US sees war as only option to keep global domination: Journalist

With the rise of the Global South and BRICS countries, it seems the United States sees war as the only option in order to keep its global domination, an American journalist and political commentator says.

Don DeBar, an anti-war activist and radio host in New York, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Wednesday when asked to give his opinion on what the Pentagon called a recent encounter between an American warship and a Chinese military vessel in the South China Sea.

The revelation came just days after the Pentagon announced its decision to monitor the Asia-Pacific region.

“It gets me to seethe the United States objecting to China doing anything in the South China Sea,” Don DeBar said. “When you consider the United States’ presence in the South China Sea, [it] is literally a projection of the US naval power half way across the world.”

“China has every right to develop both itself and its environment, at least as much right as the United States has,” he said.

DeBar pointed to Washington’s historic annexation and seizure of lands including Hawaii which “it just stole by military force and annexed into the United States.”

“China is actually creating something that doesn't exist as of yet, and there are no people being conquered or displaced, which is the American model for projection of power into the Pacific,” he said.

Beijing is building artificial islands in the South China Sea, saying the construction is in its own sovereign territory.

However, Washington says the islands are made in international waters and it does not recognize the man-made islands as sovereign Chinese territory.

DeBar said that “the US has been taking an aggressive military posture towards both China and Russia, simultaneously, with the conduct of NATO war games on Russia’s borders and the threat of US troops, actual combat troops, on the ground into Ukraine, as was being requested by Ukrainian President Poroshenko there.”

“With the US having ‘encountered’, as they put up it, with the Chinese Navy, and also with the abrogation of the peace clause in the Japanese constitution at the insistence of the US and the projection of a Japanese military power towards China, it is looking dangerously like the late 1930s,” he noted.

“It appears that the US recognizes it is in decline as an economic power around the world, and with the rise of the Global South and the BRICS countries, sees perhaps war as the only salvation for its dominant position. And that scares me a lot,” DeBar concluded.

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