Biden has gone.
I am relieved. I could not see anyway he could beat Trump. He was simply too infirm to be a credible candidate for US President.
So too is Trump, but then he is not a candidate to be US President. He is seeking to stage a coup to overthrow the US system of government whatever the result, all based on a neo-fascist personality cult intended to deliver an autocratic, Christian-nationalist, anarcho-capitalist regime (and yes, it is the internal contradictions and conflicts that will kill his regime if that attempt is made).
The question now is who can defeat this attempt to end US democracy (such as it is), the rule of law in the US and the rights of hundreds of millions, including every US woman?
Let me be clear, I do not know the answer to that question. Whether it is Kamala Harris, I cannot be sure. I know her knowledge of economics appears pretty weak. Her advantage is association with incumbency.
What I do know is that whoever gets the task will have the hopes of much of the world resting on them. What we also know is that the risk they will be taking on - by challenging Trump, who believes in his deluded state that a god of his own creation is on his side - will be significant.
Go well, is the best I can wish them, whoever they might be.
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I agree with your points but “anarcho-capitalism” doesn’t make any sense as a category — anarchy is an absence of hierarchy but capitalism cannot function in that way. The phrase also doesn’t apply to Trump.
The Political Compass shows a way of describing political views along both an economic axis (ie, traditional left vs right) and also a social axis, which ranges from libertarian to authoritarian. In that context, anarchists occupy the libertarian left while the self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalists” are in the libertarian right corner. Trump is authoritarian right though, no matter what he says.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/
The phrase clearly applies to Vance
Anarcho capitalism cannot exist, it is a contradiction in terms, but has been borrowed by Austrian school far right libertarians, as a self reference, by those who do not understand anarchism.
Of course, capitalism requires an all powerful state protecting absolute property rights and enforcing propertied interests.
There was a group of 19thC individualistic anarchists, with Max Stirner the leading light, but this fringe were dismissed in short order by anarchists who understand it is an entirely collaborative form of social organisation. Murray Bookchin’s dismissal of Stirner only required a short paragraph.
Vance thinks the UK is an islamist state, and his politics is ignorant at every level.
Twp a cachi, as we Welsh Islamists might describe him.
This will not stop the Trump team seeking to create an almost wholly unregulated environment for business.
But it will be highly regulated, though only in favour of the ownership class.
Capitalism cannot survive without property rights and their absolute enforcement.
Even calling this democracy, or worse, confusing it with anarchism, is a red herring, designed to obscure. That is Trump’s MO.
A Trumpian plutocracy isn’t even Thatcher’s “property owning democracy” but a much larger wolf.
I agree. Real anarchism is about replacing the state with community. There was a brilliant description of how it worked in Spain in the book The Spanish Civil Wat by Anthony Beevor. However in common usage it is about a complete lack of the rule of law. In that sense, Trump is certainly an anarchist.
Anarcho-capitalism is about turning our states into a state of stateless-ness and that property rights are the means to organise such a non-state-state. We all become fully private individuals and the only bond between us are property rights and we have free choice to honour such contracts or not.
It is completely opposed to conservative and liberal ideology. I tend to think that it is opposed to all political ideologies and I believe its advocates think that politics is a waste of time. As such it can’t be put on a right-left top-down political compass. It wants to smash the compass.
You get my whole point
The contradictions in Trump 2.0 will tear it apart
If Biden had decided to go earlier this year, the Democrats could have had time to make the best choice. His stubborness prevented that from happening. One advantage of a parliamentary system is that we can remove a leader without too much chaos. Prime Ministers have been replaced -in my memory, in 1963, 1976, 1990 and 2007. before the Brexit induced changes of the last two governments.
I ran a discussion on my Facebook page with a group of Americans. We decided that Trump’s supporters ignored the industrial scale lying because he made them feel good about themselves. As we often say on this blog, the classic ingredients of Fascism.
HI Richard
“The hopes of the world will rest on the Democrat candidate, whoever they might be now
Posted on July 22 2024”
I commented on this outlook previously. To suggest that the world should be held to ransom by one country, is truly shocking. This is a peculiarly western view. The USA is a malign influence on the world, and the sooner its grip is removed the better. It has caused untold suffering in every country it get its claws into, because of its greed and colonial nature.
Neither candidate will be any better. Trump will seek to resolve Ukraine, whilst fuelling Israel, who ever the democrats choose will make both worse. It does not matter who is placed in the Whitehouse.
The best hope is that the USA declines and other spheres of influence rise – Russia/China, India, Africa and south America will provide a multipolar world. You may not like these countries, but I would argue that they do not have the sociopathic outlook of the USA and its western cronies. It is also better to have more than one centre of power.
I am glad Biden has gone, he is a nasty piece of work, no different than Trump, but no-one in the USA offers anything better. I hope this does indeed hasten the end of the USA as a centre of power.
Regards
Thank you and VERY well said, Sean.
From his election in 1972 and becoming Strom Thurmond’s protege, Joe Biden has always been a nasty piece of work. No one should feel sorry for that genocidal maniac.
Readers should acquaint themselves with the Clarence Thomas hearing for the Supreme Court and Biden’s humiliation of Anita Hill. Biden also facilitated NAFTA and the mass incarceration associated with the three strikes and you’re out legislation.
Harris is another nasty piece of work. Readers should acquaint themselves with her stint as California Attorney-General and her favours for the prison industrial complex.
The Trump derangement syndrome and MSM propaganda allow these vile characters to prosper.
Let me conclude with a fun fact for readers: Crowd Strike, the IT firm responsible for the outage with Microsoft, is a contractor to the Clinton Foundation and Hilary Clinton campaign. Rather than use their own investigators, the FBI relied on Crowd Strike, which includes the Pelosi family as a minor investor, to investigate Trump and the fantasy that is known as Russiagate. When working on operational resilience with the Bank of England in late 2021, the Bank expressed concern about the dominance of US defence contractors, including Crowd Strike.
Replying to ‘Sean’ and ‘Colonel Smithers’
The hopes of the world will rest on the Democrat candidate, whoever they might be now – is a simple truth which no amount of sneering at the US for its many past errors, and worse, will cancel. Your preference for disparaging Biden – indeed blackguarding him and worse – and smearing Harris are both jaw-dropping examples of politics masquerading as pious unreality. Trump – let alone Trump plus his readiness to cosy up to Putin, of whose iniquities you are silent – is a threat to any hopes for an even semi-civilised future; not only for the US but for much of the world – and particularly for such of it as tries to live in and by the codes of democracy. If you do not wish Harris well now – what on the real world earth? – can you two be hoping for?
Nigel
I consider Harris a pretty undesirable candidate for many reasons
For sure, better than Trump, but she is low on competence and high on corporate capture
What do we critics desire? Someone competent who knows their own mind and has a loyalty to the people who elected them? Wouldn’t that be good
We have not got that here
The Democrats will not be delivering it in the USA
Richard
@Richard
So you prefer Trump?
No
Of course not
But nothing excites me about the Democrats either
This is very much a lesser of evils scenario
It’s usually right wingers who post drivel on this blog, but occasionally we get nonsense such as yours.
You seem to be motivated by an implacable anti Americanism. Yes there is a great deal wrong with the US and it has undoubtedly been responsible for some appalling foreign interventions in its history especially in its own ‘backyard’ of Latin America e.g Chile 1973.
But to equate Biden with Trump and to want Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China to be equal centres of power in the world to the US led West is absurd. The US is as Richard said, a highly imperfect democracy whereas both Russia and China are brutal, frequently corrupt dictatorships actively seeking the end of any form of rules based governance in the world achieved at such cost after the end of WW2 and it’s replacement by the ideology of might is right.
And Trump is a friend of Putin who undoubtedly has a sociopathic outlook and has commissioned assassinations of opponents, including those carried out in the UK in 2018. You want Ukraine ‘resolved’ by letting Putin win by Trump getting into the White House and cutting off support for Ukraine? How stupid is that? Putin’s invasion of Ukraine wasan act of aggression with no justification other than his own self justifying self putting Russian imperialism.
Thank you.
I think you should get out of the western bubble more.
Well said Sickoftaxdodgers. I agree completely.
There are those who disparage all mainstream journalism, and yes, much of it is poor, and ignore some very fine journalists of integrity, yet accept the rantings of supposed experts, or alleged ex-officials from high up, but who write anonymous garbage entirely evidence free. Everyone who writes a blog or op-ed, or anything else is not independent, objective, free from bias, prejudice or background. Everyone is partial to a greater or lesser extent. It’s too easy to put your brain into neutral when reading what you agree with and “suspend disbelief”.
Those who ignore Putin’s many crimes and unprovoked wars should maybe try living there and “speaking truth to power”.
Hi SOTD
Any sensible review of history will show that all regimes have been at times brutal, including Western “democratic” ones.
I doubt the South Americans would describe the overthrow of democratically elected governments and support for brutal dictators and death squads as “foreign interventions”.
“rules based governance in the world achieved at such cost after the end of WW2” Tell that to the Palestinians.
“You seem to be motivated by an implacable anti Americanism” nope, anti hypocrisy
The “west” represents 15% of the world population. Time to listen to the other 85%, I think
Regards
The U.S. is a country that voted in George Bush Jnr twice. That always sticks with me.
I hope that Harris has a positive effect on the Democratic vote as a woman and a woman of colour.
But like the UK, the USA has serious problems with its voting system, whether it be illegal data mining or playing games and exploiting the electoral college system and the Trump crew has form on that.
Being frank, I have no idea what will happen over there, and that is scary enough thank you very much.
Thank you, PSR.
Do you know anything about Harris? Her background, how she started in politics and with whom, and her stint as California AG may lead to a revision of your thoughts.
With regard to this colour nonsense, I’m a Mauritian Creole and stunned by how often people like are patronised about voting on ethnic lines. I prefer to vote on class lines. Harris serves oligarchs.
I think you are right on Harris
Colonel Smithers
I can assure you that I am well versed in the transgressions of the Democrat party of the United States. I got my first inklings about their problems in the documentary ‘Lifting the Veil – Obama and the Failure of Liberal Democracy’ (2011) – available free online – and reading Chris Hedges.
U.S. Comic Louis Black summed up the situation saying (I paraphrase) ‘The Republicans are the party of bad ideas and the Democrats are the party of No ideas. In fact the Democrats take Republican ideas and simply ask “How can we make them shittier”.
Personally, the only decent politician I’ve seen come out of the Democratic party is Bernie Sanders – I am a proud owner of 2016 T-shirt with his face on it. Does he have skeletons in his cupboard too?
But look at Trump and his entourage; anything is better than that. If Harris can stop that, I’m all for it. If her sex and racial background helps, then I’m up for it. Trump fights a dirty game. You know who Roger Stone is, I take it? Yuk!
Trump and his ilk are the end of the world, Colonel Smithers.
Let’s stop that first and then turn our attention to the Democrats, even though – as ‘Lifting the Veil’ points out, all they have done is basically warehouse popular sentiment for change and not do anything with it. The Dems’ retard it.
The answer? Political funding has to change in America as it does here. That would be a start. The systems that raise money for politics are basically corrupt and democracy is reduced to an idea, not a practice until this is sorted out.
But in the short term, Trump is a real threat even if he does feed off the failure of Democrat-style liberalism.
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/lifting-the-veil-obama-and-the-failure-of-capitalist-democracy-2011/
And Bernie has been an independent most of the time he’s been in office
What do you think this says about our PM? He did say Biden was on good form and mentally agile when they met.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/11/keir-starmer-says-joe-biden-was-on-good-form-in-first-bilateral-meeting
I think its shows weakness and much of the same old kind of stuff that we have seen from our previous govt and politicians.
No leadership, honesty and ambition to reset the world stage for the greater benefit of everyone. Diplomacy and statesmanship has its role but we are reaching a critical juncture and he should be bold, brave, relentlessly committed to the word he used during his campaign ‘CHANGE’ but which is now hardly mentioned. The PM is already failing on many fronts in my view and its been less than 100 days since he was elected.
I think it says he did not think he could say anything else without interfering in internal US fairs and that was probably right.
From following the primaries previously Kamala Harris would be a terrible choice. She didn’t win a single state. She seems to be pretty toxic to the wider population including the ‘black community’ that there is a presumption she will appeal to. The party establishment seems to be rallying behind her led no doubt by Hillary Clinton and her cohort which will most likely lead to a rerun of 2016 to the consternation and incomprehension of liberal opinion. What lost 2016 for Hillary was people not turning out to vote rather than voting for Trump as they saw nothing to vote for. So unless they improve their policy offer the Democrats will be stuck trying to put lipstick on the proverbial pig. They would be better off going with Gavin Newsom and giving working class voters something to vote like oh I don’t know Medicare for all and a genuine hike in the minimum wage.
Gavin Newsom has already pulled out
A rerun of 2016 it is then. Unless the US descends into civil war first. Considering the febrile atmosphere around the failed Trump assassination that doesn’t seem so far fetched.
Thank you and VERY well said, Tom.
you are probably right about the low turnout for Clinton but she did win 2.9 million more votes.
It was the 18th century constitution which won Trump the election.
Rules the Democrats choose to play by. Which means you need to get people in the right places to turn out for you. Offering those people nothing and calling them deplorables won’t help your cause. The Democrats, however, seem intent on repeating stupid and expecting a different result.
An imaginative counter-image to Trump could be a two-woman ticket. Kamala Harris and Mitchigan Governor, Gretchen Whitmer. She is an impressive communicator. One to watch…
I think she has already pulled out
A winning ticket would be VP Kamala Harris and Senator Joe Manchin.
This ticket would pull in all Democrats and middle-of-the-road swing voters to vote Democrat as you would have a progressive Limousine Liberal and a small “c” conservative Democrat.
I shudder at Manchin. Is he really a Democrat?
Manchin is basically a “dead center” Democrat.
He is not my favorite by a long shot but if he can help Kamala Harris defeat Trump then I am all for him.
For me this is only and all about defeating Trump in the same way that the UK electorate wanted the Tories out of office and out of government no matter how they had to vote to achieve the result.
@ Pilgrim Sllght Return
good to see you back
Thank you Ian and thank you also to Andy Crow.
I’m not going to be as prolific as before – just too busy with work but also reading widely and refreshing my knowledge.
I have become rather interested in politics. And I thought economics was chewy?
I have become quite interested in Carl Schmitt (via Chantal Mouffe) because of the challenge he lays down to liberalism. Schmitt casts a huge shadow over liberalism and his challenge remains unanswered in my view. Schmitt sits there – smiling – taunting liberalism and its contradictions. Those who may be a bit worried about this need to know that my guide through Schmitt is another talented, misunderstood woman – Hannah Arendt. It’s a fascinating journey. But my valid question is how can a liberal make the exception and be sovereign in the context of what many of us are looking for on this site – a better society? My antipathy to liberalism is well known BTW. I have come to view it as weak.
One book I’ve read is John Gray’s ‘The New Leviathan: Thoughts after Liberalism’ (2023). Gray thinks liberalism has gone too far and using the world of Hobbes goes about roughing it up. I did a review on Amazon under ‘MAC’ if anyone is interested. His criticism is stinging; his conclusion, deeply satisfying.
To balance the philosophy, I’ve also been reading David Graeber (RIP) and David Wengrow’s ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’ (2021). Taking its cue from Rousseau, they sum up the most recent discoveries about our past in order to inform our future – a better one it is hoped.
Michael Hudson has a new book ‘The Death of Antiquity’ (2023) – beautifully laid out with a nice readable font, his book charts the issue of debt as bringing down the great societies of the past – the established, orthodox historical record it seems glosses over this and valuable lessons are hidden.
BTW – The ever vigilant Tim Snyder has another book out in September – ‘On Freedom’.
Thanks PSR
I suspect that debt played a major part in the collapse of Ming dynasty China. That is the impression I get from reading late Ming and early Qing novels. Presumably there are documents gathering dust in various universities and museums that would throw some light on subject, but until recently sinologists have not been interested in questions of economics.
Polls show that the only candidate so far, that could beat Trump is Robert F Kennedy Jr.
He held a press conference last night, https://www.youtube.com/live/LXrysxb8_m4?si=Fb-bauGgDiqTwbFZ&t=1012
Only the Independent mentioned it. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/biden-robert-kennedy-news-conference-livestream-b2583437.html
Predictably, none of the other mainstream media even commented on it, let alone broadcast it.
He is a truly appalling candidate
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is beyond appalling as a candidate.
I am glad we agree
@Ian Tresman,
I do not believe Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. could defeat Trump no matter what a poll may say.
Thank you, Richard.
According to friends and former counterparts on Wall Street and in DC, one reason why Democrat contenders are sitting out until 2028, there appears to be a sense of inevitability about Trump, even before the shooting. “Wall Street money, Hollywood money, Jewish money, Chicago money are deserting the Democrats in favour of Trump.” JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon, a Democrat, has emerged as favourite to head the US Treasury under Trump, a position he has coveted for a decade.
Not good
And deeply naive to think tere will be a 2028 election
Looking at all the comments, it becomes evident that if the USA insists on electing nutters, once or twice, & that the alternatives are to say the very least – not nice – then it is time for the EU (& the UK) to put distance between them and the US.
Oddly, the EU/UK is in a relatively strong position. For example, there is only one company that makes semiconductor production equipment that can make cutting edge semiconductors (3 nanomtere dimentions). ASML – and its manufacturing is mostly in the Netherlands. There are other examples. Time EU/UK said to US “happy to stay friends but if you keep electing nutters we will keep our distance” etc. Oh & the EU needs unfied armed forces. Given US developments, NATO is no longer relevant.
Thank you, Mike.
Here’s what former NATO official Aurelien has written: https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/natos-phantom-armies. He has also written about the Treaty of Washington and how it came about and how the much quoted article five is misunderstood.
Aurelien teaches, amongst others, French civil servants and military professionals. He’s from Essex, not a toff and not wanted by his homeland.
Thanks Col Smithers. The article was puzzling. Curates egg stuff. It is filled to the rafters with problems – oddly the writer never attempts to identify ways in which these could be solved:
Problem: “There are no senior officers in any NATO army today with experience of command of large operations, and, since the average service of a soldier is typically 7-8 years, most NATO armies have no soldiers who have been in combat, and probably not many officers either”:
Solution: there is a full-scale war in Ukraine – where they could get very useful experience (and if we believe in the rule of law – then it is our fight.) (Plenty of foreigners fighting & dying in Ukraine).
Problem: The West is still feeding off the fat of the technological investments of the Cold War. It’s not an accident that even the most modern tanks and other fighting systems sent to Ukraine are designs from the 1970s and 1980s
Solution: as the article notes – drones seem to be the future – & it skates over the reality that the Ukrainians are winning on this aspect – (the article implies that the Russians are doing very well in this area – they have the Lancet & that is making an impact – but they have also lost 61% of all their artillery and tanks – a vast amount – due to … drones).
Shortly before Feb 2022 – the Russian military were being talked up in the press… now with circa 550k dead and wounded, vast amounts of equipment lost & limited possibilities to replace even basic stuff (gun barrels). It’s not looking so good. Where I agree with the article is that Ukraine has changed the face of warfare – but in doing so – it has left the Russians at a great disadvantage – as the casualty numbers show (daily/weekly numbers of dead Russian officers are easy to find).
Unless more equipment is supplied to Ukraine – perhaps mostly in aircraft – then stalemate seems most likely. In the final analysis – we need to ask ourselves a question: are we happy to see Ukraine invaded by Russia? Should bullies proper?
Most of the weakness of NATO , partly due to it being a coalition of small forces and reduced spending, is not new.
It also shows that NATO was never a military threat to Russia. The proposed treaties of 2021 were about neighbouring countries being neutralised-perhaps as Finland was during the Cold War. It was not neutral in the way Ireland or Austria was. The Soviet Union was able to make demands on the internal politics of Finland down to which books could be published.
I agree with Aurelian Russia has a clear strategic objection which I would describe as ‘restoring past greatness -of the Empire, not the USSR. As the opposition is effectively neutered, it could plan on a much longer cycle than the west. The humiliation of the West, I think we can judge, is another objective after the shock therapy of which Naomi Klein writes.
The dangers of a neutered opposition show up. The choice of targets in Feb 2022 and the mix of troops indicated to most informed observers they expected a quick walk over. Even to critics of NATO like Colonel MacGregor. The troops coming from Belarus included internal security troops who would been used to crush dissent. They weren’t there to fight. It didn’t work out like that as the Ukrainians didn’t want it.
The real threat to Russia from Ukraine was the cultural one. Thirty years of being able to travel in the West and the internet showed them an alternative -if they needed one, Plus having to adopt EU rules about the media, elections and transparency, were in opposition to what we find in Russia. As many Ukrainians have Russian family, news of those practices would seep across. The propaganda beamed at Ukraine for almost 20 years constantly denigrates the West for its irreligion, toleration of LGBT, lack of patriotism etc.
The US has done lots of things we rightly condemn but they are not the only ones. It should not be used as a reason to excuse similar actions by other nations.
However, Aurelian is probably right about NATO’s options in continuing this war. I suspect we will be into frozen conflict. It won’t be peace.
Neither Democrats nor Trump will do anything for the vast majority of Americans both are tied hand and foot to the neoliberal economic fantasy world and Neither have ever showed a scintilla of progressive change that would help the poorest.
Both parties are agents of their donors they will obediently comply with whoever bankrolls them as always follow the money.
Were I American I would vote for Dr Jill Stein head and shoulders above anyone else in USA politics.
Her campaigns for president have focused heavily on the proposal of a Green New Deal, which includes a number of reforms intended to address climate change and income inequality, as well as civil and political rights reform.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein
https://x.com/DrJillStein?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
50% will not vote
They know the system is rigged
That is what should worry us
Going the same way here Richard. A 52% turnout of the population who are eligible to vote by age, and a 59% turnout of those who are registered.
That is what gross inequality of wealth and power has produced. I assume labour are well aware of this; the question is what are they going to do about it?
+ 1.
Thank you, Richard.
I forgot to mention that Starmer has appointed neo-con Fiona Hill as the lead on the defence review. That really isn’t good news as she’s owned by the US MIC.
Thank you, PSR, for the reply.
I don’t disagree.
Neoliberalism and forever wars / neocon’ism led to Trump. This is why people much cleverer than me, Richard for example, fear Farage in 2029 if Labour does not abandon neoliberalism.
Clinton did not bother campaigning in the rust belt in 2016. She and her owners had nothing to say to the residents of these areas. As Trump summarised a day or two before election days in 2016 and 2020, “They’re exporting your jobs and sending your children or you to war.” It’s hard to argue with that, not just about the Dixiecrats, but Republicans like Mitt “corporations are people” Romney, too.
For the record, I never claim to be cleverer than anyone else. We all bring different things to the party, in my opinion.
Thank you, Richard. I know.
Hey Col Smithers it’s OK.
The Democrats are all the world has – for all their failings, I hope that they win for the reasons stated.
But it is indeed shocking to consider that they are the best that we have, as much as we are coming to terms here in the UK with what is in reality a very lukewarm appointment of a truly suspect Labour government.
And I did not vote at all. Or should I say, I did not allow the only democratic sanction I have to be abused and enable those behind the scenes funding politicians to have their wishes and objectives met or prioritised over mine and many others.
That is what modern democracy is in the West in a nutshell.
“Those who ignore Putin’s many crimes and unprovoked wars should maybe try living there and “speaking truth to power”. Exactly Geejay, and the same could be said of China, Iran and North Korea, all of whom are now allies of Russia.
We all know our Western democracies could do with huge improvement, and I agree that one of the reasons for the rise in populism is the failure of our politicians to deal with neoliberalism’s failures, the growth in inequality and austerity enabling noe-fascists and fascists like Trump, the RN, AfD etc.
Neither is the rules based order established after the terrible destruction of WW2 with the UN at it’s heart anything other than flawed. But the suggestion that these imperfections mean that we give up on them and treat regimes such as Russia as morally equal to ours is dangerous nonsense. The same for the upcoming US elections. As PSR notes;
“But look at Trump and his entourage; anything is better than that. If Harris can stop that, I’m all for it……Trump and his ilk are the end of the world, Colonel Smithers. Let’s stop that first and then turn our attention to the Democrats”.
“rules based governance in the world achieved at such cost after the end of WW2” Tell that to the Palestinians. So the inability of the UN to enforce UN mandates because of the US veto means the whole project is a failure and we leave the world to the likes of Trump, Putin, Xi and regional warlords such as those committing atrocities in the Sudan?
“You seem to be motivated by an implacable anti Americanism” nope, anti hypocrisy. Sorry, but the impression some of the hard left leave is that they’ll condemn imperialism and oppression from the West, if this is what is happening in Gaza, but have little to say when similar actions are carried out by non Western actors such as Russia and China, or indeed by non Western governments in the global South.
@sickoftaxdodgers,
“But look at Trump and his entourage; anything is better than that. If Harris can stop that, I’m all for it……Trump and his ilk are the end of the world, Colonel Smithers. Let’s stop that first and then turn our attention to the Democrats.”
My thoughts exactly!
Hi SOTD
I’ll will just add one further reply.
I see on my screens every day, the deliberate targeting of hospitals, refugees, women, children, doctors and aid workers. I see deliberate starvation. All by an ally of “the West”
That same “imperfect West” stands by and does nothing, in fact it actively supports these actions.
In my life, this is the most genocidal and brutal action perpetrated by a state on a people, I have seen, and the “West” does nothing.
Those states you label as “brutal” and “corrupt” have a long way to go to reach the depravity of the “West”.
regards
There is a genocide going on, with US weapons
Those statements are factual
There was a time when Trump liked Kamala.
‘A wise investment’: Trump’s $6,000 gift to Kamala Harris comes back to bite him.
Michael Steele, former chair of the Republican National Committee, snarked: “When Trump wrote that check to re-elect Kamala Harris in 2011, I bet he didn’t think she’d cash it in 2024!”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/22/donald-trump-kamala-harris-donation