World War II was the “Good War”—right? We all know that the good guys—us—kicked the bad guys’ butts—them. We know who the bad guys were—the Germans and the Japanese. Thousands of war movies have told us that. And we taught the bastards a lesson, didn’t we? It was mainly the British who firebombed the major German cities, reduced them to smoking rubble, but we joined in. We did the same to the citizens of Tokyo, and we dropped nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Why then, if it was such a “good war,” have we been fighting endless wars ever since? Korea was a “good war” too, right? Vietnam was also a “good war,” I guess. Then we fought Desert Storm against Iraq. Then we bombed and dismembered Yugoslavia. Both “good wars” of course. And so was the “War on Terror,” with the destruction wreaked on Afghanistan, Iraq again in 2003 on the pretext that they had WMDs—which they didn’t, and then Libya. And we still have forces in Syria.

Now we’re conducting another “good war,” our proxy war against Russia over Ukraine, a Ukraine whose government we created in an illegal coup in 2014 and have armed to the teeth and egged on ever since. And America’s president [Biden, when this book was published] and our incredibly sophisticated propaganda media are once again telling us that it’s all the other guy’s fault. It’s always “unprovoked aggression.” Always, just like in the killing of the Sioux Indians.

This doesn’t even include the governments we’ve attacked, overthrown, and/or subverted in smaller-scale conflicts over the last seventy-five years, the foreign leaders we’ve assassinated, places to which we’ve sent troops, countries we’ve ransacked with economic sanctions, the “color revolutions” we’ve instigated using the resources of the CIA and/or the National Endowment for Democracy. Yes, we’ve really done a great job of creating “open societies” with our weapons, our propaganda, our pressure, our massacres, and our manipulations. And we have military bases in over eighty nations around the world to be sure we keep up the good work.

It’s a little-known fact that even before the US entered the war on the side of Great Britain, a decision had been made in America’s highest official circles that the long-term objective of the US was to become the world’s dominant military power. The fact of planned American global military dominance has been documented in extensive detail in an impeccably precise book published in 2020, Tomorrow the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace. Another corroborating source is F. William Engdahl’s Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century.

The debate was fierce, with a more radical party emerging which believed that long-term US economic power could not be assured unless the goal were established for total global military dominance. The decisive studies delivered to President Roosevelt, along with the State and War Departments, were drafted by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), established in New York following World War I, with funds supplied largely by the Morgans and Rockefellers. On September 12, 1939, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a founder of the CFR and the editor of its Foreign Affairs journal, along with CFR director Walter Mallory, met with Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles and several aides, and told them that the war that just began was a “grand opportunity” for the US to become “the premier power in the world.” They offered to undertake planning for the post-war peace. Welles agreed, provided that Armstrong and Mallory kept it quiet.¹

The CFR created an ad hoc organization called “War and Peace Studies” that ended upsending 682 memoranda to US government policymakers. Head of the project was Prof. Isaiah Bowman, president of Johns Hopkins University and CFR director.² The Rockefeller Foundation funded the project’s entire cost of $350,000. The team’s Armaments Group was led by future CIA director Allen Dulles, who would one day be fired over the Cuban missile fiasco by President John F. Kennedy. Dulles would then go on to sit on the Warren Commission that investigated Kennedy’s assassination.

A modern consensus has grown that President Roosevelt deliberately provoked Japan to attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. I would refer you to the article “Pearl Harbor: Hawaii Was Surprised; FDR Was Not” by investigative journalist James Perloff. This article appears on-line and contains references to additional books and articles.³

1. Stephen Wertheim, Tomorrow the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, London, 2020 ↩︎
2. William Engdahl, Gods of Money and the Death of the American Century, p.137 ↩︎
3. https://www.fourstatesnews.us/2015/12/07/pearl-harbor-hawaii-surprised-fdr-not/ ↩︎