The U.S. Empire Does Not Seek Peace - Its Existence Depends On Endless War

The U.S. Empire Does Not Seek Peace - Its Existence Depends On Endless War

Sept. 26, 2024

U.S. IMPERIALISM - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

Our world is on fire, and the U.S.-centralized empire is the flame. We ordinary people must find some way to extinguish it, before it torches us all.

On Tuesday the dementia-addled meat puppet who is still officially the President of the United States told the UN that he is working to bring a “greater measure of peace and stability to the middle east,” even as the U.S. government pumps weapons into Israel so that it can continue its bloody massacres in Lebanon and Gaza.

On Wednesday Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh told the press that “we don’t want to see this escalate” in Lebanon and that the U.S. is working to “avoid a regional war”.

Only an idiot would believe these claims. They are self-evidently false. Nobody who seeks peace finds themselves in a constant state of war. This is true of Israel, and it is true of the U.S.-centralized empire as a whole.

It is obviously false to say the U.S. seeks peace in the middle east, but it’s not really accurate to say it seeks war either. To me that would be like saying water seeks wetness or fire seeks heat. War is just what the U.S. empire is made of. It’s the thing that it is.

Our rulers are too far absorbed into the imperial machine to recognize this as true, so you will reliably hear them babbling about seeking peace and avoiding civilian suffering, even as they take steps ensuring that peace will not happen and civilians continue to suffer. These are the only moves they can see on the chessboard. The options that would lead to real peace are not even recognized as legal moves in the game. So they keep moving the pieces around in accordance with the rules of empire, and saying “Oh how sad” when families are incinerated and children are ripped to shreds, but saying that it was the only move available on the board.

Our world is on fire, and the U.S.-centralized empire is the flame. We ordinary people must find some way to extinguish it, before it torches us all.

Reading by Tim Foley

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