CAN THE UNITED STATES AND THE WEST RISE OUT OF THIS MALAISE?
A reader writes:
"I did like the bit where they were taking down the Palestinian and Ukraine flags to put up the English flag”.
1. Trump’s Mission
The easiest way I have found to see all this is first to recognise Trump’s mission, which is twofold:
End the wars
To end these wars, whilst retaining global hegemony, i.e. resisting multipolarism – already a huge contradiction in objectives.
Reform the economy
Which suffers from twin deficits of external trade and the government’s own budget – both are in deficit – whilst keeping the reserve currency and avoiding recession.
Mission impossible, again!
His mission is economic. There was Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, and there are his tariffs, which are designed to bring manufacturing back and deal with the trade deficit… and the hyper-financialisation.
I don’t see they’ve got any hope here either.
Hope of building the manufacturing infrastructure needed, nor the skill set amongst the workers – not in time.
And anyway, what kind of factories would these be? They’d be dark factories with robots, and the MAGA group would still be on the scrapheap.
Anyway, that’s the mission, which is largely economic.
2. Political Forces against the mission
Ranged against him, there seem to be at least three big ones:
Industry: only interested in profits and don’t care about the outcome of the war, drug-soaked citizens and social tensions, techno overreach and constraints on freedom of assembly and speech… just keep digging out that gold.
AIPAC: don’t need to say any more here – see other posts or read rhe independentist press.
The Streets and Foreign Infiltration: it’s a lot more serious than just waving a few Palestinian flags in the air! Oh my goodness, yes!
It’s that all these groups – Russian, Chinese, jihadist, North Korean, Iranian, global south generally – they’ve all penetrated our institutions, from the think tanks to Parliament, all the representative bodies and advice givers you can think of: infiltrated by agents of the Muslim Brotherhood, FSB…etc etc. They’ve all been infiltrating for years and our institutions are now compromised by foreign forces.
A few flag wavers are just scum on the surface (and in my opinion, recognising Palestinian independence – although it would achieve little practical for the Palestinian people – would maybe pull the fangs of these street mobs).
3. Your Argument
You say the problem is that we are not united behind “the flag”. I agree – we are not a homogenous society anymore, and we’ve been corrupted and pushed to the brink of an organised civil war.
But given all of the above, there’s absolutely no chance, in my opinion, of uniting such a diverse group of peoples – corrupted and compromised by various internal and external forces – behind one flag. It’s a familiar playbook that we ourselves helped write in all the preludes to invasions and forever wars.
No chance at all of uniting citizens behind the flag – there are too many nowadays.
The English lion in that video is being pursued by packs of wild dogs, clans of hyenas, and rival lions – and they are tearing it apart.
Once we recognise that, we can get down to the business of protecting ourselves. It is a personal responsibility, and there’s no point anymore in complaining about the way we are governed. We need to protect our families, our friends, our wealth – and prepare for the next phase, the next turn of the wheel.
4. References
1. Trump’s economic mission, deficits, and tariffs:
o Financial Times – Trump tariffs and protectionism
o Reuters – Dollar drop, politicised Fed
o Janus Henderson – Tariffs and the dollar’s reserve role
o The Australian – Economic method behind Trump’s upheaval
2. Political forces – Industry & AIPAC:
o The Washington Institute (founded with AIPAC support)
o Foreign Policy – AIPAC influence.
3. Foreign infiltration into institutions:
o Stimson – Foreign funding of think tanks
o Brookings Institution funding controversies
o Quincy Institute – Think tank funding
o Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC)
4. Flags and identity politics:
o The Guardian – Flag controversies in Britain
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