Trump
-The Enigma
By Peter
Koenig
March
05, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- President Trump may be wondering himself about
the miracles and mysteries and confusions he
creates. As a megalomaniac, he is the only one
who knows everything. His ideas range and flash
from right to left, crisscrossing the political
spectrum to favor the globalized world – and yet
he is largely acting against globalization – and
in the ‘interest of people’. That would be
great.
He also
seeks truth by telling truth; that
Obama and Hillary created ISIS and the CIA
created Al Qaeda, that
9/11 was not the way the Nine-Eleven
Commission says it was, and that
the Government lies about statistics.
Poverty, unemployment and inflation figures
are much higher than those published by the
various US statistical offices.
He loves BREXIT,
congratulating Teresa May for it, and joyfully
predicts the end of the European
Union and of the Euro. It would be
a good thing for the world. But does he mean
what he says? – As a megalo he loves to be an
Enigma.
The non- intervention policy
– as candidate Trump he said he would not
intervene in other countries’ affairs. Fair
enough. That’s what most of the world wants;
that’s what most of the Americans who voted for
him want. Yet, Donald Trump, the almighty, along
with his chief vassals of Europe, France,
Germany and the UK, has just tried imposing new
sanctions on Syria, among other deceitful
allegations, because of some military
commanders’ use of toxic gas attacks. By now,
most of the informed world knows that this is a
lie and nothing but a UN proven lie – a lie that
has been repeated since the beginning of the CIA
imposed war on Syria in 2011 to justify ‘regime
change’.
Both
China and Russia opposed the motion. Mr. Putin
went on a news conference saying that sanctions
would not be helpful for the new peace
negotiations in Geneva. – Of course, not. But
that’s precisely what they are supposed to do-
undermine the peace process. There are enough
‘outside’ negotiators in Geneva with
brainwashed, preconceived ideas that Bashar Al
Assad is a mass murderer, having killed
‘hundreds of thousands of his own people’.
Literally.
That’s
the concept of some of the western negotiators.
It is an outright shame that such people are
allowed to help negotiate peace – even worse,
they claim the right to rewrite Syria’s
Constitution for a country without President
Assad, who still has 80% of Syrians’ backing.
Seriously? – Yes, very seriously. If it wouldn’t
be a grave breach on a country’s sovereignty, it
would be laughable. Who is sponsoring such
nonsense anyway? The western world once again
proves without impunity that they have no
respect for human and civil rights, for those
they consider below their boots. What would
those foreigners say who are ‘negotiating’ a new
Constitution for Syria, if foreigners were to
decide on their own country’s Constitution? –
Trump should know better. Is this the same
Trump, who pledged non- intervention in foreign
lands?
Trump, Netanyahu’s puppet
– Or is it the ‘new’ Trump? The even more
submissive Trump – submissive to Netanyahu’s
Israel? Outranking by far his predecessor. – The
little boy Trump we saw during the joint Press
Conference with Bibi in Washington last month? –
So sad and almost insulting to the American
people, witnessing the President of the United
States in total adulation of the
Zionist-in-Chief. Surely, he may have swayed
Trump’s good intentions away from staying out of
other peoples’ and countries’ business. – The
exceptional nation of the US of A is a sheer
vassal of Israel, the Zionist-run 8-million
people country in the Middle East, adamant to
turn the entire zone into a huge chaos, a zone
which they eventually hope to take over from
shiny Euphrates to Shiny Nile, much like the
Brits did, by killing all the indigenous people
in North America to eventually create an empire
from Shiny Sea to Shiny Sea? – Not bad. But why
would The Donald not know about it? And go along
with such atrocities? Who twists his arm? How
does one twist the arms of the President of the
United States?
Peace with Russia
– candidate, as well as President Donald Trump
was pledging for a future peaceful relationship
with Russia. However, when pressed, he is not a
friend of Putin’s and doesn’t know whether he
will get along with him. In any case, to deserve
a friendly relation with the exceptional nation,
Mr. Putin must return Crimea – return to whom? –
to Kiev’s Nazi regime? Anybody who hears this
must be thinking it’s a joke, or sheer lunacy.
And
withdrawing Russian troops from Ukraine? Anybody
who says this and propagates it around the world
is mad. People who by now haven’t gotten to the
truth are insane. Because the truth is
everywhere, except in the presstitute. Get away
from the presstitute. Crimean people decided by
a 97% majority to rejoin Russia, where they were
during the past 300 years; and Ukraine – it is
by now a little secret that the US Embassy in
Kiev, helped by CIA, MI6, NATO and the EU vassal
states, instigated the coup in February 2014
against the democratically elected – pro-Russian
President Yanukovych. Rather than intervene in
Kiev’s Washington and Brussels driven Nazi war
against her own people in the Donbass, Putin has
explicitly refused the democratically voted
demand by the Donbass people also to be
reintegrated into Russia. Ukraine for hundreds
of years was part of Russia.
Instead, President Putin has initiated the Minsk
II Agreement of February 2015. Minsk II was a
Russian initiative after Minsk I of September
2014 collapsed, mainly because the warrying
parties Kiev and NATO didn’t adhere to the
accord. At Minsk II the leaders of Germany and
France, Russia and Ukraine’s oligarch President,
Poroshenko, shook hands for peace. For the west,
this was mere propaganda, as they can say now,
that Russia didn’t adhere to the deal. Lie after
lie after miserable lie. Mr. Trump, despite his
pledges to the contrary – and he said once as
much as Obama was responsible for Maidan, the
Kiev coup in February 2014 – is back-tracking on
his own common sense. Did here too, Netanyahu’s
evil wisdom prevail?
Sanctions
– Trump was clear during his campaign and in the
first days of his Presidency that he didn’t
think sanctions were a good idea, especially not
applied to Russia. Has he had a change of mind
or a twist of arms? – The war industry, of
course, does not like the notion of peace with
Russia. The President of the United States has
nothing to say. Is he a mere marionette of the
war and security faction of the Deep State?
Naturally, well accompanied by a bunch of
stooges from Brussels. Never mind that these
sanctions hurt Europe more than they hurt
Russia. As Mr. Putin said repeatedly – thanks
god for the sanctions. They have helped Russia
to become independent again, building her own
agriculture and manufacturing capacity – let
alone research and development which is already
producing cutting edge technology, by far
superior to the US-outsourced kind, coming from
such low-wage countries like India.
Appointing Nikki Haley Ambassador
to the UN – the
new mandate for the former Governor of South
Carolina, is another ruse that should please
Israel. Judging from her first moves in the UN
body, Nikki Haley looks not much different from
her predecessor, Samantha Power, especially when
she flies such lies in the face of the world,
like, “It is a sad day on the Security Council
when members start making excuses for other
member states killing their own people. The
world is definitely a more dangerous place,” in
response to Russia’s and China’s veto to the new
western attempt to impose more sanctions on
Syria.
She
knows – or should know better. Trump definitely
knows better. If he let her get away with this
slander propaganda, it’s because he has been
told to do so, or wants to bend over backwards
to please his friend Bibi, and / or because he
himself thinks the UN has become a useless body
of bla-bla nations, devoid of any backbone; it
should melt away, as it is unreformable in its
current structure, like the EU. Both have been
hijacked by the world’s Deep State of neocons.
It’s time to wake up to this new reality.
Firing Michael Flynn, Mr. Trump’s
first choice as National Security Advisor
– was a horrible betrayal of a friend and
possibly a peacemaker. Did Trump simply follow
orders from non-peace-loving Pentagon masters –
Deep state warriors? With that unsavvy move the
President lost all his respect from people,
whose ethics weigh infinitely more than those of
the Washington swamp. The no-nonsense strategist
Flynn, who was about to seek harmonious
relations with Russia, and would defend Trump’s
non-intervention policy, is gone. The masters of
the Pentagon, the military industrial complex
have won. – By firing Flynn, did Trump hand over
de facto his Presidency to neocon
Vice-president, Mike Pence? Thanks to Pence who
created a storm in a water glass about a private
citizen talking to the Russian Ambassador, Flynn
is out – and Trump has lost his worldwide
standing.
NATO is outdated
– superfluous – those were the wise words of
candidate Trump. He repeated them, somewhat
weakened after his inauguration – but not for
long. The puppets in Europe were crying big
Crocodile Tears; the newly appointed James “Mad
Dog” Mattis, true to his name went to Brussels,
telling his subjects that there was nothing to
worry about; the US would continue protecting
Europe with NATO against the evil Russians – but
they had to pay up, sharing more of the cost of
this expensive, but highly profitable
enterprise, the weapons industry. He didn’t tell
them the latter part. That was implicit, though.
– We can assume that Mattis didn’t go to
Brussels on his own initiative, but as the
emissary of his boss, the President and
Commander-in-Chief of the United States.
Increasing the Defense budget by
US$ 54 billion –
Trump’s recent announcement, wasn’t exactly a
move towards peace. Earlier, within his first
couple of weeks in the White House, Trump went
to the Pentagon and told the generals to come up
within a month with a plan on how to renew the
war equipment, including the nuclear arsenal –
sort of confirming Obama’s plan to put a
trillion dollars into ‘nuclear renewal’ within
the next ten years.
None of
this smells of peace, or even of promoting
harmonious relations with the rest of the world.
It has nothing to do with wanting to become a
nation of equals. And it goes way beyond simply
‘Making America Great Again’. It rather smacks
of perpetuating Washington’s status of the
exceptional nation – pure insanity.
Iran Bashing
– calling her “The World’s Biggest State Sponsor
of Terrorism”, – another outrageous lie destined
to spread negative propaganda about Iran, to
intimidate other countries from renewing their
commercial dealings with Iran. After all, the
‘Nuclear Deal’ promised to abandon sanctions.
Yet, Trump just started a new regime of
sanctions. Trump also wants to ‘scrap’ or rip
apart the 5+1 and Iran (Permanent Security
Council Members, plus Germany and Iran) ‘Nuclear
Accord’ of January 2016. This may not be easy,
as there are more players involved than just the
exceptional nation.
Trump
and his aids, have been demonizing Iran already
during his campaign and reiterated the
groundless accusations after his inauguration. –
Why? – He knows that there is no substance to
back up his claims and that Iran is backed by
Russia and China and that a direct confrontation
with Iran would mean a clash – nuclear? -with
Russia and possibly also with China. Is this a
way of getting at Russia (and China) through the
back-door? Or is it just one more goody for his
Pal, Bibi? – We don’t know yet. But it is not
excluded that Israel launches an attack against
Iran – supported by Washington, of course. Any
intervention by Russia would be considered an
aggression on the US.
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be told, this appears to be sheer sabre
rattling. Nobody dares attacking Iran, which
would mean attacking the entire axis of Middle
East stability, China-Russia-Iran – and more,
attacking the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(SCO), of which Iran is now a member.
Confronting SCO would be aggressing one half of
the world’s population that commands one third
of the world’s GDP. That’s heavy stuff. More
than a conventional WWIII. From there, nuclear
is just an emotional breath away, or a tiny
misunderstanding — who wants to risk that? –
Least the war industry. Because once the planet
is eviscerated, there is no more need for arms.
Those few elitists who may survive, have killed
their milk cow. Trump should know that. He is a
businessman.
Better
is eternal chaos – leaving the arms and bankster
business booming – reducing at the margin the
world population by continuous merciless
killing; by armed conflicts; by artificial food
shortages; by clandestine sterilizations through
GMOs (plus a myriad of deadly diseases
potentially implanted in genetically engineered
food seeds); by an out-of-bounds pharma-industry,
today already responsible for one third of
annual deaths, right after cancer and heart
failure – all with the goal of leaving more
resources for the few. That’s ideal for the
empire and those who are in command of the
empire. In the meantime, sabre rattling with
nuclear warheads is an excellent tool for
intimidation. Scared people are much more
submissive.
And on the
domestic front….
The wall on the Mexican border
– a promise, Trump seems adamant to keep. Has he
been told how many particularly southwestern US
businesses he would kill? Agriculture,
hospitality and tourism, small businesses depend
on illegal workers. They all do work Americans
don’t want to do. So, there is no immediate
alternative. Did Trump think this over?
Forced evictions of illegal
immigrants from
their often longtime homes in the US, fall in
the same inhuman category. The trained brutes of
US police enjoy this ‘new freedom’ to use force
tremendously. A more generous, more civil and
more human – and for both sides more beneficiary
move would be granting all illegals with no
criminal records – at least 97% – amnesty, with
work visas or immigration status, depending on
their situations.
But The
Wall has become so abjectly popular among the
non-thinking US rednecks that there seems to be
no crawling back. Or is there, Mr. Trump? – Like
coming to reason?
Renegotiating NAFTA
– or abolish this nefarious trade deal
altogether – yes, but done professionally. That
should in the long run please both Mexico and
Canada, as both of these countries have lost
enormously for signing on the 1992 Clinton-
imposed dotted line. Mexico alone lost 1.3
million farm jobs, as the US 2002 Farm Bill
subsidized US agribusiness by as much as 40% of
net farm income, thereby driving countless
Mexican farmers into ruin. – So, renegotiating
NAFTA would be welcome by Mexico and Canada, but
surely that’s not the way Trump sees it. – Or
has he or some of his economic advisors told him
what is really at stake?
Bringing back jobs and Making
America Great Again
– the Trump slogan of the year. Probably coined
by some members of the Deep State, to emulate
Obama’s ‘Yes we Can’ – just coming through other
lips, is nothing but the same trick – but with
the naked emperor wearing differently shaded
clothes. If Trump can pull this through – it
would be truly amazing, a true feather in his
hat. Of course, it doesn’t happen overnight, and
it requires thorough planning. Just giving
homecoming corporations tax breaks is not the
solution. Analysts say it would take at least 20
years to build up a job base, mainly in the rust
belt, that could rival what was there before the
big exodus to cheap labor countries in the late
80s and 90s.
Not
only would it help bring back job sovereignty to
the US, it would be a tremendous blow to
globalization; this evil structure created by
the neocons and their institutions, FED, IMF,
World Bank at the Washington Consensus
Conference at the end of the 1980s.
Globalization has had nothing but devastating
effects for the large majority of the world
population. This would clearly be an
unparalleled trump in Trump’s basket. He seems
to be serious, as he congratulated the British
PM to BREXIT and doesn’t believe in the
long-term survival of the European Union and the
single currency, the Euro. And he is right.
Canceling the Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) agreement – and possibly also
the highly controversial TTIP (Trans-Atlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership) deal
– would be a tremendous achievement for Trump.
The people of Europe and of the 11 Pacific
Countries might be forever thankful to Trump for
his genius move. Never mind that he believes
they would have been bad for the US of A. Let
him. A good deed to the world, so anathema to
his other business- oriented discourse. Here’s
to the enigma Trump!
Trade war with China
– may it be Trump’s soft version of Obama’s
South China Sea aggression? He already announced
a 45% import tax for anything coming from China
that could be made in the US of A. Of course,
this is first meant as an incentive for all the
US corporations who outsourced their
manufacturing to bring them back home. But, he
thinks, by the way it would hurt China as a
rising star on the world economic horizon. It
hardly would. Especially not in the long-run.
More hurt would be the United States if China
were to retaliate.
As of
the end of 2016 Chinese foreign direct
investments (FDI) since 2005 in the US
cumulatively amounted to 109 billion dollars, a
mere10% of all of China’s FDI, worldwide. But,
they are accelerating. China’s FDIs in the US in
2016 with 45.6 billion were about triple those
of 2015. This compares with about 644 billion
dollars of US FDI in China over the past 15
years. Punishing China with steep import taxes
is about as effective as ‘sanctioning’ Russia –
namely almost nil. China has huge investments in
Asia, in her principal export market. This is
one area where Obama wanted to interfere with
his pivot to Asia. The other one, of course is
militarily, by stationing about two thirds of
the US Naval Fleet in the South China Sea. They
won’t be twiddling thumbs for long.
Let’s
see what the twittering Trump does. Will he get
the license to play business with China? Or will
the Deep State of the Pentagon-Security clan get
the best of him – through an arm-twisting
provocation in the South China Sea?
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Trump, the enigma. These are just a few of the
bountiful contradictions and controversies of
the new Trump Administration. If he manages to
stop Globalization, the nefarious trade deals
set up under Obama, bringing back the work force
to the US, rehabilitating his country’s decaying
infrastructure and bringing back security to the
common citizen, plus decent health care and
education – and foremost, keeping wars at bay,
then he has achieved more for the US and the
rest of the world than any of his predecessors
for the last 100-plus years. – To be fair, The
Donald, less than 50 days in office, deserves
the benefit of the doubt, as anybody would who
dares oppose and attack the “fake news” lie
culture of western media.
Peter Koenig is
an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is
also a former World Bank staff and worked
extensively around the world in the fields of
environment and water resources. He lectures at
universities in the US, Europe and South
America. He writes regularly for Global
Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 4th
Media, TeleSUR, TruePublica, The Vineyard of The
Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the
author of
Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War,
Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed
–
fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World
Bank experience around the globe. He is also a
co-author of
The World Order and Revolution! – Essays
from the Resistance.
