Restoring US pre-eminence in the Western hemisphere “In 1973 the White House supported Pinochet’s coup. ‘I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people,’ Henry Kissinger had said a few years earlier . Now, decades later, the current US president has hailed the victory of Kast, whom he says he endorsed.” The intereference in Honduras last hear and now in Venezuela. The recent CIA operation in the latter has not “ provoked no response from Western governments, which are usually quick to pounce on instances of military aggression and electoral manipulation, as long as they can be attributed to Moscow.” “Ahead of Argentina’s parliamentary elections on 26 October, Trump conducted economic and financial blackmail similar to the attempt to ‘persuade’ Hondurans. “Washington has many tools for pressure and retaliation against Latin American countries, all of which help facilitate its redeployment across their region. Governments ca...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51