US State Apparatus Stokes Global Crises To Keep Its Grip On The World

The US created an authoritarian "national-security state apparatus" during the Cold War to counter the Soviet Union. It is still stoking new crises all over the globe, across the world, American author and founder of The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF), Jacob G. Hornberger, says.

He ruminates that if the Russian side had reinvented the Warsaw Pact, involving Cuba, Venezuela, Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Grenada, and Bolivia into its fold, and put up novel military bases across the US southern border, "toppling the democratically elected president in Mexico," then the US would have reacted swiftly.

"What would be the reaction of President Obama, Republican and Democrat presidential candidates, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the US mainstream press? I'll tell you: They would all be screaming like banshees! It would be a monumental crisis," Jacob G. Hornberger elaborated, according to sputniknews.

The US would have forced Russia to dismantle everything. However, currently, no one is crying foul over the US position, or questioning NATO's expansion into Russia, he said.

The US "national-security state apparatus" based on the Pentagon, NATO and the CIA, was "entirely new and alien" to the American governmental structure, he said, quoting Eisenhower. "The only reason this totalitarian structure was adopted was to oppose the Soviet Union (America's WWII partner and ally) in a Cold War."

In spite of the end of the Cold War, the US did not dislodge its military apparatus. "So, they go into the Middle East and poke a bunch of hornets' nests, which ultimately brings us the perpetual 'war on terrorism,' along with ever-growing budgets for the Pentagon and the CIA, not to mention the never-ending infringements on our freedom and privacy in the name of keeping us "safe" from the supposed danger that they themselves produced," he said.

Instead, the US security apparatus thrust forward with the NATO expansion into Russia's borders, in spite of the collapse of the USSR. When the democratically elected government in Kiev challenged the US, it just toppled Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

"No problem. Just foment a coup, just like in Iran, Guatemala, Chile, and other countries around the world," the author noted, adding that the Ukrainian coup resulted in the Civil War, "not much different from the decades-long civil war that the US coup in Guatemala produced."

Hornberger calls upon the US public to wake up and challenge the US government, and dismantle the military state apparatus. "That would not only bring an end to the perpetual crisis and chaos, it would also provide the foundation of a peaceful, prosperous, harmonious, and free society," the author concluded.