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Aug 8Liked by Murtaza Hussain

An outstanding essay, Murtaza and I am very happy to see you join up with Ryan Grim.

Israel has become a monster of aggression because it has faced no restraint and the US is at fault for this. Successive Presidents have folded up rather than demand Israel change its ways regarding the long suffering Palestinians. The "mowing the grass" operations attacking Gaza went without consequence and of course the settlements have grown with the incredible fact that "Friends of X" settlement support groups in the US have had donations by Americans judged tax deductible! Meanwhile the money and weaponry have flowed without restriction.

Now the ultimate has been reached, PM Netanyahu has effectively been made leader of the world's only superpower, Washington taking dictation. His repeated assassination operations in Iran of which this last is only the latest over many years brought no US reprimands. President Trump even assassinated Soleimani for Netanyahu!

Unrestricted power inevitably turns bad. Not only has the US made this possible for Israel, it has accelerated it and now at the moment of greatest danger shows no sign of hesitating from giving American lives for Netanyahu, as AIPAC openly weighs in to influence US political outcomes and the Americans hysterical over "Russiagate" are absolutely silent. This is an astounding moment in both US and world history.

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The re-drawing of those maps is inevitable. The lines that the Western powers drew on the maps of Africa and Asia before and after WWI never had any purpose but to serve the financial and geopolitical aims of the European colonial powers. There is no future for those lines in this multi-polar century.

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I always look out for your essays and what you have to say.

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Appreciate you

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Very good info. And, not surprising. And, nothing in the US will change with either Trump or Harris. I did my "duopoly exit" at the start of this century on presidential voting based on foreign as well as domestic policy. This only underscores the correctness of that decision.

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