It's hard to ignore the major and catastrophic man-made events that have been underway in the world for the past couple of years. Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, and others. They dominate our headlines and our minds. I've written about them directly and indirectly many times, including this post on moral disengagement from a few weeks ago, and this short one on the problem with human beings. I wonder if there's anything more to be said on the matter, so that we might make sense of it. I could become a political analyst and try to explain why, for example, the US bombed Iran last night and what it will mean for the people of the Middle East and everyone else. However, there are plenty of others far more knowledgeable than I in that department. I will say, however, that my US friends have voted an idiot into office, not once, but twice. What's the story here, people? I think you need a shrink. You elected a rambling, orange-faced baby man that appears so completely out of his depth it's not even funny. I think he's being blackmailed, too, by the way–just a hunch. I think it will get much worse, and I doubt very much that the orange-faced baby man will complete his term.
For political analysis of the situation that threatens the lives of millions, I turn to the likes of Jeffrey Sachs, John Mearsheimer, Chris Hedges, and Al Jazeera. I don't trust many others, and social media is full of, albeit, well-meaning people who have no more a clue than I about what's really going on. And besides, I've found that there's a shedload of AI-generated content there that's merely fit for the bin. Even my own state media spews out half-truths and well-scripted propaganda, perhaps unbeknownst to itself. Although it's not as blatantly disinformative as the BBC, Sky News or US mainstream media. What I do know for certain is that only a handful of psychopathic men are on the brink of bringing about WW3, if it has not already begun. The question is, why do human beings, time and time again, forgo their individuality, their very humanity and sense of moral judgement so easily? Why do we look to only a few psychopathic men to provide us with a living and security? Why do we over and over again, fall for their bullshit? I know why, I'm just struggling to find the words to explain it.
The ordinary people of the United States and Britain, to name but two states complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians, have allowed themselves to be completely hoodwinked for generations. War and genocide, after war and genocide, electing maniacs who no more have their interests at heart than a butcher has a pig's. Britain is the “impressive” colonial entity that provided the framework for the domination and extermination of ethnic people the world over. Their global domination was the envy of all the other genocidal states of Europe, including Germany, Spain, Portugal, France…they all gave it a good lash, but the Brits perfected it. The US kicked them out, of course, just like most other former British colonies, the only difference being that the US themselves were the product of the colonial project, annihilating millions of native people since the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Subsequently, to the horror of some ordinary Americans who understand the truth behind the propaganda, the US has replaced Britain as the world's foremost imperial power. Truman, the epitome of this, was sure to establish the position of the US with the annihilation of hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese people in 1945.
White, Eurocentric psychopathy lies at the heart of these centuries of murder and destruction. White men of European origin have perfected the mass murder of people for political and ideological ends. It exists now most profoundly in the form of the Israeli state. Facilitated and brought into existence, I might add, by Britain (no surprises there), the Godfather genocidal state and their apprentice turned master, the United States. Antisemetic to call this out or to even suggest it's true? Israelis are not Semites at all–come off it! They are the genetic descendants of war-mongering white Europeans, and their fascist march for global domination continues in the Middle East. Everyone and anyone who tries to stop them will be destroyed, it seems. Why the fuck, please tell me, when they landed as refugees in Palestine in 1946 could they simply not agree to get along with the natives? I will never fully understand it. Especially since Jews apparently lived side by side with other religious groups in Palestine for centuries. Of course, it's because they were Zionists. They believe in a fairytale that they are God's chosen people and everyone else is less than human. So it's not about religion, really, is it? It's about ideology and delusion.
It is a primitive species that conflates the power, control, domination, and subjugation of others with its own safety. But there's no safety or security in this, of course. It is the exact opposite. They live a perpetual fight against an imagined enemy that they eventually realise through their own violence and aggression. How does this ever end for them? They can't live with anyone else, and also, in fact, have designs on other parts of the Middle East in the pursuit of what they call Greater Israel. Does Jordan think that they will be safe if Iran is overthrown? Does Egypt or Saudi Arabia? The Israelis live in an inverted reality where they are the perpetual victims–they are insane. To be honest, I can't see this entire affair ending well for the Israelis, the US or their facilitators. But what do I know is human behaviour, and this script plays out in the affairs of human beings at the micro level of everyday life, and on a macro level in the affairs and relationships of nations. Israel is like the spoiled narcissistic child who has now grown up and cannot form meaningful relationships with anyone. The US and Britain, the doting parents, give in to their every whim. It doesn't end well, it just doesn't.
I can say these things because I'm Irish, a resident of a former British colony. One hundred years after independence (a kind of pseudo-independence, in fact, because the Brits still occupy the North…for now), things have finally begun to settle down. It just may be that the six counties of the North will join the other twenty-six, and this island will be united again soon for the first time since partition. It might take another ten years or maybe fifteen, but it's coming. I'll spare you a history lesson, but suffice it to say that on his genocidal campaign in the mid-1600s, Oliver Cromwell murdered in excess of 500,000 Irish men, women and children in his quest to cleanse the island of natives, populate it with protestants, and finally subsume Ireland into the Commonwealth. That wasn't the last of it either, because in 1845, this island experienced the Great Famine, also at the hands of the Brits.
If the Brits thought they could drop a nuke on The Bogside in Derry in the 70s and get away with it, I'm sure they would have considered it. If Cromwell had one, he most certainly would have used it. Maybe even the British Conservatives wouldn't stoop lower than the turds on the street and murder innocents…oh, hang on, Bloody Sunday, yeah, I forgot about that. It's also worth adding that the Black and Tans, a lethal and lawless British force deployed in Ireland to quash Irish resistance in the War of Independence, later found themselves brutalising the Palestinians. So we have a shared history of fighting against colonialism, and the genocide in Gaza is not the first to have had British handprints all over it. The Brits may not have pulled the trigger this time around, but they have provided the guns and the political cover for the genocidal Israeli state and the IDF to murder tens of thousands. Al Jazeera reports that 62,614 Palestinians have been murdered by the IDF in Gaza since the genocide began. The Lancet suggests that it is not implausible that the number could be as high as 186,000 or even more.
You still here? Great. Looks like I didn't offend you too much.
Iran is now on the Israeli hitlist, but by all accounts, this latest move is a mistake. Top analysts in the US, former military people, are suggesting that the Israeli and US move against Iran will be a disaster. What have the Israelis got on the mysogenistic, rapist Donald Trump? I guess it will come out in the wash. Ok, politically and militarily, the unprovoked attack on Iran may fail, but what about the thousands or even tens of thousands of people who will die? It's of no concern to the psychopath, after all, because the psychopath only concerns himself with self-gratification. What's baffling is that thousands of people are willing to walk into the fire for these fucking bastards. If everyone said no, the fighter pilots, the troops, and ordinary people, it would be over in a heartbeat, and we could string the Netanyahu (or Mileikowsky to his Polish Zionist mates) and Trump psychos up on the nearest lampost. But they won't, it seems. They'll all “do their duty” and say later, “he told me to do it.” Maybe we need a global catastrophe greater than any one we have seen before we finally wake up. Until then, the primitive human race will keep making the same mistakes.
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