JackRiddler wrote:But yeah I'd count post-9/11 as the fourth world war; US-UK leading a crusade against the outliers from global corporatocracy, and mounting a desperate, presumably final effort to maintain the Anglo-American empire and keep territorial control of the resource base.
"Empire" is a fancy word for armed robbery committed by one nation against others. That's the main reason states try to become empires: so they can get rich by taking what's not theirs. England became a fabulously wealthy country through the theft of foreign resources for its industries, which were in turn sold as finished products to the captive markets of its imperial subjects. Similarly, although America was a wealthy country to begin with, when it became an empire it became spectacularly rich, beyond anything the world had ever witnessed before or since.
What we're seeing now is very different. It's empire-building, alright, but those who are reaping the rewards are neither Britain nor America, both of which are on a steep decline economically, politically, socially, even militarily, in terms of their ability to deal with any actual threats to their national security. As each country's wealth and power are drained away in tar-baby wars that have no rational purpose, their politicians seem to be prepared to expand the losses in even greater and more catastrophically costly wars that also have no rational purpose, at least for either Britain or the U.S.
That both countries happen to host an extremely powerful and
corrupting zionist
"lobby" is not a coincidence; that those politicians who have been most instrumental in leading their countries to war just happen to owe their political and financial success to this zionist lobby is also not a coincidence. Neither is it a coincidence that both countries' current and projected war agenda perfectly dovetails with specific and
longstanding zionist goals. Nor that, although both countries are sustaining serious economic and political damage as a consequence of these politicians' duplicity, they enjoy a teflon-like immunity from being held accountable; on the contrary, they continue to be richly rewarded even after leaving office, in contrast to the nations they've betrayed, whose people will continue to pay with their lives and their wealth for generations to come.
Given these realities, it makes no sense at all to assume that the UK and the US decisions were motivated by an effort "to maintain the Anglo-American empire and keep territorial control of the resource base", when the facts show that on the contrary, they
had "territorial control of the resource base" which their actions have gravely and needlessly eroded. The disastrous results for both countries were entirely predictable at the time those choices were made. Like those who talked about the legality and morality of the invasions, genuine experts who tried to warn the American and British public that Afghanistan had defeated every empire since Alexander the Great, and that invading Iraq would be far from a "cakewalk" were shut out in favor of "experts" who faithfully stuck to the Israeli talking-points. Even without the benefit of hindsight, it was clear even back then, that the only ones who showed evidence of "desperation" in the push for these stupid and ruinous wars in the face of massive popular opposition and even from their own countries' intelligence agencies, just happen to be the same politicians who are most subservient to 'advisors' and financial benefactors whose primary allegiance is to a foreign state: the same foreign state for whom, contrary to the UK and the US, such wars represented vital strategic objectives on the way to achieving "a clean break" from its dependence on other empires in preparation for its final emergence as a global empire in its own right.
If any doubt remains, all we have to do is to watch the shameful spectacle of America's leaders groveling, obsequiously praising and declaring undying allegiance to a foreign state, even as they take more money from their own people and lavish it on Israel, a "client state" whose leaders can barely contain their contempt as they demand to be further placated with an even crazier attack on Iran, which by any objective assessment will finish off what's left of the American empire that was built up in the last two centuries, and perhaps even America as we know it.
It must take a prodigious effort of will to avoid seeing what they no longer even bother to hide. Bravo.
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