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the authoritarian power grab by a corrupt US pres is weakening US power around the world.
after the two world wars, an agreement was made by civilized societies to end and also prevent annexation of land by imperialistic fascist regimes. Yet Putin does.
D-Day June 06 1944, German liberation from Nazi dictatorship. D-Day, or the Normandy landings, refers to the Allied invasion of France, which marked the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.
22 Jun 2025 Trump bombed Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, no briefing to Congress.
28 Feb 2025 Trump clashed with Zelenskyy in a meeting at the Whitehouse, abandoned Ukraine.
US Foreign policy?! pro Russia, pro Israel - ?Gaza, ?Ukraine, ?Iran
support Israel's occupation of Gaza, and its use of hunger as a weapon against the people.
support Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and its bombing of civilian infrastructure.
support Israel's attack on Iran, and bombed Iran's nuclear facilities.
the United States' global reputation has suffered enormously, and it will suffer further if Washington supports a policy that clearly violates not only international law, but also its own. The perceived hypocrisy regarding U.S. condemnation of Russia's invasion and blockade of Ukraine has also weakened the country's ability to support Ukraine - and the principle of nonaggression around the world. foreignpolicy.com
disgraced US president put US military on US streets
US pres put US military on US streets
military stunt against his enemies, Blue states.
pres federalized California National Guard troops to Los Angeles, California in June, 2025. Next to Washington, DC., August, 2025.
child rapists near Epstein
this is corruption, predation, and exploitation, child rapists. child sex trafficking. Believe the girls.
Epstein was a friend of Donald Trump. Jeffrey Epstein was a child sex offender, arrested in 2008, and later in 2019 on charges of federal sex trafficking of minors, related to the alleged sexual exploitation and abuse of minors in Florida and New York between 2002 and 2005, involving dozens of victims. He pleaded not guilty to these new charges and was awaiting trial when he died in jail in August 2019.
child abuse and trafficking. What about the victims?
healthcare cuts to US citizens. concentration camps for non-white immigrants.
Trump impeachment
2019 Trump impeachment 1.0. started with his extortion operation against President Zelenskyy of Ukraine on a phone call 25 Jul 2019. Trump pressured Zelenskyy to do him a favor in exchange for releasing foreign aid to Ukraine. Trump used his office, in the 2020 election, to solicit interference from a foreign country. It is illegal to ask foreign entities for help in winning a US election.
2021 Trump impeachment 2.0. Trump incited the attack on the Capitol in Washington, D.C. On 13 Jan 2021, the House impeached him for incitement of insurrection.
2025: Trump disgraced himself again in the Oval Office with another shakedown of President Zelenskyy in a mineral rights for a peace deal with Putin. On Friday, 28 Feb 2025 Trump clashed with Zelenskyy at a meeting, on live TV. The mistreatment of our foreign ally was disrespectful. Trump acted like a thug in the Oval Office exercising brutal leverage on our ally.
2025: after 3 years of war, Trump halted military aid to Ukraine after a spat with Zelenskyy at the White House in the Oval Office Fri 28 Feb 2025.
the comparison to any president is degrading. A consolidated Europe, plus the $350 billion in seized Russian assets, can do alot of good.
Putin attacked Ukraine.
occupation of Gaza in the State of Palestine.
US B-2 bombers attacked Iran's underground nuclear sites. Trump couldn't bust a bunker with a bunker buster.
global population
global population is 8.2 billion. As the global population grows to 9 billion by midcentury will there be enough food and water?
| 2025 | |
|---|---|
| India | 1.463B |
| China | 1.416B |
| US | 347M |
| global human population | |
global peace
it is urgent to rebuild a global peace movement opposed to all military alliances and the ongoing massive increases in defense budgets.
Council on Foreign Relations. anti-muslim hate is surging in America.
Center for Strategic and International Studies.
US budget
expenditures in the US federal budget
$4.1T FY2018, the United States federal govt spent $4.1 trillion, up $127 billion. Spending increased for all major categories and was mainly driven by higher spending for Social Security, net interest on the debt, and defense a.k.a. military spending.
attempts to return to the same approach would align with the popular definition of insanity.
AR-15
30-round mag
in a civil society people don't shoot people. The AR-15 is a combat rifle. It is designed to kill. If u have an AR-15 with a 30-round mag then u r hunting people.
"I've hunted for 60 years and I've never had to shoot 17 deer at once."
"It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness in unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting our high technology from weaponry to livingry." Buckminster Fuller
US border patrol
it is not clear to the little girl...
policy of US military spending vs public transportation, affordable housing, and universal healthcare.
US Defense budget
FY fiscal year 2024 Defense budget of $825B in total funding. FY 2025 budget request of $849B provides 4.5% raise for service members.
FY 2022 the NDAA authorized $768B in defense spending. Compare a 1 year budget vs. over a 10 year span for Biden's Build Back Better $2trillion.
US armored vehicles around the world
when it comes to national security policy, the US has been on a steady hypermilitarized arc for decades.
US is the best military brand in the world. US armored vehicles, tanks and Javelin anti-tank missiles, aircraft and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, artillery like howitzers, and tactical Switchblade drones, as well as ammunition. see US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
F-35 is an $80M fighter jet with 2 $1M JASSM cruise missiles (joint air to surface standoff missiles) this missile has a 450kg/1000lb armor piercing warhead, and 2 LRASM long range anti-ship missiles, and 2 AIM-9X air-to-air combat missiles on its wings, and a 25mm gun for enhanced air-to-ground capabilities: close-range, high-rate-of-fire weapon.
Iran
Iran State oppression and civil unrest and protests. Iran security forces are targeting schoolgirls to put an end to the mass anti-regime protests.
Afghanistan
7 Oct 2001, in retaliation to the 9/11 terror attacks in America 1300 U.S. troops were deployed to Afghanistan.
Afghanistan and Iraq war costs are estimated to be $2 trillion. See chart pgpf.org Peter G. Peterson Foundation
good luck trying to get translators for your next war if you cannot be trusted to keep your promises to local allies.
American conservatives assumed that military power would enable the U.S. to accomplish a radical idealogical agenda, particularly in the Middle East. neocon neoconservatism described the thinking of aggressive foreign policy through military might, and made the strident case for U.S. global military dominance, and open-ended wars. That effort to force liberal democracies on other cultures and countries proved to be a costly failure. see Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, President George W. Bush.
ISIL vs. affiliates, al-Qaeda vs. Taliban
Sunni-Shia conflict as well as the intra-Sunni conflict.
ISIL was formed by defectors from al-Qaeda in 2014 in Syria who then attacked their parent organisation and its Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra. ISKP was formed primarily by defectors from the Taliban in both Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2015, who then went on to attack the Afghan branch. In both cases, the defectors considered their former organisations not extreme enough or not committed enough to attack fellow Sunnis, who they considered deviants, or Shia Muslims.
the threat of ISKP in Afghanistan Aljazeera Aug 2021
Taliban Afghanistan
Taliban before U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: open-bed Toyota trucks, primary weapon: AK-47, that the Russians left behind.
Taliban after U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: brand-new .50 Cal turret mounted Humvee armored vehicles: high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle (HMMWV), primary weapon: M4, that the U.S. left behind.
US sent a drone into Iraq
US sent a drone into Iraq to kill a Hezbollah general, Wed 7 Feb 2024. see Israel, Lebanon, and Iran.
NATO
NATO map select NATO MEMBERS in left nav or Active layers in lower right.
Michael McFaul, fmr. US Ambassador to Russia. see article in journalofdemocracy.org
read Peter Strzok, Compromised
no gun left behind
the US M4/M4A1 5.56mm carbine service rifle, is a lightweight, gas-operated, direct impingement, shoulder fired weapon and a 30 Rd mag capacity. The short barrel, 14.5 inch barrel length with built-in accessory rail, and telescoping stock, provides soldiers operating in close quarters with improved handling and the capability to rapidly and accurately engage targets at extended range, day or night. The M4 has a maximum range of 600 m, rate of fire of 700-950 rpm, muzzle velocity of 2,900 fps. The trigger unit of the M4A1 is modified to fire full-auto instead of the 3-round burst in the M4.
Noam Chomsky chomsky.info
US democracy
it seems the Republican platform is against a multiracial democracy.
US domestic terrorism
there is an escalating domestic terrorism problem in the United States.