The Disrespectful Americans

Knowing your enemy means at least knowing their name

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6 min readSep 30, 2024

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The Communist Party of China is called the CPC but America insists on calling them the CCP. It’s petty and downright disrespectful. The Ansar Allah movement in Yemen is called Ansar Allah, but ze Americans insist on calling them the Houthis. This is all like meeting someone named Sikhander and insisting on calling him Steve all night. You’re just being a dick, and embarrassing yourself. Americans are rude, intrude, and are in for a rude awakening. The rectification of names is coming.

As much as America tries to tease China and Yemen about their names, this isn’t grade school. China and Yemen are grown up now, and they both have superior and more plentiful firepower. America’s ships are publicly prolapsing and they have to fire million dollar missiles against $5,000 drones to just stay afloat. Yemen defeated the US Navy in the Red Sea, historically speaking, they’re done. Yemen isn’t even industrialized, America has no chance against the industrial capital of the world in China.

America still struts around like a schoolyard bully, but it’s 30 years later and everyone has grown up. The nerds they used to push into lockers have got rich and the Muslims they teased have got hypersonic missiles. In…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.

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