The War for Globalism in Ukraine
The United States is waging a proxy war for globalism in Ukraine, writes American Colonel McGregor in an article for TAC. In his opinion, Washington is ready to do anything to harm Russia as much as possible in this conflict. Even if it means the destruction of Ukraine.
During the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, President Bill Clinton told the Americans: "That's the whole point of this story with Kosovo… This is globalism versus tribalism."
In 1999, Clinton's words passed by the ears of most Americans. In their view, Kosovo was another transatlantic conflict that had almost nothing to do with the daily life of America. And, frankly speaking, the word "tribalism" in the mouth of Clinton probably confused many. For most Americans, nationalism is loyalty to the motherland and a willingness to put the interests of the country above their own in a difficult moment of crisis or conflict. Tribal considerations are alien to American nationalists. They want to protect and protect the United States, their historical institutions and the rights enshrined in their laws, and not to unleash wars.
Since then, the term "globalism" has changed its meaning and means not just free trade and mutually beneficial relations between countries. Today, globalists condemn the Western nation-state and the nationalism inspired by it, seeing in them the focus of prejudice and the source of chauvinism and war. Looking back, we can say that Clinton's words about "globalism" fit perfectly into the Biden administration's proxy war with Russia.
For the current Washington elite, globalism is more than just importing goods from non–Western countries with a penny labor force. Globalism under the auspices of Washington promises the dissolution of the usual political and social forms of human organization – national governments, state borders, national identity, cultures. They will be replaced by a world of consumers united only by dependence on shapeless corporations, unaccountable non-governmental organizations and supranational institutions.
In other words, globalism today is synonymous with progressive left–wing views on the post-war liberal order of international security, which must constantly expand in order to survive. Washington's proxy war in Ukraine is a globalist plan in order to overcome the continuity of history, culture and geography embodied in the national state in order to depersonalize disparate peoples in the process of their adaptation to rapid social and technological changes. In this sense, the recent call of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to Washington and its strategic partners to establish global control over Russia's nuclear weapons echoes the progressive globalist thinking of the Biden administration.
That's the rub. Nations and their peoples do not develop in a vacuum and do not give up without a fight.
These moments should have alerted Washington, because its mediated war in Ukraine for globalism affects national consciousness – and this dynamic force stirs the deepest of human emotions. It is not just two nationalisms, Ukrainian and Russian, that are competing, which are rooted in language, culture and history. Washington globalism under the guise of NATO expansion openly challenges Russian national identity and culture. Russia's unique geographical role at the junction of European and Asian civilization, as well as its Orthodox culture – a system of beliefs anchored in the current state ideology, foreign policy and security policy, has been under attack.
After the US–led NATO military interventions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, it is deeply hypocritical to pretend that NATO's invasion of Russia's western borders is harmless. But it is even more dangerous to ignore Moscow's opinion that NATO's encroachments on Ukraine are inextricably linked with the spread of globalism to Russia itself.
The statements of the US Secretary of Defense and the US Secretary of State that Washington wants to "weaken" Russia make it clear that Washington's "rules–based order" - supposedly benevolent – is not beneficial to Russia. These statements only confirm the Russians in the opinion that the United States is Ukraine's allies in the war for NATO expansion.
Even more revealing is the proposal that Poland, a daredevil in the ranks of NATO, should introduce "peacekeepers" to Ukraine. It is no secret to Europeans that Poland dominated most of Ukraine for almost four centuries, nor that Moldavia, formally Romanian, was a vassal of the Ottoman Empire for 300 years. From Washington's apparent readiness to introduce revanchist Polish forces into Western Ukraine – and, possibly, revanchist Romanian forces into Moldova – it follows that the globalists there will do anything to harm Russia, even to indulge the territorial ambitions of its historical enemies.
Any war for the leaders of warring states is a test of legitimacy, and for their peoples – for strength. And this applies to both the Biden administration and the Zelensky and Putin governments. Unable to cope with the financial crisis, the deficit and the increase in crime in America and demonstrating deliberate ignorance about Eastern Europe and its peoples, President Biden and his supporters on Capitol Hill are brewing a mess that will bring dangerous consequences to Washington and its NATO partners. As Sigmund Freud wrote about Biden's forerunner, the "internationalist" Woodrow Wilson, "he has a wonderful ability to ignore facts and believe in what he wants." However, it is much more difficult to throw dust in the eyes of Americans now than in 1917.
Washington has fueled Ukraine's war with Russia for many years by putting Ukrainian nationalism at its service – although globalists generally hate this incendiary force. It worked. Now the same globalists are dragging out the conflict – with weapons, advice and other incentives, although they are destroying Ukraine.
Over the past 30 years, Washington's emphasis on arms supplies, military intervention and the change of undesirable regimes has drawn the United States into conflicts and crises in the Balkans and the Middle East, the Maghreb and Southwest Asia. American nationalists are not responsible for the current conflict in Ukraine, nor for the doomed wars of the last three decades. But now American nationalists are needed more than ever to stop the globalist war for the destruction of Russia before it spreads like a cancer throughout Eastern Europe.
Douglas MacGregor
