Introduction

For the record, no this is not some grand return where I’m going back to writing essays on a weekly basis. This probably will be the only post I make for the entire year or possibly indefinitely. However, I felt like it wasn’t right to end the blog as Israel-Hamas War started when I posted my last article. The reason why I felt this way is because the state of Israel and the Middle East in general has played such a major role in American foreign policy in the last 20 years and has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives. And how US elites from both parties were trying to beat the drums of war. I thought it was not right to stay silent. When I first started writing this back in November of 2023, I mostly did this to practice my writing skills. However, after talking to a couple of friends, I decided to publish this in hopes of furthering anti-war sentiment and hopes of avoiding another Middle Eastern War and possibly a World War. Just note that some of these essays may have some dated info here and there as I was writing at the time these events were developing but it should not be too terrible and there is still much use in them. I have also written some essays that are not about the war in Gaza or the War on Terror as I had some thoughts I wanted to share but the vast majority of these essays are about the war and everything surrounding it. This collection of essays is over a hundred pages long and I know it won’t be read by many but the few friends and comrades that do read them I hope these essays will be useful to you and will possibly be one last gift to you all.

-Signed Albino Squirrel

November of 2023 Essays

The Contradictions of Christian Zionism

Christian Zionism is a big thing among American Evangelical Christians, they believe the modern state of Israel was given to the Jews by God himself and that the land is only for them. There is also a belief that the state of Israel will bring about the end times and that the state of Israel is an ally to Christians. However, this is both theological, historically, and politically wrong. In fact, the theological part can be so easily debunked by the fact that it was the Jewish Pharisees who had Jesus Christ killed and helped the Romans persecute the early Christians and that Jesus Christ died for all people’s sins regardless of whether they were ethnically Jewish or Gentile as long as they were believers in Christ and his teachings they would go to heaven. Religious Jews on the other hand with the exception of Messianic Judaism which most Jewish religious organizations like Central Conference For American Rabbis do not consider to be a part of Judaism. Religious Jews in general do not believe in Jesus Christ as God and consider him a false Messiah. Christian Zionism or Dispensationalism is not an idea that Christians have held onto since the beginning but in fact is a new idea that has only been around for 200 years compared to other Christian ideas and beliefs that have been around for over 1000.  Of course, more needs to be stated to get the point across. This will be broken down into two sections theological and political.

Theological

Let us first start with the Old Testament since this is where most Christian Zionists begin their arguments in support of their claims. They argue that God’s promise to Abraham in the book of Genesis 12, 15, and 17 about the land of Israel belonging to him and his descendants, with Christian Zionists claiming that this promise applies to modern Israel.  However, Israel despite having some sizeable religious parties is officially a secular state. This confuses some Christian Zionists and non-Zionists alike as they do not understand that being Jewish is also an ethnicity and does not require one to be a follower of Judaism. The main qualifier for Israeli citizenship is their Jewish heritage, not their religion. Even if Israel was a religious state it does not change the fact that the Christian view of Israel and who the chosen people were fulfilled and changed with Jesus. In Galician 3:16  ‘Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.” Followed up in Galicians 3:28 “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” All this means that God’s promise to Abraham was fulfilled by Christ. We can also not forget what Jesus said to Roman governor Pontius Pilate in John 18:36 “My Kingdom is not of this world.” This means God’s kingdom is not tied to a territory or a race but something beyond this world and that all regardless of race or sex can be saved and go to this kingdom.

Even if we were to go back to the Old Testament when the Jews were still technically God-chosen people and gave Israel to them, God still punished them and took Israel away from them when they strayed from God like in Psalm 78:10 – 11, Psalm 78:59-62,  2 Kings 17:7-8, and Jeremiah 32:30. Of course, Christian Zionists also fail to realize that even some religious Jews like the ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta don’t support Israel because they believe that the holy land cannot be re-established until the Mashiach comes and that Zionists have fallen for the sin of pride believing that they can usher in this state without God. The Chief Rabbi in Iran Yehuda Gerami is also very critical of Israel and many reform Jews across the globe are too like the Jews Against Zionism organization and the American Council for Judaism.

It can also not be ignored that both Jews and Christians mistrusted one another for centuries. Christians saw Jews as being responsible for the death of Christ and Jews considered the Christians and other Gentiles as being idolatrous. As stated earlier Jewish religious leadership killed Jesus and helped persecute the disciples and other early Christians. And Christians persecuted Jews in the Crusades and the Inquisition.  While there has been no doubt more dialogue and understanding between Jews and Christians in recent times this is not a purely Jewish Christian thing but is also the same with other religious groups like Muslims and Hindus. In the case of Muslims also had conflicts with Jews and Christians in the past. Nor does it change the fact that the Israeli government does not see a difference between Arab Muslims and Arab Christians. Which leads us into the political world.

Political World  

When it comes to the political world many Christian Zionists believe that Israel and its people are a strong ally of Christians in the region and globally. The Israeli government is well aware of this and makes claims against Hamas and Hezbollah as being no different than Al Qaeda and ISIS.  There is some truth to Israel helping Christians as during the Lebanon Civil War Israel did back several Christian paramilitary groups along with their modern parties and in recent years Israel has shared a common enemy with Christian countries like Hungary and Serbia i.e. George Soros who they see as trying to destroy their nation via NGOs and Color revolutions. At the same time, this is at best a half-truth, however.

When it comes to the Lebanon Civil War, Israel only backed Christian groups like the Lebanese Forces and Phalange because they were against Palestinian rebel groups like PLO not out of some religious solidarity for Christians. The main military organization the South Lebanon Army that Israel backed was a multi-religious group not a purely Christian group. Not all Christian groups or Christians for that matter sided with Israel like the Marada Movement was at first allied with Christan Phalange and Lebanese Forces when they were backed by Syria.  When Israel got involved the Phalange and LF switched sides, but Marada did not and was massacred by these groups in 1978 over suspicions of them being allied with Syria. Other groups like the Front of Patriotic Christians – PFC were a part of the Lebanese National Movement that fought Israel. Secular groups that contained Christians like the Syrian Social Nationalists Party were also a part of the Lebanese National Movement and saw Israel as an Invader provoking religious sectarianism in the country. The Lebanese Amal party another anti-Zionist while not secular advocates for Muslim-Christian unity in the country and one of its founders Grégoire Haddad was a Greek Catholic Archeparchy of the Catholic Church.  Many Palestinian Christians also sided with LMN and other anti-Zionist groups. Other groups like the Armenian Revolutionary Federation tried to stay neutral but were attacked by LF for their neutrality.

When it comes to countries like Hungary and Serbia which are allied with Israel this is only out of political convenience and a shared enemy in Goerge Soros. But one doesn’t have to ally with Israel to be against Soros and other liberal globalists. Russia, Belarus, Nicaragua, China, Iran, Syria, and Hamas in Gaza are constantly attacked by Soros and his people by attempted Color Revolutions and NGO-backed groups funded by Soros and other corporate giants. 

Now onto all the negative things that Israel has done to Christians in Palestine and in the surrounding region. For starters, Israel makes no distinction between Arab Muslims and Arab Christians. Both Arab Christians and Muslims are driven out of their land by the Israeli government and settlers. Both have their religious sites vandalized and are attacked by Jewish extremists. And most recently since the start of the Israel-Gaza War, both have had their places of worship bombed by Israel planes and missiles examples being the Greek Orthodox Gaza Center and infamously the airstrikes on the Church of Saint Porphyrius one of the oldest Churches in the world killing 19 people in the process and the destruction of al-Amin Muhammad Mosque and the planned destruction Al Aqsa Mosque, the last one was part of the reason this conflict started again. But unlike Arab Muslims in Gaza, the Gazan Christians are a lot closer to going extinct in the area due to the conflict and recent invasion and bombardment of the area. It also doesn’t help the Christian Zionist’s case when Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu suggested nuking Gaza which would exterminate the Gazan Christians and the whole population of Gaza in general.

Of course, Israel and Christian Zionists will go back to the argument that Hamas and Hezbollah along with their backer Iran are just like ISIS. This is proven false by very basic research. Hamas and Hezbollah while indeed religious-based groups have actively cracked down on ISIS in the case of Gaza for Hamas and in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the case of Hezbollah and Iran. Al Qaeda and ISIS do and will kill anyone who doesn’t believe in their sect of Wahabi Sunni Islam and destroy their places of worship. If Hamas was really like ISIS why on earth were the Church of Saint Porphyrius and other Churches in Gaza still standing and having religious services regularly before Israel bombed them? Why on earth did Hamas on Christmas of 2022 criticize Israel for the mistreatment of Gazan Christians? Why did a Hamas official named Anwar Zbouan in 2007 say that Christians have the same rights as Muslim citizens in Gaza? Why does Hamas ally with PFLP and DLFP groups that are secular but are led or founded by Christians? Why did the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem spend more time condemning Israel’s bombing campaign of Palestine than Hamas?

This whole narrative fails apart really quickly and even quicker when you look at Hezbollah who even as early as the 1980s during the Lebanon Civil War declared that their objectives were too. “(a) Definitely expel the Americans, the French, and their allies from Lebanon, an end to any colonialist entity in our land; (b) Subject the Phalanges to a just power and bring them to justice for the crimes they committed against Muslims and Christians; (c) Allow all the children of our people to determine their future and freely choose the form of government they desire.”  This narrative further falls apart when you point to Hezbollah’s March 8^th alliance is made up of Christian, Secular, Sunni, and Druze political parties. And Hezbollah defended Assad Syria a secular country from Islamic extremists like ISIS and Al-Nusra Front. As well as fighting ISIS in Iraq. Iran an Islamic Theocracy not only supports Hezbollah and Hamas but also does allow Churches and even Synagogues to operate in the country. This is way more than what you can say for US allies like Saudi Arabia who do not even allow churches.

I’m not saying that Hamas or Hezbollah haven’t done deplorable acts, I don’t find Hamas attacks on civilians to be good even if Israel does the same. And I’m not saying they don’t put Muslim interests first and I’m sure one could find an incident where a Christian was mistreated but to pretend these people are like ISIS and Al Qaeda where they kill or expel everyone who doesn’t believe in their sect of Islam is not only misinformation but dishonest. And pretending like Israel is the protector of Christians is laughable especially when you realize that Israel, its Neo-Conservatives allies in the US, and Zionist lobbyist organizations like AIPAC had egged on and helped to get America to invade Iraq by lying about weapons of mass destruction and being linked to Al-Qaeda. Then after the invasion, America supported a color revolution/funded militant groups (many of whom were no different than Al-Qaeda) and military intervention in Syria that has lasted to this very day. These two countries are secular and allow Christians to worship freely.  The US military intervention led to groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS who were marginalized or were not there before to gain power and slaughter hundreds of thousands of people both Christian and Muslim alike, destroying Shia and Christian places of worship and causing many more to flee the area. Before a collation of Iran, Russia, Hezbollah, the Syrian government, and the US came in to clean up the mess that the US, the Gulf states, and Israel helped to create.

 Israel is not just bad for Arab Christians it is bad for Christians in the United States as billions of dollars of government money go to Israel every year that could go to projects at home like combating drug epidemics, unemployment, border security, lowering crime, healthcare, more benefits to families, and fixing infrastructure. Also if it was true that Hamas was no different than ISIS why on earth should Europe or America take in Gaza refugees like members of the ruling Lukid Party have been asking for? Who if Israel was correct would attack the local American and European Christian population? No doubt Israeli recent attacks with US and EU support will cause terrorist attacks here and in Europe in retaliation.  Not to mention Israel is partially responsible for thousands of Christian Americans dying in Iraq over lies like Saddam having weapons of mass destruction or supporting Al-Qaeda. This has caused massive refugee crises in Europe and America due to backing rebels in Syria and Israel has helped to corrupt Christian theology in the US to serve its benefits.  Israel is allied with the Government of the US and its alliance NATO, an alliance that does not care about Christian and religious conservatism and in the long run seeks to destroy it, just like how they seek to destroy other countries’ independence from liberal domination. Hamas may not be the best friend of Christians, but Israel is certainly not a friend of the Christians. American Christians are better off disregarding Christian Zionism so we can be more in line with God’s teachings and protect Christian interests across the globe.

Against the Bin Laden Radical Liberals

Like everything a radical liberal touches, they end up poisoning it. The most recent example of this was on TikTok when a bunch of American Pro Palestinian progressives (Many of whom are not Arab or Muslim) started praising Ossama bin Laden’s letter to America on why his organization Al-Qaeda committed the 9/11 terrorist attacks. These videos went viral and gained millions of views before TikTok took them down and mainstream media both left and right condemned them. Along with the center-left Guardian that published Bin Laden’s letter removed from their website. This played right in the hands of Zionists and Neoconservatives like American Senator Marco Rubio who said supporting the Palestinian cause is no different than supporting Al-Qaeda or ISIS.  Offering these videos as proof of this accusation.

This is not the first time that Radlibs have offered sympathy for Al-Qaeda or pretended they are a legitimate resistance. Right after the 9/11 attacks Native American activist Ward Churchill defended the horrific 9/11 attacks and stated that people in the World Trade Center were no different than the Nazis. In 2020 self-declared Libertarian Socialist YouTuber Vaush or Ian Kochinski a so-called deradicalizer stated that Al-Qaeda was a legitimate rebel organization to fight US and Israeli imperialism. It is no surprise that some, especially in the wake of Israel’s brutal bombing campaign of Gaze that the US has supported militarily which has killed thousands of people would have some to sympathize with Bin Laden’s letter since he cites American support for Israel in their attacks against Palestinians and Lebanon during Israel invasion of the country. Along with the sanctioning of Iraq that caused millions of Iraqis to starve. I sincerely doubt these radical liberals read the entire letter because they would been very offended by Bin Laden’s anti-homosexual remarks, Anti-secularism, and Sunni Supremacy, ideas that go up against the progressive worldview in its entirety.

However, Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and for that matter, its split-off groups like ISIS are not legitimately or sincerely anti-Zionists or anti-Imperialists and in fact have been used to destabilize and fight many anti-Zionist countries like Iraq, Syria, USSR, Libya, Iran, modern-day Russia, Lebanon, Yemen, and even inside the Gaza strip. Countries that have provided moral, economic, and military support to Palestinians or its allies like Syria and Iran have even fought Israel or have been attacked by Israel.  Al-Qaeda has its origins in the Soviet-Afghan War (1979 to 1989) where Bin Laden and many other members who formed Al-Qaeda like Ayman al-Zawahiri would receive training and support from the American CIA, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan to fight off the Soviets with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan providing religious training where the group got its radical Sunni ideology that saw Shia Muslims as infidels and all other religions as an evil that needed to be destroyed. 

After the defeat of the Soviet Union in 1989 in Afghanistan their communist-backed government in the country collapsed in early 1992. Bin Laden and other members of Afghanistan Sunni Mujahadeen officially formed Al-Qaeda in 1988 and started to set up cells and groups throughout the Muslim world. However, many Arab and Muslim nations like Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Iran saw these groups as threats due to their Sunni Supremacy ideology and being backed by American and Saudi intelligence. Chechen rebels in Russia linked to Al-Qaeda would try to destabilize the country through mass bombings and massacres throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. That Russia would suppress.  When 9/11 happened in 2001 Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Iran as well as Anti-Zionists groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon officially condemned the attack and for a brief time thought they had found a common cause with the US in fighting radical Islamic extremism. However, this was an attack that some in the United States ruling class wanted to happen, so they could justify regime change in the Middle East. The Neo-Conservative think tank Project For a New American Century was the main group behind this push. This think tank included government officials like John Bolton, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Elliot Abrams and others. As well included neoliberal intellectual giants like William Kristol who founded the think tank, and Francis Fukuyama were all pushing for war with Iraq, Iran, and other Middle East countries before 9/11 happened. 

Many of these individuals like Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Donal Rumsfeld became a part of President George W. Bush’s administration and pushed for invading Iraq making false accusations of Weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al-Qaeda none of which was true. These claims were also pushed by the Israeli government even though they knew it was false. When Saddam Hussien was overthrown in 2003 Al-Qaeda once had little to no presence and started to fill in the vacuum with this branch becoming eventually known as the Islamic State or ISIS. They not only attacked US soldiers but also other Anti-invasion and anti-Zionist groups like the Mahdi Army, and Kata’ib Hezbollah as well killing many civilians and religious groups that didn’t belong to their sect of Sunni Islam causing a sectarian Civil War to break out. Eventually through combined efforts of the US, Iran, Kurdish groups, Shia, and Sunni rebel groups were able to suppress Al Qaeda in Iraq or Islamic State at least for now but ISIS would get their chance again in the Arab Spring in 2011.

The Arab Spring was a series of protests that broke out throughout the Middle East many of whom were backed by the US through the National Democrat Institute, the Republican International Institute, National Endowment for Democracy, as well as receiving support from Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and of course Israel. Countries that were affected by the Arab Spring like Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya just so happened to be the most Anti-Zionists and Pro-Iran countries in the region and it just so happened that many of the rebel groups backed by the US and friends were linked to Al-Qaeda or whatever reason shared similar ideologies to them. That helped cause an ethno-religious civil war to break out in many of these countries with ISIS soon taking advantage of the situation. Killing hundreds of thousands of people and taking a huge swath of land in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya. While this was all going on who did Israel bomb when Al-Nusra (Al-Qaeda in Syria) was at their border in Syria? It was the Syrian government and allies like Hezbollah and Iran that were fighting Al-Nusra. Israel Instead bombed the Syrian government and allies, and the Israeli government gave medical and material support to Al-Nusra. The former Israeli Chief of Military Intelligence Amos Yadlin said “Hezbollah and Iran “are the major threat to Israel, much more than the radical Sunni Islamists, who are also an enemy.” “Those Sunni elements who control some two-thirds to 90% of the border on the Golan aren’t attacking Israel. This gives you some basis to think that they understand who is their real enemy – maybe it isn’t Israel,”.

For Al-Qaeda being such anti-Zionists, they sure do attack the enemy of Zionism and US imperialism quite often. ISIS even attacks Hamas and other Palestinian rebels more than they have ever attacked Israel. In fact, the Islamic State even apologized to Israel for opening fire on them at the border. In fact, ISIS and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham even condemned Hamas recently as being an Iranian proxy even though they claim to support the Palestinian cause. Even though ISIS has done nothing but try to destabilize Palestinian allies. If it’s not clear already despite the US and allies attacking these groups too, they help Israel’s interest in the region due to their sectarian nature and were probably never sincerely anti-Zionists to begin with. Not to mention Al-Qaeda has been nothing but complete sociopaths who have killed countless American civilians and people worldwide and anyone who doesn’t agree with their sect of Islam. Bin Laden and his group have played into the Globalists and Israel’s hands when it comes to spreading their own agenda.

The people on TikTok who promoted Bin Laden’s letter were at best ill-informed not knowing the long history of Al Qaeda or at worse actively pushing the American-Israeli narrative about the Palestinian cause being no different than supporting Al-Qaeda. Some of whom I would argue were deliberately doing this to delegitimize the cause despite pretending otherwise. I don’t think it can be ignored that prior to this trend people like Vaush who supported a similar narrative just so happened to support President Biden during his 2020 run and actively endorse US foreign policy in Syria, Ukraine, and Hong Kong and was promoted by the YouTube algorithm. Perhaps I’m jumping to conclusions about this trend being astroturf but never the less radical liberals still fail for this and show how out of touch they are on the ground and how harmful they are to the cause they attach themselves to.

If Gaza Falls

As of writing this Israel and Palestinian rebel factions headed by Hamas are in heavy battle for the Northern Part of the Gaza Strip. Despite Hamas and allies inflicting heavy casualties on the IDF the Israeli army is still advancing in North Gaza. There is a possibility that Gaza may fall in its entirety to Israel if a ceasefire isn’t signed or America doesn’t pressure Israel to stop its ruthless bombing campaign that slowly turning the world against them or If Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies don’t launch an incursion into Israel.  However, if Gaza is captured by Israel, it does not mean it has destroyed Hamas or all other Gaza factions like PIJ, PFLP, DFLP, PLFP- GC, and others.

For starters, it cannot be understated that all these are guerrilla organizations that specialize in hit-and-run tactics. They have a decentralized leadership and operate in cells which makes it harder to disrupt their operations. As they’ll continue to operate even if the head of the organization is dead or in prison. Not to mention some of these guerrillas do not have uniforms which makes it harder to identify them at times and the ones that do will abandon them if Gaza falls so, it will be harder to identify them when they’re about to conduct attacks. There are also many tunnel systems and safe houses that these militants use, and it will be hard to find or destroy them all. So even if Israel does capture Gaza, militants could be just hiding in these tunnel systems and being resupplied that way too if these tunnels reach outside the strip to other countries like Egypt and Lebanon which they probably do. We have many examples of successful guerrilla organizations in the past still being able to conduct attacks in areas they do not control like the Vietcong in the Vietnam War and the Taliban in the War in Afghanistan. The only advantage that Israel has is that the Gaza Strip is far smaller than what the Americans had to deal with in Vietnam and Afghanistan.

It cannot also be understated that Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank for that matter have no love for Israel and many of them openly support militant factions due to them being killed and pushed out of their land by Israeli settlers and the government, meaning that even if Hamas and others are hindered by the capture of Gaza they will still have a large number of support from Palestinians with many people possibly conducting lone wolf attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians even without orders or training from Militant factions. Due to Palestinians being radicalized by Israeli bombardment and military campaigns and Israeli settlers taking their land. The only way that Israel could combat this is if it continues its ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip or gives concessions to Palestinians like autonomy where they do not need Hamas or other factions for protection anymore.

Even if the whole Gaza Strip is purged of all Palestinian militants it does not mean the fight is over. For starters, we already know many of these factions still operate in the West Bank and possibly in the Golan Heights and still cause the IDF to have trouble over there. However, the biggest problem is that Hamas and other groups operate in countries that Israel has no claims on such as Lebanon, Syria, Qatar, and Iran, and possibly in other countries with Hamas leadership living in Qatar making it much harder to dismantle these factions. If Israel does try to invade these countries to get rid of these factions it will draw Hamas’s allies from these countries like Hezbollah, the Assad Government, Qatar monarchy, and even draw in major powers like Iran, Turkey, and maybe even Russia. This isn’t the first time this has happened either when the PLO was originally driven out of Palestine they moved to neighboring countries like Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia before finally returning to the West Bank in the 1990s. . Unlike PLO in these countries, the official governments actively welcome these groups with some like PFLP-GC and As-Sa’iqa actively fighting for the Syrian government in their civil war. There are also sizeable Palestinian populations in these countries along with the larger Arab population being very sympathetic to their cause. Which will allow these militant factions to replenish their numbers. Even if Gaza falls both sides will still have a long road ahead of them.

The European Right alliance with Israel is not in the interest of the European people.

It is not an understatement to say that the people of Europe are tired of mass immigration, especially from the Arab and African world, especially the Muslim part. This is best shown in the recent elections in Italy, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Switzerland where right-wing anti-immigrant parties have won elections throughout 2023. Some of these parties particularly in Slovakia have stopped sending arms to Ukraine in the hope of restoring ties with Russia, stopping the economic downturn caused by the war, and ending mass migration from Ukraine. The reason for this backlash to mass migration has happened due to mass immigration causing more competition in the job market, causing prices for housing to go up, cultural incompatibility with these immigrants with the local population, and the rise of Islamic extremism and crime brought by some within these migrant communities. The last two have caused race riots to break out in Dublin Ireland and Crepol France. The rioters were not Arab and African Muslim immigrants like usual race riots but from ethnic Irish and French over the stabbing attacks of ethnic French and Irish people (with children being some of the victims) by Muslim migrants with many rioters and their supporters believing these were racial and religiously motivated attacks.

The people of Europe have every reason to be angry at their liberal leaders who want immigrants there for cheap labor and votes. Who constantly told lies that diversity is our strength and that multiculturalism will enrich the country when in reality it does not with many in all communities remaining segregated and hostile to each other. However, many of these right-wing and anti-immigrant parties that have come into power recently are supporting a country very much responsible for the mass migration crisis that broke out in the 2010s due to the Arab Spring and that country is none other than Israel.

Israel actively supported rebel groups and egged on the United States and NATO to intervene in conflicts in Syria, Libya, Iraq, and others. All three of those countries fought against Islamic extremism and in the case of Libya prevented immigrants from reaching Europe, however due to these countries being hostile to Israel over the treatment of Palestinians. Israel sought to get rid of them with the help United States and Gulf states. Starting first in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 then in Syria, and Libya in 2011 in the Arab Spring. All these countries were destabilized with Civil Wars breaking out and the original governments in Iraq and Libya being overthrown causing mass migration to Europe and lesser extent America along with the rise of Islamic terrorism and extremist groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda.

Many of these right-wing parties have gotten elected or are rising in polls like the Dutch Party of Freedom, the French National Rally, the German AFD, Brothers of Italy, Fidesz in Hungary, and others have actively admitted that the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya and US and European intervention in Iraq and Syria were mistakes that did more harm than good and befitted neo liberalism more than anything but for whatever reason still takes Israel side in the recent conflict with Gaza even after the fact that members of the ruling Lukid Party in Israel have called for Europe to take in Gaza refugees and being partial responsible for conflicts mentioned above. Yes, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others are Islamic militant organizations have done bad things, but they are not the ones orchestrating attacks in Europe, that would be ISIS and Al Qaeda, groups that Hamas and Hezbollah have fought against and groups that Israel and allies have backed at times. Hamas or Hezbollah has no interest in expanding into Europe or Islamization in Europe nor does its state sponsors in Lebanon, Syria, or Iran. Syria and Lebanon want many of their people who migrated to Europe and America back as it has led to an economic brain drain, and loss of human capital in their countries, and Syrian and Lebanese seek to prosecute certain terrorists for crimes they committed in their own countries. A major reason why Hamas and its allies attacked Israel last month was because of illegal immigration from Israel to Palestine where Israelis would settle in Palestine’s West Bank and claim the land for themselves and kick out the local Arab population whether they be Christian, Muslim, or other with the help of the Israeli government who itself conducts cross border raids into the West Bank to kill or arrest those they believe to be terrorists. Even if Hamas was behind attacks in Europe, it does not change the fact that the IDF once funded the group in hopes of dividing the Palestinian struggle for independence.

I am not saying that Israel is entirely responsible for the mass migration to European countries and America. The ideology of Neoliberalism of the global expansion of liberalism and capitalism through war, free trade, and the belief that people are completely mailable is even more responsible for mass migration and is the heart of the problem with Neo-Liberals using these wars as an excuse to bring in immigrants from other countries. Nor am I saying that the state of Israel should be destroyed since that would also create a refugee crisis. However, to pretend that Israel hasn’t played its role, in mass migration over the last 2 decades and that Right-wing parties wholeheartedly support Israel in completely kicking out Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank will only make the problem of mass migration and Islamic extremism in Europe and America worse. European right-wing parties as well as the American right need to pressure Israel and Palestine to come to a permanent agreement and to negotiate, end sanctions, and withdrawal from Syria and other Arab war-torn countries in return for stopping migrants from reaching Europe, to continue combating Islamic extremism and to stabilize their countries which will allow many of these migrants who chose to do so to go to their country of origins. That is the best way to end the current migration crisis in Europe.

Christopher Hitchens was Religious

December 15, 2023, will mark the 13^th year since the death of British new atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens. Hitchen was most known during the later part of his life for his lectures and books on atheism and critiques of religion. Hitchens and the New Atheist movement saw all religions as false, backward, and authoritarian, and to them, religion led to the deaths of millions of people. What many New Atheists and even Hitchen himself did not realize was that he was religious. He did not follow a traditional religion like Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or Hinduism but a man-made religion that gained traction during the Enlightenment and early liberal revolutions. I am talking about the religion of progress.

Throughout Hitchen’s entire career, he never questioned the belief that the world was constantly getting better, less authoritarian, and more material wealth and progress was being achieved by the advancement of technology and the removal of traditional institutions like religion. The only thing that ever changed in Hitchen’s faith in progress was what sect of progressive religion he belonged to. He was first a Trotskyist who was against American intervention in Vietnam. However, in the 1990s despite still hanging on to the Marxist label Hitchens started to see America and capitalism as the main drive of progress. Seeing the Gulf War, NATO bombing of Serbia, and support for Kosovo/ KLA as fighting against religious “fascists” and bringing progress and liberalism to the region. He also soon became fond of Neo-Conservative and architect of the War on Terror Paul Wolfowitz saying he was a very smart man.

It’s not too hard to see how Christopher Hitchens went from Trotskyist to Neo-Liberal War Hawk. Trotskyists had always been critical of the Soviet Union and its allies seeing it as a degenerated workers state. But some Trotskyists like Max Schumann, Martin Abern, and James Burnham became more hostile to Soviet communism and its allies than American capitalism seeing the Soviet Union as nothing more than bureaucratic collectivism/ state capitalism or red fascism. some such as Burnham, Irving Kristol, and Sidney Hook who came from this persuasion ended up forming what we now know as Neo-Conservatism.  Hitchen followed a very similar path seeing former soviet allies like Iraq, Syria, and Yugoslavia as reactionary, and fascist regimes with liberal capitalism bringing progress to the region.

 Of course, Hitchens and neo-conservatives are not the only leftists who took a pro-western foreign policy position before and after the Cold War. Feminist activist and intellectual Susan Sontag called the Soviet Union and its ideology Marxist Leninism the greatest form of Fascism to exist and she endorsed US intervention in the Yugoslav Wars.  Famous Frankfurt School Marxist Jurgen Habermas also defended the NATO bombing of Serbia. Libertarian socialist intellectual Noam Chomsky endorsed the US staying in Syria to back the Kurds. Slovenian Marxist philosopher Slavoj Zizek supported US military aid to Ukraine and Libertarian Socialist YouTuber Vaush not only endorsed US policy in Syria but also supported sending military weapons to Ukraine. American feminist activist and organizer Mana Shooshtari supported regime change in Iran and the US backed the feminist color revolution in the country in 2022.  All of whom make similar arguments to Hitchens.  However, most of these people would not endorse the Iraq War but Hitchens did. Hitchens saw the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the First Gulf War and the Yugoslav War as bringing progress and democracy to the region and fighting “Islamo Fascism.” Believing the whole narrative about Iraq supporting Al- Qaeda, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and that these countries could and should adopt liberal values. Hitchens also accused Assad Syria of being fascist and probably would have endorsed US intervention and the Free Syria Army if he lived to see it.

Despite Hitchens claiming his beliefs were based on facts and against superstition and authoritarianism. It’s very clear that his support for neo-liberalism and the War on Terror was very authoritarian and irrational. Despite being for facts and logic Hitchen’s beliefs that Iraq was allied with Al Qaeda, had Weapons of Mass Destruction, or that liberalism would bring stability to Iraq and Afghanistan were all dead wrong. There was no link to Al Qaeda or weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Iraq and Afghanistan were completely unstable as democracies and were far worse under them, especially Iraq where sectarian civil wars broke out left and right. Despite the claims of fighting Islamic extremists in Iraq, Saddam was a secular leader, and when he was overthrown actual religious extremists like Al-Qaeda entered the country. Despite Hitchens claiming to support Kosovo for fighting ultra-nationalist Serbs who yes were indeed responsible for ethnic cleansing, at the same time the US and Hitchens-supported groups like the Kosovo Liberation Army which was also involved in ethnic cleansing. NATO and American bombing campaigns in the Yugoslav Civil War and War on Terror killed thousands of civilians and left many of these countries destroyed and economically impoverished. The authoritarian measure of American Neo-Liberalism does not end with forcing other countries to adopt their worldview but also on its citizens like the PATRIOT Act that rolled out mass surveillance and gave more power to the FBI to spy and harass civilians.  All done in the name of progress, combating so-called terrorism, and defending democracy. Hitchen’s whole idea of progress making the world a better place is just wrong with technologies like nuclear weapons making us far closer to our own destruction than ever before, technology has allowed governments and corporations to have more surveillance and access to people’s personal lives than previous generations. And there are no signs that were any closer to the utopian enlightened society that Hitchens believed. The decline of religion and the traditional family has not led to people becoming better or enlightened but being more adrift and depressed than before with suicide being at an all-time high.

Hitchens or the American neo-liberal establishment is not the first to use the religion of progress or similar rhetoric to justify the use of violence and authoritarianism. The Jacobines in the French Revolution committed violence against Catholics and those deemed reactionary. President Woodrow Wilson did this to justify WW1 against the Germans. The Bolsheviks and the Spanish Republicans did as in their revolutions against the religious and those deemed reactionary or fascist. Hitchen despite his claims of traditional religions like Christianity, and Islam being authoritarian, and killing millions of people. This is exactly what his very own ideas are guilty of doing and Hitchen’s whole faith in progress is false. Hitchen’s and New Atheists like him have no right to criticize anyone’s for their religious beliefs. At least religious organizations have made huge contributions to charity, philosophy, art, setting up early universities, and science. What do New Atheists as a collective group have to offer others trying to deconstruct religion and being stooges for neo-liberalism? Sadly Hitchen’s line of thinking has not died with him as people like YouTube streamer and commentator Steven Bonnel II or Destiny use similar anti-religious rhetoric to justify the War in Gaza and US involvement in it. But due to pushback on both left and right to this war hopefully, this will be an end to this rhetoric and the religion of progress.

December of 2023 Essays

The Death of Henry Kissinger

On November 29, 2023, former American diplomat, geo-political strategist, Sectary of State, and National Security Adviser under the Nixon and Ford administrations Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100. To many on both left and right, Kissinger was a globalist and responsible for the mass murder of millions of people. Ranging from the bombing campaign of Cambodia during the Vietnam War to Operation Condor in Latin America saw US-backed coups and death squads throughout the region that targeted socialists, nationalists, communists, Peronists, and others. Many people just assume that Kissinger is the ultimate Neo-Conservative who sought death and destruction from America’s enemies. Yet leaders like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping showed respect towards Kissinger and said they remember him fondly despite the Kissinger country constantly trying to counteract their geo-political goals. This is because Kissinger compared to other US foreign policy government experts and strategists was not only talented but also willing to compromise and negotiate with other major powers and regional opponents.

Kissinger for starters helped to normalize relations with mainland China during to height Cold War which effectively split the Soviet Union and China further apart and paved the way for the establishment of trade ties between the US and China that helped industrialize China and bring the Cold War to an end. Kissinger also successfully negotiated a US withdrawal from the Vietnam War. He helped to bring an end to the Yom Kippur War by negotiating with all sides of the conflict. Making sure Israel conceded the land that it had taken from Egypt and had a ceasefire signed by both countries.

Yes, Kissinger shared similar traits to Neo-Conservatives like support for military invention and US hegemony over the world. But what separates Kissinger from Neo-Conservatives was that he was not a democracy crusader and was more than willing to work with right-wing dictators like Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Communists like Mao China when it served US geopolitical purposes. And unlike the Neo-conservatives War on Terror Operation Condor despite its brutality was a success. In many ways, he was like the conservative theorist James Burnham when it came to foreign policy but was less dogmatic about anti-communism. Despite originally endorsing the Iraq War Kissinger admitted it was a bad idea and democracy building in Iraq and Afghanistan would not work as these people do not have historical democratic institutions. As mentioned earlier Kissinger was willing to negotiate with major powers like Russia and China. Kissinger even went as far as to say when the War in Donbas broke out in 2014 the US and Ukraine should concede to some of Russia’s original demands like Ukraine not joining NATO, Donetsk, and Lugansk should be given autonomy in exchange for Russia giving Crimea back. Ukraine according to Kissinger should be a neutral ground and bridge between Russia and the West and a dismantled Russia would lead to security problems for Europe as a whole. When the conflict in Ukraine heated up into a full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine in 2022 Kissinger said that Ukraine should concede some territory so the war could end before having to backtrack on this statement and possibly being pressured to say Ukraine should join NATO. Kissinger right before his death in a speech to the nonprofit World.Minds said there should be more dialogue between the three powers and for the three powers to find common ground in the Middle East and other regions and they need to restore normal relations and dialogue. Unlike many neo-conservatives and Neo-liberals when it comes to mass migration, Kissinger right before his death and the start of the Israel-Gaza War of 2023 conceded that mass migration of people far different culturally from the West was a terrible mistake.

I am not saying that Kissinger did not share a Neo-Conservative/ Neo-Liberal vision of a liberal-run world order, but Kissinger was far more pragmatic and realistic when it comes to geopolitics. I am also not saying he was not a bad guy he was but foreign policy advisors and leaders in government and mainstream think tanks that have come after Kissinger have been far worse and destructive to the United States and the world. The Neo-Conservatives and neo-liberals/ liberal internationalists are far more dogmatic and hawkish. Neo-conservatives like John Bolton, William Kristol, and Nikka Haley are actively beating the war drums with Iran, Russia, and China. Calling for further sanctions of these countries only brings them closer together, trading together to move around US sanctions and making these countries more hostile to the United States. William Kristol and Robert Kagan’s former think tank Project for a New America Century (PNAC) which was responsible for pushing the War in Iraq and other Middle Eastern Wars and for the democratic crusade that went with these wars was an utter failure. The Neo-Liberals/ Liberal Internationalists like President Joe Biden, Bracka Obama, Anthony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, Hilliary Clinton, Alex, and George Soros are not much better and some ways worse. They are not only responsible for blunders in Libya and Syria, for ineffective sanctions, and for beating the war drums. But also turning up liberal globalism, the crusade for progressivism, democracy, and globalism times 10. They try to push non-western countries to sanction Russia for a war that has nothing to do with them and would hurt these countries economically if they did sanctions. The Neo-Liberals try to force allies and partners to accept the LGBT agenda when it’s against their allies’ and partner’s morals. Neo-liberals actively condemn and threaten allies, and trading partners for not getting in line like excluding Turkey and Hungary from the Democracy Summit, Kicking Uganda, Gabon, Niger, and Central African Republic from the Agoa Trade Deal for being culturally conservative or not “democratic.” Sanctioning businesses from UAE, and Turkey for trading with Russia. Not to mention the many attempted color revolutions of Middle Eastern allies like Bahrain and Egypt during the Arab Spring and possibly Turkey in 2016. This further pushes these countries into the Russian and Chinese spheres as they do not care if a country is liberal or progressive, because they aren’t either they just want to trade. It also doesn’t help the US that China and Russia want to expand their economic alliances to these regions like BRICS and in case of Russia forgives billions of dollars’ worth of African debt and helps to provide security in the region through Wagner against Islamic terrorists. Western institutions like the IMF are accused of pushing African and other non-western countries into debt by encouraging reckless domestic policies and through IMF policy prescriptions.

All this not only pushes US allies away and leads the US into many failed military endeavors but also pushes us closer to war with other global powers like Russia and China which would mean World War 3. Kissinger was one of the few voices of reason (as close as reason can get in liberal circles) amongst the liberal ruling class that was respected by both progressive and neo-conservative factions when it came to foreign policy and one of the few voices respected by Russia and China.  Now that Kissinger is gone and only the idealogues remain will only spell doom. Hopefully, it will only be the doom of the liberal order and not the American people or the rest of the world.

The Divides in the Arab and Muslim World on How to handle the Israel-Gaza War

The Arab and the larger Muslim world has been no doubt the most critical of Israel’s recent actions in Gaza, and the West Bank. Some like Lebanon’s major parties like Hezbollah and Amal with Iranian assistance are actively engaged in combat with Israeli forces. Egpty and Jordan have actively said they would go to war with Israel if Israel completely expelled the Palestinians. Some like Saudi Arabia have called for a complete arms embargo of Israel.  Others like Turkey Jordan, and Bahrain have recalled their ambassadors and have halted economic ties with the country with Erdogan Turkey’s president going as far as calling for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be charged with war crimes. Iran and Qatar are the biggest supporters of the Palestinian cause with Iran sending Palestinian militants weapons, providing training, and having its proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen attack Israel and Israel’s main backer the United States. Qatar provides Hamas leadership residence in their country, financial support, and provides them with diplomatic support by mediating with them and Israel. Most of the other countries at least provide Palestine with non-military aid and moral support.

No doubt the Arab and Muslim world are united in helping the Palestinians but all of them disagree on what is to be done and what the end goal should be. The Muslim governments in support of Palestine can be divided into three factions that are led by one of the local regional powers. One is the Saudi Arabia alliance which contains countries like the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, and Egypt. The second faction is led by Iran contains countries like Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq along with militant groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, and Houthi in Yemen with Palestinian groups like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad/ PIJ, and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine/ PFLP. The third and final faction is led by Turkey and includes countries like Qatar and Azerbaijan with militant groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham or HTS.

Saudi Arabia faction’s end goal is the establishment of two state solution with Palestine being restored to 1967 borders and are willing to normalize with Israel. Iran and its allies call for a one-state solution where there is no Israel only Palestine. Turkey and Qatar despite openly and financially supporting Hamas (who are for a one-state solution) are officially for a two-state solution. Why is this the case?

Some would assume the reason why Saudia Arabia and Turkey prefer a two-state solution is because they would like to maintain ties with Israel’s main backers the United States and EU who are still major economic and military partners of both countries. While this no doubt plays its role it’s not the entire story in my opinion.  For starters, Saudi Arabia and its allies still want to be economic partners with the USA and EU but they have become a lot more skeptical of US foreign policy goals and annoyed by the US trying to force their cultural values on them.  This distrust could arguably go back to the Iraq War and the height of the War on Terror where Saudi Arabia, its allies and Qatar opposed the Iraq War as they believed it would destabilize the country for a long time and would allow Iranian proxies to enter the country which they were correct. However, it is safe to say it officially began during the Arab Spring and the conflicts that followed them, particularly in Syria, Egypt, and Libya. Arab Spring was largely backed by the US, NATO, Israel, and even Gulf Monarchies to destabilize countries like Libya and Syria due to them being close to Iran at the time the Gulf Monarchies and Turkey were in a fierce proxy war with. But they soon started to question the United States’ true intentions when the Arab Spring came to Bahrain a country very closely linked to Saudi Arabia with the country intervening when it looked like the Bahrain government was about to collapse. The Uprising was not just backed by Iran to disrupt Saudi Arabia but some of the protestors were backed by the United States NGOs like the National Endowment of Democracy, International Republican Institute, and the National Democrat Institute organizations closely linked to the US government and US corporations.  Turkey and Qatar also became weary of the United States around this time when the Muslim Brotherhood after winning an election in Egypt was overthrown by the United States-backed coup. In 2016 Turkey also faced a coup that was defeated and believed to be funded by the United States by the Turkish government.

Despite Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and their allies backing rebels in Syria to overthrow the pro-Iran Assad government both became disillusioned with US objectives in the country all be it for different reasons. Turkey became disenfranchised over the US backing Kurdish rebels in North Syria who had also been responsible for terrorism in Turkey and succession attempts in the country. Saudi Arabia and UAE became disenfranchised when it became clear that Assad would be a far more stable leader than any rebel groups. This was also around the time when more modernizing elements in Saudi and UAE monarchies like Prince Mohamed Bin Salman and Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed came to power. It is believed and alleged by former Saudi intelligence officer Saad al-Jabri that as early as 2015 Saudi Arabia and UAE supported Russian intervention in Syria in hopes of saving Assad. By 2018 UAE normalized relations with Syria with Bahrain and Jordan following suit with Saudi Arabia and Arab League normalizing relations in 2023. It was not in Syria but in Libya where the US and Saudi Arabia had different factions on who would replace Gaddafi and in Yemen where the US proved to be an unreliable ally with the US first supporting Saudi intervention and then placing an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia after the assassination of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 with US senator Lindsey Gram stating the relationship between the two countries was “more of a burden than an asset.”

The 2010s into the 2020s was a time when the United States became more culturally and foreign policy radical. The US had started to push for gay marriage and feminism in these countries and pressured all of these countries to become liberal democracies which could be seen in Bahrain’s Arab Spring backed by the US. Despite modernization and liberalization in the Saudi block the Saudis and their allies largely rejected this by arresting activists and Saudi media accusing Biden of pushing homosexuality in the country. Turkey’s bloc which was becoming more conservative under Erdogan rejected this too, seeing it as going up against Islamic values as well as cracking down on groups who promoted nontraditional sexualities. The failed coup attempt in Turkey in 2016 is believed by the Turkish government was backed by the United States due to the Turkish government being increasingly influenced by the Islamic religion.  Saudi and UAE were also uninterested in the US and its allies trying to push more global restrictions on carbon emission and fossil fuels with Saudi Arabia lobbying for the exact opposite and UAE Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber at the COP28 in December of 2023 said there is no science behind phasing out fossil fuel and it would take the world back into the dark age.

By the time the Russo-Ukraine War broke out in 2022, the Saudi Arabia and Turkey Bloc were done going headfirst into American-backed wars. All of them refused to sanction Russia or cut ties with them. They continued to trade with Russia. Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt all applied for membership in Russia and China’s BRICS economic union with all of them being accepted in 2023. When the US asked Saudi Arabia and OPEC to raise oil production due to sanctions on Russia causing an oil shortage the Saudis instead cut oil production several times with the United States accusing Saudi Arabia of clouding with Russia which Saudi Arabia denied and said it did for its own economic interest. Russia collusion or not Saudi Arabia was asserting independence from America. By 2023 it was also clear Saudi Arabia and Turkey were done with the War on Terror and wars caused by the Arab Spring. Saudi Arabia normalized relations with Iran, and Syria with the help of China and Russia. And began negotiations with the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Turkey also began talks of withdrawal from Syria and normalization.

However just because Saudi Arabia normalized relations with Iran did not mean they joined the Iranian bloc or entirely trusted them. To keep good relations with the US in hopes of building nuclear weapons, and adding another ally in case Iran tried anything, Saudi Arabia was in talks with the US and Israel to normalize relations before the Gaza war broke out. However, it was not just keeping good relations with the US but also the fact that Saudi Arabia was simply tired of all conflicts seeing them as economic burdens that keep the region impoverished. A two-state solution to Saudi Arabia was the best way to make both groups happy and not cause a devasting war that would displace Palestinians who are Muslim kin to them or destroy Muslim holy sites. If Saudi and other Arab states supported the destruction of Israel would cause further deterioration of US relations. But even before the 0ctober 7^th attack, Israel was not agreeing to a two-state solution as many within the ruling coalition like the Otzma Yehudit party, Shas party, and National Religious Party–Religious Zionism either support a one-state or at least the continued expansion of Israeli settlements in Palestine. While Saudi Arabia was not backing down on a two-state solution. It is also safe to say that the Turkey bloc despite strong rhetoric against the current Israeli government and defending Hamas also wants two states a solution for similar reasons.

Iran comes from a different persuasion. Iran is not economically connected to the United States and is heavily sanctioned by them. Iran hasn’t been an ally of the US since the fall of the US-Israeli-backed Shah who persecuted the conservative Shia Muslim clerics who now run the country. Iranians believe that the only way to establish peace in the Middle East is the full withdrawal of the US and the dismantling of Israel which they see as completely hostile to Islam and the local Arab population and compromise would only prolong Muslims and Arab suffering. Despite the radical solution it’s not hard to understand how the Iranians came to this conclusion. As Israel has only expanded and Palestine has continued to shrink with Israel being involved in virtually every Middle Eastern conflict since its inception. Not to mention the constant mistreatment and death of Palestinians especially children at the hands of the IDF and Israel seeking to destroy holy sites like the Al Aqsa Mosque and never living up to Arab countries’ demands who normalize with Israel to respect Palestinian sovereignty. All of this continues to legitimize the Iranians and their allies’ claims.

The recent war in Gaza will not only prove the Iranians’ right as many Palestinian civilians are killed by Israeli air strikes, with Israel seeking to take control of Gaza but will only grow anti-Zionist sentiments amongst the general Arab and Muslim population who will push their governments to do more against Israel. The war has already caused Saudi Arabia to freeze normalization talks and countries that already normalize relations like Jordan, Bahrain, and Egypt to either cut economic or diplomatic ties and threaten war. American influence in the region and support at home dwindling this will be or cause the death of Israel if it continues with this campaign. Despite Iran and its proxies being constantly compared to ISIS, Iran has built a diverse coalition ranging from Baathists like Assad Syria, Democracies like Lebanon and Iraq, Sunni Jihadist like Hamas and PIJ, communists like PFLP, secular nationalists like SSNP, and various Nasserist groups. and right-wing Christian groups the Free Patriotic Movement, and the Marada movements. This alliance will only continue to expand the longer Israel drags this war out. Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups on their own can’t destroy Israel but the full force of Iran and its allies can, especially if other countries from the Saudi and Turkey bloc join them.

Hate Speech and anti-extremist laws and policies are being used against Anti-Zionists

On November 27^th Journalist Caleb Maupin reported on the arrest in the UK of Ranjeet Brar and three other members of the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) for handing out Pro-Palestinian pamphlets. They were charged with inciting racial hatred.  Even though their pamphlets claim that Zionism itself was anti-Semitic and hurtful to the Jewish people. In the United States George Washington University in New York, Brandeis University, and Columbia University suspended Pro-Palestinian groups with Brown University disciplining students over Pro-Palestinian protests with these events and groups being deemed extremists or hateful.  In France, many Pro-Palestinian protests in Paris and elsewhere have been banned for being extremists.

Many Western Conservatives and Nationalists have known and seen for years how these laws and policies have targeted them causing some groups to be banned, some people arrested, others fired from jobs or expelled from university, or at the very least have some of their social media accounts suspended.  Everyone knows that Universities are very progressive places and in many of them conservative and dissident speakers are not welcome either being harassed off campus or having their events canceled. To some, this may seem odd that largely left-wing protests and groups are being banned now for sympathies for the struggle of brown Palestinians who are mostly Muslims and non-Christian. However, the signs were already there, and due to anti-free speech progressive ideology has become common amongst many ruling class circles and many parts of the Western Left.

Liberal and New Left intellectuals like Karl Popper, Herbart Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, and other prominent intellectuals of the mid-20^th century had advocated for the repression of ideas that were deemed reactionary, oppressive, racist, sexist, antisemitic, and anti-liberal in the case of Popper. See Herbart Marcuse’s Repressive Tolerance or Popper’s “Open Society and its Enemies”  These ideas already informed the laws of West Germany where they banned or suppressed not only Nazis, but Communists, Non-NS Nationalists, and other groups deemed to be illiberal. It also cannot be ignored that many of the ideas these intellectuals had were promoted by the liberal regime. Herbart Marcuse was an OSS agent and received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation for his book One Dimensional Man. Theodor Adorno according to Historian Paul Gottfried Adorno played major roles in German education with the support of the American State Department and Adorno Authoritarian Personality study was widely used by the US government and corporations for their own goals to make “good anti- fascists”. To quote Gottfried on the matter

 “Despite the anti-Communist mood in the U.S. at the outset of the Cold War, in the 1950s an Americanized and mainstreamed form of Cultural Marxism made powerful inroads here. Leaders of the Frankfurt school were sent back to Germany by the American State Department to “reeducate” the former subjects of the Third Reich and to make them “good antifascists.” Meanwhile, psychological tests were devised for private jobs, government employment, and educational institutions to determine the “f scores” of applicants (as indications of pro-fascist leanings). Equally noteworthy, Frankfurt School pioneers like Eric Fromm became popular authorities on psychological well-being and had their works distributed through Book of the Month clubs.”

 Adorno also took part in the CIA-funded project Congress of Cultural Freedom which supported progressive causes against Soviet Communism. Karl Popper’s book The Open Society and Its Enemies was widely influential on neo-conservatives and liberal internationalists like George Soros who named his foundation Open Society after Popper’s book.

As many are already aware the New Left that emerged in the 1960s was a movement largely focused on social progressive causes like civil rights, sexual liberation, abortion, migrants, and environmentalism and accusing their opponents of being racist fascists who were conspiracy theorists that sought to destroy democracy. Many of these ideas were absorbed into the American Democrat Party and other left-liberal parties in the West. Influencing law and policy in corporate and university sectors. All of these ideas and tactics were ways to strengthen the liberal orders and did not hinder them as some in the New Left hoped they would do. As decades went on progressive ideas became culturally hegemonic, in government, media, the corporate world, and universities. I have already gone over how progressivism or wokism goes hand and hand with capitalism in previous blog posts countless times so I will not reinstate those points here but instead go over how progressive ideas or talking points have been used to reinforce the state security apparatus and corporate censorship. In fact, I already did at the beginning of this essay about Pro Palestine groups being banned on campuses and some being arrested for hate speech. There has also been a shadow banning and taking down of pro-Palestine and critical content on Israel. These laws and policies are used to censor dissent and control the narrative the way the establishment wants it to be. Pro-Israeli groups like the Anti-Defamation League and Brandeis Center are in favor of these policies in law. The Anti-Defamation League has a long history of defaming, slandering, pressuring companies to drop sponsorships, and firing individuals for being against issues like abortion, mass migration, multiculturalism, gay marriage, and Zionism including Left-wing anti-Zionists accusing all these groups of being hateful, ant -Semitic, and fascist. President Biden and the Department of Education have decided to also take action against so-called antisemitism and Islamophobia in schools and colleges and will probably use them against critics of Zionism and critics of third-world immigration.  US National Security Strategy Against Antisemitism and US National Security Strategy Against Islamophobia that was created this year under the Biden Administration will be also used against critics that the establishment deems hateful. Funding propaganda in the workplace, schools, and religious institutions to try and discredit critics and ban critics online as stated in pillars one and three in the US National Security Strategy Against Antisemitism

The rhetoric that emerged amongst Western Liberal and leftist circles has also been absorbed by the establishment. Back in the Second Iraq War, Neo-Cons like William Kristol to left-wingers like Christopher Hitchens used terms like Islamo Fascism to justify the Iraq War. PATRIOT Act that allowed the government to spy was also justified by both parties as being for the protection of liberal democracy and human rights. In 2018 during the March for Our Lives protests that called for more gun control were led by progressive activists and many of the main activists of the protests like Emma Gonzales “cited” the high death rate of LGBT people and non-whites in gun violence as an excuse to give more power to federal government to take away guns from the civilian population. During the Covid Lockdowns Democrat politicians, Corporate Media, and social media demonized anti-lockdown protests and skeptics of COVID Vaccines as being racist conspiracy theorists who did not believe in science. Ignoring the rate of suicide, drug overdose, and mental illness that rose under locks downs when people were isolated from others, the loss of jobs due to the lockdowns, the rise in inflation, the destruction of small businesses or how many of these pharmaceutical companies had a long history of scandals of medicine and products that don’t work or have serious side effects.  Many of the protestors were banned on social media or arrested for defying the lockdowns. The left largely went along with this narrative claiming the right was spreading the virus while they weren’t when the George Floyd riots broke out.

I know what some will say and rightfully point out that the Republicans with few exceptions like presidential candidate Vivek Ramasamy are no better with Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis completely banning Pro-Palestine student organizations, Senator Tim Scott pushing for Universities to be defunded for so-called “antisemitism” and presidential candidate Nikki Haley going as far as to say their no difference between Anti-Zionism and antisemitism and wanting social media to force users to use their real identity to allegedly get rid of Russian, Chinese, and Iranian bots even though everyone and their mom knows this will be used to harass and fire people in real life that go up against Neo-liberal narratives online.

All of these laws and policies are used to silence dissent on Neo-liberal policies and come from a similar place. Granted the right liberal establishment does not take influence from Herbart Marcuse or Theador Adorno but does take influence from people who were a part of many of the same government-funded groups. Some like Proto Neo-Conservative James Burnham, Father of Neo-Conservatism Irving Kristol, and other Neo-Conservatives like Sidney Hook came from the Congress of Cultural Freedom. Others, like William F Buckley Jr the founder of the main conservative magazine of the last century National Review, was a CIA agent. The Neo-Conservatives and Buckley were not only notorious for supporting global wars and economic globalization but were also responsible for kicking out conservatives for being anti-war, against free market dogmatism, being too socially conservative, anti-immigration, or questioning Zionism. Notable examples of people purged or smeared by Neo-conservatives are Russel Kirk, Scott McConnel, Joseph Sobran, Paul Gottfried, Mel Bradford, Murray Rothbard, and most recently Tucker Carlson, and Candace Owens. As stated earlier all of these hate speech and anti-extremist laws and policies and many of the places they come from are used and will be used against anyone who goes up against neo-liberal ideas and norms regardless of whether they are on the left or right. And were intended to be used as such just now due to the War in Gaza, a place the left is sympathetic to, and since Israel is a major proxy state to the US these laws are being finally applied to the left.

Why Will Hurds Election Campaign Failed

I know what some people will be asking. “Who?” To give you all a brief explanation of who this individual is. Will Hurd is a former CIA Officer and former Texas congressman who ran in the Republican presidential race and was one of the first candidates to drop out and not even make it on the debate stage. Hurd ended up endorsing Republican nominee Nikkia Haley for president. The last sentence (if being a former CIA agent was not enough) pretty much reveals what he advocated for. To say the least, he is a William Kristol-style Neo-Conservative, he supported increased sanctions on Russia and Iran, US intervention, and US military aid in Ukraine (including establishing a no-fly zone around the country), Israel, Taiwan, Syria, and elsewhere to secure American hegemony with one of his foreign policy paper titled  “How to make the 21st century another American century” with his goals and title sounding awfully similar for the project of a New American century the think tank behind War on Terror before 9/11 ever happened and is behind or at least influential in other foreign policy the US government has taken like sanctioning Russia, Iran, and China to maintain American hegemony. Hurd on economics is an advocate for free markets and free trade with China and supports NAFTA. Hurd supports the use of AI and automation in the workplace. Hurd on immigration is also a supporter of mass legal migration and on cultural issues is for a 15-week ban on abortion and is a supporter of gay marriage, and gun reform. And of course, Hurd like Bill Kristol is a die-hard never-trumper seeing him as far-right, and threat to democracy, and a Russian sympathizer.

I know most of my readers detest most of these views but granted not everything is bad. He supports nuclear energy as an alternative to green energy and supports energy independence. He seems genuine in trying to find a way to integrate AI and automation into the workplace without causing a mass displacement of workers and a rise in unemployment. Hurd seems to understand the threat of Mexican cartels and wants to categorize them as terrorist organizations. While I’m against mass migration both legal and illegal for causing more competition in the workplace and housing market, destroying cultural cohesion, displacement of the local population, rise in crime, the strain on the welfare system, and causing an economic brain drain in other countries. I have to respect how open Hurd is about the last one (brain drain) and how it maintains liberal hegemony across the globe at the expense of other countries.

Of course, I am here not to praise but to critique and it is clear to everyone outside neo-conservative circles that Will Hurd and his ideas with few exceptions are stale and old. Hurd campaigned on being young and bringing new ideas to the table that would lead to a new American century is simply dead wrong. These ideas have governed the Republican party since Ronald Reagan. Deregulation that happened under Reagan, free trade, and automation that followed suit caused a centralization of wealth amongst a few corporations with many industrial and manufacturing jobs being outsourced to other countries causing deindustrialization and loss of many jobs, and accelerating a growing divide between the working class and super-rich.  Centralization of wealth also made it harder for people to have successful small businesses as corporations had massive sums of wealth that could pay for mass advertisement, use predatory pricing, and buy out competition. Automation and the growth of migration also caused more competition for jobs, loss of work, and further alienation from work as people began to lack a common culture and machines replaced people that gave community to the workplace. As I said earlier I think Hurd is sincere about finding a way to make automation work for workers and employees but everyone knows the bottom line of the corporation is to maximize wealth and if it means it’s going cut jobs so be it. We have already seen this with the company Open AI which Will Hurd was a director of as it started to out-compete artists and writers due to how fast AI can generate images with lawsuits being filed against Open AI and other AI companies for copying writers and artists’ work. The growth of corporations in wealth made it easier to lobby to pass rules and regulations that would benefit them and their bottom line. Free trade and reliance on China which Hurd endorsed was why COVID-19 was so devasting as a pandemic and actions taken to counteract the virus caused mass trade disruption causing a shortage of supplies like medicine, machine parts, and much more that also caused problems like inflation and unemployment. Then when the Russo-Ukraine War broke out 2 years later US sanctions on Russia also caused shortages of gas and other fossil fuel as the US relied on Russian energy.  It also didn’t help that Saudi Arabia another oil-producing nation that the US relies on for oil also cut production which also caused a shortage and prices to go up.

The foreign wars the United States has gotten into have not made the US or the world safer. The Middle East is far more unstable than it was before the War on Terror nor has American hegemony been secured as key allies in regions like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the UAE have become less trusting of the US and its intentions. America has lost many of these wars for liberalism like in Afghanistan and Iraq where the Taliban came back to power and in Iraq drifted into the Iranian sphere.  The expansion of NATO has not made the US any safer as it has built tension with Russia that spilled over with Ukraine in 2022. Nor have the sanctions on Russia, Iran, Venezuela, China, and North Korea worked as they simply trade with each other, forming economic alliances like BRICS or becoming economically self-sufficient to get around sanctions with sanctions at best harming the average civilian in these countries. parallel institutions like BRICS were created to get around the US and became competitive with the US with sanctions only making the push for countries to become more integrated into BRICS. But back on American Wars even in the 20^th century, many wars that the US got in did not make us safer funding Sunni rebels in Afghanistan certainly didn’t as Al Qaeda was born out of it. US funding of dictators like Noriega Panama, security services like the Mexican DFS, and rebel groups like the Contras in Nicaragua help to give rise to the Drug Cartels in the region that now push drugs across our border. The Vietnam War and the bombing of Cambodia neither helped the US geopolitically nor helped average US citizens. And WW1 the US government forced Germany to become a democracy and pay huge sums of war debt, give up land to France and others, and blame Germany for the war. This made Germany impoverished and weak which gave rise to extremism like the Nazis and helped cause WW2.

Thousands of American lives were lost in many of these conflicts and trillions of tax dollars were wasted that could have gone to border security, fixing and creating infrastructure, improving living standards, increasing birth rates, fixing the healthcare system, creating jobs, paying off student loan debt, solving economic poverty, cracking down on crime, and so much more. But instead, people like Hurd including the current administration and many of them before it have only wanted to focus on tax breaks for the rich, deregulation, increasing power of the surveillance state, and foreign wars that have not benefited the average person. The presidents and other government elected officials who said they would fix these issues and support foreign wars at the same time never get around to fixing internal problems or at the most do the bare minimum and have made foreign policy the top issue.

Hurd and his Neo-Conservative backers also misread the situation in two other regards. For starters, Hurd is on most issues is a cultural progressive and has continued the Neo-Conservative line of watering down cultural issues however the Republican base has only become more conservative about issues like gay marriage, abortion, immigration, etc. and conservatives are tired of losing on these issues. They want politicians to enact more socially conservative legislation and reverse progressive laws not cave into progressivism. Many conservatives know that these foreign wars that Hurd advocates for are to spread cultural progressivism and globalization and do not benefit the average American. The final way Hurd misread the situation is by denouncing Donald Trump. When Hurd did this at the Lowa Lincoln Dinner in July of 2023 he got booed off the stage and the election campaign never took off. Hurd like many of his fellow neocons does not understand why Trump is so popular with the Republican base. It is because Trump promises to get the country out of foreign wars and bring back jobs, to stop mass migration that replaces American workers, For America to become economically independent, to drain the deep state or bureaucracy, and simply change course from where America has been heading for the last 30 years arguably more that hasn’t befitted the average American. Did Trump live up to all these things he promised in his first term? No, and I personally do not put my hope in him or the two-party system for that matter, but I understand why others do have hope for Trump. Will Hurd, Chris Christy, and Nikki Haley all represent the opposite, the return to Neo-liberalism, to ineffective and water down conservatism, and return to the establishment. Hurd embodies the establishment in every way from his career in the CIA to his neoconservatism to his hatred of Trump. That is why Hurd, and Chris Christy for that matter never had a chance. At least Nikki Haley was smart enough not to bash Trump which is why her polls aren’t as low not to mention receiving support from big business types like Charles Koch and Reid Hoffman. And to Hurd’s credit, he understands that Haley is the best chance for the neocons to take back the party instead of supporting Christy who is a total joke to begin with but nevertheless, Trump leads by over 50 percent and that’s not going to change. It’s clear that people want political change and do not want to go back to the Neo-Conservatism of Hurd. All Hurd can hope for is that Trump is put in jail and is forced to not run, with Haley beating Vivek Ramaswamy and becoming the republican nominee or Biden somehow beats Trump. Even then that may not stop the motion that Trump has started as people will be further radicalized against the liberal system that Hurd has helped to maintain throughout his life.

The American Divide on Israel

It is no secret that America is the most pro-Israel country in the present day. America has sent billions of dollars to Israel. It has fought Israeli enemies like Saddam Iraq, Assad Syria, Gaddafi Libya, and Iran. Most recently the US has sent billions of dollars worth of military aid to Israel and has shot down a recent UN proposal for a Gaza ceasefire so that Israel can continue its offensive, and many lawmakers inside the US as well as corporate giants have been trying to suppress critiques of the Zionist project and its treatment of Palestinians. Of course, it is no surprise to anyone the US has a powerful Israeli lobby notably AIPAC.

Amongst the ruling class, there are two beliefs on why Israel is important one is that Israeli is the only liberal country in the Middle East and is key in spreading liberalism throughout the Middle East, and the second reason mostly among Republicans is Christian Zionism the belief that the modern state of Israel was ordained by God himself and the Jews his people and must be defended at all costs. While Israel relations look like they won’t change anytime there is growing discontent with Israel and US foreign policy all around. This discontent is not just coming from an average person or from political left or right but even parts of the ruling class from both political parties. Democrats and Republicans both have two competing factions on Israel Palestine Question and other foreign policy questions.

 Democrat and Progressive Factions

The Democrat Party and progressive factions can be broken up into two camps on the Israeli question. The first one is what I would call the War on Terror Liberals who support Israel and the second one is the Radical Progressives who are for Palestine. The divide between these two camps is very similar to the one between Cold War Liberals and the New Left during the Vietnam War. War on Terror Liberals is the ruling faction of the Democrat Party with the main figurehead of it being Joe Biden who is backed by most of the mainstream media like CNN, ABC, and MSNBC. Big financial institutions like Wells Fargo, Black Rock, Chase Bank, and Bank of America. Big tech giants like Reid Hoffman, META, Bloomberg LP, and Amazon. Most elements in the State Department and the rest of the security services like the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc.  As well as other corporate and private sector giants. War on Terror Liberals as their name implies are supporters of the war on terror and believe that Israel is an important ally in the Middle East in spreading Liberalism in the region and countering Iran and Russia. All of them believe in liberal internationalism and maintain the global liberal order. Some individuals may also hold onto Christian Zionism however they’re not as open about it as religion has played less of a role in Democrat and progressive politics in general in recent years. This generation tends to be a lot older but still very progressive on immigration, and minority issues and see Israel as leading the way in progressive causes in the Middle East like “human rights,” abortion, and LGBT rights. That said unlike the Neo-Conservatives in the Republican Party they tend to be more critical at times of Israel’s actions like the bombing campaign in Gaza that has killed thousands of civilians and the Biden administration has restricted visas from Israeli settlers who have attacked Palestinians. Seeing these Israeli actions as not only helping Hamas radicalize Palestinians but as bad PR that is making the Arab and Western world turn on Israel. Similar sentiments are also shared amongst other liberal leaders like Emmanual Macron in France and Justin Trudeau of Canada.

The next faction is the Radical Progressives who are the pro-Palestine faction. This faction is made up of sections of the Democrat party like congresswomen like Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Cortez who blocked aid to Israel with the help of other Democrats for that money to be used for Ukraine.  Elements of the State Department and CIA. News Media, and commentary communities like the Jacobine, Jimmy Dore, Democracy Now, and Bread Tube. Left-wing third parties like the Communist Party USA. Most of the left-wing activist classes and NGO organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. As well as some corporate giants like Ben & Jerry’s, Ford Foundation (funds news media Democracy Now), and George and Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundation who also support Joe Biden. This faction (exception of Jimmy Dore) tends to be more radical when it comes to progressive issues like open borders, defunding the police, and transgender children, and of course, takes a different direction on the Israel question. They are also more racially diverse and younger. While the activists and third parties seem genuine in their support of Palestine. But the big donors like Soros and NGOs like the War on Terror liberal factions seem to believe that Israel is doing bad PR with its apartheid-like mistreatment of Palestinians and brutal bombing campaign but unlike the War on Terror liberals, the radical progressives see the whole Israel project as a problem not just some of their actions. That said that does not mean they support Hamas or other militant factions with many of them like the Squad in Congress condemning the October 7^th Attack and many of them are annoyed at Palestinian’s social conservatism like Ilham Omar who supports the LGBT NGO Al Qaws in Palestine while the local west bank government banned the group and average person in Palestine is religiously conservative therefore against the group existence. This faction in Congress and the donor class will support a color revolution in Palestine if Hamas wins. And like the War on Terror liberals, the corporate and government officials apart of this faction our still liberal internationalists they just see Israel hindering this project instead of helping it.  They still support American military aid in the War in Ukraine, countering China, and regime change in Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.  That said the activists, third parties, Jimmy Dore, and average voters for these politicians and parties have more diverse opinions on these issues and some of them would want America to withdraw from all conflicts. It’s also very possible that people like the corporate elite like Soros and the Democrat Party are trying to keep these people in line with the Democrat Party by supporting them and their ideas.

Republican and Patriotic factions.

The Republican Party is made up of two factions on the Israeli question the first being the Neo-conservatives/ Zionists and the second being the American First faction. This conflict is very similar to that of Paleo and Neoconservatives in the early 1980s to the 2000s who fought for control over the conservative movement and Republican Party.

The Neo-conservatives and Zionists have been historically the most dominant faction within the Republican Party with that being changed with the election of former president Donald Trump in 2016 with the party becoming more contested. Before we go over both factions, I think we should understand where former President Trump stands since he is the most popular candidate in the polls for Republicans. Trump is in-between both factions on one hand he is pro-Zionist and has attacked Syria and Iran in favor of Israel and supported Israel’s capital being moved to Jerusalem in 2018.  On the other hand, Trump has called for the removal of troops from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan and generally favors focusing on US internal problems like border security, outsourcing, reindustrialization, and increasing birth rates. 

The Neoconservative and Zionist factions are made up of mainstream news outlets like Fox News and Daily Wire. Large swarth of foreign policy think tanks and leaders like William Kristol and the Brookings Institute (who support both pro-Israel factions.) And like the War on Terror Liberals get support from large financial firms and corporation tycoons like Charles Koch, Black Rock, Reid Hoffman, and Chase Bank.  This faction is also made up of politicians like Will Hurd, Mitch McConnell, Dan Crenshaw, Tom Cotton, Lindsey Grahm, and Marco Rubio with the new figurehead of the movement being presidential candidate Nikki Haliey. This faction believes in both Christian Zionism, and global liberalism, and most cases aren’t much different from their War on Terror liberal counterparts other than being slightly more conservative and less critical of Israel.

The second faction is the America First faction which is made up of paleo-conservative and Non-neocon magazines like Chronicles, Compact Magazine, and the American Conservative.  Third Parties like the Libertarian Party and the Constitutional Party. Politicians like Justin Amash, Rand Paul,  Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Matt Gaetz.  YouTube commentators and dissidents within mainstream news like John Doyle, Mark Dice, Alex Jones, Tim Pool, Tucker Carlson, Ramzy Paul, Candace Owens, Lauren Southern, Auron Maclntrye, and others. Its figurehead some would argue would be businessmen and former president Donald Trump since he helped mainstream the movement however, I would argue the right-wing techno capitalist and presidential candidate Vivek Ramasamy is much closer to the goals of this group than Trump is. This faction unlike the radical progressive faction is not necessarily pro-Palestine. They tend to dislike Hamas for their tactics and radical Islam due to it being seen as anti-western but that does not mean there isn’t sympathy for Palestinians. There have been some articles that have come out in American Conservative and Chronicles about the suffering of Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli government and how Israel makes it easier for militant groups to grow due to Israel’s actions. One of the articles from American Conservative even talks about the plight of Palestinian Christians who are dwindling in the region due to Israelis pushing them off their land, blockade around Gaza, and Israel bombing campaign. Former congressman Justin Amash, who is Palestinian himself, had some of his family killed by an Israeli airstrike on the Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza. Showing how brutal the conflict is and how Israel cares little for Christians. There have also been articles critical of Israel’s actions during the War on Terror such as lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Israel’s lobbying efforts in the US government, and the USS Liberty incident. But this faction is mainly concerned about US internal issues like border security, the fentanyl crisis, crime, living standards, cultural issues, and the economy rather than foreign policy. They also see many of these wars as pushing cultural progressivism and globalism around the world that are not in the interest of average Americans and something America first is fighting at home. Republicans in the Senate and Congress including some in the Neo-Con faction like Senator Lindsey Graham have blocked several military aid packages to Ukraine and Israel due to their belief that the aid money should be spent on border security. Many like Vivek Ramaswamy, support Israel but believe Israel should do its own wars themselves and not rely on America. Ramaswamy at the same time has also supported the free speech of Pro Palestine demonstrators on US college campuses. While there is no agreed-upon foreign policy all of them reject Neo-conservatism with Ramaswamy giving a no Neo-con pledge if he was elected. The views on foreign policy can range from isolationism to largely trying to compete with China economically instead of fighting Russia and Iran like putting troops on the ground or color revolution in general. They are also against foreign lobbying. Many in America First see the War on Terror, and US involvement in the Russo-Ukraine War as mistakes, and the US should withdraw from the Middle East and end funding to both Israel and Ukraine.  However, there is a minority of those in the America First factions that do support the Palestine struggle officially against Israel, and this ranges from MAGA Communists like Jackson Hinkle to RT conservatives, Ultra-Orthodox Jews like Neturei Karta organizations, some Conservative Socialists, Third Positionists, some other conservatives, and libertarians. All these groups see Israel as nothing more than a Neo-liberal proxy state that leaches off the average American taxes, tries to get America to go to war for them, and does no favors for Christians in the Middle East. Some would go as far as to support a one-state Palestine solution. While this faction within a faction has grown in recent years, especially online, it does not hold any real power for the time being.

What does this all mean?

The growth of anti-war factions on both the right and left is a sign not of antisemitism or even illiberalism like some in the establishment like to claim but rather that the American people including members of the ruling class like Trump, Ramaswamy, Robert F Kennedy Jr, Elon Musk, Cardi B and many others are just simply tired of all the wars and thousands of lives and billions of dollars wasted on wars that couldn’t be won or served the American peoples interests. All that money wasted could go to solving problems at home that seem to continue to grow as these conflicts go on year by year. Even Conservative Protestants who used to be very pro-Zionists have become more skeptical with the rise of religious YouTube commentators like Redeemed Zoomer who see Christian Zionism as a heresy. The distaste for foreign wars is also shown in low recruitment numbers for the military as many are tired of conflict and the military once a conservative base has become disenfranchised with military goals of spreading progressivism or wokism and globalism around the world.

As Conservative Socialists, it is our job to oppose the war and to be against the liberal capitalist ruling class that exploits this great country and the world. However, we are nowhere near power as we lack organization, funding, and the numbers to enact change. However, the growth in anti-war sentiment among the people gives me a lot of hope that this country can avoid another World War. And there are two options in the next election that can work in our favor. But let me be clear that I do not believe in working in the two-party system in the long run and still believe that Conservative Socialists should build institutions outside the two-party system to break establishment control on the narrative. Now here are the two options.

The first option is a Trump victory with Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tucker Carlson being placed in his administration. While Trump is indeed a Zionist he is against sending money to Ukraine and has advocated for US withdrawal from Syria. With Carlson and Ramaswamy being in the administration they could water down Trump’s Zionism and convince him not to have Neo-cons in his administration like his previous one. Effectively ending or at least minimizing US involvement in the Middle East and the Israel-Palestine conflict. And hopefully avoiding or at least delaying a third world war.

The second option is Joe Biden winning again and Nikki Haley winning the primary due to Trump being thrown in prison or forced not to run due to the J6 protests with Neo-Cons regaining control of the party. Now I know what some are thinking this is a total contradiction with the first option and would be a worse outcome. However, this can lead to great opportunities if this is played right. If Trump is thrown in jail and the Biden administration goes on as usual with Republicans supporting him on foreign policy. Biden’s victory is preferred over Haley’s victory because Biden is at least cautious about direct US involvement in war, but Haley will directly throw us into war with Iran, and World War 3. The voter base of both parties will be more disenfranchised than ever before as conditions in the US will get worse or go unsolved. As crime rises, infrastructure continues to disintegrate, the debt of the people and government increases, and the economy stagnates but the power of the police state continues to grow. This can create conditions for a mass movement that transcends the left and right and causes mass protests against the US government and large segments of the ruling class.

This movement can be united on 5 basic principles.

1. The end of US involvement in all foreign conflicts with US troops withdrawing from all countries and leaving NATO.
2.    The end of free trade and return of jobs and industries to the US with the government being focused on economic self-sufficiency instead of global conflicts or organizations like the UN.
3. The abolition or defunding of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and ATF with agents who committed crimes like murder and torture against political dissidents being arrested and charged. Along with the release of all political dissidents who haven’t killed anyone.
4.  The end of the two-party rule in favor of a multi-party system with both Republican and Democrat parties with their media establishment being disbanded.
5. The breakup of all corporate monopiles for small businesses and coopts to be able to compete, the market becoming fairer and the average person being able to achieve the American dream.

Granted this should not be the end goal of the Conservative Socialists which is the Conservative Socialist state but as stated earlier we are in no position to establish this state at the moment. But by breaking up the two-party, system, corporate, and security state, and ending US involvement in foreign wars could give us a chance to gain power as the monopoly and establishment control of the narrative would be hindered. Even if we only achieved a few or only one of these goals particularly point 1 or 3 would be a major success and would rapidly change the US for the better and hopefully prevent World War 3.

The Odd Position of Qatar

Out of all the countries that are involved in the Israel-Palestine conflict and all the other conflicts in the Middle East that have taken place in the last two decades. None has played all sides or been as pragmatic as the small country of Qatar has. Qatar is a small autocratic country in the Middle East and has played a crucial role in the War on Terror and the current conflict between Israel and Hamas. On one hand, Qatar maintains strong ties with the US and helped the US to fund rebels in Libya and Syria to overthrow the Anti-Zionist Assad and Gaddafi governments with Qatar being one of few Arab countries not to renormalize relations with Assad Syria. The Qatar government also spent millions of dollars in funding Neo neoconservative institutions like the Brooking Institute with the Institute’s former president John Allen having to resign over a federal investigation of illegally lobbying for the country of Qatar. Even American politicians like Democrat senator of New Jersey Bob Menendez have been accused and charged with taking bribes from Qatar.  Qatar also does sizeable lobbying in the EU with four politicians being charged with illegally lobbying for Qatar’s most notable former vice president of parliament Eva Kaili.

On the other hand, Qatar has given shelter to the Hamas leadership and the Taliban during the War in Afghanistan. The Qatar-backed state fund News media Al-Jazeera back in War in Iraq in 2003 was notorious for exposing the US mistreatment of civilians and suspected terrorists. Qatar was also a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt an ally of Hamas and was against a US and Saudi-backed coup in the country in 2014.  Despite at times having different geo-political goals at times then Iran and Russia have maintained positive relations with both nations with Iran taking Qatar’s side during the Saudi-Qatar diplomatic crisis where Saudi Arabia accused Qatar of backing terrorism. Nor has Qatar joined in on US sanctions on Russia for the Russo-Ukraine War.

To some, this may seem very odd but there is a very pragmatic reason for this and that is simply to be on all major powers’ good sides while at the same time pushing their own interest. No doubt Qatar’s support for Palestine is sincere as it’s a fellow Arab and Muslim country. But by playing all sides Qatar’s decisions may upset the US Iran or Russia at times but Qatar ends up making up for it on another issue. In this regard, the country is much like its ally Turkey in this regard. I would also argue that Qatar lobbies so much in the US and EU especially funding neo-conservative institutes like Brookings to buy them off from supporting regime change in Qatar or allied countries. While I can respect Qatar’s pragmatism on geo-politics I do not like how they lobby my country’s government to support regime change in other countries. All foreign lobbying, whether government or private should be banned or severely restricted. The American people’s interest and well-being should always come first. That said I would like to warn Qatar that they can lobby all they want but that will not change the US government’s ideology of establishing global liberalism meaning Qatar since it’s an autocratic monarchy will eventually be targeted if the US gets its way. It may take a bit longer than it did to Iraq or Syria but it will happen if everything goes the way the US government wants it to.

What would a realistic America’s Foreign Policy be in the Israel-Palestine Conflict and the Middle East?

What would realistic American foreign policy be for Israel Palestine Conflict and the Middle East? For starters, the US should dismantle and ban all foreign lobbyists whether they be from Israel, Qatar, or elsewhere so that the US can see more clearly. Secondly, the US should be energy self-sufficient and shouldn’t rely on countries thousands of miles away for oil or other forms of energy. If the US can’t do this on its own, it should go to neighboring countries before going to countries thousands of miles away so that we can get energy faster and not be affected by shortages for a long time. As for Israel and Palestine, it’s clear that both the Israeli government and Hamas/ other Palestinian militant factions do care about the other civilians judging by the October 7^th attack and the Israeli bombing and settlement campaign. The US order, especially since it is liberal, should not support either side because it will delegitimize US principles of freedom, equality, and liberty and further damage the US reputation throughout the world (as the US is currently doing.) Instead, the US should try to get both sides to moderate and come to the negotiation table and get both countries to recognize the other independence and borders. If this does not work, completely pull out of the Middle East and let the two sides figure it out themselves. Whoever wins, the US should come back 20 years later after this goes down the memory hole and normalize relations with whoever wins. During these 20 years, the US should be using this time to reindustrialize, fix infrastructure, secure the border, increase birth rates, fix the healthcare system, and every other internal US problem.  Instead of wasting it on foreign wars.

What If Israel Collapses?

I doubt the Israel state will collapse in this conflict they may lose this conflict, but Israel will not collapse. It will take a lot more to happen like the US abandoning Israel and Israel being completely isolated from the rest of the world along with internal conflict for collapse to happen. But since I asked the question what if Gaza falls? I should ask the question what if Israel falls? There are two options that come to me when I think of this question but in both cases, the liberal American order still loses.

Palestine state will be automatically recognized by most if not all Arab and Muslim countries followed by many African, Latin American, and Asian countries, then European, and finally North American with the last two maybe taking years to decades to do so. Israel is a proxy state that the US spent decades spending billions of dollars on and countless wars to defend. The collapse of Israel would be a devasting defeat to the liberal order as it was the only liberal country in the Middle East. The US will probably immediately sanction Palestine and fund rebels in the country whether be remnants of the Israeli state like a Lehi or Irgun-style rebel group or ISIS-like rebels or possibly try to cause a major conflict between Islamists and secular Palestinian factions. However, most of this would probably fail as the Arab and Muslim worlds will ignore sanctions and many will help Palestine to be stable. The only real divide that could cause problems is one between secular socialist nationalists versus Islamist nationalist factions as both have competing ideas of what a New Palestine state should be. However, it is also possible due to years of war and fighting alongside one another they will settle their differences peacefully and come to some compromise. There will also be a return of Palestinians who had been living in other countries like Syria and Lebanon throughout the war. At the same time, there will be a mass exodus of Jews from the region fearing persecution with many of them ending up in Europe and the US causing another massive refugee crisis.

There are two responses to what the liberal order and America could give outside of sanctions.  It has to be remembered that the US would still have a major Zionist lobby like AIPAC and many in the establishment in both parties are Zionists. The Zionists, corporate media, and weapons manufacturers will be beating the war drums for an invasion of Palestine and even Iran since Iran is a major backer of Palestine militants. The goal of this invasion would be the re-establishment of Israel and the destruction of Iran. But at the same many in the establishment as well as the average Americans established in a previous article are tired of all the conflicts and will seek withdrawal of the remaining forces from the Middle East accepting defeat and realizing the War on Terror was a total failure.

If the Zionist faction gets its way it will lead to an invasion of Palestine and Iran which will ignite a regional conflict that will not only kill thousands to millions of Arabs and Muslims but also thousands of US troops, and civilians and cost trillions of dollars and possibly ignite a war with Russia since it’s an ally of Iran and therefore start World War 3. If this war goes like the war in Iraq, and Afghanistan where local militants use guerrilla warfare or 4^th generation warfare, the US will get bogged down and will eventually withdraw with its strengthened weakened and reputation destroyed in the region and hindered elsewhere. The US will be seen as not as strong as it used to and many countries will start to change sides or become more independent from the US with a possible insurrection happening in the states due to internal problems becoming worse due to most US government funding going to war instead of solving internal problems.

If the US withdraws, however, it will still be a US defeat, but the US could still maintain its reputation around the world and eventually normalize relations with the Middle East and Iran as some time passes from the conflicts.  And use it time away to fix internal issues or spend more time counteracting Russia or China if it plays its cards correctly. By accepting the loss, it could give America time and reflection to rethink US foreign policy moving forward. Bringing an end to the Neoliberal era of foreign policy peacefully and entering a better age of compromise and pragmatism. Of course, I could be wrong on this, but this is what comes to mind when I think of Israeli collapse.

Russia, China, and India on the Israel-Palestine War

There has been a lot of speculation on what are the opinions of other major powers like Russia, China, and India on the recent war in Gaza. Some like former American UN ambassador Nikki Haley believe Hamas initially attacked Israel on Putin’s birthday for his benefit even though the day also marks the end of the 50 anniversaries of the Yom Kippur War and Hamas’s reasoning has nothing to do with Putin Russia despite having better relations with Russia then the US. Some Neocon types would argue Russia and China’s BRICS economic union is not only an anti-American group but also an anti-Israeli group but any basic look into both of these claims is easily disproven.

Russia and China have condemned both sides in the Israel- Hamas conflict for violence but instead of sanctioning or encouraging war have called for all sides to return to negations. In the case of India, it backed Israel in the conflict due Indian government also having trouble with Islamic militants and seeing their struggles as the same. Russia, China, and India supported a UN-backed resolution calling for a ceasefire while the US rejected it. Russia and China are seeking compromise in this conflict to satisfy both sides not to prolong it like the US.  But I will agree if Israel collapses, I doubt Russia or China will complain that much either as Russia and China are allied with Syria and Iran with Israel constantly attacking both countries and by default attacking Russian and Chinese interests. It can’t be ignored either that Russia has said that Israel needs to return the Golan Heights to Syria too and respect Palestinian territory with China making similar claims.

Some will call India’s recent statements on the conflict a betrayal of the original pro-Palestine position, of the country but I think it does show that to some but to me it shows multipolarity working. What do I mean by this? Having multiple centers of power that are made up of different civilizations and interests shows that a multipolar system is working as it should. While a unipolar world where the world goes in one direction that leads all off a cliff. No doubt India could take a better position but it’s only be expected in a multipolar world that great powers will not always see eye to eye on issues but at the same time can still maintain good relations with all like India has done with Russia, China, Iran, and the US.

Global Conservative Revolt Against Liberal Hegemony

To Conservatives everywhere it has been well established that the US is the world promoter of progressivism and destroyer of traditional customs and values as it promotes the LGBT agenda, mass migration, abortion, feminism, consumerism, capitalism, and globalization throughout the world. Naturally many countries like Russia, Hungary, Iran, China, and others have counteracted this by cracking down on NGOs and groups in their own countries who have advocated for these things. Instead have promoted their own traditional cultures like Russian Orthodoxy in Russia, Roman Catholicism in Hungary, Shia Islam in Iran, and Confucianism in China. As well as restricting abortion and promoting the traditional family.

No doubt all these countries to some extent export their ideas outside their countries like Iran in Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria through Shia militias and parties. Russia through the Orthodox Church and political parties throughout Europe ranging from right-wing populists to conservative communists and social democrats. China through it Confucius schools, and Hungary’s Victor Orban also called for a unity of conservatives around the world against liberalism. No doubt all of this is needed to combat the liberal order, but more is required. There cannot just be confrontation on the political scene but also in culture. The US spreads cultural progressivism not just through NGOs and activist groups but also in movies, art, literature, social media, etc. The conservative world needs to build up its own cultural industry to combat liberal hegemony because right now that is the most successful way the US influences the people in other countries and helps to build color revolution in these countries. To think US media doesn’t have a US theme message or that progressive art isn’t backed by the US government or corporate class like it was during the Cold War is dead wrong.

Conservative countries and individuals need to support a counter-liberal culture if they want to defeat the liberal order and establish a more socially conservative and multipolar world. This culture also must be exported across the globe to counteract the liberal cultural industry. Even if a multipolar world is established and the US is defeated it will be for nothing if liberal cultural hegemony still infects many parts of the world like it does with some BRICS members like Brazil and South Africa with the process starting all over again. Social conservatives and other illiberal forces must unite to combat a globalist liberal order. Not just through political means but through art, culture, parallel institutions and so much more. An alliance even though it may be brief needs to be established between traditional Christians, Muslims, non-Zionist Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and others as well as a global alliance between conservative forces need to be established with differences being put to the side for the time being.

Why it is not a bad thing that some liberals our supporting Palestine

Some Conservatives and Nationalists like conservative commentator Auron Maclntrye have talked about the divide of the liberal ruling class on the Issue of Israel and Palestine with the Biden faction who I dubbed War on Terror Liberals being Pro-Zionist while the radical progressives like congresswoman AOC and Ilham Omar are Pro-Palestine. This has become a major divide between the Democrat party and the liberal population with it believed to be affecting Biden’s polling numbers for the upcoming Presidential election as many are angry with him helping Israel or not doing enough for Israel. This also created a divide among conservatives as some notable pro-Zionists or Neo-Conservatives used the radical progressives as an excuse to support Israel and claim Israel was trying to be destroyed by the liberal order. Even though Biden has given billions of dollars of aid to the country, and supported every Middle Eastern War the US has fought in that has benefited Israel. Not to mention groups like ADL who write hit pieces on conservatives and nationalist dissenters of the liberal order but at the same time defend Israeli expansionism and ethnically cleansing of Palestinians. What I am getting at here is that this claim is not in good faith at all and Neo-conservatives are as much part of the establishment as Biden or radical progressives are. But naturally, I understand some are a little concerned or weary of being on the same side as these radical progressives as Anti-War Paleo Libertarian activist Dave Smith brought up. But for there to be any change there needs to be factions both from the left and right that fight to end aid for Israel and stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. If there is opposition from both sides then the pro-Israel establishment will cave in eventually.

There is another reason why we should support progressive liberals supporting both sides of the conflict. Not because it divides them but because either side, they support will effectively kill their cause basically killing themselves and their movement in the Middle East.  By Biden’s funding of Israel’s war on Gaza and the West Bank and blocking a ceasefire proposal at the United Nations has caused the death of thousands of civilians and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, shows that the liberal establishment never gave a damn about so-called “universal human rights” and how the idea is used as a vague term to push their narrative forward and the liberal establishment break their own rules when it befits the liberal order.  It also shows how historical events like the Holocaust are used to excuse Israel for the genocide of Palestinians since Jews were genocide by National Socialist Germany with this narrative also being used to justify US intervention. Along with that any criticism of Israel or Zionism will get you labeled an antisemite. This effectively waters down these narratives and accusations as both left and right are being hit by them while Israel is actively committing ethnic cleansing. It also shows the liberal order hypocrisy as it allows Israel to take part in events like the Olympics and Eurovision yet Russia is not allowed to due to the war in Ukraine even though Israel has killed more civilians in 2 months than Russia has in almost two years of fighting nor has Russian government officials threaten to Nuke Ukraine like Israeli officials have with Gaza. Not to mention Russia still sees Ukraine as a brother nation while Israel views Palestinians as invaders and subhuman.

At the same time, however, the radical progressives who support Palestine are not doing themselves any favors either. As the War on Terror liberals and Neo-Conservatives correctly understand Israel despite its flaws is the only liberal democracy in the region that is tolerant of LGBT along with other liberal progressive virtues and Israel’s existence in the region will help to spread liberalism and progressivism in the long run. But if Israel collapses then all of that goes down the drain. What would be established in Palestine? It would not be some progressive liberal utopia that is democratic or is accepting of the LGBT community. It would be a theocrat state like in Iran or a Pan-Arab nationalist state like in Assad Syria neither of whom our liberal or progressive in the Western sense. These will be states that will crack down on progressive NGOs and dismantle them. Further destroying any chance radical progressives had about spreading their ideas to the region. Not to mention Palestine’s victory will more than likely mean the expulsion of Israelis from the country effectively destroying the narrative that radical progressives are against racism too. And if Israel is destroyed it will make the liberal order look weak and ineffective and will mean that the fight to abolish liberalism and social progressivism will be a lot more closer to home.

Israel and Hamas have effectively put themselves in a life-or-death struggle where only one will come out on top. It could have been different if both sides truly wanted peace, but both knew internally only one could remain in the long run. As both sides have taken too much from the other like land, and lives for the other to forgive. The progressive liberals on both sides of the issue are not doing themselves any favors as it shows their hypocrisy and has shown how self-destructive they are yet again not realizing both are walking off a cliff regardless of who wins.  Non-interventionist conservatives and nationalists are playing it smart by saying America shouldn’t be involved and let Israel, Palestine, and other Middle East regional powers figure it out themselves. No reason for the US to get its hands any dirtier than what they already are or waste American lives and money when that money can go to fix internal problems.

The New Cold War Race for Above Replacement Birth Rates

There is a New Cold War that has broken out. On one side there is Russia and China which represent the illiberal, traditional, and multipolar world. On the other side, there is the United States which represents the neo-liberal, progressive, and unipolar world that has ruled since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the previous Cold War. Like the previous Cold War, this conflict is about a battle of ideas, economies, cultures, and ways of life. And like Cold Wars there are still races like the space race, the race for weapons, and for new technology in general but there is a new race that was not in the last Cold War. This race is just as important as the battle of cultures and ideas and will play a major role in whose society and ideas will win out in the long run. I am talking of a race every major society with few exceptions has problems with and many of them are trying to fix it as we speak. I am of course talking about blow replacement birth rate and who can fix it the fastest and make the birth rate stay about replacement level for the long term.

 Almost every player in this New Cold War whether it be China, America, Russia, EU, Iran, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Turkey, and others has seen a decrease in birth rates with many being below replacement level. Many of these countries including Russia, China, Iran, Hungary, Turkey, and North Korea leadership have started to take action to increase birth rates with America and most of the EU  with the exceptions of Poland and Hungary are more concerned about abortion being a protected right but some within the American ruling class like Businessmen and a presidential candidate like Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Businessman and presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy are actively warning of below replacement birth rate and their consequences that it will have on society.

Causes of Lower Birth Rates

There are many reasons why birth rates are low and there is much debate on how much one causes this issue. Some causes include high abortion rates, women getting married much later in life, fewer marriages in general, women going into the workforce, high cost of living, economic recession, workaholic culture, growth on nontraditional sexual norms, birth control, gender/ political divides, and simply a growth of the population’s desire not to have children at all. All of this to one degree or another causes the birth rate to drop or at the very least none of this has done any favors in increasing the birth rates.

Consequences of Low Birth Rates

There are many economic and social consequences to low birth rates, especially in the long term. The first major economic consequence is a shortage of the labor force that will also cause the economy to shrink or at least experience less growth, and productivity to go down. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, “Lower birth rates are associated with less growth and a more rapidly aging population and, hence, slower economic expansion. An economy can expand in two basic ways: by increasing labor (the number of workers/hours worked) or by boosting productivity.” If the workforce is not there neither will the productivity be there either. A smaller workforce in the short term will also put pressure on social security as baby boomers will be retiring in mass in the next few years with that trend already accelerated by the Covid Pandemic. Since Social Security is paid by payroll taxes and the workforce is smaller will no doubt hinder social security as the service will not be able to take care of all the elderly unless taxes are increased but even then, that may not be enough or cause social instability.  The government will also have to increase taxes all around because fewer people mean less revenue for the government and its projects. Low birth rates will also lead to fewer people in the military, which will make it a lot harder to defend a large country as the military will be stretched thin.

The social consequence of low birth rates is that families will be smaller. According to the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, “Lower fertility rates lead children to have fewer siblings or to have no siblings at all. Sibling relationships are often the longest relationships a person has in their life, providing stability and support.” The article also further states that kids with strong sibling relationships have stronger interpersonal skills and more self-control.  It can also be said siblings who have strong relations with each other will also be more likely to help one another in time of need and help bring family and community together. The elderly will also be in poor places with fewer and smaller families “Lower fertility rates lead children to have fewer siblings or to have no siblings at all. Sibling relationships are often the longest relationships a person has in their life, providing stability and support.” Elders who live with their adult children have “better mental and physical health outcomes than elderly adults who live alone.” A world with fewer and smaller families will no doubt lead to a more isolated world and lonely world that will lead to the growth of depression, suicide, and mental illness. Which will no doubt do numbers on the economy as well. The country that has more children and a high birth rate will more than likely have a bigger economy, a larger military, be more culturally cohesive, and be far stronger in the long run than those who have a below replacement birth rate.

Signs of the Birth Rate Race

There are many signs of the race for increasing the birth rate and we could even argue that it has already started. Countries like Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Hungary, South Korea, and America have all either restricted abortion or started to implement policies for families to have more children. We can that when the Great Recession of 2008 happened birth rates dropped all around the world and many places like the United States never recovered. We could even first major sign of this race starting was when China dropped its anti-natalist one-child policy in favor of women having more children. Of course, some like Hungary had adopted incentives for families like tax breaks for families who have children and affordable housing from families all the way back in the early to mid-2010s. But in the last few years, this trend rapidly accelerated with many nations like Iran, Russia, Poland, China, America, and North Korea either banning abortion to certain extents or looking for ways to limit abortion plus incentives like one in Hungary being introduced in hopes of increasing birth rates. In the last two months alone major leaders like Russia Vladimir Putin, China Xi Jinping, and North Korean Kim Jong Un all gave speeches about increasing the birth rates with Kim Jong Un giving a very emotional speech on the issue. Leaders and major figures like Donald Trump, Ali Khamenei, Victor Orban, Elon Musk, Pope Francis, Giorgia Meloni, Nicolás Maduro, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and others all made speeches or statements on the need to increase birth rates months or years prior.

The successes and failings so far

Hungary birth rate before implementing tax breaks and affordable housing for married couples to have kids went from 1.32 in 2009 to 1.56 in 2020. Russia when the country first started rolling out maternity leave benefits, payment, and vouchers worth over 10 thousand US dollars for a second child. The Russian birth rate increased from 1.30 in 2006 to 1.42 in 2007 with birth rates peaking in 2015 at 1.78 but still has a higher birth rate than countries like Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus. China after abolishing the one-child policy and rolling out benefits for having children slightly increased the birth rate in 2016.  Most recently in Texas, after abortion was banned from the state a year later, births in the state increased by 3 percent.

Outside these examples, incentives, and restrictions on abortion in other countries may have slowed down the decline in birth rates. Many countries have so far not been successful at stopping this decline. And many places including Russia and Hungary birth rates started to drop again due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine War with economic turbulence that followed these events. There are many reasons for the decline in birth rates mentioned earlier in many of these countries like sanctions in the case of Iran, Russia, and North Korea that have hindered their economies. While yes economic decline no doubt hinders birth rates as married couples will not have kids if they cannot afford them but economic growth or even economic development does not mean an increase either as countries like Japan, and South Korea are far better off economically speaking still have far lower birth rates then North Korea, Russia, and Iran. Not to mention in many other developed countries like the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and others who have more relaxed abortion laws and less economic and cultural incentives to have children are also experiencing a decline in birth rates. Even places that have incentives to have children and are economically well off like China and Poland are still having a hard time increasing birth rates with no one successfully increasing the birth rate to above replacement levels at 2.1. Decreasing birth rates are not just due to economic decline but there are also cultural factors. Many people especially more secular and liberal-minded people put off children or do not want children because they want to focus on their careers or do not want to have the responsibility of having kids. In some more progressive circles feminists for example see marriage and having children as a sexist and oppressive institution and believe there are too many people on this planet.   Religious people especially conservative-minded religious people tend to have more children on average as both religious doctrines whether they be Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or other or socially conservative or patriotic politically minded doctrines encourage couples to get married (who have higher births than non-married couples, to begin with) to have children and multiply. Seeing it as a duty of their religion or country or both to do so. This is true for both developed and non-developed countries. For example, Israel 2020 a developed country has a 2.90 birth rate the highest in the developed world while Palestine a non-developed country 2020 has a birth rate of 3.57. While decline has still happened in both of these places in the last 3 years they’re still very high. The main problem in many developed countries is that religion and social conservatism have decreased among the average person. However, some leaders like Victor Orban Hungary, and Vladimir Putin Russia see that religion and patriotism play an important role. Orban discovered this formula when he started this project and Putin just came to this realization in his speech to the World Russian People’s Council. “All levels of government, our economic, social, and infrastructure policies, education and awareness-raising, and healthcare should be engaged without exception in the work of supporting families, mothers and children. All public organizations and our traditional religions should focus on strengthening families as well. Preserving and increasing the population of Russia is our goal for the coming decades and even generations ahead. This is the future of the Russian world, the millennium-old, eternal Russia.” To Putin and Orban, economic incentives are not enough but cultural and religious incentives are as well and both governments seek more cooperation with Churches for these tasks and other social issues.

It cannot be ignored that many countries like Russia and China who are now trying to increase birth rates not too long ago had or still have high divorce and abortion rates with the infamous one-child policy in China being the most notorious example. So even with laws that restrict divorce and abortion, it will take time to reverse these trends especially culturally. But with increasing media and cultural values that are religious or patriotic and economic incentives could very well reverse this trend especially if they stick with the goal of increasing birth rates in the long run. We can already see this to some extent as abortions as in Russia was 2 million in 2000 to a million in 2013 to 400,000 in 2021.

The situation in America

The US birth rate has fallen by 23 percent since 2007 with there being a slight reversal last year. Possibly due to the abortion ban in some states and the Biden administration’s 2021 signing of a Child Tax Credit for people who have children above the age of 6 and under the age of 18.  There is no doubt some within the government such as the government sources I listed and the larger ruling class see decreasing birth rates as a problem. While some do call for more benefits for families it seems like most of the ruling class especially dominant progressive liberal elements seem to put most of their faith in immigration to keep population growth up as they have been since the 1960s. The liberals also put their faith in automation and AI and refuse to give up or even limit abortion which clearly does lower birth rates or make economic incentives for people to have more children or at best is not enough as both parents are still having to work instead of one single income like decades prior. This is not even going over their discouragement of traditional religious morality or the liberal’s encouragement of non-heterosexual norms in society that clearly do not help birth increase either. The liberals or Democrats put too much hope in immigration and automation and are too unwilling to compromise on issues like abortion. While immigration and automation may be short-term fixes. Many places the US gets immigrants from like Latin America and India are already having decreasing birth rates. Even in places like Africa that still have high birth rates, they will eventually go down. If these countries keep developing or become prosperous this will decrease immigration from these countries and If America continues to decline especially if America enters rapid decline it will stop immigrants from coming and many immigrants already here will leave to elsewhere. Automation and AI while yes will make production faster but it still takes people to fix them, improve them, and come up with new ideas. Fewer people mean fewer innovators, machines, and AI cannot think on their own. Nor is automation or AI close enough to take on the majority of jobs that people do or at least it is very expensive. This gets down to the problem of modern American liberalism it believes in unlimited growth, progress, technology, immigration, and individual freedom which makes them think that these can last indefinitely and are long-term solutions when they at best short-term solutions or at worst make the problem worse. It could also be argued that some in the liberal ruling class like David Rockefeller, Bill Gates, and climate alarmists still believe in the post-World War 2 narrative of the world being overpopulated and having too many kids. Yet any look at birth rates in most countries will show the opposite and should be clear that this theory was wrong when China reversed its one-child policy. Part of me thinks the overpopulation theory was just a ploy by the rich capitalists to get people to focus more on work and consumption than having a family with these capitalists not thinking of the long-term consequences this would have.  Republicans aren’t much better while some Republicans like Trump or Ramaswamy may speak on natalism and a pro-natalist bill will pop up here or there, it is half-baked with them stopping at abortion ban/ restrictions with no incentives and eventually restrictions being lifted in many states. Economic growth in the long term needs stable traditional families which is one building block of society and to some extent, government laws, economy, and culture should be used to benefit and promote this way of life. Call it communitarianism, familism, or family rights if you want but freedom should be secondary to family, nation, and duty, not the other way around. Granted most Western countries like Canada, France, and Britain are in a no better place and arguably worse.  If the US and the rest of the West want to have a chance in this new Cold War or still be a superpower in this new emerging multipolar world the birth rate race needs to be taken seriously, or else America could not be a major power before this century ends.

Prediction of the Conflict in Gaza

As of December 19^th, 2023, I believe the war will end with a return to the status quo when it comes to territory due to how Israel has failed to make any significant advances in the territory in the last couple of weeks as Palestinian militant groups like Hamas and PIJ becoming more effective in their hit and run attacks. Along with Israeli backer the US putting more pressure on Israel to end fighting.  As usual, both sides will claim victory, Israel will declare victory claiming they have destroyed Hamas’s military capabilities while Hamas will claim they successfully pushed out the Israel invaders. But unlike in previous wars where Gaza felt the brunt of conflict Israel suffered major casualties both during the October 7^th attack and during the invasion of Gaza with this war being eventually seen as a military failure by most Israelis like the Lebanon War of 2006. Israel will also feel betrayed by the US and NATO for becoming more critical Israeli brutal bombing campaign that has killed thousands of civilians. US-Israeli ties will weaken due to this and because of pressure in the US back home to focus more on internal matters leaving Israel more isolated. Israel’s government of Benjamin Netanyahu will either resign or fracture as the ruling coalition will be displeased with how the war went. The only thing Israel may claim victory about is having most of the hostages returned and having a few top militant leaders killed. Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions may have stopped Israel from capturing Gaza but the Strip will be far more devasted and destroyed than before arguably being unlivable in some areas with the status quo when it comes to territory remaining the same with Hamas losing all the territory it captured during October 7^th attack. However, there are a few more cracks in Israel. Hamas’s attack on Israel and Israel’s response had effectively killed Israel’s normalization with Saudi Arabia. It will take several years to a decade if not more for this rapprochement to happen again which will give Hamas time to think about its next move and repair the damage done in Gaza. Arab relations and amongst many other parts of the world will also be damaged further destroying Israel and America’s reputation. Another crack is that many Israeli civilians will be paranoid about another October 7^th attack and incursions from Lebanon and the West Bank causing many Israelis who have dual citizenships to flee Israel leaving Israel more depopulated hindering Israeli colonization effort and possibly making it easier for Palestinians to return to their land. But no doubt many Palestinians have left to make this difficult too.  When it comes to when this conflict will officially end I find giving an exact date will usually be wrong but I think it could end in a couple of weeks to a few months depending on how stubborn the Israeli government is.  I could be wrong on all of this but this is what I am thinking so far from what I am seeing.

Hezbollah More Than Just a Paramilitary Organization

Hezbollah or the Party of God formed during the height of the Lebanon Civil War and the Israeli invasion of the country in 1985, all be it some would argue it existed way before under different names. The group split from the Shia Amal movement and received its training and support from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) which played a pivotal role in fighting against Israel and their Lebanese allies like the Phalange and South Lebanon Army. Together with Amal, PFLP-GC, and a coalition of groups that made up the Lebanese National Resistance Front or Jammoul through guerrilla warfare successfully defeated Israeli forces in 2000 with the Israeli military withdrawing and the South Lebanon Army collapsing shortly afterward. Making Hezbollah one of few groups to claim victory over Israel in a war. Hezbollah would not just beat Israel once but twice when Israel launched its second invasion of Lebanon in 2006 in hopes of removing Hezbollah from the border but failed again and left after a month of fighting. While some say the war was inconclusive many in the Israeli government at the time considered it a defeat with Hezbollah being praised throughout Lebanon and the Arab World. Hezbollah has played an important role in the Syrian and Iraqi Civil War from the 2010s to the present day helping to defeat ISIS and has been a thorn in the side of US troops in the region. Currently, Hezbollah is playing a major role in the recent Israel-Hamas War of 2023 by attacking Israel from the north and helping wage a two-front war with the help of Amal, SSNP, and some Palestinian militant groups based in Lebanon.

Hezbollah as a non-government military force has a very successful track record arguably being one the best non-government military forces in the modern world. However, there is a lot more to Hezbollah than its military wing. It is a religious organization, it’s a political party in a major party coalition the March 8^th Alliance, and its economic force in Lebanon by owning its own banks, grocery stores, hospitals, schools, News media, and social services that help its members and their allies and are based on Islamic principles. Hezbollah is bigger than just a group in Lebanon it’s a way of life. Jihad to Hezbollah is not just a militant struggle against the enemies of Shia Islam it’s also a personal struggle against sin that goes throughout an individual entire life. Hezbollah is not just a successful example of a non-government military group but a successful party, a successful builder of political coalitions and parallel institutions.

The official government in Lebanon ever since the Civil War has been extremely weak with Hezbollah and its allies doing most of the fighting against Israel in both wars and fighting Sunni extremists from Syria when they try to infiltrate the country. Lebanon is also extremely weak due to war and sanctions from the US and allies who are trying to dismantle Hezbollah’s influence in the country. The country is also very religiously diverse with Sunni, Maronite Christians, Greek/ Armenian Orthodox Christians, Shia, and Druze all making Lebanon their home with sectarian tensions still being present. During the early days, Hezbollah was a solely religiously motivated militant group and oftentimes got into sectarian fights with its predecessor Amal, and others as many groups on all sides did at this time. However, as the organization matured, they realized they could not exist just as a militant group and they would have to be more pragmatic if they wanted to rule Lebanon. During the Civil War, the group was for a Shia theocracy due to years of a Maronite-dominated government that did not represent Shia interests who were largely poor in the country, but it realized that ethnic religious sectarianism was what caused the Civil War and if they wanted to defeat Israel and stabilize Lebanon they would have been willing to break bread with others but at the same time keep to their religious faith and principles.  Even as early as 1985 Hezbollah’s earliest statement of objectives was to “Subject the Phalanges to a just power and bring them to justice they committed against Muslims and Christians.”  Hezbollah would fight against their predecessor group Amal after they split from them during the War of Camps and War of Brothers over differences on the Palestinian Liberation Organization question. Hezbollah took a pro-PLO position and a more religious position while Amal was anti-PLO and took a more secular position. But both groups would make peace by 1990 to fight against Israel with the olive branch being extended to secular groups like SSNP, Baath parties, Communist Party, and various Nasserist organizations to fight Israel. Hezbollah realized the benefits of coalition-building as they successfully beat Israel in 2000 after the Civil War wrapped up in 1990 and the Israel War in 2000. Hezbollah was aware that this coalition-building would have to apply to electoral politics and if it wanted to keep a support base it would have to find out what its Shia supporters needed.

Hezbollah helped to form the March 8^th alliance in 2005 a coalition of left and right, Christian, Muslim, and Druze parties with the goal of maintaining a pro-Syrian/ Arab position, anti-Zionism, economic independence from the West, socially conservative religious unity on social issues, and hopes of uniting religions in the country. Parties that are in the March 8^th alliance include the Amal Movement, Marada movement, Free Patriotic Movement, Syrian Social Nationalist Party, various Pan-Arab groups, and many others, many of these groups were trying to kill one another during the Civil War but common interest brought them together.  Hezbollah with the help of Iran moved into the social services arena as the Lebanese government was too poor to help the population. Hezbollah provides medical care, fixed infrastructure, New Media, places of worship, schools, food, and other necessities. Creating jobs through its bank, school, and agricultural-run sectors. And educating their members on their faith and political goals. This was first only provided to Muslims part of Hezbollah but after the Mar Mikhael Agreement between Hezbollah and Christian Free Patriotic Movement in 2006 which marked when Hezbollah started offering social services to allied Christians. These services have also maintained Hezbollah support throughout its electoral history even during very difficult economic times like in 2019 as Hezbollah and its allies are a major force in the country to this very day.

Why Do I Bring All This Up?

I do not bring all this up to endorse Hezbollah as an organization that can do no wrong. They no doubt have many flaws and issues. However, Hezbollah is a clear example that it is possible to build a coalition with different ideological and religious sects and still find common ground even if they have a history of conflict and can make it last for many years and still stand by your principles. That it is possible to build parallel institutions that can compete with the state and help your support base and influence grow. Hezbollah is not the only organization that does this. Hamas does something similar in both political coalition and providing social services. As well as non-militant organizations like the Causapound in Italy that provide social services and before them, the Italian Communist Party did as well. No doubt the Founding Fathers perhaps not to the same extent but did have something similar before and during the American Revolution.

Minus the militancy, I do not believe violent revolution is possible or desirable in the US. I completely condemn talks of violent insurgency or Civil War rhetoric. I do believe however that American Conservative Socialists studying Hezbollah’s parallel institutions is needed and parallel institutions are a way to combat liberal hegemony in this country. Having these institutions that provide for people’s basic needs and influence culture will play a pivotal role in influencing people and swaying the masses to the cause especially as liberalism hegemony starts to wane and economic decay becomes worse. I would go as far as to say that these institutions should be established way before an official party is established. Whoever creates the most successful parallel institutions first will establish what the next American form of culture and government will be like.

Illegal Immigration was the cause of the Hamas-Israel War

The recent war in Israel and Palestine has helped to further the debate here in the US over illegal immigration and weak border security.  Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn put out a statement about the subject on her government webpage on how the Hamas attack on October 7^th reminds her a lot of our own border sighting Customs and Border Protection encounter of 169 terrorists at the border trying to enter the country.  And how Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad may infiltrate the border to conduct attacks in the states. The final paragraph reads.

“We must secure our country before it is too late. Israel – which arguably has the most prestigious intelligence apparatus in the world – did not see the October 7th invasion coming. Yet we’ve had three years to see what’s coming, and the administration has done nothing to stop it. We also have to examine the threat posed by foreign nationals in our country who may seek to do the Jewish community harm. To ensure the U.S. does not experience an atrocity akin to what took place in Israel, the Biden administration must reverse their disastrous immigration policies and take seriously the threat posed by anti-Israel extremists already here.”

While I agree the border should be secured and need to stop illegal immigration but her arguments are extremely weak. While yes high number of terrorists is concerning it is not the biggest security threat coming from Mexico that is the cartels. Cartels are far bigger and militarily capable than any terrorist cell at the borders. Many of these groups have military-grade guns, many of whom are former soldiers of the Mexican military including special forces. They have armored vehicles, rocket launchers, tanks, submarines, IEDs, and much more.  Many of these groups are also already on the US side of the border with many of them illegally and legally crossing the Mexican border more times than any foreign terrorist has. This is not even going over the billions of drugs that go through the border on a regular basis that kill thousands of Americans each year. While Senator Blackburn at least in this post seems only concerned about the Jewish community in America and not Americans as a whole.  Who are being displaced economically and territorially by mass migration and having many of our cities being overrun by criminals many of them have ties to Mexican cartels and other foreign crime syndicates.

It is no surprise to anyone that Senator Blackburn is a Zionist who supports sending military aid to Israel like most US politicians. Senator Blackburn was right however to bring up the Israel-Hamas War as a reason to bring up problems of illegal immigration and weak borders but it’s not for reasons she mentioned. To many surprise, illegal immigration is one of the reasons why Palestinian militants keep attacking Israel. I’m of course speaking of the illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank. These Israelis with the help of the Israeli government enter the West Bank, (which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority) illegally, setting up towns, expelling, or even killing the local Palestinian population in the process. Destroying their homes, businesses, and places of worship. The Israelis also tried to do this in Gaza before they were kicked out by Hamas and other militants during the Second Intifada with the Israeli government starting the Gaza disengagement plan not long after. It could even be argued that Hamas and other militant groups would not be as popular in Palestine today if the Israeli government ceased its settlement campaign. Hamas was even willing to accept the 1967 borders at one point. But this becomes more difficult as many within the Israeli government do not want to give up on the one-state solution. The recent conflict nevertheless is proof of the problem of illegal immigration and is probably one of the worst outcomes of illegal immigration that being war.

January of 2024 Essays

The Constitution and the US Strikes on Yemen’s Houthi Rebels

I cannot say I’m surprised that the US and the UK finally decided to attack the Houthi Rebels after weeks of attack on Israeli-owned ships and their allies in hopes of putting pressure on Israel to end its war on Gaza.  Despite the US coalition to combat the Houthi attacks only really being made up of the US and UK with the rest of the members sending a handful of individuals with many members like France, Italy, and Spain leaving the coalition before any real action was taken. While this is the first air strike or attack on Yemen by the United States it is not the first when it comes to the recent war in the Middle East as the US has bombed Iranian-backed militias throughout Iraq and Syria. So far none of this has caused de-escalation like the US had hope but has only escalated the conflict as Iraqi militias continue to attack US bases and Houthi have already stated they will continue to attack Israeli and US ships as long as the War in Gaza continues.

Despite some praise of the Biden administration by the mainstream media and other establishment organizations. The American public and members of Congress from both parties were deeply upset about this attack seeing it as drawing America into another War and Congress not being informed or being able to vote on the matter was a direct violation of the constitution Article 1, Section 8. This is not the first time this has happened, the Biden administration never consulted Congress on striking Syria or Iraq in the last few months, Nor did Trump when he airstrike Iranian General Qasem Soleimani or Obama when he bombed Libya, we can even go as far back as President Lyndon B Johnson who enacted War against North Vietnam without congress approval. I know I have said before but I’ll say it again the Constitution is a dead document that the ruling class enforces when it benefits them like abortion, gay marriage, immigration, and corporate interest, and drops the Constitution when it does not benefit them like government surveillance and going to war without congresses approval. Often justifying it by saying they are protecting so-called human rights and liberal democracy.  Of course, some people especially die-hard conservative constitutionalists will remind me about the cultural and religious morality context that the Constitution was written in and followed by originally but that context while true was not written into the Constitution therefore it does not have to be followed or pretend to be followed. As this cultural-religious morality slowly lost its hegemony it was replaced slowly in the 20^th century by a liberal one that sought to expand its economic and political interest globally.

If we want to get to the heart of the matter of what is wrong with the bombing of Houthi rebels. The fact is that this action could lead to a war that the US cannot win and does not benefit the average American, especially as problems at home like failing infrastructure, drug overdose, outsourcing, government debt, failing education, crime, mass illegal migration, political and cultural divisions that continue to grow and worsen. A war with Houthi Rebels and Iran in general is only beneficial to Israel which itself does not care about human rights when it comes to Palestinians. Let alone average American interest as they take money from our government that could be used to fix internal problems and make average American’s lives better.

I am not saying that we should not have a constitution or not try to follow a constitution. Rather we should have a new constitution that is more orientated to nationalist and family interests instead of globalist interests or a vague notion of Human Rights that could be made to mean anything. A criticism of the Constitution that Alexander Hamilton. This only comes about if conservatives get their head out of the sand and remove the liberal oligarchy from power.

Houthi attacks and another weakness of globalization

The recent attacks by the Yemeni Houthi rebels have shown more weaknesses in American hegemony and globalization. The attacks have not only shown how many parts of the world are willing to resist globalism and its tentacles like Zionism but at the same time shows that the American coalition to combat the Houthi is unimpressive, to say the least, most countries that make Operation Prosperity Guardian with the exception of the US and UK have only sent a handful of individuals. Many close allies in the region like Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Turkey, and other countries that use the Red Sea for trade like France, Spain, and Italy have declined to take part in the coalition with Arab and Muslim nations calling for de-escalation and being critical of the recent US/UK airstrikes in Yemen.  This is not the only weakness in globalism that has been shown recently. An occurring weakness in globalism in recent years has been in its economic aspect particularly free trade as the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukraine War have caused shortages of supplies like oil, raw materials, and much more. Causing the rise in prices, inflation, and slowing down production and the global economy.

 The Houthi attacks on shipping and the US response are no different from the previous two events as oil prices have started to rise, shortages happening again due to these attacks, and shipping companies rerouting their voyages taking much longer to reach their destinations.

 It cannot be understated how much the US and many other parts of the world rely on Middle Eastern oil. Due to its abundance and cheap labor needed to retrieve this oil.  However, the US has other oil reserves inside its own borders and some with its nearby neighbors like Venezuela and Guyana. By producing oil at home, we can provide jobs and energy security/ independence that we do not have with Middle Eastern oil. If we do not have enough oil then we can still get it from neighboring countries or develop nuclear power plants, reopen coal mines, and develop clean energy to help fill in the gaps. 

Even if America really does need Middle Eastern oil it should be very clear now that the best way to get this oil is by not taking sides in these conflicts and calling for peace on both sides. This of course isn’t what the United States has done and continued its ideological war against Iran and its allies and defended the Israeli regime. That has only made these economic problems worse as U.S. crude and bent crude rose to $76 and $80 per barrel after US airstrikes in Yemen and will continue to rise as the conflict escalates.

This is not even the first time that US foreign policy and military support for Israel has caused energy shortages. During the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) made up of many Arab and Muslim nations imposed an embargo on the US for military support it sent to Israel causing one of worst shortages of oil where prices rose 300 percent and oil had to be rationed. The Iranian revolution that overthrew the US-backed Shaw and the Iran-Iraq War that followed also had many similar effects. If America wants to avoid these shortages in the future it needs to become more energy-efficient and needs to abandon free trade and its ideological foreign policy that has only caused problems. The quicker these changes happen the better.

An American Foreign Policy For The New Multipolar World

A new world is beginning to dawn as American Neo liberalism begins its decline and what taking its place is a multipolar world. A world where not one superpower and its customs, and ideology rule the world but multiple superpowers with their own customs, traditions, and ideology. This world will be yes more competitive but at the same time more balanced as the world will not be swung in one direction at the expense of everyone else as every major power will have its own sphere of influence and have its own unique culture and system. Naturally many have asked since Neo-liberal America has been the sole superpower and hegemon since the end of the Cold War and the Fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Will America’s collapse mark the official establishment of a multipolar world like how the Soviet Union collapsed mark the beginning of the American unipolar world?  There is no doubt the possibility of American collapse as America in recent years has been exhausting itself trying to contain Russia, China, and Iran wasting billions of trillions of dollars in the process with all attempts being in vain as many parts of the world outside North America and most of Europe, continue to align with these countries conducting trade, signing economic pacts like BRICS and SCO, and military partnership. While the Neo-liberal ruling class tries to contain these countries that are not liberal, political tensions continue at home. As Democrats in states all across the US try to block former President Donald Trump from running in this year’s presidential race, Republicans in states like Texas and Republicans outside Texas like Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green advocating for secession. Americans have continued to become divided on party lines to the point of open conflict out on the streets. Other problems like crime, racial tensions, the decline in family and community life, failing infrastructure, drug epidemic, falling living standards, poor education, low birth rates, uncontrolled immigration, and increasing debt of the government and private individuals all continue to rise and become more serious by the year. All of this puts liberal democracy and the American order into question and no doubt if these questions continue to go unsolved and the political, racial, cultural, and economic divides continue to widen to the point of fracturing the United States officially ending the American project. However, a Neo-liberal collapse would be beneficial to all in the long run. America completely collapsing would not be beneficial to anyone as the people who make up America would be in a similar position to people Soviet Union after it collapsed, spiritually and economically devasted, but it would also not be beneficial to multipolarity as multipolarity unlike unipolarity needs multiple powers and if one of them collapse it leaves a vacuum and upsets balance of power. The Neo-liberalism that infected America will no doubt be the culprit behind this death as it self-destructed itself and took out America with it. There is a way of preventing this and casting off the Neo-liberal yoke that has infected America and this includes the liberal internationalism that has gone with Neo-liberalism. I have already discussed in some of these essays and previous blog posts about domestic policies and ideas to repair the damage that Neo-liberalism has done but an official remaking foreign policy is also required for America not to continue down the self-destructive path it has gone under Neo-liberalism.

The first major foreign policy change that needs to take place is the end of free trade and the return of major industries to the state and becoming energy sufficient. This should be accomplished by tariffs, subsidies for local industries including farming, tech, and manufacturing, and the nationalization of the energy industries and other large-scale industries. So that local industries can strive and be loyal to the nation. This will also provide Americans with many jobs that were lost in globalization and have the US economically self-efficient so that we do not have major supply shortages that we experience throughout the 2020s.  What we cannot make or get here we will buy from nearby countries and what is left we will get from the rest of the world. To fund this huge change, we will be from tariffs and cutting military spending. During this time of reindustrialization that could take place between 5 to 20 years. The US should stay out of all foreign conflicts and focus on its own sphere.

If the US wants to stop mass migration from Latin America, it does not only need to build a wall and have strict immigration policies. It needs to stop the sanctioning of countries like Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua that have caused mass exodus from these countries. This will cause a reduction in mass illegal migration and the gradual return of many of these migrants. The US should also support a government like Nayib Bukele El Salvador against cartels or the Narco Aristocrats and encourage other Latin American countries to do the same which will destroy these corrupt organizations and make these Latin American countries more prosperous with many of their people inside America returning home. With strict immigration laws, ending sanctions, and supporting tough-on-crime governments the US will stop the spread of cartels to the US, ending the brain drain of Latin America and ending mass migration to the United States.

When it comes to the War in Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, and proxy states like Taiwan, and South Korea. The US should stop all military support, withdraw all military forces, and have them return to the US. all foreign lobbying groups like AIPAC should be banned, and foreign NGOs have to register as such and make it public with foreign NGOs that are deemed subversive being banned. All sanctions on China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc. should end and the military alliance known as NATO should be disbanded. Effectively ending all current hostiles that the US has with these countries and effectively stopping World War 3 from taking place. The US will return to its Washington-era doctrine of trading with who we want and not getting tangled up in military alliances or conflicts that have little to nothing to do with us. The only countries and international organizations the US should fear are those that try to reimpose Neo-liberalism on us like Canada if this ideology remains after the US abandons it. If countries like Canada are still under a Neo-liberalism spell, then a temporary military alliance with Russia and China may be necessary but once the threat is defeated the alliance should end and all parties should go their separate ways peacefully.  America, Russia, China, and others in the United Nations should call for the end of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and other liberal doctrines. In favor of a doctrine based on the ideas of multipolarity and respect for differences when it comes to culture, religion, and ideals.

US Airstrikes will not deter Anti- Israeli Militant Groups

The US has launched dozens of air strikes throughout Iraq, Syria, and Yemen against predominantly Shia anti-Zionist militant groups who have been attacking US bases and ships due to their support of Israel in its war on Gaza. Despite these airstrikes killing dozens of militants and causing material losses these groups have not been deterred and continue to strike US bases and ships.

Why is this the case? All these groups whether they be the Houthi in Yemen, Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq or Islamic Resistance in Iraq and Syria are deeply motivated by Shia Islam to the point where many of them do not fear death. They see this conflict with the US and Israel as a holy war or Jihad against nations that are against Islam and Muslims in general, who seek to colonize their land and force their cultural and economic values like liberal secularism, usury, economic globalization, and gay marriage. Values that are antithetical to their faith. So naturally the Shia militants are supportive of the Palestinian cause.  It can also not be ignored that all these groups have been in at least a decade of conflicts ranging from fighting other militant groups like ISIS or resisting full-on invasions from regional powers like Saudi Arabia in the case of the Houthi or American invasion of Iraq that were far bloodier than serval US airstrikes. Nor has this been the first time for some of these groups particularly the Islamic Resistance, Popular Mobilization Forces, and Hezbollah to be bombed by the United States.  Throughout the Trump and Biden administrations, these Iranian proxy militias and the IRGC have been bombed by the US most notably 2020 Iraq airstrike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani and Popular Mobilization Forces deputy chairman Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. These groups ended up launching attacks on US bases not long afterward notable example was the 2020 Camp Taji attack that killed 2 American soldiers and 1 UK soldier. Showing they were not deterred but more vengeful than before.

These organizations have survived all these conflicts with ISIS being marginalized to Saudi Arabia negotiating with the Houthis. To think some airstrikes will deter these groups shows how out of touch the US is and has not learned a damn thing from its own history. Air Strikes and bombing campaigns did not deter the Vietcong in Vietnam or the Taliban in Afghanistan in fact it radicalized them and the local population even more and motivated them to keep on attacking the United States and its proxies until they left. The US will not break these militants who are deeply religious and disciplined.

The only way for the US to stop these attacks is for the US to get Israel to withdraw from Gaza and cease all hostilities. The US spends billions of dollars on Israel each year, so the American government has some influence on other Israeli policies and the war in Gaza is a stalemate anyhow with Israel being unable to free any of the hostages through force and 80 percent of Hamas tunnel system remains undamaged. US troops also must leave Syria and Iraq like the local governments and people have been asking them to. These are not only the demands of the militants and the people of the Middle East but also the American people who are tired of wasting money and lives that could go to solving problems at home. It seems like the US may be learning its lesson as recent news broke of the US meeting with the Iraqi government about US military withdrawal and the US trying to get Israelis to tone down their military actions in Gaza but time will only tell if the US government has sincerely learned anything.

Trump V Haliey

The Republican primary election is now down to two major candidates the populist Donald Trump and the Neo-conservative/Neo-liberal Nikki Haley with Trump being over 50 points ahead of Haley. The only way Trump will not beat Haley is that he is barred from running which is what Haley is hoping for and to recapture the Republican Party for the Neo-conservatives/liberals that got pushed to the side or completely out of the party in the case of William Kristol when came to power in 2016.  I do not believe that electing Trump or electoral politics period will solve all our problems and that conservative socialists and other dissenting elements should build organizations and institutions outside the two-party system.  Nevertheless, I do not believe voting is entirely meaningless and that we should back Trump over Haley.

The reason why I make this endorsement is because Nikka Haley is clearly an establishment agent. She supports continued military support for Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel to the point where risking war with Iran, Russia, and China which will no doubt lead to World War 3 with nuclear weapons possibly being used. She supports expanding the surveillance state where anonymousness on the internet will be completely gone if she is elected and judging by her rhetoric probably will implement hate speech laws that will not just effect actual racial supremacists but genuine nationalists, social conservatives, and anti-Zionists like these laws do in Europe. She supports mass immigration and the further purging of social conservative issues from the republican party by dropping abortion and endorsing gay marriage, and transgenderism. She supports free trade and free markets that will further erode American independence, decline of family and community life, and further grow the international capitalist class wealth and power at the expense of American workers. She is supported both economically and morally by the international capitalist class ranging from Reid Hoffman to Charles Kock, Frank Laukien, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Jaime Dimon. Haley also has close associations with Larry Fink the CEO of Blackrock that has been actively buying up the housing market, trying to create a society of renters, and pushing social progressivism in media, the workplace, and elsewhere through DEI. These corporate leaders hope that with Haley they can defeat Trump, have the Republican party continue globalization at the same pace as the Democrats, and put populism, social conservatism, and dissident insurgency that started under Trump back underground.

Donald Trump for all intents and purposes is not perfect, his first presidential election was a disappointment, from his striking Syrian, and Iranian forces to not pulling out of Syria, to his deregulation of the economy, to him having Zionist and Neo-Conservatives like John Bolton, and Nikka Haley in his administration. However, at least Trump is not actively calling for World War 3 and has sought to make admins with Russia and North Korea. Trump is also a protectionist seeking to industrialize America, which makes the country economically independent, provides jobs, and rebuilds the unions. Trump has also supported more pro-natalist policies that will solve declining birth rates and everything that comes with it. Trump’s tough immigration and border security stance will hinder the drug trade and prevent the displacement of American workers. And it seems like Trump learned his lesson about Neo-conservatives too with Trump surrounding himself with Tucker Carlson, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other like-minded individuals who are anti-intervention.

Hopefully, Carlson, Ramaswamy, and other like-minded individuals will take an active role in the Trump administration if he wins, deescalating tensions with Russia, and China and watering down Trump Zionism like I predicted in my article on the divides in the American ruling class. If worse happens and Trump gets us into war with Russia and China after he said he wouldn’t. We should call for all good patriotic, socially conservative, and American workers to completely leave the Republican Party reminding them why they supported Trump and build a coalition against war and globalism. I cast my vote for Trump in hopes of avoiding a world war, lowering immigration, and rebuilding America’s economy for a multipolar world.

February essays

Susan Sontag and The Radical Progressive Faction

I do not think we can dismiss the similarities between the radical progressivism or wokism of the present and the New Left of the 1960s. Both main focuses are on racial and sexual minorities and their interest. They support sexual liberation from traditional social norms, and have an elitist attitude towards the white and conservative working class seeing them as backward and fascist. Both deconstruction of “white” social norms, masculinity, and so-called colonization. And of course not only centered around racial and sexual minorities but also around alternative lifestyles like fat acceptance, drug use, New age spirituality, and much more. The difference between the two is that the radical progressive is farther away from Marxism the New Left. Despite many in both claiming to be Marxists their emphasis on sexual liberation, racial minorities, and alternatives is a clear departure from Marxism class outlook. This was also accompanied by criticism of the Soviet Union, other Marxist Leninist and Soviet-aligned nations.  Another difference is that the radical progressives are far closer to the establishment than the New Left was. Despite the shallow anti-capitalism and socialism, that radical progressives sometimes espouse. They walk in step with the ruling class when comes to immigration, and the promotion of non-traditional social norms and ruling class got behind the BLM protests and many radical progressives supported the US-backed Kurdish rebels in the Syrian Civil War and Ukraine in the Russo-Ukraine War with the only major exception of opposition being the Israel Gaza War.  Intellectuals of the New Left like Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens, Jurgen Habermas, and of course Susan Sontag supported one US intervention or another. By reading New Left intellectuals and looking into their backgrounds we can easily find how their successor movements were so easily absorbed into the establishment. The best New Left intellectuals of this being the case is the feminist Susan Sontag and her infamous 1966 article “What’s Happening to America? A Symposium.” Yes, this is the infamous essay where Sontag called white civilization a cancer on the earth. This time around I’m going to quote the most interesting parts of the article and give my thoughts.

Susan Sontag’s introduction paragraphs

“First of all, then, American power is indecent in its scale.  But also the quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth; and the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

Gertrude Stein said that America is the oldest country in the world,.  Certainly its most conservative.  It has the most to lose by change (sixty percent of the world’s wealth owned by a country containing six percent of the world’s population).  Americans know their backs are against the wall: “they” want to take all that away from “us.”  And, I think, America deserves to have it taken away.”

Something I noticed about Sontag and other New Left writers is that many of them can start off with a decent critique of modern Western society as shown by Sontag’s critique of American consumer culture but goes in a completely dead wrong direction of calling America the most “conservative” country. For starters, the sexual revolution that cast off the stigma around divorce, birth control, free love, abortion, and homosexuality that was taking place when this article was written and Sontag played a part in was mostly in America and other Western countries not in the socialists and non-western countries who had a far more conservative view on sexual norms.

Other countries at the time like Saudi Arabia and most of the Middle East for that matter were way more religiously centric than the United States ever was. Of course, when Sontag was writing this essay the full-on sexual revolution had not penetrated the law when it came to abortion and no-fault divorce that would come a few years later. Still, how is widespread consumer culture in American society conservative? When social conservatism advocates restraints on one desire while consumer advertisements use desires like sex, greed, gluttony, etc. to appeal to American consumers? How is the TV that shows these advertisements instilling conservative values? This is something that I notice with a lot of progressives is that they blame everything they don’t like on social conservatism or reactionaries when their little to none to be found and these accusations will only get worse from here.

Sontag’s Three Facts on America

“America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of White Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.

America had not not only the most brutal system of slavery in modern times but a unique juridical system (compared with other slaveries, say in Latin America and the British colonies) which did not, in a single respect, recognize slaves as persons.

As a country – as distinct from a colony – America was created mainly by the surplus poor of Europe, reinforced by a small group who were just  Europamude, tired of Europe (a literary catchword of the 1840s). Yet even the poorest knew both a “culture,” largely invented by his social betters and administered from above, and a “nature” that had been pacified for centuries.  These people arrived in a country where the indigenous culture was simply the enemy and was in the process of being ruthlessly annihilated, and where nature, too, was the enemy, a pristine force, unmodified by civilization, that is, by human wants, which had to be defeated.  After America was “won,” it was filled up by new generations of poor and built up according to the tawdry fantasy of the good life that culturally deprived, uprooted people might have at the beginning of the industrial era.  And the country looks it.”

Now Sontag criticism of America being country founded on genocide and slavery is something we hear often and is boring critique for matter. For starters, all countries modern and historic were founded on conquest and the Native Americans were conquering one another when Europeans arrived here. Not to mention the Natives were as willing to use violence against American settlers and civilians as settlers were. Their numerous Native American massacres against Europeans in America such as the Killough massacre, Jamestown Massacre, Whitman Massacre, and the Cookes Canyon Massacre just to name a few with many European American-led massacres being retaliations for previous massacres. I am not saying everything the Europeans did to Native Americans was right but saying these attacks came from mere racism is laughable. Not to mention Native Americans were allowed to still exist in America and have autonomy in many cases. It is not perfect by any means but it is nothing compared to what Palestinians in Israel or Armenians in Azerbaijan are going through today. Not to mention Native Americans are idealized and respected by most Americans regardless of political orientation.

Then the issue of slavery, America hardly had the worst form of slavery the Arab slave trade for example castrated their male slaves and lasted for 13 centuries way longer and more brutal than American slavery. The African nations were America and other European countries were also enslaving others whom American and Europeans bought from. America and the European countries for that matter abolished slavery while some countries like Ethiopia were still practicing it until the Italian invasion of the country in 1936 then when Ethiopia gained independence again in 1942 officially abolished slavery themselves.

Their a certain immaturity that the New Left and their successors have that the old left of the 19^th century like Karl Marx and Fredrick Engles did not have. Marx and Engles for that matter unlike their New Left successors saw the expansion of America as necessary because it would lead to the expansion and growth of capitalism. Engles supported the US during the Mexican-American War and the expansion that followed because it would allow capitalism to spread and would pave the wave for communism. To quote Engles

“In 1846-8 the USA fought a war with Mexico over Texas (where North American settlers had won independence from Mexico in 1835), California (then under Mexican rule), and the area in between (now called New Mexico, and then also under Mexican rule). The war ended with Texas, New Mexico and California being added to the USA; and California, with the gold rush, did indeed develop capitalistically at a prodigious pace in the following years.
Will Bakunin accuse the Americans of a “war of conquest”, which, although it deals with a severe blow to his theory based on “justice and humanity”, was nevertheless waged wholly and solely in the interest of civilization? Or is it perhaps unfortunate that splendid California has been taken away from the lazy Mexicans, who could not do anything with it? That the energetic Yankees by rapid exploitation of the California gold mines will increase the means of circulation, in a few years will concentrate a dense population and extensive trade at the most suitable places on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, create large cities, open up communications by steamship, construct a railway from New York to San Francisco, for the first time really open the Pacific Ocean to civilization, and for the third time in history give the world trade a new direction? The “independence” of a few Spanish Californians and Texans may suffer because of it, in some places “justice” and other moral principles may be violated; but what does that matter to such facts of world-historic significance?”

Marx and Engles saw capitalism and for that matter slavery and feudalism as necessary steps in the progress of civilization with all these systems slowly abolishing themselves abolition of slavery led to feudalism then the abolition of feudalism led to capitalism then eventually reaching communism with each step granting more freedom and technological progress. The New Left and Sontag on the other hand seem to be upset that America in the 1960s did not live up to all its own standards or that the process was so violent. In contrast to Engles and Marx who saw revolution and the evolution of civilization that came with these revolutions as the most authoritarian state of time that was necessary for progress. Sontag shows an obvious break with this line of thinking that is very apparent in the next paragraph.

 “Needless to say, America is not the only violent, ugly, and unhappy country on this earth.  Again, it is a matter of scale,.  Only three million Indians lived here when the white man arrived, rifle in hand, for his fresh start.  Today American hegemony menaces the lives not of three million but of countless millions who, like the Indians, have never even heard of the “United States of America,” much less of its mythical empire, the “free world.”  American policy is still powered by the fantasy of Manifest Destiny, though the limits were once set by the borders of the continent, whereas today America’s destiny embraces the world.  There are still more hordes of redskins to be mowed down before virtue triumphs; as the classic Western movies explain, the only good Red is a dead Red.  This may sound like an exaggeration to those who live in the special and more finely modulated atmosphere of New York and its environs.  Cross the Hudson.  You find out that not just some Americans but virtually all Americans feel that way. “

This is where I kind of agree with Sontag in that America is still powered by Manifest Destiny all be it this new Manifest Destiny is a bit different this time around. This New Manifest Destiny both in Sontag time and present time is power not by national expansionism but by liberal expansion to the so-called backward people of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America done by war and color revolution. Sontag still saw this expansionism as being white and nationalistic but I think it is clear that it was true when it came to Native Americans and during the American War by the time Sontag wrote this essay the US was already sheading off segregation and opening immigration to all part of the world beginning America multicultural, cosmopolitan, and globalization era as America at the time and now was fighting against nationalists and illiberal of the second and third world while the US became anti-nationalist, Anti-conservative but pro-economic, cultural, and liberal globalization.

“Of course, these people don’t know what they’re saying, literally.  But that’s no excuse. That, in fact, is what makes it all possible.  The unquenchable American moralism and the American faith in violence are not just twin symptoms of some character neurosis taking the form of a protracted adolescence, which presages an eventual maturity.  Thy constitute a full-grown, firmly installed national psychosis, founded, as are all psychoses, on the efficacious denial of reality. So far it’s worked.  Except for portions of the South a hundred years ago, America has never known war.  A taxi driver said to me on the day that could have been Armageddon, when America and Russia were on collision course off the shores of Cuba : “Me, I’m not worried. I served in the last one, and now I’m over draft age. They can’t get me again. But I’m for letting ‘em have it right now.  What are we waiting for? Let’s get it over with.”  Since wars always happen Over There, and we always win, why not drop the bomb? If all it takes is pushing a button, even better.  For America is that curious hybrid – an apocalyptic country and a valetudinarian country.  The average citizen may harbor the fantasies of John Wayne, but he as often has the temperament of Jane Austen’s Mr. Woodhouse.”

This is how you can tell Sontag isn’t a historian. Virtually every nation past and present has used violence at one point in time. Whether for better or worse this is the case. Many parts of the US outside the South have experienced the Native American Wars that took place all over the country, the American Revolution and War of 1812 had many battles that took place in the North, and even the US Civil War had battles took place in the North and in the New Mexican territories. The border war of 1910 to 1919 also happened in non-southern states which was in living memory when Sontag wrote this. This is also not going over the countless rebellions that took place where there were mass causalities like the Coal Wars for example. Nor is this counting all the Americans who went to war in foreign lands. So to say Americans never lived in war or never struggled outside the South is not true. The only generation that lived largely in material comfort and did not have war or rebellion on US soil was the baby boomers the generation that followed Sontag.

“I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. So committed are only a minority of white Americans, mostly educated and affluent, few of whom have had any prolonged social contact with Negroes.  This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.”

I think this gets to the heart of the New Left and Radical Progressivism’s so-called “anti-Americanism” is that America does not go far enough on its anti-racism crusade and they question the sincerity of it. To me, this is not really anti-Americanism but rather for America to take international liberalism and social progressivism to its logical conclusion the abolition of anything perceived as racist or sexist which includes borders, nations, and traditional hierarchies in favor of a globalized world order.

“Yes, I do find much promise in the activities of young people. About the only promise one can find anywhere in this country today is the way some young people are carrying on, making a fuss. I include both their renewed interest in politics (as protest and as community action, rather than as theory) and the way they dance, dress, wear their hair, riot, make love. I also include the homage they pay to Oriental thought and rituals. And I include, not least of all, their interest in taking drugs – despite the unspeakable vulgarization of this project by Leary and others.

A year ago Leslie Fiedler, in a remarkably wrongheaded and interesting essay titled “The New Mutants,” called attention to the fact that the new style of young people indicated a deliberate blurring of sexual differences, signaling the creation of a new breed of youthful androgens.  The longhaired pop groups with their mass teenage following and the tiny elite of turned-on kids from Berkeley to the East Village were both lumped together as representatives of the “post-humanist” era now upon us, in which we witness “radical metamorphosis of the Western male, a “revolt against masculinity,” even “a rejection of conventional male potency.”  For Fiedler, this new turn in personal mores, diagnosed as illustrating a “programmatic espousal of an anti-puritanical mode of existence,” is something to deplore. (Though sometimes, in his characteristic have-it-both-ways manner, Fiedler seemed to be vicariously relishing this development, mainly he appeared to be lamenting it.) But why, he never made explicit.  I think it is because he is sure such a mode of existence undercuts radical politics, and its moral visions, altogether.  Being radical in the older sense (some version of Marxism or socialism or anarchism) meant to be attached still to traditional “puritan” values of work, sobriety, achievement, and family founding.  Fiedler suggests, as have Philip Rahv and Irving Howe and Malcolm Muggerridge among others, that the new style of youth must be, at bottom, apolitical, and their revolutionary spirit a species of infantilism.  The fact that the same kid joins SNCC or boards a Polaris submarine or agrees with Conor Cruise O’Brien and smokes pot and is bisexual and adores the Supremes is seen as a contradiction, a kind of ethical fraud or intellectual weak-mindedness.

I don’t believe this is so. The depolarizing of the sexes, to mention the element that Fiedler observes with such fascination, is the natural, and desirable, next stage of the sexual revolution (its dissolution, perhaps) which has moved beyond the idea of sex as a damaged but discrete zone of human activity, beyond the discovery that “society” represses the free expression of sexuality (by fomenting guilt), to the discovery that the way we live and the ordinarily available options of character repress almost entirely the deep experience of pleasure, and the possibility of self-knowledge.  “Sexual freedom” is a shallow, outmoded slogan. What, who is being liberated? For older people, the sexual revolution is an idea that remains meaningful. One can be for or against it; if one is for it, the idea remains confined within the norms of Freudianism and its derivatives.  But Freud was a puritan, or “a fink,” as one of Fiedler’s students distressingly blurted out.  So was Marx. It is right that young people see beyond Freud and Marx.  Let the professors be the caretakers of this indeed precious legacy, and discharge all the obligations of piety.  No need for dismay if the kids don’t continue to pay the old dissenter-gods obeisance.

It seems to me obtuse, though understandable, to patronize the new kind of radicalism, which is post-Freudian and post-Marxian. For this radicalism is as much an experience as an idea.  Without the personal experience, if one is looking in from the outside, it does look messy and almost pointless.  It’s easy to be put off by the youngsters throwing themselves around with their eyes closed to the near-deafening music of the discotheques (unless you’re dancing ,too), by the long-haired marchers carrying flowers and temple bells as often as “Get Out of Vietnam” placards, by the inarticulateness of a Mario Savio.  One is also aware of the high casualty rate among this gifted, visionary minority among the young, the tremendous cost in personal; suffering and in mental strain.  The fakers, the slobs, and the merely flipped-out are plentiful among them.  But the complex desires of the best of them: to engage and to “drop out”; to be beautiful to look at and touch as well as to be good; to be loving and quiet as well as militant and effective – these desires make sense in our present situation.

To sympathize, of course, you have to be convinced that things in America really are as desperately bad as I have indicated.  This is hard to see; the desperateness of things is obscured by the comforts and liberties that America does offer.  Most people, understandably, don’t really believe things are that bad.. That’s why, for them, the antics of this youth can be no more than a startling item in the passing parade of cultural fashions, to be appraised with a friendly but essentially weary and knowing look. The sorrowful look that says: I was a radical, too, when I was young. When are these kids going to grow up and realize what we had to realize, that things never are going to be really different, except maybe worse?

From my own experience and observation, I can testify that there is a profound concordance between the sexual revolution, redefined, and the political revolution, redefined.  That being a socialist and taking certain drugs (in a fully serious spirit: as a technique for exploring one’s consciousness, not as an anodyne or a crutch) are not incompatible, that there is no incompatibility between the exploration of inner space and the rectification of social space.  What some of the kids understand is that it’s the whole character structure of modern American man, and his imitators, that needs re-hauling. (Old folks like Paul Goodman and Edgar Z. Friedenberg have, of course, been suggesting this for a long time.) That re-hauling includes Western “masculinity,” too.  They believe that some socialist remodeling of institutions and the ascendance, through electoral means or otherwise, of better leaders won’t change anything.  And they are right.”

Now there are certain points of agreement again that I have with Sontag for starters despite some within the New Left/ Radical Progressive and mainstream liberal conservatives that describe this radicalism as Marxist. I completely agree with Sontag that this isn’t the case. Many of these progressives or leftists whether they know it or not have moved on from Marxism and instead focused more on sexual liberation, drug legalization, abortion rights, alternative lifestyles, immigration reform, demasculinization, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia etc. rather than class issues with the only resemblances with the old left being the anti-war stance that was taken during Vietnam and vague form of anti-capitalism and socialism that does not resemble socialists countries of the time or presently.

Another point of agreement with Sontag is that many times the so-called liberty and luxuries that Americans do have blind them to how bad the situation is or can be if we can continue down the path we have been following. Now of course Sontag and I may disagree on why the situation in America is bad or how to change this but on a surface level their agreement on the situation is not good. And the defeatism of the old generation is saddening but I can’t blame them as the state of radicalism in America on the Left and Right then and now is still very embarrassing, to say the least. As radicals fail to make any significant change that can hinder liberalism hegemony with the liberal system consuming many radical ideas to suit its own purposes.

This is where I break with Sontag again as I do not see the New Left Youth of the Sontag era or the drug-using bisexual lifestyles as being a true opposition to liberalism and their cultural radicalism was moving in the same direction of liberalism. I think that’s very obvious now and made this clear in my Conservative Case For Class Struggle Series so I do not want to go over this again. However, I will point out that the Sontag article was published in Partisan Review and was funded by the Congress of Cultural Freedom a CIA-backed project to move the left away from its working-class base and push more socially progressive causes.  I do not think I need to say any more about this.

“Neither do I dare deride the turn toward the East (or more generally, to the wisdoms of the non-white world) on the part of a tiny group of young people –however uninformed and jejune the adherence usually is. (But then, nothing could be more ignorant than Fiedler’s insinuation that Oriental modes of thought are “feminine” and “passive,” which is the reason the de-masculinized kids are drawn to them.) Why shouldn’t they look for wisdom elsewhere? If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization. This is the painfully truth; few of us want to go that far. It’s easier, much easier, to accuse the kids, to reproach them for being “non-participants in the past” and “drop-outs from history.” But it isn’t real history Fiedler is referring top with such solicitude.  It’s just our history, which he claims is identical with “the tradition of the human,” the tradition of “reason” itself. Of course, it’s hard to assess life on this planet from a genuinely world-historical perspective; the effort induces vertigo and seems like an invitation to suicide.  But from a world-historical perspective, that local history which some young people are repudiating (with their fondness for dirty words, their peyote, their macrobiotic rice, their Dadaist art, etc.) looks a good deal less pleasing and less self-evidently worthy of perpetuation.

 The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone –its ideologies and inventions –which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.  What the Mongol hordes threaten is far less frightening than the damage that Western “Faustian” man, with his idealism, his magnificent art, his sense of intellectual adventure, his world-devouring energies for conquest, has already done, and further threatens to do.

This is what some kids sense, though few of them could put it in words. Again, I believe them to be right. I’m not arguing that they’re going top prevail, or even that they’re likely to change much of anything in this country.  But a few of them may save their own souls. America is a fine country for inflaming people, from Emerson and Thoreau to Mailer and Burroughs and Leo Szilard and John Cage and Judith and Julian Beck, with the project of trying to save their own souls.  Salvation becomes almost a mundane, inevitable goal when things are so bad, really intolerable.”

This may sound a little crazy but their some conservative critiques that Sontag gives about Faustian Man and the West destroying all autonomous civilizations. German Conservatives and Nationalist intellectuals like Oswald Spengler and Ernst Nieksch believed that Faustian Man and their pursuit of technological progress may have caused advances in wealth but in the long run, was deconstructing traditional European identities, organic communities, and norms which would lead to the West’s own downfall due to capitalists and technocrats only caring about what is profitable instead long-term sustainment of civilization.  Nieksch and Spengler were writing these concerns in hopes of saving their nation, but Sontag seems to have lost all hope, finding nothing of value in Western civilization, nor does she even care to look at the East for a solution like Niekisch does and believes only a few of the New Left Youth can find individual salvation.

This is the defeating and drift away from politics into so-called personal salvation that the New Left went through that social critic and historian Christopher Lasch wrote of in The Culture of Narcissism. This is also the elitism of the New Left that Lasch and so many other critics have talked about where the New Left has so much distaste for the masses that they condemn the whole civilization to hell even though most of Sontag’s own progressive ideas come from this civilization. Yet Sontag fails to realize how the Sexual Revolution, human rights, and other feminist endeavors are only made possible because Faustian spirit as the liberal revolution gave birth to human rights becoming hegemonic where individuals placed at the center of society and capitalism that replace feudalism would industrialize society and break down traditional social norms and communities swallowing the people into the cities. These technological advances and individual freedoms made by liberal capitalism would eventually give rise to sexual revolution due to the invention of birth culture, and abortion that separated sex from procreation and made it more about pleasure. Human rights doctrine once it lost its religious origins became more about individual freedom losing the duty and religious obligation that rights doctrine originally had and gave way to no-fault divorce, the legalization of porn, gay marriage, and now transgenderism. Capitalism also took the mother away from the home as the system sought more workers furthering the breakdown of traditional barriers. The rise of consumer capitalism through mass advertisement promoted people to give in short-term desires that helped to normalize free love and the Sexual Revolution and the material wealth generated by capitalism helped hinder masculinity among men and promoted comformism. All things that Sontag supports. Not to mention many drugs like LSD that Sontag supports using are only possible due to technological advances and within time are slowly becoming legal because rights are interpreted as doing whatever you want as long as you are not hurting anyone else even if it hurts you. None of this promotes positive change away from liberalism rather promotes people becoming slaves to their own desires and easily controlled and manipulated by the liberal oligarchs.

There are two sides to Sontag in this essay one that sounds incredibly reactionary and another a New Left progressive. Sontag’s New Left side is arguably the strongest though because unlike other conservatives’ critiques of consumer capitalism, technology, and Western universalism. They did this in the name of preserving Western civilization, its traditions, and communities. Even Alexander Dugin one of the biggest traditionalist critics of modern Western Civilization still believes their positive qualities to the West with a rich intellectual tradition and that the West can redeem itself. Sontag on the other despite some conservative undertones complains more about bigotry, and liberal civilization not going far enough on things like human rights and the Sexual Revolution that are only made possible by liberalism that Sontag claims to be against.  What annoying about Sontag and other New Leftists is that every time when they make a decent point they soon make a terrible point.

Sontag and the Radical progressives of today

Sontag despite being against the Vietnam War would end up calling the Soviet Union and communism the most successful variant of fascism to exist. She supported the NATO bombing of Serbia and despite criticizing US actions during the War on Terror still believed that the fight against so-called Islamo-fascism was necessary. I think Sontag realized that her feminist and social progressive aims were only made possible by liberalism. Sontag died in 2004 and the Radical Progressives that came after her and the New Left are even less antagonistic to liberalism than their predecessor was. Their anti-capitalism is even more shallow than the New Left was as comes down to now wanting coopts and not thinking capitalism is progressive enough. Radical Progressive internet celebrities like Vaush, Hunter Avallon, ContraPoints, and Xanderhal all call themselves deradicalizers of right-wing people but shouldn’t they be radicalizing them but in a different direction though? These people are dismissing conservative concerns about the breakdown of the community, the growing gender divide, and the alienation of people in general with Vaush’s response to Gerbert Void on the matter was to go outside and that anime conventions are real communities. Even though prior left-wing critics of capitalism were that capitalism created alienation between peoples and did break down communities.

These people are nothing but sham socialists they support US military aid in Ukraine, Syria, and Taiwan with Xanderhal making the bold statement that the US should stay in Afghanistan When the US was withdrawing in 2021. The only war most of them haven’t supported is the War on Gaza surprisingly but it will not be a surprise that the next generation of progressives won’t even do that. They support the capitalist culture industry by defending the shallowest remakes of films and TV series just because their racially diverse and have gay people in them. They support open borders that capitalists use to get cheap labor from the third world that displaces native workers. And of course, they even support Joe Biden even though Vaush is a self-declared libertarian socialist and anarcho-syndicalist even though most historic anarchists whether they are Georges Sorel, or Mikhail Bakunin rejected electoral politics because it legitimized the state and saw state reforms as only destroying the revolutionary spirits of the workers. Nor would most historical anarchists ever support war by state like Vaush has with War in Ukraine and American funding of Kurdish rebels in Syria. Their a reason why many within the mainstream media talk positively about Sontag, Vaush, ContraPoints, and groups like Antifa because they are not actual opposition but instead, they keep people in line and not questioning liberal progressive narrative whether that be through propaganda or by intimidation or violence.

Farmer Revolts in Europe Against Environmental Globalism and the Texas Revolt Against Mass Migration

As the war in Ukraine and Gaza continues to drag along there is a growing resentment in the Western World against the liberal capitalist elites policies at home. By the title I am of course referring to farmer protests in Europe against the increased tax on fuel, free trade agreements that allow Ukraine and South America to import their own grain and agricultural products with little to no tariffs, price pressure, and a cut on subsidies for fuel to quote save the environment. 

I am also referring to the revolt of the Texas governor Republican Greg Abbott when he sent the National Guard to the border and threw out the border patrol for not stopping the flow of illegal immigrants and keeping border wire up after the Biden administration tried to take it down and the Supreme Court order Abbott to do so. Abbott refused and 25 states soon gave Abbott their support and some like Florida sent their own national guard to the state. Biden has refused Republican demands on closing the border so Republicans in Congress have continued to vote against additional military aid to Ukraine.

I think both instances show how out of touch the ruling class especially the more progressive faction is. Why sign a free trade deal with Ukraine on grain and agriculture when that one hinders your own farms, your own self sufficient, and Ukraine itself may not even exist or not be as friendly as the country is at war with Russia with a high possibility that many parts of Ukraine will become apart of Russia and the rest will be controlled by a pro-Russian government. Which will leave the EU at the mercy of Russia and have food shortages. Not to mention the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Russo-Ukraine War, and the Israel-Palestine War should have shown why you do not rely heavily on other countries for basic needs like food and energy as there were shortages of these materials due to these events.

The weak border security of the Biden Administration is another sign of this out-of-touchiness as the welfare system that has been helping many of these arriving immigrants is becoming strained especially in New York City and Chicago. Cartels have also taken advantage of the weak border security as they traffic people and drugs across the border. Worsening the drug crisis in the country and making the cartels billions with them become more powerful and militarized by the day with signs of this militarization coming across the border. To a lesser extent, some terrorists have come across the border which could lead to some terrorist attacks happening in the US putting Americans in danger. Many Americans rightfully see these immigrants as nothing more than cheap labor and vote for the Democrat party which marginalizes actual American voices more so than what they already are. 

Many of these Neo-liberal elites are still in the line of thinking that we are in the 1980s/90s where Neo-liberalism was at its peak and hoping the globalization process will continue as normal as they continue to globalize the economy and weaken their borders for a united unipolar world. When this is clearly not the case as Russia and China continue to challenge this project as well disenfranchisement in the liberal countries themselves continue to grow from the left and right. While some of these Neo-liberal elites may genuinely be afraid of environmental disasters but many of them also push these high taxes on fuel and cuts on fuel subsides for farmers just so they can wipe the small and medium-sized farmers out of business so that big corporations can come in and consolidate their control on the agriculture industry. The free trade agreements are pushed for a similar reason and to get cheaper grain and agriculture products at the expense of local farmers and national self-sufficiency.

The Biden administration and the Democrat elite still think they can be policemen of the world while they neglect issues at home that are fueling more political polarization and even separatist sentiments since many from conservative backgrounds feel culturally and economically disenfranchised. The Republican faction of the elite including the Neo-conservative faction at least on a rhetorical level understand that if they do not want cartels to start forming a state inside a state in the US or cause Americans to rebel or the US to lose hegemony they need to start focusing more on local issues if they want to keep the liberal project going.

Conservative Socialists in America and Europe should support these revolts against further globalization. At the same time when it comes to America that does not mean we should not be critical and independent of the Republican leadership and dogmas. We should continue to point out how capitalism fuels this crisis and how we need to look beyond liberalism and capitalism to solve the crisis we face. We should also call out the Neo-con who opportunistically use their opposition to illegal immigration to gain votes but do little about it and continue on with a globalist agenda. We should also be critical of separatist sentiments as Founding Fathers and conservative Alexander Hamilton pointed out in the Federalist Papers that if states become independent, it will make it easier for larger and wealthier nations to manipulate these smaller states against each other and become proxy states to foreign powers. This is what happened to many former Soviet states after the breakup of the USSR as NATO expanded eastward into former Soviet and Eastern Bloc nations and pitted them against Russia and its allies. What also happened to many Soviet states after the breakup became economically impoverished and helped to give rise to the Mafia organizations. No doubt cartels from Mexico will try to take advantage of a post-American nation, claiming territory for themselves. Not to mention running away will not kill wokism to kill wokism we have to change the US government, economy, and culture. By adopting an earlier form of liberalism is no solution either as we will be right back where we started in a few years to a couple of decades.

At the same time if separatist sentiments begin the process of separation we cannot side with the US government and international capitalist class as they are still the main enemy. Instead, plans must be drawn up on how to eventually rebuild the United States even if we have to side with the separatists for the short term. As I stated in Part 3 of Conservative Case for Class Struggle backup plans need to be drawn up on this scenario as these separatists’ sentiments have grown rapidly in recent years and have even entered the mainstream of the Republican party like the Texas Republican Platform and Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene.  All scenarios need to be considered and an understanding must be made of how this changes strategy and positions. As Vladimir Lenin once said, “If the circumstances change within twenty-four hours, then tactics must be changed within twenty-four hours.” 

Conclusion of these Essays

When I was originally writing I wanted to post this after the War in Gaza was over however this collection of essays is already extremely long. As these essays are over a hundred pages long practically a book at this point. I believe the predictions I made in December will turn out to be correct. That being a return to the status quo. However, the real conflict will not end until one side completely pushes out the other as one solution type on both sides has been playing a larger role as time goes on. If American world power continues to wane, then Israel may disintegrate with it or at best will exist in a North Korean-like state unless it can find a new major ally like India or Saudi Arabia that will protect Israel from Hamas and Iran. Even if Israel occupies all of Gaza and the West Bank the Palestinian militants will just relocate to Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and other Arab countries like previously, and will take Israel years to dismantle them all with there still being the possibility of Israel still losing in the long term.

The recent massive airstrikes the US launched in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq will not deter Iranian-backed militias but instead continue to embolden them and make the local Arab population angrier just like what previous US airstrikes have done. I doubt Biden is stupid enough to attack Iran within its own borders, but I would not be surprised if Nikki Haley gets elected and does exactly this. That will no doubt ignite a regional war and possibly a world war.  However, it seems that Americans from both parties and outside them for that matter are tired of these wars and want to focus on national issues.  Continued neglect of local issues will cause widening polarization and possibly small-scale rebellions and insurgencies will pop up in the country in the next few years to decades if the US continues in the direction it has been going in. I hope these essays will be found useful by some and continue the push for America to withdraw from these conflicts and to change America for the better.

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