They keep looking for a "strategy" and parsing his words to divine "what he means." He's just jerking your chains, you dupes.
It's
natural to try to read the intentions of the president of the U.S., a
position with far too much power for the good of humanity. But Trump is
mercurial and capricious, so trying to predict his future actions is a
fool's errand. What needs to be done is to put barriers in the way of
his taking destructive actions, such as launching a military attack on
North Korea.
Trump dropped one of his mini-bombshells
regarding North Korea on October 5th, saying this is "the calm before
the storm." What could he have possibly meant by that cryptic, ominous
statement?
He had just publicly rebuked his own Secretary of
State, Rex Tillerson, for "wasting time" trying to arrange negotiations
with North Korea over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile
programs, thus torpedoing that option for a resolution of the issue that
avoids war. (Unless the U.S. simply accepts North Korea's new
capabilities, which is almost unthinkable, given the aggressive nature
of U.S. imperialism.) Asked what he meant by "the calm before the
storm," Trump replied in typical high-handed fashion, "You'll see."
The
next day, Trump's reliably sycophantic press secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, (spawn of one of the most loathsome U.S. politicians, Mike
Huckabee), when asked by reporters desperate to learn the meaning of
Trump's taunting tease, replied dismissively, "We're never going to say
in advance what the President is going to do. You'll just have to wait
and see," she lectured the roomful of reporters like a teacher talking
down to a class of children.
Oh, great. So the "policy" of the Trump regime is to keep everyone guessing, always. That fits a Trump lifelong existential modus operandi,
keeping other people psychologically off-balance. That in turn is part
and parcel of his hyper-aggressive, solipsistic personality.
It's
not an accident that Trump's allies have been gangsters (including
Russian ones) and political gangsters like Roy Cohn, one of the most
malign creatures who ever existed in the interstices of the U.S. power
structure. From his work as a key henchman of Senator Joseph McCarthy,
to his role in the murderous inquisition against the Rosenbergs,
scapegoated for "causing" the Korean War (according to the judge who
sentenced them to death, Irving Kaufman, whom the New York Times spent years running
puff pieces on, slathering on thick layers of treacly propaganda to
create a false reputation in a smarmy attempt to rescue the judge from
deserved opprobrium) to his operations as a political fixer and
obstructer of justice in New York courts, Roy Cohn left a trail of
social wreckage and slime behind him. A raving homophobe in public, he
was a homosexual libertine in private who ultimately died, ironically
and perhaps with poetic justice, of AIDS, apparently acquired sexually.
There is a saying: Birds of a feather flock together.
Likewise, pathological personalities clump together, forming nodes and
knots of social pathology within a society, to destructive effect.
But
since when are the politics of an empire founded on the twin pillars of
slavery and genocide ever not anti-human? At least with Trump, there
isn't the mask of benignity, as with his predecessor, The Drone Assassin
and Perfecter of the Surveillance State. Ogres like Trump are perfect
grist for the Democratic Party's "we're the lesser of two evils" mill,
that political extortion racket they use to "force" progressives and
decent people to vote for them. So the two-party political cartel
continues its malign monopoly of power, preventing any real reform of
the vicious U.S. system. (They won't even convict a single cop for
murdering an African-American citizen, no matter how egregious the
circumstances. THAT is a country that is incorrigible! And after a mass
murderer gunned down 58 people and wounded or caused injuries to another
nearly 500 in Las Vegas, the topic of gun control can only be broached
gingerly.)
There is supposedly a Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Well we sure do.
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