THE " GREAT REPLACEMENT "

 

The massacre in Buffalo few days back, a young man 18 years old, probably still a high school element or barely a graduate, a self described fascist, a full adherent to the "replacement" theories, a well hidden ideology kept in secret under different names and adjectives, until it pushed its disciple to arm himself to teeth with army assault gear, and bullet proof jackets, even mention his intentions on many social media platforms, while acquiring a car, drive more than 3hrs the equivalent of 200 plus miles to a black neighborhood in a totally strange city from where he lived, storms into a market place, and brutally in very cold blood shoots 10 people to death , and injuring many more, terrorizing many others in the building and around it. 

This scene, as awful as it is, and many other ones like it at different levels and backgrounds, are becoming the regular norm in America, in all of America, rural, urban, smaller towns and larger cities, whereby well armed young civilians attack innocent people in crowded places, it is growing as well in many parts of the world, mostly though in Europe. 

The "great replacement" is a relatively newer version, a milder and more acceptable way to talk about some older and more classical words like "white genocide, Jewish cabal, immigrant invasion, Muslim take over". In the U.S. it's often called white genocide, while its counterpart in Europe is called "Eurabia". The baseless theories claim generally, that these population's shifts are orchestrated by elite power players. In Europe it is the traditional political elite, bringing in Muslim immigrants, while in the U.S. it's ascribed to Jews, who are pushing to bring more immigrants, promoting interracial marriages, replacing the white labor forces, all to suppress the white population. 

Nowadays in the U.S. the new way is to blame Democrats for all of this, while Republicans are harboring and becoming more and more the party of the pure white masses. The "great replacement" propaganda, is capitalizing on sharing and spreading their ideology on major scales among the wider population through well organized and orchestrated social media platforms. The white supremacy messages are now the norm at web sites like " The Daily Caller, Breitbart, and Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham,  both Fox News hosts, it is carried faithfully by many other AM radio DJ's programs and talk shows, and now more than ever Republican politicians repeating openly some of this stuff. 

All official investigations, are consistently ignoring the real side of the back ground, the environment, the parents, the schools, the neighborhoods producing these young perpetrators like the Buffalo shooter, or the South Carolina before it, and nowadays an almost daily occurrence of similar actions across the country. The new trend is to put more restrictions and more arms control measures, on vulnerable individuals, these are for sure necessary and helpful measures, but surely not enough by any means by themselves, we are facing a new and well organized movement, spreading like an epidemic among vulnerable and innocent populated groups of the younger population, and no one is seriously trying to address or even look it up straight in the face. 

The Replacement demagogy theory, espoused by the Buffalo shooter, has been published, talked about and discussed, even embraced officially by some ultra right-wing politicians and commentators, its roots lie down deep in certain communities and families, even in some private schools and institutions, they should all be investigated, rationed and stopped if we really care to eradicate such dangerous maladies from our society, and not just target the young perpetrators judge and condemn them. 

My, as always, many thanks for your time.... stay safe and well.                           

INDEED A FURIOUS AMERICA ......

 

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umair haque   May 6

Why a Furious America Feels Betrayed By the Democrats

I Asked Average People What They Think About the Democrats After Roe, And the Results Aren’t Pretty 

How angry are Americans at the Democrats right now? Don’t take it from me. Here’s a smattering of opinions, from my kid sister’s friends — and I asked them particularly because they’re the constituency the Democrats need to survive. To say that they’re not happy would be an understatement.

“It’s the total failure of leadership! The fact that they can’t get anything passed or done. They have accomplished nothing major. No student debt relief. No stimulus checks. They keep increasing military spending. They’ve continued f*cking up Covid. They’re just completely absent. They don’t know what to do with power. They have no clue how to use it and for what. And it’s because they don’t believe in the policies they won on. They’re in a holding pattern. Like you yell at them to do something they said they would and they go well you know we would but we can’t because the parliamentarian said so or because the republicans are so bad or because we can’t do anything about Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema so we’re just going to sit here, twiddle our thumbs and shrug. Or they say nothing. I’m so pissed.”

That particular rant comes from a young gay man. Why is he this upset? Because faced with the greatest attack on and seizure of rights in half a century, the Dems are doing nothing.

Why is a young gay man this upset? Well, one because he’s a decent person. But two, because he can see the writing on the wall.

Is he right to be this mad? Context. This attack on rights — putatively taking bodily autonomy away from women, but even more than that — is probably the single greatest regressive move that’s happened in a rich country in modern history. That is how bad this is, and that’s just on its face. When the obvious implications are factored in? This is one of the greatest losses of rights in modern history, period, anywhere, full stop.

Americans understand this. And they are furious.

“The only people in America, apparently, who didn’t understand that this was coming — a full blown removal of women’s autonomy? The Republicans knew, which is why they advanced crazy, authoritarian laws making people citizen-vigilante-informants well in advance. We all knew — women, young people, old people, everyone. Everyone knew. Except, apparently, the Democrats.

They were, incredibly, caught flat-footed. Paralyzed. How did they not know this was coming? Are they idiots? Are they complicit? I don’t even know anymore! It’s crazy-making. I want to burn their party to the ground.”

That’s from a young woman who’s in policy. She understands very well the simple reality at work here. It couldn’t be any more absurd, really. It goes like this. The Republicans bent the rules to appoint an incredible cast of characters to…The Supreme Court. A religious nutcase literally a member of a cult which has Handmaids. An alleged multiple-times-over sexual predator. A coup-plotter.

And the Dems went along with this, pretending that these people weren’t going to do what they were obviously…going to do. Attack everyone else’s rights, beginning with women. Take those rights away. The Dems appear to have genuinely believed the lies that were told under oath, which is why they’re in disbelief that the painfully obvious has come to pass. Are they idiots? Who doesn’t get that religious nuts, sexual predators, and coup-plotters are going to attack everyone they can, not uphold democracy?

All this is anti-democratic in almost surreal sense. 70% of Americans are against what an illegitimate Supreme Court made of cranks and predators and religious nuts is forcing on them. Meanwhile, the Dems — who are the governing party of the most powerful country on planet earth — didn’t just believe the lies the cranks and predators and religious nuts told — “why, we’d never take anyone’s rights away!!”…now they’re sitting there holding their heads in disbelief and doing nothing.

It’s insane. How…insane?

“There is a feeling from women that the Dems have had 50 years to codify Roe into law, but have not because they wanted it to remain a bargaining chip. Something they could hang over women’s heads, and say, ‘you better vote for us, or they’ll get rid of it!’ Now that they’ve gotten rid of it, the Dems aren’t even fighting, they’re just handwringing, making excuses for it, and… asking for money. It’s incredible. 70% of Americans are against this. And the Dems are doing nothing.”

That’s from a young woman who’s a teacher. My brilliant friend Sarah Kendzior put it like this — the only place she’s seen this stunning level of gullibility and inaction is in advanced kleptocracies, where democracy really is a sham. She’s right. It is totally, completely, utterly abnormal for an opposition party — let alone a governing one — to sit there yelling at you that they can’t do anything. That is a sign that democracy is not working: when even the side that’s supposed to be for the people is now fighting them. American democracy is made a sham and mockery of by this shambles — and Americans are furious because they know it.

And the average American isn’t buying the Democratic Party loyalists’ and insiders’ excuses, either — that a) nothing can be done, b) what they’re doing is good enough, and c) if they let the Republicans have this, then somehow, that’s smart politics. Nobody believes that anymore.

Here, read more reactions.

“Dem men’s reactions have been to urge people to vote in November. It makes me wonder whether this leak was a calculated attempt (or a convenient way) for the Dems to court votes. But many women’s responses have been, now that Roe is gone, why should we vote for a party that did nothing to secure its place in law?”

“People hate a traitor more than an enemy, and it is for this reason there is going to be an intense backlash against the Dems for, one, letting this happen (and yes they could have done plenty: ended the filibuster, expanded the SCOTUS, codified Roe, passed the effing ERA!), and two, for doing nothing after it happened. Why don’t they organise and fund a sustained protest outside the White House? A strike? ANYTHING?”

I think I like that one the best, because it’s straight to the point — which is that the Dems should be going for the jugular right at this moment. There are so, so many things they could be doing. So many. They could be organising a national strike. Weeks of protest. A general strike. They could be expanding the court or passing the Equal Rights Amendment. Setting term limits on Justices, limiting their powers in numerous ways. They could even, for Pete’s sake, just be giving fiery speeches at the steps of the Supreme Court. See them doing any of that?

What they should be doing — what a serious party would do, in any other country — is simple, and lethal. What do you do when public officials are found to have lied under oath? For Supreme Court Justices, in particular, there is no graver violation than that. It is disqualifying. You impeach them for it. You remove them from office.

See the Dems doing that? Nope. They’re actually OK with fanatics like religious nuts, sexual predators, and coup-plotters lying under oath to the entire country, to history, to the world, to ascend to power — so they can abuse it.

It’s as shocking as it is sickening. If lying under oath — perjury — isn’t grounds for immediate impeachment, then more or less all of democracy is rendered meaningless. Anyone can say anything under the auspices of a formal government procedure — and it doesn’t matter. Witnesses can lie, Senators can, Presidents can — nothing matters. And yet this is the precedent the Dems are OK with.

It is crazy. Like I said, I’ve never seen this anywhere else in the world that calls itself a democracy, even hardcore failed states, and as Sarah explained, the only other places she’s seen it is in kleptocracies where democracy really is a sham.

It’s so insane, bananas, over the top, I struggle to find an analogy. This is like asking a serial killer to slit your wrists because you can’t be bothered to lock the door. It’s like inviting a religious nut and a sexual predator to abuse your kids because, hey, they said they wouldn’t, but now that they are — well, who can be bothered to stop it? Go right ahead!!    Crazy.

And it is having an effect. But not the one the Dems want. The Dems think people will now have to see them as saviours, come November — an abusive frame of mind to begin with. They are wrong. Here, have some more reactions.

“So this is the first time I’ve seen the most diehard Democrats question their party and actually be critical of how they’ve behaved. People who have always defended the Dems are now incredulous, saying WTF? What was my vote for?”

“The Republicans at least care about their campaign of evil. They are evil but we know they’re evil, we know what they want, what they care about, and in that sense they’re a known quantity (as long as you’re not in denial about it.) What are the Dems? What do they care about? It doesn’t seem to be democracy, since they’re not putting up a fight. It doesn’t seem to be women, since they haven’t done ANYTHING in response to this decision. It doesn’t seem to be much of anything, and that’s why they can’t get anyone to care. They cannot simply be Not-Trump, they have to be FOR something, anything. ‘Vote us in in the midterms’ isn’t exactly meaningful when you’ve plenty of power right now and you’re not doing anything.”

The Dems are badly wrong to think that this is going to work out well for them. This, meaning, letting Republicans rip democracy away from Americans, of whom 70% and more don’t support any of this, from women losing their bodily autonomy to the obvious attacks on gay people and minorities which are coming next — letting all that happen, so that Dems can be the good cop to the Republicans bad cop. That strategy has barely been working for decades now — witness how little respect and trust people have for the Dems, and the question of actually liking them is LOL — and now it’s at an end.

The logic is super clear to anyone and everyone. Why should we vote for you then when you didn’t do anything for us when it mattered? Why bother at all when you don’t stop the bad guys from doing incredibly, shockingly, crazily bad things — like making societies places of full of vigilante-informants and tip lines and fanatics who are slavering to attack everyone they don’t like, and now they have to power to rip their lives apart — when you don’t stop all that when you have power, what’s the point of voting for you at all?

Americans are right to be furious with the Dems. They have never failed America more badly than they are right now. This is the real thing, code red, a nine alarm fire. The house of democracy is burning down. And the Dems are standing there, holding their heads, pretending to care — instead of throwing some water on it, even calling 911…and the arsonists are standing right there, too, laughing at them, telling them they’re going to burn down the entire neighborhood.    Words fail.

I study social collapse. I predict it. This is my professional opinion, and it should chill you to the bone. I have never seen a political party more useless than the Dems. Except maybe in Weimar Germany, or in places like Russia, where opposition parties are just shams.

And right now? More and more Americans seem to agree with me.

Umair  Haque.      May 2022

One of the best, a very true and descriptive article about the attitudes of many Americans vis-à-vis  the Democratic party and its leadership.....   My many thanks to all, stay safe and well. 

THE AMERICAN STATE OF MIND .....

 

If one asks most Americans on any street, what would they consider as the most important or threatening problems and issues the nation is facing nowadays, one will get answers like inflation, the economy, education, the cost of healthcare and medicine, and recently the war in Ukraine and the possibility of it spreading.

But you have one group fairly representative of a good third of American voters, mostly on the Republican side, the white supremacy, and some distinct religious factions, they are all expressing with the same fervor the same words, the same context and back ground, the same indoctrination, it is becoming an end by itself, "Don't say gay" and total anti trans laws, "Cancel culture", "wokism" and invented rumors. criminalization of abortion in all its forms, banning books of any subjects mentioning history of blacks, Jews, Muslems, immigrants et al. 

For many Republicans and groups following and serving their purposes, homophobia, islamophobia, transphobia, racism, hate, anti Semitism and supremacy are becoming the new normal. This relatively new post modern manufactured culture serves well their ultra right indoctrination as well as their electoral purposes. By diverting attention from the real problems, the stagnation of the absolute free, wild and unchecked capitalism, the economic plunder by big corporate America, by the war machines, the drug manufacturers  and cartels, all leading to total wealth disequilibrium, and totally unfair taxation and disparate distribution between the poorer majority and the very limited numbers of the powered non elected ultra rich, practically eliminating the remaining vanishing middle classes. 

Republican politicians and representatives want desperately everyday Americans divided and living in fear of one another, they want every group loathing and hating the others, so the majority don't unite behind real dangerous issues, like fair decent livable wages, safer and better working conditions, fairer wealth distribution, better public social programing, more efficient fighting to eliminate or reduce climate change effects, in few words a better and fairer economy management. 

Most Americans as well as most people around the world today are asking their leaders and law makers to address the future of a livable planet, rather than continuing the past policies and tactics and old faith in some sort of divine intervention, they are willing to sacrifice some of the most endeared slogans and ideas for a complete new look and belief in a brighter and safer future, based on more compassion, morality, equality, and dignity. American youths are forgetting how to hate words and concepts like socialist and progressive, they want to ignore religions, imperialism, colonialism, apartheid, superiority, fascism,  Zionism, ethnic cleansing, all accompanied by unchecked brutality. 

But unfortunately, we're facing a new manipulator, a racist, fascist, nationalist, populist faction, that exist not only in America but is spreading on all corners of the world, old and new world. Destroying systematically all hope for the young to look for the bright and safe future. It is the same narrative used by these oligarchies and leaders for centuries, and more so nowadays,  to divide and conquer and rule eternally by colonizing and subduing others, staging coups and terrorizing their helpless neighbors. 

Demagogues like Trump, Florida's DeSantis, Fox news' Tucker Carlson, Russia's Putin, the Zionist entire leadership in Palestine, and many other mini dictators from around the world are all selling the same narratives of a dominant culture that is always endangered and threatened by minorities and different phobic feelings emanating from immigrants, refugees, transgender people, even from different colors of skin. Always endangering their limited versions of history. The worst part is sadly, that it's working, as many are falling for this type of sick propaganda. 

In America, as it is elsewhere, sane people must fight back, by arguing and explaining directly and clearly the real economic problems, the real danger of huge inequalities between the very rich absolute minorities and the vast poorer majorities, the climate changes effects, the vulnerability and sustainability of life on our planet, that marginalized communities are not really the problem, but corporate greed and concentration, political corruption, imperialism and colonialism, plus of course climate changes, poverty and shifting populations are the real problems facing humanity. 

The new Republican nowadays in America is defined as such; rich or at least nicely well off, white, male, straight, religious, adequately well armed, and definitely a firm believer in open and wild, unchecked forms of capitalism. These people will shape America and American supremacy for decades to come, and always partnered with other similar power hungry leaders locally and across the world. 

     My usual many thanks to all, stay safe and well.                            

SHORT AND TO THE POINT .....

 

Humanity always considered questions of morality as an important feature of civilized existence, of social coherence, even assumed that morality was an essential part of religious theism and faith, as we always assumed that god is supposedly the optimum moral entity. Morality was always a key criterion for respectability toward any individual or group, be it political, social, economic or religious. 

Professor Jonathan Haidt, who calls himself a morality psychologist, has proposed six attributes, calling them the foundation of human moral behavior, they come as follows; 1- Care/harm, operating out of kindness and concern, never harming others. 2- liberty/oppression, enhancing opportunities for others, and not constraining them. 3- Fairness/cheating, as in acting in a way that the community considers to be impartial and honest, not taking advantage of others. 4- Loyalty/betrayal, being faithful to commitments and obligations. 5- Authority/subversion, properly exercising power and control given by others, not subverting them. 6- Sanctity/degradation, upholding sacredness of the dignity and rights of others as human beings, not deprecating them. 

Haidt discusses in details how individuals and groups' differences with respect to these attributes play out in human interaction of all kinds, including politics. I'm going to apply those, or the lack of them, to four different political entities in our actual times, three are represented by individual leaders and their oligarchies, the fourth one by an ideology and religious fervor. I'm going to site Israeli Zionism, Bashar Assad of Syria and his oligarchy, Vladimir Putin with his oligarchy and Donald Trump with his family and oligarchy. 

The first through their collective acts against an entire indigenous people of different religious and ethnic origins under their occupation. The second through his behavior during a 12 years civil war against his own people. The third through his behavior toward all his neighboring countries, the entire world peace and stability, to top it by invading twice and brutally annihilating Ukraine. The fourth through his acts and his behavior while president, after loosing and denying it, and being a major part of  destroying democracy and stability in his country. 

The four regimes as a matter of fact share most if not all of these attributes sited by the above mentioned professor, and each proved it for long enough time through unchecked cruelty and brutality, even bestiality. The four continue to affirm their religiosity, to the same Abrahamic religious faith; Jewish, Muslim, and Christian in all their different denominations. Technically the four of them claim to be driven by religious morality. 

The four of them endanger not only their immediate neighboring countries and peoples, but world safety and harmony, the four of them share the same ideological dogmas of total supremacy, hegemony and an upper look and attitude at every one under their control. The four of them come from exactly the same school of thought, and act in the same methodologies and tactics. Of course there are many more who share fully these principles presently on the world scene, as well as historically through the times. 

The West in general, including America did the same during their past, only with a major difference, Western populations always managed to convince themselves of acting with morality while executing their devilish atrocities throughout the times against other races and populations. The four mentioned regimes don't even come close, or bother to justify their immorality and bestiality. Again, a wrong act never justifies another wrong act, brutality and cruelty here doesn't justify other cruelty and brutality there, every act should be judged on its own merits and facts, then praised or condemned appropriately.  

There are large individual differences in what people regard as the base of morality and how they behave with respect to one another, but here in our case those four regimes and individuals broke every rule of decency and fair accepted morality. For humanity it had always been, and still is in our times, that a human being without the feeling of modesty, morality and deference is not human. 

     My usual many thanks to all.               

TURNING A TRAGEDY INTO A SHOW ......

 

It's unfortunate and sad, but America and many around the world are turning the Ukrainian invasion, the massacres and slaughters and destructions into a major show. Whereby some are revolted by what is happening and are condemning it, against some others who are turning the entire affair into a stage show, influenced by a well organized counter propagandist machine, run by Fox news, the Koch brothers empire and similar few other major corporations including the energy and military industry complexes, plus of course the original initiator of it all, the ex president Donald Trump and his machine. 

The American people, as many other individuals around the world are taking their stand and feeling better about themselves, and justifying their positions for totally other reasons than what is really happening on the ground. Here in America your love and admiration for Trump and the right's conservative push plus the religious fervor of white supremacists are becoming a dominant factor in finding excuses and justifications for Putin's deadly and destructive adventure into a neighboring inconvenient country. 

Some prominent Republican members complained openly that a Putin faction is well established within the Republican party. Even the Moscow propaganda machine is adopting and praising this group's language and demagoguery, while trying to come up with convincing arguments to the Russian and international audiences. The other side is reacting timidly, by confirming their rhetoric and position. But no one is seriously thinking or demanding forcefully an immediate sort of solution nor a stop to the barbaric situation that should end as quickly and effectively as possible. 

Americans, Europeans and several citizens from around the world, should desist and abstain from the traditional love and hate of America, the Biden administration, liberalism or conservatism, even the  naïve blind admiration of the macho looks of the eternal metamorphosed Putin. Our esteemed major corporations, including the energy and the military industries should feel and share with people from their countries and in Ukraine and its neighbors, rather than strictly their immediate sales and profits and accumulation of huge wealth. I'm mostly addressing the fossil energy corporations as well as the military industries. 

Again, I have to say, a mistake or a wrong doing doesn't and shouldn't justify another similar action. So let's stop finding good excuses to Putin's ugly self glorifying adventure, by mentioning the wrongs America did in Iraq or Afghanistan and elsewhere, nor justifying Putin's actions because of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians and to all its neighbors, we should all stand together and seriously condemn war crimes and brutality and hegemony in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen , Syria, Israel  and Ukraine, they are all unnecessary brutal and savage situations unworthy of our present civilization. 

Let us all seriously take part in the great drama of survival on our planet, ensuring some decency for our children and grand children's future, instead of finding excuses and justifications to vulgar brutality, annihilation, apartheid, colonialism and supremacy of some factions over the others. Let us all unite in growing our abilities to do the kind of clear thinking that will save life on earth, and not endorse ugly and stupid barbaric adventures just to glorify the few. 

All wars of our 21st century are terribly horrific and cruel, be it in Yemen or the Middle-East in general, the occupied Palestinian territories or Ukraine, they are all to be condemned and must be ended as quickly and swiftly as possible. Judging conflicts, social and civil uprisings, wars and hegemony, brutality and cruelty, should not follow one's group affiliations, nor who one likes or fancies or doesn't like. The issues and policies by themselves are the important facts to judge, back up or condemn, and not our feelings about the leaders or regime or oligarchy carrying them. 

    As always, my many thanks to all for following, stay safe and well.                     

CHARACTER ANALYSIS ......

 

Mr. Putin launched his war in Ukraine on the claim of "Unity", that Russians and Ukrainians are one people, sharing one common history, one language and one destiny, plus of course his long lasting security concerns from a presumed "NATO threat on his borders", plus maybe a way leading to his personal gratification and glorification. As well as an important step to achieve his grand ambition of reasserting Russia, under his absolute command, as a great world power. 

Instead, what he has done is the exact opposite in practically all and every domain. He shattered all possibilities of unity with Ukraine and replaced it with an unmeasurable hatred and loathing from all Ukrainians toward their once closer Russian allies. His concerns for a pseudo security on his borders is diminished by the doubling of NATO and other equipment and forces in all other bordering countries, plus a fear and hatred of all their people and governments combined. 

Remains his personal glorification and the Russian great empire he thought of accomplishing, where I believe that his country's economic collapse and the halting of being a world energy power will totally collapse his dreams, it's only a matter of time before the Russian populace will raise their voices and discontent, while debasing Russia's most important source of economic power, Imagine if on top of all that,  an internal elite struggle erupts to debase him, whether successful or resisted, that will kill all his dreams and aspirations of a historical figure of grandiose proportions. What a simple miscalculated step could lead to in life !!! Amazing. 

On a more personal note, I keep wondering, how can the world in general and more so the Russian people, plus many leaders and the many individuals who keep expressing their love and admiration and respect to Mr. Putin, a guy who started his effective life and career with the communist party, then got chosen and promoted to become an active KGB operator and disciple, trained and brainwashed continually for years while advancing in ranks, which was either some elaborate falsification and a big continuous lie on his part, pretending all the way, or being a genuine convinced novice and accomplished member of the system. 

Eventually, later in life, and with the KGB's full backing, his bright manipulations, elevated him to the highest post of the Russian oligarchy, he turned around a full 180 degrees, and became the exact opposite of all his training and his supposed political philosophy, ideologies and principals, he is now a devote Orthodox Christian with the full backing of the Russian church, one of the richest men on the planet, presiding a ruling oligarchy of very, very rich loyal ruling friends, having alliances with some of the most corrupt political and economical leaders of the world. We have one ,still fighting to come back here in our own backyard. 

The entire world is busy trying to categorize and find the oligarchy's real wealth, including his, their acquired properties, estates and palaces, and seizing their crazily luxurious and very expensive yachts and fleets of private airplanes and motor vehicles. These numerous people were technically all communists, pure and simple, with modest salaries, working hard to elevate the working classes of Russia and the world and defend it from extreme and savage Western wealth and power. 

These few people , playing politics and power games like no one of even the slightest socialistic inclinations could even dream of doing. Such total metamorphosis and change of mind set and interests, is enough by itself to deter or warn any sane person to avoid and condemn such dangerous characters and personalities. Still he's allowed to govern, enrich himself, send his armies and generals to invade destroy and massacre entire towns and districts with their civilian populations, while creating a very dangerous situation for the entire world, his neighbors, and his people. He's endangering and recklessly playing with life on earth as we know it, all for his own glorification.

    My usual thanks to all, stay safe and well.                           

DISCORDING AND COMPETING AMONG RIVALS .....

 

After emerging from the cold war in the early nineties as the lone superpower, the U.S. steadily grew weaker, its supremacy stalled and stymied by failed wars and adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, and several other smaller spots. As well as its deep internal chronic problems, deep divides and uncontrolled inequalities. It didn't take too long to fill this gap, Russia and China evolved into more formidable powers, military for one, economically for the other.

A partnership of these two will lead to a better position for supremacy that will challenge a world order shaped by American norms and rules, as well as weakening all or most of our allies. It is starting with invading and subduing Ukraine, and will hit many other spots, including the greater Middle-East and Israel, and eastern Asia, hence the changing and modified policies plus the pseudo neutrality of many assumed allies shifting positions, and the joy and the sheering of many individuals around the world, driven by pure jealousy, envy and hatred to America.  

The purpose of attaining and asserting dominance in any realm is to avoid accountability of the dominating and domineering. The U.S. and Israel in modern times, both mastered and excelled at this game, and could play all their dominating policies and imperialist ambitions with absolutely no impunity,  Europe or several European powers played this same game for centuries prior to the last few decades within Europe and on the world scene. Now the game is changing, it's being taken over by China and Russia, or the alliance of both, if it really materializes, as many rivalries and obstacles are in the way.

At the end, if things don't go well enough for Russia in Ukraine, or the Russian/Chinese alliance, Putin could be removed in a pseudo coup, or claiming that he's sick or loosing it physically, and stop the entire adventure, but the long lasting results and consequences of the Ukrainian affair will have its impact on the world and its geopolitical management and structures.  

 By drawing clear parallels between these powers and the past history of hegemony and colonial acts, and present ones, even future events in store, as in China/Taiwan, or some new annexation of Arab territories by Israeli forces or Persian or Turkish powers, even Russian further domination of more neighboring countries and not so close ones, should be the main focus of the entire global scene, as a deterrent to very likely catastrophic apocalyptic scenarios ending the world and life as we know it. 

While the Russian invasion of Ukraine opened up and fortified several fronts, in America itself and Europe, as well as most of the industrialized world, internally and externally, it surely strengthened Atlantic NATO, and the European union, as well as American /European cooperation and trust, and all southern and eastern Asian and Pacific industrialized and advanced countries, it's to be seen if this cooperation will endure if the situation further escalates to other spots of the world. 

The present conflict surely didn't improve much of the situation through the Middle-East and the Arab world in general. Which will remain a weak spot in any future new world order. The Russians and Chinese are surely advancing their agendas, and quickening their steps to exclude America and its allies from any real influence or even the ability to interfere or set foot in the M-E entirely, America is slowly handing it all to Israel, and Europe is not interested enough, what might not be calculated is if Israel doesn't prove to be the good ally Americans believe it is, and shifts positions according to its own interests and hegemonic aspirations, otherwise it might be the next big looser in the area if and when the U.S. pulls out of it.  

But finally who cares, I don't think in all honesty this possibility is seriously considered by anyone at this time, except Israel itself playing the neutral chord left and right, and trying to forge different alliances, protec-ting its own security and future colonial expansions and share of the pie. 

   My, as always, profound thanks to all my good readers, stay safe and well.