US foreign policy, one of constant provocation: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Peter Koenig, a geopolitical analyst in Lima, about China censuring the US for conducting a flight over the disputed waters of the South China Sea.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: What is going on in the South China Sea? Let’s start with why is the US flying over this area to begin with and it seems to be trying to intimidate or provocate some type of altercation. Why is that the case?

Koenig: Let me begin maybe with something which I think the people of the world should really know. The US policy, the US foreign policy is one of constant provocation all over the world. It is like a monster that has huge tentacles all over the world and provoking conflicts wherever they can and obviously the media which they control, they make flare out of it when it is necessary to deviate from more important areas like for example now Syria, the Turkey conflict in Iraq and so on.

So they build up a case overflying or closely overflying an artificial island that has absolutely nothing to do with China wanting to militarize the South China Sea. It is the contrary actually. As you probably know already now about fifty percent of the US navy fleet is stationed in the South China Sea and Obama has a few months ago, he has promised that he will increase that contention to two thirds of the whole US navy fleet by 2016-2017.

So who is militarizing what? It is certainly not China which is provoking. China has never been provoking anything. It is the US who [is] provoking but they are building up a case, making China look bad vis-à-vis the rest of the world. That is absolutely false. This is a policy which they have been pursuing since World War II. It consists of false flags, of lies, of constant provocations and eventually somebody they hope will fall into the trap and start a conflict which is good for their military.

One also has to remember that more than fifty percent of the US GDP depends on the US military industrial complex and its related services. Because of that, they cannot be in situations where the world would be at peace, at least not as long as United States seems to be in control.

Press TV: You pointed out some interesting parts to this, but okay, you have said that the US wants this continual state of altercations or near altercations. So when does the rest of the world going to say enough is enough? Why don’t we hear more from countries or countries forming type of groups together in order to try to put Washington under pressure?

Koenig: Yes it is a very good point and a very good question and I asked the same question. And I can only …, I think what the conclusion is, is that the rest of the Western world at least are puppets. They are afraid of sanctions. They are afraid the US may harm them, if not with economic sanctions then with military interference and so on. So I believe that is what the problem is.

The United States has an enormous military - that is at least what the Western world believes - military supremacy where they can interfere wherever they can. They have officially I think 800 different military bases around the world, probably more than thousand, if you look correctly, and that of course scares the countries. The only countries which are not scared fortunately are China and Russia and I believe eventually they will stand up for the right of the rest of the people.

I believe in as far as a saying that at this point, at this juncture of history, the fate of humanity is at stake with the provocations that the US is constantly carrying out throughout the world now, mostly in the Middle East, but this South China Sea interference and intervention, provocation I have to call it again, is just simply to deviate the attention from other problems so that the people look for a while away from the Middle East where they are actually supporting and financing the most horrendous terror group the world has known in the last history.

They are financing them, they are funding them, and they are training them. It is thanks to Russia that the situation is slowly turning around in the Middle East. Now if that [were to] continue, I really put my hopes on Russia and China in this respect.

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