One must assume from this that the resulting power vacuum would, then, be filled by drug trafficking terrorism that would find little resistance overflowing across the border into the southern U.S., opening a dope pipeline that may not be easily shut again.  The opening salvo in this war against Mexico and the U.S. was narrowly avoided when under pressure from the White House the Senate refrained from joining the Mexico bashers on March 21, 1997.   Except this slim victory of a narrow escape from chaos, does not mean that the war has been won.  The ferment continues.  It continues in the background to Mexico's growing financial and economic crisis, and in the background to the separatist terrorist pressures that push for splintering the Mexican nation into a number of ethnically bound mini-states that can be much more readily dominated by the Empire than a well functioning nation-state.

And again, China and Mexico are not the only games that the empire has in progress.  Africa is deeply torn by these games.  One of Africa's largest country, the Sudan, is set up to be torn apart by imperially bought invasions and political pressures.  Zaire, too, will soon be history as its territory becomes added once against to the Empire's inventory.  The Empire's colonial days have not ended in Africa, as its new colonial puppet nations now fight its wars, whose people supply the manpower for the imperial machine that is destined to steam-roll across the continent after Zaire and the Sudan have been assimilated into the Empire's system.

The region of the Middle East from Israel to Iran, including the Arab states, is another imperially controlled powder keg.  There will be no peace in the region, no matter how many concessions are given for appeasement.  The Empire needs to keep the fuse burning.  If it didn't, it would loose control over the oil and allow this region to become the transportation hub between Europe, Africa, the Arab nations, and tie into the southern link of the Eurasian Land-Bridge across India, Indonesia, China, and the islands of Japan.  The Empire has long demonstrated that it will not allow this type of economic development to take place anywhere in the world.

It is highly likely that the Empire will attempt to play its China, Mexico, Africa, and Middle East cards simultaneously around the time when the repatriation of Hong Kong occurs.  It needs to drag the U.S. into a political quagmire and a possible confrontation on many fronts, because such a move would certainly put an end to any New Bretton Woods type monetary reordering.  It knows that such a reordering would put an end to the hopelessly bankrupt imperial feudal monetary system that has become the world-financial system and the backbone of its prosperity.  It knows that such a reordering will replace its feudal system with a development oriented system, and it knows that it must prevent this.  It also knows that if it can prevent a New Bretton Woods monetary reordering from becoming a reality, it will not be defeated.  For this it must drive especially the U.S. and China apart, into adversarial positions.  Without China and the U.S. cooperating, there will be no financial reordering possible to power a global development.  It will take the combined strength of the U.S. and China to obsolete the British system.  The Empire knows that it cannot allow this strength to be achieved.

On many occasion in history, its clever diplomacy, centered on lies, has turned mankind's hope to dust, causing great injury.  Such diplomacy has turned potential development partners into violent foes, who were then incited to destroy each other, such as in World War I.  Creating havoc based on diplomatic lies has always been a special talent of the British Empire that goes back to the Empire's very conception and beyond.  This 'talent' can be traced back to the Empire's roots in the Venetian Empire that had developed this method into a fine art for achieving political destruction.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche