Obama is begging
you to vote for Hillary Clinton. Any sign of reluctance to do so is
met with slanderous accusations from the DNC. “You’re a Russian
agent,” the frothy-mouthed Democratic Party operative barks at the
Green Party supporter. As communists, we have witnessed this behavior
before from Washington during the McCarthyist period when the US
first launched a so-called ‘Cold War’ against the Soviet Union.
The re-emergence of these attacks on domestic dissent run in parallel
with Washington’s geopolitical aggression that has unleashed a new
cold war.
Obama’s
presidency could easily be described as George W. Bush on steroids.
He escalated the Afghan War. Despite the 9/11 attacks, he used
al-Queda as a proxy army against Libya and Syria’s secular
governments. He launched an illegal war against Libya, placing
terrorists in power in Tripoli. He would have also illegally attacked
Syria in 2013 had it not been for Russian intervention – the
deployment of 11 Russian warships off the Syrian coast. Russia also
further countered Obama-led US aggression against Syria in late 2015
by building an airbase in Latakia province and conducting strikes on
the terrorists. Thwarted in Syria, Obama has used the Saudis (who
also fund al-Queda in Syria) to launch a proxy war against
neighboring Yemen, which rose up and overthrew its US puppet regime
in late 2014.
Obama not only
launched illegal wars, he also organized coup d'états against
independent governments. He orchestrated successful coups against
Honduras, Moldova, Paraguay, the Ukraine, Brazil, and a spectacularly
failed coup against Turkey. The Ukrainian coup caused parts of the
southeast to rise up and secede. A bloody civil war began when the
US-installed Kiev junta unsuccessfully tried overturning the results
of Donetsk and Lugansk’s independence referendums with a surprise
military attack. Only the Crimea was spared war, because it
successfully voted to join the Russian Federation.
Russia and China
have had enough of Washington’s bullying. All of the countries that
Washington has attacked in the past 25 years had governments that
were Russia’s friends (i.e. Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Syria) or
had been in the recent past (as in Afghanistan until 1992). China
knows that Washington is trying to militarily encircle it, just like
Russia. China and Russia have responded to this US aggression by
building a new strategic partnership to counter Washington’s drive
for global domination.
A radical
warmonger like Hillary, who started off her political life
campaigning for Barry Goldwater (who wanted to launch a nuclear war
against the USSR), could easily set the world ablaze. She has stated
a desire to attack the Russian air force in Syria and the Chinese
navy in the South China Sea. Either act of aggression could easily
escalate into a nuclear war. She also voted for the illegal Iraq war
and was the key architect of US aggression against Libya. In
addition, her head-chopping “moderate rebels” have committed
barbarous atrocities against the Syrian people, including rape,
torture, brutal acts of murder, and the destruction of Syria’s
ancient monuments. Unsurprisingly, the bloodthirsty Neocons are
backing her, not Donald Trump.
In fact, almost
every billionaire (besides Trump himself) is supporting Hillary. The
entire bourgeois mass media has rolled out in her defense and
endlessly run wild with Trump’s gaffes. For a Republican
presidential candidate to be treated in such a negative manner is
unprecedented. And there is a clear explanation why: Trump has
stated that he does not want to start a nuclear war with Russia and
has criticized Obama and Hillary’s use of al-Queda as a proxy army
against Syria and Libya. The Neocons have been terribly offended by
Trump’s foreign policy statements, not his immigration-related
rhetoric.
Our responsibility
as the true opposition is not, however, to campaign for Trump. Our
duty is to do what we have always done, to support the third party
movement. Let’s be very clear: a vote for Hillary is a vote for
Wall Street and World War III. Any “leftists” that support her
reveal themselves to be the worst type of traitors to everything that
the US left used to stand for (anti-imperialism and socialism). And
whether Hillary wins or loses, a left-opposition movement must be
organized against her and the reactionary Democratic Party machine.
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