Trump professes to want peace in Ukraine but is already starting a new war in the Middle East against the Houthis, intending to drag Iran into the turmoil. I think many people have been fooled by Trump's conman tactics trying to show that he is different from Biden and pulling back USA military adventurism, just in Ukraine.
As I always say, any USA President, whether from Democrats or Republicans camps are just the right and left arm of the Deep State and can never have a mindset of trying to be a peaceful country.
In the recent past, fighting communism was the narrative which was what the Korean and Vietnam Wars were all about. With the rise of China, under a communist regime, the arguments about the failure of communism held no water.
When Russia and China discarded their communism expansion doctrine, the USA started a new narrative of fighting terrorism which resulted in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Communism was then thrust into the back burner, never to be a justifiable reason for wars.
Now the Wars in Ukraine is about revisiting the threat from Russia, accusing the Russians of trying to claim back territories it lost when the Soviet Union broke up. The reality is the exact opposite, with NATO discreetly trying to expand towards the Russian border. What happened in Ukraine goes much further back than just February 2022, when Russia liberated the Donbass region, when Russian speaking citizens went under intense persecution by the Kyiv Regime of Zelenskyy.
The USA is stoking the fire in the South China Sea now, intending to ignite another conflict with China.
Any man of peace does not go around starting wars all over the world. Trump is no different from any former USA Presidents, just using the same old USA playbook and intent on having never ending wars to sustain the USA hegemonic agenda.
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The USA warmongering stance can never be changed, not under Republicans or Democrats. It is cast in stone in the USA's playbook. It is all really about the survival of the USA hegemony.
ReplyDeleteThe USA hegemony was supposed to last forever, after all the planning and gloating about doctrines espoused by USA leaders after the USA assumed its sole superpower status. Any sign of countries rising to counter that hegemony had been taken down, like Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. Now it is all about China's rise to go against the USA.
Trump talks like an angel wanting peace in Ukraine but is bombing the Houthis in Yemen and threatening Iran at the same time. Trump's other acts of seizure of Panama, Mexico, Greenland and Canada are just an extension of his war mongering tactics, albeit oil wine in new bottles.
Now even long time USA allies are seeing the reality of the agenda of Trump and the USA warmongers. The USA thinks nothing of inventing spurious and ridiculous lies just to have a justification to take over sovereign states like Greenland. J. D. Vance's arrogance in ridiculing Greenland and Denmark is an example of a childish mindset unbecoming of a top political leader.
As always, the China threat is being played over and over again everywhere - in Panama, Greenland and South China Sea. Some doggies are even buying into the USA lies and claiming China is a threat. Take the UK for example, eight thousand kilometers or five thousand miles away and talking about the China threat. Russia is even closer to the UK than China, yet the spin is all about the China threat. Putin even threatened to sink the UK into oblivion if it goes too far, which is why the UK dared not raise the ruckus in spite of the threat from Putin.
For Japan or South Korea to raise concerns that China is a threat is acceptable, but has China ever harbor any intentions to invade Japan or South Korea today? On the contrary it was Japan in the past that invaded China and committed all the atrocities imaginable. Those old debts have yet to be settled, and China is patient. If China could tolerate a century of humiliation, time is on China's side and Japan knows it.
The USA is not just going against China's rise, it is also afraid of Russia's rise. After the success of taking down Germany, Japan and then the Soviet Union, the USA thinks everything is going to work the way they envisioned, with Russia and China going the same route.
ReplyDeleteThe USA vis a vis NATO wanted to collapse Russia first, using the position of Ukraine and all the means at its disposal - economic stifling and sanctions. That move drove Russia towards China, and not only did the Russian economy not collapse, but it was to benefit both China and Russia. Now the die had been cast, and Russia is diving full-fledged into its mission of using BRICS to de-dollarize. If Russia can still survive despite all the odds, that leaves many to think why not others by de-dollarizing.
In the face of easing of sanctions to tempt Putin to de-escalate the war in Ukraine, it takes much more than that loose talk to convince Putin. Putin knows that the lifting of some sanctions will not do anything much, as had happened in the past, where other sanctions will be imposed. Therefore, any talk of ending the Ukraine War is just hot air.
Moreover, it has become necessary to take down Russia in order to break up its alliance with China, which was a move that was to become another catastrophic misstep, rather than trying to kill two birds with one stone - that of collapsing Russia and end its alliance with China, making it easier to confront China directly.
After all that Trump is doing against friends and foe with his tariffs, even allies are finding it difficult to comply with the USA's dictates.