue.
If Trump wasn’t there someone else would surface.
And that’s what the Deep State and Democrats fail to realize”.
I agree.
Tommy Apeiron wrote:
“Neither Biden, Obama, and Clinton has done the full-on cheek-to-cheek dirty dance that Trump has done with Israel”.
I wonder who you will blame if Biden and Harris gets into the WH and continues the policy of Bush I, Clinton, Bush Il, and Obama. They are all agents for the Global Elite.
The only one who was attacked from day 1 by the Global Elite Deep state, is Trump.
The enemy of my enemy has become my Allie.
That doesn’t mean that I agree in all that my Allie stands for.
Putin realized that proverb in relation to the US and China, long ago.
‘America’ lost its soul the moment when it believed it was ‘manifestly destined’ to inherit the earth. When it disembarked from “Mayflower” and the ”Arabella” to build the shining ”City upon a Hill”.
Chosenness… It’s what makes the USA exactly like Israel. It’s ironic that Christian Zionists are Trump’s true-believer supporters, until you remember that the Scofield Reference Bible is a creation of the Rothschilds.
Of course the flip side is that British involvment in things does sometimes brings a better outcome as some countries arent capable of properly managing themselves.
Was the case in Africa and Asia with warring tribes and Kings in many occasions.
Patrice Lumumba was fully capable of governing Congo, that’s why he was assassinated. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was popularly elected president of Haiti. That’s why he was escorted into exile. Under Muammar Qadaffi Libyans prospered. Those who didn’t want his national system with pan-African leanings couldn’t abide by that. But these methods are not limited to the darker-complected peoples. Thus we have Aldo Moro, Dag Hammarskjold, William Mckinley, Abraham Lincoln, and JFK.
Yes that the other side of this too.
And its why Britain is in decline – because everything comes back on them eventually.
Wait til the public there fully react to the pandemic scam and vaccine evil.
Theyll come after their leaders with hatchets before long.
You only have to look at the reaction last week in France to that.
Macron and his party are finished as are those who back him. The French Military need to take action asap.
Let us not forget Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, gunned down in the street near his home with a Swedish policeman exclaiming in shocked indignation, “We shall catch them, this is Western Europe!”. That Olof Palme’s murder remains unsolved seems much less surprising to us in the lawless, gun toting Western Europe of today, with Sweden well in the saddle and riding along with the bad guys.
” Does the USA have the moral ability to avoid disintegration by accepting a Russia-U.S.-China alliance needed to revive McKinley’s American System or will we slip into a new Great Reset and World War?”
Lol, hell no. Using USA and ‘moral’ in the same sentence makes me laugh. I think it was the Saker himself who said, if I remember correctly, that the people of the U.S. are themselves a war-loving people. Building a railway is not going to change this character. When an individual becomes this tarnished, jaded, and corrupted, the means of correction is a giant smackdown from their perch followed by a long period of true penance and inner struggle. This painful struggle cannot be avoided if real character change is to be achieved.
Building rail lines and engaging in other efforts of cooperation will require first a change of heart. I don’t think America is anywhere near ready to make a confession of her sins.
I’m afraid those in control are likely to take this ‘great power competition’ to the ultimate conclusion. They think it is their right to dominate the entire world.
On the other hand, “eastern establishment families” of the USA more loyal to the gods of money, hereditary institutions and the vast international empire of Britain saw America’s destiny tied to an imperial global partnership with the Mother country.
Perhaps there should have been a marriage to a Chinese Noblemen?
“Conseulo Vanderbilt loved another—a rich other, but an American without a title or an English country estate. But her marriage to Marlborough was non-negotiable.
Beginning in the 1870s, American girls with money had been flocking to Britain in droves, ready to exchange railroad cash and mining stocks for the right to call themselves “Lady.” (“Downton Abbey” fans will surely recognize Cora Crawley as one of their ilk.) The appeal was clear. The heiresses, unlikely to be admitted to the highest ranks of New York society, would gain entry to an elite social world, and who needed Mrs. Astor’s drawing room when she could keep company with HRH the Prince of Wales?
And Britain’s upper crust would get a much-needed infusion of cash. For a British gentleman to work for money was unthinkable. But by the end of the 19th century it cost more to run a country estate than the estate could make for itself, and the great houses slid dangerously close to disrepair. By marrying a Vanderbilt or a Whitney, a future duke could ensure not just the survival of his family’s land and name, but also a life enhanced by easy access to money, something he certainly wouldn’t get if he married a peer.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-american-rich-kids-bought-their-way-into-the-british-elite-4252/
They were called ‘The Dollar Princesses’ and the “Buccaneers’.
Would you forget the typical result of this barter, with tremendous mondial consequences: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill? The pal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the fifth cousin of the arch – imperialist Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt? Can you say that the ‘British’ infiltrated the American society, stealing its ‘soul’, forcing them to go on a rampage around the world?
Unipolar vs Multipolar: The Death of McKinley and the Loss of America’s Soul
Dear Mr. Ehret,
I have just finished reading the above and I am so grateful for the opportunity to peer into a small portion of events bringing us to the problems plaguing the world today. We were never taught any of this history in school as I remember. I will be pondering this for a long time and look forward to further articles as they come to fruition.
Thank you for your work, and sharing the truths we all so need to understand.
Mr. Ehret is way off base. McKinley laid the foundation for Teddy Roosevelt’s continuation of US global imperialism as it succeeded the UK in that role. By shooting McKinley, the anarchist shooter was protesting his fake war on Spain, another empire builder, and the series of predatory invasions against their Central American territories, the Philippines, Cuba, Haiti, China, et. al. The US Navy was headquartered at Annapolis, not West Point where the US officer cadre was trained. President George Washington, in his farewell address, urged the nation to avoid “foreign entanglements”. His advice wasn’t taken, and from then on the US embarked on a foreign policy eschewing Global imperialism.
Were the USA oh-so shy of ‘foreign entanglements’ when the Commodore Matthew C. Perry headed the expedition that forced Japan in 1853–54 to enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the West after more than two centuries of isolation, thus becoming an equal power with Britain, France, and Russia in the economic exploitation of East Asia? The Commodore acted on the orders of the USA 13th President Millard Fillmore (ever heard of?), who put him in charge of a naval expedition to specifically “induce (love the word, don’t you?) the Japanese government to establish diplomatic relations with the United States”. After studying the situation, Perry concluded that Japan’s traditional policy of isolation ”would be altered only if superior naval forces were displayed” and if Japanese officials were approached with a “resolute attitude”! Was the infamous ‘British Intelligence Service’ (not yet in existence at the time) already swaying the innocent ‘democratic, anti-imperialist’ Americans to stamp their hoofs in the ‘China shop’?
Mahon does have a certain mostly favorable reputation in intellectual, as distinguished from popular, culture in the USA today, although his books are becoming difficult to find. I have neither read or even seen them, and I am a public library habitué. I had never heard or read of Gilpin and am grateful for having had his work and thought brought to my attention. Mahon is generally, I think, on the list of people one ought to read to understand ” how the world works”.
It occurs to me that, in the present “woke” climate, an article about Mahon which would emphasize and bring to light his shocking racist and imperialist convictions might be of value.
Great read. As always, a very informative article.
Thank you Matthew.
excellent, Matt. Superb. Well said
How can the ‘McKinley Alliance” of America/Russia/China resurrect (or, frankly, be born) with the CCP sitting on its own imperial seat in Beijing? Isn’t the CCP a replay of the Opium Wars with the same imperialist bankers instituting itself, via the CCP, deep into the politics and culture of China? A foreign ‘Opiumite” CCP throttling cooperation, let alone national self-interest. Seems what’s needed is another {true} indigenous Boxer Rebellion.
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