US and it’s Past blunders

 US and Its Past Blunders Resulted in the Current Mess.


Now the current situation in Asia/Middle East/ South China Sea / Afghanistan dictates that US reassess its foreign policy dealings. The humiliating defeat of US in Afghanistan (after a similar defeat in Vietnam in 1975) should force a rethink in their Whitehouse and the State Department. That Cold War of fifties to eighties with Soviet Union ended with US coming on the top. Then came the policy of appeasing China to back stab Russia. The whole concept was that to build China in the east with military might, when US confronts Russia (still a power) in the west, squeezing it in between. In the process to appease China, they gave away everything……money, technology and manufacturing. All that did not work well. China instead of confronting Russia began confronting US. They wanted US out of China Sea completely abandoning Taiwan, Japan and other countries.

When this was happening, US picked up a fight in Iraq for no good reason. Two wars in 1991 and 2002 sapped much of the US energy built after Vietnam war. This was an oil war to control world’s oil supply. It did not happen. Instead $4 trillion spent on wars killed 200,000 locals and 20,000 US personnel but no result. Oil was still Arab commodity but America was now a bit weaker nation. Then came the highly unexpected 9/11 in New York. This Urban warfare initiated by an Arab …..Osma Bin Laden living Afghanistan inflicted $1 trillion damage on America and as a revenge tactic US initiated a war in Afghanistan. Revenge was the right move in Afghanistan but real culprit was Pakistan, who smiled at American face but supported the religious theocracy in Afghanistan. That 20 years war in Afghanistan at an expense of $2 trillion and 10,000 dead US soldiers came to an end a few days back with a humiliating US defeat. Afghanistan is back where it was and victory is being celebrated in Pakistan. 

Now the net result, US is a weaker power. Sensing this China will begin its grasp for top military and economic power in an earnest. That is a situation which weakened US can do nothing. It is terribly dependent on consumer goods and parts on China hence can initiate no war with them. US has weak leadership which can initiate no effort to salvage its prestige both at home and abroad. China May force conquest of Taiwan knowing US can do nothing.

During the economic aid to China in nineties by then an incompetent President Clinton, and war busy President Bush, it was suggested that it is dangerous to build only one source of manufactured products …… China. Now China for the West has become the source for everything, hence it cannot be touched , let alone initiating a war. It will take 10-15 years to build any other country like India with cheap labor to become a manufacturing giant. It will also need $2 trillion to transfer technology and manufacturing processes to rival China.

In the end, I would say that US economic and foreign policy in last 20 years has failed. Defeat in Vietnam resulted self look and better technology development to stay as world leader. The current defeat and an incompetent US leader will result China emerging at the top, a tricky situation for everybody.

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