The last trick in the arsenal of Democracy™ is Zombie Democracy. This is where your government is dead—people vote it out or can't vote—but it lumbers on anyways, eating brains.
ExamplesTake, for example the United States, which decapitated its President on July 20th but can't recapitate until January 20th, because their Constitution is shitty. They're running around like a chicken with its head cut off, except the chicken is a T-Rex and still quite capable of mauling children. Remember what everyone has forgotten. No 'one' is in charge of America right now. First Joe Biden's constitution failed and now they have this Constitutional conundrum. America will be without a functioning President for six months. They've given the game away. It doesn't matter if America has a President at all. American democracy doesn't exist. It's just a reality TV show put on by a megacorporation.
Take, also, France, please. In France, leftists won the general election and the President appointed a right-wing government anyways. Or tale Germany (also, away). The governing coalition of whatshisname has fallen apart but continues governing somehow. Or Peru, where they couped and caged an elected President and installed someone with a 90% disapproval rating. Or Pakistan and my own country Sri Lanka (until recently). In all these cases, some shitty, unsustainable, and despised government limps on for years past it expiry date. Ukraine is fighting flagship of Democracy™ and it's the worst. Zelensky's term expired long ago and he just cancelled elections entirely.
When decent people do have elections, the liberal democrats are libeling them. Russia's elections are not real, Venezuela's elections are rigged, Georgia's has been magically interfered with. Then they're rigging elections, like in Moldova where Russian diaspora was prevented from voting. They scream about saving democracy, but they're the ones making a mockery of it. These democracy grifters are like the wolf who cried wolf. Thankfully, nobody believes them. They get voted out at every fair opportunity. It is only by violently suppressing real democracy that these fake democrats control anything. But their control is slipping.
IllusionsAs long as people believed in elections, that was all it took. As Lord Varys said, "Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less." But the ruling elite are increasingly failing to put on even a show democracy. In America, they're just doing reruns and the actors are dying onscreen. In France, the winner doesn't win, in Germany the loser doesn't lose, and none of these make for a convincing show.
Elections were a thin veneer over selections in the first place, but now they're not even trying. The American Democrats skipped their primaries and just installed a candidate. Kamala Harris was the DEI heir to a DNR president and now she's predictably DOA. Now America is stuck with an 81-year-old until they inaugurate a 78-year-old, great. This is real late-stage empire shit. A dying empire led by literally dying men.
Across the Empire the illusion of Democracy™ is crumbling. Take Ukraine, as America did. Their actual democracy was couped in 2014 and now they have a literal actor playing a part. They fought much of their Russian-speaking population for years and then picked a fight with Russia itself, something no independent country would do because it's stupid. Indeed, Zelensky ran on reconciliation with Russia, but that's now how his handlers ran him. Now Ukraine has lost much of its land, its population, and a corrupt elite has destroyed everything. For what? Ukraine was just a stick for America to poke Russia with, and thrown away as carelessly.
Or take 'Israel', where the also antisemitic Western Allies deported the Jews to further their imperial interests (guns near the gas). The 'only democracy in the Middle East' killed, ethnically cleansed, or apartheided the majority population while genociding them slowly with treaties. This is the actual American model for America, with 'Israel' as their franchisee. It's important to understand that most of the countries on a political map are a sham. America is the head of ye olde White Empire, and Germany, France, 'Israel', 'South Korea', 'the United Kingdom', none of these are real countries. 'Israel' is the unrealest of them all, and that illusion is being violently shaken off. The Palestinians, certainly, do not believe that power resides in 'Israel' or America, and their bravery has drawn the free world to their side.
Western media talks about how 'democracy is losing all over the world' but what's really happening is the democracy illusion is falling apart. Liberal democracy was a Trojan Horse we let into our countries, and bankers bust out and ransacked the place. Aristotle said representative democracy trended towards oligarchy and, whaddya know, it does.
If you read Aristotle, there are many species of democracy, he listed dozens of forms across just the Med, each suited to the population. America peddled the audacious illusion that there was one form of democracy, and that it fit neatly into bombs. This is philosophically nonsensical, but politically potent, a modern monotheism for the godless. One ring to rule them all. But this Democracy™ was always an illusion. America was always shit and what it was peddling was always bullshit. Now the stench is simply too much.
Is This Dialectics?Throughout history, when people elected leaders America didn't like, America just couped or killed them. Chile, Iran, Australia, I'm just going by memory, there's dozens, this is constant. And the leaders you could get were always within the American neoliberal paradigm, otherwise you wouldn't have them (refer point #1). This somehow worked because it didn't touch the imperial core that obviously (besides Australia) and because obvious violations of democracy were covered up with mass marketing about how great Democracy™ was, and they had—as Francis Fukuyama said—the VCRs and microwaves to prove it.
It's important to understand that ideology follows material conditions and vice versa, this is the dependent origination of politics and it's an endless, indivisible loop. "It's the economy stupid," as some stupid person said. Whatever America was doing, as fucked up as it was, seemed to work. They were rich, and every voter goes into the booth like it's a lottery. Every voter is thinking how their lives can be better, and Americans seemed to have better living through tricknology. Whatever dark sorcery they were doing, whatever Indian graveyards it was built on, Democracy™ seemed to produce refrigerators and color TVs. And so people literally bought into the ideology.
But now material conditions have changed and they're trying to keep the same ideology. People are encouraged to defend a Democracy™ which makes their lives measurable more shit because 'look at these other measurements', which average you and Jeff Bezos and call it win. Meanwhile other system of democracy (yes!) like China and Russia produce much more popular leaders and much better results which are relentlessly covered up with marketing that makes less and less sense. America today is sanctioning more countries to prevent their people from experiencing and learning about other possible systems, not for national security. China isn't trying to infiltrate America via their air fryers, but if Americans saw the kind of cars they could get for $10,000 under communism, they'd rightly overthrow their government. The sanctions and tariffs aren't to keep the Chinese, Russians, et al out, they're to keep Americans in.
The End Of The End Of HistoryRemember that America never stopped attacking the world after World War II. The suppressed countless liberation movements (which were all socialist or communisty, you never had the Capitalist Peoples Front of anything). They couped, corrupted, and cajoled nations into parking the Trojan Horse of Democracy™ in their town squares. The fundamental productive incapacity of capitalism since the 1980s has been covered up with money-printing, unmoored from the gold standard or any standards, really.
Politically, the fundamental oligarchic character of representative democracy was covered up with puppets that looked like humans, despite having the invisible hand up all their butts. This insane marketing campaign worked as long as it delivered material results, but now it doesn't, and they have to hold on to power by force. This straining makes the invisible hand visible, and ruins the whole charade. Our corporate lords are able to cause many tragedies yes, but they are a farce. They look like morons who can't even rig an election properly, let alone win one.
Thus you get the final (inshallah) stage of Democracy™, Zombie Democracy. Where elections become increasingly stupid, where the genocides and coups aren't even covered up, and where the pretenders don't even pretend to pretend anymore. It's what William S. Burroughs called Naked Lunch, when you see what's on the end of every fork. The paint has come off the pantomime, liberal democracy's pants are down in front of the whole world, and they're not packing much.
In Sri Lanka, a new President is elected and they immediately take office. America drags this process out for 11 weeks, because their Constitution is badly coded and has mountains of technical debt.
Joe Biden's government was actually decapitated on July 20th but Donald Trump won't be recapitated until January 20th, leaving a nearly six month interregnum. The king is dead and no king yet lives. The DEI heir failed but the hair apparent cannot yet succeed. Because of this glitch in the matrix, Joe Biden is still President, despite having mentally abdicated long ago. America's government is both a headless chicken and a lame duck, a metaphorical mess.
So who's actually running America? Who the fuck knows. Some shadowy cabal of political consultants and the even darker money behind them. Who's commander in chief? Who gives a shit? A Raytheon board member is Defence Secretary, the military industrial complex has completely corrupted civilian governance. This has been America's state of affairs for at least three months, though it seems to have been Weekend At Bernie's for years, walking Biden's propped up corpse around, signing documents and sniffing hair.
This is moment is like the end of World War I when Woodrow Wilson got 'Spanish' Flu, broke his brain, and ghosted on the negotiations, possibly causing World War II in the process. In this case, Biden got COVID again, his team issued a resignation from the race while he was in bed, and who gives a shit, World War III has already started (if you count Slavic people and colored Holocausts).
Wars used to require approval from Congress, then the imperial Presidency took over, and now the military industrial complex just does it on autopilot. Given that military contractors include Boeing, you can guess how this ends. When Eisenhower said, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex," this wasn't a warning. It was a description. Eisenhower said, "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together," which is laughable, knowing modern Americans.
As Ansarallah's Nasruddin said, laughing at Eisenhower's rusting reincarnation,
I'll refer him to the news that came out yesterday from the captain of the Eisenhower aircraft carrier. He spoke of not being able to change his pajamas sometimes for an entire day because he was under military pressure from the Yemeni Armed Forces. I mean, if the President changes, will Eisenhower's captain be able to change his pajamas? Will he [the President] help him with that? [host laughs] The issue is not related to administration, but rather that the world has changed in terms of balance of power an in terms of the use of weapons.
The world has indeed changed and no one is waiting for America to deliver values it never had in stock. As sex culty philosopher Osho said, I think about America, "Democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people. But the people are retarded." Osho is not that wise and American government has always been for, of, and by property, only propertied men could vote and their whole modern electoral system is just a hack around a Constitution that doesn't have direct election of Presidents at all. The #2 electoral vote getter (not real votes, but a parallel Congress) is supposed to Vice President, so the founders actually intended Trump/Harris to be running America next year.
As I've said, the US Constitution is coded to weaken government so the rich can get away with slavery and murder, as they're still doing. It is, as Vladimir Putin said, a vampire's ball. As Vlad the Explainer said, "They are used to, for centuries, to stuffing their belly with human flesh and their pockets with money. But they need to understand that the vampire's ball is coming to an end."
Especially if you don't like Putin (there is no greater teacher than the enemy), Putin is a keen observer of America. In 2017, Putin said "I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well-dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration."
America has had the same enemies list since the 1960s and they're methodically not going through it. They're still fighting Korea, still fighting Iran, fighting the Russians again. An American President can pick their battles, but not the wars. American Presidents are given the same bloody menu when they enter office and they just order different airstrikes à la carte. Like their cinema, everything in American politics is a reboot. Their Presidents have been a series of bad Reagan impersonators since 1980: nerd Reagan, Reagan with a saxophone, dumb Reagan, black Reagan, Make America Reagan Again, Reagan's embalmed corpse, Make America Reagan Again, Again. Everything is a reboot, from their cinema to their politics.
America public life is increasingly just a reality TV show controlled by invisible producers, funded by giant corporations who profit no matter what. It does not matter who's President. No 'one' is President now.
Donald Trump was elected President of America, but he won't be inaugurated till next year. Joe Biden will be President until next year, and he hasn't been President for months already. There's actually no 'one' running America. This is a six-month interregnum, in the middle of an insurrection.
Don't think the Resistance isn't watching. Listen to Ansarallah's Nasruddin speaking to Trump's former Middle East adviser Gabriel Sowma.
Allow me to recount and comment on some of the points—or a point—that your guest [Gabriel Sowma] made. He said that the issue lies with the Biden administration. I'm not going to go on the topic of whether there's an issue with the administration or not. But I'll refer him to the news that came out yesterday from the captain of the Eisenhower aircraft carrier. He spoke of not being able to change his pajamas sometimes for an entire day because he was under military pressure from the Yemeni Armed Forces. I mean, if the President changes, will Eisenhower's captain be able to change his pajamas? Will he [the President] help him with that? [host laughs] The issue is not related to administration, but rather that the world has changed in terms of balance of power and in terms of the use of weapons.
This is very astute political analysis, Nasruddin is dropping science on you. The US Eisenhower was commissioned in 1977 and it's going to be commanded by a 78-year-old. None of this inspires fear. As Hezbollah's late, great Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the first time,
We should thank [Donald] Trump for revealing yet again the true face of the U.S. administration—a racist, criminal, murderous, bloodthirsty entity that confiscates freedoms, plunders wealth, conspires against oppressed peoples.
Neither Trump nor his father, nor his grandfather, nor George Bush, nor his father, nor his grandfather, nor any of these racists can touch the courage, will, conviction, or faith of even a child among us, let alone our men and elders. Therefore, we are not worried; rather, we are very optimistic, because when an idiot resides in the White House and openly flaunts his foolishness, it marks the beginning of relief for the oppressed around the world.
Right now, the US military is just a luxury terrorist organization. All they can do is assassinate people and kill civilians, the tactics of the weak. Meanwhile the so-called terrorists are hitting military targets with pinpoint precision and slowly but surely liberating their land. These men are terroirists, not terrorists, you need to understand. As Nasruddin said, the "world has changed in terms of balance of power and in terms of the use of weapons." I'll let him expand. Nasruddin said,
The issue today is that America's prestige is no longer in those large and gigantic ships but rather that it has become an easy target because those ships are large. Today, things have changed and there's a new power in the region. America has become decrepit, aged, and grown old. America in its size and ability resembles Biden; it has become senile, bent back, and weak. So much so that even the electoral competition today in America is between a group of elderly people, old seniors competing against each other for presidency. America has become old and we are still young, we still have energy and vitality, and we also produce light weapons that resemble us!
Drones and hypersonic missiles, those which resemble the youth with their speed, movement, and vitality. Your leaders resemble your weapons: old, and our leadership resembles our weapons: fast, modern, and young [host laughs, this must be great in Arabic]. America must realize that it has grown old, and that the region has also grown up and is seeing things from a new perspective, a resistance one. And they're also young—Hamas, Hezbollah, here in Yemen, in Iraq—while the regimes sponsored by the United States in the region resemble Salman Bin Abdulaziz, who can no longer stand without his wheelchair. There is a very great similiarity between America and those who deal with it, who have grown old and greyed; and still imagine that things are still as they want them to be. The matter has exceeded this scene, and with respect, let me say it also resembles us on screen right now, our age difference. [ROFL]
These are so many sick burns, matched by so many ships burns in the Red Sea. Remember that Yemen has defeated the US Navy. As former CENTCOM Commander Frank McKenzie, recently said, "The Houthis [Ansarallah] have prevailed. We have failed. They control the Bab el-Mandeb." This is a strategic defeat for America. This is another major historical event you'd completely miss if you read the news. The victors write the history, and the imperial press is increasingly drifting from reality because they're losing. They're literally losing the plot and getting potted on their own propaganda. This is why you should read the Resistance (especially if you consider them an enemy). Nasruddin's analysis is uniquely hilarious, but it's not anomalous.
See Hezbollah's statement on the election, from their new leader Sheikh Naim Qassem.
Qassem said, "We will force the enemy to seek an end to its aggression on its own, focusing on the battlefield rather than political maneuvering. Hezbollah does not count on U.S. elections, which hold no value to us. We rely on the battlefield, where the occupation is at a disadvantage."
This goes back to Nasruddin's pajamas narrative. Can the US President put the USS Eisenhower's pajamas on? Hell, can the the US President put their own pajamas on? America's President faces the ruin of any Prince, to be neither loved nor feared, but simply ignored. The Resistance does not give a shit about this election. The US President obviously doesn't matter, they don't even have one right now. There's an interregnum during an insurrection, and the insurrection is winning. Inshallah.
As the Vice President of the Ansarallah Media Authority, Nasr El-Din Amer said, "By the grace of Allah, we are not enslaved to America to the point of tying our fate to the results of its elections. Whoever wins, let them come. Welcome. Our armed forces will greet them with iron and fire, and our people will welcome them with million-strong marches cursing America and any of its rulers. Watch the squares on Friday, and witness our rockets and drones by sea and by land, in support of Gaza and Lebanon."
Or as the PFLP (Palestinian Commies) said, "Our people have never placed their hopes on any candidate from either the Democratic or Republican parties, as we have never witnessed any positive change in U.S. administration policies."
Or as Hamas said, even more diplomatically, "The elected U.S. President is urged to heed the voices that have risen from within American society itself for more than a year."
But all of these statements are nothing next to the actions of the Resistance, which show them as younger, more technologically advanced, infinitely more moral, and better strategists than the Carbon Crusaders. When Empire assassinates Resistance leaders, the Resistance gets younger and more dynamic leaders. Meanwhile Empire's safe and soft leadership are literally dying in office, turning the White House into a retirement home for the war criminally insane. The future belongs to one of these people, and I don't think it's the visibly dying rapists.
Remember that the Axis of Resistance are not terrorists, they're terroirists, fighting for their land. The land gives them the greatest reason to fight and a home field advantage. And God knows they're pressing it, regardless of any distant danse macabre. The Resistance gives a shit about the American elections. They're busy resisting. You should join us. It's literally liberating.
America has lost white air supremacy. They bet the farm on stealth fighters and they're a long way from Kansas now. Cheap drones and accurate rockets have made a mockery of western air defense and offense. This is a real sea change in air warfare. We are now in the age of unmanned missiles, not manned fighter jets, and America has missed the boat entirely.
Planes Vs. MissilesAs an illustration, look at this illustration. On one hand, 'Israel' has to send $100 million dollar jets to drop million dollar bombs, and worry about getting their planes home in one piece. On the other hand, Iran can fire waves of drones, cheap missiles, and highly accurate missiles, turning the Iron Dome into the Iron Sieve. Both sides have air defenses, but Iran only has to defend against 100 bogeys, compared to the thousands hitting 'Israel'. Meanwhile 'Israel' has to park its planes somewhere as sitting ducks, while Iran can hide its missiles underground until they're needed. This is complete game changer. The rules of air warfare have changed.
The big paradigm shift is from from planes to missiles. This is part of the global trend of putting microchips in everything. Bombs are really smart now, and drones are really cheap. Rockets are basically consumer technology, evolving rapidly, while American aircraft are like Faberge eggs, ordered decades in advance and extremely delicate. America's latest airframe (the F-35) is nearly 20 years old and is somehow expected to be relevant till 2070. It's irrelevant already. The F-35 is a liability more than an asset, except to American arms dealers, who have orders booked for 50 years. America won't even be around by then, inshallah, and this strategic inflexibility (re: corruption) is a big reason.
On the other hand, Hamas and Iran and Yemen and Hezbollah come out with new missiles every year (every time America martyrs someone, they name the next missile after them). Iran has hypersonic missiles (which fly unstoppably fast, low, and funny), Yemen fired the first rocket through space, Hezbollah has drones that hit Netanyahu's bedroom window, and Hamas has rockets that can hit Tel Aviv. The Resistance made a strategic bet on rocket and tunnel technology 30 years ago and it's playing out now. America made a corresponding bet on jets and avarice and now les jeux sonts faits. The strategic decisions leading to this war happened in the 1980s and neither side is changing. As Lenin didn't say, there are years when decades happen, and these are those years indeed.
I'm reminded of the moment, which I may be making up, when the Chinese met the Mongols. The Chinese had been perfecting and fetishizing a highly ritualized form of archery, more ballet than battle, splitting silk with perfectly shot arrows. Then the Mongols rode in and just shot the hell out of them. Like the Mongols—who shot from horseback and disappeared—the Resistance can shoot from trucks and be gone in an instant. Like the Mongols, the Resistance does one thing really well (hit targets) and it does it often. The past 30 years have been a quantum leap in 'archery', and the latest decrepit empire is just not built for it.
Manned Vs. UnmannedLast century—which might as well be the days of air knights—manned aircraft dominated the skies. These air knights operated out of castles (aircraft carriers, airbases) and could bomb any weaker castle, though they spent most of their time slaughtering peasantry. They could even make themselves invisible, such was their sorcery. This sounds like a distant fairy tale because it is.
Now the days of air knights are gone, these are the days of air shaheed (martyrs). Missiles and drones can rise from their earth and exact vengeance kamikaze style. These are not human soldiers, they don't have to make a two-way trip. Air defenses can stop some of these missiles, but they can't stop swarms of them, which can be produced quite cheaply. Iran and Hezbollah have used these missiles in layered attacks (sometimes spanning months), first drawing air defense missiles with dogshit, then hitting air defence batteries, then unloading the good stuff on precise targets. Some of these missiles—like hypersonics and drones—are functionally invisible to Cold War era defense systems. And planes can't do shit about it. Expensive, elaborate air knights are no match for air shaheed.
$ Vs. $$$$Another big problem is cost, the $$$ markers in the infographic. For every incoming missile—which could be a $20,000 drone—air defense systems must fire at least two interceptors missiles, which range from $100,000 to multi-millions each. And these missiles are produced in tiny, bespoke quantities, sometimes just 10 or 12 a year. America can print money but they can't print missiles, they've deindustrialized so much they'd need China's help to bomb China.
The stealthy jets America bet the farm on in the 1980s are cool, but built for another war. Stealth fighters not that stealthy, and are completely vulnerable on the ground. As former US General Frank McKenzie said, "the thousands of short-range missiles that Iran possesses are a factor here. There is no strategic depth. An F-35 is very hard to hit in the air. On the ground it is nothing more than a very expensive and vulnerable chunk of metal sitting in the sun." America's whole defensive strategy is based on expensive air defense systems, but these are overwhelmed by cheap missiles and can't even defend themselves anymore. America's rapidly depreciating military assets have become liabilities now.
The End Of SupremacyAmerica's strategic problems go deeper than missiles vs. planes. The bigger problem is that America is an invading army. The Resistance are fighting for their homes, while the Americans are 11,000 km from Kansas. The Resistance does not need an air force because it's their turf. They can literally dig in and follow Sun Tzu's dictum, "To excel at defense means hiding oneself away in the deepest recesses of the earth. To excel at offense means striking from the highest reaches of the heavens." The combination of unmanned missiles and tunnels is a complete blind spot to the US military, and they're too big and corrupt to change course.
America has a military base in Bahrain, but that's too close to Iran and Gen McKenzie recommended retreat. But retreat to where? 'Israel' requires daily arms deliveries from America, it's just another liability, not an asset. The IOF are just delivery boys for American munitions, like Uber for genocide, and they're wasting them on civilians. So this is how white air supremacy ends. Choking on its own cruelty and arrogance, taking hundreds of thousands of innocent souls with them, with the threat of global irradiation upon us all.
For decades America and the greater White Empire had white air supremacy and used it with such violent prolificacy. They imposed no-fly zones wherever they wanted, and rained death from above whenever they felt like it, which was often. America's whole strategy was based on the manned plane model, and unmanned technology has upended it all since October 7th. As Professor John Mearsheimer said in an interview with an absolute moron,
What I'm telling you, is the conventional wisdom in the West, that 'Israel' is on a roll, that 'Israel' is in the driver's seat, is simply wrong. If you look at what's happening in Gaza, if you look at what's happening with regards to Hezbollah, and Iran, 'Israel' is in trouble. And I want to point out here, that the key variable is the coming of sophisticated missiles and rockets. When I was very young and used to study the 'Israeli'/Arab conflicts, what we focused on in those days was army to army and air-to-air engagements. And the 'Israelis' invariably defeated the Arab armies, whether you're talking about '48, '56, '67, '73, those big wars. And it looked, up until October 7th, like the 'Israelis' were really in the driver's seat. That they faced no serious threat. Then October 7th happened and what became manifestly apparent to all sorts of people, including me, was that there was this really wicked rocket and missile threat against 'Israel' that 'Israel' had no way of dealing with.
Mearsheimer is talking about a tectonic shift in military technology. The age of the manned plane is out and the age of the unmanned missile is in. This is like the discovery of the longbow or gunpowder or diesel. It makes an entire generation and tradition of warfare obsolete. This is not to say that fighter jets will disappear (horses were used well into World War II), but the idea of humans flying planes is becoming as archaic as horse cavalry. America is completely lost in this brave new world, and its enemies have leapfrogged them technologically. White Empire may look like it's fought to a tactical draw (still good for bombing refugees), but for a superpower, this is strategic defeat.
Genocide is a consequence, and it will continue whoever Americans elect. Climate collapse is a consequence, and they're both candidates are committed to more drilling. Slavery is a consequence and both are committed to out-deporting and out-incarcerating the American underclass. Whether America elects an obvious charlatan or a corporate automaton, who gives a shit? The consequences are the same, making the election entirely inconsequential.
The Lesser Evil Is TrumpBy any objective measure, Trump is actually the lesser evil. Trump has not (yet) committed genocide, he sickened less people with COVID and offered more relief, he drilled less than Biden/Harris, and deported fewer passport slaves. The appeal of someone like Kamala Harris is purely subjective, she makes liberals feel superior while still participating in white supremacy. It's not that both candidates are the same, it's that the Democrats are objectively worse. If anything, they're more dangerous because they're better organized, they are the more efficient evil, and better at covering their tracks. Trump is at least an honest liar. He looks evil and he is. As Malcolm X said,
The white conservatives aren't friends of the Negro either, but they at least don't try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the "smiling" fox. One is a wolf, the other is a fox. No matter what, they'll both eat you.
In this way, Trump is the lesser evil because he's transparently evil. Objectively, also, he has simply done less evil in the evil office. Look for yourself. Biden/Harris have accelerated the corrupt incineration of Ukraine on the altar of fighting a Russia which need not be fought. Biden/Harris have committed livestreamed genocide for over a year now. Biden/Harris have sickened and killed more people with COVID, while gutting all protections and social support. Biden/Harris have accelerated the trade war (re: siege) against China, while reinforcing illegal sieges against Cuba, Iran, etc. Biden/Harris have deported more people, built more wall, dumped more carbon into the atmosphere, and cracked down on speech and assembly even harder than the supposed fascist candidate. Fascism is already here, you morons! Americans are seriously debating 95% Hitler vs 96% Hitler, not understand that this makes them all Nazi, all around. America has been a totalitarian genocide state for its whole existence, regardless of who's President.
I'll say it again and again because it generally goes unsaid. By any objective measure, the Democrats are worse than the orange bogeyman, they just subjectively make liberals feel better, which makes things worse in and of itself. Liberals don't deserve to feel good. They deserve someone that actually represents them, an openly wicked and venal man like Trump.
All Democrats have to offer this election cycle is what Hannah Arendt called pious banalities, long past their sell-by date. As Arendt said about Weimar Germany,
Since the bourgeoisie claimed to be the guardian of Western traditions and confounded all moral issues by parading publicly virtues which it not only did not possess in private and business life, but actually held in contempt, it seemed revolutionary to admit cruelty, disregard of human values, and general amorality, because this at least destroyed the duplicity upon which the existing society seemed to rest.
Arendt has her own problems, like being a racist and anti-communist (Diet Hitler), but she was at least a more self-aware liberal. She understood the appeal of mob vulgarian like Trump in a way modern liberals cannot. With Trump, WYSIWYG, whereas Democrats miss the other programming point, POSIWID. The Democrats still think they're the good guys while committing genocide. Liberals today say well, Trump would genocide more, with no idea of how deranged they sound. Forget the Democrats, American democracy itself is irredeemable. It's Genocide or Diet Genocide, with no water in sight.
Great EvilIf you look at the American election objectively, Trump and Harris are both the same picture. They are both American Presidents (re: Heisenberg) and thus great evil, with little tribal differences that only make sense to Americans.
Americans flatter him, to say Trump will be their Hitler. Hitler was actually a below-average evil as European rulers go. American Presidents are all Hitlers, with Ronald Reagan being the last incarnation they've been stuck on for decades. Since then, every American President has been some poor Reagan impersonator, AKA Hitler. Bush I was nerd Reagan, Clinton was cool Reagan, Bush II was nepo Reagan, Obama was black Reagan, Trump was clown Reagan, and Biden was Reagan except somehow more senile and trigger-happy. America hasn't had an original idea in decades, and every election since 1980 has been a reboot. Today, Harris is running as a Reagan Democrat next to the Cheney family, tapping into a rich base of 50,000 in Wyoming and assorted torture enthusiasts. History is truly repeating as farce. American politics is still centered around Reagan, who sucked.
Americans are stuck in a time loop keep saying that this is the most consequential election ever and it isn't. That was supposedly the last election, but what happened then? As I've said and as you can look up, Biden/Harris killed more people with COVID, they deported more people, drilled more fossil fuels, and started more wars, up to livestreamed genocide for months now. Biden is visibly dead in office and Harris is visibly dead inside and it doesn't seem to matter who sits in the seat, as long as endless blood keeps it warm. American oligarchs have become even too lazy for a convincing season of the reality TV farce they call elections. They're just re-running the last election, with one candidate simply selected by consultants.
America today is on autopilot, bombing babies on pure muscle memory. This continues regardless of who occupies the offensive office, which is inherently offensive to man and God. The only satisfaction you can get is kicking the currently ruling bums out, but the ruling class just turns the other cheek and the same shit comes out.
This is why 2024 is, in fact, the least consequential election of my life. A pox on both your houses. Vote Jill Stein if you want to feel moral, or join the Resistance and actually pay for it if you actually want to do something. The Americans are going to continue killing either way, unless we kill the very idea of America. Supporting a peaceful transfer of power within America is supporting their endless violence within and without. God-damn America, as Obama's preacher said, before that soulless charlatan disavowed him. Neither side of America deserves to win. This is like asking the neck which side of the knife it prefers. To outsiders like me, this is all like debating whether Goebbels or Göring replaces Hitler. Who gives a fuck? Cyanide and the Red Army are the only moral choices, when faced with such immorality seeking to reincarnate itself.
The US army is the worst army in the world. They're the only army that aspires to worldwide dominance, and they suck at it. It's the only Empire based on losing every war and looting its own treasury. Losing the last war is always covered up by the starting the next war, but if you look at it historically, America has been losing it for decades now. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Palestine, these are all losses or draws. Today, America can no longer field its own army, its Navy cannot secure shipping lines, its proxies cannot stand on their own, and its military assets are aging liabilities. The military-industrial beast that Eisenhower birthed now slouches towards Bethlehem to die. Things fall apart, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, et cetera.
America still has the highest military spending in the world, but this is like a boxer showing up at weigh-in riddled with tumors. That's cancer bro, not muscle. The US military budget is a measure of corruption, not competence. Pound for pound, the American military is weaker than it's ever been. It spends more to suck even harder. As war criminal Dan Grazier said in Responsible Statecraft, the Death Star is in a Death Spiral,
The Death Spiral is one of the main Pentagon Pathologies. The American people devote ever greater resources to their defense [sic] while receiving less and less in return. The Air Force had 10,387 aircraft in 1975 when the Military Reformers began their work in earnest. Today the Air Force has 5,288. The Navy had 559 active ships in 1975. Today the fleet has only 296. The Pentagon's base budget is more than 60% higher today than it was in 1975, when adjusted for inflation.Declining Marginal Returns
This is a simple illustration of what anthropologist Joseph Tainter called declining marginal returns. This phenomenon is obvious to any meditator, drug taker, or anyone that listens to a song for too long. Eventually, you get less bang for the buck. Everything that claims existence must lose it, this is the eternal law. This phenomenon applies to civilians as well as civilizations. It's akin to the physical law of entropy, the direction of time's arrow. Tainter graphed and explained the phenomenon in civilizations as follows,
In many crucial spheres, continued investment in sociopolitical complexity reaches a point where the benefits for such investment begin to decline, at first gradually, then with accelerated force. Thus, not only must a population allocate greater and greater amounts of resources to maintaining an evolving society, but after a certain point, higher amounts of this investment will yield smaller increments of return.US Military Returns
There is no better example of this than the US military. You could pick any weapons program, but let's go with the F-35, the most expensive weapons program ever. This wunderwaffen cost $1.7 trillion and rising, has delivered less than 500 units, doesn't work half the time, and doesn't even come with a proper manual. I shit you not, these are all facts out of a 2023 GAO report (GAO-23-105341). Investigating the F-35s miserable readiness rate, the vestigial Government Accountability Office reported that,
Officials at both depot locations we visited said that the lack of technical data and incomplete technical data has delayed depot repair times. For example, according to officials from one depot we visited, components needing repair come with a Depot Component Maintenance Manual. However, these manuals are ambiguous and rarely are detailed enough for depot personnel to make the repair. As a result, depot personnel not only cannot fix the part, but they cannot learn and understand how to fix the part.
Why is the US military not able to maintain its own stuff? Because "program officials said manufacturers are unwilling to pass proprietary information through the prime contractor to DOD as they may expose information that may reduce their competitiveness as a private sector entity." So because of this, they can't fix their own planes or debug their own software. They don't have the manuals or the source code. The US government has paid for a military program it does not own. The F-35 is just another enshittified subscription service, like Netflix for fighter jets. It also doesn't work half the time, and kills children when it does.
The F-35 is also an old program (from 2006) and completely unadapted to modern warfare. The F-35 is not that stealthy anymore, and is completely vulnerable to cheap missiles on the ground. As another war criminal, Frank McKenzie, said in another report, "An F-35 is very hard to hit in the air. On the ground it is nothing more than a very expensive and vulnerable chunk of metal sitting in the sun."
This pathology is present across the whole US military. They get less bang for more buck across all technologies and personnel. They keep producing new technologies which are more complicated, more expensive, slower to (bomb a) market, and don't really work. The US advertises its high military budget as an asset, but it's really a measure of liabilities.
As Tainter said, "higher amounts of this investment will yield smaller increments of return." Tainter's graph shows that, at some point, the return actually becomes negative. For the US military industrial complex, that moment was decades ago. As Colonel Everest E. Riccioni wrote in 2001,
In 1969, Pierre M. Sprey, a member of Program Analysis and Evaluation, acting in his formal advisory role for the Department of Defense, gave a presentation to an audience of 30 generals, admirals, and high-ranking civilian DoD executives. He concluded his review by accusing them of "opting for unilateral disarmament by purchasing military weapons at unprecedented and prohibitive prices resulting in too few weapons to win our wars." In addition, he noted that the complexity of the arms (which drove up costs) was a dominant factor ensuring failure of the weapons to meet their specified battle requirements.
You can pick examples of declining marginal returns from anywhere, Riccioni mentions aircraft missiles (again, from 2001). He said,
The cost of a firing (a burst or a launch) went from hundreds of dollars for guns, to $15,000 for an AIM-9B/D, to $90,000 for the AIM-4, to $190,000 for an AIM-713, to a dizzying $1.9 million for the Phoenix. Taking effectiveness into account, the cost of expendables alone make the cost of a kill about $5,000 for the cannon (guns), $100,000 for the Sidewinder missile (AIM-9), $900,000 for the Falcon (AIM-4), $1.9 million for the Sparrow (AIM-7), and quasi-infinity for the Phoenix. Clearly we cannot afford an air war, perhaps not even a single kill, with the Phoenix.
As all these retired generals, colonels, and accountability officers tell no one in particular, this isn't sustainable, who care? There's a lot of money in selling $50,000 toilet seats and million dollar bullets and none in these reports and blog posts. The economic incentives are completely misaligned with any military objectives. The whole structure of the American military industrial complex is a Ponzi scheme, not a real procurement program. And there's only one way this ends. Collapse.
Money Printer Go BrrrrrAmerica has, however, given declining shits because money printer go brrrrr and covers up their fundamental fragility. While America can theoretically keep printing money forever, at some point, psychologically, it becomes untenable. The US already has high debt to GDP ratios and its interest payments are already higher than military spending. This would be considered ruinous for normal countries but it's considered fine by most people because it's considered fine by enough people. This is a circular logic which is, in fact, a death spiral, getting smaller and smaller with each turn of the screw.
As a recent RAND report said, "U.S. industrial production is grossly inadequate to provide the equipment, technology, and munitions needed today, let alone given the demands of great power conflict." America can keep 'printing' money but they can't print bullets. Instead, they keep increasing military budgets and decreasing military production. More and more money is chasing less and less goods, a textbook definition of inflation. And this inflation has spread throughout their declining civilization. America has politicized the definition of inflation, but if you look at what people actually spend the most on—homes, healthcare, education—inflation has already ruined their civilization.
To return to just military ruin, Grazier says,
Left unchecked, the acquisition Death Spiral's inevitable destination is unilateral disarmament. Norman Augustine, a former DoD official and Lockheed Martin CEO predicted in 1983, with only a hint of satire, that by 2054, "the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day."
What the few US military analysts that aren't up their own ass don't get is not merely that they shouldn't preserve their military. It's that they cannot. They are not the first civilization to face the death spiral. Everything that claims existence must lose it. Everything that lives must die. Nations are no different, and aggravations like America only spiral faster as they struggle.
It's not just that America spends more to get a more complex and less effective military. Declining marginal returns are common across many spheres of American civilization, cars, houses, trains, education, cinema, politicians. They can no longer build roads, subways, ships, or manufacture anything competitively. Everything is much more expensive and somehow much more shit. Declining marginal returns are real, and it couldn't come to a worse civilization than this one. I'd say good riddance if they weren't taking so many lives and a livable planet with them. So I'll just say God damn America. They can't spiral fast enough.
The US Embassy released a report of 'terrorist activity' around Arugam Bay meaning someone (finally) was thinking about resisting the actual 'Israeli' war criminals (white terrorists) who have been unsettling the place for months. Ever since the Al Aqsa Flood, Arugam Bay (a largely Muslim area) has been flooded with 'Israelis' of military age, often fresh off military rampages, acting like they own the place.
As an example, my friends booked an Arugam Bay holiday months in advance. When they arrived, however, the hotel owner said some 'Israelis' were refusing to check out. They had 'Israeled' the place. After much yelling our friends managed to get one room, but most of the 'Israelis' just didn't care. This is a typical attitude of 'Israelis' on vacation. Many 'Israelis' have even set up illegal businesses and hold whites only parties. When I went there I could see that they just take over places, I saw them take a microphone from the guy playing guitar to sing and say "Am Yisreal Chai," the modern Heil Hitler, implying that everyone else can fuck off and die. It's nauseating that this is happening in my own country, and that my own country defends the most offensive tourists in an already offensive and humiliating 'industry'.
And please don't start with 'not all 'Israelis'.' This sounds like 'not all Nazis' or 'not all Germans' or 'not all White people' which is dumb. These identities are all ongoing war crimes and shouldn't exist at all. 'Israelis', given the fundamentally deranged culture of their colony, and notoriously awful tourists (an awful concept itself, in this passport apartheid world). As Caitlin Johnston has said about her experience,
My first encounter with Israelis was when I was backpacking through South America in my twenties, and I remember being shocked by how consistently awful they all were. I guess after their mandatory military service they tend to go traveling for a bit, and whenever I'd run into them they were reliably some of the nastiest people I'd ever encountered.
They weren't ever nasty to me, though. I am a white westerner, and I never had a problem with them. They were nasty to the impoverished brown-skinned people who were hosting us. They were obnoxious and bullying toward local guides, they'd leave the place in a mess, and they were always trying to screw over the locals for a better deal or extra meals or favors. One time they tricked a hostel into putting up a sign in Hebrew for other Israeli backpackers which said ugly things about our hosts (they told the hostel owner it was a great review), which I only know because they were laughing hysterically about it and told me. They consistently treated the people who were looking after us like they were much lesser than us. Their pushiness and entitlement were just unbelievable.
I believe it cause I've seen it myself. Sri Lanka's Arugam Bay is full of 'Israelis', most of them of military age, ie fresh off running people over with bulldozers, raping them to death with fire extinguishers, and other casual war crimes in that conscript society. This migration of unsettled settlers is so common that someone made a movie called Arugam Bay, which leads with the title card, "In Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka. It is often said, that 'Israeli' surfers feel entitled to every wave, either because they're eighteen years old and they'll most likely get killed in the military service, or because they're twenty-two years old and they've managed to survive it."
Ze 'Israelis' certainly carry this sense of entitlement with them, when in fact their genocidal 'military' entitles them only to arrest under the Genocide Convention. The fact that 'Israels' feel entitled to recreation during their destruction of a people is nauseating, and that their soldiers see this as a cooling-off spot makes any decent person's blood boil. Again, under the Genocide Convention we should be arresting them, not people that think about Resistance (before it's too late for even us). The truth is that an 'Israeli' passport should be about as welcome as a Nazi passport. In fact, for people growing up no, this Nazi comparison is unnecessary. Future atrocities will be compared to 'Israelis'. These are the Nazis of our time, which begs the question, what the fuck are they doing here? I don't think we should let 'Israelis' into Sri Lanka at all (and I'm actually friends with a nominally 'Israeli' family that I'd like to see). They can come back with a free Palestinian passport (and I think my friends would agree).
One rejoinder is that Sri Lankans (mainly Sinhalese) have done our own genociding, against both Tamils in the north/east and Sinhalese commies in the south. This is true, but many of the groups implicated in that are now protecting the 'Israelis'. The 'Israelis' pay off the police and/or the STF (militarized police)—groups historically trained by the 'Israelis'—and ask 'do you know who my father is?' as they hide behind Daddy Yankee. And so the 'Israelis' corrupt everywhere they go, even Sri Lanka.
Hence recently, the US Embassy issued a 'terrorism' warning (because 'Israel' does not exist) about 'tourists' in Arugam Bay. God knows they're so obnoxious I'd like to throw a fire cracker at them. Now it's come to a head because they're setting up illegal businesses and synagogues and plastering pictures of their war criminals around Muslim areas. And they're doing this settling on tourist visas, all activities that get Sri Lankans thrown in concentration camps if we do that elsewhere. But, to our shame, the cops arrest our own people and protect the war criminals. The corruption of Zionism is real.
I dread to think what happens after the inevitable fall of the American colony, when even more 'Israelis' flood to this embarrassingly pliant paradise. Even more unrepentant, unreeducated war criminals will come here, and we know how they behave. For now, America still has power enough to sustain the genocidal colony, and force them on everybody else, but times, inshallah are changing. By the time (let's say 2030) both colony and empire fall, I hope we've rediscover our dignity. Sri Lanka should not only be protecting ourselves from Zionists, we should be defending the people they're currently genociding. Instead we're opening coconuts for the war criminals and arresting our own people (and, I've heard fraternal Maldivians).
The idea that America, the most terrorizing state in human history, can be issuing terrorism warnings is itself hilarious but remember that every accusation is a confession. This wasn't a message to their citizens or their colonizers, it was a message to Sri Lankans. America has sent the message to Sri Lankans loud and clear. If you even consider resisting 'Israelis' squatting in Sri Lanka, we'll attack your tourist industry. The warning didn't come from 'Israel' because 'Israel' is, of course, not a real country.
This issue, of course, has little to do with most American citizens, but America is an Empire and the needs of their most violent colony trump their own people any day. So the US Embassy issued the travel warning, followed by that other non-entity Canada. It's all a protection racket, of course. Protect these war criminals or we'll make a racket and tank your whole industry. And Sri Lankans are supposed to just take it, and be grateful for the tourism, AKA colonialism with tips. If we don't take it, we're 'terrorists,' and on some list. This is the rules-based order in a nutshell. It's time to grow some and crack it.
'Israelis' out of Sri Lanka. They can come back as Palestinians.
The one part of the military industrial complex that still works well is the marketing department. We're told that everything we see burning is fine—that the deindustrialized West has infinite productive capacity—but what we're really witnessing is the last fire sale of the military industrial complex. In what Kamala Harris aptly names the 'Country Over Party', everything most go.
'Israel'—the flagship franchise of McGenocide—is already toast. American media covers up 'Israeli' losses and hypes up their terrorism even more than the 'Israeli' media, but the information is there if you look. Let's look at just one example because I've seen a lot of them burning myself. 'Israel's' homemade Merkava tanks, which are being returned to sender as Palestinians retake their home.
TanksBefore we discuss tanking, we must know how many tanks 'Israel' had, and how quickly they can reproduce them. According to The Military Balance 2024, 'Israel' has 400 of their locally produced (MkIV) tanks in service, with 900 older models in storage. I have to go back to Military Balance 2021 to find any change in MkIV supply, back then they had 330. That gives us a reproduction rate of roughly 110 per year.
These are all guesses, but let's say they have 400 viable tanks and can produce 100 new ones each year if they're motivated, which they are. They could (and would) pull tanks out of storage, but that doesn't change the direction that much.
No TanksI have personally seen dozens of these tanks burning in the ruins of Gaza, must be near 100 with mine own eyes. After just a few weeks of invading Lebanon, the Islamic Resistance Operations Room says,
According to reports by the fighters of the Islamic Resistance, the enemy's losses have reached more than 70 killed and over 600 wounded from the ranks of the "israeli" army's officers and soldiers. Additionally, 28 Merkava tanks, 4 military bulldozers, an armored vehicle, and a troop carrier have been destroyed. Three "Hermes 450" drones and one "Hermes 900" drone have also been downed.
These figures do not include the "israeli" losses in military bases and barracks in the north and deep within occupied Palestine.
Only the 28 Merkava tanks destroyed is relevant here, but I include the rest because mashallah. Let's say this is at least a third of yearly production gone in a few weeks, with more probably damaged. And this is just the last few weeks. Hezbollah released a summary of activities for a year's worth of stand-off warfare— from the Al Aqsa Flood to the current drowning.
Under Enemy Losses it says 141 military vehicles but doesn't separate tanks vs. APC, etc. Since we're just napkining, let's say 20 for the year 'Israel' was tooling around on its 'border', accelerating to 28 losses once they crossed. I'm being conservative here but you'll see why, this begins to add up. Let's round the Hezbollah chunk up to 50 for napkin's sake.
In Gaza, the Mujahideen Brigade (who I would rank as #3 most active) reported 80 military vehicles targeted in a year. How many tanks destroyed? Dunno, let's say 5, and round it up to 10 to include all the other Resistance groups (including in the West Bank), which are many. So we're already at -60 total.
Saraya Al-Quds (Palestinian Islamic Jihad), who I would rank #2, reported nearly 2,000 operations but not broken down by matériel damage. I've seen the videos and therein I've seen Thaqeb explosives (47) and barrel bombs (34) frequently used against tanks, along with handheld anti-armor (303). Does this tell us how many tanks were destroyed? No. But going by the stuff I've seen burning, let's say 20. So we're already at -80 tanks, without getting to the main battle.
Now we get to the big guns. Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades are the main fighting force fighting this genocide. While I can't find a list or infographic, I found this statement from October 7th 2024, stating,
Al-Qassam fighters were able to lure soldiers and vehicles to point-blank and target and destroy 1,592 zionist military vehicles that varied between tanks, zionist troop carriers, and military bulldozers, in addition to targeting the headquarters, gatherings, and soldier defenses. The battle, as the enemy claimed, resulted in the killing of 726 zionist officers and soldiers, while our fighters continue to write history and strike the zionist forces penetrated and positioned in several axes of the Gaza Strip and forcing them to retreat to deprive them from this blessed land.
These are heavy losses. If we say one third tanks that would be all of them, without even factoring in the other factions. Let's say 100 tanks destroyed? I can honestly remember seeing at least 20 tanks burning with my own eyes, and they don't film everything. With our bloody napkin total, we're talking about -180 tanks blown out of a 400 tank army, not counting all those damaged and in the shop, which are also out of commission. With a margin of error of, I dunno, a 100, this is still quite bad. This is a major problem for the problem makers in the Middle East, which should show up even through wartime censorship. As it does.
TankingIn July, 'Israel' had to release information about tanks because of a Supreme Court case. Someone made a petition that women should be able to join the tank genocide, and 'Israel' said no tanks because they had already tanked so hard.
The 'Israeli' governmnet said, "objective difficulties have arisen due to the fighting in the Gaza Strip and other fronts, especially in the [IOF's] combat units." The response also said, "There are many constraints that will prevent the inauguration of the integration program next year, including the inoperability of many tanks, a shortage of ammunition, and a significant number of recruits needed to fill positions in the armored corps in the south and north, not as part of the program, and a shortage of training personnel." To translate, 'The matériel has burnt, with the men inside of it. Tanks but no tanks, there is literally no place for women.'
Another sign of trouble in the hell-state is repairs. 'Israel' has maybe lost 20 tanks total before and all repairs have been done in-house. But now there's obviously too many busted treads, and—for the first time—they've issued a tender for private sector repair. They're also talking about outsourcing production. There's obviously a crunch, visible even through tight military censorship.
The fact remains that the 'Israeli' military is winning the genocide and losing the war. Their tanks are burning and their troops are committing suicide when/if they get home. This is why the Nazis made gas chambers. Using the military for genocide breaks both men and matériel, for little military benefit. As I've said, 'Israel' has already lost and the Resistance is fighting the final boss of colonialism, America. And this is just one front America is burning on, witness the steppes of Ukraine or their retreat from Afghanistan. 'Israel' is the last colony of the last days of colonialism.
As Al-Qassam's warrior sage Abu Obeida pointed out in a recent statement,
This entity depends only on the American-made and directed air force, and is only held together by the familiar American administrations' ropes, which will be cut no matter how long it takes, just as it depends on European colonial ropes that are rejected even by their own people, and on incapable normalizing regimes that do not represent the conscience of our nation in any way.
I know it's easy to lose hope because all this matériel is being used for terrorism, which is terrifying. They want us to watch all their murdering, torturing, and raping, and lose the will to resist entirely. But understand that this is all psychological warfare. The Americans are trying to break the will of resistance in a way that has broken no resistance movement ever. But the Resistance is not breaking. Why should you, in comfort, even bend?
As the martyr philosopher Basil Al-Araj said, "The enemy will spread photos and videos of their invasion into Gaza, occupation of residential buildings, or presence in public areas and well-known landmarks. This is part of the psychological warfare in guerrilla wars; you allow your enemy to move as they wish so that they fall into your trap and you strike them."
Or as Hezbollah's late, great leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said, "If your tanks come to Lebanon and its south, you will not suffer from a shortage of tanks, because you will no longer have tanks." Assassinating neither of these sages changed the truth, they merely made eternal martyrs of the messengers.
Hezbollah's attacks have only gone up since Nasrallah's assassination. At the rate that Hezbollah is dismantling tanks now, 'Israel' will truly not have tanks anymore. And this is just one part of Hezbollah's strategic dismantling of 'Israeli' defenses (see how 'Israel' Lost The North). Before 'Israel' walked into the well-planned tank ambush of southern Lebanon, Hezbollah systematically dismantled its air defenses and is now regularly hitting Tel Aviv. They even put a drone through Benjamin's Netanyahu's stolen window, as a how do you do? 'Israel' is not doing well militarily and merely trying to cover it up with mass terrorism.
It's important to understand, as the Resistance does, that the 'Israeli' military has already lost, their Navy can't even show up against Yemen, their Army can't defeat Hamas or Hezbollah, and their Air Force can't defeat Iran. 'Israel' depends on America for everything now, making the non-entity a non-entity. They're just delivery boys for American bombs, working on colonial commission. And America itself can't even show up, they're actually in the middle of a long retreat from the world, furiously throwing proxies in front of themselves and resorting to open terrorism. All of these assassinations and massacres, as terrifying as they are, are not signs of strength. These are the weapons of the weak. Meanwhile the so-called terrorists (really terroirists) have been laser-focused on engaging and destroying the enemy forces (shout-out Clausewitz), quite strategically.
Unfortunately for us all (we are all Palestinian), a long bloody road is ahead, possibly ending in nuclear holocaust because who cares when you've already dropped multiple nukes worth on a captive population of mostly children. Just as the Nazis kept killing and left a scorched earth long after they'd obviously lost WWII, the Nazis of our time will keep killing and genociding long after it makes no sense (it never did). But take heart in history and have faith in the Resistance. Their work is buried under mountains of propaganda and rivers of blood, but they have done wonders. Much better men than me died for each of these statistics. Much better men have died for this strategic logic. For those who have lost everything, the least we can do is not lose heart.
So as dear Basil said, "Never spread panic; be supportive of the resistance and do not spread any news broadcast by the occupation (forget about the ethics and impartiality of journalism; just as the zionist journalist is a fighter, so are you)." And, as he continued, "every Palestinian (in the broad sense, meaning anyone who sees Palestine as a part of their struggle, regardless of their secondary identities), every Palestinian is on the front lines of the battle for Palestine, so be careful not to fail in your duty."
I was at a party and a friend asked, "how's the work/genocide balance?" I laughed and he laughed but God knows we're dying inside. I go through each day with this low level of impenetrable sadness behind my eyes. There's just this sadness in every moment, under the table at every meal, in the shadows of my children, ruining every happiness I feel. It's something I forget about but always remember. I can avoid it but, like a void, it's still there. Genocide is the death of a people, and I am a people. I'm also dying inside.
The martyr philosopher Basil Al-Araj said, "every Palestinian (in the broad sense, meaning anyone who sees Palestine as a part of their struggle, regardless of their secondary identities), every Palestinian is on the front lines of the battle for Palestine, so be careful not to fail in your duty." I feel this, I feel Palestine as part of my aragalaya, and I feel it my duty to at least write about the genocide I'm living through.
I have no work/genocide balance because my work is genocide. I have seen terrible and incredible things and most days I don't write as much as recite. Since the ghetto uprising, I have seen the ghetto liquidation. At the same time I have seen partisans lighting up tanks in the street like Roman candles. I have seen dying men pray with their dying breaths. I have seen heroes throw sticks at drones rather than give up. I have seen Jesus's words, when He said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
Next to this—next to literally all there is—I have nothing to offer. All my words are worth less than dust on a Palestinian child's sandal. God said there are times that test men's souls. It's an open book test, but I'm still failing. Jesus said, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." Come at me bro, He said. Mohammed recited, "Beware of a trial that will not only affect the wrongdoers among you. And know that Allah is severe in punishment." We have been told, and told again. These are two prophets from the same God. There are many paths to this information, I've seen the Buddha's path and turned around to check my phone instead. As Al Pacino said, "I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew, but I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard." And so it is. They say a coward dies many times before his death. Certainly feels like it.
The only thing that gives me some pride is that I have sacrificed something. I gave up money, Medium cut my earnings from $1,200 to $200 and algorithmically disappeared me from view. The FBI came looking for me in America (where I don't live and am not a citizen) and asked if I pose "any risk of acting in support of a terrorist organization beyond first amendment protected speech." I cry because I don't. I know God is watching for action, the Feds don't have to rub it in. I'm happy because these meagre sacrifices are at least sacrifices, and I know God likes that sort of thing. So I offer these words and the costs they've incurred next to the dust on better people's sandals.
That's the genocide inside. The pain of living through the mass murder of a people, and being a people too. The pain of being held in extermination, concentration, and torture camps, and of being made to watch others suffer in front of you. The only proper response to genocide is resistance, a people's resistance to the extermination of a people. And, for me, that's the only thing that gets me through the day. Seeing Hamas fighters blow up Merkava Tanks, and cheering them on. Seeing Hezbollah fighters lose their top ranks, and fight even harder and smarter than before. And supporting the Resistance, whatever that costs. I guess that's the way to deal with the genocide inside. You have to do something, outside, about it. I invite you to Read the Resistance directly, for a start.
Russia is now militarily allied with North Korea, China, and soon Iran. Iran is now formalizing the Axis of Resistance (Hezbollah, Hamas, Ansarallah, etc) as a mutual-defense pact. Putin has explicitly connected the two axes, saying, if I may paraphrase, 'if the Americans arm our enemies, we'll arm their enemies.' With Russia in Syria already, the two fronts could connect quite quickly. These are the battle lines of World War III. They're already drawn, and they've drawn blood already.
Iran, China, and Russia have conducted five joint naval exercises in the Indian Ocean already, most recently in March 2024, as observed by Oman, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and South Africa. Iran, Russia, and Oman are conducting joint naval exercises now (October 2024), observed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Thailand.
Joe Biden laughed about this sort of alliance in 1997, saying,
I had one interesting conversation [with the Russians], they talked about they don't want this NATO expansion, they know it's not in their security interest, and on and on and they said, 'if you do that, we may have to look to China.' And I couldn't help using the colloquial expression from my state, 'lots of luck in your senior year.' Good luck. And if that doesn't work, try Iran [laughter].
Biden told this as a joke, but who's laughing now? Russia now massively outproduces occupied Europe. Iran massively outproduces occupying 'Israel'. China massively outproduces everyone. Industrial war is a game of industrial production and America has deindustrialized rapidly. They've outsourced much of their war production across long supply lines they cannot secure and they would depend on Chinese resources to attack China. America would be stupid to start World War III given these material conditions, but unfortunately they are.
So here we are. In the middle of World War III, if you count colored people and ignore proxies. America is fighting Russia through Ukraine and Iran through 'Israel' and is trying to fight China through Taiwan. Now America has already stripped the armories of Europe and 'Israel' and would strip its own armories if they attacked China. America doesn't have enough artillery to defend Ukraine or enough air defense missiles to defend 'Israel' and has resorted to attacks on civilians and assassinations like resource-poor 'terrorists'. For decades they held together their WWII conquests through both hard and soft power but now all they have is the ritual slaughter of the powerless.
In this way, World War II never really stopped, it just stopped affecting white people so they called it 'Cold', like their hearts. America conquered Europe, much of the Pacific, and much of the Middle East in WWII, and this WWIII is them desperately trying to hold on. But America has, in fact, been in a long retreat since Vietnam (when they became unable to field a conscript army) and then Afghanistan (when they became unable to field an army at all). They have now lost naval supremacy to Yemen and air supremacy to both Russia and Iran. In many ways, World War III is finished before it started, America is furiously throwing proxies in front of itself, but its own army is too scared to even show up.