We socialists knew that the US is an imperial beast ready to devour anyone it pays to devour. Until now, however, this imperialism was camouflaged by nonsense about spreading democracy. Today, the empire declares outright that it is a tyrant.
This text has been auto-translated from Polish.
"Fascists, bourgeois, your end is coming!" - chanted naively leftist youth at May Day parades. Meanwhile, the far right, often fascistic, is just taking over the world, with the world's richest people such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg paving the way.
In the UK, Musk supports Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, and in Germany, the Alternative for Germany. The AfD is not only neo-Nazis, but also supporters of an agreement with Russia and a return to doing business with Putin. After all, it was on cheap energy from Russia that Germany's now ailing economy was hanging on. If Trump's top advisor seconds the pro-Russian party, hopes that the new U.S. president will support Ukraine in its fight against the invader can now be abandoned.
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Yet it's not just the Polish right that worships the razor-edged monkey about to sit in the White House. Donald Tusk's neoliberal government, just to please Trump, has announced that it is spreading a protective umbrella over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, should he decide to come to Poland to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Netanyahu, like Vladimir Putin, is being prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes.
The fascists and bourgeois are not yet triumphant, but they are well on their way to victory and world rule. This is because today's representatives of the bourgeoisie in Europe - the Christian Democrats, liberals and social democrats - are so afraid of losing power to the far right that they are beginning to behave like those brown forces whose arrival they warn of with trepidation, and de facto represent their views.
We socialists knew that the US is an imperial beast ready to devour anyone it pays to devour. All those who have been affected by this policy of imperial aggression also know this. So far, however, this imperialism has been camouflaged by nonsense about spreading democracy. Today, the empire stops pretending to be good Uncle Sam and declares outright that it is a tyrant that can invade any country, citing only its own selfish interests. Unlike his predecessors, Trump openly announces what he intends to do, and pretends nothing in the process. He knows he is a monster.
This sincerity, however, allows him to go much further than his predecessors could afford. He is not constrained by the code of ethical hypocrisy that the far right contemptuously calls political correctness. This "correctness," however, is some consideration of international law, or even a firm disavowal of racism.
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The Honduran president was outraged by the announcement to send hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of economic migrants back to their homeland. She announced that if America doesn't want Honduran citizens on its territory, let it take its military base out of Honduras. A courageous and dignified gesture, but I fear that if Honduras persists, it risks an invasion by the marines, as it once did, in Grenada.
Announcing the use of force in taking over Danish-owned Greenland or the Panama Canal in the name of "national security" requires no pretext. If the US wants to do it, it will - because it can. There is no problem with Panama at all, because relatively recently the marines have already been there and abducted the president. Denmark, however, is a member of NATO, an ally.
An attack on the territory of another NATO member alarmingly resonates with the announcement that the US may leave the North Atlantic Alliance. A potential victorious war over Danish territory is therefore no trouble at all, since the U.S.'s European allies will still beg the Americans on their knees not to abandon all of Europe to Putin's mercy.
Only that Russia, once it swallows Ukraine, will move politically closer to the US, which has long supported anti-EU and chauvinist political forces in Europe. The Union, blasted internally by nationalism fueled by the likes of Elon Musk, will cease to be an economic nuisance for the motherland of hamburgers and chewing gum. There will be no need for the trade war we so fear. The Union will simply fall apart.
During the UN General Assembly meeting, Netanyahu publicly destroyed the UN Charter. He could have done so because his protector is a country that systematically violates and disregards that Charter. The post-war order, which was supposed to secure humanity not only from another world war, but from wars in general, which was supposed to ensure humanity's respect for human rights and even affluence - the whole order no longer exists. The Polish government, announcing that it will not implement the International Criminal Court's verdict, seems to know and confirm this.
Sucking up to Trump and Silicon Valley billionaires will soon become politically impossible when it reaches the consciousness of Poles that these cronies are supporting our enemy, Russia. Such an attitude will be able to be quietly considered anti-Polish. It will turn out that the only chance for security and prosperity is to stick with our Union partners, against the invading power of Russia and the US from one side and the fascists from within.
For now, we are powerless. Recent years have taught Trump that he will never be held accountable for anything, including the rebellion on Capitol Hill. Who will resist America if Trump really wants to seize the Panama Canal? Or Greenland? And yet he also mentioned that Canada (which has no armed forces worthy of the name) could become the 51st state of the US - is this being thrown to the wind by a man greedy for power, or should this announcement also be taken seriously?
We don't know - but precisely because we don't know, we can't simply disregard these threats. So what are we Europeans going to be able to do about all this, if the security of all of Europe still depends on the goodwill of a leaning American empire?
You can read on business portals that from an economic point of view nothing much is happening. Business as usual. The industrialists who supported Hitler thought the same way. They were not wrong in their calculations, because a large part of them made money from the war and the Holocaust. Someone is bound to make money from the new bandit world order, or rather world disorder, too.
