No matter who sits in White House, US is bent on world domination: Scholar

No matter who sits in the White House, the United States is bent on world domination, says Dennis Etler, an American political analyst who has a decades-long interest in international affairs.

Etler, a former professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on a statement by the US military in which it has claimed that China has expanded its bomber operations, and is “likely training for strikes” against the United States.

A Pentagon report released on Thursday said Chinese bombers are developing capabilities to hit targets as far from China as possible.

“Over the last three years, the PLA (People's Liberation Army) has rapidly expanded its overwater bomber operating areas, gaining experience in critical maritime regions and likely training for strikes against US and allied targets,” the report said.

The Pentagon report added that China’s space program was progressing as well.

“The PLA continues to strengthen its military space capabilities despite its public stance against the militarization of space,” it said.

The report, which comes amid heightened US-China tensions over trade, claimed that China is seeking to rapidly increase its global influence, with defense spending that the Pentagon estimates exceeded 190 billion dollars in 2017.

PressTV-China 'likely training for strikes' on US: Pentagon

Pentagon says China is expanding its military and "likely training for strikes" on US targets.

“The US, no matter who sits in the White House or which party rules Congress, is bent on world domination. Until recently they exercised their global hegemony without opposition, using the ‘war on terrorism’ as an excuse and cover to invade and destroy any regime that opposed it,” Etler told Press TV.

“The litany of nations that the US has destabilized or destroyed by military attacks and/or economic sanctions spans the globe. The US Navy plies the ‘seven seas with fleets of aircraft carriers,’ its Air Force has bases in Europe, the Middle East and the Asian Pacific, its military has hundreds of bases and installations deployed throughout the world, and its military budget is larger than that of all other countries combined. The US military juggernaut is used to intimidate and oppress the nations and people of the world,” he added.

“Yet, the Pentagon is constantly seeking new excuses to increase its military expenditures. New enemies have to be fabricated on a daily basis. Nations that seek to defend themselves from the depredations of US Imperialism are singled out as ‘threats,’ no matter that the US threatens them not vice versa,” he stated.  

“China is a case in point. The US has fought two wars, in Korea and Vietnam, on China’s borders with the expressed intent of containing and isolating her. US troops are stationed in neighboring countries and US fleets sail by her shores. US aircraft fly by China’s coastline on a regular basis and its Navy sends ships through the South China Sea to challenge China’s sovereignty,” the analyst said.

“There can be no doubt that the US ‘trains its pilots for strikes’ against China and that ‘its bombers have the ‘capability to hit targets’ as far from the US as possible. The US has for decades ‘expanded its overwater bomber operating areas, gaining experience in critical maritime regions’ and has certainly ‘trained for strikes’ against China and allied targets,” he said.

“Well, turnaround is fair play. The audacity of the US calling out other countries for developing the capacity to protect themselves and deter US aggression is nothing but laughable. No one can possibly take their propagandistic admonitions seriously,” the scholar concluded.

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