Well during Trump 1 he constantly switched between stuff like this and insisting so hard on the DPRK abandoning their nuclear program that Kim did a tableflip and left the US-DPRK summit in Hanoi. It’s not surprising he just does a rerun of that now, especially when you take into account that the US has just called off its last carrier group from the region because they need it to bomb children in Iran. Sorry, i’m not buying this JDPON DON nonsense, it’s not anti-imperialist to start another forever war because you refuse to force Israel to retreat from Lebanon, not even when it causes “instability” and “disrupts the hegemony” in highly stable world regions with the most solid hegemonial control like Northeast Asia and Western Europe that just react to this with further increasing the influence of their own MICs. I get why people here get excited, especially because it allows Amerikans to feel less like the absolute devils they are while not having to do anything, but i’m not buying this. If Trump was a serious threat to the empire, he would have been JFKed back in 2017.
You’re right about the JDPON Don stuff, it isn’t something serious, and I wasn’t being serious about it. Trump is very much a symptom of deep rooted issues, not the cause. I think this is more a sign of the entire US apparatus just crumbling, they can no longer project the global power they once held, but there is still a world of difference between “the empire is no longer as powerful as it was at its peak” and “the empire has collapsed.”
Yeah, i absolutely see the decline, but this can take ages. The British Empire has been in decline for a century, is only a shadow of what it was before the world wars and yet is still a major nuclear power that is engaged in imperialist projects all over the globe, and not only as an accomplice to the US. The capacity of the USA for violence is gigantic, and it will not go away overnight no matter how much Trump and Hegseth fuck up in picking fights and allocating troops and how much damage Iran does in fighting back. This war will likely cause wounds that never fully heal, but they will not slay the beast.
Well during Trump 1 he constantly switched between stuff like this and insisting so hard on the DPRK abandoning their nuclear program that Kim did a tableflip and left the US-DPRK summit in Hanoi. It’s not surprising he just does a rerun of that now, especially when you take into account that the US has just called off its last carrier group from the region because they need it to bomb children in Iran. Sorry, i’m not buying this JDPON DON nonsense, it’s not anti-imperialist to start another forever war because you refuse to force Israel to retreat from Lebanon, not even when it causes “instability” and “disrupts the hegemony” in highly stable world regions with the most solid hegemonial control like Northeast Asia and Western Europe that just react to this with further increasing the influence of their own MICs. I get why people here get excited, especially because it allows Amerikans to feel less like the absolute devils they are while not having to do anything, but i’m not buying this. If Trump was a serious threat to the empire, he would have been JFKed back in 2017.
You’re right about the JDPON Don stuff, it isn’t something serious, and I wasn’t being serious about it. Trump is very much a symptom of deep rooted issues, not the cause. I think this is more a sign of the entire US apparatus just crumbling, they can no longer project the global power they once held, but there is still a world of difference between “the empire is no longer as powerful as it was at its peak” and “the empire has collapsed.”
Yeah, i absolutely see the decline, but this can take ages. The British Empire has been in decline for a century, is only a shadow of what it was before the world wars and yet is still a major nuclear power that is engaged in imperialist projects all over the globe, and not only as an accomplice to the US. The capacity of the USA for violence is gigantic, and it will not go away overnight no matter how much Trump and Hegseth fuck up in picking fights and allocating troops and how much damage Iran does in fighting back. This war will likely cause wounds that never fully heal, but they will not slay the beast.