How The White Empire Besieges The World
Siege warfare is bad, indeed, one of the worst kinds of warfare. Sieges are directed against entire populations, hitting the weakest (children, elderly, the sick) the very worst. They are a curse, but their invocation has become normal simply by changing words. The White word for sieges is sanctions, and since World War II never ended, they've become de rigueur.
Remember that the victors write the history and it must be rewritten as they're losing. Know, then, that the White Empire never withdrew its troops after World War II and never stopped besieging its enemies most brutally. Sanctions (the White word for sieges) have caused nearly 40 million deaths since the 1970s alone, destabilized countless countries, and caused untold suffering. Siege warfare by another name would still reek, and that's all these sanctions be. You don't even have to dig through history, it's happening presently.
The brave people of Gaza have been under siege not just since the ghetto rebellion of October 7, 2023, but since Hamas was democratically elected in 2006 and less effectively for all of 'Israel's' brief and miserable history. This is backed up by American and European gunboats in lieu of diplomacy. As the late, great Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said, pointing out how White Empire revealed itself around the fake state of 'Israel',
The United States hurriedly despatched aircraft carriers and other pieces of their naval fleet. The US top brass, generals, military experts went running to the area to open the strategic weapon depots for the Israelis. From the very first days, Israel demanded new weapons, new missiles from the United States. From the first day, Israel demanded ten billion dollars. Is it a strong state, an invincible army, as claimed? A state the requires this amount of US and Western support?
As Nasrallah also pointed out long ago, 'Israel' was placed there to divide and conquer the oil-rich region by cunningly deporting Jews from Europe to their final ghetto, to serve as imperial stormtroopers generations hence. The White Empire needs to keep the region fucked up to frack the oil and that's precisely what 'Israel' does. Any independent nations in the region (Iraq, Libya, Syria) have been systematically besieged (re: sanctioned) and then bombed to smithereens. As the Quran said presciently, “When they are told, ‘Do not cause corruption in the land,’ they say, ‘We are only promoters of peace,’ but it is they who are really causing corruption, though they do not realize it.”
The massive civilian devastation in America's Terror Wars (nearly 5 million dead and 40 million displaced) is not collateral damage. What they've brazenly called ‘strategic bombing’ since firebombing and nuking civilians in World War II is now the entire strategy. Sanctions are just an extension of these attacks on civilians. Again, remember that sanctions is just the White word for sieges! As Richard Nixon said in the 1970s, when they sanctioned socialist Chile into destruction, the goal was to “make [Chile’s] economy scream.” As a State Department memo in the 1960s said about Cuba, “every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba,” by “denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” This is all via Jason Hickel, as is the ≈40 million calculated death toll above.
They don't even count the dead in these sieges just as the genocide of the Americas is uncounted because, as Michael Jackson said, they don't really care about us. The only thing that counts is feeding nations and natural resources into the Capitalist AI's mouth that actually runs the place. Strategy is perhaps putting too fine a point on it here, we are witnessing algorithmic damage from corporations that do not care and squeeze nations until oil and blood come out. Perceiving only the metabolism of money, they cannot really understand that they're what we call evil. In the Corporate AI's mind, they're just eating. And there are enough evil people that will feed their own and other people into the machine. But I digress into unnecessary theory. Let's get back to sieges.
Before World War II, besieging a country and stopping trade with it was considered an act of war because that's what it was. But the imperial ‘they’ simply stopped declaring war after World War II, though they kept doing it plenty. The USSR and any communist (re: independence) movement was besieged de rigueur and bombed regularly. Cuba and North Korea are still besieged to this day. The US prevented medical equipment from going to Cuba during COVID and life-saving equipment to Syria after an earthquake, that's how deep and depraved these sieges are, hidden behind the White-washing word ‘sanctions’.
But what difference is it to a dead child if they were killed by a ‘barbaric’ siege or bureaucratic sanctions? The barbarians at least get tired at some point and leave, but the distant Americans and Europeans in the backseat with a toy wheel will make sure your grandchildren don't get medicine. They're that fucking mean, and they besiege even meaning with bullshit words like ‘sanctions’ to mean bloody sieges. It is only now, that we witness actual decolonization the only way it happens (“red-hot cannonballs and bloody knives” as Fanon said) that the global siege is breaking. Along with the fever that made it disappear into non-meaning. It is only now that the White Empire has sanctioned itself into a corner that we can, perhaps, see. Still, most sleep on this issue, perchance to American dream. Sanctions are just the White word for sanctions, and the global siege by White Empire is real.
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