This is not an easy conversation but it needs to be had at every level of our culture. We are way way off track. Our leaders are using violence and war as a default option, and supporting overt acts of genocide in Gaza as Bibi and Biden seem intent on sparking World War III.
The US/UK/Israel axis of hegemony has been taken over by the worst kind of warmongers, including Democrats like Joe Biden, who now seems intent on reviving the Bush era's insane violence against multiple countries in that region as the U.S./UK military has hit hundreds of targets in Yemen, Iraq and Syria in recent days.
We need peacemongers, not warmongers. We need peace studies not war studies.
Democrats used to be the anti-war party. No more.
We. Are. The. Bad. Guys.
This needs to sink in. We, the US, are not the good guys.
Military and financial power can go far but in the long run if they're not backed by moral legitimacy they will fail. We are at that point now.
I fully agree with this 2024 YouTube video, which conveys briefly and clearly a number of more prominent crimes committed by Americans since our founding, starting with the genocide of Native Americans throughout the continuent, and I urge anyone interested in delving into the details of just how bad we have inflicted our military and covert ops on the world in the last century or more please read Chomsky's and Stephen Kinzer's books.
Thank you for writing - This will likely not end as long as it remains extremely profitable.
“If we fix it so’s you can’t make money on war, we’ll all forget what we’re killing folks for.”
— Woody Guthrie
In a word, yes.