The United States Stopped Admitting New States After 1959

The foreign policy of the United Kingdom at the end of the Second World War was determined by world conditions and self interest. The British Empire had to be dismantled and the military and economic power of the UK had to be increased. The overriding logic behind dealing with the  new worldwide conditions dictated that former colonies and territories must be freed to become independent states and that it was precisely their new status as nation-states that made them ripe for domination and economic exploitation by London and its ally Washington. The war had joined the United States and the British Empire militarily and politically and the union continued afterwards because the two power centers agreed to continue to keep their military and secret-service institutions united. The Anglo-American bloc uniting all the English-speaking countries adopted one and the same foreign policy: create and support nation-states worldwide and exploit any and all wealth within them by making them secure for rich investors and corporations by dominating them with diplomatic, financial and military power.

 The foreign policy of the United States in 1959 which included the admission of Hawaii as the 50th state might have continued freeing emerging new nation-states from foreign domination by admitting them also as new states in its union. But Washington went along with London. It gave up admitting new states and instead supported and dominated nation-states worldwide for its selfish interests instead of continuing to join new  states to its union of sovereign states as it had been doing from 1790 up until 1959. But now world conditions have changed. Nation-states need to reform their structures to benefit from the global economy by joining a worldwide union of states. Washington needs to become the central government of not 50 states but of hundreds of states to assure democracy and prosperity for peoples worldwide. Washington should begin again admitting new states to its union.

Daniel McNeill

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