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What was that about the kettle calling the pot black? This country and in particular this System have been good at name-calling all throughout this century and even further back. The word is self-righteous. Unless a foreign state is an outright vassal of this one then it is no damned good. And from that point they grade up the scale to full-blown "enemies", "evil empires", etc.
This or that "dictatorship", "tyranny", "fascist state", and on and on. Never mind the circumstances in that nation or in that part of the world. Never mind that a particular state of affairs may be the ONLY one possible with the alternative being chaos. Never mind the mood or the will of that particular people. If it isn't "democracy" then it's got to go. You've seen and heard it a thousand times.
But as a kid in school I recall what they were trying to teach us that passed for "history" and I remember that they had a special epithet they were fond of applying to Germany 's ally in the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian Empire: "A vast, far-flung, ramshackle, polyglot empire". This is no defense of the Austrian Empire as Hitler himself violently and bitterly hated what it was and what it stood for– a multi-racial /national amalgam. It did however serve the purpose of creating and maintaining peace and order in Central Europe and the Balkans until it collapsed in the First World War and was subsequently dismantled by the "democratic" allies.
If a man fresh from Mars were to take an objective look at the world situation as it exists today– with no knowledge or awareness of the long-since-disappeared Austrian Empire– and would read a term like "vast, far-flung, polyglot empire", to what country might he attach the description now? Maybe the Soviet Union. Maybe several others. But certainly the United States would have to qualify as candidate Number One upon whose foot that onerous shoe would snugly fit.
From ridiculing and deriding a political state created out of dire necessity over centuries of terrible wars, and playing a major hand in the destruction of that state, the United States itself has BECOME just such a similar entity. All that is required now is a contemporary catastrophe, an upsetting force like World War One was, and the U.S. will share the identical fate. Except things will be much worse.
Could the Czechs and Serbs have had as much resentment for the Austrians or for each other, as the Blacks and Hispanics have for the Whites and for one another here today? Could the "vote of no confidence" which the ruling House of Hapsburg received at the moment of crisis be as barren as the one this democratic regime is getting even now? Could all the aspects of statecraft have been arranged then in a more ultimately untenable fashion than they are here today? All it took then was a crisis followed by an abdication and the entire structure fell to pieces. The number of those who are working to engineer such a collapse here, who would welcome such a collapse or at least not effectively oppose one, far outweighs the number of those who would or could prevent one.
Such was not the fate of Germany which also suffered defeat and abdication. And not so in Russia where the same thing happened. In Germany there was one people. In Russia there existed a fresh centralized government, ready, willing and able to step in and assume command to prevent disintegration. Here again enters the comparison with the United States: these groups of people here today hate one another and they all despise the government. But there is no alternate government currently in shape to take over the reins should something unseat the present one. The stage is set.
When it is over with, the map will certainly have been changed, and changed to concur with the racial facts of life. And the map makers will have little rest until the renewed racial struggle has been concluded– something that may take many years.
When stability and peace have finally resumed in these latitudes we can hope that things won't resemble a map of Europe after World War One but, rather, will contain no artificial and divisive boundaries whatsoever– not only from ocean to ocean, but from Panama to the North Pole.
[Vol. XV, # 2 – Feb., 1986]
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