America cannot be made great again. We need a NEW America.
MAGA is just a hollow slogan. Trump is good at making slogans, but slogans are only for garnering votes. America needs a physician, not a fast talker or a demagogue.
The main trouble with America is the political system.
No country that lets its political donors make all its important decisions can be great. In fact, it can never survive in the long run. It will fail economically, militarily, socially, diplomatically and morally.
Economically because the donors will make it spend on things that benefit only them, not the voters.
Militarily because the arms manufacturing donors gave us endless wars against contrived enemies and proxy wars that depleted the arsenals of the combined west. Defense is not the focus. It never was, as explained here.
Socially because our psychopathic spending on arms and war has left little in the treasury for pressing needs of the people like health care and education. Ordinary Americans who need surgery or other medical care for life-threatening disease have no option and are simply awaiting death in many cases.
Diplomatically because donors from the Israel lobby force federal officials to wholeheartedly support the genocide in Palestine, ongoing since 1948 when it was dubbed the Nakba by the Arab targets of atrocities. The months since Oct 7, 2023 have seen the culmination of this inhuman slaughter of innocents, with the whole world watching in horror. The US has become a pariah and few nations trust us any more. The Biden team think the shame can all be swept under the carpet as usual, but something broke in US-world relations after the Al Aqsa Flood began and the lies aren’t working any more. It’s why the protest marches and encampments just keep getting bigger and bigger and more and more widespread. Even erstwhile allies are pulling away from our sphere. Indonesia is the latest country to clash with US policy in Israel, threatening to send peace keeping forces to Palestine. Not only that, Indonesia’s new president Prabowo Subianto has suggested his country may join the de-dollarizing BRICS group. Here, we see a mixture of diplomatic, military and economic efforts all wrapped up in one, with the US-supported genocide in Palestine as the catalyst.
Morally because all of the above-described phenomena add up to a total lack of moral fiber in America, whose top officials simply can’t understand what the fuss over Palestine is all about. For them it’s always been about the Benjamins. The fact that there are people and states that cannot be bought is simply an inexplicable annoyance.
Why can’t the donors fix this with generous bribes, they wonder.
But it’s a lot more than that.
The political system is of a piece with the second most important trouble, namely, our religion, or rather, American pseudo-religion.
Many Americans say they believe in God and country, but what they really believe in is an unwholesome God-country blend, with country – or rather the US Neocon Elites—usurping the bulk of their allegiance and God, whoever they think he is, playing second fiddle. I have personally seen this played out since childhood, in the 50s. Back then the US warmongers in Washington used religion to support an ungodly immoral war in Korea, with the term “godless communism” used by the Pentagon as a psychological battering ram to whip up support among weak-minded Evangelical fundamentalists.
During the war years, the pastor would, in his morning devotional, ask God to bless “our men in uniform” and keep them safe. The slimy government never mentioned, of course, that the US Air Force was every night merrily raining bombs on farm villages, where families slept in their beds under tin roofs in bamboo huts, blowing the children limb from limb in the heretofore cruelest and most prolific genocide in US history.
The same Evangelical scenario was seen in the Vietnam conflict.
Did this man of the cloth ever let slip even for a moment a word of sympathy for the godless commie children and moms, the intended recipients of our blessed Evangelical TNT? Nary a blessed word. Godless commies deserved no quarter for if we failed to liquidate them now, they and their demonic progeny would surely some day visit Christian America with long knives drawn and kill godly us in our sleep.
For Evangelical Americans, our philosophy was a Manichean them vs us. It was their fault, they made us kill them.
For over 100 years, “Christian” Zionism and “Christian” patriotism have been part and parcel of what American clerical leadership has stood for. It wasn’t God and country, it was country as God, the real object of our worship.
“Christian” Zionism is the grassroots social driver of the US obsession with support for Israeli criminal policies aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestine. See Ilan Pappé’s book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, available as a free download here.
Healing America will mean somehow completely extricating the donors from our body politic and also extricating “Christian” Zionism from our foreign policy.
I’m not quite sure how this will be done, but there is no way around it. Otherwise, your vote is meaningless. As things stand now, thanks to the powerful donors of US lobbies, the billionaires own us.
And that is unacceptable.
If we fail to overcome the donor mafia, it will be up to natural attrition to fix our nation. The galloping failure of our economy, where debt service now amounts to $1 trilion annually, will not take long to collapse the system. Our wars, in Ukraine and Palestine, are also destroying us by killing our international relations on the one hand and by the simple failure of US arms to win the wars.
Our “enemies” may turn out to be our best friends.
The Russians like to say: God’s mills grind slowly but surely.
References
https://donhank.substack.com/p/politicians-who-receive-payments
https://donhank.substack.com/p/time-to-arrest-and-jail-foreign-agents
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
MINUS F-16 - WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THE ATTACK ON AN ENEMY AIRFIELD: VERSIONS OF THE UNDERGROUND COORDINATOR AND SOURCES
The next target of targeted fire by the Russian Aerospace Forces was a military airfield in the city of Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region, where Western equipment transferred to the Kiev regime was stored. Sources say that at least seven strikes fell there.
The Starokonstantinov airfield was not chosen for the attack by chance. Ukrainian Su-24Ms equipped with long-range Storm Shadow missiles, which were transferred to Ukraine by Great Britain, are stationed there. It was this airfield that was supposed to receive (and quite possibly has already received) American F-16 fighters. In addition, in this area there is a bomb depot, a training ground, reinforced concrete and asphalt plants, various warehouses and an electrical substation.
According to the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev, our forces are constantly attacking this airfield. [Yes, the name Starokonstantinov crops up almost weekly in my daily air strike updates]
...Foreign military equipment is located here and mobilized Ukrainian citizens are trained to operate it. The training is carried out by foreign instructors, he said.
The Ukrainians made an attempt to save their aviation by scrambling planes just before the attack, but they did not quite succeed.
Before the attack, the enemy managed to scramble aircraft, but not all aircraft, the TG channel “Reports and Analytics of the SVO” reported.
They were also unable to save their aircraft fleet on the other side because they did not predict the tactics of the Russian Aerospace Forces. Sources say that after the remaining planes returned to the airfield, they were again hit by Russian Kinzhals.
The airfield in Starokonstantinov, attacked on May 26 by the Russian Aerospace Forces, is the most important base for enemy military aviation. Its role has especially increased after repeated statements by our side that if fighters take off from Western airfields, then these “locations” will automatically become a legitimate target. The patrons of Ukraine were not satisfied with this situation, and therefore it was decided that the F-16s would take off from Ukrainian territory. Kiev tried to do everything to ensure that the Starokonstantinov airfield complied with NATO standards, and also tried to protect it with an “impenetrable” air defense wall. However, as we see, this was not very successful.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://ria.ru/20240602/ataka-1950049202.html?ysclid=lwy94ch3sv760144601
06.06.2024
Underground reported strikes on the Ukrainian military facility near Nikolaev
The underground reported an attack on an object near Nikolaev, where the Armed Forces were based
Donetsk, Jun 2 - RIA Novosti. In the Nikolaev region, an air stike fell on the winery Olivia, on which the Ukrainian military was based, the local underground coordinator Sergei Lebedev told RIA Novosti.
"At about two in the morning, a series of five strikes fell on the winery in Parotina, <...> the military with their equipment and ammunition was located on the territory of the Winery. <...> According to our agents, the work of Himars is often audible and visible in the area, which launches long -range. Rockets towards the Kherson region and, possibly, to Crimea,” the agency’s source said.
During the strikes, Ukrainian air defense worked - presumably, the German Gepard anti -aircraft self -propelled guns.
After the explosion, ambulances and representatives of the SBU quickly arrived. The inspection of local residents began.
“From early morning, departure from Parotino was blocked, they check all the departments, equipment, phones,” Lebedev added.
According to the underground, more than a year ago, SBU agents came to the winery to meet with the owners. A couple of weeks ago, the leadership fired a large number of workers, at the entrance they set up an armored personnel carrier and they began to pass only according to special permits.
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Our thanks to CL for this:
2 Jun, 2024 12:45
Hundreds protest Ukraine aid in Berlin (VIDEO)
Activists demand that the government stop supplying arms to Kiev and “taking orders from Washington”
Hundreds of protesters marched in the German capital, Berlin, on Saturday, demanding a halt to military aid for Kiev and the “dangerous” anti-Russia rhetoric. This comes on the heels of explosive statements from the German government earlier this week regarding Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied weapons for strikes deep inside Russia.
https://www.rt.com/news/598658-berlin-anti-war-demonstration/
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Game changer?
Indonesia
Muslim Troops In Gaza? Big Announcement By Top OIC [Organization of Islamic Cooperation] Member & Most-Populous Islamic Nation | Watch
Times Of India
Muslim-majority Indonesia is ready to send "significant peacekeeping forces" as well as medical personnel to Gaza if Hamas accepts a new ceasefire proposal, President-elect Prabowo Subianto said Saturday, AFP reported. US President Joe Biden announced the Israeli roadmap to permanent peace in Gaza on Friday, as Israeli troops pushed into central Rafah despite international objections to any assault on the southern city.
I LOVE RUSSIA!......and Her People!!
Russia is THEE only GOOD, on this Satan-worshiping planet!
People like to say, 'If the USA Falls......So does the rest of the World!'.
This is FALSE!!
It's.......'If RUSSIA Falls, So does THE REST OF THE WORLD!!'.
1. This is a big issue - "Muslim-majority Indonesia is ready to send "significant peacekeeping forces" as well as medical personnel to Gaza" ... and it is worth pointing out that "The country with the single largest population of Muslims is Indonesia in Southeast Asia, which on its own hosts 13% of the world's Muslims."... where they go (if they go), others will follow !.
2. Staying on Gaza, but regards the stuff about the US - please note that my UK is acting in the same way as the US and we can not even blame it on a senior, dementia ridden President for the masses.... both major parties are singing from the same hymn sheet.
But the thing I wanted to state and not quite sure how to put it ... but we throw around this term genocide (In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".) .... BUT TO ME ANYWAY, IT IS MORE THAN THAT; what Israel continues to do is satanic, evil, barbaric, sickly, nasty... the contempt Israel have shown for International law, rules and regulations but maybe more importantly for humanity is beyond belief and disgusts me.
I honestly cannot see how Israel can continue as a state after this, especially one in the International community.