Stuttgart, January 16, 2026. By S.G. Kazolias.

I am often criticised because I refused to vote Democrat against Trump in 2016, 2022 and 2024. No, I would never vote for the narcissistic, sociopath currently in office. I have to admit though, that the downward spiral is going much faster than I had anticipated. But my conscience told me that Democrat warmongers are no better for the world’s people than the Republicans. I also thought, naively, that Trump’s base could slow down his imperial appetite. On the latter, I was wrong. I maintain I am right about the Democrats.¹

For me, the question is much like it was in World War Two. What was so democratic about the Allies for the people living in British, French, Belgian and Dutch colonies?² Would it have changed their sort if the Axis had won? Critical thinking Americans tell us not to lose hope, that “Americans are good people.” There are too many supporters of fascism and wars of aggression in the country for me to say, “Americans are good people.” I am sorry but Americans are not good people. Please prove me wrong.

Although I could see clearly the outrageous power of the Zionist, pro-Israel lobby, in taking away our rights and buying off our politicians, I underestimated the immediate danger posed by the AI/IT and MIC oligarchs who intend to enact their totalitarian and dystopian program. I also minimized the number of Americans willing to follow madmen over a cliff.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.
Colin Powell

You usually end up with the immigrant population from the countries you spoiled and looted. The USA is no different in that than the UK, France, Belgium or Holland. Over the past two decades, other European countries have suffered collateral damage from their neighbors’ colonial past.

Then Secretary of State, General Colin Powell, famously warned President George W. Bush in 2003, prior to the Iraq invasion that “if you break it, you own it.” The invasion led to a million Iraqi deaths within the first five years, and completely destroyed the country’s civilian infrastructure which was bombed the first day of the invasion.³ 

This came on the heels of the inhumane embargo President Bill Clinton imposed on Iraq. Who can forget when then Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, famously stated ⁴ that the price, including the reported deaths of half a million Iraqi children due to sanctions, was “worth it” in a 1996 television interview on CBS 60 Minutes? How many millions more have died since that invasion, brought to you by the good ole USA?

Isn’t it ironic that among the 75 countries⁵ Trump has decided to refuse immigrant visas to are so many nations that the US most assuredly broke these past 25 years: Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela, Yemen.

From ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ to It’s Our Oil

Let’s start with Bill Clinton’s illegal NATO war of aggression against Serbia which stole Kosovo under false pretences, just as fabricated as the Iraqi WMD, and put yesterday’s Islamist terrorists of the KLA in power. Kosovo is on Trump’s list. The US still has troops based there.

The Kosovo war was wanted by the US⁶. It allowed Clinton to convert NATO from a defensive pact into an organisation of aggression under the fallacious banner of ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ which has now become so bankrupt, the term has been abandoned. This war also went hand in hand with NATO expansion eastwards despite promises made to Russia to never move east. The pro-war neo-cons had a great propagandist in CNN’s Christiane Amanpour⁷.

Also on the list is Libya, the cruel and unnecessary war which most assuredly transformed it from the African country with the highest standard of living to a basket case, torn apart by civil war where large areas are controlled by radical Islamists. This NATO war of aggression was led by the democrats, Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton. Their legacy is the destabilisation of Africa all the way down to Nigeria, which is another country the US “Peace President” recently bombed.

Obama and H. Clinton also get credit for starting the regime change operation in the afore mentioned Syria. The US, along with allies Israel, put the throat slitting Islamic terrorists of Islamic state and al Qaeda in Power in December, 2024, and have divided the rest of the country up among themselves and Turkey.. 

When it comes to Ukraine, it seems that the then Vice President, Joe Biden, aka ‘Genocide-Joe,’ gets credit for pulling off the 2014 Maiden Coup in Kiev, along with H. Clinton and her Neo-con girlfriends Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice and Samantha Power. We also remember how Nuland said “F… the EU!”⁸ when discussing with the US Ambassador, Geoffrey Pyatt, who should be made President and Prime Minister of the new ultra nationalist government. The goal was always to push NATO missiles and troops up on Russia’s borders.

Let’s add Venezuela whose economy has been shattered by US sanctions imposed since 2006, to try to enact regime change and recently led to the US military strike and kidnapping of the country’s president. As of this writing, the stated goal is now to take the country’s oil.

Bill Clinton completely sabotaged the efforts in Somalia of UN envoy Mohamed Sahnoun. In an interview I conducted later in Paris, Sahnoun reaffirmed how he had just reached a peace deal with the warring factions in 1993 when Bill Clinton chose one clan over the others and tried to kidnap two of Aidid’s top lieutenants during a meeting in Mogadishu. This led to the infamous “Black Hawk Down” battle.  The country descended into terrible civil war, an Ethiopian invasion, Islamic Courts rule, unsuccessful US and UN occupation, and a fractured country, recently made worse by Israel’s illegal recognition of break-away Somaliland. The US continues bombing Somalia intermittently.

Sudan: Isn’t it an ironic ‘coincidence‘ that the Janjaweed (Darfur genocide) militia attacked the government in Khartoum in 2023, just when the Sudanese government had given port facility authorisation to the Russians at Port Sudan? You may recall that Sudan was one of Bill Clinton’s favorite places to bomb every time Monica Lewinsky hit the front pages. The country has been torn apart since 1983 when the Soviet Union and the USA were vying for power in the horn of Africa and eastern Sahara with coups in both Sudan and Somalia. US economic sanctions against Sudan helped destroy its economy long ago and feed rebellions and war. The absolute corruption of Sudanese leaders did the rest.

The list is exhausting so I’ll sum up. The US has conducted over 200 military interventions since WWII, some 120 since the fall fo the Berlin Wall. So, please tell me how Democrats have been better than Republicans for the people of the world? Show me I am wrong.

Don’t forget: Please leave a comment. You can also help me. A cup of coffee or a slice of pie would be nice: paypal.me/SocratesGeorge

1. Even today, as I write this, Democrats are telling us if we are against Trump we must be for war with Russia and NATO expansion. ↩︎
2. Just think about this a second: My Ghanaian friend Kumah’s father fought in WWII. A Ghanaian in the British (colonial) Army, fighting the Japanese in Burma. How does that make any sense? Then President Jerry J. Rawlings, who held a serious grudge against the British, loved to point out the lunacy of it to me every time we traveled together. Today the Ghana Army base just outside Accra is called Bruma Camp. ↩︎
3. I often wonder if they don’t hear the gasp of the world’s people, flabbergasted by their hypocrisy, as they criticize Russia for hitting Ukrainian power stations when not even the toilets were working in Iraq after NATO’s initial strike. And then there is the massive aid given to Israel which also deliberately targets, not only all civilian infrastructure, but especially people. ↩︎
4. Albright, was another one who never saw a war she didn’t like. She was a major advocate for NATO’s war of aggression against Serbia, which put the KLA terrorists in power in Kosovo. Albright made a lot of money when the Kosovars thanked her by granting her firm a major Kosovo telecom privatization bid, raising ethical questions about former officials profiting from post-conflict reconstruction, though she framed it as supporting Kosovo’s development, not personal enrichment from the war itself. Of course she did.  ↩︎
5. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyz Republic, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Yemen  ↩︎
6. This from a source I knew who was at the Rambouillet talks; Former State Department Spokesman, James Rubin, pressured the KLA, who were taken off the US terrorist list six months prior, to sign the Rambouillet agreements, promising them there would be war and they would be made independent rulers of Kosovo. In fact, Serbia accepted every US/NATO demand except one: to allow NATO troops and police to operate within Serbia. This is exactly what happened in 1914 when Serbia accepted every Austrian demand except to allow troops and police within their country. ↩︎
7. Amanpour was with her future husband, James Rubin, at the time she was reporting on all things Balkans. This is called in journalism a ‘conflict of interest.’ Amanpour’s reporting came straight from the pillow to the TV screen. Her reporting, in my opinion at the time, was biased propaganda and State Department sanctioned and help create the lie of massive ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and genocide. The best book on the truth of the Balkan wars and Kosovo I have read is Diana Johnstone’s Fools’ Crusade. (book review here) I personally went to Kosovo when the troubles started in 1989-1991 and was taken around clandestinely by Kosovo separatist guerrillas. I also got to speak with Serbian police and soldiers at the time and later on. What I saw and heard was very different to western reporting. ↩︎
8. Hear that conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUCCR4jAS3Y ↩︎