As I have emphasized in the past two days, “the Trump regime will be tamed before it takes office.”
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Now it is Tulsi Gabbard who is finding respectability in order to be confirmed.
“Tulsi Gabbard Says She Now Supports Controversial Surveillance Law. Gabbard had previously criticized Section 702 as enabling the government to ’trample’ upon civil liberties.” See this.
The Trump remaking of America is another example of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s theme in his historical novel, The Leopard, that “things have to change so that they can remain the same.”
When I witnessed the Democrats being called off the theft of the 2024 presidential election despite all theft mechanisms being set in place, I concluded that the Establishment had decided that this time it was easier to tame than fight the Trump regime.
Readers might remember that I said that Trump appointees have to be confirmed in office by the Senate, which is very Establishment, and that confirmation gives the Establishment power over the regime. Make America Great Again is already being forced into embarrassing compromises with the Ruling Elite.
We face the prospect that to insure there is no remaking of America, Trump’s Zionist appointments will get him into war with Iran that will become the focus of the Trump regime to the exclusion of what MAGA Americans expected. Already we have seen Trump endorse the H-1B visas that give Americans’ jobs to foreigners, mainly citizens of India.
If you pay attention, you will see that what makes America great again is being reformulated to consist of profits and Washington’s hegemony.
The emphasis on profits means that income and wealth will continue to concentrate in the top one-tenth of one percent.
Hegemony means wars, not peace. Trump has even spoken of invading Greenland and Panama to add them along with Canada to the American Empire, and Trump’s appointment of Israel’s friends points to war with Iran.
But perhaps not. As I recently wrote, an Israeli government committee has concluded that Israel must prepare for war with Turkey over which of them gets Syria. Is the land to belong to Israel as part of Greater Israel, or to Turkey as part of a reconstituted Ottoman Empire? As Turkey is a NATO member, this produces a dilemma for the Trump regime which is firmly in Israel’s pocket. Instead of making American great again, Trump will be focused on helping Israel become Greater Israel.
As for Ukraine, many believe Putin-the-Unready is responsible for Syria’s destruction. This is to the detriment of the Russian government’s credibility. With Israel and America on a roll, Putin is unlikely to prevail over a confident Trump in negotiations, Putin’s favored way of dealing with conflict.
In the end Russia, and perhaps all of us, are going to pay a price for the ridiculous Minsk Agreement clung to by Putin and Lavrov for eight years while the US built a strong and well equipped army for Ukraine that Putin’s minimalist approach to war has not defeated after three years, much longer than it took Stalin to drive the fabulous German Wehrmacht out of thousands of kilometers of Russia, all of eastern Europe, and to the streets of Berlin.
John Helmer reports that Putin explains his neglect of Syria in order to prepare for war with NATO in ten years. Ten years? If there is a war, it is likely to be much sooner, and it will be with the US, not with the hapless NATO. Europe cannot even protect its women from mass rape by rape gangs of immigrant-invaders to which the European governments have opened their borders. An European army is the joke of a decade.
The Russian government despite its military superiority might fare poorly in war.
The reason is the extraordinary willingness of Putin and Lavrov to enter into negotiations with Washington that have never failed to be to Russia’s disadvantage. It seems there is no limit to Putin and Lavrov’s pursuit of negotiations that can only end in failure for Russia. Perhaps this is the path of Russian diplomacy. Failed diplomacy is preferable to military victory.
There remains in Russia an inexplicable trust of the West that is mindless. It seems that the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe did their jobs well. They have even replicated themselves inside parts of the Russian media and the Kremlin itself.
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Paul Craig Roberts is a renowned author and academic, chairman of The Institute for Political Economy where this article was originally published. Dr. Roberts was previously associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during the Reagan Administration. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
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