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The West Is Looking To Go Out With One Last Genocide, One Last World War
I understand why the leaders of the west fight so desperately and become so irrational over the dawning of a multi-polar world. It has had a 500 year history of being able to pillage across the world and engage in genocide with impunity. They simply wouldn’t know how to live in a world where they would have to treat other nations as equals. That is why they are fighting so hard, why they are willing to support one last genocide and push the world to one last world war. And, sadly, that is why the rest of us in the west fight so little.
We do not oppose our ruling class the way we should, or the way we would like to think we do, because deep down we too understand that we rely so much on the exploitation of the rest of the world. Much of the chocolate we in the west enjoy is made from cocoa grown by African farmers who have never even tasted the finished product. The uranium used to produce electricity in France is mined by the people of Niger, 76% of whom do not have electricity in their homes. Half of the world’s largest gold reserves reside in Europe although no European country is among the top ten gold producers. The tropical fruit affordably available to Americans is harvested by exploited labor who will be visited by death squads should they try to stand up for their rights. Garment workers were notoriously…