It certainly doesn’t appear possible for the US to have a non-belligerent foreign policy. Instead, the US aspires to be Techno-Sparta, where a climate of fear, hostility and end-of-times preparation seems to have overtaken US politicians, elites and the corporate media.

Talk of war is everywhere, even if few people have much of an idea what they are talking about. War with Russia, war with Iran and ultimately war with China. Now it’s even war with Venezuela. The worse it gets domestically, with tariffs, inflation, corruption and Epstein, the more talk turns to war as a distraction. The debt has grown to such crazy levels. It’s not sustainable. Trust in this economic system is faltering.

China arouses a particular loathing because their economic model destroys 50 years of shareholder-value orthodoxy. They cannot acknowledge, for ideological reasons, why China is pulling ahead. They can’t acknowledge that a socialist/market, mixed economy works better than a financialized economy that’s running a chronic balance of payments deficit and of government debt as a result of its endless wars.

Going further, China actually uses credit creation and the economic surplus to invest in new production, research and infrastructure, not the creation of financial wealth for Wall Street and the assorted hedge funds that control the US economy. As you might have noticed, the product these economic vampires are pushing is debt. Their business model involves getting the rest of us into debt while furthering monopolies that extract interest, monopoly rent and all the financial overhead that characterizes the US economy. In contrast, China has embraced US economist Simon Patten’s 4th means of production, where infrastructure is subsidized to lower the economy’s cost of doing business.

I’ve said this before but how the economy is organized to whose benefit is the most important political question. US foreign policies reflect the domestic economic dynamic. Unfortunately, US elites seem unwilling to accept the loss of global hegemony. Thus the US seeks to disrupt, upset or destroy it’s perceived rivals, enemies and even vassals. It’s the Empire of Chaos, where all actions, fair and foul are in play, a strategy to devastate other countries to make them ungovernable, and therefore make the construction of multipolarity impossible.

Can you say BRICS?

From economic sanctions to cyber-attacks to proxy wars to terrorism to biological warfare attacks, there is nothing that the desperate managers of empire will not countenance. Indeed, for the neocons, disorder and chaos would not be an unfortunate side-effect but a sign that everything is going according to plan. Meanwhile all of this ongoing warfare is accentuated by a massive propaganda campaign, aimed at enemies, and, most importantly, at the American public. There’s been an ongoing media spectacle involving disinformation, fake news and permanent demonization of foreign leaders. Vladimir Putin, Nicolás Maduro, Xi Jinping, Ali Khamenei and Kim Jong-un, are described as monsters bent on evil who need to be eliminated.

Remember Bashar Assad?

The role model for all of this increasingly appears to be Israel, where the colonial-settler project is busy turning neighboring countries into charnel houses while carrying out a savage genocide in Gaza, all to further a greater Israeli homeland. US institutions have been thoroughly corrupted by Israel, from an Zionist occupied Congress, to a compromised internet and communications environment. Despite the media’s obfuscation, Americans are beginning to understand that Israel controls American leaders through blackmail . And that fact has everything to do with why the United States, the only country on Earth that has the power to quickly and easily stop the genocide of Gaza, refuses to do so.

There is a justifiable anger against the political figures who have led us into a series of disasters, and the corporate media who have encouraged them. For the moment it’s a minority view, but as reality sets in more and more Americans will see a kind of redemptive justice in the discrediting of the political and media class.

I’ve come to yearn for an unmistakable defeat for the American empire. Hardly because I’m unpatriotic, but since voting has proven to been ineffective, a military or foreign policy disaster seems to be required to galvanize the return to a constitutional republic. I say this in response to our feral elite, who will find that they can’t completely protect themselves from the demons their malign incompetence has released.

Remember kids–the Hamptons is not a defensible position.

Trump, in one of his crude yet honest bloviations, has proposed to rename the Defense Department, the Department of War. This sort of behavior drives the elite managers of empire crazy. Trump doesn’t keep it on the down low, he tears a hole in the matrix.

However, the renaming is appropriate, since everywhere is war