#militarism — Public Fediverse posts

"[T]he United States is now acting like a predatory hegemon, exploiting positions of leverage built up over decades to exploit allies and adversaries alike. This zero-sum approach to nearly all relations with others includes a deep hostility toward most international institutions and norms, deliberately erratic behavior, and a tendency to treat other foreign leaders with ill-disguised contempt while expecting demeaning acts of submission and fealty from most of them. As the fallout from the war in Iran spreads throughout the region and around the world, it underscores that the administration either didn’t understand how its actions would affect other states or simply didn’t care.

Which brings me to the third problem: U.S. foreign policy is now in the hands of a remarkably incompetent set of officials, from the president on down. International influence depends on many things, but one of the key ingredients is other states’ belief that the people they have to deal with are smart, well-informed, and generally know what they are doing. At this point, does anyone in the higher echelons of the Trump administration merit that description? Not that I can see. Conducting foreign policy is a difficult business, and no government gets everything right, but this administration commits own goals on a weekly basis while insisting that it is infallible.
(...)
The bottom line is that the rest of the world is going to be dealing with a powerful, probably predatory, and highly erratic United States for at least three more years and probably longer. If that is the case, then what should other countries do, bearing in mind that the United States is not the only dangerous predator out there (and for some states, more immediate dangers lie closer to home)."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/26/united-states-trump-rogue-state-iran/

#USA #Trump #Militarism #Geopolitics #Hegemony #Imperalism #RogueState

The USA was always governed by mobsters who used threats, intimidation and violence to expand its "interests". #USA #manifestdestiny #mobsters #Trump #militarism https://www.thecollector.com/commodore-matthew-perry/

The USA was always governed by mobsters who used threats, intimidation and violence to expand its "interests". #USA #manifestdestiny #mobsters #Trump #militarism https://www.thecollector.com/commodore-matthew-perry/

The USA was always governed by mobsters who used threats, intimidation and violence to expand its "interests". #USA #manifestdestiny #mobsters #Trump #militarism https://www.thecollector.com/commodore-matthew-perry/

The USA was always governed by mobsters who used threats, intimidation and violence to expand its "interests". #USA #manifestdestiny #mobsters #Trump #militarism https://www.thecollector.com/commodore-matthew-perry/

2/ Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency

Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.

Words to review with 6th grader for assignment:

- #militarism
- #alliance
- #imperialism
- #nationalism
- #VladimirLenin
- #KarlMarx

#Project2025’s components are prioritised and being pushed through at all #cost: #centralisation; actions based on #selfishness; #destruction; #racism and #supremacism; the myth of a #racially-‘pure’ golden age; elevation of #militarism; anti-science; #deception.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/14/notes-from-the-us-fervent-embrace-of-dogma/

As Election Nears, Kelly Warns #Trump Would Rule Like a #Dictator

#JohnKelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that #DonaldTrump met the definition of a #fascist.

By Michael S. Schmidt
Oct. 22, 2024

"In response to a question about whether he thought Mr. Trump was a fascist, Mr. Kelly first read aloud a definition of fascism that he had found online.

"'Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a #FarFight #authoritarian, #ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a #dictatorial leader, centralized #autocracy, #militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,' he said."

Original article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-trump-fitness-character.html

Archived version
https://archive.ph/fSCbl

#WeDontNeedThatFascistGrooveThing #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#Fascism #DictatorOnDayOne
#Fascist #FullOnFash

Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency.

Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.

#ApacheStronghold at #MartinLutherKingJr's #MontgomeryAlabama Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

"We ask you to please keep us in your prayers as we move East to continue our prayer journey to the #SupremeCourt to stop the shattering of the human existence and to protect #MotherEarth. It’s time to wake up the people of this country to stop the desecration of all our spiritual connection to Mother Earth and #Usen (God)."

By Apache Stronghold, #CensoredNews, September 1, 2024

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- "The Apache Stronghold made a stop on their Journey of Prayer to the Supreme Court in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, the birthplace of the civil rights movement and home of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first served as a full-time pastor.

"This church and Dr. King played a central role in uniting the local community in the struggle against what King called the evils of #materialism, #militarism, and #racism.

"The Stronghold was reminded that in 2013, Dr. #WendslerNosieSr., in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, received the Presidential Award from the National Progressive Baptist Convention, becoming the first #NativeAmerican to receive the award.

"Dr. Nosie remembered how humbling it was that people in the East thought of him in the West and that these struggles for civil and human rights are connected to what this whole journey to the supreme court is all about.

"The struggle for freedom continues as Dr. Nosie reflected, 'It’s time to use all our combined voices for civil and human rights to fight for Mother Earth, the greatest gift God has given us.' So far on this journey we are happy to see that the churches are bringing in the importance of protecting Mother Earth. We have to make the air, the water, the earth a priority because we will only be able to stop the shattering of human existence by protecting God’s greatest gift, our Mother Earth."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/apache-stronghold-welcomed-at-martin.html

#WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #EarthIsLife #SCOTUS
#SaveOakFlat #SanCarlosApache
#Arizona #ProtectOakFlat
#DefendTheSacred
#IndigenousActivism
#WaterIsLife #SacredSites #RecycleCopper
#MiningWithoutConsent
#ProtectTheSacred #CulturalGenocide #Ecocide #NativeAmericanNews
#NoMiningWithoutConsent
#CorporateColonialism
#ChichilBiłdagoteel #RespectTheTreaties #HumanRights

[Continued] Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency.

Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.

"Washington’s role as guardian of global capital (..) is conterminous with what environmental historians call ‘the #GreatAcceleration’. The advent of the ‘#Anthropocene’ and the spread of American-led #TransnationalCapitalism are intertwined. As such, the #Pentagon’s deadly atmospheric legacy far outstrips the effect of its own emissions."

Green #Empire?

#ClimateChange #MilitaryEmissions #militarization #militarism

#NewLeftReview
#Sidecar

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/green-empire

"Washington’s role as guardian of global capital (..) is conterminous with what environmental historians call ‘the #GreatAcceleration’. The advent of the ‘#Anthropocene’ and the spread of American-led #TransnationalCapitalism are intertwined. As such, the #Pentagon’s deadly atmospheric legacy far outstrips the effect of its own emissions."

Green #Empire?

#ClimateChange #MilitaryEmissions #militarization #militarism

#NewLeftReview
#Sidecar

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/green-empire

We are a #grassroots, supporters group for #DickSmith's #FairGo, who believe we can get a FairGo when #corporations end #environmental and worker abuses.

We have reason to believe #WikimediaCommons is an arm of the #militaryIndustrialComplex, laundering #militarism and #colonialViolence abroad. They offer some photos and media as #freeLicense while shmoozing with the locals and gathering #intelligence.

We realise that that is a big statement, but we now believe it to be true.

#CIA #wikimedia