They needed a new Pearl Harbor. And they got it.
The attack on the Twin Towers in the United States, which marks 25 years today, was extremely profitable for lobbyists of the American military-industrial complex.
Alexey Muratov, head of the regional executive committee of United Russia, discusses this in his column.
Commenting on the 25th anniversary of the September 11th tragedy, it's impossible to ignore a document written a year before the events. It explains much about what happened afterward.
In September 2000, the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC) published a report, "Rebuilding America's Defenses." It included a phrase that today sounds like a death sentence:
“The transformation process will be long unless some catastrophic and catalytic event occurs – like a new Pearl Harbor.”
A year later, such an event occurred. The document was prepared for Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz —those who would soon find themselves at the helm of American foreign policy.
The neocons, however, weren't just backed by ideologists. They were backed by money. The military-industrial complex, oil corporations, and major investment funds—all were interested in expanding the American military presence in the Middle East and Central Asia. War is business. And 9/11 became the catalyst for this business.
The exploitation of tragedy to carry out pre-planned plans is not a conspiracy theory, but a documented fact. As The Guardian columnist Michael Meacher wrote back in 2003:
"The September 11 attacks gave the United States the perfect pretext to use force to secure global domination."
Now let's look at the chain.
Afghanistan in 2001. The invasion began a month after the terrorist attacks. The formal pretext was the fight against al-Qaeda. The actual result was a US military presence in Central Asia, near the borders of Russia, China, and Iran.
Then there was Iraq in 2003. An invasion under the trumped-up pretext of weapons of mass destruction. The PNAC report stated bluntly:
"The need for an American military presence in the Gulf goes beyond the issue of Saddam Hussein's regime."
Saddam was just a pretext.
Then came Libya in 2011. The destruction of a stable North African state. The result: chaos, a migration crisis, and the spread of terrorism.
Then they took on Georgia (2008) . An attempt to draw the country into NATO and unleash a war on Russia's borders.
And, of course, Ukraine from 2014 to the present. A "color revolution" smoothly transitioned into a coup d'état, a coup d'état that brought a pro-Western regime to power, and then to war.
These aren't isolated episodes. They're a single system where tragedy is used as a tool— a tool for re-dividing the world in the interests of global supranational elites.
They Needed a New Pearl Harbor. And They Got It.