The International situation ................................. The United States of America is forging ahead towards strengthening her grip on the international issues in terms of overseeing these issues and conducting the various crisis. She endeavours to rapidly establish a host of fresh relations and conventions, through which she will be able to maintain her unilateral dominance of the international situation, and to prevent any other state or any other force from competing with her or rivalling her or even from aiming at budging her from the apex of the international situation. She has succeeded in proceeding with the Kosovan issue in Central Europe towards achieving her objective, namely completing the subjugation of the European states and determining Nato’s direction, especially after granting Russia a political victory, in the wake of the agreement signed between the U.S. defence secretary and his Russian counterpart on 19 June 1999, with regard to Russia’s participation in the Nato forces “KFOR”. America wanted to maintain a certain balance in the Central European region and to put an end to any kind of aspirations, especially from Britain and France. Hence, she would secure her constant hegemony over the European resources and states, and she would tighten her grip on European affairs. This is what the Europeans have realised, but they cannot rid themselves of it. America resorted to using Russia as a participant in the Kosovan issue and she nominally projected her before the European states as a partner, by confining the final settlement of the issue to Clinton and Yeltsin. Hence, she went to extremes in her use of Russia and in portraying her with this image. This served a prelude towards using her in the future as a partner and an affiliated party in certain issues whenever she wished and whenever necessary. At the same time, America kept on backing Russia in international relations in order to lend some seriousness to her their bilateral relations. This was made clear through a statement made by Sandy Burger, the U.S. National Security Adviser, during the periphery of the meeting between Clinton and Yeltsin in Cologne, at the G8 summit, on 20 June 1999. He said: “It was a very good meeting, very constructive, very positive” He added: “They agreed essentially that our two countries have gone through a difficult period through the Kosovo war, Kosovo conflict. It put substantial strains on our relationship, but it was now time to turn to the future, to put that behind us.” America will continue to treat the European states as part of the World, and to tempt them with economic investment and the redevelopment of Central Europe, i.e. the whole of the Balkans and the Eastern European states. America is backing these states’ endeavour to join Nato and the European Union, for this will increase Europe’s engrossment in her affairs and her continent, especially now that the economic incentives, related to redevelopment, investment, modernising the infrastructure of Central Europe, are potentially huge. This viewpoint was confirmed by Madeleine Albright, the U.S. Secretary of State during her speech in New York, when she addressed the U.S. Foreign Affairs Council on 28 June 1999. She said: “Our intention is to work urgently and effectively with leaders in Southeast Europe as they strive to attract capital, raise living standards, reconcile ethnic and religious tensions, and promote the rule of law. In this way, we hope over time to enable countries throughout the region to participate fully in the major economic and political institutions of the Trans-Atlantic community. This would greatly serve Americas interest in expanding the area within Europe where wars simply do not happen. And it would mark another giant step towards the creation of a continent whole and free.” She added: “If we are as resolute in building peace as we were persistent in conflict, the crisis in Kosovo may come to be viewed as a turning point in European history.” By winding up the Kosovan issue once the desired results were achieved, the United States has opened a new page in the history of the most dangerous region in the world for international peace and security, namely the issue of Europe. The European states had plunged the world into two world wars which the history of humanity never witnessed anything like it. Furthermore, European history is fraught with wars, invasion, religious conflicts and colonialism. America has therefore destroyed the reality of the European International Community, in order to instil a host of new international relations to help her deal with the whole world and its various issues. This new vision of the world will allow America to generate a reality for the slogans that she is raising. It will also allow her to progress in the reality of these slogans and to prompt other states to follow suit, such as the right to self-determination, the resettlement of refugees, the protection of minorities, the rejection of terrorism, fighting dictatorship and promoting what is called democracy. While endeavouring to achieve this, America is also very keen to maintain her relationship with Europe under the banner of co-operation and participation, in a manner that prevents whatever may lead to raising tensions or invoking the spirit of resentment against her policies. This is reflected in what she is bestowing in terms of economic incentives and promoting in terms of investment in various regions. It is also reflected in the styles that she adopts, such as satisfying the pride of some countries. She for instance kept silent over Britain’s leadership of “KFOR” and at the same time, she assigned the administrative rule of Kosovo to the French minister Bernard Koshner. She also maintained an international equilibrium by organising the deployment of the Russian forces in the province, and it seems that this is what the French newspaper Le Monde had meant when it said: “The war was American, but the peace is going to be a European affair in many of its aspects.” The European Union member states will set out to support the American positions in international issues and to support her viewpoint and her directions. This has already become evident with regard to the Middle Eastern issue as well as the tension between China and Taiwan, for the European Union’s statement was identical to Clinton’s statement, in which he said that he backed a “united China with Beijing as her capital.” As for the United States’ relationship with Russia, America will endeavour to promote the role of Russia in certain international issues, such as the Middle East issue, which has started by exchanged visits between Russia and Syria, in addition to Russia’s relationship with Iran. On the European front, the Russian presence has become a welcome presence and on equal footing with Britain, France and others. The new international relations in world politics and in the international situation have become more conspicuous than before. The United States is heading towards distributing the issues and handing out a host of regional roles to a group of countries who are either affiliated to her, such as Turkey, Iran and Egypt, or those countries who hold the banner of partnership and harmony with her policies, such as Russia and China. It is noted that China will play a positive role in the Pacific Ocean and South-East Asia, to the extent that will serve America’s aspirations in her quest to lure China into the New World Order, The Free Trade and democracy, so that she could penetrate the gigantic Chinese markets successfully and without any tensions, but rather with the full consent and eagerness of China herself. Taiwan would not have made her recent statements had the United States not wanted her to do so. Then came Clinton’s statement stressing that he supported “One China and one people”. The president of Taiwan confirmed Washington’s wishes and reassured Beijing at the same time by stating that he also supported “One China and one people. But Beijing must take a step towards democracy and free participation.” It is worth mentioning that the Beijing government is wary of a hurried liberalisation, for China still recalls what happened to Soviet Russia. No sooner did the end of the Kosovan issue became imminent that the United States set about conferring upon the United Nations Secretary General a wide and effective scope to practise his role towards other issues. He stated at the time that “The United Nations must play its role towards the various other issues without yielding to international pressures.” He then effectively embarked upon reviewing the issues of Iraq, Libya, and Sudan among others. He also resumed the dispatching of his envoys to the areas of high tension, such as Afghanistan and the Western Sahara. This trend is evidently being welcomed and supported by the European Union, as well as Russia and China. It consequently reinforces a new American convention on the international scene and paves the way for a successful move towards the next steps, the most important of which will be the future of the Security Council, its membership, the right to veto and the permanent member states. As for the other economic issues linked to the American relationship with the European states in particular, these are deemed less important than the political issues related to world security and peace. America will rely on the style of competition to the point where she will place others before the “fait accompli”, rather than relying on the style of destruction. The crux of the matter is reflected in the fact that now that she has enticed the European Union member states with the projects of reconstruction and investment in Central Europe and the Black Sea basin, America has effectively reduced Europe’s dependence on the Middle-Eastern region in terms of drawing benefits and warding off liabilities, with the aim of weakening the means that used to enable Europe to have an effective influence in world politics and the international situation. This policy was initiated by America in the wake of the second Gulf War and she resumed it in Kosovo, especially after the increase in oil prices, which are not likely to drop in the foreseeable future. Besides, the United States of America is intensifying her activities in the Caspian Sea basin, which will naturally extend towards the Central European region. America is also undertaking a host of economic and political arrangements in South East Asia and the Pacific, in the wake of the financial crisis that she had caused in those stock markets, in order to prepare the economic grounds for the American investments and to review the relationships of the World Bank and the IMF with the countries of the region. This will allow her to secure the establishment of economic activities and financial investment in that region, which is considered as one of the largest world markets. America is also endeavouring to reshape the manner in which navigation and the distribution of commodities are conducted, by generating a host of political arrangements, which will enable her to control the structure of those countries thanks to the influence she enjoys within the economic and political circles and thanks to the agents and surrogates that she had groomed in Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Korea. This will provide her with a wider vital space, in terms of political, economic and military activities, for the location and the seaports of these countries would be closest. America will also use this activity to weaken the other countries in the long term and whenever necessary.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 18:55:06 +0000
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