People seem to keep looking here for 'personalities', oddballs, nutbars....It's much, much worse than that.
We have entered another period of rule by the very wealthy. We're back in the middle ages. For the very wealthy, the state is simply a device to fight their wars for them, and thus to increase their profits. Patriotism is a delusion they and their news media feed to the public.
Almost every war in history has been for the benefit of whoever was wealthy at the time. Let's wake up. The U.S. has invaded over 70 countries since 1945. None of them was any possible threat to the U.S. It is now eager to fight North Korea and then China.
While the U.S. provokes countries with air and naval patrols and with war 'exercises" on the borders of other countries - and plants missiles on their borders, we get all panicky at the threat of North Korea and China. Neither of those countries nor any other has armies on the U.S. border or sea patrols off the U.S. coast or missiles on the border.
The US WANTS a war with Russia. That's why Canadian troops are carrying out exercises in Latvia. (If Russia were to carry out exercises in Mexico, the U.S. would go into hysteria.)
The U.S. (or more correctly U.S. billionaires) want war. This is a declining empire. It conquers the world now or never. Conquest is the past and present of the U.S. - and always for the profit of the very wealthy.
Britain joins the U.S. wars because Britain is now dependent on its old colony. In effect, Britain is now a colony. So is Canada. And Canadian government have gone fully and irresponsibly into the game. We are part of small military force in Latvia - now engaged in the old game of provoking war with Russia. If a war happens, we're in it - and our small force in Latvia would be wiped out in days - if the war lasted that long.
We are also going to be approached by the U.S. to send troops to "do our share" in North Korea. And once in, we won't get out.
That is exactly what Britain did when it asked Canada to send troops to the Boer war. It was to set a precedent that the colonies in future would fight British wars - and we fought two of them.
And, as wealthy Canadians did in the Boer War, Canadian billionaires will support sending troops to North Korea because they depend on the American wealthy just as they ancestors once depended on the British wealthy.
We face monstrous problems in dealing with climate change, with food crises, with refugees. And we're largely ignoring the problems because it's more important for us to make billionaires richer (however briefly) to look after our real needs.
The U.S., with our help, has invaded almost every country in Latin America to steal land, to plunder resources in the last hundred and fifty years. It has murdered, impoverished millions - that our new media haven't noticed.
How many people reading this know about the 200,000 Maya killed by the U.S. and its puppet government in Guatemala - all of it to please mining and agricultural industries. (And some of the biggest mining companies were Canadian.)
How many Canadians have heard that when the Catholic church supported the Maya, great numbers of priests and nuns were murdered? One of the dead was a lay missionary from New Brunswick. So far as I know, no Canadian news medium has ever reported on that mass murderer. Few people in New Brunswick, and almost none in Canada, have ever heard about Raoul Leger. NFB made a film about him. But who watches those?
In Latin America, environmentalists and others who get in the way mining companies, including Canadian ones, get murdered
by hired thugs. It's routine. The Canadian government knows all about it. But we don't get killed. We do the same in Congo and all over the world.
Over the last 15 years, the U.S. has hopelessly destabilized the middle east and most of Africa. It has destroyed nations, created the tinder for war in others, like Iran. It has deliberately put millions into starvation. It has bombed on a scale never before heard of with cluster bombs, chemicals like Agent Orange, napalm, deleted uranium. It has made civilians its major targets. It murdered over a third of the whole population of North Korea - and was preparing to nuke it.
All of it was done to make the wealthy even wealthier.
The U.S. makes Hitler look like a sweetheart. And this greed and slaughter all comes from the leader of the Christian world.
Trump is irrelevant The U.S. is run by billionaires. And it has been one hell of a greedy and murderous nation since the day it was founded - and even earlier because it was descended from a Britain that was so very similar to it in greed and murder.
And Canada's billionaires have decided we really much join in with the wishes of a Christian America.
