Very, very sick people are running your country.

Now is the time to attempt to curtail and contain this unwelcome dynamic before the Trump regime’s appetite for control overwhelms any restraint that remains.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

#ResistTrump #Venezuela #MonroeDoctrine #Sovereignty #TheAmericas #Greenland #Canada

Creating a pan American organization whose purpose is to counterbalance this hemispherically-focused, clearly hegemonic USA – one with far less influence in the world as a whole but overcompensating for its loss with excessive aggression in its own neighbourhood – is urgently needed.

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We can each, as individual nations, put up whatever resistance we can, or we can unite and stand firm against the tide. The 650 million (or so) people of the Americas outside of the United States did not vote for this, and the vast majority do not want this.

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However, all of us have in common one elemental desire – that we are left to determine our own futures unimpeded by the interests of the United States government. Given the Trump regime’s words and actions, that isn’t likely.

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From Ellesmere Island to Tierra del Fuego, the Americas is home to enormous diversity of peoples, each with their own identity, challenges and aspirations.

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Greenland, too, is viewed by Trump as a land to be coerced into American control. Trump has discussed takeover by purchase from Denmark, attempted to influence recent Greenlandic elections, and has threatened military invasion.

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He has directly and repeatedly threatened Canadian sovereignty in saying that he will bring us to our knees economically in order to subsume our nation.

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But under the Trump regime, much has changed. Even before he was elected to his second term, Trump was suggesting Canada should become the 51st state, that it isn’t a real country, and that the border between the US and Canada was simply arbitrary.

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Of all of the nations in the Americas, Canada is culturally, economically and socially closest to the US. We have much in common, one of the most beneficial trading relationships in history, the longest unguarded border in the world, and a tradition of genial relations and mutual support.

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However, now, under Trump, that has dramatically changed, with a clear push for regime change in Venezuela foremost among his initial tactics.

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Nevertheless, from the end of the Reagan era until now, US intervention in Latin American affairs has had a lower, less aggressive profile beyond the realm of drug interdiction.

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Following WWII, the Cold War provided the backdrop against which decades of American overt and covert operations shaped much of Latin America’s political history.

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Teddy Roosevelt put his own spin on the Monroe Doctrine in 1904 with the Roosevelt Corollary, opening the doors for aggressive military intervention in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua.

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Of course the US has a very long history of claiming that the Western Hemisphere is its to dominate, asserting as early as 1823 through the Monroe Doctrine that the country would not brook any further European colonization of the Americas – as though somehow that was its right to assert.

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and his overt interference in the form of a $40 billion lifeline in Argentina’s recent election to ensure another of his spiritual brethren, Javier Milei, would win.

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...his threats of a military takeover of the Panama Canal; his absurd tariff policies toward Brazil for its jailing his insurrectionist brother in spirit, Jair Bolsonaro;

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Trump is becoming increasingly explicit in this; to wit, his unprovoked military buildup in the Caribbean; his CIA operatives working toward regime change in Venezuela; his extralegal killing of people he claims are “narco-terrorists” on the east and west coasts of South America;

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...just the money and brute force to impose its will and to demonize those to whom ill consequences fall so the folks back home don’t get too upset about it.

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Whereas playing democracy’s leading promoter on the global stage required the appearance of some kind of moral rectitude, the US’s new role needs none of that –

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Sounds good, but it would be misleading to say that the OAS is equipped to meet the challenge of a United States that is surrendering its status as a global superpower for that of regional hegemon.

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The mission of the OAS is, at least in theory, to promote peace, justice, democracy and cooperation among its members.

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Greenland, technically part of North America, is not a member, though Denmark, of which it is an autonomous territory, has permanent observer status at the OAS (as do other nations with territorial claims in the Western Hemisphere, e.g. France).

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Since 1948, the Organization of American States (OAS) has served as the regional political forum in the Western Hemisphere. It currently includes all 35 countries in the hemisphere with the exceptions of Cuba (expelled in 1962) and Nicaragua (withdrew in 2023).

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Just as the European Union is (mostly) united in their opposition to Russia’s expansionist agenda, so too should there be some unifying body whose key aim is to counter overzealous US efforts to dominate North and South America.

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...an entitled sense that it ought to be the dominant power in the region with an inherent right to set the agenda, exploit the wealth, and to use its military to aggressively suppress dissent and support its political and commercial goals.

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Week 41 (of 208)🧵

The Case for a Council of the Non United States of the Americas

The relationship of the United States to the rest of the Americas is fast becoming something akin to Russia’s relationship to the rest of Europe...

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I've played twice in my life. Sounds like I could whoop her ass.

This feed needs more Epstein – don't let the outrage die!