Blowback: the making of an anti-US coalition | OpEdNews

In intelligence parlance, a blowback is an unexpected and adverse consequence of a covert operation. The Iranian Mullah regime may be viewed as a blowback of the CIA's coup d'etat removing Prime Minister Mossadegh from office in 1953.

A tenet of international relations is the balance of power. To achieve a lasting peace, a powerful nation may not abuse its power. Napoleon learned it the hard way. Bismarck was wiser. After his victory over France, having achieved his objective of uniting Germany around Prussia, he played a balancing act with its two powerful neighbors, the Habsburgs and the Romanovs. To preserve his gains, he needed peace. A powerful nation, blindly pursuing a hegemonic policy, will entice a reaction in the form of a coalition against itself. The United States is a powerful nation. It is at a crossroads. It may either take advantage of its power to attain world domination, or endeavor to achieve peace through "collective actions" and international cooperation', as stipulated in the United Nations' charter.

A push for hegemony

Whatever Obama may say about European history, the Enlightenment, and the birth of the United States as he did in his Brussels speech on March 26, his country's policy, domestic and foreign, violates the United Nations' charter and perverts the American Constitution (e.g. Patriot Act, Guantanamo, NSA surveillance, Swat teams, whistleblower hunt, Afghanistan war, Iraq invasion, Libya's destruction, drones attacks, etc.). Documents such as The New American Century or The National Security Strategy of the United States (2002) not to mention Zbigniew Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard", leave little doubt as to the road the United States pursues. The policy is a covert operation. The American public, the man in the street, is unaware of it.

The United States' first target is Russia. As noted by Jack F. Matlock Jr., former American ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987-1991), "the U.S. has treated Russia like a loser since the end of the Cold War". (1) Vladimir Putin, as the leader of a nation whose roots go far back in history, sees it as his duty to resist such a treatment.

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