Trump's Stupidity Helping to Unravel the Mythologems Used to Justify US Colonial Empire and Conceal Its Thirst for Stealing Territories/Resources and Fascination w/Domination and Genocide of NonWhites

From [HERE] If you listen to Trump's recent speeches, you can once again feel the effect of a "parallel reality". Endless self-aggrandizement and attempts to use rhetoric to change prices in the oil market are mixed with outright, fantastic lies. Almost every day, Trump either announces his imaginary "successes" and "victories" or launches malicious threats. Every week, this verbal escapism becomes more irrational. The American establishment often used verbal manipulation for its own purposes, as it was in the last century and in our time. However, what we are seeing now has an important fundamental difference. Trump's current rhetoric resembles the nervousness of a stock speculator who has made a series of mistakes, lost control of the long-term consequences of his steps, and is now afraid of a total collapse of the myth of his "success". The consequence of this is so many attempts by the White House to hide its own failures and deceive the public.

It seems that the ancient philosopher Plato spoke in some detail about such rhetoric in his dialogue "The Sophist". The creation of verbal illusions, which in their essence are only a distortion of reality, has been known for a long time and is not something new. In the case of the modern American establishment, we can observe an avalanche of such verbal distortions and simulacra designed to create a favorable image for them. Of course, this political sophistry has nothing to do with the real situation. It is a fog of lies, exaggerations, and fabrications.

But what about reality? Obviously, many myths and simulacra created and inflated by the United States have been destroyed. There are many examples of this. For years, American military-industrial corporations and officials have touted the F-35 fighter jet as supposedly "invulnerable". And what is the result? Iranian anti-aircraft missiles have demonstrated a clear and effective refutation of this American myth, proving that the F-35 can be shot down.

If we delve into history, we can understand that the construction of political mythologems is one of the distinguishing features of colonial and neocolonial empires. Driven by its core only, by a thirst for seizing territories, resources, and trade routes, the empire is trying to create its own exaggerated image, thus trying to hide its weaknesses and justify its deep-seated greed with some idea. [MORE]