Spymongering and Conspiracy Politics
Solly Rakgomo | Friday September 7, 2018 12:07
I have realised that the spy-mania has spread across every place and all the time, it has become an essential element in driving national criminal hearings, global economic warfare and military budgets.Imperialist Britain and USA’s ‘spy-strategy’ resort to multiple targets, focussing on different sectors of activities. Russia has been accused of poisoning adversaries, using overseas operatives in England.
The accusation revolves around an instant lethal poison, which in fact did not lead to death. No Russian operative was identified. The only ‘evidence’ was that Russia possessed the poison- as did the USA and other countries.
The events took place in England and the British government played a major role in pointing the finger at Russia and in launching a global media campaign, which was amplified in the US and in the EU. The UK expelled Russian diplomats and threatened sanctions. The Trump regime picked up the cudgels, increasing economic sanctions and demanding that Russia confess to its ‘homicidal behaviour’.
The poison plot resonated with the Democratic Party campaign against Trump, accusing Russia of meddling in the Presidential election, on Trump’s behalf. Again, no evidence was presented.
US conspiracy officials targeted China, accusing the Chinese government of stealing US technology, scientific research and patents. China’s billion-dollar “Belt and Road” agreement with over 60 countries was presented as a communist plot to dominate countries, grab their resources, and generate debt dependency and to recruit overseas networks of covert operatives.
Iran was accused of plotting to establish overseas terrorist military operations in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, targeting the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia. No evidence was ever presented. In fact, massive US and EU supplied arms and advisors to Saudi Arabia’s overt terror bombing of Houthi-led Yemen cities and populations.
Iran backed the Syrian government in opposition to the US-backed armed mercenaries. Iranian advisors in Syria were bombed by Israel and never retaliated.
The US policy elite who resort to conspiratorial plots and spying, depends heavily on the mass media to repeat and elaborate on the charges endlessly, depending on self-identified experts and ex-pats from the targeted country. In effect the media is the message. Media-state collaboration is reinforced by the application of sanctions and the punishment proves guilt!
In the case of Russia, the conspirators demonise President Putin that he is guilty because he was an ex-official of the KGB. He was accused of ‘seizing’ Crimea which voted to rejoin Russia.
In other words, plots are linked to unrelated activity, personality disorders and to US self-inflicted defeats! Labelling is another tool common to conspiracy plotters; For example China is accused of being a ‘dictatorship’ intent on taking over the world, therefore, it could only defeat the US through spying and stealing secrets and assets from the US.
On the other hand, Iran is labelled a ‘terrorist state’ which allows the US to violate the international nuclear agreement and to support Israeli demands for economic sanctions. No evidence is ever presented that Iran invaded or terrorised any state. One may be forced to ask. What is the political strategy behind this conspiracy politics? There are several important motives for the US and fellow traditional imperialists to resort to conspiracy plots.
By accusing countries of crimes, they hope that the accused will respond by revealing their inability or unwillingness to engage in the action falsely attributed to them.
Entities such as the Pentagon put adversaries on the defensive, spending time and energy answering to the imperialist agenda rather than pursuing and advancing their own.
For example, the US claims that China is stealing economic technology to promote its superiority is designed to pressure China to downplay or modify its long-term plan for strategic growth. While China will not give general credence to US conspiracy practitioners,
it has downplayed the slogans designed to motivate its scientists to “Make China Great’.
Likewise, the US conspiracy practitioners accusation that Iran is ‘meddling’ in Yemen and Syria is designed to distract world opinion from the US military support for Saudi Arabia’s terror bombing in Yemen and Israel’s missile attacks in Syria. Plot accusations have had some effect in Syria.
Russia has demanded or asked Iran to withdraw fifty miles from the Israeli border. Apparently Iran has lowered its support for Yemen. Russia has been blanketed with unsubstantiated accusations of intervening in the Ukraine, which distracts attention from Washington’s support for the mob-led coup.
The UK claim that Russia planted a deadly poison, was concocted in order to distract attention from the Brexit fiasco and Prime Minister May’s effort to entice the US to sign a major trade agreement.
The greatest success of the US conspiracy practitioners has been in convincing the US mass media to act as an arm of the CIA-Pentagon-Congressional and Presidential interventionist agenda.
Secondly, the conspiracy has had an impact on both political parties, especially the Democratic leadership, which has waged a political war accusing Trump of plotting with Russia, to defeat Clinton in the presidential elections.
However, Democratic conspiracy advocates have sacrificed their popular electorate who are more interested in economic issues than in regime plots, and may lose to the Republicans in the fall 2018 Congressional elections.
From these entirely, one can conclude that conspiratorial plots have a narrow audience, mostly the US mass media and elite.
They seem to have a short-term impact in justifying sanctions and trade wars. The media plotters having called wolf and proved nothing and have lost credibility amongst a wide swath of the public.
The conspiracy advocates have discredited themselves by the transparency of their fabrications and the flimsiness of their evidence. In the long-run, historians will provide a footnote on the bankruptcy of imperialist foreign and domestic policy based on plots and conspiracies.