Superb essay. I would quibble about your assessment of Yemen, which is not US versus Yemen, but yet another proxy for the much bigger dispute with Iran. The persistent problem is the world is filled with 8 billion conniving, selfish individuals who form alliances on the fly to improve their chances of survival and, perhaps, success. Nothing is what it seems. Mankind's capacity for evil is only exceeded by our deviousness.
So the question always becomes, what can we do about it? My own strategy is always to support those who are trying to do good, and help them to do it better, but to always be prepared to survive failure. The world never gives us everything we want. We have to fight for anything we get. If we want peace, we'll have to fight for that too.
Life sucks, and then we die. The best we can hope for is to make it suck a little less, for a little longer.
I rather hope that you're wrong and I grew up as a resistor to the American Empire. For sure those who have put Biden in and before that Obama and Clinton need to go as they've bankrupted the US financially and morally. But something can be raised here. We shouldn't let the billionaires just relocate the capital of the World to a new Empire of their choosing.
@Chris... I find your perspective interesting. It definitely has an eastern flare for western dissent. After all, it was the US's Obama/Biden that ordered Putin to reclaim Crimea and again Biden to order Putin to attempt annex Ukraine, just like Henry Ford ordering Hitler to invade Russia so he could sell cars in Moscow.
For some reason you and others think the US is an empire. It's a very European outlook, albeit an antiquated remnant of european monarchies. It just shows how much europeans do not understand the US.
I do find it interesting how monarchists, ppl looking to reestablish royal leadership and lineages, have this respect and admiration for Putin despite his crimes of blackmail, extorsion, and some claim even murder of defectors and potential political challengers. I'd guess his admirers are looking for a degree of certainty in their lives during a time of uncertainty from disillusionment and unrealistic expectations our "system of civilization" can keep us safe from threats like SARS/CoV2, chemical pollutants, and other factors out of our control. The feeling of security is merely an illusion of civilization, its not real.
No czar, dictator, king, queen, or elected body can protect us from the uncontrollable, they can only recreate the illusion to make the insecure feel better for a short time. Inevitably, we become disappointed with our "supreme leaders", feel betrayed where they end up like Mussolini and Gaddafi.
When Putin called the US "an empire of lies", he does what most mentally ill ppl do, project their own behaviors onto others as a deflection.
@Ungovernable Rich (Rude to PM) has hit the key point, "billionaires just relocate the capital of the World to a new Empire of their choosing", except the US not an empire. Empires are political entities with a emperor or a king that gains power through conquest of lands. That is not the US.
Throughout it's short history and despite the strong, traditional british and french mentoring, the US had attempted and failed at becoming an empire using methods found in european style colonialism. A strong fanatical, now somewhat tempered, christian influence (remember they were kicked out of europe for being fanatical) left no political or moral will pursue tactics such as Belgium's treatment of the Congolese or the UK's treatment of the chinese and control of western slavery market. Imperialism is a more appropriate for the US, not by forceful means, but passively by the allure of wealth portrayed in media, likely an intended consequence to pacify dissent it's own population.
Despite more moderate christian influences, politically US has never been able to shed some fanatical views and mentored techniques in the treatment of their own population.
So, @Ungovernable Rich almost got it correct. The US is a vehicle for the unscrupulous, almost all migrated and adopted from europe. To trade with europe, the US was forced to engage, partner and become part of old world leadership corruption.
Like Putin, this article reeks of deflection. We from and the surrounding european continent blaming the US for our old and current economic leaders actions. The US is just the current vehicle for the still and long standing european trade network owners. If "we" want to blame someone, all we need to do is look in the mirror.
I read you carefully. Thank you for writing this. A lot of work goes into your writing and that is something I appreciate.
I'm sending you a warm greeting from Ibiza.
hardest thing is getting anyone to read anything bar whats the msm view
so many are still carrying the ussr russian 50s etc view
they dont even realise its NOT ussr anymore(facepalm)
but yeah even if biden carks it we then have cackles and the puppetmasters to contend with
and wars are such a nice moneymaker...always a handy war to cover their screwups in the nation isnt it?
Superb essay. I would quibble about your assessment of Yemen, which is not US versus Yemen, but yet another proxy for the much bigger dispute with Iran. The persistent problem is the world is filled with 8 billion conniving, selfish individuals who form alliances on the fly to improve their chances of survival and, perhaps, success. Nothing is what it seems. Mankind's capacity for evil is only exceeded by our deviousness.
So the question always becomes, what can we do about it? My own strategy is always to support those who are trying to do good, and help them to do it better, but to always be prepared to survive failure. The world never gives us everything we want. We have to fight for anything we get. If we want peace, we'll have to fight for that too.
Life sucks, and then we die. The best we can hope for is to make it suck a little less, for a little longer.
I rather hope that you're wrong and I grew up as a resistor to the American Empire. For sure those who have put Biden in and before that Obama and Clinton need to go as they've bankrupted the US financially and morally. But something can be raised here. We shouldn't let the billionaires just relocate the capital of the World to a new Empire of their choosing.
Brilliant and incisive. Thank you.
@Chris... I find your perspective interesting. It definitely has an eastern flare for western dissent. After all, it was the US's Obama/Biden that ordered Putin to reclaim Crimea and again Biden to order Putin to attempt annex Ukraine, just like Henry Ford ordering Hitler to invade Russia so he could sell cars in Moscow.
For some reason you and others think the US is an empire. It's a very European outlook, albeit an antiquated remnant of european monarchies. It just shows how much europeans do not understand the US.
I do find it interesting how monarchists, ppl looking to reestablish royal leadership and lineages, have this respect and admiration for Putin despite his crimes of blackmail, extorsion, and some claim even murder of defectors and potential political challengers. I'd guess his admirers are looking for a degree of certainty in their lives during a time of uncertainty from disillusionment and unrealistic expectations our "system of civilization" can keep us safe from threats like SARS/CoV2, chemical pollutants, and other factors out of our control. The feeling of security is merely an illusion of civilization, its not real.
No czar, dictator, king, queen, or elected body can protect us from the uncontrollable, they can only recreate the illusion to make the insecure feel better for a short time. Inevitably, we become disappointed with our "supreme leaders", feel betrayed where they end up like Mussolini and Gaddafi.
When Putin called the US "an empire of lies", he does what most mentally ill ppl do, project their own behaviors onto others as a deflection.
@Ungovernable Rich (Rude to PM) has hit the key point, "billionaires just relocate the capital of the World to a new Empire of their choosing", except the US not an empire. Empires are political entities with a emperor or a king that gains power through conquest of lands. That is not the US.
Throughout it's short history and despite the strong, traditional british and french mentoring, the US had attempted and failed at becoming an empire using methods found in european style colonialism. A strong fanatical, now somewhat tempered, christian influence (remember they were kicked out of europe for being fanatical) left no political or moral will pursue tactics such as Belgium's treatment of the Congolese or the UK's treatment of the chinese and control of western slavery market. Imperialism is a more appropriate for the US, not by forceful means, but passively by the allure of wealth portrayed in media, likely an intended consequence to pacify dissent it's own population.
Despite more moderate christian influences, politically US has never been able to shed some fanatical views and mentored techniques in the treatment of their own population.
So, @Ungovernable Rich almost got it correct. The US is a vehicle for the unscrupulous, almost all migrated and adopted from europe. To trade with europe, the US was forced to engage, partner and become part of old world leadership corruption.
Like Putin, this article reeks of deflection. We from and the surrounding european continent blaming the US for our old and current economic leaders actions. The US is just the current vehicle for the still and long standing european trade network owners. If "we" want to blame someone, all we need to do is look in the mirror.