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The US is blockading the blockade now. By the Pottery Barn rule, they own it; you block it, you bought it. Iran is saying they'll kill the imperial economy if 'America' doesn't behave and 'America' is saying, ‘hold my beer, I'll kill myself before I grow up.’ This is not just Trump being stupid. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. What we're witnessing is a private equity (White word for oligarchs) bust-out of 'America' and Trump is a businessman.

Dwight Eisenhower called it in 1961, when he said “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” No shit, Sherlock. Except it's not even an industry anymore, it's a bunch of day traders and crypto snakes. John McCain accufessed the true state of the 'States' it when he said, ‘[America] is just a gas station with nukes.’ He was talking about Russia, but if the shoe fits, kick yourself in the ass on the way out. The war and spoils (re: oil) business has eaten 'America's' brain and they've got a nuke pointed at our children saying ‘buy our oil or the school gets it!’ At this point there is no daylight between school shooters and the US government. Just two manifestations of the same tradition. Murder-suicide, planetary edition.

Look on a map and let the reality slap you. 'America' never withdrew after World War II, and the war against the world never stopped, it just stopped really affecting White people. They called these wars ‘Cold’ like their hearts, but it's certainly gotten hot since 9/11, the start of what I call World War III. What's the plot? Same as every night, as the Brain told Pinky. Try to take over the world.

The 9/11 Plan

Hindsight is 20/20, and you really have to go back to 2001 to see how this all went topsy turvy. 'America' actually had a pretty good (evil) plan it just—like most land wars in Asia—went on too long. You didn't get the memo? Well, ten days after 9/11, the gentleman's war criminal Wesley Clark went to the Pentagon and met a guy, “He said this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran.” You can say this is hearsay, but is this not what happened?

The plan was pretty good because with 9/11 the 'USA' created three things. 1) A moral cause ('they' attacked us!) 2) a military that worked and 3) political support. Hell, even Iran offered support after 9/11! What went wrong with the plan is what went wrong with Napoleon's plan and Hitler's plan. Land war in Asia is easy enough to start but nearly impossible to end. If they could have finished seven countries in five years it have been a blitzkrieg, a fait accompli. By the time anybody figured out that 'America' was A) disgustingly immoral B) depreciating militarily and 3) divided internally it would have been too late, and they'd be sitting pretty on all the energy.

However, while they did get through every place on the list, they only got to Iran 25 years later and the opportunity has been lost. Iran now has 1) the moral power (they attacked us!) 2) a military that clowns 'America's' and 3) political support. Hell, many 'Americans' support Iran! Meanwhile, on the 'American' side A) their victim card has expired B) their military has shrunk in the dryer and V) their people and elites are divided.

The Wars of Terror had great marketing—a beardy villain, civilian killings, something to believe in. But fresh off the genocide of Gaza, White Empire are obviously the baddies—even to Whities—and nobody is buying the sequel. The buildup to the Iran War was the release of the Epstein Files revealing their elites as evil pedophiles; they villainized themselves this time. What Trump called Epic Fury everybody else called Epstein Fury and it ain't no lie. Militarily, they're using old or failed technology like aircraft carriers, KC-135 refuelers, or F-35s that immediately got smoked or committed assisted suicide. And politically, this is not the early part of World War III that had wide popular support and where everyone was making money. 'American' elites are pumping and dumping their entire economy while ordinary 'Americans' are suffering at the pump.

This plan might have worked 25 years ago, but it's not working now. It's hard to even call it a plan anymore, it's just a bad idea, reaching its logical conclusion. Honestly, anybody could have known this years ago. Don't start a land war in Asia, let alone half a dozen (Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Iran, I'm sure I forgot one). If you do, don't do a Napoleon or Hitler and retreat too late. At the first sign of trouble, retreat. 'America' could have just stopped trying to take over the world and chill in the America they already took over. Which begs the question, why? Why are they doing such dumb shit, and why can't they change course?

The reasons are twofold. First you need to think like a corporate, not a state, and the second is that you need to understand the inertia of such a big imperial state. I'll tell you why backwards because, as the Backstreet Boys said, I wrote it that way.

Inertia

A ship of state is like a tanker ship. Tankers are slow and ungainly and you can't turn them that quick. Like the Titanic, even if you see an iceberg coming, you're still going to hit it. A tanker ship is also built to do a certain thing. You can't suddenly ask it to pick up the groceries down the road, it'll just crush people to death and fall over. Which is basically what's happening with 'America'.

'America' started as a genocidal unsettler colony and became the head of White Empire after World War II. It was a license to kill, a license to steal, as Henry Hill said, they got to do the 'American' thing the world over. 'America' has always been about taking land, stealing resources, and genociding everything living. Asking it to do something else is like sending an oil tanker to pick up the kids after school. It'll kill the kids and blow up the school, what did you expect?

'America' had some policy planning in the 1980s and maybe 90s but hasn't had an original idea since 2001. The ship of state is running on autopilot. Just look at the braindead wars they start. 'America' has been planning to defeat the USSR since the 1940s and the USSR falling wasn't going to stop them, no sir. Hence they're still attacking Russia, on sheer inertia. America's has been planning to corrupt or coup everybody in the Middle East since the 1950s, and Iran's Islamic Revolution wasn't going to stop them. Notice them still attacking Iran, there's that inertia. America's plan since forever has been to take over the world, and the world taking over wasn't going to stop them. That's why they've crashed their ship of state in the Strait of Hormuz and are still hitting the gas even though they're obviously grounded. There is no other setting. It's full steam ahead and damn the torpedos. 'America's' dumbass course was set decades ago, it's the sheer inertia of imperialism.

Corruption

You have to also consider who (or really what) is running 'America'. You cannot think like a state ('America' was not a people's revolution) but like a corporation (it was all about the Benjamins). The class structure of 'America' was that they always had a political, military caste running things on behalf of the ruling oligarchs. Presidents usually had to have political and military experience, until Bill Clinton broke the military requirement (he was a dodgy draft dodger), and Obama broke the political experience one (he was a state senator from Illinois, until he was made a national senator for one term). Trump is the culmination of this process. He avoided both military and public service his whole life. President was his first political job and Commander-in-Chief has been his first experience of war. Trump is just a transparently transactional businessman, known for running various scams (Trump Steaks, Trump University) and running casinos into the ground. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, and this is closing time for White Empire.

'America' is really being run like a business now. A business that's been taken over by private equity, to be loaded up with debt and gutted. In the classic PE/LBO business model—which is indistinguishable from a mafia 'bust-out'—some oligarchs take over a business, load it up with debt, strip assets, maybe do a bit of insider trading, and then leave it for dead. Often they buy the business by using the business itself as collateral. This leveraged buyout process is really like me telling the bank ‘loan me $5 billion to buy Toys 'R' Us ($6.6 total), don't worry I'm good for it, I'll own Toys 'R' Us in a minute.’ This actually happened. Some oligarchs bought Toys 'R' Us using Toys 'R' Us as collateral, then ran up even more debts in the companies name and killed it off. When they say America is run like a business, this is what they mean. Private equity guys (the White word for oligarchs) have LBO'd the 'United States of America' and are busting it out.

'American' oligarchs were able to buy the 2024 Presidential election for less than a toy store ($5.3 billion) and make their money back many times over. This grifters could make money by just hanging around Mar-a-Lago, figuring out when the tariffs or other tirades were going to happen. They've made tons of money on the volatility alone, before the bombs and oil. But they'll make money on that too. They dropped the old technology on Ukraine, the gravity bombs on Gaza, and everything on Iran. It's a fire sale of the military-industrial complex, everything must go. They do not care about the cost in lives or treasure, they're inanimate corporations, and they're paying for neither.

As an aside, I talk about Trump or oligarchs dismissively because I dismiss them. They're personally irrelevant. Trump started as anti-war, and many of these oligarchs pretend to be decent people. It doesn't matter. As Marx said, “Their own movement within society has for them the form of a movement made by things, and these things, far from being under their control, in fact control them.” Or as Michael Corleone said, “it's not personal Sonny, it's strictly business.”

The corruption of the US government is the system. They legalized corruption and call it 'donations' or 'lobbying' to whitewash what remains dirty laundry. Trump openly uses the US Government like collateral, but this is not just him. Why did Hunter Biden have a board seat in Ukraine, before his dad was president? Why did Janet Yellen (before she was Treasury Secretary) get $7.2 million in speaking fees, from the people she'd be regulating? Corruption is endemic to 'America', they just hide it in their corruption of the English language. They even publish how corrupt they are as if transparency is decency when it isn't. It's just shamelessness, of which Trump is the finest specimen. 'America' is a representative democracy in that sense. Trump represents corruption.

The problem is not Trump as a dodgy businessman (which he is), it's the whole dodgy business model, which elevates a man like Trump as its chief charlatan. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, and we are witnessing the private equitization of 'America'. Hidden oligarchy becomes open oligarchy as they bust the whole place out for spare parts and blood money. You really don't need to be a political scientist to understand 'America'. Just watch Goodfellas. We are witnessing an old-fashioned bust-out of the military-industrial complex. It's actually very simple, once you abandon the idea of principles.

OK So What

Thus the USS 'United States' is a ship that's hard to steer if you try, with captains that are busy unloading shit off the side and not trying. This is a sure way to die, but if you make the right bets on the stock market, falling can feel like flying. America lacks the moral, military, and political wherewithal to fight this World War III, but they also lack the moral, military, and political wherewithal to stop it. They have to proceed. It's last call on the Titanic, and the ice makes the drinks cooler anyways.

Thus 25 years after 9/11, it's revealed that 'America' is Al Qaeda and always was. Al Qaeda was an 'America' proxy in the 1980s and they've given Syria to an Al Qaeda proxy now, but we're supposed to believe that in between Al Qaeda was something foreign. Please. If you believe that, I've got a bridge in Baltimore to sell you. 'America' doesn't even hide behind proxies anymore, they do the terrorism themselves—blowing up buildings and targeting civilians—and the War on Terror is revealed as it always was. A War of Terror, if you can ascribe feelings to colored people.

2001 was the start of a five-year plan to take over the world, but it's 25 years later and the world is taking over now. The US is involved in not one but two land wars in Asia (the classic blunder, second only to dealing with a Sicilian when death is on the line) and trying to start another (with China). It's madness upon madness, but it makes perfect sense if you look at it like an 'American' business. The PE guys feel like a kid in a toy shop—infinite toys to smash, and someone else pays for it.

The last of the realpolitickers like John Mearsheimer are tearing the last of their hair out, but it doesn't matter. He's already bald and this eagle is already plucked. The ship of state can't change course because it's too big, there's too much inertia, and they're too corrupt. US foreign policy is the Titanic and its leaders are the Pirates of the Caribbean.