The US foreign policy goal for the last thirty odd years has been to maintain its position of sole superpower status. This means ensuring that no other state should accumulate enough economic and strategic weight to rival it.

So let’s remember, this is not just about Trump, he is just a big mouth on the front end of it. Every president before him was just as toxic, they just lied more convincingly.

But although the US has overwhelming military dominance – as we know from the Vietnam war, it doesn’t mean they would win any conflict, and its recent track record is pretty much all failure.

Assuming the aim was to win the wars rather than just destabilising/destroying the country they were fighting against.

How will he ever survive?

I don’t think they are reliant on US trade anyway.

Of course they would rather trade than not trade, and losing the market would hurt, but only about 15% of China’s exports go to the US.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3308749/china-considering-start-trade-negotiations-us-commerce-ministry-says

The U.S. State Department on Thursday accused

Can anyone provide a trustworthy source?

Also, it is fine for the US to enable genocide, to slaughter thousands of innocent children, but wrong for anyone to try and stop it? The US government, both sides of it, is just fucking vile.

a war with each other that neither actually wants

When have you ever known the US to not want war?

What are tankies?

drive engagement with ragebait

That, and fear, is the goal of the entire western media industrial complex

Foreign interests recognize the obvious weakness in our social fabric, and they have been taking advantage of it to great success.

First step is to learn to stop blaming other countries for America’s failure.

INCREDIBLY conservative

Is this American for “full of shit”?

most Western journalists remain silent

Most Western “journalists” just sit at their desks rewriting what is sent to them via the AP/Reuters/AFP newswires. If it is not carried by those wires it didn’t happen.

Breaking: The New York Times knows what Putin is thinking.

The United States of America protects Israel and all it’s atrocities.

at what many believe

Straight from the Fox News school of journalism 🤣🤣

I can’t remember where I copied this from originally but it seems pertinent here

Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. they know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other nations, or the histories of the various social movements that have risen and fallen in the past, and they certainly know nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism.’

Chiefly, what they have been trained not to know or even suspect is that, in many ways, they enjoy far fewer freedoms, and suffer under a more intrusive centralized state, than do the citizens of countries with more vigorous social-democratic institutions.

This is is at once the most comic and most tragic aspect of the excitable alarm that talk of social democracy or democratic socialism can elicit on these shores.

An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete.

They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone too irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth, while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else, their taxes do not cover).

One might think that a people who once rebelled against the mightiest empire on earth on the principle of no taxation without representation would not meekly accept taxation without adequate government services.

But we accept what we have become used to, I suppose. Even so, one has to ask, what state apparatus in the “free” world could be more powerful and tyrannical than the one that taxes its citizens while providing no substantial civic benefits in return, solely in order to enrich a piratically overinflated military-industrial complex and to ease the tax burdens of the immensely wealthy.

But the once controversial theory has been gaining ground among some intelligence agencies

ie someone at the CIA who wont put their name to it, and a couple of corporate owned German newspapers who they fed it to

Financial Times

Best regards, a person familiar with the matter

And this is a country whose people have been fed heavily pro-Israel propaganda since the day they were born. What does the rest of the world think ?