Many of the long time readers here would tell you, OH Landru will debate the value of hope forever unyielding in his stupidity. Now I agree, however, is accelerationism is my path? I would love to see all those that I challenged show up on this comment and reply with I TOLD YOU SO, MORON
Well.. This Pseudo "Democracy" gives ppl the illusion of choice/control...
That's why they keep clinging to it..
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"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion." At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
I am old, I saw many of Carlin's truth appearances live. What is shocking, they allowed him to say those things live on many channels. Carlin a hero before and after his time.
I was a fool not realizing that at the start. Hope is a flaw in my character and sense of intelligence. Now where did I leave my big red rubber nose..........
US-based business corporations want to be free to exploit the material and labor resources of the entire world.
Consider the history of oligarchs of the British Empire and those of a long list of collapsed empires of the Ottomans, Russia, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Rome, etc.
Japan is doomed, debt, aging pop, currency that is trashier than u.s. d. Korea it seems is waking up to who has their boot on their collective necks. Interesting as you say.
Me encanta tu ironíaTenggara, no haran lo que dices, la codicia insaciable es la droga nueva que consumen, es afrodisíaca, con la que llegan a eyacular sin necesidad de mujer que los excite, no la necesitan para nada, quiero toneladas de codicia, eso si me pone cachondo. Y contra eso no he visto que haya en el mercado cosa capaz de superar ese placer inmenso. Aunque ennarbolen la bandera del "primero y último USA", ellos son lo primero y último de USA, no la población infeliz que les vota, que quieren seguir pensando que el sueño americano existe y nos incpaces que ver que esta en la UVI hospitalaria, en sus últimas horas, ningun cirujano piensa que vaya a llegar con vida antes de navidad alargándolo mucho, el sueño americano. La UVI es en la Unidad de Vigilancia Intersiva de un Hospital, donde esperan todos, al cura que les de la extremaunción
What we are seeing is the United States is dropping any remaining pretense of being anything other than an empire ruled at home and abroad by naked force.
What do you mean "come back to haunt us," it already is..........
What the USA has been doing, not just under Trump, but most every President since Kennedy, is the use of force rather than diplomacy to create positive outcomes for all. Right. The term "for the greater good" is just a phony slogan people use to rationalize their aggression, deceit, and greed and the need to exert power over others to force them to embrace a fantasy ideology under the guise of "muh Democracy" which is a farce.
Many years ago on CBS 60 Minutes, Madeine Albright was asked if the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children (via economic sanctions) were worth the cost (the death by starvation of children) and she answered: "YES!" God bless the good ole USofA!
There is no political party in the United States that opposes regime change. If anything, the Democrats chastised Trump for not doing enough in Venezuela. The regime change business can go unchecked as long as Trump informs Congress.
There are not two political parties in the United States. There is one power system—the Uni-Party—with two branded branches, Red and Blue. They do not compete over who rules; they compete over who manages the story while the same interests govern. The administrative state persists. Corporate power persists. War, debt, surveillance, and regulatory capture persist regardless of which color occupies the podium. The appearance of choice exists to keep the public divided horizontally so it never organizes vertically. Voters are encouraged to fight one another over culture, symbols, and moral posturing while the machinery above them operates untouched. Elections do not threaten the system; they legitimize it.
Tytler’s warning still applies, but the mechanism has evolved. The public no longer selects leaders in order to raid the treasury; the treasury is already pre-raided. Corporations and permanent institutions pre-screen candidates, fund the viable ones, and define the narrow corridor of acceptable policy. What voters are given is not a choice but a menu. Crumbs still fall, and that is how control is maintained—contracts, subsidies, grants, regulatory favors, NGO money, revolving-door employment. Loyalty is rewarded; dissent is starved. The structure replicates downward, from federal to local politics, with smaller tables offering smaller crumbs to those who play along.
This is not tyranny and it is not self-government. It is a managed democracy—stable enough to endure, corrupt enough to decay, and theatrical enough to convince the public it is still in charge.
“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”
Vidal arrived at essentially the same conclusion I did. I just got there without the insults and tribal smearing.
What he adds is theatrics—useful theatrics—meant to push people deeper into the very binary he describes. All illusion. All designed to keep us choosing between the two sides he defines.
It serves the Uni-Party perfectly for “Democrats” to call “Republicans” stupid racists, and for “Republicans” to frame “Democrats” as corrupt socialists. The mutual contempt is the mechanism.
While the crowd fights over labels, the real power stays quietly at the controls.
There's another conclusion waiting for you: it can't be saved no matter how anti-tribalism you believe you are. Nobody is non-tribal. It takes maturity to be tribal and to allow for other tribes. Or shall I civilization, not maturity. Nothing in Western culture has prepared it for that level of civilization. It is stuck on the stage of every local tribe believing its rules apply to the world. You see. Wait when this moment with Trump is done and he amd the maga fascist movement is gone, it will back to vanilla American fascism. There will be no addressing of the core issues, even if all govt was magically cleansed of corruption. Why? Because you still have the same Americans stuck in the same mindsets within the same tribes. It can't be saved for cultural reasons not political ones.
The absolute truth from Caitlin: "The US empire is the single most tyrannical and murderous power structure on this planet. If any regime is in need of changing, it’s that one".
Yes, together with their neoliberal capitalism, their oligarchs, their greedy, corrupt, obscene, ruling class, their supremacist ideology. The time has come for the people to rise up and put a stop to this monstrous evil, to get rid of this filth.
My heart is surely going to break ( not that my heart matters - this is for the Cuban people ), the day they 'touch' Cuba.
Yes, during the Obummer slight removal of Cuban sanctions, I was traveling to work in Chile so we decided to meet in Cuba, I purchased tickets for two friends, one Chilean and one Guatemalan and fly to Chile together. Then of course insanity returned, NOPE didn't happen. Obummer my greatest failure of hope and a Nobel Peace Prize winner : (
So, you are hoping the majority of the American people who are generous, peaceful, and empathetic to the plight of other nations should fall to your level?
The military has old weapons where will be the money to make more?
IF and when Japan sells it's Bonds (like many in the world are doing) there will be an almighty crash. This crash will also cause economic doom in other countries.
When a Country lies all the time why should others buy American debt OR sign any agreements with other nations.
The empire is doing just dandy and will continue to do so, as long as the elite are united. Romanticist fantasies aside, revolutions do not happen because the 99% overthrow the 1%, because the 1% have control over the levers of power and will do whatever it takes to hang onto power.
Revolutions only happen when the 1% are disunited, whether as a result of foreign threat or an inability to divvy up the spoils in a way that keeps enough elites on-side and disgruntled elite factions start casting about for allies. (Les Miz happy horseshit notwithstanding, the French Revolution is a classic case of the latter, with the non-titled middle class wanting a seat at the table.)
The empire will never be doing dandy enough from the pov of the people who run it. Their efforts will cause failures the same way it did in 2007. When it does who knows what will happen politically? Will Americans learn and self-organize for a common good (lol)? Will America balkanize? How will it affect the rest of the world economically? Some forecasters are saying the crash of the usd is going to be felt far more inside the US than outside.
There are still a lot of empires and other nations to catch up to in tyranny, and murderous power structure, CK. This version of the USA is not that old. The vast majority of the American people are quite peaceful, generous, and once were very happy. The implications of the intense lobbying by agents of Israel spreading their unique form of Tikkun Olam has altered the character of this country to the worse.
It's Rubio and his Floridian Cubans who want to bring back the glory days, even while Trump and Miller are hunting and hounding brown and black skins in the America. We need Trump and his crew in prison before they start wars on 2 fronts - Civil War and WWIII. But it might be too late
If Trump indeed launches the strike on Iran that he is threatening, this war will be unlike any other that the U.S. has engaged in for the last eighty years.
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As Deaglan O'Mulroonery pointed out in a related article, Iran has been preparing for decades to resist this long anticipated assault by the United States. The damage that Iran will ready to inflict on American military bases in West Asia will be instant and catastrophic.
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Of all the wars that the U.S. exported to the world in the last eight decades – Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, and all the rest – none of them entailed a consequence like this.
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What presently remains of America’s capacity to project power onto the world is concentrated most forcefully within the many military bases it has sequestered through the dictatorial regimes it either controls or influences or intimidates within that region which Israel fantasizes about as the object of its Greater Israel expansion project -- what the West has long referred to as the Middle East.
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The moment that Trump initiates a miliary strike on Iran from his assembled fleet in the Gulf region, Iran will launch its promised retaliation against all those regional U.S. military bases, and against the dictatorial regimes so beloved by the American Empire.
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And the U.S. will not be able to intercept those strikes. The distance between target and launch is simply too close, and the Iranian missiles will be moving too fast. They won't be able to stop all of them. I think it is even highly likely that they won't succeed in stopping very many of them.
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The same surely holds true for the U.S. fleet. If Trump imagines that his fleet will be impervious to strikes by Iranian missiles, he is dreaming. There will be strikes on the fleet. Those strikes will be effective and will cause profound damage.
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I don’t perceive any outcome from such a misguided decision as an assault on Iran, in which the projection of American power into West Asia will not be shattered overnight.
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Trump is probably just attempting to consolidate fascistic power home by launching a war abroad, but he is just as likely to bring the walls of the Empire crumbling down around him.
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And if the projection of American power into West Asia collapses under Iranian assault, that will be the end of the U.S. pet dictatorships in the region. And Israel may no longer be call on their favorite “Uncle” to bail them out from the consequences that will ensue.
Just so, Jenny Stokes, and thank you for catching my omission. Yes, absolutely. Iran has promised to shut down the Straits of Hormuz if the U.S. attacks them. And they will do it. And, if and when they do, global commerce as we know it will grind to a halt.
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And Trump's delusional fantasies of replacing the oil from West Asia with oil from Venezuela will be clobbered on the head. Even now that Venezuela's new head of state has capitulated to Trump's threats of violence against them, and has agreed to admit the U.S. Empire's Resource Extraction Pirates into their country to get at the oil, they cannot possibly bring up levels of oil production from that region fast enough to replace anything like the volume they will lose from West Asia.
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Trump's usual practice of "move fast and break everything around you" is really going to work this time. He will end breaking up the U.S. Empire about 10-20 years than it would otherwise have done. How about that?
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Mind you, this could well be why he and Hegseth are now holding conferences talking about -- rather sending missiles towards Iran -- sending teams of U.S. soldiers into Iran on the ground.
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That also will a losing scenario, though. Iran is a vast country. It is the size of Europe, and it is extremely challenging territory to contend -- especially for troops coming out of the Anglosphere and the Global North. There is no way they are not going to get hammered by the Republican Guards of Iran.
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And the body bags start coming home to the U.S., Trump and his gang will have to face increased fury from the citizens at home: they don't want this war.
To put it Bluntly ,America and Israel are both a Racist White Supremacist State, and Jewish Supremacist who really don't like non Whites ,or decent Spiritually connected White People with ,Moral and a Conscience. These two States think the world belongs to them and them alone Hence we have people like Churchill with his Mentality. Their Arrogance is so Supreme they actually believe and act like they are God ,Drunk and overdosed on their Military Might, Influence ,and control ,they think Might makes right and the ,reason they act like they do.
Winston CHURCHILL::
*I do not apologize for take over of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians, in the same way I don't apologize for the Whites taking over America from the Red Indians, or the takeover of Australia from the Blacks.
Its natural for a superior race to Dominate and Inferior one.
I wanted to apologize to you and many for debating the path forward for the world. I was ignorant and a Moron for thinking there is hope with any current world gov. or so called champions. Sadly for young people, the only think I expect now is continued acceleration to what ever bottomless drop happens to wake working people up. The General Strike is interesting, I joined it, Fuck work, Fuck purchasing anything today anyway. I thought you might enjoy my participation : ) Fuck Genocide, Fuck ICE. We are all Palestinian. I am not worthy of kissing the foot of any Palestinian, however I will fight : )
The drumbeat for war against Iran is being sounded, not only by the Monster-in-Chief, but also, by supposedly leftist papers like The Guardian.... and worse:
For the last month, during which the CIA, the Mossad and MI6 have been conducting their insidious False Flag operation with Iran, attempting to foment an insurrection by reportedly burning down hundreds of Mosques and Fire Stations and Ambulances, and assassinating over a thousand police officers {shades of exploding pagers?}, Democracy Now, and Amy Goodman – who claim to be progressives – to my everlasting horror, have insisted on reporting these events by repeating the Empire’s propaganda that it is the State of Iran that is propagating the violence against their own people, rather than the Empire that is assaulting Iran and its people.
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The U.S. assaulted Iran, first by economic sanctions that provoked what were indeed initially peaceful portests (that the State of Iran allowed to proceed peacefully), then by infiltrating the peaceful protests with agent provovateurs, with guns bombs to assassinate Iranian police officers and Iranian citizens, and destroy the mosques, fire stations and ambulances; and now by bring waring to their doorstep.
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That Democracy Now is presenting as "news" the bullshit claim that the Iranian authorities are the killers and aggressors in Iran is a travesty.
All that is presented sounds just about right, except for one thing… The identity of the perpetrator is indeed the U.S. , all that is missing is the final letters to the title holder… ‘Of Israel’… as in.. The United States of Israel. Otherwise, all’s well with the narrative.
We see these evil things generated by a clearly Malignant Narcissist who is well into Dementia and yet I am shocked. What is the supposed opposition party the Demoncrats the only word for them. When hope is crushed by the people who are supposed to be your champions, Obummer comes to mind do nothing but hand wave, like voting to give ICE more funding than requested creating a budget larger than all local and state police combined. What should we think, I know what I think, WE are ALL Palestinian now. ALL OF US.
Instead of being so concerned about other countries’ regime perhaps they should be pushing for regime change in their own. America first, remember?
"America First!" was ever always only a marketing slogan.
Nothing more.
It may be a marketing slogan but its efficacy lies in the deeply held American belief in their ‘exceptionalism’.
Which is based on... what? The constitution that they routinely ignore?
The orange clown just omitted the quiet part, which is the "Great America" actually means it owns the entire planet..
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MIGA - Make Imperialism Great Again!
youtube.com/watch?v=H_1WIksJJ8Q
Many of the long time readers here would tell you, OH Landru will debate the value of hope forever unyielding in his stupidity. Now I agree, however, is accelerationism is my path? I would love to see all those that I challenged show up on this comment and reply with I TOLD YOU SO, MORON
Well.. This Pseudo "Democracy" gives ppl the illusion of choice/control...
That's why they keep clinging to it..
***
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion." At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
-Frank Zappa
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G. Carlin explains the illusion of Choice:
youtube.com/shorts/zpEa5WS4kmc
I am old, I saw many of Carlin's truth appearances live. What is shocking, they allowed him to say those things live on many channels. Carlin a hero before and after his time.
"That's all we've ever had in this country - a Bill of Temporary Privileges. And every year the list gets shorter and shorter.."
-George Carlin
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youtube.com/shorts/ofEE6y30Ogw
I was a fool not realizing that at the start. Hope is a flaw in my character and sense of intelligence. Now where did I leave my big red rubber nose..........
ANY POTUS is a puppet to the MIC/CIA's Imperialist Deep State.. It's all just a kabuki theater..
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I mean, eventually you guys will have to admit that's not about a person, it's about the system. And POTUS is just a figurehead.
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Pseudo "Democracy": The House always wins, but you keep gambling because each bet FEELS like your choice:
youtube.com/watch?v=maiezdDneek
‘America First’ …?
Nope… ‘Money First’…
US-based business corporations want to be free to exploit the material and labor resources of the entire world.
Consider the history of oligarchs of the British Empire and those of a long list of collapsed empires of the Ottomans, Russia, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Rome, etc.
Keep watching China, India, Korea and Japan.
Japan is doomed, debt, aging pop, currency that is trashier than u.s. d. Korea it seems is waking up to who has their boot on their collective necks. Interesting as you say.
Japan was captured and subjugated by the American Empire after WWII.
If Japan becomes allied with China and Korea, its fortune may change.
Me encanta tu ironíaTenggara, no haran lo que dices, la codicia insaciable es la droga nueva que consumen, es afrodisíaca, con la que llegan a eyacular sin necesidad de mujer que los excite, no la necesitan para nada, quiero toneladas de codicia, eso si me pone cachondo. Y contra eso no he visto que haya en el mercado cosa capaz de superar ese placer inmenso. Aunque ennarbolen la bandera del "primero y último USA", ellos son lo primero y último de USA, no la población infeliz que les vota, que quieren seguir pensando que el sueño americano existe y nos incpaces que ver que esta en la UVI hospitalaria, en sus últimas horas, ningun cirujano piensa que vaya a llegar con vida antes de navidad alargándolo mucho, el sueño americano. La UVI es en la Unidad de Vigilancia Intersiva de un Hospital, donde esperan todos, al cura que les de la extremaunción
Yes. They do it because they can.
What we are seeing is the United States is dropping any remaining pretense of being anything other than an empire ruled at home and abroad by naked force.
This will come back to haunt the US exactly like it has in Europe and UK.
What do you mean "come back to haunt us," it already is..........
What the USA has been doing, not just under Trump, but most every President since Kennedy, is the use of force rather than diplomacy to create positive outcomes for all. Right. The term "for the greater good" is just a phony slogan people use to rationalize their aggression, deceit, and greed and the need to exert power over others to force them to embrace a fantasy ideology under the guise of "muh Democracy" which is a farce.
Many years ago on CBS 60 Minutes, Madeine Albright was asked if the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children (via economic sanctions) were worth the cost (the death by starvation of children) and she answered: "YES!" God bless the good ole USofA!
The USofA ended a long time ago… and is now and has been the USofI.
That's not the USA speaking that's a dual citizen Israeli Zionist speaking. May she rest in turmoil and fear.
There is no political party in the United States that opposes regime change. If anything, the Democrats chastised Trump for not doing enough in Venezuela. The regime change business can go unchecked as long as Trump informs Congress.
There are not two political parties in the United States. There is one power system—the Uni-Party—with two branded branches, Red and Blue. They do not compete over who rules; they compete over who manages the story while the same interests govern. The administrative state persists. Corporate power persists. War, debt, surveillance, and regulatory capture persist regardless of which color occupies the podium. The appearance of choice exists to keep the public divided horizontally so it never organizes vertically. Voters are encouraged to fight one another over culture, symbols, and moral posturing while the machinery above them operates untouched. Elections do not threaten the system; they legitimize it.
Tytler’s warning still applies, but the mechanism has evolved. The public no longer selects leaders in order to raid the treasury; the treasury is already pre-raided. Corporations and permanent institutions pre-screen candidates, fund the viable ones, and define the narrow corridor of acceptable policy. What voters are given is not a choice but a menu. Crumbs still fall, and that is how control is maintained—contracts, subsidies, grants, regulatory favors, NGO money, revolving-door employment. Loyalty is rewarded; dissent is starved. The structure replicates downward, from federal to local politics, with smaller tables offering smaller crumbs to those who play along.
This is not tyranny and it is not self-government. It is a managed democracy—stable enough to endure, corrupt enough to decay, and theatrical enough to convince the public it is still in charge.
“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”
- Gore Vidal
Vidal arrived at essentially the same conclusion I did. I just got there without the insults and tribal smearing.
What he adds is theatrics—useful theatrics—meant to push people deeper into the very binary he describes. All illusion. All designed to keep us choosing between the two sides he defines.
It serves the Uni-Party perfectly for “Democrats” to call “Republicans” stupid racists, and for “Republicans” to frame “Democrats” as corrupt socialists. The mutual contempt is the mechanism.
While the crowd fights over labels, the real power stays quietly at the controls.
There's another conclusion waiting for you: it can't be saved no matter how anti-tribalism you believe you are. Nobody is non-tribal. It takes maturity to be tribal and to allow for other tribes. Or shall I civilization, not maturity. Nothing in Western culture has prepared it for that level of civilization. It is stuck on the stage of every local tribe believing its rules apply to the world. You see. Wait when this moment with Trump is done and he amd the maga fascist movement is gone, it will back to vanilla American fascism. There will be no addressing of the core issues, even if all govt was magically cleansed of corruption. Why? Because you still have the same Americans stuck in the same mindsets within the same tribes. It can't be saved for cultural reasons not political ones.
So, what fascist tribe do you belong to ennui and how does it differ?
Bertolt Brecht said, "Do not rejoice too much that Hitler is dead and gone because the bitch who bore him is in heat again."
The absolute truth from Caitlin: "The US empire is the single most tyrannical and murderous power structure on this planet. If any regime is in need of changing, it’s that one".
Yes, together with their neoliberal capitalism, their oligarchs, their greedy, corrupt, obscene, ruling class, their supremacist ideology. The time has come for the people to rise up and put a stop to this monstrous evil, to get rid of this filth.
My heart is surely going to break ( not that my heart matters - this is for the Cuban people ), the day they 'touch' Cuba.
Yes, during the Obummer slight removal of Cuban sanctions, I was traveling to work in Chile so we decided to meet in Cuba, I purchased tickets for two friends, one Chilean and one Guatemalan and fly to Chile together. Then of course insanity returned, NOPE didn't happen. Obummer my greatest failure of hope and a Nobel Peace Prize winner : (
“The US empire is the single most tyrannical and murderous power structure on this planet. If any regime is in need of changing, it’s that one.”
How much longer will the US Empire endure?
Long enough to cause maximum damage on its way down
So, you are hoping the majority of the American people who are generous, peaceful, and empathetic to the plight of other nations should fall to your level?
The dollar is crashing.
The military has old weapons where will be the money to make more?
IF and when Japan sells it's Bonds (like many in the world are doing) there will be an almighty crash. This crash will also cause economic doom in other countries.
When a Country lies all the time why should others buy American debt OR sign any agreements with other nations.
The empire is doing just dandy and will continue to do so, as long as the elite are united. Romanticist fantasies aside, revolutions do not happen because the 99% overthrow the 1%, because the 1% have control over the levers of power and will do whatever it takes to hang onto power.
Revolutions only happen when the 1% are disunited, whether as a result of foreign threat or an inability to divvy up the spoils in a way that keeps enough elites on-side and disgruntled elite factions start casting about for allies. (Les Miz happy horseshit notwithstanding, the French Revolution is a classic case of the latter, with the non-titled middle class wanting a seat at the table.)
The empire will never be doing dandy enough from the pov of the people who run it. Their efforts will cause failures the same way it did in 2007. When it does who knows what will happen politically? Will Americans learn and self-organize for a common good (lol)? Will America balkanize? How will it affect the rest of the world economically? Some forecasters are saying the crash of the usd is going to be felt far more inside the US than outside.
There are still a lot of empires and other nations to catch up to in tyranny, and murderous power structure, CK. This version of the USA is not that old. The vast majority of the American people are quite peaceful, generous, and once were very happy. The implications of the intense lobbying by agents of Israel spreading their unique form of Tikkun Olam has altered the character of this country to the worse.
It's Rubio and his Floridian Cubans who want to bring back the glory days, even while Trump and Miller are hunting and hounding brown and black skins in the America. We need Trump and his crew in prison before they start wars on 2 fronts - Civil War and WWIII. But it might be too late
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If Trump indeed launches the strike on Iran that he is threatening, this war will be unlike any other that the U.S. has engaged in for the last eighty years.
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As Deaglan O'Mulroonery pointed out in a related article, Iran has been preparing for decades to resist this long anticipated assault by the United States. The damage that Iran will ready to inflict on American military bases in West Asia will be instant and catastrophic.
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Of all the wars that the U.S. exported to the world in the last eight decades – Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, and all the rest – none of them entailed a consequence like this.
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What presently remains of America’s capacity to project power onto the world is concentrated most forcefully within the many military bases it has sequestered through the dictatorial regimes it either controls or influences or intimidates within that region which Israel fantasizes about as the object of its Greater Israel expansion project -- what the West has long referred to as the Middle East.
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The moment that Trump initiates a miliary strike on Iran from his assembled fleet in the Gulf region, Iran will launch its promised retaliation against all those regional U.S. military bases, and against the dictatorial regimes so beloved by the American Empire.
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And the U.S. will not be able to intercept those strikes. The distance between target and launch is simply too close, and the Iranian missiles will be moving too fast. They won't be able to stop all of them. I think it is even highly likely that they won't succeed in stopping very many of them.
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The same surely holds true for the U.S. fleet. If Trump imagines that his fleet will be impervious to strikes by Iranian missiles, he is dreaming. There will be strikes on the fleet. Those strikes will be effective and will cause profound damage.
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I don’t perceive any outcome from such a misguided decision as an assault on Iran, in which the projection of American power into West Asia will not be shattered overnight.
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Trump is probably just attempting to consolidate fascistic power home by launching a war abroad, but he is just as likely to bring the walls of the Empire crumbling down around him.
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And if the projection of American power into West Asia collapses under Iranian assault, that will be the end of the U.S. pet dictatorships in the region. And Israel may no longer be call on their favorite “Uncle” to bail them out from the consequences that will ensue.
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Never forget the Straits of Hormuz. Iran has said clearly they will shut this down immediately.
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Just so, Jenny Stokes, and thank you for catching my omission. Yes, absolutely. Iran has promised to shut down the Straits of Hormuz if the U.S. attacks them. And they will do it. And, if and when they do, global commerce as we know it will grind to a halt.
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And Trump's delusional fantasies of replacing the oil from West Asia with oil from Venezuela will be clobbered on the head. Even now that Venezuela's new head of state has capitulated to Trump's threats of violence against them, and has agreed to admit the U.S. Empire's Resource Extraction Pirates into their country to get at the oil, they cannot possibly bring up levels of oil production from that region fast enough to replace anything like the volume they will lose from West Asia.
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Trump's usual practice of "move fast and break everything around you" is really going to work this time. He will end breaking up the U.S. Empire about 10-20 years than it would otherwise have done. How about that?
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Mind you, this could well be why he and Hegseth are now holding conferences talking about -- rather sending missiles towards Iran -- sending teams of U.S. soldiers into Iran on the ground.
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That also will a losing scenario, though. Iran is a vast country. It is the size of Europe, and it is extremely challenging territory to contend -- especially for troops coming out of the Anglosphere and the Global North. There is no way they are not going to get hammered by the Republican Guards of Iran.
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And the body bags start coming home to the U.S., Trump and his gang will have to face increased fury from the citizens at home: they don't want this war.
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To put it Bluntly ,America and Israel are both a Racist White Supremacist State, and Jewish Supremacist who really don't like non Whites ,or decent Spiritually connected White People with ,Moral and a Conscience. These two States think the world belongs to them and them alone Hence we have people like Churchill with his Mentality. Their Arrogance is so Supreme they actually believe and act like they are God ,Drunk and overdosed on their Military Might, Influence ,and control ,they think Might makes right and the ,reason they act like they do.
Winston CHURCHILL::
*I do not apologize for take over of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians, in the same way I don't apologize for the Whites taking over America from the Red Indians, or the takeover of Australia from the Blacks.
Its natural for a superior race to Dominate and Inferior one.
Hi Antonio
Literally drunk in Churchill’s case.
And he continues to be hailed as some kind of hero! 😂
I wanted to apologize to you and many for debating the path forward for the world. I was ignorant and a Moron for thinking there is hope with any current world gov. or so called champions. Sadly for young people, the only think I expect now is continued acceleration to what ever bottomless drop happens to wake working people up. The General Strike is interesting, I joined it, Fuck work, Fuck purchasing anything today anyway. I thought you might enjoy my participation : ) Fuck Genocide, Fuck ICE. We are all Palestinian. I am not worthy of kissing the foot of any Palestinian, however I will fight : )
Yes, so what does anyone propose to do about it?
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The drumbeat for war against Iran is being sounded, not only by the Monster-in-Chief, but also, by supposedly leftist papers like The Guardian.... and worse:
For the last month, during which the CIA, the Mossad and MI6 have been conducting their insidious False Flag operation with Iran, attempting to foment an insurrection by reportedly burning down hundreds of Mosques and Fire Stations and Ambulances, and assassinating over a thousand police officers {shades of exploding pagers?}, Democracy Now, and Amy Goodman – who claim to be progressives – to my everlasting horror, have insisted on reporting these events by repeating the Empire’s propaganda that it is the State of Iran that is propagating the violence against their own people, rather than the Empire that is assaulting Iran and its people.
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The U.S. assaulted Iran, first by economic sanctions that provoked what were indeed initially peaceful portests (that the State of Iran allowed to proceed peacefully), then by infiltrating the peaceful protests with agent provovateurs, with guns bombs to assassinate Iranian police officers and Iranian citizens, and destroy the mosques, fire stations and ambulances; and now by bring waring to their doorstep.
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That Democracy Now is presenting as "news" the bullshit claim that the Iranian authorities are the killers and aggressors in Iran is a travesty.
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Thhe Guardian has NOT been a 'leftist' newspaper for many years.
What has it been, an apologist for failed Cultural Marxism?
Democracy Now is really no better than Fox News on all of the crucial issues. All mainstream media is propaganda for the state.
All that is presented sounds just about right, except for one thing… The identity of the perpetrator is indeed the U.S. , all that is missing is the final letters to the title holder… ‘Of Israel’… as in.. The United States of Israel. Otherwise, all’s well with the narrative.
It's hard to distinguish between the two at this stage, or decipher which is dog and which is tail
Mary: I believe both are the dog’s asshole…
Haha yes. Or whatever comes out of it.
Zionist Israeli control of US policies and politicians is so pervasive we may as well rename The United States to The Zionited States.
https://nedb.substack.com/p/the-zionited-states-of-america
We see these evil things generated by a clearly Malignant Narcissist who is well into Dementia and yet I am shocked. What is the supposed opposition party the Demoncrats the only word for them. When hope is crushed by the people who are supposed to be your champions, Obummer comes to mind do nothing but hand wave, like voting to give ICE more funding than requested creating a budget larger than all local and state police combined. What should we think, I know what I think, WE are ALL Palestinian now. ALL OF US.
All from the presidential candidate who promised us no more wars and lasting world peace.🤬🖕
Seems to always work that way, no matter which political party comes into power.
We need the UN to start growing some balls unless it is going to turn into the League of Nations 2.0 and catastrophe.
How is this monster to be reined in?
How does Cuba pose a threat to the US?
And what is the Democratic party doing other than their usual campaign funding from Wallstreet and the MIC?