President Hosni Mubarak has a famous saying - “Whoever covers himself with America is actually naked.” The shrewd politician Henry Kissinger once said, “You are in trouble if you are an enemy of America, and in even greater trouble if you are a friend of it.” The Israeli airstrikes on Qatar’s sovereignty and security stand as the best proof of this reality, despite the treaties, alliances, and military bases that bind the two countries together. America is a formidable power in terms of size, influence, and agility, largely due to the extensive powers of its president. Basically, America is a nation of institutions, but several groups have managed to penetrate and influence some of them.
America’s strength and its weakness lie in the necessity of holding presidential elections every four years. Winning has become less about being the best candidate and more about who can raise the most money for their campaign and offer the most generous promises to powerful lobbying groups, including those backed by Israeli interests, military industries, and the extraordinarily wealthy. The Jews who immigrated to America, especially during and after World War II, were among the first to recognize the weaknesses in American institutions, the influence of the media, and control over the White House, Capitol, and other government branches.
Over time, they skillfully exploited these weaknesses to serve their own interests. They possessed money, influence, and intelligence. They were patient and planned with secrecy and precision. They established AIPAC, which succeeded in indirectly acquiring control over the majority of media outlets and the forces shaping public opinion, from newspapers and television channels to the production of series and films. More importantly, they managed to secure the loyalty of most politicians and representatives.
In less than half a century, they succeeded in controlling many aspects of the United States, making it subservient to Israel. Jeffrey Epstein, with his notorious history, was one of their most dangerous tools. It was therefore no surprise that the most controversial US President, Donald Trump, renamed the Department of Defense, after 150 years, to the Department of War, signaling the direction the future might take.
After gaining its independence, during its first 150 years, America fought wars against Britain, Spain, Mexico, and the Philippines, as well as committed massacres against indigenous peoples. The United States also participated in two world wars, dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, and engaged in conflicts in Korea, Guatemala (1954), Indonesia (1958), Cuba (1959), Congo (1964), Laos and Vietnam (1961), Cambodia (1969), Grenada (1983), Lebanon (1983-1984), Syria (1986), Libya (2011), El Salvador (1980), Nicaragua (1980), Panama (1989), Iraq during the Gulf Wars (1991 and 2003), Somalia, Bosnia, and Sudan (1998), Afghanistan (2001), Yugoslavia (1999), and Yemen, Syria, and Iran in 2025. This is in addition to dozens of covert military interventions and regime overthrows, such as the coups against Mossadegh in Iran and Salvador Allende in Chile. It is often said, half-jokingly, “The only country that has never had a coup is America, the reason being there is no American embassy in the United States.”
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Most of the above is true, but it is also true that not all American wars were unjust. Some interventions brought relief to hundreds of millions of people, such as in the two World Wars and the Korean War. American policies have often changed depending on the views, moods, and “morals” of its most influential presidents. The liberation of Kuwait, led by former US President George H.W. Bush, is a relatively just example.
Thirty-five years later, it appears that this fact has not changed. Kuwait was an ally of America before the liberation and remains so today. Kuwait did not pay a single dollar to America for its liberation beyond its share of the war costs, which totaled $62 billion, of which Kuwait contributed only $16 billion. Some sources estimate the total cost of the war to be around $100 billion. The entire coalition withdrew immediately after the liberation of Kuwait, refusing to enter Iraq. However, the situation changed drastically 12 years later, when US forces, under George W. Bush’s leadership, invaded Iraq, took control, and destabilized the country, perhaps permanently. The tragedy continues to this day.
