| The
Dangerous Deception Called The Trump Presidency
By F. William
Engdahl
December 01,
2016 "Information
Clearing House"
- The project called the Trump Presidency has just two
months before its formal beginning. Yet already the
hopes and fantasies of much of the world are making him
into something and someone Donald Trump most definitely
is not. Donald Trump is yet another project of the same
boring old patriarchs who try again and again to create
a one world order that they control absolutely, a New
World Order that one close Trump backer once referred to
as universal fascism. Ignore the sometimes fine rhetoric
in some of his speeches. Talk is cheap. If we consider
rather the agenda that’s taking form even in these very
early days of cabinet naming, we can see that Donald
Trump is the same agenda of war and global empire as
Obama, as Bush before him, as Bill Clinton and Clinton’s
“tutor”, George H.W. Bush before him. There is no good
side to what the world is about to experience with
President Trump
‘Ladies and
gentlemen, It’s Showtime!’ Today we give you Donald
Trump. He will tell you just what many of you want to
hear. Trump the showman will tell you he will make
America great again; Trump will say he will ship at
least 3 million illegals back across the Rio Grande;
Trump will introduce a bill to declare the Muslim
Brotherhood a terrorist organization; Trump will bring
jobs back to America from China and other low wage
countries; Trump will sit down with Putin and work out
some kind of a deal to calm things down; Trump will
scrap the Iran nuclear deal of Obama…
Often during
this election campaign, which was more a Hollywood “D”
grade movie than any honest debate of policies and ideas
candidate Trump made statements that resonated with the
“silent majority” of not only so-called blue collar
workers, but also the disenfranchised middle class whose
earnings have been declining in real terms since the
1970’s. Trump, like an earlier actor-President named
Ronald Reagan, has a talent to make himself sound
sincere.
Is Trump a
Grassroots Revolution?
We should not
imagine for one second that the Patriarchy– those
loveless old men like David Rockefeller or George
Herbert Walker Bush or unnamed others– were so
overwhelmed by the political genius of candidate Trump
emerging from every scandal more powerful than before,
that they were surprised, out-foxed, and just groaned
and let it happen.
The Trump
Presidency has been planned in minute detail by them and
their think tanks. Quite simply, had they continued the
policies that Hillary Clinton represented–war and
confrontation against Russia, against China, with Color
Revolution destabilizations of any and all political
leaders who opposed them whether Ghaddafi or Mubarak or
even Putin–they saw they were losing power over huge
parts of the world, essential geopolitical power.
When a
President of the relatively tiny American former colony
fears not to openly attack by name an American President
as “son of a whore,” and declare in China his
Philippines’ “separation” from the United States, when
one country after the other comes closer in economic and
political cooperation to Russia, to China and to their
growing Eurasian economic cohesion around the One Bridge
One Road Eurasian infrastructure great project, it was
clearly time to install a Plan B President.
That Plan B is
casino mogul Donald Trump, a political tabula rasa, a
power-possessed person with a blackmail potential that
will keep him on program for them, an alpha male who is
quite gifted at being able to make people fear.
If we were to
use conventional psychological definitions I would say
the word sociopath fits: “Antisocial personality
disorder characterized by a lack of regard for the moral
or legal standards in the culture.” Narcissism would be
another apt term: “Extreme selfishness, with a grandiose
view of one’s own talents and a craving for admiration…”
Read his own autobiography and his descriptions of his
earlier antics with mob lawyer and mentor, Roy Cohn, at
the cocaine-snorting Studio 54 and look more closely at
his actual life history, not only what he dismisses as
“locker room talk” eleven years ago with Billy Bush. He
is definitely no JFK or Charles de Gaulle, not even
close.
I state clearly
my conviction, and please recall this as Trump
Presidency policies unfold after January 20, 2017 to see
if I am correct or not: Donald Trump was put into office
to prepare America for war, a war the banks of Wall
Street and the US military industrial complex are not
presently in a position economically or industrially or
otherwise, geopolitically, to win. His job will be to
reposition the United States for them to reverse the
trend to disintegration of American global hegemony, to,
as the Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz Project for the New
American Century put it in their September, 2000 report,
“rebuild America’s defenses.”
To do that
preparation, a deception strategy that will fatally
weaken the developing deep bonds between Russia and
China will be priority. It’s already begun. We have a
friendly phone call from The Donald to Vladimir the
Fearsome in Moscow. Russian media is euphoric about a
new era in US-Russia relations after Obama. Then
suddenly we hear the war-mongering NATO head,
Stoltenberg, suddenly purr soothing words to Russia.
Float the idea that California Congressman and Putin
acquaintance, Dana Rohrabacher, is leaked as a possible
Secretary of State. It’s classic Kissinger Balance of
Power geopolitics–seem to ally with the weaker of two
mortal enemies, Russia, to isolate the stronger, China.
Presumably Vladimir Putin is not so naïve or stupid as
to fall for it, but that is the plot of Trump’s
handlers. Such a strategy of preventing the growing
Russia-China cooperation was urged by Zbigniew
Brzezinski in a statement this past summer.
Because he’s
been selected (and not by us dear voters) to play a
definite role–to shift tactics of global domination
according to the basics of the 1992 Bush-Wolfowitz
Doctrine–preempting any nation or group of nations in
Eurasia from challenging American Sole Superpower
hegemony–the selection of his Cabinet and key policy
advisers, is vital. Here we can already see the outlines
of the cast of characters who have been chosen to fill
out the theater play called Trump Presidency, and the
emerging new plot for reconfiguring the Sole Superpower
strategy.
The dramatis
personae
As of this
writing, several key positions have been named. It
includes three-star General Mike Flynn to be the
President’s National Security Advisor; it includes
Congressman Mike Pompeo of Kansas to be Director of
Central Intelligence; it includes Jeff Sessions to be US
Attorney General and it includes Stephen K. Bannon in a
newly-created post as White House “Chief Strategist” and
Senior Counsellor to the President.
In this
article I’ll look closely at Mike Flynn, the former
3-star general who will be the all-important Trump
National Security Advisor, sitting in the White House.
Normally perceptive bloggers and analysts have greeted
the Flynn appointment with cheers of joy. They cite his
opposition to US covert support for ISIS and Islamic
terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra; he is on
record that the 2003 Iraq invasion was a “strategic
mistake.” Moreover, Flynn is opposed to stirring up war
with Russia and instead calls for waging war against
ISIS and other radical terrorist organizations. In fact
Obama fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence
Agency when Flynn opposed the Obama decision to
prioritize the anti-Russia war over the anti-Jihad war,
and called for cooperation with Syrian President Assad
to that
end.
Flynn’s
position on war against ISIS and presumably also against
the Muslim Brotherhood so beloved by Hillary Clinton and
the Obama Administration, is not one of a man of peace.
Rather it is one of a cold, calculating military
professional, a military professional who favors working
with the Likud of Netanyahu to advance the global agenda
of war.
Flynn’s
statements on Assad and ISIS and Iraq must be
interpreted not in a vacuum but in light of a military
intelligence specialist who sees that the decades-long
CIA and Pentagon policy of training Muslim Brotherhood
and other fanatic Muslim-origin terrorists to wage
surrogate wars of empire have backfired badly. Not only
the CIA’s July 15 failed coup using networks of Turkey’s
Fethullah Gülen, but rather every CIA-backed Jihad war
from Secretary of State Clinton’s war against Mubarak,
against Gaddafi, against most of the Islamic world to
try to impose US-backed Muslim Brotherhood terror
regimes loyal to Washington, has failed. The gross
effect has been to drive much of the world away from
Washington and their constant proxy wars.
An intelligent
military strategist would say it’s time for another
plan. This is what Flynn is about. He will advance a
shift in Washington policy away from using Muslim
Brotherhood and allied terror organizations towards more
intimate restoration of full cooperation with Israel’s
right-wing Netanyahu Likud government.
Walid
Phares, Donald Trump’s adviser on terrorism, and Middle
Eastern Affairs, told Egyptian media in comments
reported by Ben Shapiro’s conservative US blog, The
Daily Wire, that Donald Trump will back efforts to
outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist
organization, something the Obama Administration
vehemently refused and prevented Congress from
doing.
Anyone familiar
with my latest book, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods
would destroy, will know I am in no way a friend of the
Muslim Brotherhood who have been in a dark alliance with
the CIA since the 1950s. Yet reality is not simplistic
as in, “my enemy’s enemy is my friend…” Walid Phares,
Donald Trump’s key adviser on terrorism and the Middle
East, is also a Senior Fellow of a small very
pro-Netanyahu think tank called the Foundation for
Defense of Democracies.
Foundation for
Defense of Democracies?
The
Washington-based Foundation for the Defense of
Democracies, was created in the wake of September 11,
2001 by a former Republican National Committee
communications director, Clifford May, in order to, as
it declares on its website, “promote pluralism, defend
democratic values, and fight the ideologies that drive
terrorism.”
The
notable point about the FDD, whose Senior Fellow, Walid
Phares is guiding President-elect Trump on the Middle
East and terrorism, is the money trail behind it. It was
founded and financed by a group of US billionaires
closely tied to Benjamin Netanyahu and his Israeli
geopolitical agenda. The donors include the notorious
Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas and Macau gambling casino
mogul who according to the Israeli press gave the Trump
campaign $25 million in the closing critical days. Other
FDD financial backers include Jewish American with a
long history of funding pro-Israel organizations:
Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot; whiskey heirs
Samuel and Edgar Bronfman; Wall Street billionaire
speculators Michael Steinhardt and Paul Singer, and
Leonard Abramson, founder of US
Healthcare.
No surprise
then that the main Washington think tank called on to
testify against the Obama agenda of coming to a nuclear
deal with Iran and lifting sanctions was the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies, who testified 17 times
against the Iran plan. FDD’s executive director, Mark
Dubowitz, even helped design the sanctions regime on
Iran and its oil sales that was put in place in 2010.
In
addition, most other positions of the FDD echo those of
the Netanyahu regime in Tel Aviv. Toby Dershowitz, who
spent 14 years as AIPAC’s communications head, is the
FDD vice president for government relations and
strategy. AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, was described by John Mearsheimer, University
of Chicago professor, as “an agent of the Israeli
government with a stranglehold on the United States
Congress with its power and influence.” Trump was a
featured speaker at the March 2016 AIPAC annual
meeting.
Mike Flynn and
Mike Ledeen
Now we return
to the anti-Muslim Brotherhood National Security
Advisor, Mike Flynn. Flynn, along with CIA
director-designate Mike Pompeo, agrees that the Obama
Iran nuclear deal should be scrapped and calls Iran a
state sponsor of terrorism, a position dear to
Netanyahu’s heart.
Flynn also
wrote a book together with Michael Ledeen. One doesn’t
co-author a book with just anyone. I know. It has to be
one whose thoughts are in full harmony with yours.
Michael Ledeen is today a Freedom Scholar at, now isn’t
this interesting: the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies. Worth noting, financial investor, Jim
Rickards, also is on the Board of Advisors of the Center
on Sanctions and Illicit Finance at the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and former
CIA Director James Woolsey, rumored being considered for
a top post with the Trump project, is one of four
members of the FDD Leadership Council.
This year,
2016, Ledeen co-authored a book with NSC
Director-designate Mike Flynn titled, Field of Fight:
How to Win the War Against Radical Islam and its Allies.
The ties between Ledeen and Trump NSC director are
clearly not casual.
Years ago
Ledeen–who was implicated in the illegal Iran-Contra arm
for cocaine dealings of G.H.W. Bush and his CIA Old Boys
network during the
Reagan years — wrote a doctoral dissertation which I
once saw, today almost impossible to find. It was titled
“Universal Fascism,” and dealt with the applicability of
Italian fascism of Mussolini to a global model, a
fascist one world order if you will.
Michael Ledeen,
who prefers to be in the background, is perhaps best
characterized as a Godfather of the neoconservatives. He
has shaped the policies of the likes of Paul Wolfowitz,
Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and others of the US war
faction.
In 2003 just as
the Bush-Cheney-Wolfowitz war on Iraq was underway,
Ledeen gave a speech titled, “Time to Focus on Iran —
The Mother of Modern Terrorism,” for the pro-Netanyahu
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
in which he declared, “the time for diplomacy is at an
end; it is time for a free Iran, free Syria and free
Lebanon.” To “free” Iran, Syria and Lebanon back in
2003, almost a decade before the US war against Assad,
Ledeen declared that Iraq, Iran and Syria should get
their “freedom” through a US-led “total War.”
According
to reports of those near the cabinet selection process
of president-elect Donald Trump, two people have
decisive influence on who is being selected—Trump’s
35-year-old politically inexperienced son-in-law, Jared
Kushner, and Mike Flynn. Trump has even asked those two
to sit in with him on those highly classified
Presidential
briefings.
Winston
Churchill once said, “In wartime, truth is so precious
that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of
lies.” It is already clear that the project of the Trump
Presidency, to prepare America for a new war, is already
being well attended by a bodyguard of lies.
F.
William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and
lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton
University and is a best-selling author on oil and
geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine
“New Eastern Outlook”
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