SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: "Under the current regime, the U.S. has little left to offer the world but a shameless display of coercion and destruction.

https://x.com/stephenwertheim/status/2091923433038688567

Stephen Wertheim

"Under the current regime, the U.S. has little left to offer the world but a shameless display of coercion and destruction. Trump and his lieutenants seem intoxicated by their own impunity, indifferent to international law, uninterested in manufacturing consent, and exercising a form of political gangsterism through intimidation, kidnapping or offing rival heads of state. 'Force,' Weil wrote, 'is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims. The second it crushes; the first it intoxicates.'"

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Jonathan Shainin

@jonathanshainin

Mar 7

When we started @equatormag, we talked of “a crisis that is as much spiritual and intellectual as it is political”. The war on Iran is a reminder that the root of this crisis is what Simone Weil called “the adoration of force”. Our leader on this calamity:
https://equator.org/articles/epic-fury