Biden ended the war in Afghanistan and should end the other forever wars and turn them into never wars. NATO should be dissolved, US Military Bases in foreign lands should be shut down and the US should negotiate with Putin and Zelensky to end the war in Ukraine and end tension with China.
America needs a “revolution,” not merely a “reformation.”
However, the biggest problem with having either of those significant changes to the established political and economic order is determining exactly Whose vision for the future is the one to be pursued.
Trumpatismo proposes a reformation/revolution of sorts; as do the Sandersistas, The Squad, and the rest of America’s “progressive” or “democratic socialist” wing. As does the Clinton/Obama/Biden brand of corporatist crony capitalism and perpetual war.
Whichever vision ends up getting pursued in America is almost guaranteed to alienate and even inflame a significant number of Americans, as demonstrated by the elections in 2020 and 2022.
In any event, if America does have an actual revolution, it will be America’s first.
What happened in 1776 was not a revolution, but a secession. The American Colonists did not attack London with the intent of overthrowing the King and replacing the British system with a new and different system. What they did was declare that the King and his Laws, Rules, Taxes, Troops, and Governors were no longer in force or welcome in the Colonies, and declared themselves independent of England and its Empire.
In a word, they seceded from that Empire; they didn’t overthrow and replace it in a revolution.
And that was merely the first secession in America’s history; 84 years later, the Confederacy seceded in the second.
The next revolution in America ~ when its system of government and governance will be replaced ~ will be its first.
These are the regular email addresses of Senators who replied to the Messages sent to all 100 of them in October of last year, and in early February before the WAR started February 24. Many more responded using a 'do not reply' email from their Offices. Without exception, they all replied using the standard anti-Putin talking points.
I forwarded the email sent to The Pope on November 2, ALL SOULS DAY. No one replied to that as no one here commented on the same email posted on BracingViews.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. If everyone here forwards these email addresses to all your friends, asking they be forwarded to all their friends, maybe such an intense mail-in campaign could have an effect?
When You see it like this, it takes on a whole bigger meaning... :
USA’s MILITARY EMPIRE: A Visual Database
The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military installations around the world.
How was this created and how is it continued? Some of these physical installations are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them brutal and oppressive governments benefiting from the bases’ presence. In many cases, human beings were displaced to make room for these military installations, often depriving people of farmland, adding huge amounts of pollution to local water systems and the air, and existing as an unwelcome presence.
To explore this database, click on map markers or use the dashboard to make selections:
America chose a long, long time ago to be a dark fortress bristling with cannons, Bill.
Like since the end of World War II; and even before as it emerged as a growing global power with its seizure of Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific, and its incursions into China and it’s “War to End all War.”
And a restoration of liberty is going to take more than the elimination of war and militarism. But until that happens, nothing is going to change except for things to continue to get worse for everybody in this nation and on this planet.
We certainly won't be a strong voice opposing out Ukraine adventure as long as Democrat vs Republican is our prime paradigm. Congressional opposition to funding of the Ukraine war is pretty much exclusively a Republican affair, but progressives have a hard time supporting such efforts because they come from Republicans. Donald Trump as President was questioning our heavy involvement in NATO, a fact that probably led to his reelection loss, but progressives would be the last people to support Trump.
Biden ended the war in Afghanistan and should end the other forever wars and turn them into never wars. NATO should be dissolved, US Military Bases in foreign lands should be shut down and the US should negotiate with Putin and Zelensky to end the war in Ukraine and end tension with China.
America needs a “revolution,” not merely a “reformation.”
However, the biggest problem with having either of those significant changes to the established political and economic order is determining exactly Whose vision for the future is the one to be pursued.
Trumpatismo proposes a reformation/revolution of sorts; as do the Sandersistas, The Squad, and the rest of America’s “progressive” or “democratic socialist” wing. As does the Clinton/Obama/Biden brand of corporatist crony capitalism and perpetual war.
Whichever vision ends up getting pursued in America is almost guaranteed to alienate and even inflame a significant number of Americans, as demonstrated by the elections in 2020 and 2022.
In any event, if America does have an actual revolution, it will be America’s first.
What happened in 1776 was not a revolution, but a secession. The American Colonists did not attack London with the intent of overthrowing the King and replacing the British system with a new and different system. What they did was declare that the King and his Laws, Rules, Taxes, Troops, and Governors were no longer in force or welcome in the Colonies, and declared themselves independent of England and its Empire.
In a word, they seceded from that Empire; they didn’t overthrow and replace it in a revolution.
And that was merely the first secession in America’s history; 84 years later, the Confederacy seceded in the second.
The next revolution in America ~ when its system of government and governance will be replaced ~ will be its first.
These are the regular email addresses of Senators who replied to the Messages sent to all 100 of them in October of last year, and in early February before the WAR started February 24. Many more responded using a 'do not reply' email from their Offices. Without exception, they all replied using the standard anti-Putin talking points.
I forwarded the email sent to The Pope on November 2, ALL SOULS DAY. No one replied to that as no one here commented on the same email posted on BracingViews.
senator@klobuchar.senate.gov; Senator_Kennedy@Kennedy.senate.gov; Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov; senator_ossoff@ossoff.senate.gov; mike@rounds.senate.gov; phillip_waller@wicker.senate.gov; elizabeth_warren@warren.senate.gov; Senator_Bennet@bennet.senate.gov; senator@cotton.senate.gov; correspondence_reply@durbin.senate.gov; Info_Sanders@sanders.senate.gov; SenatorHawley@hawley.senate.gov; Senator@cortezmasto.senate.gov; Hirono.outgoing.mail@hirono.senate.gov
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. If everyone here forwards these email addresses to all your friends, asking they be forwarded to all their friends, maybe such an intense mail-in campaign could have an effect?
When You see it like this, it takes on a whole bigger meaning... :
USA’s MILITARY EMPIRE: A Visual Database
The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military installations around the world.
How was this created and how is it continued? Some of these physical installations are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them brutal and oppressive governments benefiting from the bases’ presence. In many cases, human beings were displaced to make room for these military installations, often depriving people of farmland, adding huge amounts of pollution to local water systems and the air, and existing as an unwelcome presence.
To explore this database, click on map markers or use the dashboard to make selections:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/no-bases/
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America chose a long, long time ago to be a dark fortress bristling with cannons, Bill.
Like since the end of World War II; and even before as it emerged as a growing global power with its seizure of Spanish colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific, and its incursions into China and it’s “War to End all War.”
And a restoration of liberty is going to take more than the elimination of war and militarism. But until that happens, nothing is going to change except for things to continue to get worse for everybody in this nation and on this planet.
We certainly won't be a strong voice opposing out Ukraine adventure as long as Democrat vs Republican is our prime paradigm. Congressional opposition to funding of the Ukraine war is pretty much exclusively a Republican affair, but progressives have a hard time supporting such efforts because they come from Republicans. Donald Trump as President was questioning our heavy involvement in NATO, a fact that probably led to his reelection loss, but progressives would be the last people to support Trump.