“Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.”
President Roosevelt (about the brutal dictator of Nicaragua)
Maduro was kidnapped only because he refused to be America’s son of a bitch.
The Chinese built China and the Russians built Russia, but America was built by the world. The world built America by investing its enormous human and resource capital, directly by force in the case of slavery and indirectly by force in the case of immigration and capital inflow.
The immigration (brain drain) and capital inflow to America especially from the so-called global south (Africa, Latin America, and Asia) is for lack of any other choice and, therefore, is essentially coerced. In order to divide and conquer and then plunder, the American empire (and its western allies), following in the footsteps its predecessor the British empire, made the region so destitute, chaotic and corrupt that it has now become virtually unlivable. As such, able and capable people of the region are left with no choice, save immigrate to the west where they live as second-class citizens while contributing much more than the “first-class” ones.
Donald Trump cries about “immigrant invasion of America” but he doesn’t ask (rather, he doesn’t have the inquisitiveness to ask) why people want to mass migrate to America in the first place. He loves to call Africa “shithole” but doesn’t ponder why it is so, if it is indeed so. For God’s sake, he is such a simpleton that he doesn’t even question why his own grand father emigrated to America and why he had to anglicize his name to Fredrick.
America is proud to be the cause but hates the counter effect on itself. It is too haughty to think that the universal principle of cause and effect doesn’t apply to it. It seriously believes that, unlike all other nations in the world, it can escape the consequences of its actions. It even has an expression for this uniqueness of defying the laws of nature – “American exceptionalism”. The problem is that every empire that came and went also believed it was exceptional, including the most recent one, the British Empire preceding the American Empire.
Of course, the laws of nature are objective and, therefore, impartial to one’s beliefs. Whatever America thinks of itself, it a mortal entity subjected to the laws of nature, particularly to the law of action and reaction. For any agent initiating an action, an equal and opposite reaction always acts on the agent, even if the agent is a huge plane interacting with a tiny bird. The forces on the huge plane and the tiny bird are the same, though the effect is much more pronounced on the tiny bird. One can’t touch without being equally touched. What America complains about is the boomerang effect of its own actions. It, itself, is the direct cause of its own complaints.
In the resource-rich global south, America assassinates democratically elected leaders like Patrice Lumumba of Congo and Salvador Allende of Chile, only because they refused to be “sons of a bitch” to America. It then imposes brutal puppets like Mobutu Sese Seko and Augusto Pinochet to plunder the countries virtually unopposed and keep the populations impoverished, helplessly dependent on USAID. In a sense, America is like a looter who gives back a miniscule fraction of the loot as a “generous gift” when the victim cries for help and then calls himself humanitarian for doing so. This is exactly how America keeps applauding herself as “the most generous country in the world”.
America has now invaded Venezuela to rob tens of trillions of Petro-dollars from Venezuelans and then “generously” hand them out few millions just enough to keep Venezuela afloat. Just as Trump is a criminal for looting Venezuelan oil, any member of Trump’s administration as well as any oil executive involved in this looting in any way is an accomplice and, therefore, should in due time be held fully accountable. Besides, any one intending to buy this looted oil should be forewarned of committing the crime of “Receiving a Stolen Property” and, therefore, may be subjected to all of its moral and legal ramifications.
When America, however hard it tried, could not assassinate a patriotic leader of a country like Fidel Castro of Cuba, it imposes severe sanctions to make life in the country unbearable and thereby initiate “popular” uprising lead by paid agents. When all else fails in liquidating a patriotic leader refusing to be a stooge to America, America resorts to outright kidnapping like in the case of Manuel Noriega of Panama and Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela.
American which does all of these anti-democratic, imperialist evils, proudly calls itself the beacon of freedom, democracy, and human right or, in the words of Ronald Reagan, “a shinning light on the hill” .
Incidentally, the phrase “a shining light on the hill” was originally coined by John Winthrop, a white supremacist Puritan leader of Massachusetts who was one of the first English colonists to be deeply involved in the slave trade of America, starting from the first arrival of enslaved Africans in Boston in 1638. In addition, it was this same John Winthrop who initiated the enslavement of indigenous America in their own God-given America, starting from organizing and managing the enslavement of Pequot natives after the Pequot war. It was also this very same John Winthrop who called democracy “the meanest and worst of all forms of government”. No wonder why John Winthrop’s phrase was reintroduced by Ronald Reagan, one of the most imperialistic presidents of America.
America is the epitome of hypocrisy. It was founded on hypocrisy and has forever been living and breathing hypocrisy. However, the paradox is not that America has forever been hypocritical starting from its inception but that the rest of the world used to see America for what it claims to be instead of for what it really is. This paradox has everything to do with the foundational myth of America and with America’s mainstream media feeding on this myth, a fake media unparalleled in lying through half-truth.
Most of the so-called “founding fathers” of America were Anglo-Saxons. As such, divide-and-conquer as well as permanent opportunism is in their blood. Above all, they have no equal at lying through half-truth. At best, these “founding fathers” were superficially enlightened, pseudo-intellectual, pretentious feudals (with slave serfs) whose understanding of enlightenment was only skin-deep, limited to stating well-known enlightenment clichés for self-serving purposes. They were so shallow that they could not see the obvious contradiction of their complaining about “taxation without representation” while they themselves were treating enslaved Blacks as three-fifth of a human being. They lived most of their lives mostly confined to rural America, far from the centers of enlightenment and were heavily influenced by white supremacist Puritan pastors like Cotton Mather, in the same way Donald Trump is now heavily influenced by white supremacist evangelical pastors like Douglas Wilson.
When Abraham Lincoln spoke about “government of the people for the people by the people“, it was obvious that by “the people” he meant whites and whites only, since his government was nothing but a white by white for white government.
“I am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” (Abraham Lincoln)
No wonder why Lincoln paid reparations to white enslavers and why he declared slaves “free” only in Confederate states where he had no control. And yet, thanks to America’s highly effective propaganda, most of the world (including the very descendants Blacks enslaved by Lincoln’s America) still revere Lincoln as the “emancipation president” .
When Thomas Jefferson (the very same Jefferson who had more than 600 slaves including his own children from his own slave) stated “all men are created equal“, he literally meant white men, not including even white women, let alone slaves. And yet, thanks to Hollywood and American mainstream media, most of the world used to assume that in America all Americans are treated equal and that America is “the land of equal opportunity for all Americans”. It is only after the flourishing of social media that America’s veil was wide open, exposing that, contrary to what it claims to be, the American system is a white by white for white apartheid system, de facto, if not de jure like apartheid South Africa.
When Francis Scot Key penned “The Star-Sprangled Banner” and claimed America to be “the land of the free” (at a time when native genocide was at its worst and slavery was at its ugliest), he was simply stating the obvious fact that American freedom is exclusive to whites and whites only. When George Washington, to rally his troops against the British, said “the time is near at hand which determines whether Americans are to be free men or slaves“, he was conveniently forgetting that he, himself was enslaving more than 300 Americans. And when Patrick Henry (another “founding father” hypocrite) cried “give me liberty or give me death” at, of all places, the pulpit of a church, he, himself was “giving” slow, agonizing death to his hundreds of slaves.
And yet, thanks again to Hollywood and American mainstream media, most of the world used to perceive America as “the land of the free and the home of the brave”, even though that perception is quickly dissipating due to social media, explaining why the American oligarch is out in full force to control the narrative by controlling social media.
Nowadays, the “home of the brave” chooses to fight only if the “braves” are far away from the enemy sight and can kill in thousands (if not in tens of thousands) by merely pressing a button, ever apprehensive of what happens whenever and wherever the “braves” put their boots on the ground, be it in Japan, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan or Somalia.
The so-called American war of Independence or American Revolutionary War was not a war for the independence of all Americans but for the right of British colonialists to run amok with their white supremacist, slave-holding colonial system completely independent of the British Monarch. In fact, there was nothing revolutionary in the so-called American Revolutionary war. It was not even a war but a skirmish between compatriot Anglo-Saxons. After all, why would a poor British soldier fight to death for a remote British Monarch when he could easily change sides, settle in America, rob huge lands, own numerous slaves, and lead a life materially much better than the British Monarch himself? And yet, no war has ever been glorified as the American “Revolutionary War” and no general as ever been lauded as the once slave-holding tobacco farmer George Washington, a second-rate general who lost a number of battles and was repeatedly criticized for weak commandeering and low troop morale.
America’s white supremacist hegemonic power is principally a soft power based on the totally wrong perception of America as a just country fostered by American mainstream media which, thanks to social media, is now being totally exposed. As for America’s military power, Afghanistan and the Taliban have clearly shown its limitations. As a result, the world has started not to fear America’s atomic and nuclear power, if only because, in the timeless lyrics of Bob Marley, “none of them can stop the time”.
When the painstakingly built false façade of ugly, white supremacist America is completely deconstructed and the perception of America as a just country is proven completely wrong, all the wealth of the world freely flowing to America driven by this wrong perception will completely dry up. And when this wealth flow completely dries up, the consumption inflated white supremacist American empire will subsequently implode, losing its principal means of sustenance.
Social media has made American propaganda and, therefore, American soft power ineffective, leaving America with no power other than military. As a result, America is now employing this sole power of hers publicly, proudly, and to the fullest extent as demonstrated by the brazen kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro. Besides, it is threatening to do the same to all leaders of the world refusing to be subservient to America, especially those of the resource-rich Latin America and Africa.
America is a drowning nation clutching at a straw. It is in such a dire situation, in such a quagmire, that it needs little to no pretext to invade even its own closest allies if it thinks it will help her get out of the abyss it found it self in, rather it throws itself into. In fact, the very first victims of a coward are always those closest to the coward, for the simple reason that the coward knows his allies won’t fight back at least initially, as they would be utterly shocked by the betrayal. This is why, for example, Hitler launched a surprise invasion Russia after signing a peace deal with Stalin, catching most of the Soviet leadership off guard and gaining astounding victories in the initial stages of the war.
America may do the same to Mexico, Canada, and Greenland. In this case, however, America has already lost the element of surprise, thanks to the alleged sexual predator Donald Trump who is so indiscreet that he has already spilled the beans.
America which was made powerful by the world has now become too powerful for the world, ever ready to wipe out the world with nuclear Armageddon if it doesn’t get its way, especially now that it is in a desperation mode having lost its soft power completely. It has doggedly refused to live and let others live. It is adamant that it should be the American way or there should be no other way. It insists and persists that the only game in the world should be a zero-sum game whereby America and its western allies prosper at the expense of the global south. Indeed, America is now the Frankenstein of the world, and the world, for its own sake, should better treat it as such.
The average age of all previous empires is about 250 years. The year 2026 which was heralded by America’s unprovoked, imperialist invasion of Venezuela marks the 250th year of the Declaration of Independence. It was this Declaration of Independence which stated that “whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government”.
No government has been as destructive to the world as successive American governments, the latest one lead by Donald Trump being the worst. It will get much worse if and when JD Vance (the protege of the apartheid crook, sadistic Peter Theil) becomes president, if only because Vance is an inherently evil person who does for evil ‘s sake, unlike the narcissist Trump who doesn’t mind doing evil to satisfy his narcissism. As such, in accordance with the Declaration of Independence, the time “to alter or to abolish” the de facto white supremacist American “destructive” system and “to institute” a new constructive system is long overdue.
“If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialism, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.” (Den Xiaoping, Speech at the United Nations, April 10, 1974).
Mesfin Arega
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