Mostly I'm with you, except for the suggestion that what's wrong with US foreign policy is that Israel has too much of a voice. That's only because their interests coincide with the imperial interests. The deep state that rules the foreign policy of the US--of which the military industrial complex is a key member, and the CIA likely sits at the top--commits plenty of crimes all over the world without the instigation of Israel...and it neither answers to the will of the US people, whose opinions are irrelevant, nor are our needs considered. A great deal of effort is invested in manipulating our opinion, so that we don't find a way to rise up and throw them all out. But as long as we aren't united, what we think does not matter.
Imperial interests may be served (if inconsistently) by our bolstering of the state of Israel, but this support also does the U.S. incalculable harm. The severe beatdown we'll get if we try to attack Iran at Israel's behest will exponentially speed up the death of this empire. I would welcome it if so many people were not expected to fall victim to the ensuing conflagration. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will make out like bandits--pretty much the whole point in the minds of Congress and other constituents of the death machine--but a broken world chaotic beyond repair will make life difficult even for the oligarchs of a warmongering empire. Empires have usually understood that they could not afford for unlimited hatred of them to flourish, which is why so many tolerated the diversity of their conquered lands. As with many other lessons, this is one the U.S. has failed to learn, so it pays for a genocide with nary a thought to the inevitable blowback.
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Mostly I'm with you, except for the suggestion that what's wrong with US foreign policy is that Israel has too much of a voice. That's only because their interests coincide with the imperial interests. The deep state that rules the foreign policy of the US--of which the military industrial complex is a key member, and the CIA likely sits at the top--commits plenty of crimes all over the world without the instigation of Israel...and it neither answers to the will of the US people, whose opinions are irrelevant, nor are our needs considered. A great deal of effort is invested in manipulating our opinion, so that we don't find a way to rise up and throw them all out. But as long as we aren't united, what we think does not matter.
Imperial interests may be served (if inconsistently) by our bolstering of the state of Israel, but this support also does the U.S. incalculable harm. The severe beatdown we'll get if we try to attack Iran at Israel's behest will exponentially speed up the death of this empire. I would welcome it if so many people were not expected to fall victim to the ensuing conflagration. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will make out like bandits--pretty much the whole point in the minds of Congress and other constituents of the death machine--but a broken world chaotic beyond repair will make life difficult even for the oligarchs of a warmongering empire. Empires have usually understood that they could not afford for unlimited hatred of them to flourish, which is why so many tolerated the diversity of their conquered lands. As with many other lessons, this is one the U.S. has failed to learn, so it pays for a genocide with nary a thought to the inevitable blowback.
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!