{"id":75941,"date":"2015-06-09T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/09\/justement-pense-limpensable-effondrement-des-usa\/"},"modified":"2015-06-09T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T09:55:10","slug":"justement-pense-limpensable-effondrement-des-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/09\/justement-pense-limpensable-effondrement-des-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Justement pens\u00e9 : l&rsquo;\u201cimpensable\u201d effondrement des USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2 class=\"titleset_a.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d;font-size:2em;\">Justement pens\u00e9 : l'\u00a0\u00bbimpensable\u00a0\u00bb effondrement des USA<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Un professeur de la Sao Paulo <em>Business School<\/em>, Antonio Gelis-Filho, a pris la plume pour d\u00e9crire ce qu&rsquo;il juge, dans la situation actuelle, comme \u00ab\u00a0improbable mais possible pour nombre de raison\u00a0\u00bb : l&rsquo;effondrement des USA, \u00e0-la-sovi\u00e9tique\/style-URSS. <em>Sputnik.News<\/em> en fait une pr\u00e9sentation en anglais, le <a class=\"gen\" href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/analysis\/20150608\/1023100112.html#ixzz3cWlS6X2s\">8 juin 2015<\/a>, largement compos\u00e9 de longs extraits de l&rsquo;article initial (publi\u00e9 sur le site br\u00e9silien <em>Carta Maior<\/em>), sous le titre de \u00ab\u00a0L&rsquo;impensable : un journaliste br\u00e9silien envisage l&rsquo;effondrement \u00e0-la-sovi\u00e9tique des USA\u00a0\u00bb. Ce texte nous para&icirc;t tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressant parce qu&rsquo;il est fortement et justement argument\u00e9 en fonction des \u00e9v\u00e8nements en cours autant que des constantes historiques (ou non-historiques) les plus pr\u00e9gnantes, qu&rsquo;il se garde de pr\u00e9senter la chose comme une certitude apocalyptique imminente, qu&rsquo;il la pr\u00e9sente comme une possibilit\u00e9 parfaitement en phase avec le temps, le rythme et la dynamique d&rsquo;une \u00e9poque&#8230; (Et lorsque nous disons \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9poque\u00a0\u00bb, il s&rsquo;agit pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, dans cette p\u00e9riode historique, dans un \u00ab\u00a0temps historique\u00a0\u00bb o&ugrave; le temps se contracte et o&ugrave; l&rsquo;histoire acc\u00e9l\u00e8re \u00e0 une tr\u00e8s grande rapidit\u00e9 : une \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9poque\u00a0\u00bb commenc\u00e9e en 2014, avec les deux \u00e9v\u00e8nements de la crise ukrainienne en f\u00e9vrier 2014 et de l&rsquo;apparition op\u00e9rationnelle massive de ISIS\/EI\/<em>Daesh<\/em> en juin 2014.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>L&rsquo;int\u00e9r\u00eat de ce texte est d&rsquo;abord dans sa forme et dans les buts qu&rsquo;il se fixe. Il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;une analyse faite dans le style de ces rapports des conseillers \u00e9conomiques de grandes entreprises, destin\u00e9s aux planificateurs, aux dirigeants, etc., du <em>Corporate Power<\/em> mais aussi d&rsquo;autres domaines. Le ton est donc tr\u00e8s mesur\u00e9, factuel, et nous laisse \u00e0 penser qu&rsquo;il pr\u00e9tend ne gu\u00e8re laisser de place \u00e0 l&rsquo;intuition, \u00e0 la sp\u00e9culation politique, voire au sensationnalisme ; en ce sens il tranche avec les analyses faites jusqu&rsquo;ici de cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement hypoth\u00e9tique consid\u00e9rable de l&rsquo;effondrement des USA. Il s&rsquo;adresse, d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on logique pour un auteur br\u00e9silien, aux pays \u00e9mergents et entend ainsi consolider son but pratique du type \u00ab\u00a0messieurs les planificateurs, prenez d\u00e9sormais en compte cette possibilit\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb. (&laquo;<em>Ultimately, Professor Gelis-Fliho believes that there are enough reasons \u00ab\u00a0for sensible policy planners in the rising world powers to prepare scenarios for dealing with such an improbable, but by no means impossible, Soviet-style collapse of the United States.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>&raquo;) D&rsquo;une certaine fa\u00e7on, il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;une analyse faite de l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur du Syst\u00e8me, compte tenu des circonstances, de la position de l&rsquo;auteur, de la forme et de la destination du texte, etc. Cela constitue, pour nous, un \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9v\u00e9nement de communication\u00a0\u00bb ; il signifierait symboliquement que le syst\u00e8me de la communication commence \u00e0 prendre en compte l&rsquo;hypoth\u00e8se ultime de l&rsquo;\u00e9quilibre\/du d\u00e9s\u00e9quilibre, c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire de l&rsquo;effondrement du Syst\u00e8me, &ndash; dont le sort des USA est \u00e9videmment, pour nous, le point op\u00e9rationnel \u00e0 la fois n\u00e9cessaire et ultime.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>(Bien entendu, nous tenons ce texte, cette analyse comme antiSyst\u00e8me, quels que soit l&rsquo;auteur, les circonstances de sa manufacture, sa forme et sa destination. L&rsquo;\u00e9vocation de l&rsquo;hypoth\u00e8se ultime, m\u00eame venue de l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur du Syst\u00e8me, surtout si elle vient de l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur du Syst\u00e8me, est antiSyst\u00e8me <em>per se<\/em>&#8230; Par ailleurs, puisque la chose vient de l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur du Syst\u00e8me, l&rsquo;\u00e9vocation de l&rsquo;effondrement des USA est bien plus significative que l&rsquo;\u00e9vocation de l'\u00a0\u00bbeffondrement du syst\u00e8me\u00a0\u00bb [sans majuscule] comme l&rsquo;on en parle r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement, \u00e0 l&rsquo;occasion de l&rsquo;\u00e9vocation de telle ou telle crise, financi\u00e8re ou autre, &ndash; toujours \u00e9voqu\u00e9e en ayant \u00e0 l&rsquo;esprit qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit d&rsquo;une transition catastrophique d&rsquo;une formule syst\u00e9mique \u00e0 une autre formule syst\u00e9mique, mais avec l&rsquo;hypoth\u00e8que probable que le <a class=\"gen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-glossairedde_le_syst_me_08_07_2013.html\">Syst\u00e8me<\/a> [majuscul\u00e9 selon nos conceptions] reste en place. Evoquer l&rsquo;effondrement des USA c&rsquo;est tout autre chose, c&rsquo;est \u00e9voquer d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on op\u00e9rationnelle l&rsquo;effondrement de la structure centrale du Syst\u00e8me, donc du Syst\u00e8me lui-m\u00eame \u00ab\u00a0d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on op\u00e9rationnelle\u00a0\u00bb. C&rsquo;est pour cette raison que ce texte est objectivement un acte antiSyst\u00e8me ; bien entendu il est charri\u00e9 par le syst\u00e8me de la communication en partant de l&rsquo;int\u00e9rieur du Syst\u00e8me, et l&rsquo;on conna&icirc;t l&rsquo;aspect-<a class=\"gen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-janus_au_grand_galop_09_04_2012.html\">Janus<\/a> du syst\u00e8me de la communication permettant des productions conformes aux int\u00e9r\u00eats du Syst\u00e8me comme des productions antiSyst\u00e8me.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Nous allons signaler plusieurs points du texte nous paraissant int\u00e9ressants, et \u00e9ventuellement d\u00e9tailler la cause de notre int\u00e9r\u00eat. En effet, il appara&icirc;t que le texte de Gelis-Fliho est sans aucun doute marqu\u00e9 par divers arguments qui valent d&rsquo;\u00eatre signal\u00e9s, qui tiennent compte aussi bien des \u00e9v\u00e8nements pr\u00e9sents, de la puissance de la communication, que des constantes historiques justement identifi\u00e9es&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&bull; Il y a d&rsquo;abord le sentiment tr\u00e8s puissant aujourd&rsquo;hui du d\u00e9clin acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9 des USA, et m\u00eame du d\u00e9clin d\u00e9sormais sans retour, devenu in\u00e9luctable jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 la chute finale. C&rsquo;est un sentiment g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, qui peut certes s&rsquo;argumenter selon des faits objectifs mais qui touche d&rsquo;abord la perception, et donc les psychologies. Ce sentiment est substantiv\u00e9 par Gelis-Fliho par une menace brutale venue paradoxalement d&rsquo;une cr\u00e9ature plus ou moins accouch\u00e9e par les USA, &ndash; mais qui s&rsquo;en \u00e9tonnera, en arguant aussi bien de la tendance autodestructrice du Syst\u00e8me que des hypoth\u00e8ses suicidaires comme celle que nous signalons souvent de la part de <a class=\"gen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-la_th_orie_de_l_chec_d_orlov_06_03_2015.html\">Lincoln<\/a>&#8211;<a class=\"gen\" href=\" http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-enjeux_nucl_aires_09_04_2015.html\">1838<\/a> ? Cette menace est celle d&rsquo;une attaque nucl\u00e9aire de ISIS\/EI\/<em>Daesh<\/em> contre les USA, largement affirm\u00e9e par ce groupe, et largement r\u00e9percut\u00e9e. L&rsquo;int\u00e9r\u00eat de la remarque est que Gelis-Fliho ne pr\u00e9voit pas qu&rsquo;une telle attaque puisse se concevoir ais\u00e9ment, tant s&rsquo;en faut, mais juge comme un signe extr\u00eamement puissant de l&rsquo;effondrement possible des USA qu&rsquo;une telle menace ait \u00e9t\u00e9 prof\u00e9r\u00e9e, \u00ab\u00a0sur un ton nonchalant\u00a0\u00bb, un peu dans le genre <em>business as usual<\/em>, &ndash; comme si l&rsquo;on disait \u00ab\u00a0ce pays est tellement en d\u00e9clin et si rapidement que lui balancer une arme nucl\u00e9aire dans le style terroriste n&rsquo;est pas plus impensable ni difficile que balancer une voiture pi\u00e9g\u00e9e dans les rues de Bagdad\u00a0\u00bb. (&laquo;<em>&#8230; the US, which has suffered a \u00ab\u00a0long sequence of&hellip;geopolitical and economic failures since the turn of the century,\u00a0\u00bb now faces \u00ab\u00a0another brutal element: the threat of a nuclear attack on American soil by the Islamic State.\u00a0\u00bb Expressing his hope that ISIS&rsquo;s threats are nothing but hot air, the professor argues that \u00ab\u00a0the point is not only if they will be able to do it (something that cannot even be imagined) but the fact that they feel confident enough to make such a threat in such a nonchalant way.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>&raquo;)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&bull; Une deuxi\u00e8me remarque int\u00e9ressante est la perte de ce qui fit le ciment de ce pays qui n&rsquo;est en rien une nation, qui n&rsquo;a aucune racine historique et qui fut m\u00eame b\u00e2ti <strong>contre<\/strong> l&rsquo;Histoire, qui est structurellement artificiel, qui n&rsquo;est donc tenu que par une construction humaine (sans que les concepteurs de cette construction ne se doutassent qu&rsquo;ils accomplissaient une oeuvre n\u00e9cessaire au Syst\u00e8me)&#8230; Et cette construction humaine se nomme, selon Gelis-Fliho, \u00ab\u00a0&lsquo;succ\u00e8s\u00a0\u00bb ou \u00ab\u00a0progr\u00e8s mat\u00e9riel\u00a0\u00bb. L&rsquo;\u00e9tat \u00e9conomique, infrastructurel, financier catastrophique, avec une dette \u00e9crasante, une situation de l&rsquo;infrastructure du pays \u00e9quivalente \u00e0 une pays du Tiers-Monde, parfois du Quart-monde, une in\u00e9galit\u00e9 absurde \u00e0 force d&rsquo;obsc\u00e9nit\u00e9, une vie publique r\u00e9duite \u00e0 la corruption et \u00e0 la <em>narrative<\/em>, tout cela fixe les conditions de la perte du ciment de l&rsquo;unit\u00e9 des USA qui est le \u00ab\u00a0succ\u00e8s\u00a0\u00bb demandant \u00e0 la fois une stabilit\u00e9 structurelle et une certaine r\u00e9partition du progr\u00e8s &#8230; (&laquo;<em>\u00ab\u00a0The American polity has always been sustained by a single and very powerful unifying factor: success. The Confederate insurgency in the nineteenth century showed that even in its past the country was already fissile. But the astounding economic, political and cultural success of the United States created a success-fed beast, and the beast is now hungry. Despite all the rhetoric about the ideals of freedom, what has driven and still drives most immigrants to the US is one single desire: material progress&#8230;<\/em>&raquo;)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&bull; Il faut bien entendu rappeler que cet id\u00e9e du ciment de l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique reposant sur le \u00ab\u00a0succ\u00e8s\u00a0\u00bb, qui peut \u00eatre aussi nomm\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0int\u00e9r\u00eat\u00a0\u00bb, est parfaitement identifi\u00e9e par Tocqueville d\u00e8s ses premiers jours pass\u00e9s aux USA, lors de son voyage de 1831 qui servit de documentation \u00e0 son <em>De la d\u00e9mocratie en Am\u00e9rique<\/em> ; ainsi \u00e9crit-il dans ses <em>Souvenirs<\/em>, \u00e0 la date du 1er juin 1831 : &laquo;<em>Quand on r\u00e9fl\u00e9chit \u00e0 la nature de cette soci\u00e9t\u00e9-ci, on voit jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 un certain point l&rsquo;explication de ce qui pr\u00e9c\u00e8de: la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaine est compos\u00e9e de mille \u00e9l\u00e9ments divers nouvellement rassembl\u00e9s. Les hommes qui vivent sous ses lois sont encore anglais, fran\u00e7ais, allemands, hollandais. Ils n&rsquo;ont ni religion, ni m&oelig;urs, ni id\u00e9es communes; jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 pr\u00e9sent on ne peut dire qu&rsquo;il y ait un caract\u00e8re am\u00e9ricain \u00e0 moins que ce soit celui de n&rsquo;en point avoir. Il n&rsquo;existe point ici de souvenirs communs, d&rsquo;attachements nationaux. Quel peut donc \u00eatre le seul lien qui unisse les diff\u00e9rentes parties de ce vaste corps? L&rsquo;<\/em><strong><em>int\u00e9r\u00eat.<\/em><\/strong>&raquo; Le patriotisme des Am\u00e9ricains, qui sert si souvent d&rsquo;arguments aux intellectuels europ\u00e9ens et de convenance \u00e0 toutes les activit\u00e9s de communication US (jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 la pr\u00e9sence oblig\u00e9e d&rsquo;un drapeau US dans tous les films US) est, justement, une construction de communication qui concerne un \u00ab\u00a0id\u00e9al\u00a0\u00bb fabriqu\u00e9 (type-<em>American Dream<\/em>) sans le moindre rapport avec la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 de la situation am\u00e9ricaniste ; s&rsquo;il tient la situation en temps normal par une <em>narrative<\/em> de strict encadrement, cet id\u00e9al faussaire a pour effet d&rsquo;alimenter, dans les p\u00e9riodes de crise int\u00e9rieure, lorsque le soi-disant \u00ab\u00a0succ\u00e8s\u00a0\u00bb am\u00e9ricaniste s&rsquo;efface, une ranc&oelig;ur et un d\u00e9faitisme extraordinaires devant ce qui n&rsquo;appara&icirc;t alors que comme le montage d&rsquo;une imposture, et donc une double trahison (l&rsquo;id\u00e9al lui-m\u00eame trahi, et la construction faussaire de cet id\u00e9al apparue en pleine lumi\u00e8re comme une autre trahison).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&bull; Gelis-Fliho estime justement que les conditions de crise actuelle tendent \u00e0 rompre les solidarit\u00e9s que le succ\u00e8s du \u00ab\u00a0mod\u00e8le\u00a0\u00bb rendait int\u00e9ressantes et lucratives pour tous. D&rsquo;o&ugrave; une extraordinaire ranc&oelig;ur pour le centre, le sentiment d&rsquo;une perte d&rsquo;unit\u00e9, sinon d&rsquo;une identit\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaine dont on doute qu&rsquo;elle ait \u00e9t\u00e9 un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne historique r\u00e9el, &ndash; justement \u00e0 cause de l&rsquo;historicit\u00e9 <a class=\"gen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-la_bataille_du_n_antissement_de_l_histoire_06_06_2015.html\">faussaire<\/a> des USA. Gelis-Fliho \u00e9voque la militarisation du pays , d&rsquo;ailleurs d&rsquo;ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 en cours, comme une mesure de sauvegarde mais ne lui pr\u00eate pas une tr\u00e8s grande vertu d&rsquo;efficacit\u00e9 dans les conditions actuelles. Au reste, cette tentative de militarisation pourrait elle-m\u00eame d\u00e9clencher tr\u00e8s rapidement des r\u00e9actions extr\u00eamement n\u00e9gatives de d\u00e9structuration et de dissolution (voir le <a class=\"gen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-hantise_usa_de_la_loi_martiale_la_s_cession_16_05_2015.html\">16 mai 2015<\/a>) &#8230; &laquo;<em>Gelis-Fliho notes that while \u00ab\u00a0it is tempting to think about the military intervening to prevent any possible collapse,\u00a0\u00bb this would not save the country in the long term. \u00ab\u00a0In the first stages of decline, this would probably be true; but after a certain point, the weakened economy would also threaten corporate interests, and getting rid of what would be understood as the dead weight of poorer and socially restless states would appear to guarantee more and not less power to those who would be able to secure control of the military. At this stage, collapse would easily escape the control of those trying to manage it, unleashing positive historical feedback loops. Something along those lines happened in the Soviet Union.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>&raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&bull; Pour terminer, il y a l&rsquo;\u00e9vocation des effets qu&rsquo;aurait l&rsquo;effondrement des USA, qui se traduirait selon Gelis-Fliho par une d\u00e9constructuration-dissolution \u00ab\u00a0sauvage\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 cause de l&rsquo;absence d&rsquo;unit\u00e9 historique naturelle du pays. Gelis-Fliho juge qu&rsquo;un tel effondrement serait tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rent de celui de l&rsquo;URSS, dont la construction reposait sur des entit\u00e9s nationales et historiques fortes, avec la Russie au milieu, grande puissance historique \u00e0 l&rsquo;unit\u00e9 psychologique et spirituelle fondamentale, l&rsquo;\u00e9clatement de l&rsquo;URSS conduisant instantan\u00e9ment \u00e0 une reconstitution plus ou moins r\u00e9ussie de ces formes historiques. Cet effondrement-dissolution des USA aurait n\u00e9cessairement un effet \u00e0 mesure sur l&rsquo;\u00e9quilibre du monde, et, bien entendu, du Syst\u00e8me. Gelis-Fliho \u00e9voque les questions extr\u00eamement graves, souvent plus que dans le cas de l&rsquo;URSS, de l&rsquo;\u00e9volution et de la destination de la puissance militaire US, \u00e0 l&rsquo;ext\u00e9rieur du pays aussi bien que nucl\u00e9aires strat\u00e9giques &#8230; &laquo;<em>According to Gelis-Fliho, another reason to dread and be wary of a hypothetical collapse \u00ab\u00a0is the US empire of military bases around the world, many of them better armed and equipped than local governments. Who would administer them and how?&#8230; <\/em>[&#8230;] <em>&#8230; the American nuclear arsenal. In his view, \u00ab\u00a0in contrast to what occurred in the Soviet Union, where Moscow had enough control over Soviet strategic forces to keep them under its control during the collapse, nothing of the kind is self-evidently possible in the case of the US.\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>&raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&bull; Voici donc le texte de Gelis-Fliho, sur le seul vrai, grand, fondamental probl\u00e8me d\u00e9terminant la survie du Syst\u00e8me. Pour nous, en plus de tous les arguments d\u00e9velopp\u00e9s, l&rsquo;effondrement des USA serait une crise psychologique sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent qui entra&icirc;nerait tr\u00e8s rapidement la fin de la modernit\u00e9 d\u00e9j\u00e0 dans sa forme d\u00e9cadente de la postmodernit\u00e9, et l&rsquo;ach\u00e8vement de l&rsquo;effondrement du Syst\u00e8me (avec majuscule, certes) &#8230; Nous \u00e9crivions ceci le <a class=\"gen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article-notes_sur_l_avenir_des_usa_14_10_2009.html\">14 octobre 2009<\/a> :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&laquo;<em>Nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9crit et nous le r\u00e9p\u00e9tons avec force : il ne peut y avoir, aujourd&rsquo;hui, d&rsquo;\u00e9v\u00e9nements plus important pour la situation du monde qu&rsquo;une dynamique de dislocation des USA. Nous pensons que la crise actuelle est \u00e0 la fois, et contradictoirement, formidablement amplifi\u00e9e et formidablement bloqu\u00e9e dans sa compr\u00e9hension par la puissance de la communication. Ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne ne cesse de dramatiser et d&rsquo;attiser les conditions de la crise tout en renfor\u00e7ant la pression du conformisme de la pens\u00e9e dominante pour ne pas mettre en cause les \u00e9l\u00e9ments qui sont les fondements de cette crise.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&raquo;<em>L&rsquo;un des fondements est psychologique, avec le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne de fascination &ndash; \u00e0 nouveau ce mot &ndash; pour l&rsquo;attraction exerc\u00e9e sur les esprits par le \u00ab\u00a0mod\u00e8le am\u00e9ricaniste\u00a0\u00bb, qui est en fait la repr\u00e9sentation \u00e0 la fois symbolique et onirique de la modernit\u00e9. C&rsquo;est cela qui est r\u00e9sum\u00e9 sous l&rsquo;expression populaire mais tr\u00e8s substantiv\u00e9e de \u00ab\u00a0American Dream\u00a0\u00bb. Cette repr\u00e9sentation donn\u00e9e comme seule issue possible de notre civilisation (le facteur dit TINA, pour \u00ab\u00a0There Is No Alternative\u00a0\u00bb) infecte la plupart des \u00e9lites en place; elle repr\u00e9sente un verrou d&rsquo;une puissance inou\u00efe, qui compl\u00e8te d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on tragique la \u00ab\u00a0fascination de l&rsquo;am\u00e9ricanisme pour sa propre destin\u00e9e catastrophique\u00a0\u00bb pour former une situation totalement bloqu\u00e9e emp\u00eachant de chercher une autre voie tout en d\u00e9gringolant vers la catastrophe. La fin de l'\u00a0\u00bbAmerican Dream\u00a0\u00bb, qui interviendrait avec un processus de parcellisation de l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique, constituerait un facteur d\u00e9cisif pour d\u00e9bloquer notre perception, \u00e0 la fois des conditions de la crise, de la gravit\u00e9 ontologique de la crise et de la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de tenter de chercher une autre voie pour la civilisation &ndash; ou, plus radicalement, une autre civilisation&#8230;<\/em>&raquo;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4><em>dedefensa.org<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>__________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"titleset_b.deepgreen\" style=\"color:#75714d;font-size:1.65em;font-variant:small-caps;\">Unthinkable: Soviet-Style Collapse of US<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Citing a series of geopolitical, economic and social setbacks faced by the United States since the turn of the century, geopolitical analyst and Sao Paulo Business School Professor Antonio Gelis-Filho argues that global policy planners must prepare to deal with the \u00ab\u00a0improbable, but by all means possible, Soviet-style collapse of the United States.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In his article, published in Brazilian news and analysis portal Carta Maior, Dr. Gelis-Filho begins by noting that the US, which has suffered a \u00ab\u00a0long sequence of&hellip;geopolitical and economic failures since the turn of the century,\u00a0\u00bb now faces \u00ab\u00a0another brutal element: the threat of a nuclear attack on American soil by the Islamic State.\u00a0\u00bb Expressing his hope that ISIS&rsquo;s threats are nothing but hot air, the professor argues that \u00ab\u00a0the point is not only if they will be able to do it (something that cannot even be imagined) but the fact that they feel confident enough to make such a threat in such a nonchalant way.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Gelis-Filho explains that \u00ab\u00a0obviously, the Islamic State just doesn&rsquo;t fear America. And why should they? After decapitating Americans, after watching on the field how Iraqi troops, supposedly well-trained and certainly well-equipped by the US military, ran away from the fight, after capturing American military equipment in the field and God knows what other facts which only those on the field ever knew about, the terrorist horde can afford to threaten a nuclear attack against what is, at least on paper, the most powerful country in the world.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In the professor&rsquo;s view, \u00ab\u00a0the Islamic State is expressing, in its usual, incredibly violent way, what is now perceived by most of the world: the United States has reached a point of no return in its decline.\u00a0\u00bb He cites the conflict in Ukraine, where Russia has been able to stand up to Washington to defend its strategic interests, and China&rsquo;s building of artificial islands in the South China Sea, \u00ab\u00a0in spite of US warnings not to do so. In fact,\u00a0\u00bb according to Gelis-Filho, \u00ab\u00a0American warnings are ignored by Beijing as if they were the buzz of an annoying but harmless fly.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Gelis-Fliho argues that US troubles abroad have been compounded by social and economic problems at home: \u00ab\u00a0The US economic recovery, promised for the umpteenth time, turned into a downturn of 0.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015.\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0After crying wolf so many times for a recovery that never comes, after the visible disintegration of the social fabric with ever-more frequent riots over police brutality and ever-increasing inequality, perhaps it&rsquo;s time to pose the forbidden question: Should we prepare for a Soviet-like collapse of the US?\u00a0\u00bb According to Gelis-Fliho, the answer, \u00ab\u00a0for a number of reasons, is yes.\u00a0\u00bb The analyst makes clear that this \u00ab\u00a0doesn&rsquo;t mean that such disintegration is imminent or even probable.\u00a0\u00bb Nonetheless, in his view, the possibility of the unthinkable happening means that policy experts around the world must be prepared for such a scenario.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Gelis-Fliho explains that \u00ab\u00a0in order to understand why such fragmentation is possible, even if remotely so, it is necessary to understand the reasons keeping the country together. The United States was not built along ethnic lines, something which helps polities to survive their times of troubles. Its border with Canada is almost entirely artificial, so geographical constraints were not at play. In fact, the United States is an entirely artificial polity, and not one that has emerged more or less spontaneously out of historical movements. It is the result of a carefully crafted and successfully executed plan for expansion, based on the ideology of the Manifest Destiny.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00ab\u00a0The American polity has always been sustained by a single and very powerful unifying factor: success. The Confederate insurgency in the nineteenth century showed that even in its past the country was already fissile. But the astounding economic, political and cultural success of the United States created a success-fed beast, and the beast is now hungry. Despite all the rhetoric about the ideals of freedom, what has driven and still drives most immigrants to the US is one single desire: material progress. What can possibly keep the country united now that such progress can no longer be taken for granted? As the blanket [of material wealth] begins to prove itself to be too short, local elites in the richer states will have incentives not to bankroll the poorer states. The cult of collective and individual success &ndash;the all-American secular religion responsible for America&rsquo;s long and rich history, will then, ironically, become the fuel for its possible disintegration.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Gelis-Fliho notes that while \u00ab\u00a0it is tempting to think about the military intervening to prevent any possible collapse,\u00a0\u00bb this would not save the country in the long term. \u00ab\u00a0In the first stages of decline, this would probably be true; but after a certain point, the weakened economy would also threaten corporate interests, and getting rid of what would be understood as the dead weight of poorer and socially restless states would appear to guarantee more and not less power to those who would be able to secure control of the military. At this stage, collapse would easily escape the control of those trying to manage it, unleashing positive historical feedback loops. Something along those lines happened in the Soviet Union.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In Gelis-Fliho&rsquo;s view, as dangerous and unimaginably horrific as the collapse itself would be, its global consequences would be just as serious: \u00ab\u00a0It has the potential far more dangerous to the world than the collapse of the Soviet Union ever was. The Soviet Union was built around a vast historical center &ndash;Russia. The existence of that center allowed the collapse to follow along historically predefined lines. The same was true for the other Soviet republics. Each of them already had their own institutional life within the Soviet Union, and so the lines of the disintegration were already drawn. Where these lines were not clear is where war followed: Abkhazia and South Ossetia fought for independence from Georgia; Armenia and Azerbaijan fought for control of Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhichevan; Moldova was split; Ukraine and Russia would dispute control of [<em>Crimea&rsquo;s<\/em>] Sevastopol. These conflicts have remained unresolved to this day, some even worsening.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00ab\u00a0Now imagine what would happen in the United States, a country where the estimated number of firearms in civilian hands is over 200 million. It is unlikely that such a hypothetical fragmentation would occur along state lines. While some American states have a long history and enough wealth to take care of themselves, on the other, many others were carved out of territories along more or less arbitrary lines, the long straight lines defining the borders of many Western states serving as evidence of this fact. Many of these states are landlocked, and dependent on other states to export whatever they produce. Moreover, many counties in states bordering Mexico have massive Mexican and Mexican-American populations who would naturally seek protection from the US&rsquo;s southern neighbor in the event of collapse.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>According to Gelis-Fliho, another reason to dread and be wary of a hypothetical collapse \u00ab\u00a0is the US empire of military bases around the world, many of them better armed and equipped than local governments. Who would administer them and how? Here the lessons from the collapse of the Soviet Union are not a source for optimism.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Finally, Gelis-Fliho comes to the greatest problem facing the world following possible collapse: the American nuclear arsenal. In his view, &quot;in contrast to what occurred in the Soviet Union, where Moscow had enough control over Soviet strategic forces to keep them under its control during the collapse, noting of the kind is self-evidently possible in the case of the US.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Ultimately, Professor Gelis-Fliho believes that there are enough reasons \u00ab\u00a0for sensible policy planners in the rising world powers to prepare scenarios for dealing with such an improbable, but by no means impossible, Soviet-style collapse of the United States.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h4><em>Sputnik.News<\/em> &#038; Antonio Gelis-Filho<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justement pens\u00e9 : l&rsquo;\u00a0\u00bbimpensable\u00a0\u00bb effondrement des USA Un professeur de la Sao Paulo Business School, Antonio Gelis-Filho, a pris la plume pour d\u00e9crire ce qu&rsquo;il juge, dans la situation actuelle, comme \u00ab\u00a0improbable mais possible pour nombre de raison\u00a0\u00bb : l&rsquo;effondrement des USA, \u00e0-la-sovi\u00e9tique\/style-URSS. 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