"Empires Never Die Quietly, and We Must End The American Empire Regardless"

Palestine are now being turned back on the domestic home front against American

citizens.

Mass thugs of the state, unaccountable to no one, unelected, are engaging in

acts of

violence against Americans with impunity, and when Americans fight back against

ICE,

as they did in Minneapolis, ICE shoots back.

And the problems continue.

The analyst Steven Semler wrote recently that Trump's budget manages to be $361

billion

larger than last year's, despite cutting $300 billion in social programs and

other

public investments.

All of that money is going to policing, and it's going to endless war.

It's not going to bridges, it's not going to tunnels, and it's certainly not

going

to healthcare.

Every single one of you, regardless of your political affiliations or your

ideology, should

consider that money to be stolen from you.

Those are dollars stolen from you to be put towards industries of death that

have no future.

This bargain isn't tenable anymore.

It's over.

It's not tenable for the employee of the California Missile Designer.

It's not tenable for the veteran who wants free college.

It's not tenable for the kids in crumbling Philadelphia schools.

And it's certainly not tenable for the homeless, the working class, and of

course for the rest

of the world, those who happen to exist under the boot.

They have been spoiled by an American way of life that requires so much death.

The fruits of imperialism were always immoral.

Now they are obviously rotten.

I don't know how else to put it.

The American Empire is fading fast, regardless of what we resolve here today.

And I'm not just saying that so that I have an upper hand in this conversation.

No matter what we say here, American Empire is going to inevitably fall.

But, but, I think, as Mao Zedong himself said earlier, there is a power within

the American

people to change the nature of this decline.

He had a lot more confidence in the American labor class than many Americans do

today.

I'll tell you that much.

I believe that we are living through a strange and radicalizing time for

millions of Americans.

And I've seen that with my own two eyes.

I've gone to protest all around the world.

Tasted the tear gas of different countries.

And I've seen Barbara's and Deborah's aged 75 and above, yelling at ICE agents

in Minneapolis.

The contradictions have worsened, and they are also restless.

They also want that change.

People intuitively understand that there is another way for the United States

to exist

in the world, a way in which we're not constantly exploiting people, deciding

other countries'

futures for them or, say, blockading their seas because they just completely

embarrassed

us politically, like in the case of Cuba, holding on to old grudges for no

reason as

we starve economically and literally an island nation that happens to be 90

miles off of

our coastline where 10 million people live.

And that's happening on autopilot.

It's happening even if you give no consent to that whatsoever.

But we can change that.

Once you see the cruelty of American Empire, it's quite difficult to unsee it.

And I do think American people are seeing it for the first time ever, and they

know.

And they know that we are getting a raw deal.

The super-profits that we have enjoyed are coming to an end.

And our debt to humanity requires negotiating a new deal, a real equal world

peace.

Empires never die quietly, and we must end the American Empire regardless.

But we must manage the retreat of a superpower from the world stage.

This is a challenge for our time.

And actually, this is the challenge for our time.

Because if we do not do this, then the American Empire will come to an end in a

much more

violent way.

A curse on future generations that we must avoid at all costs.

And I think that's a challenge for us to be able to be able to be able to be

able to be.

And I think that's a challenge for us to be able to be able to be able to be

able to be.

So from my calculation, the way I see it, as I tried to explain in this speech

here,

is that it's going to happen because it will collapse on its weight no matter

what.

It will collapse under its weight regardless.

And what I want to explain to every American that will listen is that we do

have the capacity

to change the system that we exist under in an effort to ensure that we have a

much more

equitable outcome where we don't diminish the potential of Americans and we don

't diminish

the potential and starve out the potential of people living in the periphery.

This is something that I saw personally when I visited Cuba recently.

The economic terror that we've subjected this island nation to is unforgivable.

And yet the Cuban population has still thrived in very meaningful ways.

They found novel cures for the lung cancer vaccine that they've had since the '

90s.

And I was talking to a scientist on my trip there.

And apparently Cuba also has the only current working treatment for Alzheimer's

and dementia.

It's in stage three clinical trials in Canada right now as we speak.

I think about what Cuba would look like if they weren't constantly under the

threat

of American sanctions because these sanctions, these sanctions have stifled

growth.

We've played a formative role in developing even further cures, right?

So that's not just bad for the people of Cuba who are suffering.

Their economy is in tatters.

But it's also bad for people like ourselves.

I mean, Alzheimer's and dementia is a massive problem.

Almost all of my grandparents suffered from Alzheimer's and dementia.

So the way I see it, it's almost a selfish argument to make sure that we can

unlock the

potential of all of these countries that we seek to dominate.

And on top of that, I feel like all of the resources, all of our productive

output is

wasted on this unlimited endless cycle of violence that we subject other

nations to.

And as soon as you connect foreign policy back to all of the domestic problems

that

we have, not just in the concept of blowback, which I famously have spoken

about, but also

the reality that every dollar that is spent on a bomb that blows up a school is

the dollar

that could be spent building schools here.

Americans are, Americans at least in my experience are much more responsive to

that kind of message.

Because at the end of the day, you don't have to use academic language or talk

about the

international, proletarian cause.

You can just tell regular folks, ordinary folks, that random person living in

Tehran

has the exact same.