In Munich, the US announced its intent to crush all opposition to its permanent status as imperial top dog, even if that means destroying everything, and all of us, in the process
Too bad for Rubio. The US tried to colonize the world and failed. He and his fellow goons just can't face the fact it is over for the US. Its time to move on to a new more modest normal. It is going to take a long time to rebuild and restore and they are just making matters worse.
Rubio's speech is late stage empire trying to cope. The US deindustrialized itself, massively indebted itsel, and allowed itself to be captured by it's client state and to act against it's own self interest, and refusal to adopt new energy systems mean there is no turning back. If Europe is smart, they will forget the transatlantic relationship and focus on Eurasian integration for their needs.
I didn't read the main article.. reading the introduction spoke volumes of your cluelessness. The current administration isn't trying to suppress Russia or China... that ended decades ago.
The reality is that Donald Trump is urging USA into a partnership with Russia and China at partitioning the planet.
Furthermore, not only has he praised both nations' ruthless authoritarian leaders, but he's done everything he could to support Russia against Ukraine, wreck every institution and economic advantage of the USA, and give numerous fodder to those dictators to ridicule USA over.
"...Old-school, white-man’s-burden colonialism is unapologetically back..."
And in no area more obviously than in the insistence that the people of these former and current imperial regimes should be prepared to give up their Trade Unions, their social benefits, the "welfare state" and, if called upon for military duty, their lives in order to assist their rulers in plundering the rest of the world.
To begin with they are required to assent to devoting 5% to the military budgets needed to allow the re-colonisation of Cuba, Venezuela and other countries that appear to have been misled by communists into liberating themselves and, in doing so, compromising the comfort of the criminal ruling class.
Clearly, Rubio gets his understanding of history, not from history books by acclaimed and reputable historians, rather from watching too many Hollywood movies and reading too many comic books.
absolutely true... as Putin's poodle, Trump is doing everything he can to destroy USA from within. Every "imperialist" move has been a failure resulting in his causing damage and then backing out. So it will be with Iran - there will be no imperial occupation.
For all to long, some of us have been pointing out the so-called west is intrinsically driven by white supremacy and colonialism.....and been called party poopers.
For example when the litmus test in any public interaction in the so-called "west" is to decalre that a genocidal colonial regime...."has a right to exist" and gets weapons and money to commit a known genocide in its colonial efforts....when they all spend hundreds of millions to fund and arm KNOW fascists for years on end.....surely it should be clear the entire group is directed together in service of facism.
Rubio only said what should have been obvious for several years now, and probably for decades going back to the sordid mass-murderous global "war on terror" that has savaged millions of innocent people across the world and led to their nations being invaded and bombed by the north atlantic allliance of terrorists organized in uniform.
Well the mask is off now. There is no plausible excuse for identifying with this murderous thieving agenda and false identity.
When an asshat rejoyces over an emegency generator not starting in Venezuela THREE MINUTES AFTER IT SHOULD HAVE STARTED, and the end result is that countless lives are lost............, I cannot see how that person deserves to continue to live.
Jonathan, this is terrific, thanks so much. Rubio's vision is more or less what I was taught both explicitly and by implication from elementary through primary school (I'm now 89) and that wasn't even in Britain but in a tacitly pro-British (even as it was ostensibly pro-nationalist, go figure) educational system in Eire.
To say the obvious, it's a totally different world now -- on its way to becoming better? worse? Who can say. The most immediately striking changes are of course social in so many ways.
I've often been accused of changing my mind, of having no ideology, no set beliefs on a range of issues, but I've long thought that kind of mental flexibility was quite a blessing in helping to navigate so many radical changes. So much of what was once "bad" is now truly good, conversely a lot everyone thought "good" we now see was all too clearly bad (except for the Rubios around).
But one has to believe something, although any given generation can never quite know what a later age will blame it for.
Of course in so many ways now, at least in parts of the west, it's a better world than it was, or on the way to being so, even as for so many it's no better and indeed much worse.
My education really began in CND, CAAT, MCANW, MAPW and the rest. People like Bruce Kent, Tony Benn, Michael Foot, Paul Foot, Pat Arrowsmith, so many others but those are the main ones I think of now. And the feminists. (Even the small things which weren't at all small, back when "he" was thought to "embrace she", so texts and speech innocently left out half the human race while nobody -- until feminists -- noticed.)
We're at a touch-and-go moment, but we're largely in denial of it. Bread and circuses all over again. The news, full of trivia and gossip, surely deliberately so. A resurgent rightwing set to capture a scared populace with made-up tales of bogeymen and fake statistics.
But there are still good, honest and honourable people and that has to be the hope.
Rubio is the product of the hidalgo culture that has been responsible for Hispanic fascism aided and abetted by the Catholic Church spawning nationalist fanaticism and genocidal colonialism over the centuries, now seeking to combine with the equivalent "values" of Anglo Protestantism and Jewish supremacism to resurrect an - according to him - "glorious" past but which to anyone with any moral fibre is totally repugnant.
I appreciate the point about how Rubio is only making explicit what has always been the guiding principle of US foreign policy. I did not appreciate the epithet "God-obsessed"...it's not really for you to analyze or criticize the beliefs of freedom fighters (not thinking about ISIS here, so much as Hezbollah and Hamas)
well, regardless of what people he's referring to, I think it's silly to call someone God-obsessed--as silly as Rubio calling communists "godless"? How could either know what these people's relation to God is like?
Too bad for Rubio. The US tried to colonize the world and failed. He and his fellow goons just can't face the fact it is over for the US. Its time to move on to a new more modest normal. It is going to take a long time to rebuild and restore and they are just making matters worse.
So clear. Once we see it, it seems obvious and can’t be ‘unseen’. Thank you for your voice.
#FascistUSA #CriminalZionistStates
Rubio's speech is late stage empire trying to cope. The US deindustrialized itself, massively indebted itsel, and allowed itself to be captured by it's client state and to act against it's own self interest, and refusal to adopt new energy systems mean there is no turning back. If Europe is smart, they will forget the transatlantic relationship and focus on Eurasian integration for their needs.
I didn't read the main article.. reading the introduction spoke volumes of your cluelessness. The current administration isn't trying to suppress Russia or China... that ended decades ago.
The reality is that Donald Trump is urging USA into a partnership with Russia and China at partitioning the planet.
Furthermore, not only has he praised both nations' ruthless authoritarian leaders, but he's done everything he could to support Russia against Ukraine, wreck every institution and economic advantage of the USA, and give numerous fodder to those dictators to ridicule USA over.
Thank you for posting this.
Another excellent thought-provoking piece. Thank you.
"...Old-school, white-man’s-burden colonialism is unapologetically back..."
And in no area more obviously than in the insistence that the people of these former and current imperial regimes should be prepared to give up their Trade Unions, their social benefits, the "welfare state" and, if called upon for military duty, their lives in order to assist their rulers in plundering the rest of the world.
To begin with they are required to assent to devoting 5% to the military budgets needed to allow the re-colonisation of Cuba, Venezuela and other countries that appear to have been misled by communists into liberating themselves and, in doing so, compromising the comfort of the criminal ruling class.
Clearly, Rubio gets his understanding of history, not from history books by acclaimed and reputable historians, rather from watching too many Hollywood movies and reading too many comic books.
Trump and his iteration of the USA would rather be Lord of the Ashes.
absolutely true... as Putin's poodle, Trump is doing everything he can to destroy USA from within. Every "imperialist" move has been a failure resulting in his causing damage and then backing out. So it will be with Iran - there will be no imperial occupation.
Am glad the penny is dropping for many, now.
For all to long, some of us have been pointing out the so-called west is intrinsically driven by white supremacy and colonialism.....and been called party poopers.
For example when the litmus test in any public interaction in the so-called "west" is to decalre that a genocidal colonial regime...."has a right to exist" and gets weapons and money to commit a known genocide in its colonial efforts....when they all spend hundreds of millions to fund and arm KNOW fascists for years on end.....surely it should be clear the entire group is directed together in service of facism.
Rubio only said what should have been obvious for several years now, and probably for decades going back to the sordid mass-murderous global "war on terror" that has savaged millions of innocent people across the world and led to their nations being invaded and bombed by the north atlantic allliance of terrorists organized in uniform.
Well the mask is off now. There is no plausible excuse for identifying with this murderous thieving agenda and false identity.
When an asshat rejoyces over an emegency generator not starting in Venezuela THREE MINUTES AFTER IT SHOULD HAVE STARTED, and the end result is that countless lives are lost............, I cannot see how that person deserves to continue to live.
FUCK YOY, Marco Rubio!
Jonathan, this is terrific, thanks so much. Rubio's vision is more or less what I was taught both explicitly and by implication from elementary through primary school (I'm now 89) and that wasn't even in Britain but in a tacitly pro-British (even as it was ostensibly pro-nationalist, go figure) educational system in Eire.
To say the obvious, it's a totally different world now -- on its way to becoming better? worse? Who can say. The most immediately striking changes are of course social in so many ways.
I've often been accused of changing my mind, of having no ideology, no set beliefs on a range of issues, but I've long thought that kind of mental flexibility was quite a blessing in helping to navigate so many radical changes. So much of what was once "bad" is now truly good, conversely a lot everyone thought "good" we now see was all too clearly bad (except for the Rubios around).
But one has to believe something, although any given generation can never quite know what a later age will blame it for.
Of course in so many ways now, at least in parts of the west, it's a better world than it was, or on the way to being so, even as for so many it's no better and indeed much worse.
My education really began in CND, CAAT, MCANW, MAPW and the rest. People like Bruce Kent, Tony Benn, Michael Foot, Paul Foot, Pat Arrowsmith, so many others but those are the main ones I think of now. And the feminists. (Even the small things which weren't at all small, back when "he" was thought to "embrace she", so texts and speech innocently left out half the human race while nobody -- until feminists -- noticed.)
We're at a touch-and-go moment, but we're largely in denial of it. Bread and circuses all over again. The news, full of trivia and gossip, surely deliberately so. A resurgent rightwing set to capture a scared populace with made-up tales of bogeymen and fake statistics.
But there are still good, honest and honourable people and that has to be the hope.
Rubio is the product of the hidalgo culture that has been responsible for Hispanic fascism aided and abetted by the Catholic Church spawning nationalist fanaticism and genocidal colonialism over the centuries, now seeking to combine with the equivalent "values" of Anglo Protestantism and Jewish supremacism to resurrect an - according to him - "glorious" past but which to anyone with any moral fibre is totally repugnant.
Combining with and piggybacking on.
I appreciate the point about how Rubio is only making explicit what has always been the guiding principle of US foreign policy. I did not appreciate the epithet "God-obsessed"...it's not really for you to analyze or criticize the beliefs of freedom fighters (not thinking about ISIS here, so much as Hezbollah and Hamas)
being God obsessed is non religion specific as well as being non gender specific.
well, regardless of what people he's referring to, I think it's silly to call someone God-obsessed--as silly as Rubio calling communists "godless"? How could either know what these people's relation to God is like?
So well-articulated and so sad and frightening for ordinary people who cannot escape the mad clutches of these soulless people.