On Thursday, September 26 at 11:10 p.m., category 4 Hurricane Helene made landfall at Keaton Beach, Florida, unleashing deadly flooding throughout Florida’s Gulf Coast, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

People are trapped in remote areas with no electricity, no food, no water, no medicine, and no functioning communication technology. Yet the federal government’s response has been worse than its infamously appalling performance during the 2004 Katrina disaster and so diabolically bizarre that we must ask: is the government intentionally attempting to murder thousands of American citizens throughout the Southeast?

Consider the following:

• The government failed to do standard pre-storm planning and staging.
• The government failed to deploy adequate resources and manpower to a rescue effort after the storm hit.
• The government is preventing aid from being brought into the affected areas.
• The government has sought to ground private helicopters and ban private drones from being used in the search and rescue efforts.
• The government claims it lacks money to help hurricane victims but continues to spend billions of dollars on migrants, Ukraine, and Israel (also despite the fact that it can literally create money anytime it wants).
• The government’s regime-adjacent media has downplayed the disaster.

Failure to plan sounds like typical government incompetence. Failure to deploy resources and manpower sounds like typical government prioritizing (they might have to fight a war or two for the Zionist project, don’t you know). But deploying manpower to prevent aid from reaching thousands of Americans facing imminent death? Sabotaging private rescue efforts? Refusing to monetize some debt and give the survivors a little quantitative easing!?

Libertarian Institute Smedley D. Butler Fellow for Military Affairs Bill Buppert said, “For Hurricane Katrina, around 50,000 National Guard troops were mobilized across forty-nine states to respond to the disaster. Additionally, 22,000 active-duty federal troops were eventually deployed. In response to Hurricane Helene, over 6,700 National Guard troops from at least twelve states have been mobilized…alongside these National Guard units, around 1,000 active-duty troops.”

Are we witnessing the government’s attempt to depopulate Appalachia?

The motive is there. The people of Appalachia are the least loyal to the United States Imperial Government (USIG), the most loyal to the tradtional concept of America and are more likely to vote Republican than Democrat. So, we have motive and action. Do we have intent?

Intention is tricky theoretical business, but simply put, are we witnessing state incompetence or state malevolence?

UnHerd columnist Malcom Kyeyune has likened the Helene catastrophe to the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion disaster. But it’s worse than that. A lot worse. It is more reminiscent of the Holodomor or “Terror-Famine” that struck the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 during the Soviet Union’s catastrophic collectivization of agriculture.

An estimated 4-6 million Ukrainians died during the Holodomor, possibly even more. As Stalinist insider Nikita Khrushchev put it:

“I can’t give an exact figure because no one was keeping count. All we knew was that people were dying in enormous numbers.”

Regarding the Holocaust, we have documented Nazi intent to murder Europe’s Jews. Top Nazi officials had a conference and put pen to paper. But we don’t have that kind of documented Soviet intent regarding the Holodomor. Historian Stephen Kotkin quotes V. P. Kozlov:

“Not a single document has been found confirming the conception of a ‘Holodomor-genocide’ in Ukraine or even a hint in the documents about ethnic motives of what occurred, including in Ukraine.”

Kotkin portrays the Holodomor as the unintended consequences of the deranged, economically illiterate policy of forced agricultural collectivization. The historian Robert Conquest takes that view of the earlier Soviet-made famine in Kazakhstan (yeah, the Soviets starved people all over their empire), but argues that the Holodomor was an intentional genocide:

“…on Stalin’s insistence, a decree went out which, if enforced, could only lead to starvation of the Ukrainian peasantry. This had been made clear to Moscow by the Ukrainian Communist authorities themselves. All through the next months it was indeed enforced with the utmost rigour, and local attempts to evade or soften it were sooner or later crushed.”

Conquest documents the following:

• The Soviet collectivization of agriculture in Ukraine caused famine.
• The Soviets seized all of Ukraine’s food and seed grain, using much of it to alleviate famine in Russia.
• The Soviets blockaded Ukraine during the famine.
• The Soviets hated the peasants, Ukrainians and Ukrainian nationality.
• The Soviets ruthlessly worked to crush Ukraine’s intelligentsia and cultural elite.
• The Soviets believed the Ukrainian peasants were deliberately sabotaging their policies, amounting to a “quiet war” and a “war of starvation” against the state.
• Soviet media denied the famine existed.

While it’s possible that Joseph Stalin and his inner circle did not intentionally commit to an endgame of ten million plus dead Ukrainians, the state (viewed as the “super organism” that is a corporate agent) both created a vast incentive structure that influenced millions of individual decisions that led to the Holodomor and benefited from the terror-famine.

The USIG is the most powerful corporate agent humanity has ever seen. No individual member, from the president on down, could ever fathom the totality of its beliefs, desires and intentions.

It is true that the USIG is staffed by many bad people. As Libertarian Institute Research Fellow Jeremy R. Hammond said:

“Government power attracts narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths. A higher proportion of people in any government will have one antisocial personality disorder or another relative to the general population.”

But the USIG is also staffed by people many of us would judge as good. What’s more important is that the corporate agent that is the USIG is inherently predatory and psychopathic.

The USIG is running a documented genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and working to expand the genocide to the West Bank, Lebanon, and beyond. Don’t put it past USIG to run a similar operation on American soil.