2024-04-30

America Must be Stopped and Palestine Must be Free

The current world situation is unquestionably far worse than "normal". While there have always been conflicts, the world has never had a situation where one country repeatedly selects another one anywhere in the world and proceeds to utterly destroy it as the US has done with, to list a few of its victims, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. We also have the US so desperate to maintain hegemonic control of everything on earth that it is willing to push humanity to the brink of nuclear war over who controls some provinces in Ukraine or a small Chinese Island. The world has not often, if ever, seen a country like the US that murders at will and actively supports and abets a genocide as in Palestine. The world situation is most definitely far worse than "normal" right now. 


On the positive side, though, there are clear signs that the evil American empire is nearing its end. BRICS and dedollarization will neuter the US because its power is based on a house of cards (ie. the petrodollar) that will soon come crashing down once more countries follow the lead of Russia, China and Iran and overcome their dollar dependency. Without the ability to create money out of thin air based on nothing concrete, the US will not be able to bully other countries with illegal sanctions or to start horrendous wars all over the world. Just as people in the West are now seeing through (as the Global Majority has always seen) the lies-based mythology around Zionism and the Zionist regime currently occupying Palestine so are they seeing through the lies of American "exceptionalism" and the "rules-based international order", which has never actually meant anything more than "we [the US] make the rules and you [everyone else] follow the orders". Hypocrisy as an ideology cannot work forever.

The rulers have gone too far once again. In the early 20th century, with labor making gains toward a fairer and more equitable society, the Establishment needed Roosevelt to make minimal concessions in order to avoid a revolution or, worse in the eyes of the greedy rich, socialism. In the late sixties, the protest movement forced the Establishment to end a war they wanted to continue and the draft, too. Now, after 40+ years of destructive neoliberalism and 20+ years of constant war, young Americans, seeing they have no future in such a society and disgusted by what their country is doing to the Palestinians, have finally stood up to say no. I do not know if the current protest movement will last or if it can stop the genocide, but it has already helped to show to the world the utter depravity of the ruling class, the media and the rich. There is no turning back now and that is a very good thing.

Hopefully America and its "Israeli" attack dog will not nuke the world on their way out the door.