Weaponizing America’s Economy in Service of Israel

Image by Jorge Fernández Salas.

Empires rarely fall on the battlefield; they implode under the weight of their own arrogance and corruption. The hubris radiating from the White House suggests that this old imperial truth is once again asserting itself.

Unable to compete in the global economy it once championed, Washington now weaponizes its economy turning trade, finance, currency, and credit into instruments of blackmail. Washington has changed the “rules-based international order” into tariffs...