Just watched a video

Yanis Varoufakis on Iran Nuclear Deal Demise, US Trade Negotiations, Europe’s Far Right & Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Cm52JqWeU

And I made these comments about it:

I like the uncompromising statement of the true situation regarding Kurds/Iran/Syria etc.

We have acted and are acting shamelessly in the most wicked manner.

We always have and still are and I deplore it to the utmost.

But here's the point:  it doesn't matter what I think or want.

Or what you think or want.

Because my country is not me.  And your country is not you.

And it is not me and a thousand of my friends or people like me.  And yours is not you or thousand of your friends or people like you.

Nor in the millions.

Our countries are NOT the people any more - if they ever were.

Maybe they never were.  Always the people simply the prey of overlords.

But in the modern world with our much vaunted Democracy we THINK our countries are US.

That's what we THINK.

But listen to this man and look around.

Countries are simply the leaders and their actions. 

Nothing more.  The people very rarely even get a mention.

Today. In the 21st Century.  With our Democracies.  With the Internet and instant world wide ubiquitous communications.

Still thousands and millions of people are killed and tormented, displaced, destroyed by the whims and machinations of the smallest possible handful.

Why? How?

Because we never say STOP! 

And even those who pretend to speak for us:  like this man now - happily continue the myth that these 'leaders'  (manipulators, really) are US,  are the NATION.

Do you see what I mean?   WE haven't deserted the Kurds.  WE didn't/don't support DAESH.
WE didn't want to destroy Libya.  

WE do nothing but watch the sick drama unfold.

WE don't want to continually act outside of International Law.

WE don't want to  invade foreign countries murdering men, woman and children indiscriminately.

But our manipulators do.   And they do it.

And it won't stop until WE the people pick up ourselves and adopt the stance we fondly assume we already have: Rulers of our own Nation.

And frankly that's what it is going to take and frankly I don't see much hope of it ever happening.

So we just better get used to being part of a vicious criminal conspiracy to rape, pillage and plunder the world with no concern for anyone or anything.


p.s.  'deal with Saudi Arabia' ....  what a joke.  Immediately after taking office Trump was embracing them publicly.  After during his campaign maligning them and promising to do something about them..

Trump was an innocent.  Obviously.  After taking office he was quickly inducted into their own world view or joint delusion or whatever it is.  Whatever it is it is not aligned with anything we believe or  reason on.  It has its own logic, its own morality, its own aims and they're not divulged to us.  Why not?  Clearly because it is in their interests that we don't know.

And why are we not fed a digestible rationale, cover story instead of the laughable outright lies we're fed?  Again clearly it can only be because we simply don't matter to them.  'Them', whoever they are.

I don't know who they are.   But they induct new Presidents,  they direct everything, they destroy everything and they are not US.

But the world today is ours as never ever before in history.  But we need to step up and claim it.