The US is a gangster state, where foreign policies mirror organized criminal behavior. Any cursory examination of post-war history reveals that the US operates like the Mafia, maintaining its empire through unceasing violence.

Liberals view Trump as a horrifying aberration but he’s the perfect mafia don for a gangster state. Trump’s re-election presents America with its mask removed. In a fitting reception, arrayed around him in the Capitol’s rotunda for his inauguration were former officials with more blood on their hands than any combination of serial killers in history. The gang was all there–the Clintons, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Joe Biden–all mass murderers yet with the gall to view Trump as an affront to decency and morality.

Like the mob, who maintains a legitimate front veneer to camouflage their criminality, our feral elite utilize patriotism as their cover, with Trump invoking Manifest Destiny as a Golden-Oldie. It’s fun to mock the ineptness of the neocons who manage the US empire, with neoliberalism as their operating system, but for our billionaire owners, it’s been the best of times even as it’s been catastrophic for the country. Maybe I’ve missed it, but while Trump may attempt to end some of the empire’s numerous conflicts, making America great again does not include a distribution of wealth from the top down, and at best there will be a shift in tactics on how to extort more wealth from the rest of the world. Gains are to be increased for American plutocrats at the expense of vassals and enemies alike seems closer to the real meaning of MAGA.

With that in mind, despite Ukraine’s impending defeat on the battlefield, are the US gangsters going to want to lose the lucre from splitting Europe from Russia? What about the bonuses of having a terrorist state in Europe funneling arms elsewhere and willing to do dirty work like trying to blow up the TurkStream Pipeline , all to benefit American energy companies. And in any settlement with Russia, will American oligarchs have any interest in abandoning their meddling in the Caucasus and Caspian where they are trying to control the flow of resources toward Europe?

And what of Gaza and Israel’s Yinon Plan for Middle East conquest? Trump may have engendered a cease fire but the he and the gangsters who make up his foreign policy claque are captured by Zionists, much like the Biden Administration was.

If the Biden regime made one thing clear above all others, it is that presidents and cabinet members are more like interchangeable figures, the deep state’s front men, whose function is not to affect policy but to present it to the public and the rest of the world. That Biden presided over a genocide and an incredibly dangerous proxy war with Russia just indicates the absolute bipartisan domination of Washington by the War Party. The imperium’s foreign policies do not change, one administration to another, if you have not noticed. Like a crime family, the business of plunder and murder goes on forever.

Syria is where we can most clearly see the gangster state in action. The Assad Administration refused to play ball with the capo and pay the Pizzo, so Syria was destroyed. The gangster state maintains proxies to do the dirty work–Sunni and Nazi terrorists. Arch-neocon Michael Ledeen spelled out the mob dynamic when he stated that: “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”

The best thing about Trump is that he makes the idea of the US as a gangster state completely obvious without pretension. He says the quiet parts out loud. He’s the only president who’ll openly boast that US troops are in Syria to keep the oil or lament that they failed to take the oil from Venezuela, or just come right out and tell everyone he’s bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs. He puts much less effort into disguising the true nature of the US empire than other presidents.

That’s pretty much the real reason various factions of America’s permanent government object to Trump. It’s not because he presents a threat to the establishment or because he’s trying to bring down the deep state, it’s because he is viewed as a loose-cannon. He either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about the importance of keeping a polite face on the imperial machine.

Thankfully, some Americans are recognizing the nature of our government due to the breakdown in the social contract, sky-high inflation, vast inequality and endless wars combined with ongoing psyops to marshal support. Alternatives to neoliberalism have been stamped out, reducing economic policy exclusively to making the labor market more flexible with temps or to cutting Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. That Americans are angry is now an open secret, demonstrated most forcefully by the assassination of the CEO of United Health

American propaganda is world-class but its effectiveness fades the more citizens see of the true face of the empire. We live in a gangster state run by gangsters.

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Update: More evidence that the US is a gangster state, with heterodox economist Michael Hudson explaining how the Biden and now Trump administrations pulled a “bust out” on vassal, Germany.

“Trump told the Davos Economic Forum January 23: “My message to every business in the world is very simple: Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth.” Otherwise, if they continue to try and produce at home or in other countries, their products will be charged tariff rates at Trump’s threatened 20%.

To Germany this means: Sorry your energy prices have quadrupled. Come to America and get them at almost as low a price as you were paying Russia before your elected leaders let us cut Nord Stream off.”