We may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Since September 2, the US has carried out more than 20 strikes on vessels suspected of drug trafficking in both the southern Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. At least 83 people have been killed.
These trees have endured drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning--much like the people of Gaza. But they fought to survive.