Trump Versus The World

 The Era of Trump has been a very uncomfortable time for the Euroelites who want nothing more than to be handmaidens to their U.S. masters and have their nations serve as appendages to U.S. imperialism. I remember a photo of then German chancellor Angela Merkel looking up apprehensively at her master, then president Obama, after it became public that the NSA was capturing her cellphone conversations- the better for Obama to manipulate and control her. She was nothing but a loyal poodle suffering anxiety over her relationship to her master. Of course the supine rulers of Europe took the NSA spying (which was no revelation to me, this is what the NSA does, spies on everyone and everything, including the entire U.S. population, which the U.S. power establishment pretends isn't happening) lying down. 

I thought that Trump would force the Europeans to at long last become independent of the U.S. It's been 81 years since World War II ended in 1945, and it's about time Europe became independent. The Euroelites are still very reluctant to accept independence from the U.S., but Trump has been forcing independence on them. Not because he wants to help them with tough love, just that he hates Europe, he's a xenophobe, and he projects the fact that he's a ripoff artist onto others. He FEELS that Europe has been "ripping us off" because the U.S. has a gigantic military industrial complex, which it uses as a weapon of global domination. Trump thinks Europe is parasitically taking advantage of U.S. military power. But that is the system the U.S. designed. The U.S. wanted to dominate Europe after World War II and block the Soviet Union from expanding its influence. The U.S. wanted Europe to be dependent on the U.S. militarily. That is why it is particularly perverse for Trump to claim the Europeans have been "ripping us off for years" as he puts it, which is to say, since 1945, but because his grasp of history is very minimal, he doesn't have the exact year in his brain. That's why he only ever says "for years." 

Trump actually threatened to steal land from a NATO and EU member. He threatened to seize Greenland from Denmark, by military force if necessary. Incredible. All the rules and norms and understandings of decades are completely trashed by Trump. He has been very destabilizing to the U.S.' relationships with its allies (subaltern imperialists). Given that by the time he's done, assuming he will finish his second term and not become fully a dictator and manage to stay as president past January 20, 2029 (as he attempted to do by various criminal means, including by staging an invasion of Congress by a violent mob on January 6, 2021 to try and prevent the formal acceptance of the Electoral College vote for Biden-Harris), he will have spent eight years destroying much of the basis of U.S. domination by weakening key alliances. He even treated Canada with great hostility, attacking it with tariffs and threatening to annex it as a 51st U.S. state.

After Trump, probably the U.S. and Europe will try and put Humpty-Dumpty back together again. But things won't be exactly the same. I think that is a good thing, but Trump deserves no credit, because he has ill intent, not any benign motive.

For anti-imperialists like myself, it is not bad news that Trump has weakened U.S. imperialism by undermining its alliances and driving wedges between the U.S. and long time lackey nations. But the U.S. is still the most powerful nation, still exerts malign influence, still causing great human suffering- currently by supporting Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people and its crimes in Lebanon, including depopulating part of the country, rendering a fifth of the population homeless, and systematically exterminating emergency rescue and medical personnel and bombing hospitals and the headquarters of the emergency response organization. This is referred to by U.S. and other Western propaganda companies, with tremendous dishonesty and cynicism, as "fighting Hezbollah" without letting people unwisely relying on these propagandists for understanding reality to know what is actually happening in Lebanon and the world.

Trump has been a godsend for China. It continues to grow its power, while Trump undermines the U.S. and strips the western Pacific of weaponry needed to counter China in order to wage Israel's war on Iran, one of the stupidest moves in the annals of U.S. imperialism.

Africa and poor Asian nations are suffering not only from Trump's mindlessly vindictive tariffs ("everybody has been ripping us off!"), but from the virtual elimination of aid programs for the poor people of those nations. In this and other ways Trump has practically destroyed U.S. "soft power."
Trump has done his best to back fascists in Latin America- and that is hardly unique to him. All U.S. presidents do that. He's done it too blatantly, since he's crude, dumb, and oddly incompetent, belying his success in amassing wealth and power. Obviously something is very wrong with U.S. society. Kidnapping the president of Venezuela (Nicolas Maduro) and his wife, and indicting a former president of Cuba (Raoul Castro) may be firsts. I'd have to research that.

Trump is also making the people of Cuba as miserable as possible, to the delight of his gusano Secretary of State, the loathsome Marco Rubio. The U.S. is waging actual war on Cuba by maintaining a naval blockade of the island to cut off all oil shipments. This means for the people of Cuba going back in time before electricity existed. Babies reliant on hospital incubators have already died, to cite what is the most heartless, vicious, and cruel result. At the same time, Cuba is called a "terrorist state." This is how diseased the minds of American imperialists are.

Well, every empire is evil, because empires are criminal enterprises. They are not "glorious." They are anti-human. They use force and violence, and the threat of force and violence, and other means of coercion, to dominate, extort, subjugate, and exploit the resources, land, and labor of their victims. It is no different from the Mafia demanding "protection money" from businesses- to be "protected" from the Mob's own violence! Imperialism is gangsterism on a much larger scale, and thickly layered with pretentious guff about civilization and advancement. Not too long ago the subjugated (and frequently massacred and sometimes exterminated) victims were referred to by the "civilized" imperialists as "barbarians" and "savages," and also pagans and heathens who needed to be forcibly converted (i.e. brainwashed) to abandon their own religions and adopt the religious fantasies of their conquerors. This brainwashing continues to this day, via "missionaries."

"Hey Jason!," you might say, "What about the Middle East?" Ah, very important. To limit the length of this essay, I will have to devote a separate piece to that. For now, I'll say: Not Good.

I leave you with what to my mind is the best quote by Mohandas Gandhi (his name; "Mahatma" is a title). He was asked what he thought of British civilization, Britain being the subjugater of India. "I think it would be a good idea," he replied. BAM!

By the way, the U.S. establishment's favorite Brit, Winston Churchill? He was notoriously racist against Indians, who provided large numbers of troops to fight on the Allied side in WW II, and he caused a murderous famine in India. What a hero for the ages! Granting he was an effective leader and great orator. Another great orator was Adolf Hitler. And he was very successful too, until 1943 anyway. Then things started going downhill, in a big way. C'est la vie, all you murderous dictators!