Meanwhile, the United States and in Europe fund enormous defense budgets that dwarf spending on Education, Health Care and infrastructure. Citizens are told that this is the price of Freedom. Yeah, that freedom grows narrower each year. More defined by consumerism than by genuine security or equality. The Hook and the tragedy is that both systems convince their people that the enemy lies across a border. When in truth it sits above them.
In boardrooms in government offices in inst. Solutions that thrive on tension and instability. What this rocket test exposes is the global power, and elaborate illusion designed to keep societies obedient. Distracted. Each new weapon test becomes a story of national pride, broadcast to stir emotion and unity.
Structural inequalities within each Nation. Remain untouched. The worker in Moscow is told that sacrifices Noble, the worker in Detroit, or Berlin is told that vigilance is patriotic, both are being used to sustain an economy of endless competition. Where governments borrow from the future. To fund the destruction of the present, the same resources that could heal economies and build societies are instead poured into weapons that ensure perpetual insecurity, And this is where the most painful hook lies. In the understanding of Humanity. Despite its progress, it remains hostage to systems that cannot exist without enemies. Capitalism in its global forum demands Perpetual movement Perpetual consumption and Perpetual fear War whether cold or hot becomes the organizing principle that justifies inequality. It tells the poor to endure, the middle class to comply and the rich to invest. When Russia tests a missile, the West condemns it loudly. But quietly uses it to rationalize the next round of military expansion. Both sides feed off the other’s aggression. Maintaining a balance of fear that serves the few and drains the many Result is a global order where national pride becomes a Mass for economic exploitation every citizen waves a flag that hides the same truth. That their sacrifices are enriching. The elite do not protect them. The Russian worker builds weapons. The American taxpayer pays for the counter measure. Both lose. Both live under systems that manufacture enemies to sustain power and until the world’s people recognize that the real conflict is class against class, not Nation against Nation, we will continue to cheer for missiles instead of demanding bread. The test Russia launched may have been a show of strength but it also illuminated the shared weakness of a global economy addicted to fear. And addiction that no side seems ready to break.
And as I close, I want to leave you with this thought until the people of the world begin to see War not as a patriotic duty. But as an economic trap designed to sustain.
Applaud secret weapons and new rocket tests. While ignoring the quiet suffering of millions, Russia may have fired a new missile. The real explosion is global. An explosion of inequality, deception and misplaced priorities. My friend, it is not who has the most powerful weapon, but who will have the courage to dismantle the system that keeps building them. That’s where the real Revolution begins.