POKER BLUFF

If Biden and Trump were in a poker game, who do you think is blogging?

 

By Sidney Hey

It is true, and analysts know it very well, that politicians in the West have been playing with the economic resources, assets and even the lives of their citizens, but the one who undoubtedly leads the way in this generalised corruption is the US.

There is no analysis or expert in international politics that can argue with a modicum of reasonableness and common sense the obscene squandering of monetary resources that the Democratic administration of Joe Biden and his invisible and vapid vice Kamala Harris have used to instigate and maintain the war. Nor can it be understood how Biden himself, at the instigation of Tel Aviv and the federal treasury, has compromised US security with an escalation in the Middle East and the Red Sea.

Undoubtedly, bloated defence budgets have been one of the black holes in the US economy.

Such abuses were commonplace in previous administrations and eras, especially during the Cold War, when -according to the propaganda narrative- the communist juggernaut had to be stopped and no expense spared.

But politicians and the corporations they served were able to do all this with impunity, simply because the information was not available for the public to discern. Censorship and classification of documents by the government was the bottomless pit that guaranteed the concealment of the dealings that went along with it. Conservative media such as The Washington Post, New York Times or CNN only published what each administration suggested they could publish and no more.

But over the years, first-hand leaks by daring officials like Eduard Snowden and courageous researchers and activists like Julian Assange put an end to the ritual of government secrecy in which the CIA and the whole tangle of federal agencies made a big business out of intrigue. It is precisely the emergence of varied sources and means of access to information that has really democratised the possibility of people being able to inform themselves without the intoxication and control that governments and the establishment in the West continue to practice.

Curiously, this democratisation of information has earned men like those mentioned above the persecution, imprisonment and abandonment of their colleagues who talk so much about democracy and freedom of expression. Today, guys outside the system like Tucker Carlson, thanks to those pioneers, can conduct interviews that the media would not do because of political pressure.

These changes finally made it to the White House in 2016 with an outsider like Donald Trump, and today their shadow is once again looming over Washington. Although he may not please the recalcitrant neo-conservatives and the general spectrum of politics, Trump has given a new face to American politics.

Biden, like the political dinosaur that he is, was trained in the paradigm of the last century and today he collides with a reality that he simply cannot handle. The lies of his officials or his own lies are quickly exposed on the web and in just a few minutes his fellow citizens and the connected inhabitants of the entire globe are made aware of them. Undoubtedly, this is when democracy really works and not with an institutionality plagued by bureaucratic forms, manipulation and corruption.

Today, Biden is at the helm of a country that, in addition to internal social, racial, labour and migration conflicts, is also facing the calamitous wars that, with the cooperation of his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and advisor Jake Sullivan, he has opened abroad and which he has been forced to support economically and financially so that they do not end in resounding failure. If the American citizen wanted to know something classified about those wars, he could rummage around in “Uncle Joe's” garage where, contrary to federal law, he kept classified documents in plain sight.

Maybe Biden can skip his responsibility for being a “distracted” old man, as special federal prosecutor Robert Hur said, but what about the rest of his administration, is that the same excuse to explain the monstrous squandering of funds abroad?

The US needs an urgent change of course and the Americans themselves know it and see in Donald Trump a renewed hope for it.

Concerns are now mounting in Brussels, Belgium. NATO has well-founded fears that a presidency in the hands of Donald Trump could lead to the abortion of the plans that had been deployed in Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific. If Trump delivers what he has been promising and remembering the relationships they had in his administration, he will surely cut off funding. This would be a major blow to the war party's aspirations in its campaign against Russia and China.

But that would not be the worst of it. What is worse is that some are speculating that Trump may begin to demand accountability for the spending and lavish outlays of money that have been made over the past two years under the guise of propping up the NATO proxy regime in Kiev, with which his adventurist war against Russia is financed.

It is the German government of Olaf Scholz who, under a policy of submissiveness and absolute obsequiousness to Washington, has lost the most in supporting Ukraine and supporting the US in its sanctions against Russia. But in reality, it is ordinary Germans who will suffer most from these policies because if Trump wins the election he will cut economic aid to Ukraine, although Germany or rather its government will continue to subsidise a war that is already lost.

Few but very valuable are those within the EU who call a spade a spade. Clare Daly an Irish MEP is a case in point and certainly with the guts that Irish blood distinguishes, she did not tremble in calling Biden a “butcher” for his actions against Yemen and his cynical support for genocide in Gaza.

Contrary to what many believe, this would be undermining Biden's low credibility among the population, which in turn drags down the already very poor credibility of the US in the international arena.

Trump knows this very well and that is why he has already announced that if elected president he will curb the uncontrollable and wasteful military spending to finance the war campaigns abroad, engineered by the neo-conservatives and especially the one being carried out in Ukraine.

Trump has weathered the dirty tricks of his opponents (Democrats) and the bloviating of an opaque judiciary. Now Trump will show his game to a bewildered Biden who already knows he has lost the game.