{"id":1540,"date":"2025-06-08T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2025-06-22T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T14:10:00","slug":"the-united-states-is-at-war-with-its-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/the-united-states-is-at-war-with-its-people\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States is at War With its People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>We are <\/strong><em><strong>not<\/strong><\/em><strong> in times of peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have never been. Empire has <em>always<\/em> been at war against us. We cannot act like we are not at war. <strong>War is being actively waged against us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to tanks, helicopters, and live ammo, modern-day warfare is also agents of the state using AI to create expansive profiles to criminalize us. It is self-deputized fascists abducting people. It is manipulating access and resources to stoke fear and division. It is genocide, starvation, police, ICE, eugenics, and capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Militarism does not ensure that wars do not happen, it guarantees they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soldiers cannot win wars, they can only keep them going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Politicians can never end wars, but they will always start them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The only ones that can stop a war are the People<\/strong>. Learn how through local community organizing, especially with those that have <em>been<\/em> doing this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are the People that will stop this long War. Inside the Imperial Core. We are the People. It\u2019s us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are not in times of peace. We have never been. Empire has always been at war against us. 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