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Kassioun Editorial 1199: Two Shoes Worn by the Same Person
In 1960, before the US elections on November 6 of that year, Fidel Castro was asked which candidate he preferred, Nixon or Kennedy? He replied: “You cannot compare two shoes worn by the same person”.
Some may consider Castro’s statement to be rude and undiplomatic. However, trying to look objectively at the entire history of US elections, starting from the end of World War I with the formation and dominance of the US Federal Reserve, and then the end of World War II, and the completion of the US military-industrial complex and with it the US intelligence complex, this statement has become an honest expression of the reality of the ruling system in the country of the Yankees.
The same person who “wears two shoes” is the ruling elite in the United States, which remains the same regardless of the party, color, and policy of the one elected president. The ruling elite that is represented by the owners of the Federal Reserve System, the owners of the most profitable and plundered goods in the world and throughout history: the US dollar, along with the military-industrial complex and the major monopolies in the fields of medicine, agriculture, technology, and others, and their partners within the mafias of criminal financial capital that have reinforced their global work since the emergence of the petrodollar, with their various forms of activity in the black. These have become an integral and significant part of the global capital cycle for several decades, and have been further reinforced after Afghanistan 2001 and the 2007-2009 crisis.
Today, again, the "free" and "unfree" world stand before the repeated World Cup to choose a new shoe for the same person. In light of this, it is necessary to sort the information and expectations into two basic categories, the first of which is what will remain constant, and the second is what will change.
As for what will remain constant, it is represented by the following:
First: The general direction of US foreign policy will remain the same. That is, the pursuit of igniting a series of spot wars in various places in the world will continue and escalate. In our region, work will continue to detonate the comprehensive hybrid chaos, which will have clear goals in the foreseeable future to target the weak spots, including Syria and perhaps Egypt as well.
Second: Washington's support for the Zionist criminality will continue, and the US attempts to occupy simultaneously the positions of the enemy and the mediator will continue. The war will not recede except with the increasing possibility of the US losing it, that is, with the increase in the volume of the strikes and the attrition to which the US and its "Israeli" tool are exposed.
Third: Washington's attrition of its "allies" and followers will increase significantly, and these "allies" will be facing an existential conflict not with their hypothetical historical enemies, but specifically and primarily with their US "ally". This applies to Europe and many countries in our region, including Turkey, countries in the Arabian Gulf, and other parts of the world.
As for what will change is the following:
First: The chances of internal unrest in the US will increase, not due to the formal conflict between Republicans and Democrats, but due to the division within the ruling elite itself over how to deal with the objective decline (the division that the storming of Congress in 2021 was just a preliminary indication of what we may witness in its manifestations later). Also due - from the popular point of view - to the erosion of the standard of living and the erosion of the American dream through decades of stable income levels and rising inflation, and through decades of declining health and education services. In other words, through at least four decades of savage neoliberal policies, accompanied by the gradual decline of the most important source of American income ever: the dollar profits.
Second: Washington’s isolation will deepen globally, and the forces (international, regional and domestic) opposing it will be strengthened worldwide. As part of the comprehensive decline process, our fellow end-of-history theorists will begin to announce their repentance when it is too late, and until then, they will continue to bet on losing horses even if that leads them to slip into openly supporting the “Israeli” entity.
Finally, and as it directly concerns us in Syria, the US elections, whatever their outcome, will change one thing for sure, which is that they will increase the speed of the decline of American weight in Syria, and the door will be more open to getting Syria out of its crisis with a unified land and peoples, through the full implementation of UNSC Resolution 2254, in cooperation with Astana, China, and key Arab countries, and in parallel with a Syrian-Turkish settlement against the American-Zionist will.