I like to think historically otherwise I get hysterical. So please remember—and I'm telling myself here—the histrionic flailing of late-stage White Empire is as terrible as it is terminal. They are in the news so much because they're being written out of history, it's not a mystery. Their military is defeated again and again, their economy is hopped up on money printing, and their moral authority is gone with the wind. All that's left is mere authoritarianism, the last grasp before the last gasp, before the end.

White Empire is trying desperately to control trade because they are in desperate straits. They are trying despicably to control Palestine because the world has changed. And they are failing despondently to control Russia because they're weak and lame. I won't even mention their attempts to control China, because they're not even in the game. What are we even talking about here? Empire can still dominate the news cycle, but historically, les jeux sont faits.

They—that amorphous they, the colonizers and their colonies, what I call White Empire to spare myself endless parentheses—they are still trying to divide and conquer, but they're increasingly divided against themselves and self-defeating. As the racist Indian-killer Abraham Lincoln said, a house divided against itself cannot stand. As much as America tries to force investment and power back into itself, there's simply too much shithousery. Even as much as the vassals want to submit, they can't. America simply vacillates too much. It's not the predatory behavior that gets them so much as the unpredictability. Par exemple,

Occupied Korea was trying to reinvest in America, ie pay tribute to their dividers, occupiers, and rapists. But then America violently deported the ‘skilled’ workers trying to upskill them. Who is going to invest in this climate, when you put yourself on a plate and they overturn the table anyways? It's not just that Trump's trade deals are bad, he won't even keep to them from minute to minute. He's asking vassals to invest (re: pay industrial tribute), but then kicking them out of industrial projects. It is, as they say in French, a complete shitshow. Aussi,

Occupied Qatar has been trying to cooperate with America, ie pay for their own occupation, with some bribe Boeings thrown in to boot. But America not merely let but abetted 'Israel' to bomb them, and all the fancy equipment Qatar were worth nought. The master's tools will not dismantle the master's house, as Audre Lorde said, and the master's technology will not protect yours, as Qatar found out. Qatar met with the other satraps of the region, to find out why they're getting slapped with the strap-on so rudely. Even the cowardly “desert Arabs”, whom the Quran said, “Arabs are more stubborn in their denial of truth and hypocrisy, and are the least likely to be aware of the limits which God has revealed to His Messenger. God is all knowing and wise,” even they are reaching their limits now. Saudi Arabia inked a military protection deal with Pakistan, because America's protection racket will just be used to beat them, obviously. The fact is that America already had most of the Middle East cowering, but now they're forcing them to take power, by leaving such a vacuum of sheer vacuousness. These people had already surrendered. Why are you bombing them?

Preoccupied Europe has been bowing to America since World War II, but it's suddenly not low enough. America's going Scarborough Fair on them, they obviously just want to break up. America bombed Germany's pipeline, cut the fake continent off from the actual continent it's in, and they're still asking please sir, may I have another? like absolute idiots. The original colonizers sacrificed their entire economy to the unoriginal colony, and it's still not enough to put White Empire back together again. It's like our Sun (eventually) running out of hydrogen, and outgassing to devour the inner planets, before collapsing into a white dwarf. Europe is already a dead horse, but America wants to flog it all the way to Moscow. And the dimunitive jockies running Europe support their own destruction the most! There's no redeeming these people, though the people of Europe are at least protesting now.

As you can see, across the colonies of White Empire, the natives are restless. As Dr. Richard Wolff said (via Karl Sanchez), “I think what I see is a declining empire no longer able to control huge parts of the world — China, India, Russia, BRICS — and therefore having to eat its own colonies — to savage Canada and Mexico, its major trading partners — doing God knows what kind of damage to those societies.” They are eating the seed corn, as farmers say. America is pushing the limits of its own ‘allies’ natural cowardice, leaving them no choice but independence. It's not that they don't want to bend the knee, but America is demanding appendages that don't exist.

As the Korean President Lee Jae Myung said, “Without a currency swap, if we were to withdraw $350 billion in the manner that the U.S. is demanding and to invest this all in cash in the U.S., South Korea would face a situation as it had in the 1997 financial crisis.” Lee also said, “Reaching detailed agreements that guarantee commercial reasonableness is now the central task — yet it also remains the biggest obstacle.” This is diplomatic speak for, we'd like to bow to these people, but there is a floor we can't physically go beneath. America is increasingly pushing supposed allies to their political and financial limits (moral and honorable limits have already been breached). This is not a sign of an Empire in control, but a devolution eating its children.

I think of this as I think of the suffering children of Gaza, and the elders who must suffer doubly trying to comfort them. It's cold comfort, the course of history, let loose in the Al Aqsa Flood. It's just a landslide to those trapped underneath. Empire is strategically defeated, yes, but tactically it still eats. Like the Germans, who killed more people after they'd obviously lost, the 'Israelis' will continuing genociding long after their defeat is obvious. And an America that loses its horcrux will be a dangerous beast, indeed, already is. The Western news is oblivious to all this, reporting from the past on a future that doesn't include them. But the Middle East is bucking, the Near East (Europe) is past plucking, and the goose that laid the golden eggs is in the pot, no longer clucking. White Empire is acting out so much at the end because it's the end. All the world's a stage, as the Bard said, and they're raging at their part ending.