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| We are waiting for the third one. Within a month, the United States received two global strikes at once |
| 2023-11-11 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Petr Akopov [REGNUM] The global dominance of the United States (and the West as a whole) rests not only on the dollar and aircraft carriers, but also on such intangible things as the conviction of its moral superiority and the rigid setting of pragmatic goals. Americans read morals to the whole world and demonstrate unshakable obstinacy in achieving what they want. All this was evident during the struggle for Ukraine. America declared that the duty of every freedom-loving country is to support independence and protect it from the bloody tyrant Putin, from Russian aggression, which threatens democracy and freedom not only in Europe, but throughout the world - and all highly moral people and peoples. And she promised to roughly punish Russia, preventing her from winning and depriving her of the opportunity to influence the future of Ukraine, which will be accepted into NATO and the EU, becoming part of the Western world. Everything is clear and understandable, and no matter how much the rest of the world doubted the sincerity of American moralizing, it assumed that the Americans were seriously going to achieve their goals. And then October 7th happened. The Israeli operation against Gaza, which began after the Hamas attack, hit not only American positions in the Middle East and the Islamic world - it suddenly caused enormous damage to the reputation and image of the United States around the world. At first it turned out that all the lamentations of the Anglo-Saxons about the innocent Ukrainian victims of the bloody Putin were completely false: the thousands of Palestinian children and women killed in the very first weeks of Israeli bombing did not evoke any strong emotions among American leaders. “Israel has the right” not only to barbarically hit civilians, but even to refuse supplies of humanitarian aid and medicine that could save the lives of the wounded. No one even mentions the introduction of sanctions against the Israeli leadership, a boycott of Israeli goods, and even more so sanctions against Israel as such. On the contrary, the Americans are sending weapons and billions of dollars to Israel. Because he is not the aggressor, but the defending party? But even the United States formally admits that Israel is preventing the creation of a Palestinian state. And the world majority simply considers Israel an occupying country that has been pursuing a policy of suppression and violence against the Palestinians for many decades, turning Gaza into something like an open-air concentration camp. And now those who have committed outright genocide there... And Biden won’t even reprimand him for all this? Because it's different, they say in Washington. Putin and the Russians needed to be punished for their aggression, so that other dictators and bad countries would be discouraged from repeating after Russia and attacking their neighbors. And Israel is an eternal victim. And it doesn’t matter that he has occupied Palestinian territories for 75 years, occupied Syrian territories for half a century, invaded neighboring Lebanon several times, and is still striking at Lebanon and Syria. And he doesn’t face any sanctions for this - neither from the UN (because Western countries block them there), nor from the West. For a fraction of what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for decades, for something like the attack on Lebanon in 2006, any other country in the world would have long ago been subjected to ostracism and sanctions from the West. But Israel’s long-term impunity is not dangerous for world democracy and freedom - it won’t teach anyone anything bad. It’s not that the world didn’t know about such an American position before. But now its manifestation has very successfully overlapped with the loud song about “bloody Russia destroying Ukraine.” And it turned out that the world cannot listen to two American melodies that are so contradictory to each other at the same time - their ears wither. It is clear that the Americans cannot abandon Israeli motives, but then they will have to finish the Ukrainian tunes. And they don’t want that either. As a result, the whole world is convinced that the moral position of the United States is one big cynical lie. Thus, nothing remains at all from the status of a moral mentor who has the right to shepherd peoples, and even within their own Western society, many citizens express sincere misunderstanding. Why can’t we protect Palestinian children, why are they worse than Ukrainian ones? Because ten times more of them were killed in a few days than during the entire war in Ukraine? Because they are killed by someone who is allowed to kill? However, this cognitive dissonance is unique to the Western world. The rest of the world, the Global South, understands everything perfectly and refuses to continue listening to morality from the lips of the United States and the West. Moreover, due to the absolute incomparability of the methods of warfare between Russia and Israel, the non-Western world does not want to hear any more about “Putin’s crimes.” After all, the West has put the Russian president on the international wanted list for the mythical kidnapping of Ukrainian children and is not even discussing the possibility of prosecuting Netanyahu, who already has the blood of five thousand murdered Palestinian children on his hands. But the collapse of the moral underpinnings of American hegemony is not the only consequence of what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The second blow was to faith in Americans' ability to set realistic goals and achieve them. The fact that the United States could defeat Russia in Ukraine and bring Russia into NATO was still accepted by a large part of the world, because the West was so powerfully aligned with Kyiv, and calls the defeat of Russia its most important task. This is a clear goal - and the combined power of the West seems to make it, in principle, feasible. Even if not immediately, not soon, the United States will defend Ukraine and take it for itself. But what goals does the United States set for itself in the case of Israel and Gaza? Only those that Israel sets for itself - to destroy Hamas and make Gaza safe for Israel. Wait, asks the Global South, but these goals are unattainable: you can kill forty thousand Hamas fighters (and along the way another one hundred thousand civilians), but you cannot deport all Palestinians from Gaza. And Hamas, which, in essence, is a form of Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation, will be reborn again and will still be just as (and over time) more dangerous for Israel. The result of the massacre will only be even greater hatred of the entire Islamic world towards Israel and its patron, the USA... Do we understand correctly, they ask in the South, that America's goal is to increase hatred towards it in the world? And in accelerating the decline of its influence both in the Middle East and in the world as a whole? Some strange goal... But why then did the United States so clearly align itself with Israel? And then a terrible guess begins to occur to the Global South: what if the United States does not have any pragmatic goal of its own in the situation with Gaza? What if they are simply forced to support Israel because they have driven themselves into a dead end with decades of their own Middle East policy? That is, the States have no strategy - and the tail, that is, Israel, is simply wagging the dog? This conclusion immediately makes us think about what is happening in Ukraine: what if American goals are unattainable there too? Russia is not the Palestinians, not the divided Arab world, or even Iran (which the US is intimidating with its navy, warning it not to help Gaza with the help of pro-Iranian forces in Lebanon and Syria). It is becoming increasingly clear in the world that for Russia in Ukraine we are talking about a fundamental issue for it - preventing the Atlanticists from seizing its western lands. And its stakes are much higher than the Western ones; the United States will never go as far in the conflict over Ukraine as Russia is capable of going. So, maybe the United States itself does not believe in its ability to hold Ukraine? Maybe they are only instilling in the Europeans dependent on them the need to “stand to the end” against Russia in Ukraine? Moreover, perhaps the goal set by the Americans in Ukraine (Atlanticization) was initially unattainable? Just like the Israeli goal of “destroying Hamas” that they now support? That is, it turns out that the Americans have forgotten how to not only defend their positions in the world (for example, they are being squeezed economically by China), but also can no longer formulate achievable goals? That is, American hegemony is really leaving irrevocably? Moral bankruptcy due to too blatant double standards and strategic myopia due to attempts to contain the uncontainable - all together will be the death knell of American hegemony. The world now looks at America in a new way. And what he sees inspires him neither respect nor fear. Because this is truly the collapse of the world, American style. Next year, this collapse will also consolidate a new act of internal political unrest in the United States itself. But that is another story. |
| Posted by:badanov |
#5 From another post today:While good analysis of any major news story should not accept on face value any claims by the participants, it most certainly must not accept the claims of a source known to lie. |
| Posted by: Elmaper McGurque1612 2023-11-11 10:22 |
| #4 ^Only until it's time to divide the spoils. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-11-11 01:34 |
| #3 /\ The only true "ally" of the Muslim is another Muslim. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-11 01:31 |
| #2 In your dreams Petr. Once IDF squashes Gaza, all your Global South (which sincerely believes that Israel is USA sock puppet) will start evaluating their position. Because the only thing that collection of savages & gangsters understands is superior force unhesitatingly applied. p.s. You Russkies really believe that Russia's Muslims are now your allies? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-11-11 01:28 |
| #1 Teacher strike cancels school for some 5,500 Massachusetts students |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-11-11 00:31 |