When an Immoral Nation Votes, Don’t Expect Change

Recently, Donald Trump said he’ll issue an ultimatum to Moscow to remove its troops from ethnic Russian regions that were arbitrarily given to the Ukraine Soviet Republic by the Bolsheviks over a century ago. How ironic that Donald Trump, in effect, sanctions the actions of communist revolutionaries.

A person’s attitude towards Russia and Zelensky’s brutal regime are a litmus test — Do you stand for human rights, justice and civilization; or do you stand for ethnic cleansing, totalitarian rule, and the suppression of basic human rights?

I was hoping to see leadership and backbone from Trump on this matter. But he has shown none. He has caved to the ‘Deep State’ that he claims to fight against. The usually outspoken Trump suddenly goes timid on the topic of Russia, afraid to say anything to upset the status quo promoted by the U.S. foreign policy elite.

A man who is fighting the ‘Deep State’ does not shake hands with one of its protégés, the brutal butcher and dictator Vladimir Zelensky. A genuine leader speaks the truth, even when it’s not easy and potentially costly. Russia is not our enemy. Period. Russia is the enemy of globalist oligarchs who Trump claims to be fighting against. So why is it so difficult for him to call for peace with Russia?

Trump deferential to Zelensky. Does not look good for humanity.

Do you recall that nauseous feeling whenever you hear about a school shooting in America? Small and teenage children picked off and murdered in cold blood by a crazed shooter — nothing could be more sickening. Right?

That moral anguish, however, disappears when it comes to bombing and massacring children in the Middle East and Russia; when young men dodging the draft are hunted down and shot by Zelensky’s regime; when Orthodox Christian churches are closed, burned and bombed, and the priests beaten and jailed, also in Ukraine. All these crimes committed in the past year, paid for by American taxpayers, yet few among us care.

Wherever there is war, mass slaughter and repression, you’ll often find the U.S. government fueling the fires. Meanwhile, our corporate media justify the bloodshed as a necessary price to “defend democracy.” Sadly, none of this is new; it’s consistently been the case for 125 years, ever since we conquered the Philippines, massacring about 400,000 civilians who resisted our invasion.

I just returned from three weeks in Japan, and visited the Tokyo Raid Memorial, which commemorates the day in March 1945 when in the course of an hour the U.S. incinerated over 100,000 civilians as part of a deliberate terror bombing campaign. That raid is history’s single worst case of mass murder in a single day.

Whoever wins the presidential race, the loser will be the human race. Neither candidate stands for a moral U.S. foreign policy based on mutual respect of national interests and human rights.

I also visited Hiroshima. One can’t fully understand the horror of the nuclear bomb until you visit. No amount of reading or viewing of video/photos can fully convey the evil of dropping the nuclear bomb on innocent civilians. Remember, Japan never attacked the U.S.; it attacked a naval base that was on territory (Hawaii) illegally occupied by the U.S. since 1898. So what right did the U.S. have to justify massacring millions of Japanese in revenge?

Nothing is more “American” than bombings and mass murder. Don’t deny it. It’s in our DNA. “Wipe Iran off the face of the earth”. “Nuke ‘em”. “Bomb them back to the Stone Age”. No other nation speaks like that in regard to others; but these phrases are common American parlance when discussing foreign affairs, revealing what an immoral nation we are: One Nation Certainly Not Under God.

How can any sane and moral person utter such militaristic phrases unaware of the amount of suffering and misery to which others are condemned for the ‘crime’ of not submitting to the U.S. imperial steamroller. We seem to have no moral qualms when our government commits mass murder abroad, as long as it’s in the name of promoting ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’.

Conclusion — dress up war and mass murder in beautiful words and noble intentions, and Americans will find it acceptable.

 

As the world’s leading global power, foreign policy should be the issue that determines presidential elections. But it is not. Most Americans are more worried about the price of gasoline, which for the past two months has suspiciously hovered at record lows in order to boost the fortunes of the incumbent Democrats.

Understanding U.S. foreign policy is very simple. We only need to ask the question: Is the U.S. fostering peace and order, or is it destabilizing the globe? Events of the past 35 years (or past 200 years) are very clear — the U.S. government, and the oligarchs who control it, have repeatedly proven themselves to be the greatest threat to the global order.

I’ll never forget that day in summer 1990 when the U.S. began beating the drums of war against Iraq. It was the end of an era. From 1975 to 1990, the post-Vietnam era, the U.S. was a relatively peaceful nation that avoided major conflicts, even negotiating an end to the nuclear arms race with the USSR. It was a time when one was proud to be an American.

Evil never sleeps, however. Having lost the USSR as the bugbear to justify their war-mongering, U.S. militarists set their sights on the Middle East. And so began 35 years of war that has led to millions of deaths and tens of millions more left homeless.

The predator class that controls the U.S. can’t be restrained. No legislation nor institution exists that can bring them to justice for their many crimes. Has a single state official or oligarch ever been prosecuted for the brutal, illegal wars and genocides of the past 35 years? Not one.

Fast forward to today — another grueling presidential election campaign is set to conclude, and the American people must choose between two candidates that justify empire and all its heinous consequences — brutal proxy wars, genocide of unruly populations, and even nuclear war.

Kamala Harris openly promises more war against Russia and mass murder in the Middle East. As I said above, Trump will also pursue a similar foreign policy. In effect, there’s little difference between the two candidates. Trump even admitted to the Wall Street Journal that he is “crazy” and this is apparently good because it means that other nations fear him.

 

Trump won’t scale back the empire. He is obsessed with American “greatness”, which means that the U.S. will continue to destabilize the international order, enhancing our status as a pariah nation. (Yes, most of the world hates us).

Whoever wins the presidential race, the loser will be the human race. Neither candidate stands for a moral U.S. foreign policy based on mutual respect of national interests and human rights. Both candidates want a world where the U.S. is the apex predator, taking what it wants, when it wants and brutally punishing those who resist.

Is this really the country we want to live in? Is this a country to be proud of? Certainly no moral, sane and decent person would ever answer “Yes”.

In 1821, veteran diplomat and future U.S. president John Quincy Adams warned not to get involved in foreign conflicts “in search of monsters to destroy”, by which he meant to avoid getting involved in wars abroad where we imagine ourselves to be the “good guys” on a noble crusade to save the world.

In searching for monsters to destroy, the U.S. has itself become the monster and greatest threat to the global order. Unless the U.S. returns to the original principles of its Founding Fathers, then this nation is doomed to face the wrath of God for its wickedness. Just don’t be surprised if and when that day comes.