{"id":163880,"date":"2026-02-22T06:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T06:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=163880"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:30:45","slug":"america-lawless-abroad-lawless-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2026\/02\/22\/america-lawless-abroad-lawless-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"America: lawless abroad, lawless at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judaists and 7th Day Adventists aside, this week’s sabbath came early with the fire & brimstone sermon<\/strong><\/a> I featured yesterday by the Reverend Chris Hedges. Read this Sunday post, then, as day two of my weekend break from viewing geostrategically the criminal threat <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> to Iran.<\/p>\n

I need it; we all do. Focusing on geostrategy through SWOT analyses<\/strong><\/a> of the key players as they position themselves on a geopolitical chessboard is essential. Without that focus we whistle in the dark but it does not come risk free. To make such analyses we have to step back from what we feel but if we step back too far or for too long we lose our humanity. I mean our capacity as individuated but irreducibly social animals to feel abhorrence as a lawless power, armed to the teeth and from bases encircling\u00a0 the globe, devastates peoples thousands of miles from its own shores and borders while an equally lawless partner commits genocide on its doorstep even as it demands full spectrum dominance over its neighbours.<\/p>\n

The geostrategic chessboard, you see, can be so fascinating we forget who we are.<\/p>\n

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Writing at The Floutist yesterday, Patrick Lawrence opens with what I referred to just three days ago<\/strong><\/a> as “US Attorney General Pam Bondi playing the Karen <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> at the February 11 Senate Hearing on the latest Epstein releases” …<\/em><\/p>\n