๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ค๐๐: ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐.๐. ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐
https://x.com/ibrahimtmajed/status/2015455171367559276
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ค๐๐: ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ ๐
๐๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐.๐. ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐
For decades, many Americans lived inside a carefully engineered illusion about their country and its role in the world.
The United States was presented as a democracy governed by law, morality, and universal human rights.
Its power was described as defensive, its wars as unfortunate necessities, and its global dominance as a benevolent burden.
This narrative endured not because it reflected reality, but because its consequences were kept at a distance. Violence was exported abroad.
Suffering was reduced to statistics. Atrocities were buried under language like โcollateral damage,โ โstability,โ and โsecurity.โ
As long as destruction happened elsewhere, the myth could survive at home.
Consent was not freely given, it was managed.
๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐ฌ๐๐
That illusion did not gradually erode.
It shattered after October 2023.
As Israelโs war on Gaza unfolded, the scale of destruction could no longer be filtered or softened.
Entire neighborhoods were erased. Hospitals were destroyed. Journalists, aid workers, and civilians were killed in plain sight.
What made this rupture irreversible was not only the brutality itself, but how it was witnessed, live, continuous, and global.
For the first time, millions of Americans saw, without mediation, what unconditional support for an ally actually looks like.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ
What shocked many was not only Israelโs actions, but Washingtonโs response. There were no red lines.
No accountability. No restraint.
Weapons shipments continued uninterrupted. Diplomatic cover was automatic. Vetoes at the United Nations became routine. International law was dismissed as irrelevant.
The language of โself-defenseโ was stretched until it lost all meaning.
In that moment, a growing number of Americans realized that U.S. commitments to human rights were never universal principles.
They were tools, invoked when useful, abandoned when inconvenient.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐๐ฌ
October 2023 did not expose a policy mistake. It exposed a historical law.
Empires follow patterns as predictable as gravity. Thinkers from Ibn Khaldun to Glubb Pasha described the final phase as the Age of Decadence, the moment when a dominant power loses the ability to reform itself.
Sayyed Baqir al-Sadr described it as the Law of the Opulent: when abundance produces moral exhaustion, and coercion replaces consent.
At this stage, brutality is not an error.
It is inevitability.
The empire no longer governs through belief. It governs through force.
๐
๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ง๐จ-๐๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง
The most dangerous shift was not physical violence, but digital control.
Surveillance technologies perfected on peripheral populations were imported back into the imperial core.
Protesters were tracked. Speech was monitored.
Algorithms replaced debate.
What was once called โsoft powerโ hardened into techno-repression.
Civil liberties, once marketed as permanent rights, were revealed as temporary privileges, luxuries of imperial confidence, now being withdrawn.
This is accumulation by dispossession, not of land, but of freedom.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
As the moral framework collapsed abroad, it fractured at home.
What was once abstract became tangible through agencies like ICE, which exemplify the United Statesโ internalization of imperial violence.
Long operating in the shadows, ICE enforces a permanent state of exception: mass detentions, militarized raids, and deaths in custody occur routinely, normalized as procedure.
Communities targeted by ICE are treated not as citizens with rights, but as populations to control, surveil, and punish, a domestic Gaza, in miniature.
Students protesting genocide, professors speaking truth to power, and activists documenting state violence faced similar treatment: beaten, arrested, suspended, and fired.
Speech aligned with authority was protected; speech that challenged it was criminalized under the language of โsecurity.โ
In practice, a state of exception has been declared where constitutional rights are suspended for anyone who threatens the imperial core.
Sovereignty is now defined by who can be legally silenced.
This is not democratic failure. It is imperial consistency.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ
Yet repression revealed something the empire did not anticipate.
A new generation developed immunity to propaganda.
This was not momentary radicalization, but the formation of a resistant habitus, a permanent consciousness shaped by visibility, memory, and moral clarity.
The empire lost its most valuable asset: symbolic capital. It can no longer recruit belief, only compliance.
Its future elite no longer trusts its mythology.
This loss is irreversible.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐
Abroad, the empireโs reach is visible everywhere power feels contested: in January 2026 the United States carried out a dramatic military operation capturing Venezuelan President Nicolรกs Maduro and his wife, flying them to New York to face charges in what many international jurists called an illegal abduction of a sovereign leader, asserting direct control over Venezuelaโs oil while sending a warning to any government that resists Washingtonโs will.
At the same time President Trump publicly declared that the U.S. โabsolutelyโ needs Greenland for strategic purposes, provoking diplomatic backlash in Denmark and across Europe, while tariffs and economic threats were used to pressure allies into compliance.
Meanwhile, the empire continues its financial and trade coercion against Iran, using sanctions to constrain Tehranโs economy and military options, while broadly applying tariffs and trade restrictions worldwide to enforce obedience, demonstrating a consistent pattern: military force, economic siege, and territorial pressure replace diplomacy, and sovereignty becomes conditional upon submission to U.S. power.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ค
The mask did not slip. It shattered.
What Americans are witnessing is not a deviation from the system, but its true face.
The machinery long used abroad is being turned inward: surveillance, repression, criminalization of dissent, and state violence.
This is how empires behave when threatened. They do not reform. They do not listen. They tighten control.
๐๐ก๐ ๐
๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
October 2023 did not radicalize people. It clarified reality.
The violence was never an exception. It was the foundation.
The question is no longer whether Americans see the truth.
The question is what an empire does
when its people finally do.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐
For decades, many Americans lived inside a carefully engineered illusion about their country and its role in the world.
The United States was presented as a democracy governed by law, morality, and universal human rights.
Its power was described as defensive, its wars as unfortunate necessities, and its global dominance as a benevolent burden.
This narrative endured not because it reflected reality, but because its consequences were kept at a distance. Violence was exported abroad.
Suffering was reduced to statistics. Atrocities were buried under language like โcollateral damage,โ โstability,โ and โsecurity.โ
As long as destruction happened elsewhere, the myth could survive at home.
Consent was not freely given, it was managed.
๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐ฌ๐๐
That illusion did not gradually erode.
It shattered after October 2023.
As Israelโs war on Gaza unfolded, the scale of destruction could no longer be filtered or softened.
Entire neighborhoods were erased. Hospitals were destroyed. Journalists, aid workers, and civilians were killed in plain sight.
What made this rupture irreversible was not only the brutality itself, but how it was witnessed, live, continuous, and global.
For the first time, millions of Americans saw, without mediation, what unconditional support for an ally actually looks like.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ
What shocked many was not only Israelโs actions, but Washingtonโs response. There were no red lines.
No accountability. No restraint.
Weapons shipments continued uninterrupted. Diplomatic cover was automatic. Vetoes at the United Nations became routine. International law was dismissed as irrelevant.
The language of โself-defenseโ was stretched until it lost all meaning.
In that moment, a growing number of Americans realized that U.S. commitments to human rights were never universal principles.
They were tools, invoked when useful, abandoned when inconvenient.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐๐ฌ
October 2023 did not expose a policy mistake. It exposed a historical law.
Empires follow patterns as predictable as gravity. Thinkers from Ibn Khaldun to Glubb Pasha described the final phase as the Age of Decadence, the moment when a dominant power loses the ability to reform itself.
Sayyed Baqir al-Sadr described it as the Law of the Opulent: when abundance produces moral exhaustion, and coercion replaces consent.
At this stage, brutality is not an error.
It is inevitability.
The empire no longer governs through belief. It governs through force.
๐
๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ง๐จ-๐๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง
The most dangerous shift was not physical violence, but digital control.
Surveillance technologies perfected on peripheral populations were imported back into the imperial core.
Protesters were tracked. Speech was monitored.
Algorithms replaced debate.
What was once called โsoft powerโ hardened into techno-repression.
Civil liberties, once marketed as permanent rights, were revealed as temporary privileges, luxuries of imperial confidence, now being withdrawn.
This is accumulation by dispossession, not of land, but of freedom.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
As the moral framework collapsed abroad, it fractured at home.
What was once abstract became tangible through agencies like ICE, which exemplify the United Statesโ internalization of imperial violence.
Long operating in the shadows, ICE enforces a permanent state of exception: mass detentions, militarized raids, and deaths in custody occur routinely, normalized as procedure.
Communities targeted by ICE are treated not as citizens with rights, but as populations to control, surveil, and punish, a domestic Gaza, in miniature.
Students protesting genocide, professors speaking truth to power, and activists documenting state violence faced similar treatment: beaten, arrested, suspended, and fired.
Speech aligned with authority was protected; speech that challenged it was criminalized under the language of โsecurity.โ
In practice, a state of exception has been declared where constitutional rights are suspended for anyone who threatens the imperial core.
Sovereignty is now defined by who can be legally silenced.
This is not democratic failure. It is imperial consistency.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ
Yet repression revealed something the empire did not anticipate.
A new generation developed immunity to propaganda.
This was not momentary radicalization, but the formation of a resistant habitus, a permanent consciousness shaped by visibility, memory, and moral clarity.
The empire lost its most valuable asset: symbolic capital. It can no longer recruit belief, only compliance.
Its future elite no longer trusts its mythology.
This loss is irreversible.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐
Abroad, the empireโs reach is visible everywhere power feels contested: in January 2026 the United States carried out a dramatic military operation capturing Venezuelan President Nicolรกs Maduro and his wife, flying them to New York to face charges in what many international jurists called an illegal abduction of a sovereign leader, asserting direct control over Venezuelaโs oil while sending a warning to any government that resists Washingtonโs will.
At the same time President Trump publicly declared that the U.S. โabsolutelyโ needs Greenland for strategic purposes, provoking diplomatic backlash in Denmark and across Europe, while tariffs and economic threats were used to pressure allies into compliance.
Meanwhile, the empire continues its financial and trade coercion against Iran, using sanctions to constrain Tehranโs economy and military options, while broadly applying tariffs and trade restrictions worldwide to enforce obedience, demonstrating a consistent pattern: military force, economic siege, and territorial pressure replace diplomacy, and sovereignty becomes conditional upon submission to U.S. power.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ค
The mask did not slip. It shattered.
What Americans are witnessing is not a deviation from the system, but its true face.
The machinery long used abroad is being turned inward: surveillance, repression, criminalization of dissent, and state violence.
This is how empires behave when threatened. They do not reform. They do not listen. They tighten control.
๐๐ก๐ ๐
๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
October 2023 did not radicalize people. It clarified reality.
The violence was never an exception. It was the foundation.
The question is no longer whether Americans see the truth.
The question is what an empire does
when its people finally do.
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