Back up 50,000 miles and squint at planet Earth, and it should be pretty clear that just about all of the political conflicts and crises that preoccupy us at the moment spring from the desperate death grip that the most powerful industry the world has ever known exerts on our society and our leadership.
That oligarchy of international businessmen, autocrats, thugs, clerics, traitors, criminals and gangsters has, for the last several decades, been using increasingly powerful means of persuasion to tighten its grip on the Republican Party, and that process is nearly complete.
Simon Rosenberg in the Hopium Chronicles:
The GOP’s Stalling of Aid to Ukraine/Israel Is Emboldening Iran-Russia – Iran is in a military alliance with Russia, and is backing Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine. Iran supports Hamas and Hizbollah’s genocidal ambitions, and provided the backing that has made Hamas’ ongoing attack on Israel possible. Iran is a leader of OPEC, which has continually raised oil prices, helping fuel global inflation. Iran backs the Houthi rebels, who have been attempting to disrupt global shipping traffic, with the goal of re-igniting global inflation and distracting the US and the West from defending Ukraine on behalf of its partner Russia. Republicans are blocking funding to Ukraine and Israel, who are on the front lines of these conflicts, signaling American weakness, and encouraging Russian-Iranian escalation. It’s almost as if Republicans want Russia-Iran to prevail against the US, the West, Ukraine and Israel; as if they are not on America’s side any more.
You left out rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers….
You quote this (apparently approving of it) “as if Republicans want Russia-Iran to prevail against the US, the West, Ukraine and Israel; as if they are not on America’s side any more”
Why do you think there is any connection with climate change/ global warming / catastrophic climate breakdown, and trying to oppose the money forces delaying effective response to it, and the objectives of (1) USA Inc., (2) ‘the West’ (NATO?) (3) the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, (4) the conflict between the state of Israel and the Palestinians? What is benign about supporting the interests of USA?
It is in the interests of the whole planet that Russia’s fossil fueled ambitions are stopped in Ukraine, as they have already made it clear that other countries in Europe are next. History is rife with examples of appeasement failing to stop dictators.
there is no climate benefit to encouraging the global fossil fuel oligarchy, and this is precisely what we are confronted with in Ukraine – the military wing of the international fossil fuel establishment.