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Title: Trump: An Assessment
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URL Source: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/09/27/trump-an-assessment/
Published: Sep 28, 2018
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2018-09-28 09:20:20 by Ada
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Views: 144
Comments: 3

Trump the Great?

I supported Trump for president for three reasons:

Trump was the only candidate who recognized the need to normalize relations with Russia and bring a halt to the reckless orchestration of conflict with a major nuclear power.

Trump was the only candidate who recognized the need to restore high productivity, high value added jobs to the American workforce.

Trump was the only candidate who spoke to the American people instead of to the organized interest groups of the ruling elite.

My concern was that Trump did not know Washington and did not know who to appoint to help him achieve these goals.

Trump was unaware of the extent of the threat that his agenda posed to the military/security complex, US global corporations, and the ruling oligarchy. Normalizing relations with Russia would put in question the $1,000 billion annual budget, and the power that goes with it, of the military/security complex. Bringing home the offshored jobs would raise the labor cost of US global corporations and cut the “performance bonuses” of the executive class. Speaking directly to the American people raised the specter of a populist revolt against the ruling oligarchy. These are too many enemies for a president who did not know how to staff his administration, and Trump has paid the price.

The fake charges that comprise “Russiagate,” orchestrated by CIA director John Brennan, implemented by highly partisan Democratic operatives in the FBI and by Trump’s own Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, and ridden hard by the Democrats and the presstitutes, prevented Trump from normalizing relations with Russia.

Bad economic advice, whether innocent or intentional, misfocused Trump’s attention from the problem of jobs offshoring to tarrifs, with the consequence that he has a trade war and rising prices for Americans in place of the return of their jobs.

The ruling oligarchs have decided to make an example of Trump so that no future presidential candidate makes the mistake of speaking directly to the American people.

Trump was our last chance, and it appears that he is going down.

Trump’s Middle Eastern policy is in the hands of Trump’s Zionist son-in-law and Netanyahu. The result is escalated tensions with Russia, with Israel causing the destruction of a Russian Air Force crew and plane, with the Trump regime threatening Syrian and Russian forces with attack if any attempt is made to liberate Syria’s last province occupied by Washington’s army of terrorists, with Trump unilaterally pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Treaty, with Trump abandoning his intent to remove US forces from the Middle East, with Trump’s crazed neoconservative National Security Adviser John Bolton issuing audacious threats to Iran and to Russia, with Trump moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and with Trump cutting off all aid to the Palestinians who are in front of our eyes experiencing genocide at the hands of US-supported Israel.

I could go on, but you get the picture.

The Trump regime is either so incompetent or so intent on war that it does not understand that Russia cannot permit the US/Israeli destabilization of Iran any more than Russia can permit the US/Israeli destabilization of Syria. The crazed Bolton’s threats against Iran are direct threats to Russia’s national interests. The president who was going to improve relations with Russia has worsened them beyond the capability of Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Victoria Nuland.

Now I will be my own devil’s advocate. When Trump saw how boxed in he was by the material interests of the ruling oligarchy, he decided to finish off Washington’s already diminishing influence. He appointed Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the UN, where she has done a supurb job of alienating every country in the world. Trump has infuriated Europe with tariffs, sanction threats, and orders to Germany not to go forward with the Russian/German natural gas pipeline. Trump followed up by treating the UN Security Council on September 26 as Washington’s footstool. Trump with threats and sanctions is driving Turkey, Iran, India, China, and North Korea into Russia’s arms, and he is driving Europe into independence. In a stroke of genius, Trump, despite his thoroughly neoconservative regime, is destroying Washington’s hegemony.

We might never know whether this result is an unintended consequence of arrogance and hubris or whether it is a clever strategy. But if it turns out the way it seems to be heading, Trump will go down in history as Trump the Great, the man who saved the world by dismantling American hegemony.

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

Tramp knew nothing about what or who was ruling DC. He felt that he could go to DC and throw his weight around and the people would bow to him. That is why I voted for Gary Johnson, he knew what the hell was going on.

Darkwing  posted on  2018-09-28   10:32:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: All (#0)

We might never know whether this result is an unintended consequence of arrogance and hubris or whether it is a clever strategy.

Trump is handing Russia a pipeline through North Korea to feed the 11th largest economy in the world with natural gas and crude. Trump has already handed Russia another Nordstream pipeline to feed natural gas to the world's 4th largest economy. Trump is forcing Japan to finally end the second world war with Russia and declare a peace treaty. Turkey is more out of NATO than in NATO and Turkey has the 2nd largest standing army in NATO. Trump is forcing Pakistan to make peace with India. Trump has done nothing to help Russia's MAIN competitors, Iraq, Libya, Iran, Venezuela or Nigeria increase their crude output, not to mention Trump has encouraged the Saudi's to spend themselves dry with their senseless war in Yemen.

Ada  posted on  2018-09-28   13:52:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Ada (#0)

Trump the Great?

I voted for the man because it was him or HRC, and the media was so biased against him, I felt he could have no better recommendation. I do not believe he is motivated by greed. I think he does know the danger of Israel, but thinks he can do more if he strokes them and he wants to avoid them as an enemy at all costs. He will find out, however, that Israel is never afraid to betray an ally.

I feel he is a flawed weapon against the deep state, and he does not know who to trust to help implement his policies. Being an outsider is both his weakness and his strength. The internet and it's uncontrolled level of communication and the number of brains who can network to look into secret places is a wildcard never encountered before in human history. He could only be a president in an internet era. Look at the desperation evidenced by the media masters lately over internet news. They are no longer in control of the dialogue.

He has taken down 10,000 pedophiles and that demonstrates he DOES know who pulls the strings and like him or not, he is taking the puppitmasters on. I will keep cheering him on, therefore, because I hope we have a chance against the coming darkness.

In the era of lies, damned lies, and more lies, truth is hard to find. I am afraid that I rely on about 10-15 writers I really trust. They are the great thinkers of our age and Paul Craig Roberts is one of them. Thank you

octavia  posted on  2018-09-28   15:32:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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