John Bolton plays a central role in foreign policy circles in theestablishment American conservative.
Over the years, he held many government positions. He was notably ambassador to the UN, under George W. Bush, and special national security adviser, under Donald Trump. He is also a committed intellectual.
He is associated with the hawks of the Republican Party, always ready to use military means to ensure the hegemony of the American empire.
Empire
Two weeks ago, while commenting on the hearings on the events of January 6, 2021, he made a very particular statement.
It certainly did not go unnoticed. But we didn’t pay enough attention to that. John Bolton explained that he “participated in the planning of coups d’etat”, adding that it took a lot of work, and that it was not something to be left to amateurs.
It will be understood, he said this to explain that the riot of January 6 was not an attempted coup. But the main thing is elsewhere.
John Bolton, as if it went without saying, thus confessed that the United States, these great moral teachers throughout the world, organize coups d’etat according to their interests.
We knew that, of course.
But that the thing is so freely expressed, as if it were a banality among others, as if the Americans had the right to organize them, above all, was something staggering.
We will see a form of lack of embarrassment specific to Bolton, but also a very simple admission: the United States officially believes that it has the right to interfere in the life of other countries, to overthrow their government, or at least, to fund opposition parties and movements that suit them.
They give themselves the right to forge programs to mentally Americanize certain segments of the population, and lead them to confuse the good of their own country with the interests of Washington, as we see in France in the suburbs.
And that’s not counting the many agencies working to promote American ideology around the world. This imperialism has the nerve to present itself as an enterprise for the promotion of democracy.
Allies?
We also know that between 2012 and 2014, the American intelligence services spied on Angela Merkel, who was then in charge of Germany. How good it is to be an ally of the Americans!
Let’s say it again: Americans, even when they claim to fight for democracy, work first for their own interests – in their minds, the two converge, and even merge.
Because it stood up to the Nazis and then to the Communists, the United States assumed the role of leader of the free world in the 20th century. They deserved our recognition for that. But it is no longer so today.
And no one should feel obliged to be in solidarity with this decadent empire, which drags down those who submit to it in its downfall.