The analysis proposed here regarding the role of Europe and the Middle East in the global imperialist strategy of the United States is set in a general historical vision of capitalist expansion that I have developed elsewhere. In this view capitalism has always been, since its inception, by nature, a polarizing system, that is, imperialist. This polarization–the concurrent construction of dominant centers and dominated peripheries, and their reproduction deepening in each stage–is inherent in the process of accumulation of capital operating on a global scale.
