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Tuesday, 13 August 2024

Despair Ye Mighty

 


The more I observe what is going on in Israel, Gaza, and the wider Middle East, the more it looks like this was initiated as a trap for US forces by a collection of its enemies, or competitors. Unfortunately, because of bad leadership in the West, the US has become very predictable, and its enemies know this better than many of us.

The US is at war in Ukraine. It supplies weapons, consultants for war, special forces training, other military training, money and other equipment to the Ukrainian leadership so that they will fight the Russians on their behalf. But the US stops short of openly marching in battalions of men to line up against the Russians openly. But still its military and economic resources are being severely drained. In Asia the US is becoming increasingly anxious about China moving on Taiwan, though if China did it would be simply a response to the US seeking to goad it into conflict there. This is something I don't think China will do just yet, though they may surprise us.

But where is the one place in the world you can almost guarantee to get the United States bogged down into a manpower and economy draining conflict? The Middle East. The United States has considered itself to be the primary power in the Middle East since at least the 1990's, maybe even earlier. And with the Neocons in charge of both the United States and Israel, a group of idealogues who are quick to go to war and hunger for it so that they can crush their enemies, how could all of the growing list of enemies of the United States not see this as an opportunity to draw the US into a final war that breaks its hold on the world?

Of course, this perspective is based on the view that we are already in WW3, and this is just the early stages, but that it is heating up. Many in the West don't yet consider this to be the case, but already a coalition of western powers is at war with a coalition of non-western forces on multiple fronts. And when you factor in the economic war that is currently raging with BRICS, then it very much is a global war. Also, if you had read Unrestricted Warfare, you would see why it is hard not to believe at the very least that China is behind a lot of these moves that are causing the United States to self-immolate before the world’s eyes. The very strategy they outline for weakening the US appears to be in play.  

US forces are right now racing to the Middle East to prepare to defend Israel from Iran. This adds to their already considerable presence in the region, a region where their failures far outweigh their successes. Is this the battle that will end the US empire? We have interesting times ahead. Pray our nation is smart enough to stay out of it.

As to the United States, what is the perspective of their leadership?

"Scott Pelley: Are the wars in Israel and Ukraine more than the United States can take on at the same time?

President Biden: No. We're the United States of America for God's sake, the most powerful nation in the history-- not in the world, in the history of the world. The history of the world. We can take care of both of these and still maintain our overall international defense."[1]

I see nothing from much of the United States elites that is any different to this foolish sentiment. Perhaps they should be reminded of the message of this poem:

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1792 –1822

"I met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Every world empire has thought of itself as invincible, until it wasn’t. The United States is heading for a disaster, it might come very soon.

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