The US is essentially striving for hegemony, he added.
"Hegemony is a self-serving pursuit. It requires that the US establish proxies, not partners – and that those proxies remain weak and dependent on their patron – two characteristics few national leaders would aspire toward or be satisfied with for long," Cartalucci asserted in an opinion piece for the Global Research.
These aspirations, according to the expert, also require "massive amounts of unsustainable deception" in the US and elsewhere. The mainstream Western media plays a crucial role in this respect.
General John Keane, a retired four-star general and former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army, repeatedly suggested that the US should create "free zones" in Syria to protect US-backed militants from Russian airstrikes.
In addition, General Keane "suggested that refugees also be placed in these zones. In other words – use the refugees as human shields against Russian attacks," the expert noted.
"The fact that he shared this plan in front of a committee full of nodding US Senators reveals US foreign policy to be reduced to almost a tropism – no longer rationally examining itself and the world it fits into – but rather simply attempting to grow as large as possible like a blind force of nature," he observed.
