The Madness Of Neoconservatism Is Concluding With North Korean Genocide

Last month, two hundred years of American imperialism reached its ultimate state of moral decay. President Trump, the distorted caricature of our culture’s vanity and selfishness, spoke at the United Nations and threatened to kill 25 million North Koreans with a nuclear attack. Trump’s ultimatum to “totally destroy” North Korea, next to his childish insults and casual critiques of the U.N. building’s aesthetics, was supported by the political establishment. MSNBC panelists gave Trump’s speech approving assessments, and John McCain had already advocated a policy of North Korean “extinction.”

These genocidal plans, which most Americans seem to distrust despite the constant war propaganda surrounding North Korea, are not even theoretically justified. Kim Jong Un, who shows no signs of being mentally unstable, has repeatedly stated that North Korea will reach a peace deal when the U.S. stops provoking war. This is an entirely reasonable request, as America has long been advancing brutal sanctions, troops, and nuclear submarines onto North Korea. And Washington has consistently rejected these peace requests, little doubt because of the trillions in minerals that North Korea sits on and the American staple of perpetuating war.

The North Korean people, who are currently suffering under U.S. sanctions, are the most personally hurt by these attacks. Unbeknownst to most Americans, 20% of Korea’s population, nearly three million people, were killed in an insane bombing campaign by the U.S. sixty-three years ago. The survivors of this, who will likely continue recovering from it for centuries, are now the casually disposed of waste for America’s peak imperialist episode.

This episode is the culmination of a descent into war culture and nationalism that’s been defined by the rise of neoconservatism. Started as a term after the Vietnam War, neoconservatism articulates the arrogant way America behaves in its last stage of empire. It affirms the rationale that was used for slaughtering tens of millions of native Americans into a modern, all-reaching mission for white colonial conquest. The Korean, Vietnamese, and middle eastern peoples have been the native Americans of this new Manifest Destiny, human objects in the way of a world dominated by the wise American conquerors. Since nuclear weapons, drone warfare, and sophisticated army equipment are part of t neoconsevatism’s operation, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts calls it “the most dangerous ideology that has ever existed.”

The recent neoconservatives that aren’t white men, like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, are just as big a threat. They’ve still enacted corporatist policies that repress and marginalize the lower class and nonwhite populations. They’ve still raineddepleted uranium bombs onto tens of thousands of innocents, expanded the drone wars to levels of global terrorism, and overseen a record seven wars throughout the Obama administration. They’re still provoking war with Russia for its interfering with Syrian regime change plans, while ignoring the war crimes of an Israel that’s helping attack Syria. The centers of power only let people into its circles who won’t challenge their system, and the only way to defeat that system is to fight it directly.

This defeat for the old order is happening while the empire exposes itself as unacceptable. The world is seeing Donald Trump, an avatar for the society that produced him, threaten mass imperialist murder using the claims of a long discredited American corporate state. And this is provoking action. Guaranteed health care, basic income, and slavery reparations are being discussed. The propaganda machine is unable to hold the people’s belief in claims like the Russian election hacking, which has easily been thoroughly debunked. Communities are building sustainable systems for themselves as the state consumes itself.

Whether or not the wild fearmongering about North Korea has an intent of actual war, catastrophe could happen unless this shift happens quickly. A game with nuclear weapons always has the potential for coming out of control, and the U.S. us in that game with Russia and Iran as well. In this moment we can’t be too comforted by how these wild military attempts are the signature of almost dead empires, as these attempts could result in disaster. We need to take this madness, as we’ve been taking the rest of our recent crisis, and translate it into motive for creating a better future.