by system
failure
There are
strong indications that Moscow sees Donald Trump as a good
opportunity for a deeper approach with Washington, targeting the
improvement of the relations between the US and Russia. It appears
that Vladimir Putin seeks to take advantage of a potential US
presidency under Donald Trump, in order to terminate the dangerous
new Cold War that has emerged, mainly due to the inflexibility that
the neocons foolishly exhibit.
As the
Guardian
reported a few months ago:
“Vladimir
Putin has given the Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump a
ringing endorsement, reciprocating Trump’s praise for Russia. 'He
is a very colourful and talented man, no doubt about that,' said
Putin, speaking after his annual press conference in Moscow on
Thursday. 'He is the absolute leader of the presidential race, as we
see it today. He says that he wants to move to another level of
relations, to a deeper level of relations with Russia. How can we not
welcome that? Of course we welcome it.'”
Trump
responded by repaying Putin with similar compliments. The growing
political flirt between Putin and Trump appears to be natural because
of the nationalist ideology that dominates the political thinking of
both. It looks like they both seek a silent agreement in case that
Trump manage to be elected as the next US president. An agreement
based on the war against the neoliberal internationalism.
However,
Putin could be completely wrong about Trump's real ideological
background and intentions for at least three reasons:
First, Trump
is actually a political chameleon. From the 80s until now, he
literally passed through all the US political spectrum, even as
Independent. Trump's extreme political flexibility indicates a man
who adjust his political positions according to his interests.
Currently, he plays the extreme patriotic, anti-establishment card
inside the GOP, because he sees a rapid rise of nationalism not only
in the US, but also in Europe and the West generally.
It's not
accidental that he expanded his far-Right rhetoric after Le Pen's triumph in France. From that
perspective, Trump is a really smart audience manipulator who knows
what the public wants to hear and adjust his rhetoric accordingly.
Therefore, in reality, his political positions are not similar to
Putin's pure nationalism.
Second,
Trump is only promoted as anti-establishment. As mentioned already: “Although
it is certain that the neocons and the US deep state prefer Hillary
as the next president, Trump is not someone who couldn't handle. No
matter what he says, it wouldn't be too hard to be pushed by the
neocons in another dead-end war.”
Furthermore:
“The most impressive, is that Donald Trump,
who is promoted as "anti-establishment", takes more time
coverage in the media, even compared to the
definitely-pro-establishment Hillary Clinton!”.
Third,
Trump has repeatedly highlighted
the next target of the US: China. The US
deep state sees China's rapid economic rise and approach to Russia as
a threat to the US Imperialism. Indeed, the neocon agenda dictates
(foolishly) the provocation of tensions in South China Sea. This is a
stupid strategy because it forces China to further strengthen ties
with Russia due to its military superiority.
Trump's
obsession with China should alarm Putin. Besides, Trump plays also the
card of a new turn towards a supposedly much more soft foreign
policy, because the US tactics concerning the interventions abroad,
appear to be changing already. It seems that the US Imperialism is
turning to proxy wars as a key tool for interventions abroad due to
the increasing dissatisfaction of the US public to direct wars and
their high price in every aspect. Furthermore, Afghanistan appears to
be used as the main experimental field of the US future drone wars:
remote controlled war machines will conduct military operations
without any necessity for "boots on the ground".
It's very
hard to imagine that a billionaire as US president will not obey to
the US deep state major economic interests. Putin should start
thinking about it.
>“The most impressive, is that Donald Trump, who is promoted as "anti-establishment", takes more time coverage in the media, even compared to the definitely-pro-establishment Hillary Clinton!”.
ReplyDeleteThat's not surprises. The media know he can hardly win in the final battle, and are using them to scare people into Clinton.
Damn, I meant:
ReplyDeleteThat's not surprising. The media know he can hardly win in the final battle, and are using him to scare people into voting for Clinton.
(Besides, he is funnier and livelier than Hillary, which makes for good ratings).
Of course if he was really dangerous to the establishment they'd drop him in an instant, but preferring Hillary to him is no reason to drop him.
looks like trump won
ReplyDeleteBable article saying nothing.
ReplyDeleteTrump sees everything from an economic point of view.
China is because he thinks China has exploited US economically and should pay more to US. EU he sees could be paying more to Nato deducting the US cost. Iran is the usual American "we will pull our pants down for Israel".
The most dangerous issue about Trump is that he has said he will be unpredictable in his actions. When you are a leader you should have clear goals everybody understand, like Russia.