{"id":182172,"date":"2023-08-22T07:42:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T11:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=182172"},"modified":"2023-08-22T07:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T11:43:19","slug":"the-most-dangerous-family-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=182172","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THE MOST DANGEROUS FAMILY IN AMERICA<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"page-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/estriker\/kaganism-the-people-steering-us-into-another-world-war\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-page-thumbsize size-page-thumbsize wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/KaganismNJP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"contents-holder\" class=\"entry\">\n<section class=\"open\">\n<div class=\"section-holder\">\n<p><!--more-->ERIC STRIKER<br \/>\nThe Unz Review<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_1\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The Iraq war debacle, the relative (<em>to Bush<\/em>) restraint of the Obama administration, and the 2016 anti-interventionist campaign of Donald Trump may have seemingly discredited the neo-conservative movement and its personalities, but they have come roaring back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">This new stage in American foreign policy could be characterized as\u00a0<em>Kaganism<\/em>: neither Democrat or Republican, but rather a non-partisan 21st century crusade for \u201cliberalism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_3\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Donald Kagan, the patriarch of Kaganism, followed a similar intellectual trajectory to his colleagues Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz: Marxist academics who transformed into rabid Reaganoid Cold Warriors in response to the Soviet Union\u2019s support for Arab nationalism and anti-Zionism in the 1960s. Donald was quite clearly in the Republican camp, though his children have dropped some of the \u201cright-wing\u201d elements of the neo-conservative doctrine (previously used to mobilize Evangelical Christian voting blocs) and replaced it with a unified American state ideology that is as at home in the Democratic Party as it is in the GOP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_4\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Donald\u2019s sons, the American Enterprise Institute\u2019s Frederick Kagan and the Brookings Institute\u2019s Robert Kagan, were highly influential in the George W. Bush administration through think-tanks such as the Project For A New American Century and the Foreign Policy Initiative, though today they have largely distanced themselves from the GOP following the party\u2019s alienation of Jewish elites through Trumpification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_5\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">At PNAC, the Kagans were primarily concerned with expanding Israeli power by using the United States to topple Saddam Hussein, Bashar Al-Assad and strangling Iran, but by 2006, they grew\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/28\/AR2006042801987.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/28\/AR2006042801987.html\">increasingly suspicious and hostile<\/a>\u00a0towards Russia and China for seeking more control in how they interface with Western (read: Jewish) financial institutions and cultural values, while simultaneously choosing to pursue their own foreign policy paths independent of\u00a0<em>Pax Americana<\/em>. Over time, the fears of Kaganism have been vindicated, as Russia and China have evolved from wild card United Nations votes to outright revisionist powers ready to directly confront Washington interlopers in their backyards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_6\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The Kaganists blame the rise of China, Russia and Iran on the war and free trade weary American people, who in 2016 even managed to pressure Hillary Clinton into tactically walking back her support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (a move that enraged\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/how-hillary-clintons-silence-on-trade-will-hurt-us-strategy-in-asia\/2015\/05\/13\/6ad1c8a0-f97f-11e4-9030-b4732caefe81_story.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/how-hillary-clintons-silence-on-trade-will-hurt-us-strategy-in-asia\/2015\/05\/13\/6ad1c8a0-f97f-11e4-9030-b4732caefe81_story.html\">Kagan<\/a>). For most Americans, the nation-wrecking trade deficits (which are in truth subsidies to buy subservience), trillion-dollar wars, and mountains of body bags required to oversee a world empire are neither necessary or worthwhile for the well-being of the geographically gifted and resource rich United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_7\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">In 2019, current Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Robert Kagan, the husband Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, published an\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/america-first-is-only-making-the-world-worse-heres-a-better-approach\/2019\/01\/01\/1272367c-079f-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820_story.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/america-first-is-only-making-the-world-worse-heres-a-better-approach\/2019\/01\/01\/1272367c-079f-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820_story.html\">editorial<\/a>\u00a0excoriating the \u201cAmerica First\u201d message embraced by segments of both parties and reiterated the minority Jewish-held internationalist elite consensus think-tanks have been churning out for decades. According to Blinken and Kagan, a world of\u00a0<em>realism<\/em>, where countries are free of Jewish minders and American blood and treasure is exclusively reserved for the benefit of American people, is a \u201c<a title=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/books\/the-jungle-grows-back-america-and-our-imperiled-world\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/books\/the-jungle-grows-back-america-and-our-imperiled-world\/\">jungle<\/a>\u201d that allows budding Hitlers (Putin), Mussolinis (Iran) and Hirohitos (China) to spread \u201canti-democratic\u201d revolution against \u201cAnglo-American\u201d (a term Kaganists use to identify their civilizational project even as they support demographic replacement of the European stock in English-speaking country) liberal-globalist hegemony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_8\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Under the doctrine of Kaganism, the only solution to global conflicts is to refuse diplomacy with sovereign states that have different cultures or political traditions, and instead kill and replace them through the Bolshevistic export of \u201cAmerican\u201d values around the world, which they describe as the primacy of\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.bushcenter.org\/catalyst\/leadership\/why-america-must-lead\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bushcenter.org\/catalyst\/leadership\/why-america-must-lead\">New York finance and free trade<\/a>, arbitrary and illegal regime change wars,\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/immigration-reform-can-prove-us-strength-and-security\/2013\/06\/14\/a3a9df70-d517-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/immigration-reform-can-prove-us-strength-and-security\/2013\/06\/14\/a3a9df70-d517-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html\">open borders and the free movement of people<\/a>, actively demoralizing and\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.bushcenter.org\/publications\/democracy-talks-robert-kagan-brookings-institution\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bushcenter.org\/publications\/democracy-talks-robert-kagan-brookings-institution\">disempowering racial majorities<\/a>, and other planks of the Jewish\u00a0<em>Open Society<\/em>\u00a0that intends to salt all potential seedbeds for \u201cfascism\u201d or \u201canti-Semitism,\u201d even though much of the world, including the American people, don\u2019t want it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_9\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The central domestic political theory of Kaganism purports that liberalism is in perpetual antagonism with \u201cpopulism,\u201d (which the Kagans view as a strain of Fascism), in other words, the will of the people. The Kaganists view the democratic accountability of political leaders, self-interested (at least in the case of Gentiles) trade-offs, and the free discussion of ideas as a distraction or minor inconvenience to suppress and push through, as shown in their\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ghost-Feast-Collapse-1900-1941-Dangerous\/dp\/0307262944?crid=3708UAY6X2IBD&amp;keywords=The+Ghost+At+The+Feast:+America+and+the+Collapse+of+the+World+Order+1900-1941&amp;qid=1673303194&amp;sprefix=the+ghost+at+the+feast+america+and+the+collapse+of+the+world+order+1900-1941,aps,73&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=thewaspos09-20&amp;linkId=7217c30d0d5e39e48b409a16abd82b95&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ghost-Feast-Collapse-1900-1941-Dangerous\/dp\/0307262944?crid=3708UAY6X2IBD&amp;keywords=The+Ghost+At+The+Feast:+America+and+the+Collapse+of+the+World+Order+1900-1941&amp;qid=1673303194&amp;sprefix=the+ghost+at+the+feast+america+and+the+collapse+of+the+world+order+1900-1941,aps,73&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=thewaspos09-20&amp;linkId=7217c30d0d5e39e48b409a16abd82b95&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl\">latest book<\/a>\u00a0celebrating Franklin Delano Roosevelt for\u00a0<em>deceiving<\/em>\u00a0the American people into fighting a world war against Germany and Japan, two countries Kagan\u00a0<em>admits<\/em>\u00a0never posed a security threat to the United States but had to be lured into a confrontation anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_10\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">At the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Frederick Kagan and ISW founder Kimberly Kagan (Frederick\u2019s wife)\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.businessofgovernment.org\/blog\/addressing-new-era-deterrence-and-warfare-visualizing-information-domain\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessofgovernment.org\/blog\/addressing-new-era-deterrence-and-warfare-visualizing-information-domain\">have written extensively<\/a>\u00a0about the information space as a battle realm no different from the land, sea, and air. Under Kaganism, the minds of citizens are clay to be molded, and the role of the American government and business elites is to manufacture consensus for decisions made by Jewish policy makers through the control and manipulation of cyber space and mass media in the name of policing \u201cmisinformation.\u201d The Department of Homeland Security, a\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/160956\/beverly-high-biden-homeland-security\" href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/160956\/beverly-high-biden-homeland-security\">highly insular Jewish wing<\/a>\u00a0of the US government dedicated to domestic spying, sought to formally\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/publication\/disinformation-governance-board\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/publication\/disinformation-governance-board\">implement this directive<\/a>, but then paused its official establishment after popular outcry. The closure of this \u201cdisinformation\u201d board was meaningless. Recent journalistic pieces have reported that much of the political content users consume on Facebook, Google and Twitter is subject to direct editorial oversight from\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11562433\/Facebook-riddled-ex-CIA-agents-ex-FBI-agents-work-Twitter.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11562433\/Facebook-riddled-ex-CIA-agents-ex-FBI-agents-work-Twitter.html\">droves of FBI and CIA agents<\/a>\u00a0employed full time by social media companies. In recent years, Western and Zionist intelligence agencies have been very active in seeking to manufacture popular support for foreign interventions, which in practice range from the amateurish and analogue\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/morningstaronline.co.uk\/article\/w\/white-helmets-group-members-admit-to-staging-chemical-attacks-in-syria-russian-study-finds\" href=\"https:\/\/morningstaronline.co.uk\/article\/w\/white-helmets-group-members-admit-to-staging-chemical-attacks-in-syria-russian-study-finds\">Syria information war<\/a>\u00a0ten years ago to the much more sophisticated, very online and more organic looking\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/nafo-and-winning-information-war-lessons-learned-ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/nafo-and-winning-information-war-lessons-learned-ukraine\">pro-<\/a><a title=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/nafo-and-winning-information-war-lessons-learned-ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/nafo-and-winning-information-war-lessons-learned-ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0push.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_11\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Most of the Kagan clan is dedicated to providing Washington\u2019s ideological framework, but its most prominent member, Robert Kagan\u2019s wife Victoria Nuland, has been instrumental in implementing it around the world. Though previously not as well known, Nuland is no stranger to disastrous foreign policy decisions. Prior to serving under Obama, she was an important national security advisor making calls on Iraq for Dick Cheney during the first Bush government. While her husband was busy calling Europeans\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/03\/05\/books\/books-of-the-times-americans-are-from-mars-europeans-from-venus.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/03\/05\/books\/books-of-the-times-americans-are-from-mars-europeans-from-venus.html\"><em>pussies<\/em><\/a>\u00a0for refusing to join the \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d against Saddam Hussein, Nuland was busy\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2006\/06\/17\/5492827\/nato-takes-expanded-role-in-afghanistan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2006\/06\/17\/5492827\/nato-takes-expanded-role-in-afghanistan\">roping Europe<\/a>\u00a0into the Afghanistan quagmire in order to maintain the occupation while easing American logistical challenges in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_12\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Nuland\u2019s most famous moment came in 2014, after a\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Hk38Jk_JL0g\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Hk38Jk_JL0g\">phone call<\/a>\u00a0from to the US embassy was publicized exposing her as one of the shadowy figures behind the coup that overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian government and put the country on track for the bloody war it is currently engulfed in. Nuland has admitted that this coup cost American taxpayers\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rPVs5VuI8XI\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rPVs5VuI8XI\">$5 billion dollars<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_13\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">For Nuland, the lives of \u201callies\u201d and innocent people are disposable pawns on a chess board. Much like Jewish liberal interventionist Madeline Albright\u2019s famously ghoulish appraisal of trading half a million Iraqi children\u2019s lives just to weaken Iraq\u2019s economy, the Kagans\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/robert-kagan-free-world-if-you-can-keep-it-ukraine-america\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/united-states\/robert-kagan-free-world-if-you-can-keep-it-ukraine-america\">believe<\/a>\u00a0the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian casualties and irreparable harm done to the Ukrainian nation is a worthy exchange if it means potentially blemishing Russia and China\u2019s prestige on the world stage or extending Washington\u2019s universal hegemony by a few years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_14\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">As the war drags on, polls now show that the\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23897329-cnn-ukraine-poll\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23897329-cnn-ukraine-poll\">majority of Americans<\/a>\u00a0oppose giving Ukraine any more aid. Encouraging news for the Ukrainian side has become ever more scant and the famed \u201ccounter-offensive\u201d appears to have amounted to nothing, yet Frederick Kagan \u2014 the warped mind behind the\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2014\/09\/12\/architects-of-old-iraq-surge-propose-new-iraq-surge\/\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2014\/09\/12\/architects-of-old-iraq-surge-propose-new-iraq-surge\/\">disastrous 2007 Iraq troop surge<\/a>\u00a0and advocate of a second surge \u2014 continues to publish articles with titles like \u201c<a title=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6300772\/ukraine-counteroffensive-can-still-succeed\/\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6300772\/ukraine-counteroffensive-can-still-succeed\/\">How The Ukraine Counter-Offensive Can Still Succeed<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_15\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Ukraine is by no means the last we have seen of Kaganism. While the world has reacted in a far more nuanced manner to the conflict than expected and the US has struggled to win most of the world over to the anti-Russian campaign, the neoconservative doctrine is once again ascendent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_16\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Last July, Nuland assumed a new and more powerful role as undersecretary at the State Department. In her previous role as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Nuland was publicly identified by the now imprisoned Pakistani leader Imran Khan as the principle architect behind the\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/I8q2K\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/I8q2K\">US orchestrated coup<\/a>\u00a0against him, which was executed in retaliation for Khan\u2019s policy of neutrality regarding the Ukraine war. In Niger, where 1,000 US troops are stationed and refuse to leave, Nuland met with the country\u2019s new government to\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/8\/7\/us-urges-niger-coup-leaders-to-step-aside-in-direct-contact\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/8\/7\/us-urges-niger-coup-leaders-to-step-aside-in-direct-contact\">threaten them<\/a>\u00a0with violence if they do not restore the deposed puppet government \u2014 a threat the Washington-Paris\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/countdown-next-great-war-has-begun-africa-1817095\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/countdown-next-great-war-has-begun-africa-1817095\">proxy<\/a>\u00a0African alliance of ECOWAS has been openly telegraphing as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_17\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Though Nuland has been lighting fires on every continent on the planet, the most trademark Kaganist escalation has been in the deployment of thousands of US Marines to the Persian Gulf in order to advance Israeli strategic interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_18\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Shortly after Nuland took her new office, the US State Department\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/iuFNl\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/iuFNl\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that continuing the Trump-era project of forging an anti-Iran and anti-Palestinian alliance between Saudi Arabia and Israel is now its top Middle East priority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_19\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Ever since Washington arbitrarily left the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, the US has been paying cat\u2019s paws like Saudi Arabia to seize Iranian oil ships in the region in order to damage the Iranian economy. Under international law, this is an act of piracy and Iran is legally allowed to defend its vessels through military measures. Since the seizures began, Iran has been responding to hostile nations by hijacking their ships back and launching drone attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_20\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The Saudis appear to have cut their losses and signed a Chinese brokered\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2023\/03\/30\/riyadh-s-motivations-behind-saudi-iran-deal-pub-89421\" href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2023\/03\/30\/riyadh-s-motivations-behind-saudi-iran-deal-pub-89421\">peace deal<\/a>\u00a0with Tehran last spring. Riyadh\u2019s demands for breaking this new understanding with Iran, understanding how desperate Washington is to advance Israeli interests, grow more audacious by the minute. In exchange for normalizing ties with Israel, the Saudis want the right to engage in nuclear proliferation, billions worth of high-tech offensive weapons, and a\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2023\/03\/21\/saudi-mbs-biden-israel-security-washington-riyadh\/\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2023\/03\/21\/saudi-mbs-biden-israel-security-washington-riyadh\/\">security guarantee<\/a>\u00a0that even the Biden administration knows will be heavily abused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_21\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">So far, Washington has been reluctant about granting all of Riyadh\u2019s wishes, but the State Department is still keen on showing that it remains very invested in the Middle East. It could even be argued that it is seeking to find a footing for war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_22\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">This week, the Department of Defense\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/3485733\/us-forces-arrive-to-support-deterrence-efforts-at-strait-of-hormuz\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/News-Stories\/Article\/Article\/3485733\/us-forces-arrive-to-support-deterrence-efforts-at-strait-of-hormuz\/\">announced<\/a>\u00a0that thousands of US soldiers and the Naval battleships will be deployed to the Strait of Hormuz with instructions to fire upon Iranian forces that attempt to seize any ships. This deployment is an open provocation that the Iranians have vowed to respond to in kind, including by utilizing hypersonic missiles if necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_23\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">There is a historical precedent for this. Previous US administrations have utilized belligerence at sea with the goal of generating\u00a0<em>cassus belli<\/em>\u00a0to gain popular support for a war elites have already planned. If Washington really wanted safe commerce at sea, they would stop ordering regional neighbors to hijack Iranian ships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_24\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">This outrageous behavior is reminiscent of what occurred in 1940 and 1941. While remaining officially neutral, Franklin Delano Roosevelt decided the US had a larger security sphere in the North Atlantic and deployed the Navy to escort British vessels that were losing the naval war to Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_25\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">By protecting British ships on the Atlantic while simultaneously allowing Allied forces to attack German ships, the US hoped to force the Axis into an open conflict, a point\u00a0<em>enthusiastically conceded<\/em>\u00a0by Robert Kagan in his most recent book on American foreign policy in the first half of the 20th century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_26\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">FDR finally got his wish in September 1941, when a German submarine mistakenly fired upon the\u00a0<em>USS Greer\u00a0<\/em>three months before Pearl Harbor. Historians, including Kagan, are in consensus that the\u00a0<em>USS Greer<\/em>\u00a0incident was an honest accident caused by America\u2019s belligerent behavior at sea, but FDR\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/document\/fireside-chat-on-the-greer-incident\/\" href=\"https:\/\/teachingamericanhistory.org\/document\/fireside-chat-on-the-greer-incident\/\">blatantly lied about it<\/a>\u00a0and used the incident to incite anti-German and anti-Italian jingoism to try and crack the American people\u2019s steadfast opposition to another European war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_27\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">After further over-the-top escalations by the FDR administration, Germany, Italy and Japan decided that they had to take a gamble and try and fight the trans-Atlantic juggernaut in a two front war that they eventually lost in the face of American industrial, financial and numerical advantage that was, even before Pearl Harbor, already powering the Soviet, French, and the British war efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_28\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">In his 2023 book, Kagan does not view World War III as a conflict humanity would be better off avoiding, but instead a testament to the American empire\u2019s invincibility and the necessity of war to spread the ideologies of liberalism, capitalism and globalism. The Kaganists believe a multi-front war against nuclear-armed China, Russia and (soon) Iran is better than sharing the world with whoever they categorize as \u201canti-democratic\u201d or \u201cfascist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_29\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">How many Americans agree with that insane prospect?<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_30\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The Kaganists don\u2019t care. Unless we organize politically to stop them, they\u2019re taking us along for the ride whether we like it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-pub\">(Republished from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nationaljusticeparty.com\/2023\/08\/10\/kaganism-the-neo-cons-are-steering-us-into-another-world-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Justice Party<\/a>\u00a0by permission of author or representative)<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}