In the USA the European Americans are the largest panethnic group of White Americans and have constituted the majority population of the United States and they are the source of real hard & soft power for the USA. For the simple reason that they endeavor maximum to not only keep the USA a predominant hard power in the world but also soft power by practicing human rights friendly liberal policies / practices among themselves and mostly towards the people from other regions like Asia, Africa, Latin America etc.
Notwithstanding the above mention the approximately 100 % record of any other country would have been a matter of satisfaction but not for the USA because the USA is the leader of free world who is responsible in the present scenario for the victory of ‘liberal Western democracy’ against ‘authoritarian Chinese democracy’ during on-going Cold War II
The non White Americans in the USA have no threat to their lives or properties or honor or progress as long as they are living on the soil of the USA but one very disturbing fact has appeared recently involving non White Americans which should be a matter of concern for all the people living in the USA (White and non White Americans) because the establishment of the USA is even prepared to compromise its territorial integrity when non white Americans are the victims, as explained below:-
(1)- On November 16, 2018 ‘Washington Post’ reported that “The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi the journalist (of Washington Post, a prominent media of the USA) in Istanbul last month” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-concludes-saudi-crown-prince-ordered-jamal-khashoggis-assassination/2018/11/16/98c89fe6-e9b2-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html
(2)- On July 18 2021 the following was published (https://forbiddenstories.org/pegasus-the-new-global-weapon-for-silencing-journalists/ ) by ‘forbidden stories’ about NSO group (Pegasus which not only breached the privacy of journalists but threatened their lives and even took their lives) that –
“[In NSO Group’s 2021 transparency report, one phrase appears three times: “save lives.” “Our goal,” the company writes at one point, “is to help states protect their citizens and save lives.” Yet the troubling use of NSO spyware against journalists and their family members, as identified in the Pegasus Project and in previous reports by digital rights NGOs, casts doubts on this narrative. On October 2, 2018, around 1 pm, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Turkey and never came back out. The brazen assassination of the dissident journalist initiated a wave of global responses, with world leaders, human rights groups and concerned citizens calling for an in-depth investigation into his murder – and the potential implication of NSO Group’s spyware in it. Two weeks after his murder, digital rights organization Citizen Lab reported that a close friend of Khashoggi, Omar Abdulaziz, had been targeted with NSO’s Pegasus in the months before Khashoggi’s murder. But new revelations from Forbidden Stories and its partners have found that Pegasus spyware was successfully installed on the phone of Khashoggi’s fiancée Hatice Cengiz just four days after the murder. The phone of Khashoggi’s son, Abdullah, was selected as a target of an NSO client that appears to be the UAE government, based on the consortium’s analysis of the leaked data, several weeks after the murder. Close friends, colleagues and family members of the murdered journalist were all selected as targets by NSO clients that appear to be the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, according to the Pegasus Project revelations released today]”.
(3)- This is not an ordinary case of cyber crime like where US elections were rigged (though serious in another way) by hacking (as alleged widely in the USA about Russian interference in US-elections). On the contrary it is a breach of territorial integrity of the USA by breaching its air space (by microwaves) by tempering the mobile phones of the victim (killed) and of his friends and relatives who are on the soil of the USA.
(4)- Had Khashoggi been a White American, by this time the entire establishment of the USA (which controls economic and political power of the USA) would have brought heaven to earth and would have constrained the Biden – administration for federal investigation into murder of Khashoggi in which the interference in his and the mobile phones of his friend, fiancée etc by Pegasus played a sinister role.
(5)- The people who think that the USA does not have racial prejudices, should know that:-
(i)- Tens of millions of illegal immigrants (mostly non Whites) are in the USA for decades due to the pressure of business which wants cheap labor. Now these illegal immigrants are in a hopeless condition due to corona-pandemic (where they, being so-called illegal, are not getting government relief regarding unemployment) and some of their families can be seen on roadside (along with their children) begging. The USA has also forgotten that these children (because born on US soil) are US – citizens as per Fourteenth Amendment of the US-constitution.
(ii)- India became member of the UN in 1945 but USA never bothered to provide justice to 20% population of each of West Pakistan & East Pakistan (present day Pakistan and Bangladesh) who are Hindus (including Sikhs) who were forcefully displaced during partition in 1947 though Muslims remained same in India rather increased a little to about 15 % [this forced illegal population transfer has thoroughly communalized the Indian subcontinent which is the cause of many earlier wars in the region and is still a potential for more such wars). Now also the USA can recertify the situation by getting ‘dual citizenship’ through the UN to these about 160 million people but the USA is not doing so. Added to this the dereliction of the US led UN about plebiscite in united-J&K (as per UN resolution and IoA of J&K to India) and in Balochistan (who’s IoA was taken under military pressure which is the cause of on-going militancy and lot of unnecessary bloodshed in Balochistan.
(iii)-In the suffering NAME region (Syria etc) peace could have been achieved by elections under a secular democratic constitution by the USA (through UNPKF & UN Election Commission) but the USA is least bothered about it. Added to it the Palestinians who have been removed by force from their motherland by Israel with the support of the USA
(iv) – In Afghanistan stability could have been easily brought during about 20 years of US stay in Afghanistan by enforcing a secular democratic constitution in Afghanistan. On the contrary the results of last elections were not announced for months because they were rigged hence two candidates (Ghani & Abdullah) were allowed by the commanding power of the USA to take oaths for office. At the top of it now the USA is coming out of Afghanistan in a way which has triggered civil war in Afghanistan and has further strengthened militant Jihadi Taliban (which are facilitated in a non-secular theocratic constitution)
(6)- In view of the above mentioned (to mention the few) cases of racial prejudices of the USA, whether the media (especially the Washington Post with which Khashoggi worked) and the establishment of the USA (including its Administration & Congress) will ensure a federal investigation or not (in the role of the said involvement of Pegasus in the murder of an US resident Khashoggi of Asian origin), God only knows.
(Writer is author of ‘Betrayal of Americanism’ ans presently staying in Shakopee, MN, USA)