Donald Trump recently stated that the US won WW1 and WW2. That is news to the former Soviet Union that lost 27 million people while breaking the back of Nazi Germany’s army. The US lost 419,400 dead.
Trump has started a tariff war with much of the world (especially China) that will likely break the back of the US economy.
The Houthis in Yemen have shot down 22 US MQ-9 Reaper drones that cost $32 million each. In addition, two $60 million fighter jets slid off the deck of a US aircraft carrier recently while under attack as planes were being launched to attack Yemen. A third jet was shot down by the Navy in a ‘friendly fire’ hit. The US has been bombing civilian targets there in retribution for Yemen’s pledge not to allow any Israel-bound supply ships in the Red Sea as long as the Israel-US-UK genocide in Gaza continues. It now appears Trump has waived the white flag and quit the Yemen attacks.
Trump promised not to start any wars but he sure is working hard to break that promise as his neo-con administration is doing everything it can to support the creation of ‘Greater Israel’. Israel is now attacking Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank. The Zionists have their sights set on Iran and are pushing Trump to ‘bomb, bomb, bomb Iran’.
Back here at home things are getting worse when it comes to health care, education, infrastructure maintenance and repair, environmental protection, cost of living and our freedoms to speak and protest. For someone who claimed he wanted to ‘Make America Great Again’ Trump sure has taken a wrong turn.
But let’s be fair. Most of these issues were staring the Biden administration in the face during his tenure. Virtually nothing was done as the Democrats were preoccupied funding wars against Russia via the US proxy Ukraine, daily carnage in Palestine, attacks on Yemen, and more. It’s a bi-partisan war machine that runs Washington these days.
Biden officials have admitted they never pressured Israel for a ceasefire.
Former Israeli ambassador Michael Herzog stated, “God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period…We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”
A sweeping Israeli Channel 13 investigation has exposed the Biden administration’s complicity in Israel’s 19-month war on Gaza. Nine top Biden officials acknowledged avoiding real pressure on Israel—even as the death toll surpassed 30,000. (It is now well over 50,000 – and maybe double considering those still buried under the ruble.) Israeli leaders openly bragged they dragged out the war, playing for time until Donald Trump’s return.
Former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Ambassador Tom Nides, and others defended their unwavering support for Israel—even as they admitted enabling a campaign one U.S. aide described as “killing and destroying for the sake of killing and destroying.”
All over the world protests against genocide in Palestine continue but, in the US, Germany and the UK in particular crackdowns on free speech and assembly continue. So much for the ‘exceptional democracy’ of the west!
Trump wants a Star Wars-era ‘Golden Dome’ over the US to protect our nation from counter-strikes after the Pentagon launches their planned wars on China and Russia. Elon Musk’s Space X company is in the lead for the contract as well as seeking hundreds of billions for the colonization of Mars that he so often brags about. Yes, there was method in his madness by becoming part of the Trump administration.
Speaking of which – Social Security is in grave danger of being privatized along with Medicare/ Medicaid, the Veterans Administration (VA), the postal service, Amtrak and much more. The oligarchs are literally draining the public sector and pocketing the cash – sort of like pirates stealing the buried treasure chest.
The desperation shows as we watch the angry words coming from Washington demanding control of Greenland, Canada, Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Ukraine’s resources and much more. The mis-leadership in the White House and Congress know that our day in the sun is over. The myth of American exceptionalism has been shattered by the emergence of the Global South, BRICS+, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and an ever-feisty African continent.
Our Role
Across the beleaguered west (US, UK, EU) we witness populations of depression and some level of resignation to the frustrations of growing oligarch domination. This is not the time to surrender hope and our demand for political sovereignty.
There has been a rise in protests lately across the US but one sad fact is that many of the events are being led by groups funded and coordinated by the Democrat Party. A close look reveals that foreign policy issues are often absent. Virtually nothing about Palestine, or funding the war in Ukraine. It should never be forgotten that much of our domestic economic crisis is currently due to spending $1 trillion a year on the military industrial complex. How can that not be a key issue in any protest?
What could be more important at this time in history than for all of us to tell the bitter truth about what the US role in the world has wrought? How could we not declare that America’s war-state MUST BE DISMANTLED! How could that issue be absent from any public gathering that presumes to right the wrongs across our land?
Most readers of this blog understand these words. But beyond us are legions of ‘progressives’ who for various reasons don’t see fit to make these deadly connections visible for the public.
That is our task – our mission in the coming times. We must never waver or cower under pressures to go along with the flow. The flow will drown us if we are not alert.
In peace.
Bruce