The United States empire already consumes 40% of what we make, more if you consider its nonstop borrowing from future taxpayers.  It regulates and controls much of the non-state economy, and is frenetically militarizing in every direction. Yet focusing only on these facts can reduce our recognition of the real and unlimited power of individual action.

Using billions in military force against a disarmed population, the US and Israel pursue a shared objective of genocide, land and gas field theft.  They ended Syria in a similar way, eliminating Syria's defenses and "rehabilitating" CIA-created "ISIS" into the ruling party, elections always optional for our favorite allies.  Gaza, Syria, and Iran today are seamless parts of the same Middle Eastern policy the US has wasted $6 Trillion and countless millions of lives in the past 30 plus years.

Trump stated in March that the US had flowed $350 Billion in arms and aid to Ukraine, much more than the additional $100 Billion from a host of countries.  Trump's off the cuff accounting came under fire in Europe.  Either way, that war, like the one on Gaza, is fundamentally a US and NATO Goliath power play against a Russian David.  In terms of purchasing power parity terms, the odds are six to one against Russia, yet we're always the righteous victims of someone else's ambition.

US and her allies playing David against Goliathic enemies is not only a false narrative, it's a collapsing one. US encouragement and support for Ukraine and Israel illustrate the cold reality of the American military-driven economy, and the coming intersection of the American Empire with the edge of a financial cliff.  Eisenhower's famous farewell speech, for all of its appeal for an alert citizenry, and for all of its cautions about the power of the military industrial congressional complex, might be summed up simply as "Follow the money."  But following the money also contains some clues to how empire is resisted.

Two recent examples come to mind.  First, the Malaysian-born, ethnic Chinese, American Presbyterian CEO of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan, is cutting jobs everywhere, including significant cuts in Israel. The other is Sweden's new law that bans buying sex via sites like Onlyfans, and makes "purchase" on such platforms a punishable crime.

Intel is a global company, interested in homing or rehoming more of its capability inside the US.  The vulnerability of its manufacturing facilities in Kiryat Gat surely had little to do with the layoffs, nor did world popular opinion of investing in Israel, given its behavior and practices.