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  • I also believe that a nuclear arms race would have catastrophic consequences for the world, but unfortunately, Russia, Israel, and the US are making it all too clear that international treaties are, sadly, worthless.

    Right now, it would be important to find diplomatic solutions and return to a peaceful, international dialogue, but I fear that this is simply not possible with the unscrupulous despots at the helm of these powerful countries. They believe that international law does not apply to them and want to establish the law of the jungle as the sole premise of world politics - they commit the most horrific war crimes and apparently believe they have the right to terrorize the world simply because they can. As long as their heinous crimes go unpunished and these monsters remain at the helm of their countries, I fear that the world must arm itself to avoid becoming their next victim.





  • Yes, that’s true, but what I mean is that there are certainly good reasons why the US, despite decades of hostility, has never waged a direct war of aggression against Iran.

    I also consider it a foregone conclusion that Israel is now exerting its influence on this corrupt regime to finally bring about this war. I’m more inclined to think that Trump would likely have actively instigated it himself, even though competent military advisors - who undoubtedly still exist in the US even under this administration - would have advised against it for the same reasons they quite clearly did under all previous administrations - this incumbent president, however, is so incredibly unscrupulous that he would have ignored all warnings and tasked his own lackeys with the planning, as he would have felt his narcissistic hubris wounded if anyone had contradicted him.

    This seems to me to have happened in the current situation as well: Presumably, competent generals advised him against implementing Israel’s plan, and presumably he fired or ignored them for that very reason, which is why schools and hospitals are now being bombed and the world is sinking into chaos.





  • What makes you think that a Supreme Court that has ruled that the US president is effectively above the law would make any decision that is compatible with a democratic constitution - this decision is certainly not compatible with any democratic constitution in any country that I am aware of.

    The rest of what I describe has little to do with the legal system, because ICE already exists in the form described.

    Again, I should point out that I am from Europe and this is merely my opinion, but against the backdrop of recent events, I cannot see how anyone can still have any faith left in the US legal system. To me, it seems more like an accomplice that enables organized crime on this absurd scale in the first place, rather than a system that serves the good of the people.


  • I’m not entirely sure what you’re getting at, but I can assure you of one thing: the status quo in the US is currently miles away from what an autocracy is. If you lived in one, you would have to fear for your life just because of these social media comments. And I mean that seriously: Palantir is just as much a thing in the US as the Patriot Act - if this country finally falls to fascism, every opposition, every dissident will be mercilessly wiped out. How that will play out is already evident today in the closest ally of the US, also a fascist regime: namely, Israel.


  • There is no doubt that the US has been an oligarchy for several decades. However, an autocracy is a different thing, because in such a system, the oligarchs enforce their power through brute force.

    An example that is not very far from the US in this regard is Russia: this country is ruled by a tiny elite, as has long been the case in the US, but this elite no longer even pretends that the people they oppress have any choice. Anyone who opposes the system simply disappears, and I think it is precisely this total power that US billionaires are now claiming for themselves. In other words, I think the US oligarchs have now realized that no one is stopping them - and they will use this to abolish even the illusion of democracy.


  • I think the Supreme Court was just a means to an end. The establishment of an autocracy, however, will essentially be achieved through ICE, an agency that was introduced under Bush Jr. and now serves as a secret police force with exclusive loyalty to the head of the fascist conspiracy. To me this seems obvious by now, given that this agency operates beyond the law and even executes people in the open street. Another very obvious indication is its astronomical budget, which is equivalent to the military spending of a medium-sized country, or, in US terms, more than the cumulative budget of all other federal US-agencies such as the FBI, CIA, etc.

    Please note: This is nothing more than my opinion as a reasonably interested observer from afar.


  • For the Attorney General, an incredible amount of what Bondi is doing is absolutely illegal.

    As a lawyer, she is of course aware of this, but she does it anyway because she has no other choice anymore.

    In a constitutional state, she would undoubtedly be sentenced to life imprisonment for all her crimes, because what she is doing is in fact high treason.

    However, like the rest of this administration, she seems to assume that the rule of law no longer exists, which is indeed the case under this regime.

    So I think: The blantant criminals who are in charge in the US not only will, but must establish an autocracy, following failed states like Russia, for example, because otherwise they will go to prison. This would be the logical consequence of a new, democratically elected government, even in a legal system as corrupt as that of the US – the people would quite rightly demand at least some consequences, and leaders like Bondi are not nearly influential enough to undermine the rule of law in the way that the current president is doing.

    However, this is merely my assessment as a European - perhaps I am underestimating the degree to which the obviously absurdly corrupt political system in the US is undermining fundamental democratic functions. So maybe people like Bondi could somehow still get away with their crimes under new administration.