It’s often been said, during and in the aftermath of the Iraq War, that it was the single greatest foreign policy failure/fiasco in US history. Was it?
Of course, given the passions surrounding the event then spiraling out of control, many agreed with the assessment(especially given the incompetence of George W. Bush), but in retrospect, the Iraq War pales in comparison with, say, the Vietnam War and its impact on American society. It’s unlikely that future historians and social critics will obsess over Bush’s misadventure as people have done so about the role of the Vietnam War in American politics and culture. Indeed, prior to the raging controversy over the Iraq War, many had pointed to ‘Vietnam’ as the biggest foreign policy mistake in US history.
But, even that assessment may have been overblown, partly because of the trauma of America’s first ‘defeat’. Arguably, the victories in previous wars obscured their longer-term dire effects. The US was on the winning side in World War I and World War II, but its key role in the defeat of Germany in the First World War led to disastrous results, paving the way for World War II.
To be sure, World War II, like any great historical event, wasn’t an inevitability, but the preconditions created by the peace forced on Germany by the US and its partners escalated tensions in Central Europe that made another war more likely. Such considerations have been obfuscated by the official narratives that conveniently placed all the blame on Hitler and Germany.
There’s also the view that Hitler was SO EVIL that it was indeed a moral imperative for the UK and US to have goaded him into war so as to bring down his villainy, i.e. even if Hitler was provoked, it was justified in order to bring him down by whatever means necessary.
There’s also the uniquely American view that the war was a welcome boost that finally ended the Great Depression. Besides, the Good Guys won the Good War against the Most Evil Regime in History. And the Americanists regarded the post-war order as one in which the freedom-loving US defended liberty and spread prosperity around the world, especially against the communist threat.
But, such a narrative is rather too convenient for Americans whose domain was untouched by direct conflict, notwithstanding the attack on Pearl Harbor. If American policies had made the war more likely, they were partly responsible for the tens of millions of deaths across Europe.
Also, had the war been avoided, most Eastern Europe nations would have allied with Germany against the Soviet Union, thereby limiting the extent of communist influence. The so-called Cold War could have been avoided with Germany and its partners as bulwark against communist Russia.
Also, had the war been avoided, there would have been no Holocaust, which means no paralyzing narrative to guilt-bait-and-burden the entire West as either genocidal mass killers, collaborators, or do-nothings in regard to the ‘greatest crime of all time’. Thus, abuses of Jewish Power could have been countered and checked more effectively, preventing the rise of the conditions that currently infest the West with the pathology of Jew Worship. What kind of civilized and sane order would hand the keys to the kingdom the likes of Victoria Nuland and her ilk?
Also, without the complete collapse of Europe as a viable power center, the tragic consequence of World War II, the second half of the 20th century would have been more balanced and multipolar in its power equation. The US and USSR as great powers would have had to contend with the great power(s) of Continental Europe and of course the British.
World War II effectively divided Europe into two camps, vassals of the US and the vassals of the USSR. Minus an autonomous Europe with the will and power to fend off both American and Russian hegemonism, world history turned into a cartoon of ‘democracy vs totalitarianism’, ‘imperialism vs revolution’, ‘free world vs tyranny’, ‘capitalism vs communism’, ‘individualism vs collectivism’, and etc. as if the ONLY historical/ideological choices were Americanism and Sovietism. There was, to be sure, the Non-Aligned Movement, but its anxious existence implied that the two towering giants were the US and USSR, with most the world compelled to be on the side of one or the other.
The American role in the creation of Israel should be recognized as another contender for the biggest foreign policy disaster. Given the lack of direct US military involvement, its dramatic success as nation-building(as Palestinians were quickly neutralized), and the Jewish grip on academia/media, it’s no surprise that few people dare to name the American role in Zionism as a foreign policy disaster, let alone the biggest ever.
Yet, so much of what has gone wrong in American foreign policy(and domestic affairs as well) could be traced to that event. Increasingly, the ‘Arabists’ were purged from the US government, leading to an imbalance in America’s formulation and application of policy throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Even though the US support for Zionism initially concerned only the lands of Palestine, as Jews grew in power and ambition it went from a national project to an imperial overreach, getting the US into one hell of a mess in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and Iran. America’s increasingly one-sided support for Israel has embittered and inflamed much of the Arab/Muslim world. And now with the ‘Gaza Genocide’, America’s reputation around the world is in the toilet.
Furthermore, the tragicomic spectacle of all those brown-nosing white goy politicians and pundits shilling for Jewish Supremacism has done irreparable harm to the global perception of white folks. No longer seen as members of a proud, confident, and free race, they’re seen as servile, craven, and venal. White Republican idea of success is winning Jews over by indulging the Tribe’s absolute worst instincts. “If we support them in genocide, maybe just maybe they’ll kick us less and toss us more shekels.” How morally bankrupt is American Conservatism?
Now, it’s possible that white goyim would have turned into cuck-maggots of Jewish Power regardless of Israel’s existence. Even without the fruition of the Zionist project, Jews would likely have amassed great power and influence in the US with their talent, drive, cunning, and networking. One could argue that the Holocaust Narrative, more than Zionism, became the main albatross(or gooney bird) around the white goy’s neck.
To a degree, Zionism has tainted the Jews with accusations of ‘racism’, imperialism, colonization, supremacism, and ‘Nazi-like’ behavior, especially with Netanyahu’s Israel gone full armageddon on the ‘Amalek’. Even without Israel’s creation, one could argue that the Shoah Business alone would have been sufficient to morally check the white race into cuckdom.