What defines White Empire is not so much capitalism but corruption. At the core, within America, corruption is legal. At the semi-periphery, in Europe and the colonies, it's banal. And at the periphery, it's just venal. Western politicians are openly bought and sold, whereas peripheral leaders get overthrown until they're on the same operating system. In this sense, leaders like Netanyahu (on trial for corruption) and Zelensky (should be) are not aberrations in the system. They are the whole operation. White Empire rules by corruption.

When Empire talks about spreading free markets, that's what they mean. They want to buy your politicians. When they talk about democratic values, that's what they mean, they want to good valuation on your democracy, to private equity it. Then they can get loot you for resources, labor, and migrants, or just turn the whole country into a shooting range as they please. This is not particularly new in the history of empires. Every empire wants a nice, pliable satrap or vassal, and if they ain't nice, the empire gets mean.

What's new is the marketing. Ye olde empires openly demanded soil and water, taxes and tribute, and soldiers as needed. It was a pretty transparent exchange. In exchange, the vassal got imported goods, titles and trinkets, and education for their children (ie, hostages). You can see how White Empire does the same thing, just more obscurely. It demands property and international property rights, interest payments that can exceed government spending, and soldiers and military basing. See NATO, with a 5% tax on its members. This ain't protection, it's a protection racket. In exchange, vassals like these got semiconductors and guns, titles like ‘Secretary General’, and education and opportunities for their children. The semi-periphery (like Europe) has more of its own stuff, but for the periphery like where I live, this is a big deal. We miss the point that we could have this stuff on our own if the Empire wasn't stealing from us, and thank them for crumbs. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

I call White Empire White Empire to spare myself a mouthful of commas listing Europe and all the cucks and colonies along with America, but also because—like the color white—it blends into the background. That's the whole marketing, no empire to see here, just helping out. Whereas other empires made a big show about being the big kahuna—demanding visible tributes of soil and water—this empire likes to hide in the background, claiming that an invisible hand is actually running things. But of course it isn't, their finger is on the scale and their hand at your throat if you get too independent. Ask even Australia, couped in 1975. Ask Japan, whose nuts they clipped with the Plaza Accords, or Germany, whose energy pipeline they just cut. I don't know where you are, but ask yourself. Are you in a real country at all?

What binds this empire together is not open fealty but closeted corruption. The last British Prime Minister just cycled back into employment at Goldman Sachs, and the former Deputy Prime Minister went into PR at Facebook, reminding us of the oligarchs that actually run the shack that was once the seat of White Empire. The once vaunted British Premiership is now just an internship for more important corporate jobs. This is of course the banal corruption of Europeans, a dodgy contract there, a little Pfizergate there, just business as usual for the usual suspects. Table stakes really, the great game has moved elsewhere.

The more venal corruption, meaning the more violent and brazen, is around the peripheral nations. All the color revolutions overthrowing governments, all the ‘conflicts’ that erupt, and all the bombing campaigns and funding of extremists (so people divide and conquer themselves). The visible signs of this invisible corruption are terrorism increasing by triple digits when America went to Africa to ‘fight’ it, heroin production exploding in Afghanistan when America went there to ‘right’ it, et cetera. As the Quran says, quite rightly, “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.”

To return to our rogues du jour, Netanyahu and Zelensky, these obviously corrupt men are marketed not to their own people (who know them too well) but to the imperial core. They are marketed as paragons of democracy and freedom, fighting the good fight so you don't have to. It's just marketing for the same old imperial imperializing. Get some satrap to do your dirty work, and to take the blame when it inevitably gets dirty. I had no idea what they were doing, the Empire says at some later date, after the cheques have cleared and some other country is in ruins.

Hence the marketing campaign to Americans is always that Zelensky is asking for money or we're helping Netanyahu, but follow the money, not the media. Most of the money cycles back into third houses and second yachts for the genteel ghouls of Bethesda, Maryland. The Beltway Bandits ride again. This ain't their first radio, as Ghani, or Diệm, or Park, could tell you. They've propped up numerous paragons of democracy, in order to tear down their countries behind the scenese. As Scarface said, “You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie.” Ain't it the truth, from the eponymous bad guy.

What Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex is actually relatively simple. Make money by selling things. But America really makes its money by selling dreams. America made its bones in World War II, and figured war was good for business. So they kept attacking the world in the ‘Cold’ War, and then in the War [of] Terror, and other rebrandings of the same old imperialism addiction. What's actually complex is the corruption complex that surrounds all this militarizing, to make it hide in plain sight, surrounded by fake countries. There's a complex web of corruption propping up a semi-periphery of what look like real countries (Japan, Germany, UK, all bullshit) and a periphery that looks like a real mess, requiring constant ‘intervention’. It's the perfect crime, and they almost got away with it too, as Scooby Doo villains said, if not for those pesky kids.

Remember that corruption is what defines White Empire in the end. Not capitalism, per se, but a corruption that is increasingly on the nose and barely hidden. But this corruption, of course, goes both ways. One cannot stare too long into the abyss, what goes around comes around, et cetera. America's military is now too corrupt to fight grown-ups, their media is too corrupt to fool the people, and their politicians are too corrupt to even rape grown-ups, flying the Lolita Express into oblivion instead. Corruption works as long as it's insidious and White Empire worked best when long as it was invisible, but neither condition holds anymore. The center cannot hold, things fall apart, and so on. The corruption is increasingly obvious and the Empire is increasingly preposterous. It lumbers on in the news, but historically, they're done. Not soon enough for the people of Gaza, but sooner than we thought because of the people of Gaza, God bless them.

Empire has now lost military control of the periphery, deindustrialized the semi-periphery (Europe) in a blind fury, and are just one big market crash away from collapsing centrally. As Hamas founder Sheikh Yassin said in 1999, before they blew him out of his wheelchair, “Any entity founded on injustice and plunder is destined to be destroyed.” He was talking about 'Israel' (DOA by 2027), but that's really the final horcrux of White Empire. The Carbon Crusaders won't be long for the world once they lose Jerusalem (inshallah).

You could say they were brought down by their own corruption, but power concedes nothing without a demand. They were taken down, in the end, by the Yassin-105s of Sheikh Yassin's orphan army, rebellion all across Asia, and everyone else just moving on without them. As the Quran also says, “Had it not been for God’s repelling some people by means of others, the earth would have been filled with corruption. But God is bountiful to mankind.” So godspeed to the Resistance and God damn the Empire. They spread corruption in the land and called it peace, but soon (not soon enough) they'll be deceased. I won't say Rest In Peace, cause they never gave us any. Rest In Piss.