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Two hegemonic "revolutions" of the United States

author:Yi Ge TALK

Many friends may have questions, why do you feel that this title is very strange, can hegemony still be "revolutionary"? In fact, from the process point of view, hegemony is always in the process of self-revolution and renewal, and if it is not revolutionary, hegemony will gradually be eliminated by history. So, what kind of course did the world hegemonic revolution of the United States go through?

Two hegemonic "revolutions" of the United States

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The First Hegemonic Revolution: The rise of warmonger hegemony

In the 104 years from 1820 to 1924, the United States completed the Industrial Revolution and became the world's number one power economically in the 20s of the last century, when the United States gradually approached and surpassed the United Kingdom, which was then the world's "empire that never sets". In August 1945, Germany and Japan, the Axis powers, announced their surrender, marking the end of World War II. At this time, the United States had become the most powerful industrial, scientific, technological, military, economic and cultural power in the world.

History textbooks have always rated the United States positively in both world wars, because the United States joined the righteous "anti-imperialist" or "Entente" camp in the final decisive moments of both world wars, and eventually bet on success and become the victorious power. However, history always plays out "black humor", making people want to laugh but shed blood and tears. Before and during the two world wars, the United States without exception made full use of the "appeasement policy" of the old capitalist powers in Europe, selling large quantities of weapons, ammunition and intelligence to both sides of the war, and making war riches. And in the later stages of the war, under the guise of "justice", he joined the Justice League and carried out the "second partition" of war interests. After decades of "struggle", the United States has become the world's largest economic power and a pivotal military power. In terms of military strength, it surpassed Britain during World War II; After World War II, it fought with the socialist "big brother" Soviet Union for decades for world hegemony, and finally defeated the Soviet Union and became a world hegemon.

This hegemonic "revolution" mainly took the rapid rise of the US Roosevelt's New Deal and the sale of war, and realized the rapid prototyping of the hegemonic pattern through the plan of being both the "cultivator" and the "terminator" of war.

Two hegemonic "revolutions" of the United States

The collapse of the Soviet Union: the soldiers who removed the flag

The Second Hegemonic Revolution: The struggle for hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Soviet Union

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union split into 15 countries. When it comes to the Soviet Union, many friends have the impression that the Soviet Union has strong military strength and backward economy. But what are the truths? The Soviet Union is indeed the undeniable existence of the world's first military strength in that era, even if the entire Western world led by the United States was only a "little brother" in terms of military affairs at the peak of the Soviet Union. Economically, many friends have always had a misunderstanding, that is, from an economic point of view, the Soviet Union is slag compared with the West. If everyone thinks so, then they are very wrong, they do not understand the reality of that era, that is to measure the Soviet Union by the economic standards of the Western world, which is wrong. The problem of the Soviet economy at that time was not economic backwardness, but the irrationality of the economic structure. The irrationality of the economic structure of the Soviet Union led to the military service of productive forces and production relations, which led to a serious shortage of production of means of subsistence, seriously affecting the sustainable development of the Soviet Union. This is manifested in the serious overcapacity of heavy industry and the production of various types of weapons and equipment, while the production of means of subsistence is seriously lagging behind, which in turn leads to extremely low domestic living standards. This, coupled with the mismatch between industrial structure and capital structure, led to an alarming annual increase in the deficit rate, which eventually led to the bankruptcy and disintegration of the Soviet Union.

Since the end of World War II, the contradictions in the world have changed from the contradiction between fascism and anti-fascism to the contradiction between the two camps of the East and the West. Thus, the "North Atlantic Treaty" was established, and the world officially entered the "Cold War era". (Many friends think that the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union marks the beginning of the Cold War, which is not true, in fact, the Cold War has begun since the day NATO was founded)

Two hegemonic "revolutions" of the United States

In the context of extremely low production of living materials and extreme lack of living materials, due to the mutual blockade, sanctions and closure of the two camps of the East and West, the Soviet Union lost the pricing power of civilian manufacturing, food, energy and other commodities. In addition, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe split up several countries, and Eastern Europe is the "base camp" of the Soviet Union's industry, agriculture, and energy, and this no longer belongs to the Soviet Union, for the Western world led by the United States, this is like an untapped "treasure trove", cheap talents, resources, equipment is like a pie falling from the sky, the Western world has always been hungry wolves into the sheep's den, crazy "grab food". As a result, the surplus financial capital and means of subsistence of the Western world came in a swarm, solving the crisis of economic surplus and excess financial capital in the Western world led by the United States, and the best quality assets of the Soviet Union were completely occupied by the Western world. At this time, the United States, which has made a windfall fortune, no longer has the threat of "natural enemies", and has become the first "world policeman" in human history in one fell swoop, walking sideways for decades. Two hegemonic "revolutions" pushed Western world civilization to its peak. However, due to the attrition of the past thirty years, the United States has squandered the spoils of the Cold War and is now facing a new round of crisis! (To be continued...) )#International Military##US Hegemony#

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