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  • in reply to: Russia and the Middle East #260344
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    The bourgeois press is not telling the truth to their readers

    Iran was caught off guard during the first strike by Israel, they were counting on a meeting that they were going to have with the US, and many of his officials and scientists slept in their own private residence and were killed. They did the same attack as the Japanese in Pearl Harbor which was also a surprise attack .

    The USA knew in advance about the attack and they provided logistic information to the Israeli army, and Iranian air defense were not completely destroyed and the damages were immediately repaired

    The Iranian missiles which are hypersonic missiles were able to penetrate and avoid Israel air defense system and they were able to destroy many military targets including air defenses, F-35 aircrafts, and they were able to prove that Israel system have weakness and that their famous air defenses are not so effective and that their supply of missiles is limited compared to thousands of missiles that Iran has in reserve,

    They need the military backup of the US because they can be defeated by the advanced Iranian forces and they can run out of missiles.

    It is not true that the Iranian people want to overthrow the government, on the contrary, they do not trust the US or Israel and they might end up providing support to the actual government, and some Iranian government enemies might become their friends.

    The US government is holding a hot potato in their hands because this war can become a regional war and their forces can be also attacked and can be destroyed by islamic terrorists, in fact, the US has 40,000 troops in different military bases around the area.

    The US has already dispatched a battalion to the Middle East of aircrafts carriers, destroyers, warplanes, bombers and troops.

    There are some reports indicating that Chinese airplanes were flown to Iran probably carrying military hardware, and it is known that Russia, China and Iran have signed a treaty of military collaboration.

    The US was defeated in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan by a less professional army compared to the Iranians, and Iran is not the same as Libya, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and others countries that the US have invaded, and the attacks that Israel carried in Egypt, Lebanon and others countries where they obtained a victory were also done by surprise and they were also weakened.

    The geography of Iran is different to others countries in the Middle East and they have high mountains and its army have been trained in guerrilla warfare and they have a population of 90 millions and the size of the country is closer to the size of Eastern Europe, and the US army and the Israel army is not prepared to confront that type of war–

    Por una sociedad sin clases, sin estado, sin sistema monetario, y sin líderes = socialismo/comunismo

    in reply to: Trump as president again? #260311
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    Most of those anti Trump groups are very superficial, they never go to the real roots of the problem, they and several others leftists and Leninists groups think that the problem of the US is Donald Trump and his cabinet, and that by placing Trump instead of Kamala Harris was not the solution.

    Kamala Harris was going to continue Joe Biden policy and the economic was not promising was they were projecting, if the situation was so good for the workers why they vote for the economic instead of Harris ? Donald Trump was a much better snake oil salesman, the economy was in bad shape already and she was going to continue the wars and tensions with Russia, Iran and China

    Both represented the same interests and Trump is the continuation of several policies established by several presidents before him uncluding Joe Biden, Barrack Obama, George Bush, jr and Sr, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, the only difference is that Donald Trump is doing it in a more open way

    All those measures lately established by Donald Trump were also done by prior presidents from both political parties, and in some way he is re establishing some measure done during the presidency of Roosevelt and John F Kennedy, trying to do regime change and sending troops and warship to Latin America is nothing new, JFK asked several presidents to resign or to be killed, and Johnson sent troops to different countries.

    It was part of the gunboat diplomacy and Monroe doctrine, and Jimmy Carter established the Carter doctrine in the Middle Easta, and since the very beginning George Washington wanted to occupy Haiti and send slaves that they were not able to control to Haiti.

    Barrack Obama and Joe Biden deported more foreign workers than Donald Trump, even more Obama was called the deportee in chief, and Joe Biden approved thousands of temporary workers because there was a shortage of labors and during the 1930 thousands of US citizens were deported to Mexico and the depression was blamed on them, and Ronald Reagan approved an amnesty because there was a shortage of agricultural workers

    He is not the first one to impose tariff, the tariff system was imposed by the congress in 1789 and Mckinley was called the Tariff man of 1890, all of them passed in order to produce income and revenue for the state and to protect US goods from English importation and others countries, and to reduce taxation on the capitalist class.

    He is not doing anything new, the only difference is that his government style is chaotic, but it is part of the actual situation of world capitalism, there was a prior presidential candidate who tried to be friendly with the Soviet Union and he lost the nomination and a warmonger was elected .

    The best way to understand that is by reading and studying the real history of the USA written by progressive Historian, and the main problem is not racism, the main problem has been capitalist development all the time and the employment of cheap labor force to produce large amount of surplus value

    Most presidents since George Washington have followed the same policy, the problem of the USA started since the very beginning that it was formed as a capitalist nation, therefore the main problem is capitalism, and they can replace Trump and the new president will continue with the same policy and will uphold many of his policies

    in reply to: Trump as president again? #260257
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    Amtrak is the US government railroads transportation system. It was already in the hands of the state.

    Years ago most “public” transportation was done by trains

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/sean-duffy-transportation-department-take-over-dc-union-station-amtrak-rcna227461

    https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Across_the_United_States_by_train

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9I-Px67rA. Back to the 1800 with more modern trains

    in reply to: Trump as president again? #260255
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    Pure ignorance or opportunism. Going back to the old days of Roosevelt’s new deal who also expropriated several capitalist properties into the hands of the state, and shared ownership with several corporations.

    The state is becoming a corporation able to run business to produce profits. Nothing different to Soviet and Chinese state capitalism.

    They run a campaign against the so called big government, but they are increasing the size of the state apparatus, it shows that the state must always participate in the economic affairs of the society

    They are taking over the control of Washington DC railroad stations which means that they are taking possession of the system of “public” transportation, another state capitalist measure, it was also done by Domingo Peron in Argentina.

    They are going to continue expropriating many economic sectors, voters have been fooled again. That is what some media reporters call corporate/ welfare socialism

    Chickens are coming home to roost

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/27/trump-dc-union-station-takeover/85846895007/. DC union station takeover

    in reply to: Trump as president again? #260240
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    The War department of the Department of war was the original name for several decades and the person in charge was the Secretary of war

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War. No more secretary of the defense, now it is going to be the secretary of the offensive. The Secretary of war negotiating a peace agreement might sound contradictory . The war budget is one trillion.

    He is doing the same thing of the Spaniards, when they arrived to the Americas, they changed the names to everything that had already being named, the name of North America was the turtle island and The Americas was Abya Yala, and the South West was called Aztlan

    He should call the White House the black house because it was built by black slaves

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #260187
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    https://www.leftvoice.org/trump-cannot-deliver-lasting-peace-in-ukraine/

    Trump cannot deliver lasting peace in Ukraine

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #260185
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    They want to dissolve NATO or leave it, and to run the show by themselves, to take the natural resources of Ukraine or share temporarily it with Russia, like Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin did on the Postdam treaty after World War 2, and two factions took over the whole world and the fight continued

    On his first term he said that NATO was only needed in order to confront the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, although the Soviet Union pact was formed as a response to NATO and the militarization of Europe and Germany by the Western Powers and the USA, and then he said that he wanted them to pay more by buying USA weapons

    Donald Trump is a very unstable political leader, he always changes his mind, he is a business man, he is not a politician, the real politician is Joe Biden who has been a politician for almost 50 years, and he is like a chameleon, he adapts himself to any situation and he is more diplomatic, they placed him next to Barrack Obama because he had more experiences.

    The main source of Russian income is oil and weapons manufacturing ( specially oil ) and they continue doing that with others countries like China, India and Latin America, therefore those sanctions are not going to affect them, at the present time BRICS has control of the biggest world population and the biggest world market and the USA can not control them

    The US Congress can pass any act or any law and he will violate it, that is toilet paper for him, he is a typical capitalist who just want to produce profits at all cost . Later on he will change his stand regarding Russia peace agreement and ceasefire

    That is the problem of following leaders like sheep, they can not change anything to please the working class, they are changed by the market system and the logic of capitalism, but the majority of the workers do not see that, they think that capitalist leaders are going to resolve their problems and like a pendulum they oscillate from left or right or viceversa.

    The left wingers do not understand that either because they are leaders followers too, and they think that their leaders will do a much better job, and both sides are the same, they are irrelevant, they are two wings of the same bird known as capitalism, and in the case of Ukraine/Russia they do not understand that this an inter class conflict, one group support the Ukrainian leaders and another group support the Russian leaders and for them Putin is a working class leader fighting against fascism, the same old stalinist/ troskyist stand.

    In the website and forum of RT ( formerly Russia Today ) they are insulting each others without any political substance, they are unprincipled, empty suits, propagating many conspiracies theories.

    Only a class consciousness working class can resolve all world conflicts, but sadly the working class is not ready yet

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #260181
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    Ironically, now the real warmongers are the Democrats leaders and the European leaders. Donald Trump wants to sign a peace agreement with the Russians in order to split among them the natural resources of Ukraine.

    We know that peace agreements and ceasefire among the capitalists can be violated, and they have done that all the time

    The Russians already have the best part of Ukraine, and they have Crimea which gives them access to the seas for their naval fleet.

    The Russians do not want NATO to be their closer neighbor either, trying to weaken Russian did not work out and trying to bring Russia to their sphere of influences did not work either.

    The BRICS conglomerate is getting stronger and getting more members and Russia and China are part of that commercial cartel

    in reply to: Trump as president again? #260176
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    Roosevelt New Deal was state capitalism, and during the war he expropriated/leased lands, farms, factories, yachts and boats

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #260173
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    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/19/nwmp-a19.html

    Divisions between NATO and the USA

    Crisis summit at White House over Ukraine war riven by divisions

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #260171
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    Be prepared to see the chucking of Friday’s “satisfactory” meeting with Putin. Zelensky is all smiles. Back to square one by the end of this week!

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    The dead to the grave and the living to the bun. We should not drop any blood for the capitalist class

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    Trump seems to be saying that it was NATO’s bid to expand eastwards right up the Russian border by incorporating Ukraine that provoked the Russian invasion as the rulers of the Russian state regarded this as an existential threat.

    At least that is how his statement that the war would never have happened if he had been President on 2023 can be interpreted. In other words, he would have backed down in the face of Russian opposition and not insisted on Ukraine joining NATO.

    Whether he would have done at the time is another matter. In any event, he is now saying that Ukraine shouldn’t join NATO, which is a shift from the position the rulers of the US took at the time. This could also be interpreted as admission by the US of the failure of its previous policy.
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    Donald Trump has also said that the US has had many unnecessary and unjust wars, but it is very had to believe or follow his statement because his flip flop from side to another side, from one stand to another stand.

    He promised to end all wars ( which can not be done by a president, only to control arm supplies ) but he continued the war in the Middle East, and he has continued certain policies established by Joe Biden . He knows that the USA has lost this war .

    There was an America presidential candidate who wants to be friendly with the Soviet Union and avoid the proliferation of atomic weapons and he lost the nomination and a warmonger became president

    in reply to: Russian Tensions #260151
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    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/18/buab-a18.html

    The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska and the shift in American geostrategy

    A calculated move made by Putin and Trump, each one is defending the interests of their own ruling class there is nothing about treason as some democratic leaders are shouting, they will do the same thing that was done during WW 2, they will split among each others the resources of Ukraine. Thousands of poor peoples from both sides have died and the spoils of wars will be collected by the capitalist class

    in reply to: Trump as president again? #260132
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    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-says-no-summit-deal-reached-with-putin-over-ending-war-ukraine-2025-08-15/

    No deal in Alaska between Putin and Trump. On his campaign said that he was going to find a deal within 24 hours by just making a phone call. It is not the same thing to make a deal with the small island of Saint Thomas, or Grenada than to make a deal with the Russian or Chinese empire

    in reply to: Russia and the Middle East #260122
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    That conspiracy theory has been spread thru the third world countries ( Global South ) including Latin America, ironically, there are some Trotskyists and Leninist groups who also support that theory instead of supporting the socialist logic.

    In regard to the backing of Israel to Russia, it is not new that capitalists have made temporary alliances in order to advance their own geopolitical interests, the western powers and the soviets made temporary alliance with the Nazis, the fascists, and the soviets, and then they became enemies.

    The question is what are going to say those groups who support Russia against Ukraine, or vice versa, and the groups that support Iran against Israel ? That is the importance of taking an independent socialist stand

    in reply to: Russia and the Middle East #260119
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    Both sectors of the US capitalist class have used the concept of the ‘Deep State” for their world hegemonic purposes, and at the present time the US ruling class does want not to lose completely its world hegemony which is being challenged by chinese capitalism.

    These conspiracy theories are used in order to hide the struggles between capitalist groups, national and international fighting for their own class interests, and many workers without the proper political and economic orientation follow them. The capitalist class is not a secret family, shadow groups or secretive groups

    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/17/pers-j17.html

    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/21/deep-j21.html
    The Qanon groups have also created false conspiracy theories ( which include religious beliefs ) that had been used by both sides
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

    How the Deep State Came to America: A History

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