The false narrative that Trump has ended regime change ops, & the covert nature of the empire’s next actions

Anyone who’s simply saying Donald Trump has dismantled USAID, without including the other parts of this story, is putting forth a narrative of false hope. The potential for ending U.S. imperialism’s global destabilization efforts cannot be found within any top-down policy change; it can only be found within the effort to overthrow our capitalist state. The Trump White House hasn’t been pressured into dismantling the regime change network, and if Trump were to do this, the imperialist deep state would assassinate him. The thing he’s actually done is transfer resources from the State Department and its non-governmental organizations, to the covert operations programs of the CIA. Which means the destabilization efforts are now going to be much better hidden, and those who oppose them will need to be more diligent in detecting and exposing them.

This is absolutely a sign of the U.S. empire’s decline. For Washington to stop advertising its foreign meddling efforts, when it used to feel comfortable having them out in the open, shows how the U.S. ruling class no longer trusts its people to go along with imperialism’s crimes. Gaza was the thing that put much more mass attention upon the activities of the United States government, and created a sense that these activities must become more concealed. The enemy we’re up against has come to have unprecedented vulnerabilities; when the pro-Palestine movement gained serious momentum around a year ago, our ruling class scrambled to divert the national conversation, because suddenly the war machine was in jeopardy.

The main problem we face at this stage is how difficult it is to keep the dialogue centered around Palestine. This ceasefire has happened not because of the pro-Palestine movement, but because of the efforts of the Palestinian resistance itself; since last summer, the USA’s Gaza protests have lacked the impact they initially had. And because the task of resistance has been fully placed upon the Palestinians themselves, this “peace” deal is only a partial concession. The Zionist entity has continued bombing Gaza to the extent that it feels it can get away with this. And should Trump carry out his plan to invade Gaza, he won’t have to confront a strong pro-Palestine movement; this movement has been greatly weakened, and to obstruct the invasion we’ll need to rebuild what we lost.

The mainstream media isn’t the only thing preventing us from doing this. Another obstacle is the “alternative” media, which has demonstrated a profound unwillingness to honestly report on imperialism’s crimes. And because the alt media is supposed to be what antiwar people can trust, it poses a greater danger of misleading those with partial revolutionary consciousness.

That so many alt media figures have uncritically repeated the myth of Trump ending U.S. regime change operations proves the extent of its failure. In judging whether a given discourse actor is guilty of this, the important question is how they choose to frame the news about USAID being defunded. There’s extra context to this topic, and to omit that context is to put forth a dangerously false view. One of the biggest Twitter accounts that’s done this is BRICS News, and the way in which it’s done this is indicative of a deeper issue. When BRICS News has made posts about the USAID de-funding, it’s often presented Elon Musk as an admirable figure within this supposed anti-imperialist effort, writing statements like: “JUST IN: Elon Musk says ‘USAID is a criminal organization.’ Do you agree?” There’s no effort to provide deeper insight into the situation; only short and quippy bulletins that tell a small aspect of the story.

The essence of the problem is that unless an alternative media source has a class analysis behind it, or at least is being run with a dedication towards anti-imperialism, then it can’t properly inform; its role is simply to gain currency within the attention marketplace. Which incentivizes the creators behind it to only tell people what they want to hear, and omit crucial realities about how imperialism works. Imperialism isn’t a policy; it isn’t something the core capitalist countries view as optional. When a capitalist country has the socioeconomic advantages that allow for it to be imperialist, it will have an imperialist role, and the only way to stop this is through class struggle. The empire’s destabilization efforts won’t end until the USA’s people have overthrown the capitalist state, and the empire itself ceases to exist. To defeat the state, we must operate with the knowledge that there are no easy victories; that the enemy we face is never going to willingly stop exacting violence.

To understand the nature of the violence which the enemy intends to inflict next, we can look at the CIA’s plans for Gaza. The Biden administration put together a scheme to create concentration camps for Gaza’s people, with the CIA being assigned to run these facilities. Because the Trump administration explicitly seeks to ethnically cleanse Gaza, this scheme absolutely continues to be in motion, and the transfer of funds to covert ops means Washington is now concentrating its efforts behind the project. That’s why Egypt and the “Israeli” settler entity are the two states which have been totally exempt from the foreign aid reduction: these are the states which encircle Gaza, and will be tasked with the operation for regime change in Gaza. Wrote Dan Cohen about the Biden White House’s ideas for using the CIA to achieve this final solution in Gaza:

The company at the forefront of this plan is called Global Delivery Company, described in its promotional materials as a “Uber for war zones.” Israeli-American businessman Moti Kahana owns it and employs several top Israeli and American military intelligence officials…Kahana has played a key role in the dirty war against Syria in the 2010s and worked with the CIA-backed Free Syrian Army to provide food and medical care to militants and civilians alike…Kahana’s Gaza plan has been in the works since at least February, 2024. He presented the plan to establish these electronic cantons – what Jewish News referred to as “gated communities” – to the White House, State Department, and Defense Department, as well as Netanyahu. U.S. officials did not respond. While the Israeli military had agreed, the Israeli prime minister shot it down. “What’s the rush?” he quipped. The Israeli military has also been in talks with Kahana to deploy its mercenaries to secure the Netzarim corridor, which bisects the Gaza Strip. The GDC’s CIA mercenaries would be in full control of humanitarian aid, thereby supplanting Hamas and ending its governance, they figure, achieving a long-term goal of the Israeli war.

This is one among countless ways these covert ops are going to manifest. It’s apparent that a major goal behind this project is to manage populations; to put them behind walls. Wherever the peoples of the world can’t defend themselves from imperialism, this is what imperialism will do to them; it’s what’s been happening to Syria’s people since the U.S. overthrew Assad two months ago, and “Israel” got enabled to occupy much more of the country. The Zionist entity is now expanding its military presence inside Syria, with the plan being to set up settlements on the newly stolen land.

The solution is to commit to the fight against the hegemon, which the Palestinians have shown everyone how to do. Because of their obstinate struggle, the plans to clear out Gaza and establish these death camps have been foiled. If the ethnic cleansing project still hasn’t succeeded after fifteen months of genocidal siege, then the invaders can only expect to keep meeting insurmountable obstacles. The people’s resolve has not been weakened, and the Al Qassam brigades have seen their numbers grow since October 7; when a resistance project is dedicated, the attempts to crush the people end up backfiring.

The notion that we can vote out imperialism has again been disproved. And the revolutionary path, represented by the Palestinian resistance, has again been vindicated. By refusing to abandon this fight, and not embracing any illusions about negotiating with the enemy, the Palestinians have tangibly weakened their foes. They’ve brought the Zionist entity closer to collapse than ever, and forced the empire to change its strategy. During the struggle’s next stage, many more of the globe’s people will join with the Palestinians in taking this path. We have no choice but to join them; the circumstances have shown this is our only option.

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