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Abdullahi Bego retweeted
The US midterms elections turned out to be an utter disaster for Donald Trump and Republicans. This disaster had many factors, but by far and away the biggest factor started on February 28th when Donald Trump launched his foolish war against Iran for Israel.
After campaigning on a platform of being a ‘peace President’, Donald Trump betrayed the hopes of the American people and became the second coming of George W. Bush. After railing against the madness and delusions of neocon foreign policy, he appointed the same pro-Israel neocons to the highest positions in his administration, who convinced him that a war on Iran would somehow be a good idea.
The campaign donations and power of the Israel lobby over American foreign policy convinced him to throw his domestic agenda of an era of American revival out of the window, and pursue a foreign war so obviously disastrous, that not even his war criminal predecessors could be convinced by Israel to launch it.
The hubris and disaster began on day one. By assassinating Ali Khamenei and Iran’s leadership, which had continuously exercised restraint and avoided a major war, they allowed a more hardline and determined Iranian leadership to take power and impose tremendous costs on the US, and entire global economy.
The fantasy of a regime change uprising evaporated into thin air as the Iranian population rallied around the flag, and the only regime change turned out to be replacing Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei.
A war that was supposed to last ‘a few weeks’ has instead gone on for 250 days. Genocidal threats of wiping out an entire civilisation achieved nothing in negotiations, the Strait of Hormuz still has not returned to pre-war conditions, and global energy prices remain sharply elevated.
Despite War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s odious worship of American warplanes bringing ‘death and destruction, all day long’, none of the US’ war objectives were achieved.
As each day passes, the US economy and global economy are pushed closer to a major crisis. Already struggling working class Americans are facing financial misery as the rising cost of living from Trump’s war suffocates them.
And yet stunningly, Donald Trump has not realised his catastrophic mistake, and is considering resuming the war on Iran despite global oil reserves already exhausted, leaving the US and global economy without any buffer for the consequences of a resumed war.
The alarming short-sightedness of the American President, the global disaster he has caused, and the bewildering display of hypnotised loyalty to genocidal war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, who achieved his dream of getting the US to fight Israel’s war against Iran for him, has infuriated millions of struggling Americans, and the midterm results reflect it.
America First was exposed as codeword for Israel First, and the American people paid the price for it. Trump sold the vision of reviving the American Dream for Netanyahu’s dream of Israeli hegemony, and a Greater Israel.
Washington’s empire is now in a paralysed state of dysfunction: stuck in a quagmire abroad, its economy creaking under the weight of the quagmire, and political deadlock locked in with a Democrat ‘blue wave.’
Of course, nothing will fundamentally change in the US, since the Democrats and Republicans simply represent different parts of the capitalist class that rapaciously concentrate more wealth into its hands, while the rest increasingly own nothing.
Whatever is left of the US’ soft power evaporates into thin air, its hard power is increasingly questioned as supposedly the world’s most powerful military could not defeat a regional power it has kept in economic misery for over 4 decades with sanctions, and most of the world views the US as a dangerous rogue state that brings nothing but war and destruction, disrupting the rest of the world’s concentration on economic development.
A humiliating state of affairs for the empire in decline.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
On my timeline, Democratic Party supporters are celebrating as if their side somehow earned this outcome through superior strategy or genuine grassroots resistance to Trump. They ought to feel ashamed. The victory was effectively handed to them by Iran, the same country whose entire leadership, including its philosophers, scientists, and even children, Trump has targeted and killed. Had Iran not closed the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation, Trump would still be free to act against them exactly as he pleased. These supporters are not merely cowardly hypocrites and warmongers; they are morally bankrupt as well.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
BREAKING: As I predicted, Democrats now projected to win House AND Senate in a massive blue tsunami. Devastating repudiation of President Trump’s War on Iran and all the economic fallout.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
Ro Khanna on Israel: “The Democratic Party needs to be very clear. We need to call it a genocide. We need to say zero aid. We need to say zero military sales that are being used to kill civilians. And we need to say in the first week we’re gonna recognize a Palestinian State, put an embassy in Ramallah and East Jerusalem, and we’re gonna stop protecting Israel in the United Nations”
Iran has instigated a regime change in the US. It has inspired a reflection, among the American people, that America is infinitely better than the way it's being managed by the Donald, that sound economic policy should not be subjugated to the interests of a tiny, colonial and genocidal ethno-state.
After today's mid-term elections in the United States, America will enter the post -Trump era. Trump will be thoroughly disgraced by the outcome of the elections, will be rendered a lame duck but will become consequentially dangerous and even more unhinged for the reminder of his war mongering, chaotic, and demonstrably imperial second term.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
Here is the arithmetic that the phrase "Global South" obscures:
Africa: 1.6 billion people.
Asia: 4.9 billion people.
Latin America and the Caribbean: 670 million people.
Together: roughly 7.2 billion people out of 8.3 billion on earth.
The "Global South" is not a minority asking to be included.
It is the majority that has been structured out of power.
The entire architecture of the post-war international order, the Security Council veto, the IMF voting weights, the WTO rules, the dollar as a reserve currency, was built to ensure that 7.2 billion people would not have proportional influence over the decisions that shape their lives.
That architecture is not natural law.
It is a set of choices made by the winners of a particular moment in history, encoded as permanent, and maintained by the threat of consequences for those who question it.
Questioning it is not radical.
It is arithmetic.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
The most honest statement ever made about Cuba policy came from a State Department memo in 1960, written before the sanctions were fully implemented.
The memo, written by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lester Mallory, stated that the U.S. should pursue a policy to bring about hunger, desperation, and overthrow of the Cuban government.
Not: respond to "Cuban repression."
Not: protect Cuban human rights.
Not: promote democracy.
Hunger. Desperation. Overthrow.
This memo is declassified. It is in the historical record. It is not disputed.
It means that every subsequent year of sanctions, every subsequent citation of Cuban poverty and dysfunction as evidence of socialist failure, every subsequent American official expressing concern for the welfare of the Cuban people:
All of it happened downstream of a documented decision to deliberately produce hunger and desperation in that population.
This is not a conspiracy theory.
It is a declassified government document.
The conspiracy was the policy.
The theory was written in plain English by an American official in 1960 and has been implemented faithfully for 66 years since.
What they wanted to prove, they engineered the conditions to prove.
And then they called it evidence.
ALT U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lester D. Mallory's secret memorandum recommended economic measures to bring about "hunger, desperation and overthrow of government" in Cuba. Declassified U.S. State Department memorandum, 6 April 1960, FRUS Document 499.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
Hegel, the philosopher, the foundational figure of Western intellectual tradition, the man whose ideas shaped how generations understood history and progress and civilisation, said Africa had no history.
Literally.
In "The Philosophy of History," published posthumously in 1837, he described Africa as "the land of childhood, which lying beyond the day of self-conscious history, is enveloped in the dark mantle of Night."
No history. No development. No participation in the movement of human civilization.
This was not a fringe opinion.
These were the intellectual assumptions that would help legitimize European colonial domination and, decades later, the partition of an entire continent.
Now.
While Hegel was writing this, the Oyo Empire in West Africa governed millions of people through a sophisticated constitutional system with checks on royal power.
While Hegel was writing this, the Kingdom of Dahomey had a standing army, a complex taxation system, and active diplomatic relationships with the European powers who were simultaneously, in their salons and academies, insisting the continent they were negotiating with had no civilization worth the name.
While Hegel was writing this, the Asante Empire operated under legal codes that European jurists would have recognized as sophisticated if they had been written in a language those jurists were willing to read.
While Hegel was writing this, the manuscripts of Timbuktu, hundreds of thousands of texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine, theology, history, were being preserved by African scholars in the city his tradition insisted had produced no thought worth preserving.
And while Hegel was writing that Africa had no history, Ethiopia already had one that stretched back more than four thousand years.
Egyptian pharaohs, themselves African rulers, had been sending fleets to trade with the Land of Punt, in the Horn of Africa, as early as 2500 BCE.
Gold, frankincense, myrrh, ebony, ivory.
By the third century CE, the Kingdom of Aksum was minting its own coinage, trading across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, and commanding such international recognition that the religious teacher Mani counted it alongside Rome, Persia and China as one of the great kingdoms of the world.
Its written literary tradition in Ge’ez carried scripture, philosophy, law, and royal chronicles that predated most of the nations doing the accusing by centuries.
The darkness was not in Africa.
It was in the theory that needed Africa to be dark.
ALT Gold coin bearing the bust of King Kaleb of Aksum, ancient Ethiopia, sixth century CE. Royal portraits. Greek inscriptions. Sovereign currency. International trade. Aksum had been minting its own gold coins since the late third century, more than 1,500 years before Hegel's lectures. An African civilization was literally striking its history in gold centuries before European philosophers presumed to deny it.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
The Ummah is one body, they said.
One body.
And yet when one limb is being severed, the rest of the body is negotiating port access, signing normalization agreements, and sending its children to study in the capitals of the countries financing the blade.
A body that selectively feels pain is not one body.
It is a collection of parts that share a vocabulary but not a circulatory system.
The vocabulary is "brother."
The circulatory system is petrodollars.
They are not the same thing.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
They say Iran is "destabilizing" the region.
This from governments that imported American troops, imported Zionist normalization, imported surveillance states, imported foreign doctrine, and then exported nothing but obedience.
What exactly did Iran destabilize?
The right of America to bomb at will?
The right of Israel to kill without reply?
The right of palace Islam to turn revelation into court etiquette?
If that is instability, then perhaps instability is the first honest thing to happen to this region in decades.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
America doesn’t just sponsor terror.
It manufactures it.
Funds it.
Licenses it.
And then sends the bill to the survivors.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
It’s not China they fear.
It’s what China disproves.
That a nation can rise without plunder.
That poverty can fall without war.
That growth doesn’t need Wall Street permission slips.
That a billion people can be fed, housed, and educated without invading anyone.
That is what terrifies the empire.
Not tyranny.
But competence.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
The U.S. does not have a human rights policy.
It has a human rights vocabulary.
It says "genocide" when an enemy kills.
It says "security" when an ally kills.
It says "terrorism" when the poor fight back.
It says "unfortunate" when a drone hits a family.
Everyone has seen this pattern.
The only people who still buy the story are those who need the story more than they need the truth.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
Every country they've called a threat was, before the threat, a resource.
The threat came when the resource said no.
Study the sequence.
It never changes.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
"Make America Great Again" is the most honest slogan in the history of American politics.
Not because it's truthful.
Because it accidentally describes the actual psychological condition of the population it was speaking to.
Again.
The word does all the work.
It acknowledges, without quite meaning to, that the greatness is gone. That something has been lost. That the story that was supposed to be permanent has a tense problem.
Every previous version of American political rhetoric operated in the eternal present.
America is great. America is exceptional. America is the indispensable nation.
This slogan put it in the past.
And the millions who responded to it understood immediately, in their bodies before their minds, what was being named:
The story isn't working anymore.
They wanted someone to fix the story rather than interrogate it.
What they got was someone who ran the broken version louder.
The volume is not the same as the repair.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
There is something almost classical about watching America's decline through Trump.
The Greeks had a word for it: hubris.
Followed, always and without exception, by nemesis.
The country that told the world it was the "indispensable nation."
The country that maintained 800 military bases in 80 countries.
The country that redesigned the global financial system in its own image at Bretton Woods and then spent eight decades using access to that system as a weapon against anyone who disobeyed.
The country that called this "freedom."
Now watching its own cities rot. Its own bridges collapse. Its own citizens die of preventable diseases because the money that should have built hospitals and schools and water treatment infrastructure was spent maintaining the architecture of global domination that was supposed to make America great.
The empire ate the republic.
It ate it from the inside, slowly, over decades, diverting every resource toward the maintenance of power abroad while the foundations at home quietly failed.
And now the republic is screaming at the wreckage and calling the scream a plan.
Hubris. Nemesis. It arrives on schedule.
It always does.
Abdullahi Bego retweeted
🇺🇸🇨🇳Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
'The United States, as the old world leader, has now been matched and in many ways overtaken by China. That alone represents a fundamental disruption of the global order.
This shift is deeply disruptive because it reflects a fundamental change in the balance of power and in the international order.
This is not a temporary phenomenon. It marks the end of US led geopolitics and, more fundamentally, the end of Western led geopolitics.
Europe and the West more broadly were the dominant force in world politics from roughly 1750 until the beginning of this century. That era is now over because of China's rise and the broader rise of Asia.'
Mohammed Baharoon: The REAL threat to the dollar is CRYPTOCURRENCY, and the US🇺🇸 knows it
'In the GCC we have a country like Kuwait, who has pegged its currency to a basket of currencies. It is pegged to the dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen. So there are examples of this, and we haven't seen the US bring its wrath on Kuwait, for instance.
If you remember when the EU started their own currency, it was at the point where the world was unipolar, and there was a need for resilience. That's why it was supposed to be a currency that balances the world. So again, it is a different currency.
The US now is investing in crypto because they understand that, as AI continues, this might be the way forward.'
-Mohammed Baharoon, Director General of the Dubai Public Policy Research Center, on the latest episode of New Order.
Watch the full interview in the quoted post below. 👇
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