by Philip Giraldi, The Unz Review:
United States President Donald J. Trump, who somewhat hubristically claims that he “runs both the country and the world”, has created a political machine called MAGA, which stands for Make America Great Again. He has parlayed that instrument into electoral victory by pledging himself to improve the lives of Americans through shaking up the federal bureaucracy while also ridding the country of illegal immigrants and criminals. He has also focused on the enormous waste, in every sense of the word, that has resulted from what he calls by the name of his predecessor “Biden’s Wars,” referring to those conflicts in Asia and Europe as pointless.
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The MAGA slogan was an effective marketing tool but the voting public would have been better advised to consider what Trump accomplished during his first term as president. In the area of foreign policy, with particular focus on war-making, he unwisely withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) negotiated by President Barack Obama which monitored and inspected Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. Likewise, in 2019 he canceled participation in the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, which has created something like an nuclear arms race in Europe that has advanced the scientists’ nuclear warning clock to the closest point to midnight that it has ever arrived at, suggesting that a tiny misstep could have devastating consequences up to and including nuclear annihilation. Trump also foolishly assassinated Iran’s General Qassim Soleimani who was on a peace mission in Baghdad Iraq in 2020 and struck Syrian targets with cruise missiles twice based on phony threat information produced by neoconservatives.
More recently Trump has bombed Iran in support of Israel, has assisted in the overthrow of the Syrian government, and has supported avoidable wars in both Ukraine and Gaza/Palestine. So it is pretty clear that Donald Trump is not a man of peace and it is also evident that he has negligible understanding of international politics and diplomacy, which he pretends to support but with little or no follow-through. He is also a man who believes in “When in doubt threaten to bomb them!” He has recently been making and citing plans to start nuclear war with Russia, quite possibly to prevent the release of the Epstein files which might contain devastating negative information on the president.
In a “Truth” social media post that was so serious that it contained authentic presidential grammatical, spelling and syntactical errors, suggesting that the president himself had actually written it, Trump announced that he has positioned two nuclear submarines close to Russia because he was upset that former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had teased him on Twitter. It demonstrated that even a pseudo-warlike former draft dodger who becomes president can get emotional enough to end the world after a mean Twitter comment. And when the radioactive dust settles, Trump will be a shoo-in for the Nobel Peace Prize, which he said last week he had already fully earned four or five times through his astonishing level of peace-mongering.
And of course there is the matter of the relationship of the US with Israel, where both Trump and his predecessor were clearly visible as pawns in their dealings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has now decided that Israel will occupy all of Gaza minus the Gazans, ignoring some proposals put forward by Trump. Trump is truly tied hand and foot with Israel and anyone who denies it is being naïve, or worse. A friend of mine recently drafted a letter that he then sent to the White House complaining about US support of war crimes in Gaza. The White House information office responded with a letter, ostensibly signed by Trump, which included “When I became President, I made it clear: America stands firmly with Israel… To keep our country safe, I imposed visa restrictions on foreign nationals—including international students—with ties to terrorist organizations. I am steadfastly committed to deporting pro-Hamas radicals and to making our college campuses safe and patriotic again. These actions reflect a clear and unwavering commitment to a foreign policy of peace through strength. Under my leadership, the United States is once again standing strong against terrorism and standing firmly with our allies. The State of Israel represents the peak of human perseverance and the pinnacle of human triumph—and I will always support its right to win its war on terror.”
