I think the currency crisis in the west is probably a large factor in the wests aggressive foreign policy.
The US and UK keep invading and occupying countries to steal their resources; perhaps its an act of desperation
The US economy has been running on consumption for a long time, which has been allowed by running up debt. This has given people in the US many comforts but a lot of debt.
The economy needs to produce more and consume less
People also need to recognise that the banking sector does not contribute anything to the real economy of production and consumption.....all it does is extract interest off the real economy. It is a parasite.
It creates money out of thin air and then charges people interest on it (see documentary 'the money masters' for an explanation of the process). Here's US economist Peter Schiff explaining how wall street writes the laws of the US:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nFzFiyL9sg"]YouTube - Peter Schiff: "Wall Street writes US law"[/ame]
Peter schiff was one of the people who warned of the coming economic crisis. People laughed at him then...they're not laughing now. Here he is making predictions before the economic crisis:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw"]YouTube - Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition)[/ame]
China on the other hand has been exporting a lot and has grown wealthy and had good employment figures.
This has created a massive imbalance as the US is hugely in debt to China. The US has demanded that China revalue its currency but this would be disasterous for the Chinese economy and the Chinese can't see why they should bail out America who has got itself into debt through reckless consumption.
Here's economist Michael Hudson explaining how the US is trying to deal with its deficit by waging economic war on the world (the pressure the dollar is under explains why the US keeps invading countries, in breach of international law, to secure oil supplies):
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P1fihT5B7o"]YouTube - US Black Debt Hole: 'We want you all bankrupt!'[/ame]
Here's a piece about the G20's attempt to call truce to the currency wars. Germany and China are two of the worlds biggest exporters so they are against the US's violent theft of other countries oil:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYf5Esb9V7c&feature=relmfu"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYf5Esb9V7c&feature=relmfu[/ame]
It is one of the main laws of the UN that you cannot attack a country unless it has attacked your first, so all these wars are illegal. That's why the US government wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext for war but couldn't actually pin it on any government. The best they could do was wage a media campaign to make the public THINK certain people were responsible when they weren't
The 'BRIC' countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are the emerging global economies. They are also against US aggression because they know that the US is in serious economic trouble. The US has turned to piracy to make ends meet (they have found willing allies in the UK who have been pirates for centuries).
The US has a spending problem. They are like a crack addict who has got into debt to his dealer and now has to start robbing corner stores to pay his debts.
Here's an Irish political activist responding angrily to Irelands bank bailout which has seen billions of pounds of public money handed over to private bankers which has indebted Ireland. He talks about how this situation has been orchestrated by the bankers in order to grab all the wealth. He mentions the solution Abraham Lincoln had tried to do to outmanouvre the banks which was to create a new interest free currency (the green back)...of course he was assassinated after this. President Andrew jackson also fought the bankers and was fortunate to survive several assassination attempts on him. President John F Kennedy also tried to put the 'federal reserve' out of business by signing executive order No. 11110 in 1963, he was assassinated 5 months later. No more silver certificates have been issued and although the order hasn't been repealed, no president since has used it.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85RZ_h6Gys0&feature=relmfu"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85RZ_h6Gys0&feature=relmfu[/ame]
Obama is backed by wall street here's a documentary about it:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw"]YouTube - The Obama Deception HQ Full length version[/ame]
Currency and oil.
War isn't being waged for the Libyan people or the American people, it is being made for the bankers....they are the only people getting rich right now, while the rest of us are seeing rising costs, longer work hours, cuts to public services and increasing unemployment