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TODAY. A genocidal USA President to be followed by another genocidal USA President?

“If those hostages aren’t back, I don’t want to hurt your negotiations, if they’re not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break out. I don’t have to say anymore, but that’s what it is.”

“Democracy” is becoming a joke. With a sort of gerry-mandered system, the USA Electoral College, not the majority of voters, determines the result of the presidential election. Indeed, the majority of U.S. citizens don’t vote, anyway.

So the USA ends up with a lying, foul-mouthed, misogynist, convicted felon as President. But that really doesn’t matter all that much, as whoever gets in can only do so with the backing of the mega-wealthy owners of corporations and media, and indeed, of the “military industrial complex”. So however the President might want to, personally, avoid militarism, he can’t.

Joe Biden has been allout for promoting and supporting and paying, for the proxy war against Russia, and for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. All the while, he’s had his slimy, silver-tongued Antony Blinken publicly pretending that the USA wants peace.

Donald Trump is an interesting contrast. From all that I could find out, he actually hates war, but has this unusual modus operandi of getting what he wants by bullying – so his weapon, preferably, is the threat of war, rather than war itself. He admires dictators, and likes to pal up with them. In the case of Ukraine, he’d probably go for a peace deal, as long as it somehow helps U.S. trade interests, and of course, his own business interests.

In the case of Gaza, perhaps the same thinking applies? If Trump could get the Gazans to hand over all their Israeli hostages back to Israel, perhaps that war would end, so perhaps Trump is using dire threats, to bully Hamas into that action.

Either way, by Biden’s consistent support and promotion of war, or by Trump’s inflammatory bullying tactics threatening war, – militarism is the way to go. And that’s how American business interests like it.

Both administrations are walking on a tightrope, that at any moment could erupt into World War 3. But that’s OK, – in the meantime, lots of weapons sales, lots of corporate profits, lots of shareholder gains, lots of jobs.

January 9, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes