I call America a luxury terrorism force because that's what they are. The last time the USA was able to conscript a citizen army was over 50 years ago (Vietnam). The last time they were able to field a debt slave army was over 20 years ago (Iraq). Their last times are upon them, surely. What was once an imperial army is now blowing up hospitals, failing to blow up bridges, and losing to men in the field. I call this luxury terrorism because this empire isn't expansive anymore, it's just expensive.

Make no mistake, the White Empire is behind the violence from Ukraine and 'Israel'. In Ukraine, European and American agents are directing random attacks on bridges and nuclear sites behind the lines. This is done for the media coverage (like terrorism) and not for any military gain. In Gaza, UK overflight and American oversight bomb hospitals, assassinate journalists, and massacre civilians. This is done to conduct a genocide, not a war, and the forces against them (shout-out Hamas) are still firing. What is all this? It's just luxury terrorism, if you presume that non-white people are capable of feeling terror.

What does it mean, when conventional armies openly act like terrorists, and those condemned as terrorists act like conventional armies? It means not that the Empire is strong, it means precisely that they are weak. Remember that terrorism is a weapon of the weak. Note here that I don't categorically condemn terrorism. They say that war is politics by other means and I say that terrorism is war by other means, it's all a continuum of being mean. White Empire has trademarked and co-opted terrorism for itself, but it started and remains, fundamentally, a weapon of the weak. Political forces that cannot assert themselves diplomatically or militarily will assert themselves terroristically. That's what I mean.

To use an example I'm familiar with (quite unreliably as a Sinhala Buddhist), Tamil politicians in Sri Lanka were banned from diplomatically asserting separatism in Parliament. Tamil Eelam as a non-state was unable to assert itself militarily, and therefore many youth groups asserted themselves terroristically. The LTTE eliminated most of those groups, asserted a monopoly on violence, and did some obviously terrorist things (killing monks and villagers, mass assassinations, basically inventing modern suicide bombing). This was, however, a means to an end, a tactic, not a strategy.

Near the end, the LTTE fielded conventional military formations (like an air force) and was able to hit military targets (like the Anuradhapura air base). The end goal was always diplomatic acceptance (and political existence). As you can see, terrorism can be a means to an end, not just endless cruelty. Insurgents might use terrorism when they're weak, militarism when they're stronger, and then politics when they can stand on their own feet. But no insurgent is trying to be a terrorist forever. They're trying to accomplish something politically. Violence is a ladder, and terrorism is the rung closest to the bottom. Now can you see?

Inverting the insurgents manual, White Empire is falling down the escalation ladder. They have failed at diplomacy, flailed around militarily, and downscaled into terrorism. They're massacring civilians gathering for food, drone striking children going for water, assassinating journalists, and blowing up hospitals and apartment buildings. They used to command history, but now this is all they can do to make the news, like petty terrorists trying to get their demands on the TV.

The White Empire is going precisely the wrong way down the ladder of power, failing, flailing, and ultimately bailing on political hegemony. This is easy to miss because the violence is so emotionally evocative (this is the point of terrorism), but the Empire has lost power dramatically. Remember that they've lost a naval battle in the Red Sea, a land battle in the Ukraine, and air supremacy over their conscript colony ('Israel'). Their conventional military power has been defeated in the field, the history is already written. All that's left is petty terrorism on the way down the ladder, base colonialism on muscle memory.

That's why I call the White Empire a luxury terrorism force. It is what it be. Empire is reduced a few squirrely and cowardly CIA and MI6 forces embedded with proxy armies, blowing up this bridge here and assassinating this journalist there. And they spend billions doing what a real insurgent force would do for basically free. Their heart isn't in it, and they're braindead. They often fail at basic terrorism (still can't blow up the Crimea bridge), and even when they succeed, it accomplishes nothing politically. Russia is undeterred, Yemen is undeterred, and even completely surrounded Palestine has not bent the knee. Meanwhile the whole world is horrified at the livestreamed terrorism. They're offending their supporters and motivating their enemies. This is not a winning strategy.

If political solutions don't work and military solutions don't work, luxury terrorism just makes you look like a geopolitical jerk. It's the weapon of the weak, wielded by what's supposed to be the strongest Empire on earth, which makes you question the whole proposition more than reassert it. This widely-advertised luxury terrorism campaign both shows that the empire is falling, and firmly establishes that it should. Which I assume was not the intention.

The fact is that this empire can no longer impose its will on anyone and has lost control of the narrative almost completely. White Empire can no longer command its own citizens into war, it can no longer wrangle debt slaves to do it for them, and its proxies are falling one by one. They have to resort to luxury terrorism to stay relevant and malevolent, but this is expensive more than expansive, and defective more than effective. They can terrify people, yes, but they can't turn that into political power, which is the point of any political violence. This luxury terrorism is just pointless.

In the dirty business of war you can say that terrorism has its place, but you're supposed to start there and proceed through conventional cruelty to conventional power apace. White Empire is going backwards through this process. It'd be like finding the Sacklers selling crack on the street, when they had such a good scam going legally. Things would have obviously gone badly for them. So it is with Empire, reduced to massacring refugees and car bombing Moscow.

White Empire's luxury terrorism is not a sign that they're coming up again in a new reincarnation (regrouping white supremacy in Australia or some shit, after the loss of Europe in WWII and America in WWIII). No it's a sign of their historical judgment day. Terrorism is the weapon of the weak, and what came in as a lion is going out with a sadistic squeak.