Geopolitics

For the first time in decades in Cuba the New Year will be a year without Fidel.  The dawn comes and he is no longer there.  But life goes on towards an uncertain future.  Other dawns and other roosters sing today.  They bring back to mind a song from the Spanish civil war:  When the black rooster crows, / It's because the day has ended, / If the red rooster crowed, / Another would crow too.

The recent presidential election in the United States has led not just to a change in government but a change of regime. We could characterize it as a type of moderate authoritarianism moderated by sloppiness. This article analyzes some of the internal contradictions of Trump’s regime and its repercussions in the geopolitical sphere. Tensions will increase around the whole globe and the decadence of the American empire will accelerate.

From a historical point of view, the conflagration of Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Palestine and Iran, among other participants) does not offer an analogy with other periods and it is not a paragon. It is something worse. Categorically, I would say it is a continuation.

The concerted attack on civilian Syrians constitute a crime against humanity that can only be countermanded not by moralistic protests but by a judicious use of decisive strength.

The American two-party system is broke.  The Republican Party is no longer --either in substance or form.  The Democratic Party has become the party of the status quo by default.  One way or another, with whomever comes to pass, the next administration will be short lived, and will either prolong the geopolitical impasse of pax americana, or usher it onto a more precipitous decline