What "protecting the American way of life" really means...

Politicians often try to make a case for something being "required" by trying claim they are "protecting" or "defending" the "American way of life". Is it really about defense? Or is that a newspeak term that means the opposite, whereby offensive actions need to be taken in order to preserve, protect and defend the status quo of what currently is?

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The other phrase used, of "protecting US interests", is a little more obvious in what they are trying to do. Protecting interests means what? Well, the interests the U.S. in getting what they want, and keeping what they have. The "American way of life" is also about keeping things as they are.

What is the way of life currently life that needs to be maintained, preserved and protected? Well for one, the economy. The economy also depends on transportation. And that requires oil. Oil needs to keep flowing in order for the American way of life to survive and grow.

This means that "protecting the American way if life" is taking on threats that can jeopardize the status quo and current condition that people are accustomed to. America, and all nations, are looking to compete and gain a strong footing in economic power.

America has gained economic dominance in the world, which is highly tied to oil. The petro dollar is what made the American dollar a strong international currency. Nations would and still do sell oil, where they are paid in U.S. dollars. The U.S. needs oil, and gets other nations to use it's currency for payment. This strengthens the U.S. by having oil to keep fueling the economic forces within the country, to keep people and products moving within the nation, and to keep imports and exports moving in and out of the nation.

America needs to maintain a certain level of economic dominance in the world to maintain, preserve and protect it's "way of life". Foreign policy is structures around "protecting US interests". This means to do whatever that benefits the U.S., which is often through engaging in offensive actions to try to keep things in their favor geopolitically. Starting wars is part of what is required to keep the economy going, the oil flowing, and the whole machinery of the modern empire rolling smooth.

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Other nations want to become more powerful too. They want high standards of living as well. If their economies do better or out-compete the U.S. economy, then America loses part of it's current dominance in the world stage and risks losing it's "way of life" in the short- or long-term. Any nation that poses an economic threat to America has a certain level of hostility aimed towards it.

It doesn't help that those nations, like Russia and China have a history of communism which the U.S. and western nations have battled against for nearly a century. But those two are the main enemies and threats to the "American way of life".

Any power play made by those nations, or others than can weaken their current economic position on the global scale, such as removing access to oil or favoring the other 2 nations with oil, is a challenge to the American dominance hierarchy in the global landscape. These threats that can potentially or currently diminish the status quo "American way of life" are what is being "defended" against. And that usually comes in the form of offensive actions. Military rule is important to keep the dominance and preserve what you have.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis has recently talked about the need for "offensive weapons in space". Again, space is being looked at a competitive are that requires dominance for protecting on the ground. Mattis said that "space is definitely becoming competitive".

Note that the Department of Defense used to be clear on what it's goal was: war. It used to be called the Department of War. But that was too direct. They changed it to the Orwellian Department of Defense because that just sounds more "peaceful". The video below is also uploaded by the "United States Institute of Peace"... go figure.

Mattis argues that the goal to go dominate the space above is two pronged:

One, it's defense. We have to defend what we have in order space... We're going to have to defend what we have.

But also we're going to have to be prepared to use offensive weapons in space, should someone decide to militarize it and go on the offensive. You can't simply play defense... and win.

A Conversation with Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis

(at the 49:32m mark)

It's funny that these "leaders" don't realize how they are doing what they claim they fear others will do, justifying their need to do it because others will do it. They are just ensuring the militarization of space by going to build offensive weapons in space.

"We need weapons there because someone might put weapons there." That's what the other nations are thinking to. And if they weren't, they are now, because the U.S. is saying they are outright going to go build weapons in space. If they have the same mindset as the U.S., then they are going to go build weapons in space just because the U.S. is as they are the "someone" who is militarizing space, whereby others need to defend themselves offensively as well.

The lunacy of this thinking... all based in fear and just pushing a whole new era of weapons development and military-industrial economy and complex. Trump has proposed a Space Force, and it looks like it's in the works for real. For now, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty stands in the way, but for how long? I think the world is going to get a lot more weaponized than it already is in the coming decades...

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