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The simplest way to understand America’s ‘grand strategy’ is to be a historical simpleton. If you don’t read the news and just look at things from a 10,000-year view, America is just another empire. Empires conquer land and take shit. Been that way since time immemorial. This all becomes complicated to a modern newsreader, but not to a historical simpleton. America is just another Empire in history, conquering land on earth, extracting tribute. As my historical thesis goes, same shit, different day. There’s nothing new under the sun.
World War II was a war of world conquest, plain and simple. After World War II ‘ended’ (for white people) America’s supply lines reversed flow and started pulling resources in, from the conquered territory. Naval routes became trade routes, and guns and coups kept the money flowing into the conquering capital. WWII forward bases became permanent garrison states. Europe, Japan, Korea, and over 700 military bases stayed occupied by American soldiers, as guns near the butter. ‘Israel’ was created (inherited) as a conscript colony near the oil. This was just classical conquest on a modern scale.
If you try to discern America’s ‘grand strategy’ now, they don’t even know. Both Biden and Trump actually have the…