The US empire can fall because of Israel

Donald Trump is clearly familiar with Galtung’s advise on how to avoid the fall of the empire. In short: Know what is right from wrong, and make your foreign policy accordingly.

The American tax-payers are paying for a genocide in Gaza the majority of them don’t support. And they’re sponsoring Israeli welfare: Free healthcare, free schools and free universities.

On top of that: support of endless, insane and unwinnable wars can be the downfall of the US empire.

Highlights in this article:

* The United States risk a total economic breakdown because of their war-support

* The next crack can be so profound that the era of the USA as an empire could come to an end

* European politicians are pulling back their support of Israel's genocidal and territorial wars

*  The world outside US and the West are shifting away from the dollar

*  68 % of Americans don’t support the war, but US politicians are paid well to ignore it

A financial losing game

Israels war against the Palestinians is a war that cannot be won. The Palestinians fight for their right to live free in their own land, fighting the Israeli occupation that started in 1967. People who fight for their land have a righteous fight, and they never give up. Israel as the occupier is on the loosing side, and getting more and more desperate. The horrors they commit against Palestinian children and innocent civilians are above and beyond anything history ever has told us. It is way beyond any sane behaviour, and can only be explained as a collective lunacy.

The Norwegian peace-professor Johan Galtung, author of 150 books on peace, said some years ago: «The USA is a high flying jumbo-jet that has lost its engine power. Depending on the next president, it may hit the ground in a very steep angle, nose first. In the best case, it may hit with a straighter angle. But it will crash into the ground at some point».

Galtung explained that the financial bubble has to burst at some point. Billons of play-money that doesn’t exist is poured into the economy. It’s like drinking heavily to cure a hangover. Galtung also said that in the next financial crisis, there won’t be any quick fixes. President Franklin D. Roosevelt got the US out of the depression in the thirties with his New Deal. He poured government money into the closed factories and got the wheels rolling again. The unemployed, hungry workers could step out of the food-queues and go back to stable and wellpaid production jobs.

That can not happen this time, since most of the production since the eighties has been moved to poor countries in the East. So the consequences for the American working people can be years of even harder hardships.

And yet there is a way of escaping this depressing outlook. Galtung pointed to the decisive factor, but couldn’t believe that any US president would follow it: «Know what is legitimate, and what is illegitimate. And make your foreign policy accordingly». Israel’s wars are totally illegitimate, and to save the empire, the US should bring about a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. They should stop supporting Israels wars immediately, and start pouring all the money that will be saved, into solving real problems at home.

US leaders have for decades done the opposite – supported totally illegitimate wars, and spent money they don’t have – pushing the nation to the brink of financial collapse.

The worst investment ever

Every year the US gives Israel 3.8 billion dollars. Over the years the US has paid close to 300 billion to Israel. After October 7, the US has given 22.7 billion to Israel - in just one year.

There is no gain in this for the people of the United States. It’s a depletion of state wealth, since most of that money, funneled through Israel, ends up in private US military companies. The top five, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop, Boeing, and General Dynamics, are the biggest in the world. Israel buys US-made bombs and related material with US government dollars. The private companies get richer, the state gets poorer.

So why does the US do this, when there is no gain? It may be because a majority of congress reps and senators are paid handsomely by the Israeli lobby to do so. In plainer words – they are on the take. Corruption is defined by someone paying you to have their interests in mind – over the people it is your job to care about – in this case, the Israelis interests, over the American public. 68% of Americans want the war to end.

Brown University has looked at how US military spending after 9/11 has benefited American society. They found a total of - nothing.

Had the money instead been spent on health, education and green energy, 1.4 million more jobs would have been created. If a million of those were in health and education – that would also mean a vastly better healthcare and school-system for the whole country.

And that was just the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

The American worker pays the bill

So the American taxpayers are paying for the Israeli territorial and genocidal war the majority don’t support. And they pay for the illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land.

This is wrong on so many levels. There is a huge difference between Israeli and American societies. The Americans don’t have the luxury of a free medical system, free schools, paid holidays – that Israel has. Ranking has Israel at number 6 of the best health care systems in the world. The US comes up in the same ranking as number 69, and is at the same time the most expensive health system on the planet.

Israeli universities are heavily subsidized, and several offer a high education totally free. And in the illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine, the US tax-dollars pay for settlers´ posh houses and apartments. The settlers live in luxurious compounds that cost them almost nothing. Many of the settlers don’t even work – the Israeli government pays them to live there.

At the same time, workers in the USA are struggling just to get enough calories on the table to maintain weight.

If the US had spent money on solving real problems instead of financing morally corrupt wars, it could have been a superrich country of milk and honey for all.

The US debt is now 34 trillions. That is a lot of zeros. How much can the US have in debt, before a crisis hits? Google gives three answers: 1) The economists are divided on this, and 2) Frankly, we don’t know and 3) Endless – US economy is so solid it can borrow even a lot more. Which means – number two is the right answer.

Apart from high taxes, the US government finances the war support in two ways: 1) They print money and 2) they borrow it. Economists agree that both are bad, and can create a crack at any time. And why is that?

Printing money is bad

The US printed more than 3 trillion dollars during the pandemic – to boost the economy. And they printed plenty during the last financial crisis. That’s a measure also called «To piss in your pants to stay warm». After a short positive effect, the long term effect is not so good. When you print money, the dollar will reduce in value, and then prices will go up. Then the national bank raise the interests, in the distant hope of getting the prices down again. Higher prices and more expensive mortgages are already here, making life even more difficult for the American public. The housing crisis in the States can in itself usher in the next financial breakdown.

But so far the dollar hasn’t lost value. It has even grown stronger after all the printing. Which is very bad, since that is virtually impossible. It is proof of a bubble, ready to burst at any moment. And the government is blowing harder as the Israeli wars proceed. The dollar hasn’t cracked yet because it’s the reference currency for the rest of the world.

But that is about to change. Other major countries are joining hands to drop the dollar. They don’t like either Israel or the US, and have planned to de-dollarize for years. When the next crisis hits the US and the West, the rest will have their own financial feet to stand on.

Countries outside the West are teaming up to drop the dollar, to have their economies removed from the dollar when the next financial crisis hits.

Borrowing money – also bad

US Treasury Bonds - they sure look good. The US sells them by the billions. But if the dollar goes down, they may not be worth the paper they are written on.

When the US borrows, it sells a paper like an «I Owe You» to other countries, called treasury bonds. These have a set value for 20-30 years. The interest rate is low, like 2%, but they are regarded as very safe investments. The bonds can be sold at the set price.

The USA is up to its ears in debt to countries that have no love for the USA.

The amount of US debt owned by foreign countries is about 22% of the total dept. The countries the US is most in debt to, is Japan and China. Both are countries with not much love for the USA. Each of them can send the US into deep crisis just by selling some of their bonds on the market. That’s because the bubble not bursting, relies on what the financial people think and believe and feel from day to day. If some countries would sell US bonds by the billions, that would make the stockmarket so nervous that a crack could happen the next couple of hours.

So to support a non-winnable war with borrowed and printed money can ruin a country. 

Europe is pulling out

Several European countries have supported Israel verbally and with weapons since October 7. But things have clearly changed though, after Israel's attack on Beirut September 27. The flattening of six highrise apartment buildings – packed with innocent people, for the purpose of killing one man – shocked the European governments. They must have realized, maybe confirming nagging suspicions, that the Israeli government has lost its marbles. European politicians must be panicking now, on how to get out of this. The feeling grows that this cannot end well for Israel or her friends, and they need to distance themselves. The fear of being deemed complicit in war crimes by the ICC is suddenly very realistic.

And after the death of Hamas top leader Yahya Sinwar, the war should be over, Bernie Sanders wrote. But Israel continues to hammer away at the Gazan children and civilians – only dramatically worse. The country with one of the best health care systems in the world, have for a full year bombed each and every hospital in Gaza. Right now Israel is carpet bombing the hospitals in the North of Gaza – with all the patients in them. These are wartime decisions that no sensible person can regard as reflective and sane.

France declared on October 5 that they have stopped arming Israel, and it calls for all other nations to do the same. Spain has earlier stopped all arms shipments. England and Italy have reduced export licenses drastically.

Countries around the world are now severing their ties with Israel. Nicaragua cut all ties with Israel on October 11, 2024, following ten other countries. Boycott and divestment is picking up speed: Countries, corporations and cities are divesting in Israeli businesses. Portland became the fourth American city to cut all trade with Israel, in a unanimous vote, supported by Jewish Voice for Peace. But people around the world are also boycotting US brands: McDonald, Coca Cola, Pepsi, and Starbucks are loosing big money, just to name a few.  

The next thing to happen is sanctions, which the UN advised to all member states last month.

Peace offer from all

Contradictory to what Israel purports, the whole world acknowledges the Israeli state with the borders of 1967. That gives Israel 78% of the original Palestinian territory, and only 22% will be the new, sovereign state of  Palestine. It’s a very good deal for Israel, and they should take it before someone comes to think that it’s actually too good, and goes back to the original map. The Palestinian Authority accepted this reduced state in 1988. All the Arab nations have offered peace with Israel since 2002, providing they pull out of the occupied territories. Iran has been on board since 2003. Hamas has accepted it since 2017, and Hezbollah are okay with what the Palestinians accept. 57 Islamic countries offered the same after Israels shocking bombing of Beirut September 27.

The best hope for the US now is for the next president to be one who is not paid from the Israeli lobby, who will start some real problem-solving in the US instead. Or it could be a friend of Israel who sees that Israel without the occupation would be in a much better place – it will be prosperity all around.

Since Israel can’t find this way in their moment of total mental darkness, they need to be forced into peace. So it takes someone with balls, figuratively speaking – and just a portion of common sense.