Proxy wars or gang wars?As I wrote in my last article —
WWIII: Biden's War — the US is on a collision course with destiny, an empire in decline, a nation divided. Joseph Biden's dementia is matched by that of that of his political culture.
US industry has hollowed out. Russia and China by contrast are rising, and with them BRICs and other countries outside the G7, which increasingly has little to sell but "narratives".
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The graph shows the trend to 2015, with the major drop-off beginning in 2011, which coincidentally is when the US war on the world began. Things have gotten worse and worse.
As of today, what does the US make? Really only war, of course. And weapons.The US is like the Mafia, and the G7 and NATO a cartel — a supra-criminal organization that survives through violence and global protection rackets, extortion, bribery, and of course that Casino of Casinos — the American Stock Market. Biden is Pablo Escobar with a facelift —
and arguably less concern for the poor.The country that got its start stealing from Native Americans and Mexicans moved on to stealing from the rest of the world. From simple imperialism it moved on to neoliberalism. Now, however, the country that once welcomed the poor and downtrodden to exploit in its factories and fields, is increasingly living on borrowed money - and also on borrowed time. There are fewer factories and fields. The Statue of Liberty's torch has been moved to a museum which you need to pay to enter. ICE has become the symbol of America.
The original Italian Mafia didn't much care about ideologies, Nor did its later iterations. Neither does the US Government. Duopoly confounds the intent of the founders of the Republic. "Bipartisanship" means political promiscuity. Joe who sleeps with both the Left and the Right, as does the rest of the political class. Trump at least paid his whores.
As with the Mafia in the Godfather, the US has its Dons and "made men".
You find them in politics, in both parties, the Media, the military industrial complex, the State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon, Big Business. This "Deep State" is not really deep just muddy and polluted and full of creepy-crawlies. Just deep enough to drown you if your face is pushed into it. Not that you drown
physically of course - just intellectually and spiritually.
Like most mafias, this political gang of thugs in thousand-dollar suits pretends to protect the "people," and occasionally makes little shows of doing so — but in the end it is all about money. Greed. greed. greed.There are those who serve their country sincerely. But that's not the generals — military or otherwise — it's those in command. Those who call the shots, wihout ever risking getting shot.
Comment: This is just the latest export ban to come into force, with India, followed by Russia, banning exports of rice in order to stabilise the supply at home. As countries are forced to prioritise feeding their own people, or risk societal unrest at home, it's likely that these food bans are just the beginning, and next up will be the food shortages that numerous officials have been warning about for the last few years: