Reflection

Mankind has no choice but to practice peaceful and friendly relations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples or return to practicing pre-1945 political and economic relations whereby nations with soft powers consider the great powers’ opinions before taking actions of their own.

The Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 are the first formal statements to codify rules among the major powers. Those two conventions prefigured the international cooperation modalities that shaped the present world governance system.

A major effort in both conferences was the readiness of the major powers to settle international disputes through arbitration.

From its inception in 1776 to 1945, the United States fostered conditions of stability and well-being. The United States succeeded through using the self-determination ideology to produce the psychological change necessary to make its nationals put up with one another. The country transformed and became a superpower by 1945.

“Reflection: Is the United States being used as an instrument to further the ends of despotism and anarchy?” is a book that explores how the Western European powers that existed at the start of the 20th century could have gone along with the United States’ call to further the ends of righteousness and justice in order to extend the repressive measures of subjugation, domination, and exploitation that were common between existing nations or empires during this period of time. In other words, the work looks at how the Western European nations could have become mindful at the start of the 20th century about the need to codify rules and protocol to create conditions of stability and well-being, not necessarily to achieve international cooperation or solve international problems as per how the US proposed to maintain world peace, but to extend to all the lands the political, economic, and social successes the United States achieved to control and dominate the existing nations along with the money supply of the world. In other words, the Western European powers that existed at the start of the 20th century used the United States as a tool to pursue their national ambitions.

Deception is an act that propagates a belief that is not true. Deception is a phenomenon that people encounter mostly in their relationships, but it could occur in all dealings. Deception is also a trick employed to obtain what an individual desires.

Betrayal and distrust between man and man, nation and nation, have been common throughout history. The book explores how the Western European powers that existed at the start of the 20th century could have conspired to use the Republicanism and Liberalism ideologies that the United States practiced not necessarily to extend these ideologies over all the lands to create peaceful and friendly relations among nations, but rather to make people interrelate based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination to extend their despotism and anarchy.

The work tries to analyze how the Western European powers could have used the United States’ call to create a world that emphasizes the importance of moral aims over the unimportance of national ambitions to mask their ill will and deepen subjugation and domination.

To deduce how the Western European powers could be unmindful to strengthen universal peace, the work looks into how those European powers that existed at the start of the 20th century could have deliberately gone along with the US suggestion to create an association of nations to maintain world peace post WW1 or later become global policemen post WW2 to weaken the US and eventually revert it to a simpler form.

The work tries to show how the United Nations could be the instrument that the western European powers are using to weaken the US’s ability to defend its best interests and to deepen greed and incertitude in the world. Most importantly, how the United States could have been used as a first-generation peace mission in the aftermath of WW2 and how after the UN began to offer peacekeeping missions, the US could have been driven to be projected as a country with ambitions, thus making people withdraw their commitment to create the conditions of well-being that this country achieved from 1776 to 1945.

Are the Western European powers working to establish a new world government, with the UN serving as its authority? This work raises and analyzes these questions and many others like them. The objective is to invite the United States to rethink its relations with the Western European powers and the UN to ascertain if those partners are masking ill will and/or are plotting to see the US resized and reverted into a simpler form.

The objective of the book is to invite the US to rethink its relationship with the Western European powers and the United Nations, especially after most Western European powers voted in 2017 at the UN against the US decision to relocate its embassy to a new site in the state of Israel.