“We don’t want to fight but by jingo if we do, We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, and got the money too!”
G.H. MacDermott, aka “The Great MacDermott,” was a British comic and singer of the late 1800s, who popularized a war song called “By Jingo” in 1878. It became the war cry of Britain during war tensions with Russia and Turkey, and sparked the origin of the word “Jingoism” to represent an aggressive foreign policy backed by gunboat diplomacy.
Today, our “no more wars” President, goaded by the Neocons, joined the ranks of others in the United States by pushing our own version of Jingoism… just as Ronald Reagan did in 1983 with Grenada, and George Bush the First in 1989 with Panama.
It is interesting how this stuff often happens under Republican presidents, though Joe Biden didn’t want to be left out regarding the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who we got extradited to the U.S. in 2022 on drug running charges. You know, the same drug-running guy Trump just recently pardoned from federal prison.
Unfortunately, the United States has had a long history of invading other nations to steal their resources. For example, gold had been discovered in Mexican-held California in the late 1830s, with documents registered at the U.S. mint in Philadelphia. President James K. Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to the border of newly annexed Texas and Mexico, where Taylor promptly engaged in an invasion of Mexican territory and blockade of the Mexican town of Matamoros.
There can be little doubt that Taylor was sent there to start a war, for if he had acted on his own initiative, Polk would have cashiered him at once, for Taylor was politically a Whig while Polk was a Democrat. Tensions were already high, since Mexico refused to acknowledge the loss of Texas and demanded the return of territory up to the border of southern Louisiana, so it didn’t take much to get the shooting started. The resulting skirmishes led to the Mexican-American War of 1846-48.
The war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on 2 Feb. 1848. Just out of coincidence, gold had just been “discovered” at Sutter’s Mill, near modern-day Sacramento, and the news soon spread like wild fire. In another interesting coincidence, Capt. John C. Frémont, the son-in-law of a powerful U.S. senator from Missouri, just happened to be leading exploratory expeditions for the U.S. federal government in the 1840s, had visited Sutter’s Mill in early 1844, and promptly purchased a large land grant not far from the mill in early 1847, where gold was also soon “discovered.”
Isn’t it grand to see how such coincidences seem to fall like little feathers out of a Forrest Gump movie on the shoulders of those so close to the center of power?
And now we invade Venezuela, not because of drugs but because of oil. Venezuela has massive known reserves, even as many other currently oil-rich nations have falling reserves. This invasion is not about the Monroe Doctrine. It’s about stealing the resources of another sovereign nation so that a small elite can turn massive profits. And its about keeping that nation from trading with anyone we don’t like, such as China.
Oh, and by coincidence, Iran also has massive known reserves of oil, and they trade with people we don’t like. Golly gee… it looks like another feather just might land on some big-wig’s shoulder.
Russ Rodgers has several books published on Amazon.
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