The Tail is a Part of the Dog
False dichotomies, contractions and directions
Published: 2025-03-22
Usrael
A perennial argument in the US has been framed around identifying the tail and dog between the US and Israel.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson repeated his analysis of this over recent weeks on Judge Napolitano's Judging Freedom program. Israel is an empire project. It performs the dirty work for the US empire in the oil rich region.
The state was created by the U.N. which was created by the US and has been used by the US to achieve its geopolitical goals since it "won" WWII. The motivation to create Israel was indigenous to the US then. The motivation to support Israel as an empire project is still indigenous to the US now. The "lobby" existed before the creation of Israel. It was living in the US. It now tends to have dual citizenship of both the US and Project Israel. That, over time, many of the operational actors of Project Israel were born there and later gained US citizenship is a natural consequence of the project. It is a red herring.
The "Zio-cons" are an expression of the fabric of the US, representing one of its powerful factions.
This view of Project Israel is endemic to the neighbouring peoples of the state. It is a US project and a Zionist project at once. The Zionists already held strong influence in the US when project Israel was begun. The reason that the most publicly acknowledged political influence organisation for Israel, AIPAC, is not forced to register as a foreign agent organisation is because Israel is a US project.
Israel did not "acquire" nuclear weapons from the US, it was given them (covertly), is Col. Wilkerson's position.
The tail is an extension of the dog. The attempted separation of them is based on statehood, but that second state was created by the first. The first continues to "blank cheque" support the second. They are one and the same. It is a dog. This newsletter labeled it Usrael in 2023, hoping that this would illuminate the false dichotomy.
Violent, Racist, Individualist Settler Colonialism
The US culture contains within it a strong element of violence. It was there at the beginning and has never left. It is part and parcel of the "Land of the Free", free to exert violence to obtain, to own and to murder and steal in the process. One could ask the US indigenous population about genocide.
In a US cultural sense, it was a fair fight and the invading settlers won. The current genocide in Palestine by Project Israel is entirely consistent with the conquering of the North American continent by the British settlers who threw off their British chains.
If the descendants of the indigenous US population had a state which was a member of the UN, it could bring a far more extensive case to the U.N. charging the US with genocide than South Africa began with the International Court of Justice against Israel 3 months after the obvious genocide in Gaza, Palestine, began.
Donald J. Trump's restarting of the war against Yemen is another US imperial activity. Trump is not doing Israel's bidding, Trump is supporting Empire Project Israel in its sub-project Greater Israel. The initial sub-sub-project war was formerly started by Obama, a Democrat. The US-Yemen war, irrelevant of the ceasefire which Yemen forced on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has been restarted by Trump, a Republican. The US-Yemen war is not party political, it is an Empire project filed under Israel, Greater Israel, Destroy all capable regional military opposition, Yemen, Houti.
Endless False Dichotomies: The "War Economy"
Wilkerson noted that the US Military Industrial Complex needs $50 billion a year. To obtain that, it needs wars. It is quite amusing to hear US political pundits throw accusations at Russia having transitioned into a "war economy". As Wilkerson put it, "the US is a war state".
BRICS+
The US Empire is Corporate. It is based on the Dollar.
The Dollar has moved with the Empire, from gold based, to the Petro-Dollar, into financialization (which caused the 2008 crash), and now contends Yanis Varoufakis into a TechnoFeudalism based on data and AI. The new funders behind Trump, Thiel et al., are children of Apartheid South Africa. They are attempting to edge out the "old" Military Industrial Complex with a newer one based on their data and tech, to suck from the same government, tax-payer funded tit.
From an external perspective, all of the above is understood. The US Empire is evolving. It is run on the Dollar. The most effective way to reign in the Empire is to rein in the Dollar. Trump understands this and has explicitly issued warnings to all foreign states. The US will defend its Dollar.
How it is going to do this is the question. Tariffs are a tool from a bygone era which seem to this author wholly unsuited to the task at hand. Tariffs are a misdirection. War is the tool. Always has been. The problem which the Empire loyalists have is that China has become a technological colossus on top of being large and manufacturing dominant. Its partnership with Russia, providing it Russia's mineral resources, makes it a formidable opponent. Russia itself has advanced beyond the US in various military technical areas, with precision hypersonic missiles and effective missile defense being two key areas. The China-Russia partnership involves technology transfer. China has these Russian technologies, making them even more formidable.
The BRICS+ understanding is that the only way to tame the Empire is to tame the Dollar, carefully. This is their project. It will, in fact, is, returning the locus of global power back to Asia, the largest land mass with the highest population density (southeast Asia), and currently 70% of the world's productive economic activity.
BRICS+ do not have within their cultures the same megalomaniacal lust for global dominance and violence. They have also been watching and learning during the half a millennium of expansion and domination of the maritime powers, first from Europe and then from the US. They understand that there is only one architecture for a lasting order. Replacing the hegemon with another produces the same cycle.
The multi-nodal world is a fabric, a multi-connected balance of power. BRICS+’s challenge is to integrate the US into it. This, in turn, requires a cultural shift in the US, otherwise we all die in a nuclear war. This is what I meant above, by "carefully".
Paths
Interesting questions are on the horizon. Will the new tech militarists drive the world into an arms race? I expect so. That is how they will make their money. What will be the event, or sequence of events, which will prompt the US to abandon the violence at its core? That is, the real question.
When will the US choose to not be an Empire, but a Power? What cultural traditions will it choose to bring to the multi-nodal world?
Given the behaviour of the current western European leaders and the European Commission under van der Crazy, the Enlightenment ideas encoded in the US Constitution are asking to be resurrected. Indeed, US Vice President Vance put the European political leadership on notice. There is, in all of this struggle of the receding US Empire, an opportunity.
The US could return to its republican ideals and take a strong position in the multi-nodal fabric proclaiming them. Sadly, the US is currently woefully under-equipped to take this position. Its institutions from Universities to its State Department are bereft of informed and skilled bureaucrats and diplomats. Some can be found, interestingly, in the cohort of its former military leaders. There are others, in the wilderness, deprived of the corrupt money reinforcing the current Imperial paradigm.
They could play an important role in training a new generation of educated leaders. These new leaders-to-be could lead the US into the role which the multi-nodal world is inviting it to assume.
The same invitation is on offer for Europe, especially from Russia, after Europe regenerates its leadership and forms a unity of vision based on the same Enlightenment ideals.
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Sources
The New Age Militarists; William D. Hartung; Scheerpost; 2025-03-19
Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism; WIRED; Archive.today; 2024-04-25
Col. Larry Wilkerson on Israel Shatters the Ceasefire!; Alkhorshid interviews Wilkerson; Dialogue Works; 2025-03-18
Chris Hedges : Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order; Media Sanctuary; 2025-03-12
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One problem with getting to a multi-polar world is that most of the BRICS+ are actually feeding the beast: the fascist tech oligarchs..
Maybe China is semi autonomous. but if you go to Brazil or Nigeria or India, South Africa etc......they are all completely subsumed in the silicon valley apps. Faceboo, Whatapp, Instagram, Twitter etc. In Nigeria for example I think even the main fiber optic communicaiton backbone into the country is owned by facebook, if I remember correctly.
The ordinary people in these countries dont have any real understanding of how through these apps, the US silicon valley sucks money out of them in the advertising economy, kills their local culture, drags them into US mindsets, and constitutes a US imperialist vehichle for surveilling them and manipulating them.
And the leaders are oblivious to the fact that the US new tech oligarchs like Open AI see them as lunch to be clubbed by the US gvoernment so they can be eaten:
https://openai.com/global-affairs/openai-proposals-for-the-us-ai-action-plan/
For a multipolar world to be even possible, these countries will need to strategically break free from this tech commerical and cultural exploitaiton and mind manipulation machine. And in fact they are VERY far from this.They havent even gotten started with understanding that problem, let alone to begin fixing.
By extension, the dog is essentially made up of the "Five Eyes" nations, which make up the core of the so-called Anglo-Zionist Empire consisting of the previous genocidal Brutish mothership and its settler-colonies in America and Australia.
Don't forget that it was precisely the Mothership that issued the famous Balfour IOU to Herzl's Zionist Congress, and it is only logical that the USA fulfilled and maintained that promise upon its own ascent as leader of the Empire pack after WW2...