It’s only been 22 years since 9/11 but for the US empire it’s been a great unraveling. The American empire is now in unstoppable decline. Certainly there are things that could be done to stop it, but at this point it’s apparent that they will not be done.

Francis Fukiyama’s book should have been called the “End Of Empire”, rather than the End of History, and the whole Project for the New American Century should have been titled: the “Project for the Steep Decline of the American Empire”.

A large part of why this is so is because the people running the US empire are insane, but there’s also the elephant in the room that’s in the news lately with its focused genocidal project. There is considerable evidence to suggest that the forever wars in the Middle East post 9/11 were instigated by the neocons at the behest of Israel. The plan was, and is, to fragment the Middle East, to protect American and Israeli oil and strategic interests there, and to subdue any resistance to corporate capitalism. Indeed, the role of the US in the creation and ongoing support of Israel makes it uniquely culpable for Israel’s actions.

Professor John Mearsheimer said in his interview last Friday with Judge Napolitano (starting at 1:34): “The fact is the United States and Israel are joined at the hip. There are no two countries in recorded history that have a closer history that have a closer relationship than the United States and Israel. And when this crisis broke out on October 7, President Biden made it very clear we would give Israel whatever aid it needed, and that meant both weapons and money, that we would support Israel to the hilt. And we have done that.“

What’s ironic is that through their aggressive wars and belligerent foreign policies the neocons and their Israeli allies have made both Israel and the US less secure.

And now what is clearly a genocide and a massive violation of international law in Gaza by the IDF, with fulsome American support, is turning the whole world against Israel and the US. Not since Iraq has the American empire gotten caught looking this brazenly evil in front of everyone. It’s always been a murderous empire but the empire managers were able to keep it mostly on the down-low thanks to the best propaganda system in history.

By the way, if you’re among the millions of people who are coming to realize that the corporate media has been lying to you about Israel/Gaza, you should probably be aware that they’ve been lying to you about every other war as well.

They’re also lying when they report somberly that the US is powerless to stop the Israeli genocide. The Biden Administration has basically admitted that it’s all political. Even though Washington is Israel’s largest military backer, and the White House has asked Congress for an additional $14 billion in aid for Israel in the wake of the Hamas attacks, administration officials and advisers say the levers the United States theoretically has over Israel, such as “conditioning military aid on making the military campaign more targeted, are nonstarters, partly because they would be so politically unpopular in any administration and partly because, aides say, Biden himself has a personal attachment to Israel.”

But now that the reality of the ongoing horror begins to permeate the halls of power in the Beltway the alarm bells are going off. Even NBC is reporting on this development. “The Biden administration knows its unconditional backing of Israeli war crimes is wrong, criminal even, and is now in full-on self-preservation mode. The Biden Administration officials are particularly concerned about a narrative taking hold that the US supports all of Israels actions and that the US supplied weapons used to kill civilians, many of them woman and children.”

Taking it further, many Americans are shocked and horrified by the support the US is providing to the Israeli genocide. I know I’m shocked and horrified. Worse, I’m ashamed of my country that despite the whole empire thing really did offer so much promise to the world as a beacon of “democracy” and “human rights”.

Elsewhere, the unraveling proceeds apace. The proxy war in Ukraine is just not going well. There is a dim awareness among Americans that in 2014 the US used CIA cutouts and self-described Ukrainian fascists to overthrow the elected government of Ukraine in order to install a government beholden to US interests. The US then spent the next eight years building a proxy army there to attack Russia with.

And now with the proxy war against Russia going south the American people are less than thrilled with their president sending hundreds of billions to the most corrupt government on the planet while homeless people roam the streets back home. Worse, Americans hate losers and the Biden Administrations fits the bill. Joe Biden and the American foreign policy establishment arrogantly dismissed the Russian military’s ability to crush the proxy force it created in Ukraine, making is appear delusional and stupid now that Russia has prevailed.

Speaking of delusional. According to the New York Times, (with regards to Gaza) aides to the president now report that he “believes history will remember him for how he defended democracy against forces of chaos, terror and dictatorship.”

Biden may believe such nonsense but I think history will remember him for his dedication to Israel’s genocide. In fact, protesters are already calling him genocide Joe.

Arnold Toynbee argued in his 12–volume  A Study of History that civilizations rise when creative elites respond to new circumstances with imagination and courage, while they decline, in turn, not in consequence of external factors but due to spiritual collapses within.

Update: An internal memo circulated by State Department staffers in the past week urged their political bosses to “publicly criticize Israel’s violations of international norms such as failure to limit offensive operations to legitimate military targets” and warned that the US government’s approach was undermining confidence in “the rules-based international order that we have long championed.”

The memo, marked “sensitive but unclassified’ was sure to leak, and that was likely the point. It bluntly underscores that Biden’s policy is hurting America’s standing in the world as much of global opinion has been appalled at the Gaza death toll which this week surpassed 11,000. 

The memo sates that the gap between Biden officials’ private and public messaging “contributes to regional public perceptions that the United States is a biased and dishonest actor, which at best does not advance, and at worst harms, U.S. interests worldwide.”