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?