The first rule of understanding White Empire is that every accusation is a confession. Following this rule, John McCain was in fact confessing when he accused Russia of being, “a gas station masquerading as a country.” America is the gas station with nukes that we should all be afraid of. Just look.

In this image from the New York War Crimes, you can see what a planet-stomping dinosaur America has become. They're dominant in and dependent on fossil fuels, having become the world's biggest oil and gas producer under Obama. That's something the charlatan openly took credit for, saying “that was me, people.” Now printing money and pumping gas is all they can do. America is a banana republic with just one type of disgusting banana (Cavendish, horrible).

Whereas China has the most competitive companies doing robust free trade in renewable energy, America sells oil and gas at gunpoint, blowing up Europe for trading with the Russians and besieging competitors like Iran and Venezuela. America bans its own people from importing solar panels and cheap EVs and is rapidly become a fossilized wasteland, driving $100,000 dinosaur trucks around while everyone else is trying to avoid the meteor of climate change. America ignores the first rule of holes which is stop digging. That's all they can do now, drill baby drill, as the moronic American saying goes.

Strip away a services layers that's largely bullshit and fraud and all you have in the American economy is a gas station with nukes. And some soybeans and rebranded Chinese stuff at the checkout counter. America in 2025 is precisely what John McCain accused Russia of being in 2015. Compare the two countries at the point their manufacturing literally runs into each other, on artillery shells, and you'll see the reality. Russia actually makes shit while America is actually bullshit.

Via Simplicius, Russia is producing 250-350,000 artillery shells per month while the US military is producing a mere 40,000 (per month), down from 50,000 a year ago. The US made a big show of upping production, but it was literally a show, like the Mechanical Turk paraded around White Empire in the late 1700s, pretending like it was a chess automaton (it was just a scrunched up dude inside, moving pieces around). America talked about making their own shells but it's literally a shell company. They flew a Turkish company into Arizona (workers and machines and all) and branded it ‘Made In America’. And unlike the Mechanical Turk which actually beat Ben Franklin, this one just incinerates Franklins and doesn't work. America can print money but they can't print shells. They're just another useless Gulf State throwing money around, in this case around the ‘Gulf Of America’. They think naming things is making things, and that's not how things work.

Now the second rule of White Empire is follow the money, because that's all they follow, not God, not democracy, that's all just marketing to make more money. In this way, you can simply understand why America is attacking Russia and fracturing the Middle East. They're trying to corner the market in Europe and literally kill the competition. The Ukraine war was just America's way of sticking up Europe, blowing up Germany's pipeline to Russia, and forcing them to buy over-priced American product. In the same way, America's sanctions and actions against Venezuela and Iran are just attacking the competition. And America's sanctions against China are trying desperately to keep the green revolution down, to make some last desperate green from black and brown before the whole ship runs aground. America is just a business and they'll follow the money all the way down.

Following this rule, don't follow the marketing. Trying to understand America through the appearances it puts up is like thinking that the girl in a Coke commercial is making eyes at you. It's just some corporate monster trying to sell you something that kills you. In this case, oil and gas, with nukes if you get any ideas of going against them. And they're getting so desperate near the end of the fossil fuel era that they're not even keeping up appearances anymore. Now they're just openly killing children and running concentration camps and extorting people and cancelling their own people if they say anything. What we are witnessing is the fire sale at the end of White Empire, where they're unloading weapons in every direction and pollution to high heaven. Everything must go, including the marketing department. It's just fuck you, pay me now. It's the end of all pretensions.

In this sense, Trump is a fitting representative. He is the ugly American, who says what America does quite openly. Trump unabashedly says he loves fossil fuels, what other Presidents were more bashful about, while still bashing them out. Every American President increased oil and gas production while mouthing platitudes about the planet and pretending like they gave a fuck. Remember that America is a business. The CEOs change, but the business stays the same, and the oil and gas business is all that's left of the deranged colonizer state, given a continent to devour, and then a world to inflame. As Tom Woods said, “No matter who you vote for, you get John McCain.”