Weaponising America’s economy in the service of Israel

Empires rarely fall on the battlefield; they implode under the weight of their own arrogance and corruption. The hubris radiating from the White House suggests that this old imperial truth is once again asserting itself.  Unable to compete in the global economy it once championed, Washington now weaponizes its economy turning trade, finance, currency, and credit into instruments of blackmail. Washington has changed the “rules-based international order” into tariffs, sanctions, asset seizures, secondary penalties, and financial intimidation. Economic power morphed from competition and as a means of exchange into a tool of retribution. Nowhere this tool is used more obsessively by the US government than in service of Israel. Long before Israel’s genocide in Gaza, successive US administrations, Democratic and […]