“Economic Gain Extracted”

Preparing to promote a novel, even while writing another one and lazily revising two more, I may also be formulating a theory regarding the place of the US in the multipolar world. It may be that the Empire of Lies and Cowards may have no choice but to play nice, or to pretend to when dealing with the other great powers, Russia and China. If you’re in a senior leadership position in Beijing or Moscow, kindly keep a wary eye on your new frenemy in Washington.

Concerning the rest of humanity, the US has not changed. It’s all bluster, bragging, browbeating, bribes, and, then, bombs. And regarding those souls trapped in the US homeland, it begins to look like more of the same though with only a slightly different character or hue. 

At one point during the late Signal chat retardery, the lowbrow discussion turned towards all of the vital American interests in bombing houses, convenience stores, and cancer hospitals in Yemen and Europe’s collective inability or unwillingness to participate in the scheme. Someone initialed “SM”, likely Stephen Miller, wrote, “If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return.” By the way, bombing poor but invincible people will not “MAGA”, unless as Max Blumenthal says, MAGA really means “Miriam Adelson’s Goals Achieved.” But “economic gain extracted” essentially summarizes the entire purpose, history, and spirit of the American experiment. Being little more than a hitman for the international financial class, the US is always extracting gain for the money masters, everywhere, in everything, and from everyone. 

Scott Bessent, retired hedge fund looter, Soros acolyte, open homosexual, and current Secretary of the Imperial Treasury, was remarkably candid during a recent meeting of the Trumpian cabinet about plans to further the gains of the rich men: “Yes, sir, [Massa Trump, sir]. So, uh, we are, under your direction, we’re reprivatizing the economy. We’re bringing down government spending. We’re bringing down excess employment in the government sector. On the other side, we’re going to re-leverage the banking system…” 

America was founded for the corporations, by the corporations, and of the corporations. Literally, everything it officially does today is designed to enrich the wicked elite by plundering everyone else. Accordingly, re-leveraging the banking system can only mean making the plundering easier. The process is in play in America, along with Yemen, Western Europe, Greenland, Ukraine, et cetera.

Washington reluctantly accepts that it cannot defeat Russia. However, it is hellbound and determined to loot and wreck Ukraine or whatever parts of the former Ukraine survive. Bessent and Trump are trying to force a “deal” on the illegitimate junta in Kiev, possibly more onerous than the Weimar plan that eventually gave the world its second global war. Rumor has it Lil’ Ze has rejected the plan, for now, but it fits the eternal American pattern: poor people and their alleged governments take all the risks and casualties and bear all the expenses, while the banks, hedge funds, and other corporations steal all the resources and keep all the profits. Corporatism is war with other means.

Despite centuries of practice, the US has never been good at regular maneuver warfare. Its power rested, post-WW2, on two things: the perceived strength of the US military, and the perceived safety and universality of the US Dollar. Both things have taken serious hits this century, and now the game appears to be one of frantically trying to leverage bombing with or against predatory financialization. Please keep those seatbelts on, fliers.

The Yemeni adventure is possibly a runup for an even more catastrophic attack on Iran. One truth from the Signal idiocy is that Americans know nothing about Yemen. Iran is another country Americans know nothing about. They’re not likely to learn about either, as now even US college students are increasingly illiterate. Iranians, however, are notoriously avid readers. As are Indians and Chinese, with around 600 million regular readers among each population. The moral of this short column is that my novels need translation into, among other languages, Persian, Hindi, and Mandarin. That’s how I’ll extract my economic gain.

Deo vindice.