Newsome is unsavoury, but he sure knows how to get under Trump's skin.
There's this scene that lives rent-free in my head, with a character in the show The Diplomat saying "i still believe in international rules-based order". It's killing me lol. And it shows exactly the point of their jobs: cover-ups. Politely excusing horrible war crimes.
This is not just Trump. It's a long history of the US and other countries doing what they want, because who is going to stop them?
Just like West Wing, The Diplomat is a fantasy for liberals, and even then they can't make themselves look good.
Dozens of assassinations, kidnappings, regime changes, support for violent extreme-right groups... par for the course for the US. This won't stop until the US collapses.
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair. Now that the same playbook is being dusted off for Venezuela, the parallels with Iraq and other U.S. interventions are an ominous warning of what could follow.
Waiting in the wings...
Conquest (in progress), along with War, Death, and Famine, just waiting for the word.
Yes, the deity is The King in Yellow; you know it makes sense.
#USPolitics #Apocalypse #EndOfEmpire #USPol #Trump #USA #America #AI
Al Jazeera on China and the West
'During the low-wage era of the 1990s, China’s export-to-import ratio with the core was extremely high. In other words, China had to export very large quantities of goods in order to obtain necessary imports. Today, this ratio is much lower, representing a dramatic improvement in China’s terms of trade, substantially reducing the core’s ability to appropriate value from China.'
#china #foreignAffairs #usForeignPolicy #SouthEastAsia #theWest #EndOfEmpire
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/3/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china