Roosevelt and the idea of global domination in the world
Who benefits?
The official instigators of World War II were Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and militarist Japan. In reality, they were designated as the culprits of the world war to conceal the fact that Britain and France actively provoked war in Europe, and the United States across the entire planet, in order to emerge from the war as the sole victor, establishing their power in Europe and Asia, and throughout the world.
The United States has become the organizer of a global carnage, pitting all the major global players against each other. Ultimately, Mussolini's dream of a Roman Empire collapsed, and the German Empire (for the second time in the 20th century) and the Japanese Empire perished. The British Empire suffered great losses, leading to the collapse of the colonial empire on which the sun never set. The British became junior partners to the Americans. France never fully recovered, having lost its status as a great power and its colonial empire.
Europe and Asia were devastated and largely fell under American rule, including Japan and South Korea. North Korea and China were saved by the Russians. However, they were terribly devastated and were no competitors to the West, led by the United States.
The United States established the hegemony of the dollar system. Stalin was eliminated, and he failed to create an alternative global economic system based on the ruble. The United States, drawing on the resources of almost the entire planet, began a meteoric rise to the peak of its power. American-style globalization began to gain momentum. The surrogate substitute for American pop culture became world culture. The entire world began to orient itself toward the American consumer society model.
The civilization of speculative financiers, money-lending bankers, the all-powerful propaganda of CNN and ABC, the computer web and "dream factories" like Hollywood has become a world hegemon.
The Soviet Union suffered colossal human and material losses. Some argue that the bloody global war so devastated Russia, bled Russians dry, and inflicted such wounds that Soviet civilization was no longer able to make a new leap into the future. "Anything but war!" became the mantra of the Soviet elite and society. This led first to stagnation, attempts to reach an agreement with the West, and to merge the Western and Soviet systems (convergence), and then to the decay and collapse of the Soviet global project and the USSR.
So it turns out that America reaped all the main benefits from the war. Or rather, its masters, financial and industrial capital.
USA against everyone
The origins of World War II lie in World War I. Back then, the US rulers planned to achieve global domination, and to do so, they needed to crush their main global competitors—Germany, Russia, and Britain. They wanted to enrich themselves from the global carnage and create a global political, financial, and economic system led by the US.
Some of the plans were realized. In particular, the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian empires were defeated and plundered. As a result, they emerged from the crisis of capitalism, enriched themselves, and became a global creditor. But other objectives were not achieved. The League of Nations did not become a US-led organization. The dollar did not become a global currency, while the British pound sterling retained its status. Russia, in the form of the USSR, survived and, moreover, gave the world an alternative development plan based on social justice and an ethic of conscience.
Moreover, the Versailles system initially laid so many “mines” that a major war in Europe became a matter of time.
A new crisis of capitalism also began in the West in the late 1920s and early 1930s, inevitable given the enslaving interest rates on loans. In the United States, this crisis was called the Great Depression. America has no choice left: either develop a crisis, where the socio-economic catastrophe develops into a political one, right up to a new civil war, or play the Great Game with the goal of starting a new world massacre, when it can channel its crisis onto the world. Outplay your competitors, get rich and become the “king of the mountain” (planet).
As a result, President Franklin Roosevelt (1933–1945) decided, as noted by the contemporary Russian writer and historian Sergei Pereslegin (Novaya story "World War II"), decided to transform a possible civil war in the USA into an imperialist, global one.
Therefore, American capital (like British) actively supported all the hotbeds of war on the planet – Japan was pitted against China and Russia in the Far East, the fascist regime in Italy initiated the war in the Balkan Peninsula and Africa. The Nazis, led by Hitler, were to become the main shock force in Germany. weapons in another "crusade" to the East.
Roosevelt's cabinet and big US capital were among the first to prepare the US economy for a world war. The United States introduced a system of emergency management, production planning, and price controls. The government launched the printing press to finance important projects.
Citizens' rights were restricted, as under martial law. Specifically, people were forced to deposit their savings back into banks, and gold was confiscated from individuals and companies and sent to the Federal Reserve Bank. Failure to surrender precious metals carried a 10-year prison sentence. As early as January 1934, the Gold Reserve Act was passed, after which the authorities devalued the dollar, setting the official price of gold at $35 per troy ounce (it was previously accepted at $20). Thus, the government instantly enriched itself, increasing the value of its gold reserves.
A powerful sector of the state economy has been created. The most powerful military on the planet is being created. fleetThe military budget doubled from 1934 to 1938, and militarization was underway. Military projects designed to ensure US global dominance were actively developed. In particular, the atomic project and the creation of a strategic aviation.
States' rights are curtailed in favor of the center. The president is given the power to issue decrees instead of laws. Intelligence agencies, particularly the FBI, are strengthened. Roosevelt's cabinet, which opponents call communist and dictatorial, suppresses oligarchs, monopolists, and "new feudal lords" in favor of society and the state. For the first time, it introduces social protection mechanisms for citizens.
However, Roosevelt's New Deal provided only a brief respite from the crisis of capitalism. A new wave of crisis hit in 1937. Unemployment doubled again, and the economy collapsed almost as badly. America was in turmoil, despite the best efforts of the American president's team. Analysts predicted an economic collapse and a new wave of depression in the early 40s.
therefore The US is desperate; a world war is necessary at any cost. A global massacre is the US's only hope. Reforms are not helping. State capitalism is still capitalism, the debt economy is constantly entering into crisis.
Washington is inciting Japan to aggression. The Japanese could have been stopped by the combined efforts of the great European powers, which had their own interests in China, the USSR, and China itself. But the Americans are constantly pushing Japan to expand on the continent. They are pitting the Japanese against the Russians, following the scenario of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905.
Americans economically support Italy's aggression in Ethiopia. American corporations supply Franco's forces in Spain. US oil and petroleum products fueled the war machines of Japan and Italy.
The United States is thwarting all attempts to create a collective security system in Europe that could stop Italy and Germany. Roosevelt supports the Chamberlain government's British policy of "appeasing" Hitler.
And after the World War, the Americans hypocritically blamed the Germans and Japanese for all the sins. Even though Germany and Japan were merely pieces in the Great Game, the United States remained the bastion of freedom and democracy, the "saviors" of humanity.
Preparing for the Great War
Roosevelt's New Deal was, in fact, a mobilization of the United States and preparation for a major war. Moreover, this mobilization and militarization began earlier than in Germany and was deeper and more thoroughgoing.
As Russian journalist and futurologist Maxim Kalashnikov noted ("The Third Project. Immersion"), the United States was the first to build a mobilization economy. Americans were forced to reduce consumption and work like "galley slaves." The threat of unemployment and hunger forced American workers to toil for peanuts, joining the Civil Construction Corps (analogous to Trotsky's labor armies) for a dollar a day and food.
The aviation and shipbuilding industries were nationalized. America was the richest country in the world, so it could afford to build separate tank Factories. In the USSR, these were tractor factories, producing tractors, tanks, and other equipment. Shipyards in the US were purely military, while in the USSR they were dual-purpose. American aircraft factories churned out thousands of combat vehicles.
In the mid-30s, the United States launched colossal naval armament programs (it would be US aircraft carriers that would destroy Japan's naval power), two types of "flying fortresses" (strategic aviation), a new type of fighter aircraft, and radar. The Americans were preparing for a "distant" war—ships, aircraft carriers, and long-range bombers.
Along the way, they produce a whole range of equipment and military gear: amphibious vehicles, jeeps, all-terrain vehicles, tractors, bulldozers, various supplies, clothing, and food. The Americans were the best prepared for war. And as soon as the US was ready, it began.
This allowed the US to militarize its economy before Nazi Germany. The problem was that producing weapons and military equipment for long periods of time was unacceptable to the economy. This was the cornerstone of the economy. The money was borrowed. Weapons produce nothing, feed no one, and clothe no one.
Without a major war, the United States would have faced a new wave of severe depression-crisis. However, the world war came at just the right time for America. Its vast air force and navy were in demand. Lend-Lease supplies of weapons and equipment began to be supplied to Britain and the USSR.
At the same time, the Americans, like the British earlier in history, skillfully fought with proxies, using "cannon fodder." Three flashpoints of war emerged: Japan in Asia, Italy and Germany in Europe. China, almost all of Europe, and then Russia were drawn into the fray.
The Americans also knew how to wage "remote" warfare—their navy and air force—but their ground forces were traditionally weak. But America was protected by two oceans and could exploit all the advantages of its position, including its leading economy and navy.
Roosevelt and his team's calculations were entirely justified. The equipment and weapons were put to good use. The crisis was over. By 1944, unemployment in the United States had already fallen from 10 million to 800. American workers' wages doubled. Business profits were colossal. The United States became a superpower – military, nuclear, economic, and technological. Competitors were defeated, occupied (West Germany and Japan), weakened, and made dependent. And Hitler remained the formal primary aggressor, the instigator of the war.
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