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What's up with Trump's posturing in countries/territories that the US doesn't control? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml

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I've seen this rather odd trend with trump (and the media) where they are talking about plans for ethnic cleansing in gaza and taking mineral resources from east Ukraine.

But the US or its proxies don't physically control Gaza or the Donbass, and nobody in the media seems to be talking about this rather important complication. Russia and the palestian resistance, for all intents and purposes, have won their respective wars (for now).

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[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Exactly and I would say, both of the following can be true at the same time and the second part is maybe where some people get caught up in believing the "blame the voters" narrative:

The US is not a people's democracy. If it is democracy in any meaning, it's "democracy for the rich."
The US contains a not-insignificant number of people who hold little to no power over the direction of the country as a whole, but are still deeply racist and/or colonial in their thinking, whether they exercise that in the day to day or not. These are dangerous people who those in power no doubt try to pull from for the footsoldiers of continuing the status quo, but it does not mean that a car mechanic who's a bit reactionary or whatever, is deciding the fate of the country.

And if we look at how people act when they have accurate information (such as in the case of Palestine), there's quite a lot of sincere sympathy and will for a humanitarian cause. Which is something the empire historically tries to take advantage of, such as in branding its agenda as "spreading democracy" and trying to repress accurate information about the goings on in the world. There's sincere care to be found, in other words, that doesn't even have to be nurtured much, but sometimes the challenge is getting lies out of the way, so that people can see the US for what it is as an entity and understand how their care gets used to manufacture consent for atrocities.