THE TRUMP TRAP?

Why can't we expect peace to be a reality with Donald Trump in the White House?

 

By Sidney Hey

We have heard throughout the presidential campaign for the White House as the idea of the return of a supposedly disruptive president would be fleshed out with the re-election of Donald Trump and his MAGA. The American public is certainly fed up with the Democrats and their foreign policy shenanigans that have brought the state of the Union to a crisis from which Biden has done nothing to improve and Kamala Harris can do even less.

Joe Biden's administration during his entire period, far from improving the housing situation, the precariousness of the workers and the productive system, has focussed on re-launching the race for global hegemony, using all available resources to make Ukraine, with NATO's sponsorship, its fighting cock in Eurasia, and to confront the Russian Federation in an exhausting struggle which, as his own officials have not the slightest scruple in hiding, will be every last Ukrainian.

If Biden has benefited anyone, it has been the arms industry and the big corporations that profit from war.

But the opening of an unexpected front in Israel since 7 October has led to the expenses to support these two major players, putting the financial state in trouble, but worse, plunging ordinary citizens into further deprivation, higher taxes and the promise that the US will once again hand over its young people to fight other people's wars.

Trump was able to shake off all the judicial traps that his opponents laid for him by taking advantage of these calamitous circumstances and promising, among other things, that he would stop the war in Ukraine and to do so, he would stop giving financial and military support to Ukraine as well as the support for the maintenance of NATO that Biden let flow like a faucet.

Before President Biden submitted -under democratic pressure from the party- his resignation on 21 July, Trump had already demonstrated his psycho-physical superiority after the embarrassing and pathetic debate prepared by CNN, positioning him very well in the polls. After the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, his figure rose even more and he will surely be the next president, but would he keep his promises to stop the war?

Beyond Mike Pompeo's publication in the Wall Street Journal on the objectives of Trump's plan for Ukraine, we see that they are far from peace, confirming suspicions that Trump's promises are simply a ploy.

First of all, Trump has shown in his previous administration to be a professional liar and this was made abundantly clear by broken promises on foreign policy. In Syria he failed to pull special forces out of the north, authorised the CIA to assassinate General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, the illegal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel encouraging illegal settlement expansionism and continued to provide arms, equipment and military advice to the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev.

Putting all this into perspective, and remembering that part of his campaign was to bring the troops home and stop funding NATO, we see that Trump lied through his teeth, which begs the question, why would he not lie again?

The choice of J.D. Vance as vice president adds further doubts about the viability of fulfilling those campaign promises. Vance, like Trump, is a militant Zionist with a remarkable aversion to all things Islamic and Russian, which aligns him perfectly with the Establishment ideal of not wanting to stop the agenda in Eurasia and in particular the tightening of the siege of China from the Indo-Pacific.

At the same time, Zelensky's neo-Nazi junta seems to have shifted a hundred and eighty degrees in its rhetoric, going from its unyielding and arrogant position of having no intention of making peace with Russia (established by decree) to telling the Vatican that it is now interested - seriously? A similar unyielding position was shown earlier this year with the proposed Chinese-Brazilian peace plan and today, all of a sudden, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba rushed to Beijing to express readiness for talks. It is certain that his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi is suspicious of such a sudden change and he certainly has every reason to be.

Moscow's suspicions about this sudden change are also correct and they have very good arguments for not taking them seriously. To mention one, let's look at the Pentagon's intention to install nuclear missiles in Germany aimed at Moscow - can this be interpreted as a sign of peace?

The gullible will say that this is due to the departure of Biden who unashamedly patronised Kiev and as he no longer governs, Zelensky has come to his senses and if he is to survive (literally) he must manoeuvre with the new winds approaching the White House but, are there new winds?

Pompeo's publication of Trump's ‘peace plan’ points make it clear that nothing new is coming.

Nor should we forget that Trump is another Zionist who gets on very well with the butcher Netanyahu who in turn has already revealed after his visit to Congress what loyalty requirements the US owes Israel and which would focus on targeting a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Certainly, Trump does not bring those winds and on the contrary it is very possible that he will bring new tricks up his sleeve and perhaps one of them is the strategy published by Mike Pompeo aimed precisely at continuing the war and with it, the useless bloodshed.