Bulletins and News Discussion from February 3rd to February 9th, 2025 - Fuhrer Failsons

Image is of Elon Musk giving the Nazi salute a week or so ago.

I didn't really want to keep spotlighting American domestic events as I had assumed that shit would calm down pretty quickly, but it appears that the Trump administration, including Musk, are determined to bring down the empire from the inside.

One of the most important lessons of ruling a country - and especially an empire - is to never, ever believe your own propaganda; and yet now we have neo-Nazi failsons disrupting parts of the imperial apparatus and causing general government mayhem because they actually seem to believe in libertarianism; that the state and the capitalists are somehow in opposition, rather than working in lockstep to maximise profit and boost American hegemony around the world.

I'm not so optimistic as to believe that a national collapse is FOUR DAYS AWAY, like those weird anti-China cranks often speculate - the US has at least a decade or two left even under these conditions. But consider the damage being inflicted in these past couple weeks, and extrapolate that over the next four years. Does any living American political figure possess the competency to halt - or even meaningfully slow - the already ongoing decline? And could they achieve power (or even be allowed to do so) after Trump's term is done?

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Update on military action on the US - México border/deportation flights situation: México gives more concessions to the USA, Belize accepts a US military aircraft directly, first removal/deportation flights to Guantanamo Bay, India and potentially El Salvador, Colombia continues to send their own military planes for repatriation flights, more flights to Guatemala.

Overall it's quite a depressing update, to be honest I really didn't want to make it, but I feel as if I had to, otherwise this information just sits in aviation geek or chud circles with brainless losers cheering it on.
- Latin American countries can not stand up to the US alone - only together they can.
  
  Yeah, but the time to start preparing for that and forming those alliances was 8 years ago. Vijay Prashad even wrote about that back then. It truly seems as if many did not expect Trump to come back, and are just unprepared for the reality of the current moment.
  
  Yeah they hoped that america would go back to "neoliberal normal" - its the failure of lacking analytical methods that historical materialism provides.
- What is it about the flights being made with military planes that make them so special? They were accepted beforehand with civilian planes, right? I don't really understand it.
  
  Well to fly your military aircraft over another countries sovereign/territorial airspace, you need usually to organise some sort of diplomatic agreement/deal with all the countries involved, as you are in effect carrying out a military mission using another country's territory. It's quite different from chartering a civilian airliner and flying it there from a diplomatic perspective. México has been refusing this permission for US military aircraft, (and still refusing in the case of C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft to Guatemala) since the first military deportation flights using US military aircraft started taking place. But now with the US military and Coast Guard flights to El Salvador, these aircraft were allowed to use Mexican airspace. So it seems as if some agreement was reached there.
  It's significance is a matter of sovereignty over one's country and in diplomatic relations. Freedom of navigation in international waters/airspace, and over allied countries sovereign/territorial airspace and waters, is something that is very important to the United States. The US will go to war over freedom of navigation.

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