It looks more or less like Netanyahu is now in charge of our foreign policy, backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. We haven't heard much from Zelenski in awhile.
There was a violent incursion. I find it very questionable that the most advanced security state on Earth (not US) didn't see it coming; anybody could see it coming after the decades of collective punishment and murderous repression.
That it was so horriblly successful cries out for investigation into whether this was strategic blindness, as with so many other painful memories that were also predictable, predicted, and all messengers fired. In the present case it's being used as an excuse to exterminate an entire population that had been herded off their ancestral land into Gaza since1948.
That's not "antisemitic," it's just history. The dying British Empire set the victims of Nazi atrocities against indigenous Arab peoples for their own purposes. America's history is chillingly similar several times over. It is the unmistakeable pattern of colonial conquest and enslavement. It is an addiction, inherently self-destructive and self-perpetuating, and America remains in denial as we spiral into oblivion, reaching for the next fix. That would be Taiwan. But looking around, there are several in the pipelines (pun intended).
Today it is undeniable that my own country, the USA, is accountable for all the mass death and injury in Western Asia, over the past two or three decades. All of it, up to the recent Hamas attack, and the present Zionist genocide. None of it could ever have happened without our long-standing, uncritical and unlimited military and financial support for the Israeli security-state. Despite several serious bites to the hand that feeds it.
If there was any doubt, our President just said so, and sent Blinken to tell the Israeli head of state, in brightly-lit photo-ops. And, oh yes, because our President dispatched more tons of horror-weapons and a sizable chunk of the Navy, and arguably the State Department, the Defense Department, and several more billions of our tax dollars. And since Zelenski isn't using it anymore, direction of our foreign policy.
I would have written, "our public relations," but the two were merged in about 2014, in case nobody noticed. That was about when information as a commodity tanked, and was superseded by aggregated attention, or "surveillance capital," in the new global economic logic. Spectacle outruns information, and gets much stronger reactions.
So now we're all-in, with no apparent exit plan or end-game, to "stand with" a small, hyper-radical military junta that took over the Zionist project with the avowed intention of conducting an actual genocide, right in front of everybody.
All this on top of "standing with" Ukraine in a war which was always Putin's war to lose, and that isn't the kind of mistake he makes; and in the midst of an intense propaganda campaign to demonize China and bait the Chinese government into invading Taiwan, so we can sell more uranium weapons to those nerdy islanders with all the precious microchip factories, so we can fight to the last Taiwanian for their Freedom and Democracy. The playbook is as obscenely effective as ever with the public. At least in the "Global North." And who cares about the rest of humanity?
Bibi and Biden, like many modern political figures, seem to be ramping up all this terror just to keep from getting arrested. Bibi got into office only moments ahead of the law (which he tries to change). Biden will be vulnerable to all sorts of legal trouble as an unseated president if 45 returns to the People's instead the Big House; clearly they both plan to be President for Life one way or the other. And Zalenski? Remember him? If he loses our attention, he's done for, and he's nearly dropped out of the "news cycle" already.
Maybe the think-tankers who invent these schemes just couldn't come up with a Taiwanese leader they could put in charge of our foreign affairs, and Netanyahu was getting to be a real media pain so they gave him a shot. Several other genocides are ready to launch now, on dark-skinned and impoverished populations. Death rains from the sky, from several skies, and later it will grow from the ground, from all the "depleted" uranium and unexploded cluster munitions and land mines.
The U.S. government could stop it with a couple of keystrokes, I don't know, in Langley or Ft. Meade, wherever such horrors are managed. Don't hold your breath.
I had always thought better of us. I'm so deeply ashamed and sorry.
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