Summary

The article reflects on the decline of the American Empire, the spread of insanity in leadership, and the failure to address the polycrisis of climate change, political disintegration, and regional wars exacerbated by American military intervention.

Abstract

The author expresses deep concern over the current state of affairs, characterized by the decline of American global influence and the rise of insanity in leadership. The article suggests that the American Empire is on borrowed time, with its influence waning and its political landscape deteriorating. It points out that the hope once placed in seasoned politicians is fading as they fail to address the compounding crises of climate change and regional conflicts. The author highlights the lone voice of reason, Representative Barbara Lee, who advocates for peace and diplomacy over war. The text also criticizes the American-backed Israeli regime for igniting a regional war and the broader American military interventions in the Middle East, particularly in Yemen and Syria. The author argues that these actions, driven by a desire to maintain dominance, have been counterproductive, leading to repeated defeats and contributing to the rapid decline of the American Empire. The article underscores the disconnect between the American government's actions and the reality of its diminishing power, as well as the public's dwindling trust in the government.

Opinions

The author is afraid and critical of the current state of leadership, describing it as dominated by idiots, criminals, or has-beens.
There is a stark contrast between the American public's trust in their government (31%) and the trust levels in countries like Switzerland (84%), indicating a crisis of confidence.
The author views the American military's reliance on technology and remote destruction as outdated and ineffective in the face of mass resistance and innovation.
The article suggests that the American Empire's legacy of suppression, exploitation, and racism has led to a distorted worldview that hinders its ability to manage current global challenges.
The author sees the military-industrial-media complex as the only constituency that the American government serves, neglecting the needs and voices of its citizens.
The author believes that the current American bombing campaign in Yemen, under Biden's administration, is failing to achieve its objectives and is exacerbating the situation.
The text implies that the American Empire is in a state of rapid decline, unable to understand or adapt to the changing world dynamics of the 21st century.

Can We Save Ourselves?

Insanity is spreading. How long will this go on?

I’m afraid, and I’m too old to be afraid like this. The American century ended twenty years ago, but hope remained through all the political disintegration and growing disasters of the climate tragedy.

People generally recognize that the Amerian Empire survives on borrowed time, although no one in the ruling gaggle acknowledges that reality. We’ve spent years watching their idiocy grow even as thousands of people suffered and died in proxy wars powered by America’s technology.

Even as people in politics who could not stand the absurdity abandoned the field, no one thought to ask why because it was obvious. All that is left are the idiots, criminals, or aging has-beens. We have been happy to have the has-beens in the hope they at least remembered what they had once understood.

That last hope is now failing.

It looks as if Barabara Jordan of California is the only sane person left who is not quivering in fear at the howls of the idiots and crazies who have usurped the role of leadership in this nation-state.

We must reject the calls from some in Washington to increase fighting in the Middle East. The path to peace and security is not through war, but through de-escalation and diplomacy. Rep. Barbara Lee

I appreciate her bravery in saying this, but she seems to stand alone. The insanity has spread, and the war will grow. The drones and proxy armies are out of control, and the hatred and slaughter have become self-sustaining.

This is a feedback loop that was built into the foundation of European colonialism and the European New World built on genocide.

The American-funded and equipped neo-nazi regime in Israel has slipped its leash and triggered a regional war that cannot be managed. Biden and what remains of the American Congress have no idea what they have done in ignorance and imperial hubris.

This did not need to happen. We may never recover from this as the chaos of climate change combines with decades of human stupidity to overwhelm our ability to manage ourselves and our polycrisis.

Our befuddled rulers do not understand what they have done because they have no idea how the world has changed. Yes, they have the experts and intelligence reports to tell them, but they see that information through distorted 20th-century lenses. That distortion was created because they ignored the centuries of suppression, exploitation, and racism that are the legacy that haunts the American Empire.

Our distorted lenses deform and minimize the non-European peoples who have been colonized and oppressed. Our popular media have always presented these people as having limited competence and no rights other than to serve European colonialism that evolved into the American Empire in the 20th century.

The 21st-century reality is an American Empire in rapid decline, unable to understand its limitations. American technology dedicated to remote destruction to achieve domination is no longer limited to the American Empire. While unimaginably deadly, it has been defeated repeatedly by mass resistance and innovation.

But more accurately, it has been repeatedly defeated by people fighting to restore their rights while America fights to maintain its dominance and oppression. That is not an ideal to risk yourself for. I learned that in Vietnam.

This is happening to Israel, created as America’s proxy in the Middle East built on American military technology with genocide. The IDF is dependent on American weapons of mass destruction as its military units are dominated by the Hamas brigades in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria.

The Ansar Allah in Yemen (identified as Houthis in American media) have fought the combined American and Saudi efforts to suppress them since 2014. The death toll from American weapons is estimated at over 400,000 in a country of 33 million. [Sourece: MintPress]

As we know, the new American bombing campaign implemented by Biden in Yemen has failed to slow the Anwar Allah goal to halt support for Israel’s ethnic cleansing and mass murder in Gaza. International shipping marks their ships as No Israel Connection and has no problem.

Now Ansar Allah is targeting American and British shipping. America made what is happening worse without ever admitting the original, stated Anwar Allah's goal. You can listen to the Ansar Allah spokesperson here if you wish.

American mass media are committed to the current destruction of Gaza, the West Bank, Yemen, and Syria as a symbol for Iran. Biden’s ‘response’ to the inevitable death of American military stationed throughout the new war zone will, despite vague claims to avoid expansion, expand the war. What else can Biden do in a failing empire disintegrating politically through political abandonment by the majority of sane citizenry?

The military-industrial-media complex is the sole recognized constituency remaining in America. The corporate entities are the franchised voters. No one else counts.

While our media shouts about the American economy’s amazing (suspicious?) strength, our trust and confidence in government disappears. We have lost all direction except backward.

+ Percentage of Swiss population who trust their government: 84%

+ In the USA: 31%, sandwiched between the Czech Republic (34%) and Lithuania (30%) [ Source: CounterPunch]

Originally published at https://rlandok.substack.com.