{"id":19545,"date":"2021-09-15T15:26:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=19545"},"modified":"2021-09-15T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:27:21","slug":"from-the-war-on-terror-to-conflict-between-world-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/15\/from-the-war-on-terror-to-conflict-between-world-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"From the war on terror to conflict between world powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The following article by Claudia Cinatti of Left Voice (USA) points out that the heinous attacks on the World Trade Center have shown the failure of the &#8220;war on terror.&#8221; \u00a0Following its defeat in Afghanistan, U.S imperialism is now directing its attention toward China and other capitalist powers.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FROM THE WAR ON TERROR TO THE CONFLICT BETWEEN WORLD POWERS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/arton207521.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19546\" src=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/arton207521-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/arton207521-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/arton207521.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the heinous attacks on the World Trade Center was marked by a climate of defeat. Afghanistan, where it all began, is once again ruled by the Taliban, who in just a single week retook control of the country occupied by the United States and NATO for two decades. The humiliating image of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and of thousands of Afghans who had collaborated with the West desperate to flee the country, will follow Joe Biden like a shadow. And, as if that weren\u2019t enough, the U.S. troops were sent off with a suicide attack by the Islamic State of Khorasan (ISIS-K) at the Kabul airport, which killed 13 U.S. soldiers and more than 100 Afghan civilians.<\/p>\n<p>On the domestic front, this round-number anniversary of 9\/11 is dominated by renewed political polarization. Republicans\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and Trumpism in particular\u00a0\u2014\u00a0have gone back on the offensive, convinced they have found Biden\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel faster than they had expected. The most repeated phrase on conservative media is that Biden \u201caspired to be Roosevelt and ended up like Jimmy Carter,\u201d referring to the hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Iran in 1979. Never mind that it was former president Donald Trump who sealed the U.S. defeat in his negotiations with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, in February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is trying to turn the page and get back to the domestic agenda, in particular by launching his infrastructure plan and preventing a new wave of the pandemic from jeopardizing the economic recovery, on which his success largely depends. But for now he cannot restore the honeymoon period of the first six months of his presidency. His popularity remains in decline, and his latest measures, like the mandatory vaccination of federal employees against Covid-19, have led to resistance and provided \u201clibertarian\u201d arguments to far-right anti-vaxxer groups.<\/p>\n<p>According to a\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u2013ABC News poll, the turbulent end of the \u201cforever war\u201d and the emergence of a new wave of the coronavirus pandemic has fueled a climate of sad passions: 46 percent and 50 percent of people surveyed responded, respectively, that the 9\/11 attacks and the coronavirus pandemic had changed the country for the worse.<\/p>\n<p>In this next period we will see the extent to which the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan conditions the balance sheet of the entire word, and especially if it will harm Democrats\u2019 chances in the midterms next year. And above all, we will see the strategic significance of the U.S. defeat in the war on terrorism, while the country prepares for a scenario of competition and conflict between world powers, primarily with China, followed by Russia and other minor regional powers, but with ambitions in Iran and even Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9\/11 and the End of the \u201cUnipolar Moment\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While, according to historian Eric Hobsbawm, the fall of the Soviet Union put an end to the \u201cshort twentieth century,\u201d the terrorist attacks of 9\/11 heralded the end of the short cycle of \u201cU.S. hyperpower,\u201d which was definitively brought to a end by an event of a similar magnitude, although of another kind: the capitalist crisis of 2007 and the Great Recession that followed.<\/p>\n<p>The period, referred to as the \u201cunipolar moment\u201d by neoconservative think tanks, was an exceptional time of uncontested U.S. domination after the Soviet Union disappeared from the political scene. The 1990s were a mirage of unlimited U.S. power: the United States had triumphed in the Cold War. And in the first Gulf War of 1991, under the George H. W. Bush administration, it had displayed impressive military potential, developed after the Vietnam War during the Reagan years. With no enemies or threats in sight, the two pillars of U.S. hegemony\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the dollar and the Pentagon\u00a0\u2014\u00a0seemed solid enough to support the weight of a \u201cnew American century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate expression of this triumphalism was the infamous announcement of the \u201cend of history\u201d by Francis Fukuyama, an intellectual from Leo Strauss\u2019s circle, who resorted to Hegel\u2019s philosophy of history, of all things, to provide an ideological justification for the universal dominance of \u201cthe West,\u201d that is, the United States: the formula of bourgeois democracy plus economic liberalism was the ultimate object of desire.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, at what was supposed to be the zenith of U.S. hegemony, a kind of strategic disorientation was already emerging in the main imperialist power. The Soviet Union, the enemy that had shaped the geopolitical and military scenario of the past 50 years, no longer existed. And there was no replacement for the great containment classified documents, played an important role in planning the terrorist attacks), the United States declared war on Afghanistan because it was where Osama bin Laden was taking refuge and where he had his al Qaeda training camps.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Afghanistan, known as Operation Enduring Freedom, initially had a great deal of international legitimacy and strong domestic support. But after ousting the Taliban in October 2001, the United States decided to extend the occupation of Afghanistan and broadened its objectives toward \u201cnation-building\u201d and then \u201ccounterinsurgency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cwar on terror\u201d morphed into what was referred to as \u201cpreemptive war,\u201d in which the United States claimed the right to \u201cpreventively\u201d attack governments perceived as enemies and impose \u201cregime change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was the United States\u2019 logic in 2003 when it invaded Iraq. Unlike the Afghanistan invasion, this intervention was supported by only a handful of unconditional U.S. allies like the United Kingdom. Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime was a detestable dictatorship, but there was no connection between his government and the terrorist attacks. Nor with al Qaeda. The casus belli was\u00a0<em>fake news<\/em>: that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctwin wars\u201d of Iraq and Afghanistan established a bipartisan consensus that put an end to the traditional shifts between the \u201cisolationist\u201d and \u201cinterventionist\u201d sectors of the Republican and Democratic establishments. Obama was elected president promising to end the \u201cforever wars,\u201d but he ended up increasing the United States\u2019 military presence in Afghanistan, even though the U.S. managed to assassinate bin Laden in 2011 thanks to intelligence from Pakistan. Under his administration, there were up to 100,000 American soldiers on Afghan soil. He also extended the \u201cwar on terror\u201d to other countries like Yemen, Libya, and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraq War was part of the neoconservative strategy of \u201credrawing the map of the Middle East.\u201d And it certainly led to a redistribution of regional power, but not in the way the neocons had imagined. The main collateral effect of overthrowing Hussein was to strengthen Iran, which went from having an enemy in Iraq to an allied government acting in line with its regional ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>One of the consequences of this, which is still a decisive factor in the Middle Eastern geopolitical scenario, is the cold war between Saudi Arabia and Iran\u00a0\u2014\u00a0expressing, at the level of states, the intra-Islamic civil war between Sunnis and Shiites\u00a0\u2014\u00a0that led to the war in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>From the point of view of the objective of \u201cfighting terrorism,\u201d the strategy was a multiplier of extremist versions of Islamism, of which the most abhorrent expression\u00a0\u2014\u00a0at least until now\u00a0\u2014\u00a0was the emergence of the Islamic State (ISIS), which at the height of its power established a caliphate in part of the territory of Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a simplification to say that the United States created the Islamic State, much as it would be to say that the U.S. created the \u201cmujahideen\u201d who fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s. But there is no doubt that the U.S. occupation and the heightened confrontation between Shiites and Sunnis added fighters to the ranks of ISIS, which in turn became a tool for different reactionary causes, such as Turkey\u2019s offensive against the Kurds in Syria, or the elimination of the more progressive tendencies that emerged from the Arab Spring uprisings.<\/p>\n<p>This resurgence of Islamic terrorism and the transformation of states like Libya and Syria into \u201cfailed states\u201d spilled into Europe in the form of heinous terrorist attacks, for which ISIS franchises have claimed responsibility. Many international ISIS fighters came from European countries, where a brutal form of Islamophobia has developed. This situation has also led to waves of refugees fleeing imperialist wars or reactionary civil wars supported by regional powers.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State was defeated in Syria and Iraq, and its caliphate no longer exists. But that does not mean that it cannot act again, as demonstrated by the attack in Kabul in the midst of the U.S. withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lasting Effects of 9\/11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTrump phenomenon\u201d is a direct result of the \u201cwar on terror,\u201d argues Spencer Ackerman in his book\u00a0<em>Reign of Terror: How the 9\/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump<\/em>, published in August 2021. According to Ackerman, the \u201cAmerica First\u201d slogan, according to which U.S. national interests should come first, does not represent a break with the previous policy, as it might seem, but is the logical conclusion of the 9\/11 era. Before Trump, Obama sought to establish \u201csustainable\u201d version of the war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>An explanation of Trumpism based solely on the consequences of 9\/11 seems reductionist. Also playing a part were the capitalist crisis of 2007, social and political polarization, and the exhaustion of neoliberal hegemony. But as Ackerman points out, Trump understood the meta-message (the \u201cgrotesque subtext,\u201d in his words) implicit in the war on terror: the perception of \u201cnon-whites\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Muslims and more generally immigrants\u00a0\u2014\u00a0as a hostile threat.<\/p>\n<p>This would explain, among other things, the persistent phenomenon of far-right terrorism among U.S. citizens radicalized by conspiracy theories, such as the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d of the white population and its values by immigrant communities. And that the main threat actually comes from the state\u2019s own \u201ccounterterrorist apparatus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>strategy, formulated by George Kennan in 1946, which had been U.S. state policy during the Cold War beyond the \u201cisolationist\u201d and \u201cinterventionist\u201d tendencies of alternating Republican and Democratic administrations.<\/p>\n<p>The first Gulf War against Iraq, led and won by George Bush Sr., was in line with the \u201crealistic\u201d rationality of imperialist foreign and military policy guided by national interest. After all, Saddam Hussein had taken advantage of that moment of confusion to try to take Kuwait and its oil, which undoubtedly affected the strategic interests of the United States and its regional allies,\u00a0 such as Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton\u2019s administration subsequently inaugurated what was referred to as \u201cliberal interventionism.\u201d This was a new kind of asymmetrical war justified by \u201chumanitarian\u201d goals, one that became the doctrine of the Democratic establishment. The paradigmatic example of these military interventions in the 1990s was the war in Kosovo, in which the U.S. had no national interests but two geopolitical objectives: the first was to present itself as the \u201cindispensable nation\u201d in the context of the European allies\u2019 inability to stop the dismemberment of the Balkan countries. The second and perhaps more important goal was to extend NATO toward Russia\u2019s borders as part of a policy of overt hostility. The outcome, however, has been contradictory, since other interventions of this kind, like the one in Somalia, were a devastating fiasco for U.S. power.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Consequences of the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the terrorist attacks on the twin towers, Republican president George W. Bush adopted the strategy of the \u201cwar on terror\u201d devised by the neocons, who, while originally from academic circles, had representatives in key positions in the Republican administration, like Vice President Dick Cheney. A unilateral strategy based on military power, it aimed to reverse the decline of U.S. imperialism, after its vulnerability had been laid bare before the eyes of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Although 19 of the 9\/11 attackers came from Saudi Arabia (which, according to<\/p>\n<p>Ackerman also points out that 9\/11 fueled a recharged U.S. \u201cexceptionalism\u201d that distorted the geopolitical impact of imperial overstretch at the domestic level, as well as domestic resistance to the attack on democratic freedoms and the reinforcement of a hyper-vigilant state.<\/p>\n<p>Owing to its ambitious objectives, the war on terror, failed to project U.S. power to the rest of the world, undoubtedly exposing U.S. imperial \u201coverstretch.\u201d In his book\u00a0<em>The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers<\/em>\u00a0(1987), British historian Paul Kennedy analyzed U.S. power in comparison with the British and hegemonic powers that preceded it and argued that there is a necessary relationship between economic strength and the dominance of a great power, since together with military power, it is the key to exerting a decisive influence on world affairs. His conclusion was that U.S. leadership faced the danger documented by historians that had determined the rise and fall of the previous great powers, which he called \u201cimperial overstretch.\u201d This meant that the sum of its international interests and obligations exceeded its ability to sustain them. In an essay published in the<em>\u00a0Economist<\/em>\u00a0about the end of the war on terror, U.S. decline, and the rise of China, Kennedy argues that structural changes undermined the United States\u2019 leadership position: the emergence of competing powers pushing for the redistribution of world power, economic competition from China, and its relative military advances.<\/p>\n<p>In a sense, the war on terror ended before the withdrawal from Afghanistan, when the Trump administration (and later Congress) adopted the new National Defense Strategy, prioritizing \u201cinter-state competition\u201d and the preparation for long-term conflict between world powers. According to that document, current threats to \u201cnational security\u201d stem from the so-called \u201crevisionist powers\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0China and Russia first, followed by North Korea and Iran\u00a0\u2014\u00a0which are attempting to \u201crevise\u201d the order established by the United States after the Cold War. They oppose it but do not have the strength to confront it as a whole. This is why they engage in regional conflicts, in areas where U.S. leadership has demonstrated its weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. imperialism\u2019s \u201creason of state\u201d for containing the rise of China and preventing the consolidation of its pragmatic alliance with Russia ultimately explains the aspects of continuity between Trump and Biden that have remained beyond the obvious differences and the attempts by the current administration to rebuild the \u201cmultilateralism\u201d that was damaged by four years of Trump\u2019s brand of nationalism.<\/p>\n<p>In 1936, Leon Trotsky reflected on the consequences for the United States of having risen to the position of \u201cthe world\u2019s leading imperialist power\u201d in a historical era of capitalist decline. His conclusion was that by spreading \u201cits might throughout the world, U.S. capitalism brings to its very foundations the instability of the world capitalist system.\u201d Therefore, \u201cthe economy and politics of the United States depends on crises, wars and revolutions in all parts of the world.\u201d Although in different conditions from those of the 1930s, it is this relationship that shapes the increasingly convulsive character of the emerging scenarios.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>13.9.21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This article was first posted at:-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leftvoice.org\/\">https:\/\/www.leftvoice.org\/<\/a>\u00a0from-the-war-on-terror-to-conflict-between-world-powers\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">also see:-<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Afghanistan \u2013 imperial intervention paves the way for murderous reaction -Mike Small, bella caledonia<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fQ7ID7Uamg\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/22\/afghanistan-imperial-intervention-paves-way-for-murderous-reaction\/\">Afghanistan &#8211; Imperial intervention paves way for murderous reaction<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Afghanistan &#8211; Imperial intervention paves way for murderous reaction&#8221; &#8212; Emancipation, Liberation &amp; Self-determination\" src=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/22\/afghanistan-imperial-intervention-paves-way-for-murderous-reaction\/embed\/#?secret=fQ7ID7Uamg\" data-secret=\"fQ7ID7Uamg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. The Democrats won\u2019t save democracy \u2013 Jason Koslowski, Left Voice (USA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SJXOBmItyO\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/28\/the-democrats-wont-save-democracy\/\">The Democrats won\u2019t save democracy<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The Democrats won\u2019t save democracy&#8221; &#8212; Emancipation, Liberation &amp; Self-determination\" src=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/28\/the-democrats-wont-save-democracy\/embed\/#?secret=SJXOBmItyO\" data-secret=\"SJXOBmItyO\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/21\/us-crisis-and-repocratic-politics\/\"><strong>3. US crisis and repocratic politics \u2013 Daniel Lazare, Weekly Worker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xpSCA0hliq\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/21\/us-crisis-and-repocratic-politics\/\">US Crisis And Repocratic Politics<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;US Crisis And Repocratic Politics&#8221; &#8212; Emancipation, Liberation &amp; Self-determination\" src=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/21\/us-crisis-and-repocratic-politics\/embed\/#?secret=xpSCA0hliq\" data-secret=\"xpSCA0hliq\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/18\/biden-a-transition-to-neo-trumpist-populism\/\"><strong>4. Biden \u2013 a transition to neo-Trumpism \u2013 M.K. Kumar, Left Voice (USA) and Paul Demarty Weekly Worker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3bJMXAXZic\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/18\/biden-a-transition-to-neo-trumpist-populism\/\">Biden: A Transition To Neo-Trumpist Populism?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Biden: A Transition To Neo-Trumpist Populism?&#8221; &#8212; Emancipation, Liberation &amp; Self-determination\" src=\"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/18\/biden-a-transition-to-neo-trumpist-populism\/embed\/#?secret=3bJMXAXZic\" data-secret=\"3bJMXAXZic\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article by Claudia Cinatti of Left Voice (USA) points out that the heinous attacks on the World Trade Center have shown the failure of the &#8220;war on terror.&#8221; \u00a0Following its defeat in Afghanistan, U.S imperialism is now directing its attention toward China and other capitalist powers.\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; FROM THE WAR ON TERROR TO&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1843,1845,1868,1848,8838,8830],"tags":[9031],"class_list":["post-19545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-capitalists-organise","category-us-imperialism","category-against-imperialism","category-ex-ussr","category-central-asia","category-chinese-east-asia","tag-author-claudia-cinatti"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":2328,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19549,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19545\/revisions\/19549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}