What About The Sudan?

 

Israel supporters have, since time immemorial, complained about the "double-standards" their favourite country is subjected to.  Recently I was watching a video from The Grayzone where Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate were discussing Mark Levin refusing to debate Tucker Carlson.  Blumenthal said that it was the same reason zionists wouldn't debate him.  They know they'd lose.  Then they mentioned him debating one zionist who was losing badly and was snickering when Blumenthal mentioned murdered children.  Blumenthal called the zionist out on that and his opponent blurted out that he suffered from Tourettes Syndrome and could Blumenthal please show some sensitivity.

I went to look up that debate and in my [unsuccessful] search I found a discussion on Reddit that turned out to be several years old.  The participants were commenting on some other debate where Blumenthal destroyed his zionist opponent, with one of the non-entities saying that better speakers for the zionist cause were needed because Blumenthal was such an effective public speaker, even though (the non-entity asserted without any attempt at delivering evidence) Blumenthal was a stupid, clueless, out-of-his-depth, antisemite.

The participants then began to blather about how Western critics of Israel refuse to call out the misogyny, the homophobia, the lack of democracy, the religious intolerance, etc., of the Arab Muslim nations that surround (and supposedly threaten) Israel.  That's when I looked around and that this was the reddit/Israel thread.  And it was, as I said, from several years ago.  So, before the actual genocide, but still, after sixty years of colonial occupation and racism and atrocities that would eventually culminate in the genocide.

So, these stupid, self-righteous, self-pitying zionazi fucks were arguing that because they were [allegedly] a Western-style liberal democracy, they could therefore fester and stew in their racist colonialism and allow them to steal, torture, and murder, because some of their victims don't embrace feminism or gay rights.  Critics of the racist, apartheid, nazi state of Israel should instead criticize the Arabs (if they want to claim any sort of moral legitimacy).  That the zio-nazi agenda renders criticisms of Arabs totally hypocritical never dawns on these maniacs.  These genocidal maniacs.

In the midst of their ongoing genocide of the Palestinians, zio-nazis have taken to pointing fingers at the genocidal levels of violence currently taking place in the Sudan and they are, yet again, shrieking about "double-standards."  I've seen this disgusting drivel being argued both online and in meat-space. (Canadians are polarized between those who think that mass-murder of civilians is always wrong and those who think it is justified if groups they've been brainwashed to identify with are doing the killing.) (Aww, who am I kidding.  Most Canadians don't really give a shit one way or the other.  It doesn't directly affect them so "whaddaya gonna do 'eh?")

Anyway, here's a not-bullshit reference to the ongoing genocide in Sudan.  It was one of the not-stupid essays that CounterPunch still provides from time-to-time.  It's written by one Jared Bell (who CounterPunch tells me is a former US diplomat [for what that's worth]) and it's entitled "The 'Othered' Genocide: Sudan's Suffering and the World's Indifference":

While it has not captured the world’s attention like Gaza or Ukraine, Sudan is enduring the largest humanitarian crisis on earth, with over 25 million people needing urgent assistance and nearly nine million displaced as entire cities are reduced to rubble.

In Darfur, the crisis has taken on genocidal dimensions. ...

The RSF and allied militias have carried out mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and widespread sexual violence against non-Arab communities, particularly theMasalit people. In El Fasher, the last major city still under government control, tens of thousands have been killed or displaced as RSF fighters bombard neighborhoods, hospitals, and displacement camps in what human-rights monitors call a campaign of genocide. Satellite imagery shows scorched earth, blood soaked soil, and mass graves, while witnesses recount entire communities wiped out in systematic attacks.

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Behind this carnage lies a web of regional enablers. The RSF’s war machine is financed through gold-smuggling networks tied to the United Arab Emirates, while weapons and fuel flow through Chad and Libya. The SAF, meanwhile, receives support from Egypt, Iran, and elements of Russia’s Wagner network, turning Sudan into a proxy battleground for regional power and resource control. The result is a conflict sustained not only by local brutality but by international complicity, fueled as much by foreign interests as by domestic hatred.

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The United Nations warns of famine, and aid groups say Sudan is collapsing faster than any country since Rwanda in 1994, yet the world remains largely silent. I have been drumming my fingers on the table of humanity, waiting for the marches, the videos, and the podcasts from angry pundits to appear as images of mass graves from El Fasher flood social media, but it seems there will not be any. The genocide, suffering, and carnage in Sudan have been “Othered”, treated as something that happens over there, as if African suffering were inevitable rather than a global moral emergency.

Despite the quiet acceptance that “that is just how it is,” no one can truly become numb to Sudan’s horrors. Mothers search for missing children, families walk for days across deserts to reach safety, and refugees flee only to find hunger waiting across the border. This pattern of apathy is tragically familiar. It echoes the wars in Congo and the atrocities in Darfur two decades ago, each met with fleeting outrage and long silences.

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Nor is the silence confined to the right. Many liberal factions, once vocal about Gaza due to perceived notions of Israel-Palestine’s settler-colonial dynamic, are now quiet as foreign powers fuel a genocide in Sudan for profit and influence. The silence cuts across ideologies, exposing a deeper moral fatigue, a world more comfortable with outrage as performance than accountability as policy.

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Humanitarian action should never depend on the strategic interests of great powers, yet history shows that it often does. We should have learned this lesson from the Holocaust, Bosnia, and Rwanda, and countless other crises the world ignored because they did not fit political agendas. Silence is complicity, and we have seen where that leads again and again. Sudan is becoming the next horror we will one day mourn, even as it unfolds before our eyes and the world turns away.

This reminds me of a movie I watched a long time ago; "Burma VJ" which was about the "Saffron Revolution" in Burma in 2007.  Basically, fuel prices sky-rocketed in Burma in 2007 and since the government ran the state-owned fuel sector it was the government's fault. And so they protested against the government.  But the government was a military dictatorship, so it was illegal.  But the crackdown was horrendously brutal.  But some people in Burma had managed to get their hands on video cameras.  And video evidence of the brutality got out to the world via smuggled VHS tapes or VHS tapes somehow uploaded to a clandestine domestic internet capability.

But days after this evidence of a humanitarian crisis in Burma got out to the world some activists in this purposefully isolated nation became agitated at the lack of an international response.  If I remember correctly, they're in hiding from the police and they say for their latest video that they don't know why the world isn't doing anything about this government abusing its people.  They especially wonder why the democracy-loving people of the USA isn't coming to their rescue.

But that's not how the world works.  The governments of this world do not intervene in the affairs of other states unless they are going to profit from it.  The information system in the capitalist countries doesn't inform people of anything their political-economic system's leaders don't want them to care about.  The people in the wealthy countries who care about helping the poor and the downtrodden both at home and abroad are a tiny minority who have no impact on their political systems.  Most people don't care because most of the time they're incapable of noticing anything outside their narrow interests of self, family, friends, co-workers.

Still and all, with regards to the genocides in Sudan and Palestine, even the minority that cares about human rights are far less vocal about the former atrocity than they are about the latter.  So what gives?

Well, there's a number of factors at play.  Israel's abuse of the Palestinians has been a seven-decade story.  Israel's status as a close ally of the leadership classes in the West means that there is more coverage of events there in the news media.  (This news coverage has been consistently slanted to Israel's favour but Israel's behaviour has been so consistently evil that all the spin in the world can't mask it for any informed, non-racist person.)  So people know about it and they have had time to build opposition to it.  The fact that our governments champion Israel and have closely supported its evil makes it that much more of the responsibility of activists to condemn and try to resist this policy.  

Sudan is a very poor country that is generally ignored by our news media.  It is not a place where the Canadian government has much interaction with.  Apparently there are about 20,000 people in Canadian of Sudanese ancestry.  Palestinians in Canada are 44,000.  Having met people from Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria in Canada who have expressed their opposition to Israel's abuse of the Palestinians, I feel it relevant to point out that the Arab-Canadian population is 690,000.  So, all these people have to have some activists among them as well as something of a personal stake in the matter.

Add to this the Jewish people in the West who utterly reject Israel's efforts to conflate Judaism with support for zionism.  Many Jewish people, coming from a tradition of resisting Christian persecution in Europe and of advocating for universal human rights, are vocal and active about opposing Israeli apartheid.  That these crimes are done ostensibly in their name gives them a reason to focus on the topic.

So, those are some reasons why we're less noisy about the genocide in Sudan.  And, it also needs to be said that all of this activism from all of these groups has been barely able to restrain our governments' sickeningly enthusiastic support for Israeli genocide of the Palestinians.  It might actually be easier to get our governments to stop shipping weapons to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the main supporter of the genociders in Sudan.  And, certainly, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.  We can email our politicians and hold rallies for both of these topics.  And we would be just as ineffectual.

But I'd like to close by quoting from two sources who push back against the self-serving cynicism and hypocrisy of zionist assholes trying to deflect from their own degenerate brutality by pointing to the holocaust in Sudan.

First up is from a blog I discovered maybe a year or two ago; "Do Not Panic!" from one "Nate Bear."  This entry is entitled "The Shameless Ghouls Weaponising Sudan For Israel."

After shilling for genocide, losing every argument for the past two years and watching the reputation of their precious little rape colony eat shit, Zionists have turned their attention to another genocide to obscure the stains of their own.

If you haven’t been following, high profile Zionist commentators and

 propagandists have flooded social media this week with tweets, articles and memes about the genocide in Sudan and the lack of protests compared with the genocide of Gaza. People who denied genocide for two years have suddenly become very animated by genocide.

The implicit and often explicit message of their posts and articles is that pro-Palestine people were antisemites all along because if they really cared about human suffering they’d be protesting the genocide in Sudan like they protested the genocide in Gaza.

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The first thing to say is that making the comparison between Sudan and Gaza actually undermines two years of depraved genocide denial because it’s the first time many have even alluded to the mass killing of civilians in Gaza. As most of them are as thick as mince, it’s not clear they understand they incriminate themselves with implicit comparisons.

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Those attempting to use the suffering of the Sudanese as a cudgel to beat pro-Palestine protestors never mention that the UAE is the primary financial backer of the Rapid Support Forces, because these Zionist propagandists are nothing if not scribes for the imperial order. And the UAE is a critical component of Zionist power in the Middle East.

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It is all a grotesque spectacle, breath-taking in its cynicism. The truth as we know is that all of those using Sudan as a cudgel to try and win online points wouldn’t have a fucking word to say about the suffering of the Sudanese if their favourite apartheid torture outpost had been able to do a genocide in peace. These people don’t give a fuck about Sudan. They are cynically abusing human suffering and mass death to try and salvage the reputation of Israel by manufacturing a non-existent double standard and they are doing it because they know they’ve lost the argument.

Indeed.

Next is the incisive Caitlin Johnstone: "Notice Which Genocides You Are And Are Not Allowed To Oppose":

Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan?

How mainstream western politicians are able to call out the RSF and the UAE without having their careers nuked by high-powered lobby groups?

How the western media aren’t churning out op-eds concern trolling about the possibility that anyone who opposes the el-Fasher massacres is actually a closet Nazi?

How opposition to mass murder in Darfur isn’t being algorithmically hidden by Silicon Valley plutocrats?

How anyone who posts footage of an RSF war crime online isn’t being swarmed by an army of full-time trolls making excuses justifying the atrocities and accusing those who denounce them of being hateful bigots?

How western governments and institutions aren’t doing everything they can to stomp out all speech that is critical of this particular humanitarian crisis?

That’s the difference, right there. Many westerners have been paying special attention to Gaza because of how intimately there own governments are involved in this particular genocide. This is not to say that Sudanese lives matter less than Palestinian lives or that the genocide in Sudan doesn’t need our attention. It is only to note the priority that Israel’s genocidal atrocities have been given in the eyes of the empire.

For the last two years anyone who publicly criticized Israel’s genocidal abuses in the Gaza Strip would be confronted by hasbarists saying “Why are you paying so much attention to Gaza instead of Sudan? You must just HATE JEWS!!”

No, dipshit, I’m paying more attention to Gaza because my government isn’t trying to make it illegal for me to criticize the RSF. Every major western institution isn’t dedicated to facilitating genocide in Sudan and crushing all speech which opposes it. My rulers aren’t backing a genocide in Sudan and commanding me to support it.

The ongoing nightmare in Sudan is largely a product of the abuses of the western empire. The UAE is an imperial client state who the US and its allies recently supported in its years-long genocidal war on Yemen in partnership with Saudi Arabia. There are all kinds of threads you can trace back to western allies and partners in this genocide, as is the case for most of the worst things that happen in our world these days.

But it’s clearly different. Clearly. The evidence for this is in the extent to which western institutions have been protecting the genocide in Gaza versus the genocide in Sudan. Israel’s abuses are much more intimately interwoven into the guts of the imperial machine than those of the RSF, who Washington will take a blowtorch to the instant it becomes geopolitically advantageous.

Israel’s abuses are completely inseparable and indistinct from the abuses of my own government. I’ve been focusing more on Gaza than on Sudan for the same reason I’d be more concerned if I knew my husband was murdering hitch hikers than I would be about reports of a serial killer in Brazil: I have a special responsibility to oppose the crimes my circumstances make me more complicit in.

t is right and good that the world is turning against the UAE, opposing western backing for that malignant state, and standing in firm opposition to what is happening in Sudan. But the complete lack of institutional resistance we’ve been seeing to this opposition shows that this genocide is much less dear to the foul little heart of the empire than the genocide in Gaza.

Opposing the genocide in Sudan is about saving Sudan. Opposing the genocide in Gaza is about saving Gaza, but it’s also about saving ourselves. Saving our free speech. Saving our political systems. Saving our hearts. Saving our minds. Saving our soul.

And so, it's pretty clear that zionists and other assorted idiots (who are themselves not doing anything about Sudan) are only trying to deflect from the genocide (the racist mass murder of an entire people) that they SUPPORT.  I'm pretty sure that 99.9996% of those of us who are opposed to the genocide of the Palestinians are also opposed to the mass slaughter of innocents in Sudan.  As opposed to the zio-nazis who support one or BOTH of the genocides under discussion.

The Moral & Intellectual Degeneracy of Zionism

 

There's been a few things I've wanted to post but lack of time and energy have prevented me from doing so.  One essay had already been started a couple of days ago.  However, Caitlin Johnstone posted about the astonishing utterances of serial Democrap speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz at something called the Jewish Federations of North America Assembly last weekend:

Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz made some very revealing remarks during an appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly on Sunday, expressing frustration with the way younger Jews are dismissing pro-Israel arguments because of the carnage they’ve seen in Gaza.

Shooting Starving Children in the Head is Always & Everywhere Wrong (and other thoughts)

 

SHOOTING STARVING CHILDREN IN THE HEAD

Israel has declared that it wants to expel all the Palestinians from Gaza and take it over themselves.  It hasn't said the exact same thing as consistently and brazenly about the Palestinians in the West Bank, but the "facts on the ground" demonstrate that that's the intention there as well.  Both ethnically cleansing Gaza and the West Bank would seem to make the "two-state solution" that revolting Western liberals continue to yammer about something of an impossibility.

Israel has declared that no food or medicine or any other humanitarian supplies will enter Gaza.  They are going to starve the population out.  Indeed, Israel's ordinary zionist-nutbar citizens have made festival days out of blocking entrances to Gaza to prevent humanitarian aid into the Strip.  

Because ordinary Palestinians in Gaza did not "rise up" and overthrow their Hamas government, it means there are no innocents in Gaza.  Because Hamas is a "terrorist" organization.  Corrupt, empty-headed, vermin Melanie Joly said so.  Whereas the murderous, nazi Israeli Child-Killing Force (ICKF) isn't.  

But the well-armed ICKF has had two years to destroy Hamas and they haven't done it.  But untrained, unarmed Gazan Palestinians were expected to do so.

Of course, widespread support for the actions of successive mass-murdering, fascist Israeli governments by the Israeli population means that there are no innocents in Israel either.  (Do you see how that works?)

There is video evidence and personal testimonies of Israeli snipers deliberately shooting Palestinian children in the head.  These are children they are deliberately starving coming to food distribution centers that have been set up as kill-zones.  (Doctors in Gaza say that they notice that ICKF snipers often make a sport of it to shoot a different body-part on different days.)

And still almost all Western politicians support Israel while making nauseating complaints about "rising antisemitism."

Hamas's operation on October 7th, 2023 was intended to capture Israeli hostages to exchange for Palestinian hostages.  [Taking hostages, suicide bombings, firing missiles that you know might kill civilians, all these actions are illegal.  So is killing a rich man who has bribed everyone in town to look the other way after he killed your loved ones and stole everything you owned.  Sometimes the law is just something you mention in passing.  Palestinians wouldn't have to break the law if the West didn't allow Israel to break the law with impunity for seven decades.]

Aside from the fact that Naziyahoo knew Al Aqsa Flood was going to happen, and that he and the ICKF did everything that they could to increase the carnage, ... I also don't think that Hamas expected the full-on genocidal Israeli response.

Hamas' Stunning Victory - Ted Rall's Rallblog

Correctly predicting the massive scale of the onslaught Israel would unleash following the October 7th attack, Hamas created stockpiles of missiles fabricated from dud Israeli ordnance and constructed a sophisticated tunnel system to allow it to move fighters and equipment throughout the war without having to worry much about the IDF. Hamas hoped its regional Iranian-backed allies in the Middle East, the Axis of Resistance, including Hezbollah and the regime of then-Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, would open a multifront war against Israel, but they never viewed hope as a plan. After Hezbollah demurred and was itself nevertheless decimated by Israeli airstrikes and a vicious pager attack, Hamas carried on solo, with the exception of distant support from Yemen’s Houthis.

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Job one was making a big splash. It was necessary to “change the entire equation and not just have a clash,” Khalil al-Hayya, top Hamas official, told The New York Times a month after the start of the war “We succeeded in putting the Palestinian issue back on the table, and now no one in the region is experiencing calm.” Hamas wasn’t merely willing to sacrifice the lives of its fellow Palestinians in order to achieve them. Provoking the Israelis to kill Gazans—the more the better—was an essential part of their plan.

I disagree.  I cannot believe that Hamas was planning on Israel to respond with full-on genocide and that the resulting losses of life would be acceptable by some sort of ruthless calculus.  Al Asqa Flood was an act of desperation.  It looked like the degenerate Arab puppet-monarchies were going to abandon the Palestinians to their fate and recognize Israel and all of its claims.  Obviously Hamas expected some sort of brutal retaliation from Israel for their attack.  Perhaps a massive bombing campaign for a week or a month.  Perhaps a limited ICKF incursion into Gaza.  But I don't think they counted on Naziyahoo cynically abandoning the Israeli hostages to their fate and testing the patience/conscience/whatever of the genuine, actual "international community."

I'm speculating, but perhaps Hamas knew that the Israelis knew about their plans, but they resolved to carry the out anyway, because (as I said before, with the aforementioned abandonment of their cause by their fellow Arabs) they were desperate.  Certainly they would not believe the cold-blooded cynicism of Naziyahoo and the ICKF to slaughter their own people as they did on October 7th, simply to blame those deaths on the savagery of Hamas.

Whatever the case, Naziyahoo's and Israel's genocidal racism has been displayed for all the world and the majority of traditionally Democratic voters reject them, as do the majority of younger Republicans.  And the majority of non-affiliated US-American voters (who now comprise the majority of the electorate as both the mainstream parties have been wallowing in shit for decades) reject Israel even more strongly.

THE DANGEROUS DELUSIONS OF US-AMERICAN GEO-POLITICAL STRATEGISTS

My next thoughts are a response to this right-wing, pro-Trump [sorta] blogger who opposes the globalist "Forever Wars."

Think-Tanks Wrestle with Russian Strategic Dilemma

In it, he discusses an article from some pro-war "defense-industry" (now "war-industry" thanks to DJT?) geo-political analyist, advising his neo-con readers about how the USA can navigate the perilous years ahead:

One of their latest pieces covers Washington’s strategic dilemma—namely, that of having to face three simultaneous adversaries in Iran, Russia, and China:

You can see it mentions a two-front war, only because the analysis immediately dismisses Iran as having already been putatively ‘removed’ from the chessboard by way of Trump’s even more putative strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, beginning thusly from the openly sentence:

America’s crippling strikes against Iran’s nuclear program in June have created a narrow window to avoid a strategic nightmare: namely, fighting China, Russia, and Iran all at once.

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The chief challenge the author presents is in the form of the question: How do you deter or defeat both Russia and China simultaneously without exhausting your resources? He calls his solution ‘sequencing the threats’:

These competing threats spotlight America’s “strategic simultaneity” problem: How do you deter and, if necessary, defeat China and Russia simultaneously without exhausting your nation’s resources, power, and attention? You don’t. Instead, you sequence the threats.

He cites ancient powers as having famously utilized this art of ‘sequencing’, which is just a fancy way of describing the defeat of your enemies one at a time instead of fighting them all at once, with the kicker being that you start with the weakest and work your way up to the strongest:

Of course, it never occurs to these maniacs that perhaps Russia and China don't want to conquer the world?  It never occurs to these imbeciles that it is the USA that wants to dominate the planet!  Whatever the case is with Russia and the rest of the Russian federation, or with places like Crimea that are ethnically Russian and which have convoluted past relationships with Russia, ... and whatever the case is with China and Taiwan [I once met a woman from Taiwan who said she thought of herself as "Taiwanese" and I just took it as a rare <for me> glimpse at the complexities of the issue.] or China and the non-Chinese minorities in some of its outer-provinces, these matters do not necessitate nuclear war because those countries and the USA because their resolution (one way or another) does not threaten the USA.

Besides, the USA has its own imperialism to deal with.  Its own imperialism to give up and atone for, before it should attack other countries about those countries' imperialisms.  Russia, China, Iran, ... these countries are not threats to ordinary people in the West.  Our own oligarchs are a more present danger.  There is nothing to choose from between the debased and evil West and the weirdo rulers of its adversaries.

THE DECLINE OF THE WEST (SERIOUS SYMPTOMS & CONSEQUENCES)

Has China Put America Into the pre-WWII “Japan Trap?” – Ian Welsh

Here, Welsh says that the USA's reliance on China for rare earth materials is similar to Japan's reliance on US petroleum in 1941.  When the USA blocked the export of oil (and scrap metal) to Japan, to punish it for its invasion of China, the Japanese decided that their only option was to conquer those areas in East Asia (especially the Dutch East Indies) that had oil.  Destroying the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour and eliminating the US military presence in the Philippines was necessary to delay the USA's ability to retaliate.

Welsh points out that the difference is that whereas the Japanese had almost instant access to those sources of oil, it is estimated that it will take the USA many years to build up the processing capabilities to obtain alternative rare earths from other countries.  And, given that rare earths are essential for modern weapons systems the USA could conceivably be in a worse position than Japan was in 1941.

China is getting stronger over time. Everyone with sense admits that. Even before the rare-earth ban it was clear that the West is growing weaker. In ten years, let alone twenty, no one will be able to pretend America can win a war against China.

So the rare earths ban means that if the US wants war against China, it has to be soon. Within a year, I’d say.

Note that this isn’t just about China. The West supplies Ukraine and Israel, for example, with weapons which have tons (literally) of rare earths in them. The ability to keep doing this is being taken away.

Heck, forget arming proxies, the West won’t be able to produce enough missiles and drones and radar and so on for its own military needs, meaning its ability to project power and keep other nations cowed and in line will go way down.

This miscalculation on the part of the Trump Administration is a symptom of the collective cognitive decline of the USA (and the West in general):

But the reason that America officials are freaking out about the rare earth ban is it really does matter. That America and the West let themselves get into the position is insane, people (including me) were pointing out this vulnerability twenty years ago. But if there’s one thing the West can’t do any more it’s definitely think beyond three months or “but China’s rare earths are cheaper, so we can’t do anything!!!!!”

A sick system produces sick leaders.  A sick, decaying system throws up sick, decaying leaders.  The USA's government is full of octogenarians, many (such as Joseph Biden and Dianne Feinstein) are/were visibly senile.  Besides the senile, corrupt Biden, there is the demented, perverted, super-corrupt Donald Trump.  Trump is the product of the deliberate FOX News/Rush Limbaugh rage and stupidity machine.  Which itself is the product of economic decline and the elite desire to turn the majority of the population against chosen scapegoats.

But even functioning, middle-aged politicians remain stupidly wedded to their garbage culture of oligarchy and genocide.  Despite decades of failure and subsequent decline both of Canada's mainstream parties push for deregulation, tax-cuts for billionaires, slashing of public services, privatization, wars and genocide.  I'm convinced now that the stupid Liberal Party of Canada genuinely believes its own lies.  They actually think Israel is a democracy fighting for its existence rather than a genocidal, racist, degenerate shit-hole of a country.  They actually believe that crushing unions and destroying wages and etc., is the way to prosperity (because it increases the profits of the corporations and the wealth of the oligarchs which gives them more to "invest" and "create jobs") and they aren't going to allow the explosion of homelessness and the repeated "investment" in garbage like mortgage-backed securities or AI that inevitably explodes in their faces requiring government bail-outs, to change their minds.

It's the same with China.  China didn't steal our jobs.  Our oligarchs gave them to China.  China might have done some currency manipulation and what-not, but for the most part, our oligarchs put themselves in the position they are in.  Short-sighted and deluded, they are only now discovering their peril and, being greedy and stupid, they're responding poorly.

RIGHT-WING SHIT-HEADS

Lastly, some shit-head at work (who reads Ben Shapiro and watches FOX News) was saying the other day: "When it's hotter they blame global warming and when it's colder they blame global warming.  It's all politicized."

Global warming is a genuine, gigantic threat.  And, while the fossil fuels interests can simply bribe and bully neoliberal politicians to delay action to fight it, it does help if they have hordes of stupid, misinformed chumps braying like jack-asses about how global warming is a hoax.

There is no question but that AVERAGE world temperatures are rising.  Glaciers are retreating all over the globe.  Permafrost is melting in the arctic.  Heat records are being broken all over the planet.  That these massive developments might produce something like, say, the Polar Vortex, which drags colder air down from the north, temporarily producing extreme cold in places like Southern Ontario, is something deluded right-wing imbeciles can't or won't process.

It's infuriating having to endure such rank stupidity.  All around there are shit-heads defending genocide.  Racist fucks online jabbering about immigration turning Canada into a "Third-World" country.  Ignoramuses who believe that the homeless encampments in all of our cities are evidence of a "hand-out culture" when, obviously the opposite is the case.  Working class people voting for Doug Ford because he sounds like they do, even though his corruption is so brazen and his failure so evident.

Such is humanity.  I can't really say that our wiping ourselves out will be that much of a tragedy.

Good Resource on USA's Foreign Hypocrisy

 From CommonDreams.Org:


Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders, violating multiple verbal promises given to Soviet leaders. The CIA and its sister organization, the NED, sponsored color revolutions in multiple former Soviet bloc countries. The CIA “engineered” the 2014 coup in Ukraine, according to former US Ambassador Chas W. Freeman. The US armed the Azov battalion that was killing Russian speakers in the east of Ukraine. (See also this and this.) In 2019, the RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to weaken Russia; RAND predicted the actions would result in a war in which Russia would have the advantage. The New York Times and Washington Post reported on extensive CIA meddling in Ukraine since at least 2014. The New Yorker reported on CIA and National Security Agency efforts to hide what they had done in Ukraine.

Jack Matlock, former US ambassador the the USSR, said in a 2024 interview: “Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?” Matlock said the US backed the 2014 coup, and, “Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea.” Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are “dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis—we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying.” And Matlock wrote: “I have been appalled that a succession of American presidents and European leaders discarded the diplomacy that ended the Cold War, abandoned the agreements that curbed the nuclear arms race, and provoked a new cold war which has now become hot.”

See this for dozens of mainstream news articles about the presence of Nazis in Ukraine and US support for them.

Lotsa links!