ride again.
True, there were still some obstacles. The Great Russian rout meant that German reunification could
not be avoided, which brought with it the danger of a Wirtschaftswunder reaching from the Atlantic
to the Urals. That, and the continued economic dynamism of the Japanese-oriented sphere in the Far
East, would be combatted, by economic conflicts and trade wars that would take advantage of the
Anglo-American control of raw materials and above all oil, with the Anglo-American lease on thePersian Gulf to be vigorously reaffirmed. Even so, the end of the partition of Germany was a real
trauma for the Anglo-Saxons, and would elicit a wave of true hysteria on the part of Mrs. Thatcher,
Nicholas Ridley, and the rest of their circle, and a parallel public episode of consternation and
chagrin on the part of Bush. The Anglo-Americans were moved to sweeping countermeasures. A
little further down the line, a war in the Balkans could bring chaos to the German economicHinterland. From the standpoint of British and Kissingerian geopolitics, the countermeasures were (^)
necessary to restore the balance of power, which now risked shifting in favor of the new Germany.
German ascendancy would mean that London would occupy the place to which Thatcher's
economics had entitled that wretched nation- a niche of impotence, impoverishment, isolation, and
irrelevance. But the British were determined to be important, and war was a way to attain that goal.
There were also governments in the developing sector whose obedience to the Anglo-Saxon
supermen was in doubt. The 250,000,000 Arabs, who were in turn the vanguard of a billion
Moslems, would always be intractable. The out-of-area deployments doctrine of the Atlantic
Alliance would now be the framework for thappened to be Iraq. Later, there would be time to crush and dismember India, Malaysia, Brazil,he ritual immolation of the leading Arab state, which (^)
Indonesia and some others.
Then there was the inherent demographic weakness of the Anglo-Saxons, especially the falling birth
rate, now exacerbated by Hollywood, television, and heavy metal. How could such a small masterrace prevail against the black, brown, yellow, Mediterranean and Slavic masses? The answer to that (^)
could only be genocide on a collossal scale, with economic breakdown, famine, epidemics and
pestilence completing the job that war had begun. If the birth rate of Nigeria seemed destined to
catapult that country into second place among the world demographic powers, the AIDS epidemic
in central Africa was the remedy. General Death was the main ally of the Anglo-Saxons.
Despite these problems, Bush and his co-thinkers were confident that they could subjugate the
planet for a full century. But they had to hurry. Unless the Soviets, Chinese, Germans, Japanese,
and third world powers could be rapidly dealt with, the Anglo-Americans might be overtaken by
their own accelerating economic collapse, and they might soon find themselves too weak to extendtheir yoke over the world. The military machine that attacked Iraq was in the process of shrinking
by more than 25% because of growing American economic weakness, so it was important to act
fast.
The Anglo-American system depended on squeezing enough wfeed the insatiable demands of the debt and capital structures in London aealth out of the world economy tond New York. During the (^)
1980's, those capital structures had swelled like malignant tumors, while the depleted world
economy was bled white. Now, crazed after their October 1987 and October 1989 brushes with
bottomless financial and currency panic, the masters of usury in London and New York demanded
that the rate of primitive accumulation be stepped up all over the world. The old Soviet spherewould pass from the frying pan of the Comecon to the fires of the IMF. By the spring of 1991 Bus (^) h
would issue his calls for a free trade zone from the north pole to Tierra del Fuego, and then for
world wide free trade. Bush's handling of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the
North American Free Trade Zone soon convinced the Europe '92 crowd in Brussels that the Anglo-
Americans were hell-bent on global trade war.