A broken cycle?

[Ragnarök_62]

(07-29-2019, 02:39 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(07-29-2019, 01:01 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(07-26-2019, 08:59 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I have to admit I have been saying the current 4T Crisis is domestic, but what is happening now in the USA resembles strikingly the slide towards fascism and tyranny the world saw in the mid to late 1930s. Along with civil wars too.

There are differences too, of course. The world itself is not as sharply divided, and the tyranny is not as blatantly horrific as Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini were. And which side the USA is on is not even clear, or whether there is even anyone on the side of democracy and progress strong enough to resist the current trend. And there is no leader like FDR or even Churchill on the scene to organize and rally the people to the cause of freedom and justice. We just have Angela Merkel and Immanuel Macron, neither of whom are really that stellar themselves. It seems like the new tyrants are riding a wave of admiration for Donald Trump.

The list of reactionaries, tyrants, demagogues, nationalists and dictators who are taking over countries or held off rebellions against them is growing by the day, it seems. It's hard to always remember them all. But it is truly disgusting, and unless Trump is deposed we will have no free world leader to defeat them. If the tyrannies formed an alliance to defeat the democracies this time, the tyrants and reactionaries would win in a cakewalk.

Putin in Russia
Xi Jinping in China
Kim Jung Un in Korea
Maduro in Venezuela
Trump in the USA
Johnson in the UK
Bolsonaro in Brazil
Morrison in Australia
Erdogen in Turkey
Netanyahu in Israel
Sisi in Egypt
Assad the monster in Syria
Duda in Poland
Orban in Hungary
Modhi in India
Deterte in The Philippines
Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran
The 3 dictators in Central America
The regime in Burma
The other backward regimes around the world....
Senator McConnell and the US Supreme Court....

So although we face the same slide into fascism this crisis that we saw in the 1930s crisis, it doesn't look like there's a set of two alliances forming up to fight; there is only the tyrants taking over. The only opponent is the rising regeneracy among the people everywhere against them, the long list of uprisings that have happened in the last decade and continue today, and whether they can ever challenge the tyrannies and the reactionaries. Time will tell, but there's your 4T in a nutshell. No "broken cycle" here; we are in it up to our necks! And if you live on the coast, that's a literal statement.

Here are some more for the rogues gallery.

The "B_Team" 


The “B-Team” consists of U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, Israeli Prime Minister (nee Dictator) Benjamin Netanyahu, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and the UAE’s Mohammed bin Zayed.


Macron of France is just as bad as who ever is running Hong Kong.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/h...14250.html



Roll 'em up, roll' em up, rawhide, just so many wild bulls on the march.

I'm surprised I didn't include that Saudi madman. Truly gross beyond measure.

Netanyahu is on my list.

Bolton can be filed under Trump, along with the rest of his lackeys.

I don't know about Zayed; I assume he would be covered under "The other backward regimes around the world...." and doesn't deserve special mention, at least for his domestic policies, although his participation in the Yemen War is horrific.

Such is understandable wrt Salman and Zayed due to the "out of sight, out of mind" state of the war in Yemen. As for Trump, well, yeah he's managed to get us in quite a spot wrt Iran.  He shoulda kept that deal.  I think he and his dotard buddies aren't aware of Iran's "little red" button.  That is to say, if Iran is attacked, Iran will blow up enough stuff to detonate the derivatives bomb.  It can be thought of as the Big Call.  I'm sure there's a bunch of parties that have long dated futures of somesuch for oil. These things are way out of money right now , but if oil spikes to a magic number, there are going to be a lot of somebodies that are going to owe some other somebodies a lot of money.  This is why Trump is stuck. This is also why I think Iran will escalate stuff now and on into the future , but not in a big way.