NEW STRATEGIES WORSE
CONSEQUENCES
If we accept that
Donald Trump's foreign policy promises are a bunch of lies, what are his real
objectives and the consequences of these?
By Sidney Hey
Even before Donald Trump steps into the White
House on 20 January, he has already bluntly expressed some of his ambitions
within the framework of what could be a ‘new strategy’ to try to rebound in the
race for global hegemony. Of course, many will say, what are you talking about
if he has promised to bring peace and negotiate an end to wars...? But as I
always say, these are just words.
As a sign of this we see how the political
commissars of the Kiev regime are multiplying the ‘kidnappings’ of young people
to recruit them and transfer them to the Kursk and Eastern fronts. Following on
from this, we also see how shipments of US weapons and equipment continue to
flow into Ukraine. Can this be understood as signs of seeking peace?
Trump will take over a ruined country with
increasingly complex problems. In addition to the US's well-earned external
enemies, Trump has his own covert and crouched enemies within the establishment
itself, which is arguably atomised into factions vying to impose their own
agendas. Undoubtedly, two key sectors such as the Pentagon and the Intelligence
Community (including the FBI) are the main ones affected by this.
Let's be clear that these factions have no
interests beyond their own agendas and global peace is of no concern to them.
Each of them, in addition to their very specific political aims, is seeking to
maintain and increase the business of war. Even the death a few days ago of
Jimmy Carter, perhaps the most reasonable and contemplative president the
country has ever had and a representative of political dialogue, situated at
the antipodes of the warmongers who dominate Washington today, seems an ironic
and highly suggestive sign.
Trump dances to the same tune and that is why
his announcements to stop the war in Ukraine or anywhere else are not credible.
As we also know, his hatred of Muslims that stems from his Zionist militancy
and focuses on Iranians was not going to be out of place in this new
administration. The announcement by Senator Ted Cruz, another recalcitrant
Islamophobe, of regime change in Iran already gives us a taste of what is to
come.
But it is not only America's enemies who will
have to pay tribute to the new emperor. Trump's comments about buying a chunk
of territory from Denmark to move closer to the borders of the Russian
Federation speak volumes about where his administration is headed. If there was
a clue to reinforce this, the announcements about wanting to take over Greenland
for strategic purposes under the tired arguments of ‘national security and
freedom around the world’ do not augur well for peaceful purposes.
Similar expressions have already been heard for
the Panama Canal which, let us remember, was invaded in 1989 to remove an old -
and very inconvenient - associate of then President George H. Bush and the CIA,
General Noriega, who was a bird who knew a lot about the dirty business with
which the ‘agency’ financed its operations in Central America. Although the Panamanian
political authorities came out to theatricalise an angry offence to their
sovereignty, certainly their opinion as their real power is as frightening to
Washington as an old woman's fart.
Continuing
in the region, and with regard to Venezuela, Trump must already have plans in a
drawer to do away with Maduro and, as happened in Syria, to dismantle the
Bolivarian Revolution in order to install his puppets led by Corina Machado.
With all this in mind, we could speculate that
Moscow and Beijing do not have much confidence in these positions of the future
American president either. Perhaps Xi Jinping is the most sceptical and
seriously concerned about Trump's plans, although Vladimir Putin has many more
arguments to mistrust the intentions of the next administration in the White
House.
But to return to the incoming administration's
interest in China, the Pentagon's speculation about China's military capability
to nuke the US is undoubtedly aimed at creating public fear and at the same
time justifying an increase in containment and harassment actions over the
South Sea that ultimately translates into another exorbitant increase in the
military budget. So where do you think this dynamic will lead if Trump does not
do otherwise?