For readers in the U.S.- Copy and paste or paraphrase to your elected politicians:
NO! It is not enough to “Stop this illegal war”. The prosecution of this war is war is an impeachable offense, as were:
1) The withholding of military aid to Ukraine to extort false statements from President Zelenski that there were investigations into President Biden and his family and
2) His leadership role in the events of January 6th 2021 in which mobs of his supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of his election loss.
In addition to these offenses there were also his attempted conspiracy to falsify election results and his retention and removal of boxes of classified documents to Mara-Lago upon his leaving office. These offenses would have been grounds for impeachment had he been in office.
His patterns of offense and abuse require not simply impeachment but removal from office. Had he not been protected by Senate Republicans from his two impeachments the nation would not be stuck in the quagmire of his second term.
We should not be looking for a War Powers Act resolution to legalize this war. We should be asking who obeyed and passed along the illegal orders to prosecute it.
Please immediately do your part to remove him from office, sparing the nation from further criminal abuse.
"...And the truth is that we have learned to shrug at all this. Too many of us. We scarcely bother to remember a world in which all this was obscene..."
The way people suddenly act shocked by conditions that have been the operating system of human history.
The ignorance isn’t accidental…it’s selective. People fixate on one crisis and pretend it represents some unprecedented moral collapse, while ignoring the long-running catastrophes that never made it into their emotional field:
• Burma’s civil war grinding on for years.
• Systematic repression inside China.
• Russia’s treatment of its own population long before Ukraine became a headline.
• Conflicts across Africa that have lasted decades, with Sudan right now being one of the worst humanitarian disasters on earth.
• American treatment of migrants, minorities, and poor; American prisons and farcical legal system
• Migration, exploitation, and trafficking that have existed as long as humans have organized themselves into hierarchies.
This isn’t a world “suddenly on fire.” This is the world as it has always been. The only thing that changed was the story we told ourselves…that history was bending toward justice, that the global order was evolving, that the most powerful nation on earth was committed to something larger than raw self‑interest.
And now that same nation is openly saying the quiet part out loud: that power is about protecting the priorities of a small elite, not about any universal principle. That’s not new. That’s Rome. That’s the British Empire. That’s every empire. The pattern is ancient; the branding was modern.
So when people clutch their pearls about “the world descending into chaos,” the problem isn’t the concern, it’s the amnesia. It’s the refusal to see the full map of human suffering, the selective empathy, the sudden shock at realities billions of people have lived with for generations.
The real obscenity is how quickly we learned to shrug at the rest.
You're absolutely correct that the media and most citizens take no account of the grinding exploitation of powerless communities that have, yes, occurred for a long time. Arguably, accelerating now that resource availability is in rapid decline.
The metaphor of world on fire is apt in the disruption around one of those resources (oil) involving highly (nuclear) armed players.
So the solution is investment in the Havens hedge fund? And hug your friends before they drown in ignorance?
I am not facetious. The citizens under fascist rule will suffer. All the citizens no matter which hedge they belong to.
For readers in the U.S.- Copy and paste or paraphrase to your elected politicians:
NO! It is not enough to “Stop this illegal war”. The prosecution of this war is war is an impeachable offense, as were:
1) The withholding of military aid to Ukraine to extort false statements from President Zelenski that there were investigations into President Biden and his family and
2) His leadership role in the events of January 6th 2021 in which mobs of his supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of his election loss.
In addition to these offenses there were also his attempted conspiracy to falsify election results and his retention and removal of boxes of classified documents to Mara-Lago upon his leaving office. These offenses would have been grounds for impeachment had he been in office.
His patterns of offense and abuse require not simply impeachment but removal from office. Had he not been protected by Senate Republicans from his two impeachments the nation would not be stuck in the quagmire of his second term.
We should not be looking for a War Powers Act resolution to legalize this war. We should be asking who obeyed and passed along the illegal orders to prosecute it.
Please immediately do your part to remove him from office, sparing the nation from further criminal abuse.
Thank you,
A little bit much I’d say. Yes, chaos but why overdramatize it?
"...And the truth is that we have learned to shrug at all this. Too many of us. We scarcely bother to remember a world in which all this was obscene..."
The way people suddenly act shocked by conditions that have been the operating system of human history.
The ignorance isn’t accidental…it’s selective. People fixate on one crisis and pretend it represents some unprecedented moral collapse, while ignoring the long-running catastrophes that never made it into their emotional field:
• Burma’s civil war grinding on for years.
• Systematic repression inside China.
• Russia’s treatment of its own population long before Ukraine became a headline.
• Conflicts across Africa that have lasted decades, with Sudan right now being one of the worst humanitarian disasters on earth.
• American treatment of migrants, minorities, and poor; American prisons and farcical legal system
• Migration, exploitation, and trafficking that have existed as long as humans have organized themselves into hierarchies.
This isn’t a world “suddenly on fire.” This is the world as it has always been. The only thing that changed was the story we told ourselves…that history was bending toward justice, that the global order was evolving, that the most powerful nation on earth was committed to something larger than raw self‑interest.
And now that same nation is openly saying the quiet part out loud: that power is about protecting the priorities of a small elite, not about any universal principle. That’s not new. That’s Rome. That’s the British Empire. That’s every empire. The pattern is ancient; the branding was modern.
So when people clutch their pearls about “the world descending into chaos,” the problem isn’t the concern, it’s the amnesia. It’s the refusal to see the full map of human suffering, the selective empathy, the sudden shock at realities billions of people have lived with for generations.
The real obscenity is how quickly we learned to shrug at the rest.
Whoa...looks who's over-dramatizing now :)
You're absolutely correct that the media and most citizens take no account of the grinding exploitation of powerless communities that have, yes, occurred for a long time. Arguably, accelerating now that resource availability is in rapid decline.
The metaphor of world on fire is apt in the disruption around one of those resources (oil) involving highly (nuclear) armed players.