The Trump Administration: From “No War Hawks” to ALL War Hawks

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Regardless of what is said, or who is in office, US foreign policy continues on its course of single-minded pursuit of global American supremacy at any cost.


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Update on the conflict in Ukraine for Sunday November 10, 2024…

  • The Western media is citing the recent US presidential election as a turning point for the Ukraine conflict, with Kiev facing abandonment and defeat despite both having already long-since materialized;
  • Various proposals are being discussed regarding the freezing or ending of the conflict, proposals that were being developed independently of US elections;
  • Meanwhile, Western reports indicate Russian military power continuing to grow while Ukrainian arms, ammunition, and trained manpower continue to dwindle as Ukraine’s loss of territory accelerates;
  • While many see President-elect Donald Trump as seeking to undo harmful US foreign policy enacted by the previous administration, in his previous term he himself helped advance the US proxy war with Russia by both arming Ukraine and withdrawing from arms control treaties allowing the US to station more dangerous long-range weapons in Europe pointed at Russia;
  • The incoming Trump administration, like those before it, view Ukraine, Israel, and “Taiwan” as US allies and are simply reprioritizing the flow of US resources to the latter two as Ukraine’s irreversible defeat unfolds;
  • US political candidates incapable of openly and clearly identifying US foreign policy as aggressive, illegal, unacceptable, and at the center of the many global conflicts it has created including in Ukraine, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region, are simply selling American voters “hope” with no real intention of changing anything.

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America First Policy Initiative - Agenda:
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US State Department - US Relations with Taiwan (archived - 2019):
https://web.archive.org/web/201906081...
NYT - The Group at the Center of Trump’s Planning for a Second Term Is One You Haven’t Heard of (America First Policy Institute, Oct. 24, 2024):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us...
Ukraine is Already Losing… AP - Russia blasts Ukraine with more aerial attacks as part of an intensified campaign (Nov. 8, 2024):
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukr...
Defense One - Pace of war shortens EU-based training for Ukrainian troops (Nov. 6, 2024):
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/20...
NYT - Russia’s Swift March Forward in Ukraine’s East (Oct. 31, 2024):
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
Geopolitical Developments… Guardian - Trump’s return is terrible news for Ukraine. Europe should step into the breach – but will it? (Nov. 8, 2024):
https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
RAND Corporation - Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground (2019):
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_re...
CNN - Ukraine is forced to confront a brutal Trump reality that it hoped would never happen (Nov. 7, 2024):
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The Trump Administration: From “No War Hawks” to ALL War Hawks

Brian Berletic, November 13 2024

In the weeks leading up to the 2024 US presidential election, Americans and many around the world invested hope that former-president and now President-elect Donald Trump would grind America’s wars abroad to a halt and instead invest in the United States itself.


The Trump Administration: From “No War Hawks” to ALL War Hawks


These hopes were based on rhetoric surrounding the Trump campaign. The candidate’s son, Donald Trump Jr., remarked publicly, “we need maximum pressure to keep all neocons and war hawks out of the Trump administration,” a reflection of candidate Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail. 

All of President-elect Trump’s considerations and appointments are enthusiastic neocons.

Unfortunately, just as was the case during President-elect Donald Trump’s previous term in office, this was an empty promise meant to secure the support of war-weary Americans and possibly even to throw nations abroad off balance, before filling his cabinet with the most vocal “neocons and war hawks” living and breathing in Washington D.C.

Continuity of Agenda… 

During President-elect Trump’s previous administration, he lined his cabinet with hardcore neocons and war hawks like John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and Nikki Haley who all worked ceaselessly to continue all the wars President Trump inherited from the Obama administration and attempt to provoke additional wars US special interests have long-since sought including with China, Iran, and even Russia itself.

During the first Trump administration, the US initiated a trade war with China and other measures aimed at gutting China’s largest and most successful businesses including smartphone manufacturer Huawei, culminating in sales bans across the collective West, US-based Google cutting Huawei off from its Android operating system, and even the detainment of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou while traveling in Canada.

During the first Trump administration, the US also continued its military build-up across the Asia-Pacific as a means of encircling and containing China within its own borders, another policy inherited from the Obama administration.

In the Middle East, the Trump administration continued the illegal occupation of Syria which began under the Obama administration, continued carrying out strikes against the Syrian government and its allies, with President Trump bragging about pilfering Syrian oil. It was also during the first Trump administration that the US assassinated senior Iranian military leader General Qasem Soleimani while visiting Iraq on official business, an indisputable act of war against both Iran and Iraq. General Soleimani had until then been successfully fighting the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” across the region, including in Syria and Iraq.

And while President Trump was accused of being an agent of Russian interests, in reality his administration helped accelerate the US proxy war with Russia in Ukraine by beginning to armUkrainian forces, almost certainly the final red line crossed convincing Moscow to launch its Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022. It was also during the first Trump administration that the US withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, paving the way for the subsequent Biden administration to station intermediate-range missiles in Europe pointed at Russia.

As the first Trump administration egregiously violated campaign promises of ending US involvement abroad, many Trump supporters resorted to a number of excuses including President Trump’s “inexperience,” suggesting he may not have known who Pompeo, Bolton, or Haley actually were and that during a second administration his cabinet would act upon lessons learned.

Restocking the Swamp… 

Fast-forward to today, the incoming Trump administration had temporarily bolstered that hope – that these lessons were indeed learned – by announcing Bolton, Pompeo and Haley would play no role in the incoming administration.

This was short-lived, however, as it was subsequently announced that the next national security adviser would likely be Mike Waltz, the ideological twin of John Bolton. Elsie Stafanik was announced as US ambassador to the UN, the ideological twin of Nikki Haley. And both Marco Rubio and Richard Grenell are being considered as the possible incoming US Secretary of State, men whose views are indistinguishable from former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – or US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken under the Biden administration for that matter.

All of President-elect Trump’s considerations and appointments are enthusiastic neocons and war hawks who have spent their careers advocating war abroad, particularly against Russia, China, and Iran, but also Libya, Syria, Venezuela, and many other nations. Stafanik is listed as an “expert” at the US National Endowment for Democracy, a neocon directed organization involved in political interference worldwide, including in Ukraine in 2014, beginning what has now evolved into Washington’s failing proxy war with Russia.

While some may claim the incoming Trump administration’s neocon and war hawk picks represent a “bait and switch,” in reality the Trump administration’s inclusion of J.D. Vance as vice president pick was – up front –  an open declaration that war and warmongering would continue abroad, just not in Ukraine.

Newsweek in its article, “JD Vance Tells Tim Dillon US Needs Weapons To Fight China, Not Russia,” made it clear that “stability in the Indo-Pacific and supporting Taiwan should be a higher priority for the U.S. than military aid to Ukraine.”  

President-elect Trump’s close association with and appointment of neocons and war hawks involved in the very policies he ran on opposing represents a repeat of the first Trump administration’s seamless continuation of US foreign policy, regardless of appealing rhetoric suggesting otherwise.

Pausing Ukraine to Accelerate War Elsewhere… 

It may seem paradoxical, then, that the incoming Trump administration seems determined to end the conflict in Ukraine. Rather than any sort of political transition in the US, this represents more of a transition of priorities among America’s unelected special interests driving US foreign policy, regardless of who occupies the White House or controls the US Congress.

The US proxy war in Ukraine, a war the first Trump administration played an equal role in precipitating, by all accounts, has run its course. The goal of “extending Russia” at the expense of Ukraine has been achieved to the fullest extent possible. With US stockpiles exhausted and escalation requiring what is left of US military power being reserved for a larger and more dangerous war with either Iran and/or China, Washington’s choice is to either double-down on Ukraine or pivot toward Iran and/or China before the windows of opportunity for success amid these two potential conflicts closes for good.

The incoming Trump administration is lined with neocons and war hawks who have openly promoted the arming of the US-installed separatist regime on Taiwan in a bid to eventually carve Taiwan off from China permanently. This is despite the US State Department officially not supporting Taiwan independence and agreeing bilaterally with Beijing on a “one China” policy noting there is one China, Taiwan is part of China, and there is only one recognized government of China, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing.

As part of preparing for this conflict, the US has expanded its military presence in the Asia-Pacific spanning the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, and will undoubtedly continue during the second Trump administration made up of the most vocal proponents of this policy.

This process also involves creating conflict between the Philippines and China, currently the Philippines’ largest trade partner and until recently an important infrastructure partner, to create a pretext for an expanding US military footprint upon the former US colony and Southeast Asian nation. This allows the US to further surround China and a possible conflict zone around its island province of Taiwan with nearby US forces.

While the political “right” in the United States depicted the Biden administration as “soft” on China, it was under the Biden administration that an intensive reorganization of US military forces took place specifically to prepare for war with China.

This included the reorganization of the US Marine Corps into a highly mobile anti-shipping missile force, and the US Air Force’s adoption of its Agile Combat Employment (ACE) strategy dispersing US air bases across the Asia-Pacific to make it more difficult for China to retaliate against US installations should war begin.

These transformed US military forces will now be fully in place as an openly hostile anti-China administration takes power, just as the Trump administration helped set the stage for the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine commencing during the subsequent Biden administration.

What is abundantly clear is that US foreign policy is not determined by US elections. Elections merely determine the rhetoric used to sell what is otherwise a continuous agenda to the public, the faces presenting that rhetoric, and the excuses for why US foreign policy continuously fails to change despite elections.

For the rest of the globe facing four more years of US hostility worldwide, it must continue working on a multipolar international order that creates the conditions within which US aggression abroad is simply impossible. This can and is being achieved by using financial, economic, diplomatic, and military means to constrain US coercion – be it sanctions or military force, proxy or direct intervention – through financial and economic alternatives beyond the reach of US sanctions and powerful military deterrence. This leaves US special interests with only one option – to work constructively with a world it can no longer impose itself upon.

 

Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook

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The Dog That Barked in the Night

Revelation of a smoking gun for LIHOP 7 October

Sociopathic war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu doing his theatrics before an appreciative audience, the utterly deferential US Congress.


Before I mirror what Moon of Alabama’s Bernhard published today, here’s my short comment related to it:

How to amplify this important news? It sems clear the minutes could provide the smoking gun evidence needed to prove guilt, the crime being the facilitation of an attack on Zionists and the subsequent crime of killing innocent Palestinians and all international aid workers of all sorts.

IMO, mirroring b's report is the best those of us with our own media outlets can do at this point, and that's what I will do.

Many at MoA have advocated very strongly that Zionists knew beforehand what was to take place on 7 October and those efforts appear to be vindicated. The dog that barked is a riff on the Sherlock Holmes story about the dog that didn’t bark that was the key indicator in that mystery. Comment as usual can be made here but IMO it would be more pertinent to make it at MoA where it’s free and simple to do. The link’s in the opening sentence. Now here’s what was published:

Oct 7 2023 - Netanyahoo Knew The Attack Was Coming - He Let It Happen On Purpose

The prime minister of the Zionist entity, Benjamin Netanyahoo, is under fire. New criminal allegations have been raised against him.

People in Netanyaho's office had 'leaked' secret reports obtained by the Israeli military intelligence from some low level Hamas leader. Before leaking the documents, which included proposals for future actions, the leakers manipulated them.

The manipulated documents appeared as 'news' on foreign websites which allowed the censored Israeli media to repeat their content. As leaked the documents claimed that Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, accompanied by Israelis taken hostage, intended to escape to Egypt from where he would travel to Iran.

It was pretty obvious that the claims were fake. But Netanyahoo did use them to prevent further negotiations about hostage releases.

Several people involved in the leak of the manipulated top-secret papers have since been arrested.

Another scandal is currently brewing about events which immediately happened before the October 7 incursion of Hamas into Israel.

On October 6 a significant number of Hamas fighters in Gaza activated Israeli SIM cards which would allow them to use their cell phones within Israel. Various survival systems noted this and raised alarm. Meetings were held by several security councils, including the one involving the prime minister, but no further alarm was raised (machine translation):

More than a year after the October inauguration, the political leadership has repeatedly claimed that it did not receive any warning before the attack - but a document revealed this evening (Sunday) indicates otherwise. According to the document, on the night of the attack, at 02:58 a.m., the Shin Bet issued a significant warning to a number of security and political bodies, including the NSC directly subordinate to the prime Minister.
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The alert, which was distributed through a computerized system, included information about unusual activity in the SIM network of several Hamas brigades. The Shin Bet said the activity was unusual and could indicate the possibility of some kind of offensive activity by Hamas.
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Despite the severity of the warning, it appears that no significant action has been taken in its wake. The NSC, for example, did not take any steps following the receipt of the information. The Israeli police did not change their activities either, as can be seen from the fact that the Nuba party in southern Israel took place as planned.

This suggests, like several other ignored warnings imply, that Netanyahoo and others involved in the decisions knew of the incoming attack but had decided to let it happen to then use the aftermath for their own political purposes.

As the details were starting to come out Netanyahoo came under fire. He had claimed that the security services had been negligent in not issuing warnings. But in reality he seems to have been the one who was informed about the incoming attack but had rejected to raise the alarm.

All the national security council discussions about the decisions in the night of October 6 to 7 are noted in its protocols. As the walls were coming in on the prime minister his immediate aides sought to alter the protocols of the relevant meetings.

But the protocols were under control of a certain high ranking military officer. To get retroactive changes applied, which would exculpate the prime minister, Netanyahoo's aides tried to blackmail the officer over an alleged relation with a subaltern woman:

Top aides to Benjamin Netanyahu are suspected of trying to blackmail an IDF officer in the military secretariat of the Prime Minister’s Office in order to modify minutes of top-level security discussions in the hours before the Hamas attack that sparked the war in Gaza, Hebrew media reported Friday.
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Hebrew media indicated the probe was related to a July report on Ynet that Netanyahu’s former military secretary, Maj. Gen. Avi Gil, had some months before warned the attorney general of efforts to change protocols of security discussions.


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According to Channel 12, as part of the alleged attempt to change protocols, Netanyahu’s aides are thought to have used “sensitive footage” of a military secretariat officer in order to coax him into changing protocols discussions from the night of October 6-7, 2023 — hours before thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

Netanyahu has blamed Israel’s security forces for failure to foresee the attack, and resisted calls for a public commission of inquiry to be established into events leading up to it.

Channel 13 said Netanyahu’s aides allegedly stole compromising information about a military secretariat officer from the phone of a woman who works in the PMO. Netanyahu’s aides allegedly took her phone under the pretext that she was suspected of leaking confidential information, but are thought to have sought her personal correspondence with the officer, the report said.

The Kan public broadcaster had on Thursday reported that Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the IDF chief of staff, had some months ago received a complaint that the PMO was holding, and making inappropriate use of, sensitive footage of an IDF officer. Channel 13 reported that an official in Netanyahu’s circle told Halevi the officer was in an inappropriate relationship with a female worker in the PMO, though an army probe determined the relationship was not an abuse of power.

It is a wild story, and a juicy tale, and several Israeli media have been digging into it. But I have yet to find any media outside of Israel, except Seymour Hersh, which have touched on the latest issue.

There were suspicions from the very beginning that Israeli authorities had knowledge about the Hamas attack on October 7 2023 before it happened but had failed to raise the alarm. Claims were made, unfortunately without any evidence, that this was done not out of negligence, but on purpose.

They let the attack happen on purpose (LIHOP).

All that followed since was, from the very beginning, part of their long-term plans.

The commentator librul ever since 7 October has advocated it was a LIHOP and has provided evidence to support his arguments. Prior to today, I wasn’t 100% convinced that it was a LIHOP. But based on the evidence I’ve read over the past thirteen months, I’m as convinced it was a LIHOP as was Pearl Harbor and 911, and who knows how many others that are precedents.


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Number One Lesson For Lefty Progressives To Learn From 2024

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CARTOON: Number One Lesson For Lefty Progressives To Learn From 2024

Rec·i·proc·i·ty — is the quality or state of being reciprocal : mutual dependence, action, or influence.

By Mark Taylor
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One of the central features of a functional political process is — just as in real life — reciprocity. Reciprocity is the action/reaction of daily life. Someone holds the door for you and you say, “Thank you.”

And they say, “You’re welcome. Have a nice day.”

Reciprocity. Simple!

I’m not sure when reciprocity was mortally wounded in our society, but I know now I’m always a bit shocked when someone returns a phone call or email or people in my neighbourhood help each other. All too rare events in today’s America.

Despite politics being an act of reciprocity between voter and candidate/party in which you support a party and vote for a candidate because you feel confident they have similar values and will work on legislation that can make life better for you, your family and community. In return for that affirmation, donation and vote, the politician and party will — theoretically — advocate for your interests.

A measure of reciprocity is essential to any functional political process.

In politics, reciprocity has been scorched away. Watch the Breaking Points interview (fourth clip below) with Jim Zogby as he describes what things are like now inside the Democratic Party. The only role members of the party are expected to play is to be good little boys and girls, send in money and show up to vote for the candidates those in power have so considerately put in place.

Your role, your voice mean nothing.

As an example, since the beginning of the US/Israel genocide I have called Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) probably 200 times, usually only getting a voicemail. I wrote probably 20 times. Each and every time I provided my name, phone number and request that a staffer call back. I pointed out I voted twice for Baldwin and donated to past campaigns. In response, I have received zero call backs and perhaps three pro forma email responses, the last one completely misrepresenting what I had said in my letter.

Now, I did receive — of course — several fundraising letters. I reciprocated in a proper way for such a request from such a person. I stuffed the pre-paid return envelope with scrap paper, cardboard and cat food labels to beef up the postage cost for her campaign and wrote a personalized message on the back side then dropped it in the mailbox.


I voted for a third party candidate. Baldwin barely squeaked back into office, running against a California multi-millionaire banker. My third party candidate got 1.3 percent of the vote, more than Baldwin’s less than a full point .9% margin of victory.

Political reciprocity

Former Trump Secretary of Defense and CIA Director, Mike Pompeo looked like he was headed back into the circle of the White House with a Trump second term. Pompeo is one of the dankest, spiny creatures from the oiliest corner of the neocon dungeon. Among other things, he’s the one who ordered an assassination plot on heroic whistle blower Julian Assange.

Trump was floating the possibility of bringing Pompeo in as Secretary of State or Secretary of War, or some other post. But the MAGAverse was having nothing to do with such a slimy development.

On November 8 a Twitter/X user identified as Cat turd posted…

Trend it…
#NoPompeo

The post took off, gathering 1.1 million views in a matter of hours. Donald Trump Jr. jumped in midday Tweeting/Xing: “I’m on it”

Five hours later Trump messaged that not only Pompeo, but Nikki Haley too, would not be part of his new administration.

Talk about reciprocity!

Contrast that with how Democrats are responding in the third video below. All the Democratic Congressional positions are remaining the same. Nobody will pay a price for the massive political malpractice of the Harris/DNC campaign. There will be no reciprocity

Johnny Graz Tweeted/X’d out regarding the Pompeo development: “Hey shitlibs — this is how you push a candidate left.”

That’s how politics works when a party or candidate believes you may walk away. And always remember, you don’t owe anyone or any party your vote.

You’re free.

For now.


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Due Dissidence (11/12/24)

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Jon Stewart DESTROYS 'Woke' Dem Autopsy Takes

“There's some evidence their ad and ground game actually were kind of effective. It's because they have zero narrative they have failed to create the right divisive politics and if you don't relentlessly explain your story of the world your, goals principles heroes and villains your opponents they will happily fill in the blanks ergo she's for ‘they/them’, he's for you. So what would a better strategy look like? Well it looks like Bernie's 2016 class first populism, but on steroids. Democrats need to abandon a bland and offensive unity between the Cheneys and AOC and embrace a division that aggressively excises everyone who puts the billionaire's interest over the working class.

“There should be purity tests on everything that is core to that war against the plutocrats and a large public purge of those who are on the wrong side of that divide.

“If you don't agree that billionaires should be abolished, then get the f*ck out. If you don't want to tax the rich, get the f*ck out. If you don't want to radically increase Union power, get the f*ck out. If you don't want to implement a universal jobs guarantee, get out. If you don't want healthcare, get out. If you do support these things but you also have more moderate position on abortion, guns, trans athletes, okay, there can be a space for you here, but these cultural issues can never be central — they are distractions. Because to claim them as central is to void the correct divisive frame and undercut the narrative the war is not between immigrants and Americans. The war is between the plutocrats and the people. Immigrant and trans panics those are ploys to keep regular people divided against each other instead of against the corrupt political media and economic elite who have rigged the system and hogged all the spoils.”
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Krystal and Saagar discuss Jon Stewart slamming Dems for their delusional 'woke' autopsy for 2024.

13-minute video

 

FAILURE? Nobody In Democratic Party Congressional Caucus Has Learned A Thing From Harris/Walz Stunning Blow-Out

“How are you not questioning the direction of these leaders that have been in place? How are you not questioning everything about your party's approach right now and so to me …they are not interested in really righting the ship.”

Breaking Points (11/12/24)

Krystal and Saagar discuss top Dems facing zero consequences after losing to Trump.

6-minute video


Breaking Points (11/12/24)

Krystal and Saagar are joined by Jim Zogby to discuss the failures of Democrats in the 2024 election.

14-minute video


"Love Me, I'm a Liberal" (for the Dems 2024 Campaign)

“But I’ve gotten older and wiser, and that’s why I’m turning you in.”

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Trump Draining the Swamp Into His Cabinet

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Trump Has Ripped Us Off Like The Democrats Did

Here were the promises that Trump made to us (progressives):

In his campaign’s 21 March 2023 “Agenda47: President Trump’s Plan to Dismantle the Deep State and Return Power to the American People”, Trump said (and you can see and hear him say it by clicking onto that):

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Here’s my plan to dismantle the deep state and reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption once and for all, and corruption it is.

First, I will immediately re-issue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the President’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. And I will wield that power very aggressively.

Second, we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them. The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left’s political enemies, which they’re doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible.

Third, we will totally reform FISA courts which are so corrupt that the judges seemingly do not care when they are lied to in warrant applications. So many judges have seen so many applications that they know were wrong, or at least they must have known. They do nothing about it, they’re lied to.

Fourth, to expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart, we will establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and corruption, and there are plenty of them.

Fifth, we will launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news to deliberately weave false narratives and to subvert our government and our democracy. When possible, we will press criminal charges.

Sixth, we will make every Inspector General’s Office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee so they do not become the protectors of the Deep State.

Seventh, I will ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people, or that they are not spying on someone’s campaign like they spied on my campaign.

Eighth, we will continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington Swamp. Just as I moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado, as many as 100,000 government positions can be moved out. And I mean immediately out of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America, and they really do love America.

Ninth, I will work to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and that they regulate. So they deal with these companies and they regulate these companies and then they want to take jobs from these companies. Doesn’t work that way—such a public display cannot go on and it’s taking place all the time, like with Big Pharma.

Finally [tenth], I will push a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress.

This is how I will shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people and for the people.


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Then, in his 19 July 2023 entitled 36-second Trump Social video, he said (which likewise sounds more like progressive democratic political left, than anything right wing):

“This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the Deep State, we will expell the war-mongers from our government, we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the communists Marxists and fascists, we will throw off the sick political class that hates our country, we will rout the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains, once and for all.”

simultaneously endorsed (and was praised by) Trump, is NOT a part of his transition team; combined with the fact that at those joint events RFK Jr. was arguing AGAINST Trump’s now-apparent intention to CUT the regulatory agencies INSTEAD OF (as Kennedy has always urged) terminatethe revolving-door between them and the corporations that they ‘regulate’, does, at the very least, suggest that Kennedy has been conned by Trump and should therefore promptly inform Trump that he is considering to withdraw his endorsement, for that very reason. If Kennedy will warn Trump that he’s considering to do this, because Kennedy is being excludedfrom that operation, then the decision will be Trump’s as to whether he’ll correct that error, or instead go down to defeat. Listen to that speech by Kennedy, and … you will know that it’s like oil and water between the two of them, on the entire issue of corruption and regulation.”

FURTHERMORE: Trump’s foreign-affairs and national-security picks to-date have all been neoconservatives who are rabidly against China and Iran and who oppose continuing America’s ownership of Ukraine ever since February 2014 not because they are anti-imperialists (and therefore anti-neoconservative) as a progressive is, but instead because they want to redirect that immense weapons-spending to target against (and engage in a “New Cold War” against and then provoke a hot war with) both China and Iran. On November 11th, Trump selected one of those rabid neoconservatives, Mike Waltz, to be his National Security Advisor. Here is what the website “Florida Politics” said about this extreme neocon:


https://floridapolitics.com/archives/419663-michael-waltz-we-are-in-a-cold-war-with-the-chinese-communist-party/

https://web.archive.org/web/20231211195946/https://floridapolitics.com/archives/419663-michael-waltz-we-are-in-a-cold-war-with-the-chinese-communist-party/

“Michael Waltz: We are in a cold war with the Chinese Communist Party”

14 April 2021

‘They are certainly in one with us,’ Waltz said.

Republican U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz said Tuesday that the United States is in a cold war with the Chinese Communist Party waged globally and tactically in small theaters like the Panama Canal and the mountains of western Argentina.

Waltz has grown increasingly vocal with hawkish views of the American relationship with China, joining two other Florida Republicans, Sen. Rick Scott and MarcoRubio, in a drumbeat of criticism and alarm over China’s agenda and means to counter American global power. Scott earlier had declared he believes the United States and China arein a cold war, akin to the 45-year dangerous rivalry between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Rubio has been almost as hawkish but hasn’t quite used the words “cold war” yet to describe the relationship.

Waltz has now.

“We are, I believe, in a cold war with the Chinese Community Party. They are certainly in one with us,” Waltz said as the guest speaker at a U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Zoom conference on foreign affairs, for military veterans.

“As a country, we need to get on that footing,” Waltz said. “It’s not just a whole-of-a-government response. It’s a whole-of-society response. When we look at things that are happening in the technology, space, in our universities, in our capital markets, where the Chinese are rapidly pulling ahead, and talking about, openly, replacing the American Dream and American leadership around the world with the Chinese Dream and Chinese leadership.”

Waltz is a Green Beret combat veteran, a former senior policy adviser in the Pentagon, and currently a colonel in the Army National Guard.

In his comments to the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, he also expressed his commitment to diplomacy and to American spending to support diplomatic efforts and development around the world, provided they are backed by American military strength.

Waltz expressed strong concerns about the United Nations’ efforts, and President Joe Biden‘s support for them, to create a new balance of power in Afghanistan involving the Taliban.

He also expressed his observation that in countries that encourage the education of girls and empowerment of women, women thrive in the society and economy, while “extremism does not.” He noted he is Co-Chair of the House’s Women, Peace and Security Caucus “with one of the more liberal members of Congress,” Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel of West Palm Beach.

But it was China that got Waltz rolling Tuesday. He called for a broader and deeper response to the Chinese government that he said is not only pushing toward world dominance but is in many ways being bankrolled by American capitalism happy to seek profits there. That has to stop, he said.

Waltz said China, in part using money raised from America, has bought up ports in Panama and is in position to control access to both sides of the canal, or at least to control access to the commercial infrastructure. “While I was down there, one of our frigates, wanted to — at least as I was told — wanted to stop in for repairs, and was denied,” Waltz said.

He said China was able to leverage debts from the Argentinian government to gain control of a mountain range. Now China has placed a satellite tracking station in those mountains that is in line with the polar-orbital routes used by the American military for launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

“They’re doing this around the world, with ports, with grids, with key terrain as they expand their presence in space, on both sides of the Suez Canal as well, buying into both of those free trade zones, so they are using economic tools to seize critical terrain that has key military applications,” Waltz said.


The plan regarding China is to send enough weapons to Taiwan so that it can declare itself NOT to be a part of China, in order to provoke China to invade so that America can then go directly to war against China —though America’s official policy ever since 1972 is and has been that “The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China.”

Rick Scott, who is the wealthiest of all U.S. Senators and extremely corrupt, is being heavily lobbied to become the replacement for Mitch McConnell as the leader of the U.S. Senate — and Trump hasn’t done anything to dissuade Republican Senators from voting for Scott. Marco Rubio is widely reported to be Trump’s likely pick to become U.S. Secretary of State to replace the neocon Antony Blinken. So: they’re all neocons — just as during Trump’s first Administration. Only the names have changed — to protect the guilt (Trump’s).

This is Trump’s way to “Make America Great Again”? No, it is his way to make America’s billionaires even fatter-with-wealth than they already are.

It seems to me that Trump’s progessive promises were just as insincere as were the Democratic Party’s ever since at least 1992. Neither Party really cares about anyone but its megadonors. American democracy now is as phony as a $3 bill. Short of a 2nd American Revolution, the totalitarian, purely aristocratic-ruled, U.S. regime, will only become tighter, until it chokes the entire world.


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