The need for large scale degrowth
Mearsheimer’s analyses are of great value and in my view correct, but I do not think his account of US support for Israel is right.
Of course the power of the lobby is central but the core factor is that Israel is the empire’s forward base in the essential effort to secure Western access to oil, and keeping the Arabs down, divided and harassed is the central element in this. In Nasser’s time “Arab Nationalism” was rising, but it has long gone.
Biden et al. are in a good position, able to tut-tut about Israeli “excesses” while watching Israel do such a good job … using the US supplies so that they can go on doing it.
What almost none of the peaceniks will face up to is that if you want to preserve living standards which involve a few in rich countries taking far more than their fair share of global resources, and siphoning over $2 trillion in wealth out of poor countries every year, then you had better remain heavily armed and willing to support Israel.
You are not going to defuse this or any of the other major global problems until you accept the need for large scale degrowth to far simpler lifestyles and systems.
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