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On the Trump Front — a change in the agenda?
On the Trump Front — a change in the agenda?
Paul Craig Roberts
Trump’s original plan was to quickly get rid of foreign wars in order to focus on his presidential campaign’s domestic agenda to Make America Great Again.
Trump has discovered that Democrat “judges” and some RINO ones can block and distract him from removing illegal aliens who have no right to remain in the US, and from exercising his legitimate powers as president to reform the corrupt and ideological US civil service. The civil service is responsible to the executive branch, not to the judiciary, but the judiciary, always seeking to expand its power, is seeking to establish control over the Office of the President.
On the domestic front the frustrations and delays of an over-reaching judicial system have shifted Trump’s focus abroad as an alternative way of Making America Great Again.
In a recent press conference with Genocide King Netanyahu, President Trump declared America’s possession of Gaza. Questioned by media, Netanyahu seemed to agree, at least for the sake of avoiding conflict with Israel’s American sponsor.
Trump has begun to describe a new Middle East. It is no longer one that Washington was creating for Greater Israel. Israel had Washington destroy opposing Arab countries–Iraq, Libya, and Syria–disguised as a “war on terror.” The New Middle East is to be Washington’s colonial empire, in which Washington achieves control over oil flows in a new way.
Unlike the old colonialism in which the British and French exploited the region, sending the profits home, Trump is offering Saudi Arabia, the last standing Arab country, a junior partnership. The junior partnership is also being offered to the Iranians. The Saudias and Iranians are tempted to accept junior partnerships as it saves them from US/Israeli attacks.
Gaza, Trump suggests, will be the highly developed anchor for making all of the Middle East rich. The new American colonialism, unlike the old, is a profit-sharing empire. And it puts an end to Israeli/Arab wars.
It is difficult not to see this as a brilliant settlement. But the world never expected anything of this sort. Perhaps the American Ruling Establishment sat down with Trump and explained the situation to him.
In place of the American neoconservative unipolar world of American hegemony there will be the division of the world between the three powers–Washington, Russia, and China. Will the Zionist neoconservative American policymakers accept this or will they continue their pursuit of hegemony?
The path ahead is not clear. President Putin is not interested in merely a negotiated end of the conflict in Ukraine. Putin wants a Great Power Agreement that ends the West’s conflict with Russia. Putin’s agenda goes far beyond merely ending the conflict with Ukraine.
Can Trump and Putin renew the effort of Reagan and Gorbachev and end the revival of the Cold War that the neoconservatives launched?
If not, war will be upon us.