He
campaigned on promises to ‘drain the swamp’ and radically alter
the United States’ course in the world, but not even a week has
passed and President Donald Trump has already made it clear that
he’ll be following a very familiar agenda.
by
Whitney Webb
Part
5 - The illusion of Trump’s independence
Diplomatic
relations with Russia plunged to new lows under Obama, and Trump’s
work to mend those ties drew supporters across the nation who were
weary of Obama’s wars.
From his
nomination of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state to his stated goal
of working together with Russia in Syria to eviscerate Daesh (an
Arabic acronym for the terrorist organization known as ISIS or ISIL
in the West), all indications seem to suggest that Trump is genuine
in his desire to resolve the tensions that nearly escalated into an
armed conflict between the two military powers.
Yet, upon
further examination, this too falls in line with the predominating
geopolitical strategy of American oligarchs. As journalist Pepe
Escobar pointed out in a Jan. 19 piece for The Saker, the ultimate
goal of this maneuvering is to “seduce Russia away from its
strategic partnership with China, while keep harassing the weakest
link, Iran.”
Daniel
McAdams, director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and foreign
policy expert on U.S. empire, echoed Escobar’s analysis in an
interview with MintPress, saying that “Trump’s tilt towards
Russia is a classic ‘grand strategy’ type of move to attempt to
peel Russia away from China” — a textbook case of the divide
and conquer strategy.
Indeed, the
intelligence community, Congress, and the mainstream media continue
to play “bad cop” on the Russians, vilifying Moscow at every turn
in order to manipulate them into cooperating with Trump, who plays
the role of the “good cop.” Of course, the added bonus of this is
that Trump gets to look like a great negotiator, diplomat, and an
anti-interventionist of sorts while still allowing him to advance
neoconservative goals of containing the threat to American hegemony
presented by a China-Russia-Iran alliance.
However, as
McAdams noted, it remains to be seen if Russia will ultimately fall
for the ruse. That, he said, “depends on how the Russians can
balance their desire for improved U.S. relations with a sober look at
their long-term regional interests and the veracity of U.S.
promises.”
Other
commonly cited evidence of Trump’s “independence” from
globalist plans has been his efforts to bring U.S. jobs back from
overseas. Recently, Ford Motor Co. canceled a planned $1.6 billion
factory in Mexico, choosing instead to expand an existing plant in
Michigan in what was widely viewed as a capitulation to Trump. In
addition, Trump’s removal of the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific
Partnership and his promise to re-negotiate NAFTA have often been
taken as proof that he is indeed putting America first.
However, an
anonymous but high-ranking source told Escobar that U.S. oligarchs
need jobs to return to the United States from Mexico and Asia chiefly
because the shift of labor overseas is a major reason why the United
States has “lost control of the seas and cannot secure its
military components during a major war.” Essentially, the same
financial elite who grew wealthy as a result of the initial labor
transfer also stand to gain financially from shifting jobs back to
the United States as part of a strategic decision to mitigate the
strength of China and its regional allies.
Source
and links:
http://www.mintpressnews.com/maverick-lapdog-trump-already-serving-agenda-americas-oligarchs/224413/
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