Has anyone ever discussed how insane the bounty on Maduro is? Just a cash reward to kill/imprison the elected leader of a country you have no jurisdiction over? Imagine if Russia put a bounty out on Finland’s PM and tried multiple times to kill/kidnap them. We’d probably be starting the mobilization already.
But if the US does it? Crickets
The US is a mafia state. I know a lot of you have considered this before, but when you look at every action the US takes, it parallels what organized crime does. From the DEA being the world’s largest cartel, the extrajudicial killings of fishermen in the Caribbean, to the CIA selling crack to our black and brown communities, and putting bounties on people who don’t obey them. isn’treal, too, to turn Gaza into a ‘‘Miami of West Asia’’, wiping off entire communities for condo projects. And speaking of that soulless hellscape, Miami, where do all our gusano terrorists end up? In fucking Florida. They not only protect pieces of shit, they encourage them.
Even US citizens are held hostage by this system. From the moment you’re born, the hospitals and healthcare companies take a cut, and put your parents into debt. When you go to school you gotta pay for lunch and books. When you want a house, you gotta take a mortgage, if you want a car, that’s another long term payment. And workers, which means most of us, are its primary victims. They tie your healthcare to your job, even your social security isn’t secure. If you even consider rebelling, they fire you, you lose your ‘‘benefits’’, healthcare and miss payments. ‘‘If you don’t pay, you don’t play’’. Everything is designed to milk you for every penny you’ve got. Even when you die it ain’t free, your family’s gonna have to pay for your burial.
And this is without getting into everything else the US does around the world, from funding paramilitaries, dictatorships, coups, stealing shit with 0’s on a screen with their exorbitant privilege and getting away with a free lunch, like Michael Hudson often says. And if the world rebels? They’ve got nukes, their military at our doorsteps, and their agents of empire working within our countries through NGO’s or the state. The US blackmails its own people and the world into playing their game through threats of violence, withholding funds, putting bounties, sanctions, and murdering anyone, anywhere, that gets in their way. It’s a rogue state against any notion of international law, which is why they want an ‘‘international rules order’’ instead. Rules for thee, but not for me.
And I didn’t even get into the internal politics of the US, with lobbying being legal, and people tied to all kinds of criminal activity.