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As usual, the media takes on the new American president one bite at a time, without seeing the big picture. Oh my, he appointed all those generals! Gee whiz, he put all those millionaires in charge of the departments! My God, his kids are sitting in on high-level meetings! No, wait, his kids are organizing donations to ‘charities’ in return for access, just like the Clintons!
Actually, these events spell continuity: the people will be fed, while the elite runs the world, with no pretense of ‘democracy’. Trump believes businessmen and women can run the world better than politicians with degrees in law and government. More worryingly, he also supports white nationalism, as seen by his nomination of Steve Bannon as Chief White House Strategist, among others.
The reason for this goes beyond a universal desire to live among one’s own kind: at 16% of the world’s population, Caucasians are an ever-diminishing minority. At the same time, the modernity that white people created has left most of the world’s other peoples without work. On the very day that the perpetrator of a truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin was killed, RT aired a documentary centered on the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid where in 2010, a street vendor set himself on fire because the police were harassing him, igniting the Arab Spring. Since then, rather than idling away their lives, many young people have undertaken the perilous journey to Europe, seen as an El Dorado. Once there, however, they discover that they are not welcome, and that its attractions are beyond their reach. The twenty-four year-old Berlin terrorist had been one of those.
Neither the US Alt right nor Europe’s New Right have shown how eliminating multiculturalism (the attempt by white nations to integrate refugees from non-white nations) will solve the problem of their global minority status. Their capitalist culture does not include the preference for peace over war that is a fundamental (true) socialist meme. Very differently, the Russian President’s plan, reflecting the socialist tradition he grew up in, is for each nation be alone in its home, while entertaining peaceful, cooperative relations with all others.
Donald Trump believes that good relations with Russia are a better way to secure access to its mineral wealth than war, as shown in the appointment for Secretary of State Exxon Mobil’s CEO, who has pioneered that access. However, he does not yet realize that Vladimir Putin’s plan to protect Caucasians includes building long term relationships with the other major world races, starting with China. Trump is ready to take on the Middle Kingdom (as well as Iran, based on race and religion rather than on the nuclear deal) as if their ties to Russia were irrelevant.
Vladimir Putin will invite him to accept a multi-polar world in which American hegemony is replaced by regional power centers currently defined around the left-leaning but still quite precarious BRICS: Russia, China, India, South Africa and Brazil, and a Muslim nation, probably left-leaning Iran—in objective terms—rather than ultraright-leaning, utterly corrupt Saudi Arabia, because the former wants to resolve the Sunni-Shia divide while the latter exacerbates it.
In the lead-up to the inauguration, Donald Trump is not the only one who has a lot to learn about the world: most Americans voters do too, starting with the real nature of the Sunni-Shia divide, to be spelled out in another article.
Born in Phila, I spent most of my adolescent and adult years in Europe, resulting over time in several unique books, my latest being
CUBA: Diary of a Revolution, Inside the Cuban Revolution with Fidel, Raul, Che, and Celia Sanchez
America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World
A Taoist Politics: The Case For Sacredness
I began my journalistic career at the French News Agency in Rome, spent two years in Cuba finding out whether the Barbados were Communists before they made the revolution (‘Cuba 1964: When the Revolution was Young’). After spending half a decade in Eastern Europe, and a decade in the U.S., studying Global Survival and writing speeches in the Carter State Department, I wrote the only book that foresaw the fall of the Berlin Wall AND the dissolution of the Soviet Union (“Une autre Europe, un autre Monde’). My memoir, ‘Lunch with Fellini, Dinner with Fidel’, tells it all. ‘A Taoist Politics: The Case for Sacredness’, which examines the similarities between ancient wisdom and modern science and what this implies for political activism; and ‘America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World” is a pamphlet about how the U.S. came down from the City on a Hill’.
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