The American Empire is still fighting to be top dog — especially under Trump, who has inherited a declining empire from the Democrats… Some “democrat”-inclined people are still saying that the economy under Biden was solid, but in fact “Bidenomics” were on the skids, due to the increasingly unmanageable HUGE deficit being used to “finance the cushions”… 

Joining too many dots, mainly Jewish….

BY GUS LEONISKY

One cannot escape Trump’s friendship with a Jewish murderer, Netanyahu. Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin seems to be more on a cordial level in which they respect each other for being there. My personal feeling is that Putin has to be reserved nonetheless. Trump is a weirdo character who says one thing one day and will flip in a huff the next. Putin is more a student of real historical trends and he would despair at the garbage coming from the West if he were not fully aware of the psychological steady value of the Russian spirit. 

The American Empire is under threat, from many sides, outside and within. Nothing new. The human societal demands are difficult to unify, even if a government defines a specific enemy. Freedom tends to break up the unity of purpose. When everyone, being free, is concentrating on doing one’s own thing, individuality becomes the bane of maintaining the focus of an Empire. This is why, the fight against “dis-information” and “mis-information” became out of hand.

This problem has been solved to an extend by China. Politics are under the umbrella of one party, while the people are free to live within the confines of the idea of being Chinese. 

In Russia, most people trust the system which encourages them to be Russian before anything else. Despite the various nations making up the Russian Federation, most people feel protected from Western deceit by being Russian. 

In all systems, American, Chinese and Russian, GREED is ever present but accepted in various ways. In America, greed is the essential ingredient of survival in the jungle and becomes the government’s fuel. In Russia, greed is controlled by the state which owns 50 per cent of resources. In China, greed is acceptable as long as it does not control the government and people respect enterprising entities.

All this isn’t one hundred per cent set, and there will be dissent. 

In America, dissent represents about fifty per cent of the population — leading to the core conflict between Democrats and Republicans. Here, in general, despite a few shops being destroyed by Antifa and a few Teslas being set on fire by angry mobs, the disagreements are stylised rather than intrinsically destructive. Even the J6 invasion of the capitol was a mild dissent. 

In Russia, vague opposition to the present government is around fifteen per cent, while two per cent might be fiercely opposed to Putin… 

In China, dissent could be as low as five per cent.

We in the Western world, would like to see more dissent in Russia and in China — and we — see the cartoon at top — endeavour to stop these countries becoming more powerful than the Empire, for several reasons, including that this would show that our system is not superior — and worse still, that we are weaker.

The American population has been primed with the concepts of superiority and exceptionalism which become the underlay of freedom alla Americana. Freedom in America has had to be managed as not to undermine these American dream concepts. 

These American Empire concepts are the DEEP STATE. They are an idea that is concretised into the desire to control the entire world, financially and militarily.

Enter the protectors of the EMPIRE.

Since the inception of the American Empire, its leaders — say Presidents and government officials — have been the managers and protectors of the Empire.

These leaders have tools and employees that do the nitty gritty, say wolfowitz…

And there is a lot to be done.

Internally, the system has become corrupt. It was always corrupt, but in recent years it has become more corrupt. Everyone’s freedom to make a quick buck has de-purposed the efficiency and the value of work. Biden was corrupt. Obama was a hypocrite. Clinton was a liar…

Externally, The American Empire wants to control every countries. China, Russia are tough nuts to crack. The Empire has been at it since 1917. The trap set by the Clinton/Obama/Biden clique in Ukraine has not worked because Little Putin saw and UNDERSTOOD what was happening. 

USAID was used as a "regime change" tool. The CIA and other intelligence agencies have also allied with "organised crime" such as in Operation Underworld....

So the proxima country on the list to bring to heel is Iran… 

Destroy Palestine. Destroy Lebanon. Destroy Syria. Destroy Yemen…. Keep Jordan happy. Keep Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States happy with cash for oil… Use Israel as the “local” manager.

Libya was destroyed by NATO, without the approval of the United nations — Unlike Russia that militarily intervened in Ukraine under a very specific UN rule designed to protect an ethnic people, but the West does not want to recognise the legality of what Putin has been doing. Hence the lies about “unprovoked” aggression. 

Putin is on the right side of history so far… Trump wants to solve this conflict to prevent Russia from winning outright. Like a gangster, he also wants the Empire to get a cut of the spoils. He is using Europe as a thorn in Russia’s backside, in his good cop-bad cop routine — threatening but "impotent". 

As well, the Empire used its financial control as a weapon, with “trade sanctions”. This was a HUGE mistake that changed many countries’ perceptions of US safety for their cash, until someone called Trump came along to shake the entire trade system with tariffs… with the intent to relaunch the aggressive intensity of superiority and exceptionalism of the Empire… Will it work? Who knows....

SEE: https://www.yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/42749

On Iran, the PROPAGANDA FOGHORN of the Middle-East manager of the Empire (Israel) says this:

Libya as a model: How to stop Iran - and Tehran's path to survival

Iran is vulnerable today like never before - time is running out for it to get its hands on a nuclear deal.

By YAAKOV KATZ

In December 2003, Israeli intelligence was blindsided. Without warning, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi announced he was abandoning his nuclear weapons program. It wasn’t just that Israel hadn’t known a deal was in the works – it didn’t even know there was a nuclear program to begin with.

For a nation built on the doctrine of “Never Again,” and where existential threats are measured not in years but in missile flight times, it was a chilling revelation. Mossad and Military Intelligence scrambled to assess how such a program had been missed. Special teams were set up to deconstruct the failure, and one of them would go on to uncover a similar project just four years later – a nuclear reactor being built in the deserts of northeast Syria.

Gaddafi’s about-face was, in theory, a success story for nuclear nonproliferation. But what followed was a cautionary tale. Eight years later, the same West that had praised Libya’s disarmament watched from the sidelines as rebels pulled Gaddafi from a drainage pipe and executed him. His regime had been dismantled. His country had been shattered.

Which brings us to Iran.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long pointed to Libya as the gold standard for how nuclear programs should end – not with partial rollbacks, half-baked deals, or promises of moderation, but with total dismantlement. No centrifuges and no uranium. Nothing. That is what happened in Libya where everything was dismantled and that is what Israel wants to see happen in Iran: centrifuges, conversion, heavy water, fuel cycle infrastructure. It wants everything to go.

The thing is that Iran, too, has studied Libya.

A lesson for survival

For the Islamic Republic, Gaddafi’s fate is a textbook case for why not to disarm. He gave up his weapons and he was then overthrown. Maybe, had he kept his nuclear program, his regime would have survived. That is the lesson for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

And that is exactly the source of the impasse. Netanyahu knows the Iranians won’t accept the Libyan model. He also knows that President Donald Trump – now back in the Oval Office – might be preparing to cut a deal anyway. So, Israel’s premier is staking out a maximalist position. Not because he believes Trump will deliver Libya 2.0, but because if that’s the goalpost, then just maybe, Washington will settle somewhere a bit closer to it.

A “better deal” than the JCPOA of 2015? Perhaps. But only if the bar is set high enough from the start.

THE SCENE in the Oval Office earlier this week said it all. As Trump and Netanyahu sat side by side, the president dropped a bombshell: Direct talks with Iran were underway. Netanyahu didn’t flinch. He didn’t object. His eyes darted across the room, but he said nothing.

Contrast that with 2014-2015. Then, Barack Obama was president and Israel had just fought a brutal war with Hamas. Netanyahu learned that Washington had been holding secret talks with Tehran, and he erupted. He went to Congress, bypassed the White House, and delivered a speech that triggered a diplomatic firestorm.

This time, though, Netanyahu is silent – partially because he still hopes to influence the process, but also out of a fear that if he pushes too hard, he will become Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was thrown out of the White House after arguing with Trump.

But silence in Washington doesn’t mean silence at home.

The true test will come if and when a deal materializes. While Steve Witkoff has proven a unique ability to broker deals with Hamas, Iran is a whole new level, and the Iranians have managed to wait out two other presidential terms until Trump returned to office. They believe time is on their side.

And yet, this may be the moment when time runs out.

Iran is vulnerable today like never before. Its air defenses were crippled by Israel Air Force strikes in April and October. Hamas has been devastated in Gaza, and Hezbollah has been significantly weakened in Lebanon. The twin pillars of Tehran’s proxy strategy are broken. If their whole raison d’etre was to make Israel think twice before striking Iran’s nuclear sites, that is no longer the case.

Washington recognizes this, too. But where Israel sees an opportunity to strike, the US sees an opening to negotiate. This is the gamble: that weakened proxies and degraded defenses will make Iran more amenable to a deal. That Tehran, faced with unprecedented vulnerability, will take what it can get before things get potentially worse.

But Israel is wary. While Israel would not object to a deal, it wants one that does not leave Iran in possession of its nuclear infrastructure. It wants real dismantlement – Libyan-style. American officials, on the other hand, argue that such demands are unrealistic and that the most that can be achieved now is a rebranded version of the Obama-era agreement, although with some cosmetic changes to make it “bigger” and “better,” the way Trump likes it.

If that’s where the talks land, Netanyahu will face a brutal choice: fight the deal and risk being seen as undermining Trump, or accept it and open himself to charges of capitulation from the political opposition back home.

But that, ultimately, is what Israel’s nuclear dilemma has always been about: making impossible decisions in impossible circumstances. Choosing between bad and worse and between the risks of inaction and the consequences of standing alone.

Libya is a lesson for both sides. For Israel, it is a model of what should be the objective, and for Iran, it is a warning of what must not be repeated.

The writer is co-author of a forthcoming book, While Israel Slept, about the October 7 Hamas attacks and is a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, a global Jewish think tank based in Jerusalem.

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-849792

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         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

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