Rumpl4skn:
Here's an idea that could work, I'm surprised no one has tried it.
How about first, the upper crust power elite use their political and media influence to generate - then co-opt - an environmental movement, say back in the late 60's, early 70's. Make sure polluters are brought to the fore, and everyone understands the tremendous danger the eco-system is in, as far as establishing mindset. Record some evil sound bytes from a few callous corporatists who are known for their disregard for public safety, and the stage is set, but use national media manipulation to cultivate extremism on both sides. Make sure those "in charge" of this environmental movement are as whacky to the Right as their counterparts are to Middle America.
Use this environmental extremism to make it increasingly unpopular to actually extract the massive oil reserves in Alaska (a strategically-brilliant land grab that for a paltry $7.2 mil that was mercilessly ridiculed in 1867 as "Seward's Folly, and who's vast reserves became obvious at Prudhoe Bay in 1968 - right about the time this environmental movement would come to the fore, lead by The Environmental President, Milhouse Nixon... a man we would come to totally love and trust).
The difficulties in appeasing this movement (I dunno, maybe we could make up crazy shit like "it's causing stressed herds of caribou to seek expensive group therapy" or some such tripe) would thereby derail any possibilities of cost-effective extraction for years, thereby enormously increasing the value of Middle Eastern Oil. Now we'd be pumping even more billions of dollars into the hands of chronically-unstable Arab states, a rich fertile land where civil unrest, religious wars and plain old racial hatred is amazingly easy to generate for the purpose of fomenting armed conflict - and for whom we would be the main suppliers of weaponry. (Eventually, even the most ardent Right-wing isolationists will get used to the concept of pumping trillions of $ abroad in order to acrue influence and market access, once they see the enormous ease with with it can be gotten back in arms deals, drug sales, and fast food franchising.)
Through the years, the MICC will garner untold riches, Arabs will be systematically kept in poverty, held back socially and economically, or simply annihilated, as is seen fit. Maybe countries such around the size and political makeup of, oh let's say Iraq and Iran, can be goaded into protracted, ill-advised, hyper-bloody wars as we feed each side (either directly, or in parallel, unwritten partnerships with the Soviet Union) to the point where one is eventually declared a winner, but both sides lose economically.
Following that scenario, we can spur more incidents. Maybe we could, I dunno, have our intel (or our ambassador to Kuwait) point out to one small oil-soaked country that their large oil-soaked neighbor has an unfair amount of land mass and oil fields, and that if they chose to do the smart thing, and slant drill into those border oil fields, well... we wouldn't have any problem with that (wink, wink). Then we can go into that neighboring country, and have our ambassador (or some helpful corporate envoy who's been selling them biochemical pathogens) point out the slant-drilling the little bitches are getting away with, and let them know we wouldn't have much of a problem if they bitch-slapped that little twerp country or even invaded (wink, wink) them.
They'd most likely invade, we'd have some political puppet (I dunno, maybe some synthetically manufactured Black military hero who's integrity no one would dare question) fake up some satellite photos showing the bad guys massing on the South border, about to invade the next domino (say, I dunno, Saudi Arabia maybe?) and before you know it, we might be invited to set up shop there. We let the situation fester a bit, trade barbs in the int'l media, use the national media to sell lies painting the invaders as the most vicious, merciless pricks on the planet (I dunno, maybe our pResident can help out, spew some bullshit about "incubator babies being thrown on the floor", or some such tripe - I'm sure even the little country's ambassador's kid will pitch in with an award-winning performance). Once the world see what subhumans these invaders are, we use back channels to make sure this invading prick to whom we used to sell chem weapons is certain this is all just false bravado for geo-political purposes, and we would never really pull the trigger. Wouldn't they be surprised when we DO march in all Rambo like, and force them into a hastily prepared mass retreat up the only available highway, then we mercilessly gun them down like the dogs we've painted them to be, with overkill that would make a Hollywood disaster film look like Snow White. No one will question motive or tactic, as the whole world would have known "they certainly had it coming."
The key would be to never really finish a war, never end a conflict, never resolve any political issues. Maybe we could feign incompetence and, I dunno, do something truly idiotic, like let the defeated army go back home with their guns, or some such crap. That way, in a few years, if we needed another conflict, it would be pre-fab.
This kind of scenario could be repeated endlessly, until enough resources have been plundered, enough Brown people have been killed off, and enough puppet regimes have been supplanted to make sure that the entire continent can be politically and economically bulldozed into the kind of malleable fodder that will have no choice but to accept the coming global governance.
See what I mean? I can't believe no one's ever thought of trying that.
