What appears to be coming sometime in the near future is the arrival of some major inflection point in history that absolutely ensures a different world generally that what has existed since the end of World War 2.

This will involve a reshuffling of power and influence, and the solidification of the establishment underway of new alliances between major countries and centers of power. In effect, this means a new world order quite different than the world dominated by the United States since 1945. And Allah help us all if this change, which is a foregone conclusion, is ushered in by a third world war. It does not have to be so, although conflicts of varying degrees between countries are part and parcel of the evolving changes. At least at the margin.

What marks the present by and large is the titanic, wasteful struggle of the U.S. to maintain its hegemony, and this struggle has been evident now especially in this century. The great misfortune for humanity is that the U.S. figured as far back as the 1960s with the war on Vietnam that the primary, even sole, way to maintain dominance was by violence when compassion and cooperation would have resulted in a far better long term outcome for America, which is now in steep and unacknowledged decline in Washington.

Few Americans realize that what has been happening in Gaza since last October 7 is nothing but a dramatic amplification and escalation of a genocide underway since the Nakba of 1948. Zionists have always wanted an expanded “Israel” emptied of Arabs, Muslims and even Christians.Another negative factor has been destructive efforts by the U.S. to foment changes in regimes across the globe that did not seem cooperative enough with the U.S. in its postwar heydays. One early example was the deposition of Iran’s Muhammad Mossadegh in the early 1950s and the installation of the puppet Shah, and this was largely because this elected Iranian leader wanted to fully nationalize Iran’s energy resources. In the case of Vietnam, despite the fact that Ho Chi Minh was not averse to dealing fairly with the U.S., the U.S. fight was against “communism” which was the perennial postwar bogey that frightened the U.S. because its grip was unraveling marginally in Southeast Asia as it already had with the Soviet Union, which was the major winner of the war against the Nazis. Any country that did not literally kiss the hindmost part of the U.S. was marked for some kind of violence. Why, some were beginning to ask after World War 2, should just one country totally dominate all others and dictate who leads them? This dominance was couched in positive concepts like the promotion of “democracy” and “freedom” and “equality” but in fact this was a chimera of a rationale: the application of sheer military dominance or threat plus diktat by the U.S. was what really mattered. America’s stated “values” are not reliably sought overseas when the U.S. actually crusades for supremacy and  the right to be the so-called “exceptional” nation above all others. The mere notion of exceptionalism is nauseating. The hypocrisy and self-service inherent in U.S. moves and policies have become increasingly evident for all to witness.
The selfishness is remarkable to behold!

Americans like this commentator, born in 1947, live now in a world of dismay and angst and foreboding over the cumulative effect of U.S. foreign policies stretching back to the 1950s. It’s not a ballgame, but the U.S. is on the verge of losing the geopolitical game badly as are its allies in Europe and its alleged ally, Israel, in the Middle East. The allegations that Israel, for one, is a true and trustable ally of the U.S. is a joke. Successive Israeli governments have manipulated and used the U.S. to extract money and arms, and occasionally attacked U.S. assets, too, like the U.S. naval ship “Liberty” in 1967. The relationship is parasitic with benefits flowing to the Zionists alone in fact. It is frightening to realize that Washington thinks support for Israel, especially as it foments pure genocide on the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank, is a positive posture that somehow benefits the U.S. Few Americans realize that what has been happening in Gaza since last October 7 is nothing but a dramatic amplification and escalation of a genocide underway since the Nakba of 1948. Zionists have always wanted an expanded “Israel” emptied of Arabs, Muslims and even Christians.

In Gaza to date, the Israeli Army has herded most Gazans, over a million, into the Rafah area and the border with Egypt. This was the intent all along. The next possible move is to force the Palestinians into Egypt, but General Sisi is not keen on that. Thus we come to the moment when a possible regional war erupts, including Egypt IF the IDF attempts to push towards full ethnic cleansing of Gaza or the alternative of simply murdering a million additional Palestinians. If the Biden Administration refuses to force a cease-fire on the IDF now, and only it can by punishing the Zionist fanatics by withholding further support, and also lives up to its earlier pronouncement that ethnic cleansing will not be allowed, then both Israel and the U.S. are doomed. The arrogance in Tel Aviv and Washington literally cannot be sustained much longer. Most of the world will see to it, one way or another, that this genocide is utterly condemned. This may be the ultimate inflection point in geopolitics since World War 2.