Eric Zuesse
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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)
The biggest empire that the world has ever known is now starting to collapse. It’s the American empire, which has become desperate on all three of its major current fronts: Ukraine against Russia, Israel against Palestine, and Taiwan against China. This article will first provide the historical background to place these current events into perspective, so that the historical significance of these impending U.S. imperial defeats can be understood, and it will then close by linking to well-informed commentaries on the by-now clear desperation of the leaders of the U.S. empire (including its colonial stooges), all of which leaders appear to be panicking — trapped now as their lies are becoming increasingly exposed.
So, this is about the culmination of this empire, and its imminent decline. All of post-agrarian human history, ever since the creation of the first two international corporations — the British East India Company in 1600, and the Dutch East India Company in 1602 — has been imperialistic (spreading an aristocracy’s exploitation internationally, by means of indebting and enslaving a foreign nation’s public, via invasion and coerced commerce that, after conquest, employs the local aristocracy as its agents there, to extract, and to take for themselves a portion of, the wealth from the now colony’s populace, and so to enrich its stockholders). This was the very creation of capitalism, and now it is finally becoming successfully challenged.
Prior to capitalism was feudalism, the agrarian form of aristocracy, which capitalism (or “corporationism”) changed into fascism, the corporate form of aristocracy (replacing the prior, feudal, form of aristocracy). In fact, Mussolini (the first formulator and advocate of fascism) named, and used as a synonym for fascism, “corporationism”, in recognition of this fact, that fascism is based upon international corporations, and cannot even exist without them. Adolf Hitler, a racist fascist, or ideological nazi, aspired, with his World War Two, to achieve in his Third Reich, or Third German Empire, the world’s first and only all-encompassing global empire. However, he lost that global war, when the Soviet Union crushed his forces and proceeded on to take Berlin, thus causing Hitler to commit suicide on 30 April 1945. In Germany, his suicide was not revealed to the public; instead, Germans were told that the Fuehrer “fell yesterday in his command post in the Reich Chancellery, fighting to his last breath for Germany, against Bolshevism”. (For the Nazis, that War was primarily against Jews, and secondarily against Russians; and the term “Bolshevism” there represented both of those Nazi targets; so, to characterize Hitler’s death as having been produced by “Bolshevism” conveyed to the German people that Hitler had been martyred in order to do his all to protect Germany from both of their most hated enemies.) With his death, a week before Germany’s unconditional surrender, the “thousand-year Reich” effectively came to its end. The formalities — the official signings of the capitulation forms — occurred in the following week, during May 2nd through 8th, with the last of the surrenders being to the Soviets, on May 8th. The Nazi generals were all aiming to surrender to America’s generals because they expected and received far less hostility from Truman’s Government than from Stalin’s, who would have killed them — the U.S. instead protected them, and placed some of them into the West German Government against the Soviet Union. Therefore, Germany’s generals chose to sign Germany’s formal surrender to the Americans, in Reims France, on May 7th, instead of in Berlin, to the Soviets, on May 8th. (Eisenhower rushed the surrender so as to claim to have defeated Hitler. As the UK historian said: “Eisenhower’s desire for Germans to sign the total and unconditional surrender document in his HQ had been fulfilled and the prestige of the United States had been greatly enhanced.”) Signing to the Soviets would have been humiliating for the Nazis. Whereas the Soviet Union had lost over 25 million people in WW2 and was in ruins from Germany’s War, America had lost fewer than 500,000 from it, and was thriving at War’s-end; so, by the choices of Eisenhower and of Hitler’s generals, the victory against Germany went to America, instead of to the Soviet Union, which mainly had actually conquered Germany. Then, starting on 25 July 1945, just three months after the intensely anti-imperialistic U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died, FDR’s immediate successor, the pro-imperialist Harry Truman, decided for the United States to achieve the hyper-empire that Germany had just failed to achieve in WW2 — the world’s first all-encompassing global empire — and all U.S. Presidents since that time (except for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who near the end turned against imperialism and then promptly became assassinated by the Truman-created CIA for that), have likewise shared that hyper-imperialistic objective (called “neoconservatism”), because America’s billionaires, the people who profit from expanding their empire and who fund both of America’s political Parties and so control the U.S. Government, demand that America must expand its empire until the U.S. Government will control the entire planet.
However, all signs now point to the present moment in history as constituting the time when the U.S. empire is failing in all of its major initiatives and will almost inevitably be declining. A U.S.-centric world is thus increasingly becoming replaced by an Asia-centric world, whose leading powers will be China and Russia.
The following are good discussions of the U.S. Government’s consistent failures of its international policies during the present century (i.e., starting in 2000). The American empire has reached its peak and will likely now be declining. All of the Governments that the U.S. wants yet to conquer have only contempt now, for the U.S. Government and for its colonies — the American empire (the collective West: NATO against Russia, and AUKUS and Japan against China), as is discussed and explained in the following video interviews:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbppCU7uiJw
“Israel’s Descent Into Madness & the Holocaust Comparison, w/ Tarik Cyril Amar”
10 March 2024, w. Rania Khalek
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https://theduran.com/geopolitical-reality-w-tarik-cyril-amar/
“Geopolitical reality w/ Tarik Cyril Amar”
19 March 2024, w. Alexander Mercouris
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJDxxkVhlJM
“Hyperimperialism: US-NATO’s Dangerous and Decadent New Stage, w/ Vijay Prashad”
26 March 2024, w. Rania Khalek
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZeN0v0eE2U
“Colonel Douglas Macgregor Reveals TRUTH on Israel War”
3 April 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dDFn5nUWDw
“Colonel Douglas Macgregor Reveals Truth on End of Ukraine War”
1 April 2024
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https://theduran.com/project-ukraine-risk-of-collapse-w-garland-nixon-live/
“Project Ukraine risk of collapse w/ Garland Nixon”
4 April 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_YqKMMJ1PE
“The Taiwan-China dispute explained, and where the US fits in”
9 January 2024
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Maybe if JFK was not killed, imperialism could last longer or shorter. Hard to tell, after his dead and removal of Nixon they started this neo-liberal ponzi scheme, which worked for some time but was not sustainable. It actually made imperialism stronger temporarily, allowed for efficient embargoes against eastern block and probably motivated perestroika, at the expensive of sustainable future development.
If you read Soviet literature from early seventies they expected world imperialism to fail much sooner. In late seventies they became more pessimistic.
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Re: “Adolf Hitler, a racist fascist, or ideological nazi, aspired, with his World War Two, to achieve in his Third Reich, or Third German Empire, the world’s first and only all-encompassing global empire.” Sorry, Herr Zuesse, this is simply puerile nonsense. What Hitler did want to do is undo the terms of the Criminal Versaille Treaty, which was designed to provoke another war to completely destroy Germany. This project was almost completed except for a resolution of the fact the Germany had been split into two pieces by the Criminal Versaille Treaty. This required Polish/German negotiations. Here, the War Mongers… Read more »
The blood of all of the Americans who died at Pearl is on the hands of the War Mongering and War Criminal Roosevelt Administration.
The blood of all of those who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki is on the hands of the War Mongering and War Criminal Roosevelt Administration.
Using the A-bombs on Japan in August 1945 was Truman’s, not FDR’s decision, because FDR had died on 12 April 1945 and would almost certainly not have used the A-bomb on Japan. Truman in August 1945 used the A-bombs on Japan to win WW2 which was already won, but because on 25 July 1945 he had decided that if the U.S. wouldn’t create the world’s first-ever all-encompassing empire, the Soviet Union would, and he wanted the Soviets to know who was boss — it wasn’t the end of WW2, but the start of WW3 (in its Cold War phase).
Harry Salomon Truman had Jewish heritage.
NEVER FORGET:
Franklin D. Roosevelt (and Theodore Roosevelt) had Jewish heritage and were Zionist extremists.
Sure, Hitler opposed war, and he opposed imperialism. His entire history even before he became Germany’s leader in 1933, such as the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, and the Nazi Party’s general support for pacifism, showed it, and so did the 1934 “night of the long knives,” when he led the Röhm purge. He didn’t lead any far-right movement, but was instead a political progressive. There was nothing conservative, much less far-right, about him.
Now they are trying to do to Russia exactly what they did to Germany. Even calling Putin a “Hitler”. But Russia has nukes, so their job is much harder this time around.
“Here, the War Mongers and War Criminals Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill saw the opportunity to set a trap for Hitler. They would convince the Poles to refuse a diplomatic solution by a treaty agreeing to defend Poland against any military action by Germany. A trap to start a World War against Germany.” Not many people are aware that the Poles had been slaughtering ethnic Germans since as early as April 1939, to provoke Germany into attacking Poland. Germany protested to the League of Nations in writing over a dozen times vis-à-vis Polish atrocities against ethnic Germans in Poland (More… Read more »
“Hitler, not being the brightest bulb on the block, dived right into the trap. He sent his troops East. Probably the biggest geopolitical mistake in Modern History.” I once believed what you wrote, until I read the book ‘Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?‘ by Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun, known by the pseudonym, Viktor Suvorov, After I read the book “Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?” by Viktor Suvorov, who was a former Soviet GRU officer, I am now convinced that Joseph Stalin planned a conquest of all of Europe, and without the astronomical sacrifices that the Wehrmacht made, the… Read more »
Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun was Ukrainian/Russian Khazarian JEW
I am well aware of this argument but simply do not buy off on it. With the Wehrmacht in place in Germany, and Germany not at war with the rest of Europe, I don’t care what Stalin imagined he would do, about which I have my doubts in any case. No, I think the Germans and the rest of Western Europe would have been well able to defend themselves against a hypothetical attack by Stalin, which I doubt would ever have come. No, the trap was the trap set by the War Mongers and War Criminals Franklin Roosevelt and Winston… Read more »
Franklin D. Roosevelt (and Theodore Roosevelt) had Jewish heritage and were Zionist extremists. Winston Churchill and his father were pets of Rothschilds. Randolph Churchill, (1849-1895), politician The father of Winston Churchill was an intimate of the Rothschild family. He formed a close association with Nathaniel, 1st Lord Rothschild, on whose behalf he reported on the development of the mining industry in South Africa. Churchill was a frequent guest at Rothschild houses. The Rothschilds made extensive loans to Churchill. Secret government documents reveal that the British Daily Mirro received over two dozen offers of peace between 1939 and 1941. Most notably in… Read more »
“Cunning, no doubt, came to Churchill in the Jewish genes transmitted by his mother Lady Randolph Churchill, née Jenny Jacobson/Jerome.”
Moshe Kohn, Jerusalem Post. Jan 18, 1993
Thank you for your attempt, breaking the narrative of lies. I strongly recommend to overcome the brainwashing narrative about Germany and its history by getting closer to the truth and reading David L. Hoggan, Gerard Menuhin and many other real historians. The person who started this original border conflict between Poland and Germany, which was initially intended to protect the German population from murder and robbery by Polish marauders in the German lands declared Polish territory by “Versailles”, is clearly documented by the quote from the Polish military dictator Rydz-Smigly in the English press on August 6, 1939: “Poland wants war… Read more »
Indeed. In my opinion, Mr “Jud Zuesse” is disingenuous in the extreme.
“The Nazi generals were all aiming to surrender to America’s generals because they expected and received far less hostility from Truman’s Government than from the Stalin’s, who would have killed them…”
Seriously! What about Eisenhower’s Rhine-Meadows Death Camps, and the one million German prisoners of war, who were slowly starved to death, by the Americans and French.
The blueprint for the genocide of the Germans, was submitted in the book ‘Germany Must Perish!’ which was published in 1941 in the United States, by the demonic Jew, Theodore N. Kaufman, who incidentally had the ear of a one of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech writers. The German Holocaust, where anywhere from 9-15 Million Germans were murdered by the Allies between 1945 – 1953, when the Jewish Morgenthau Plan was implemented on post war Germany, in place of the sterilisation of the whole German nation, which was recommend by the Jew, Theodore N. Kaufman, in his 1941 book ‘Germany Must… Read more »
As the historian Stephen E. Ambrose headlined “Ike and the Disappearing Atrocities” on 24 February 1991, about that: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, as head of the American occupation of Germany in 1945, deliberately starved to death German prisoners of war in staggering numbers, Mr. Bacque charges — that “the victims undoubtedly number over 800,000, almost certainly over 900,000 and quite likely over a million. Their deaths were knowingly caused by army officers who had sufficient resources to keep the prisoners alive.” Eisenhower’s method, according to Mr. Bacque, was simple: he changed the designation of the prisoners from “Prisoners of War” (P.O.W.), required… Read more »
“Questions immediately arise. If there were a million dead, where are the bodies? …”
Buried In the fields of of Rheinwiesenlager, or “Rhine Camps,” and there is hours of video evidence of the German POWs been slowly exterminated, and their bodies been bulldozed into the ground, by the genocidal Americans and French.
There is hours of video footage of Eisenhower’s Rhine-Meadows Death Camps, Unlike the fake ‘The Holocaust™’, where there has never even been a photo released of the ostensible ‘Gas Chambers’, never mind a video of the elusive and mythical ‘Gas Chambers’.
“6,000,000 JEWS”, KISS MY ASS
“The Holocaust was the most tragic event of the Second World War.
Four million Jews lived in German-controlled areas, six million of whom were murdered.
After the war, there were only five million of them left.”
Oy vey, the Goyim know. Shut it down Shlomo.
Everyone should read James Bacque’s follow up book, titled; ‘Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation, 1944-1950’
A PDF of ‘Crimes And Mercies’ By James Bacque (1997) is available to download for free on The Internet Archive website, and the Microsoft Edge browser can read out load any PDF book, and it does a very good job of it, turning any PDF book into an Audiobook.
“British East India Company in 1600, and the Dutch East India Company in 1602”
BOTH OF THOSE WERE SET UP BY TO JEWS ‘CONVERTED’ KHAZARS WHO OWNED BRITAIN AND STILL OWN IT.
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse just ‘forgot’ mention those facts.
1815, Nathan Mayer Rothschild controlled the Bank of England and boldly declared:
“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets.”
“The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire,
and I control the British money supply.”
– Nathan “Baron” Mayer Rothschild
Ah yes, getting to the heart of the matter.