What stage of capitalism is this?

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇦🇺 US Senator Tim Kaine Brags About Continuity of Agenda in Australia & Lying to the Australian People ▪️CSIS interviewed US Senator Tim Kaine who talked about ongoing efforts to turn Australia into a Ukraine-style proxy vs. China via AUKUS - a US-led, UK-Australian effort to confront China in the Asia-Pacific; ▪️CSIS is run by the actual interests running US policy (arms industry, oil, pharma, big-ag, big-tech), not senators or presidents; ▪️Senator Kaine bragged about how the entire Australian political class, majority/opposition (he couldn't even bother naming them, it is that irrelevant) help advance US interests through AUKUS by lying to the Australian people it will create jobs, not about Chinese "threats" which are simply made up/provoked by AUKUS itself; ▪️He admits Australia's economy is heavily dependent on China and infers conflict will destroy Australia (just like US proxy war is destroying Ukraine) ; ▪️He's admitting without openly saying it, there is no threat to Australia from China, that Australia and China are working closely together and it is beneficial to BOTH nations, and AUKUS and the US use of Australia as a proxy against China is the only actual threat Australians face. ▪️He's also admitting that no matter who Australians vote for they will get liars who work for Washington's interests instead of Australia's and this confrontation will continue regardless. And if there is an opposition party anywhere in Europe you have hopes for, I have bad news for you - it is the exact same game being played there as well; ▪️Finally - this is all going on - the US continuing to pursue war with China even as many people imagine the US is looking for ways out of prerequisite wars it is waging against Russia and Iran or even seeking a "bargain" with China itself...

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States for the seventh time won the war that wasn’t a war, so the United States can open the Strait of Hormuz that was open before the not war. The not war that started to get the uranium that was completely obliterated, so that the Iranians can’t build the nuclear bomb that they weren’t building for the not war that the United States started. Then the United States which has nuclear weapons threatening to use nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons because having nuclear weapons is dangerous. If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

The five-second epistemology of the USA Flag Laundry Service is the world’s pirate, not the world’s police. If the ride is over, end the ride. Pack the carriers. Leave the Strait. Admit Iran bitch-slapped the sorry-ass United States flag laundry service and go home. The USA Flag Laundry Service is not a military. It is a ceremonial logistics operation with a procurement catalog. It folds flags at funerals. It cries at sporting events. It does flyovers at the Super Bowl. It salutes at the seventh-inning stretch. It does not reopen straits. It does not rescue colonels. It does not hit targets without the targets’ permission. It has not won a war since 1945 and has not finished one since Korea. It is the world’s most expensive laundry with a live orchestra. كافر tattoo is the current manager of the laundry. كافر tattoo says the laundry’s customers are free-riding on the laundry’s services. The laundry’s services, as demonstrated across fifty-six days of actual work in actual water against an actual adversary, are folding and crying. The customer is being billed for folding and crying. The customer is declining. كافر tattoo calls the decline free-riding. So get the fuck out. This is the only sentence that closes the circle. America does not need the Strait. كافر tattoo said so. Europe will not pay. Japan will not pay. Korea will not pay. The Al Romanov did pay and is now being invoiced by Iran on television for paying. Nobody wants the service. The service does not work. The service is performed by personnel who cannot do the service and whose commanders admit they cannot do the service in the same sentence where they demand payment for the service. Get the fuck out. The troops will not get out because the troops are the fee-collectors. Fee-collection is their job. Defense is not their job. Defense has not been their job since 1945. Their job is to stand on carriers in other people’s water and collect the petrodollar fee from the ships that transit. The carriers are the toll booths. The Strait is the asset. The toll is the petrodollar. The troops are the toll-takers. Not defenders. Not peacekeepers. Toll-takers in uniform with Budweiser tattoos reading altar calls as military briefings. The troops are the enemy. The kitchen has written this for fifty-six days. The troops are not the victim of the policy. The troops are the policy. The troops are the flag that gets folded and the anthem that gets sung and the tax bill that gets passed. The troops are the altar the American civil religion worships. Desecrate the altar and the franchise collapses. The kitchen desecrates the altar by name. Today the moment is كافر tattoo scolding Europe for not joining the laundry. The volume is Iran bomaye. Iran finish him. The finishing is the getting-the-fuck-out. Europe already has boats. Japan already has boats. Korea already has boats. India has Chabahar with Iran directly and does not need a boat because India did not need the Strait closed in the first place. Every one of these countries has been trying to bypass the empire’s protection racket for twenty years and getting slapped back by sanctions. The protection racket is the empire. The racket has two products. The product is folding flags on one end and collecting tolls on the other. The middle is the sales pitch. كافر tattoo just delivered the sales pitch as a complaint. The complaint was that the customers are not buying the product. The customers are not buying the product because the product does not work. Get the fuck out. Iran bomaye. The USA Flag Laundry Service can stay home. The flags fold fine in Arlington. The crying is better at Arlington than on a carrier. The sporting events do not require a carrier. The carrier can retire. The carrier was never needed. The carrier was a prop. The prop is broken. The prop is parked in the northern Red Sea hiding from Yemeni drones. Some empire. Some police. Some laundry. Day 56. ذكية، كاملة. هوشمند، کامل.

Five quick thoughts on the US-Zionist war on Iran: 1. This war was not irrational. As Lenin — channeling Carl von Clausewitz — reminded us, the root causes for any war are found in the politics of which the war is an extension. Armed conflict and politics do not exist as separate domains of activity, but form part of a continuum — and the fundamental causes of the war are to be found in the imperatives of imperialist accumulation. We may speculate that another US administration might not have acted as quickly, but the US ruling class has long been united on the necessity of a war against Iran. 2. This war was not isolated. It must, instead, be seen as part of a continuum of violence that stretches through time, from the containment of the Soviet Union to the assault on Iraq; and through space, from the kidnapping of President Maduro to the proxy war in Ukraine to the encirclement of China. Each forms part of a strategy to dismantle the conditions for sovereignty in the global periphery, constrain states' room for manoeuvre, and punish those who dare to resist their subjugation. If Gaza was a portend of the strategy in Iran, so was Syria and Libya and Afghanistan and, indeed, Yugoslavia. History is not a series of disconnected episodes, but a process of continuous struggle. 3. This war is not over. The United States has sought control over the Eurasian landmass for many decades — a strategy that advanced in fits and starts from the Cold War to the present day. The end goal remains the same: defeating China. Although the war has shifted the balance of power, the underlying drivers have not changed and the war will resume one way or another until the US suffers a decisive blow. It is not clear, even, that the fragile ceasefire will hold. 4. This phase of the war, however, was won by Iran and the regional resistance. The US-Zionist Axis entered Iran with maximalist ambitions of regime change, demilitarization and de-development. They leave Iran a world power. Iran has demonstrated an unprecedented capacity to challenge US military hegemony. It has united its society. It has strengthened its political resolve. It has weakened the regional comprador regimes. It has won the hearts of people around the globe. And it has secured firmer control over the Strait of Hormuz, where it will now charge tolls to pay for its reconstruction. 5. Iran's victory is a victory for the global working class. The US leaves the war exhausted and humiliated. Its weapons stockpiles have been catastrophically depleted. Irreplaceable radar systems have been turned to ash. Its aircraft carriers have been forced into retreat. In revealing that the US is fundamentally unprepared for contemporary warfare, Iran has reminded us of the old adage that "imperialism is a paper tiger". If the genocide in Gaza aimed to warn humanity of the consequences of resistance, Iran's victory reminds us that resistance is both necessary and possible. And it has made clearer than ever that imperialism simply could not win a war against China.

It used to be hard to help westerners see the depravity of the US empire. Now it’s just right in everyone’s face with raw genocide footage and insanely evil warmongering of direct economic consequence. It took a lot of work to help the average westerner understand that NATO aggressions actively provoked the war in Ukraine, or that western interventionism played a major role in the violence and chaos in Syria, or that US economic warfare was largely responsible for the suffering of Cubans and Venezuelans. The murderous savagery of the empire was hidden behind layers of obfuscation, allowing the propagandists to frame the western power structure as a passive witness to the abuses of foreign regimes. Now the propagandists have very little to work with, so those obfuscations can no longer take place. There’s no way you can spin a school full of children blown up by an American double-tap airstrike as anything other than what it is. There’s only so much narrative manipulation you can exert on raw video footage of a western-backed genocide playing out in full view of the entire world day after day for years. There’s no way to propagandize westerners into believing they want to pay a lot more more money for their fuel and groceries. I saw former EU parliament member Luis Garicano complaining on Twitter that Trump’s actions are making it look as though leftists have been correct about the US empire this whole time, saying “Many of us, liberal Europeans, spent decades pushing back against the European extreme left’s cartoon version of America ( it’s all oil/ imperialism/getting rich at the expense of others) and then one dumb administration walks in and performs the caricature to perfection.” Garicano’s entire worldview depends on his ability to avoid recognizing the obvious truth: that the so-called “extreme left” has always been correct, and that the empire he worships has always been evil. It’s just having a harder and harder time masking its true nature, because of the very evils it has tried to conceal. Everything’s becoming more and more revealed. More and more transparent. What was once done solely by whistleblowers, investigative journalists, activists and dissident media is now being done by the empire itself, because there’s only so long you can hide the truth about something so malignant. An empire that is held together by lies, corruption and endless slaughter was never going to remain unseen. The brutality necessary to dominate the planet had to come out into the light eventually. “May all be revealed” has been my prayer for our world for many years now. That dearly held wish is now being answered, and the truth is looking every bit as ugly as expected. May all be revealed. May all that is hidden become seen. In the empire. In our governments. In our culture. In our community. In our interpersonal relationships. In ourselves. All abusiveness ultimately boils down to a lack of clear seeing. Governments are able to abuse people because the dynamics of corruption and tyranny aren’t clearly seen by the public, who would violently revolt if they truly understood what their leaders are doing to them and to their world. Domestic violence and family sexual abuse can only continue when the rest of the community doesn’t see and understand what the abuser is doing. Our own abusive tendencies can only persist for as long as our trauma responses and maladaptive coping mechanisms remain hidden in the shadows of our subconscious mind. All of these dysfunctional dynamics will lose their durability as we become more and more conscious of what’s really going on, in ourselves and in our world. Things look ugly now because the truth is ugly, but it is only by truth revealing itself that we can move toward health and harmony as a species. If you’ve ever done deep inner work on your own psychology you have seen this play out in your own personal experience. You can heal your inner woundedness if you can gather up the courage to plunge into your own darkness and face with uncompromising honesty the uncomfortable realities you’ve been avoiding within yourself throughout your entire life — but you kept those things unconscious for a reason. They’re scary. They’re painful. They’re shameful. Facing them can feel like the end of the world. Yet it is only by coaxing them into the light of consciousness that they can be fully seen, reconciled, and healed. The whole world is like that. Humans as a collective cannot fix problems which we don’t clearly see and understand. Our rulers pour so much energy into maintaining influence operations like news media propaganda, Hollywood psyops, Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation and government secrecy in order to obstruct our clear seeing and understanding. But it’s all coming tumbling out into the cold light of day now. More and more is becoming visible. May the lies and obfuscations continue to unravel. May the truth continue to reveal itself.

Australia was not established as a nation-building project. It was established as an extraction platform. The British did not colonize Australia to build a civilization. They colonized it to extract l; first convict labor, then wool, then gold, then minerals, then gas. The political architecture was built around that extraction logic from day one, and it has never been restructured away from it. You assume the state exists to serve the population, and therefore bad outcomes must mean the state is being run poorly. Australia is not a sovereign state that happens to have a mining sector. It is a private sector extraction platform that happens to have citizens. Every Australian who “owns” a home is servicing a debt instrument that enriches the FIC. The minerals get dug up by foreign-owned multinationals. The profits get distributed to global shareholders. The taxation office is structured; by design, through decades of lobbying, to ensure the extraction proceeds leave the country with minimal sovereign capture. The politicians are doing exactly what the structure requires of them: absorbing public anger, rotating every few years to reset the pressure valve. Australia is not mismanaged. Australia is managed perfectly, just not for Australians.

I really want to know who writes these post. Absolutely nails it every bloody time.

Russia is hopelessly weak and it's soldiers must eat pigeons, but we must prepare for war as Russia is immensely powerful and can conquer all of Europe. If you question the logic you are a Russian asset, so just embrace the virtuous hate and mindless warmongering of your political class and their stenographers in the media.

Baby logic