On the
15th black anniversary of the US invasion in Iraq decided by the war
criminals who lied straight to the face of the whole world in order
to justify the invasion, Donald Trump has chosen one of the most
warmongering, hawkish neocons to replace McMaster in the position of
national security adviser.
From
Huffington
Post:
Trump
announced Thursday that [John] Bolton would replace his outgoing
adviser, H.R. McMaster, early next month. Bolton is seen as one of
the most controversial and dangerous figures in U.S. diplomacy and
is a fierce war hawk who has long advocated for a preemptive
military strike against North Korea and the dismantling of the
Iran nuclear deal.
“This
news is hard to process,” Van Jackson, a senior lecturer at
Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, said in an
email. “What I can say at the moment is that Bolton isn’t
just a run-of-the-mill hawk; he’s a kind of warmonger. He’s
never seen a foreign policy problem that couldn’t be solved by
bombing.”
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We
have already explained why
Donald Trump is the perfect tool in the hands of neocons right now,
because despite
that he
was
promoted as an 'anti-establishment' candidate, using intensively
anti-interventionist rhetoric, he has already done the exact
opposite. He has already bombed Syria, constantly provokes China and
North Korea and, lately, does everything he can to destroy the Iran
nuclear deal. It's more than obvious that he seeks to go after Iran,
as the seventh target of the US empire, revealed by Wesley Clark. So,
the neocons will hide behind him and watch their original plans
fulfilled.
Yet,
with people like John Bolton, the bloodthirsty neocons will be
probably exposed further rather than put all the blame on Trump, as
the new national security adviser holds a privileged position in the
book of the 'Masters of Destruction' of the US empire.
After
all this parody, it
is remarkable how many Americans still believe that Donald Trump is
something different from previous US presidents who faithfully served
the establishment.
From
the first moment we repeatedly said that Trump is only a choice of
necessity, a reserve of the establishment. We supported that the
establishment has
tricked the American voters
again in order to keep 'business as usual' under their nose. Although
many will still claim that this is another silly 'conspiracy theory',
Trump is doing everything he can in order to verify this estimation.
But many
others sensed very early that Trump 'smells bad' and actually knew
that he will follow the same path as previous puppets in power.
Already right after Trump's election, Carey Wedler 'predicted'
the promotion of Bolton in a very sensitive position:
Trump’s
other potential secretary of state also adheres to establishment
Republican party foreign policy. Bolton served as George W. Bush’s
undersecretary, and in 2002, made wildly inaccurate claims about
the impending Iraq war. As noted by the Atlantic: “Bolton was
both a booster, and a minor architect, of the war in Iraq. As
George W. Bush’s undersecretary of state in late 2002, he told
the BBC that ‘We are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden
weapons of mass destruction and production facilities in Iraq.’
He added that ‘the Iraqi people would be unique in history if
they didn’t welcome the overthrow of this dictatorial regime,’
and that although building a democracy would prove a ‘difficult
task,’ the people of Iraq ‘are fully competent to do it.’ So
competent, in fact, that ‘the American role [in post-war Iraq]
actually will be fairly minimal.’”
As
Senator Rand Paul detailed in an op-ed explaining why he will
oppose a Bolton appointment should it come to pass: “Bolton
is a longtime member of the failed Washington elite that Trump
vowed to oppose, hell-bent on repeating virtually every foreign
policy mistake the U.S. has made in the last 15 years”
— particularly those Trump promised to avoid as president.
“John Bolton more often stood with Hillary Clinton and
against what Donald Trump has advised.”
Bolton
recently advocated war with Iran and is a member of the Council on
Foreign relations, a foreign policy think tank. Dick Cheney is a
member of the council and Hillary Clinton has lauded it for its
leadership, which is guided by a litany of corporations, including
Lockheed Martin, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase & Co., and
Exxon Mobil Corporation.
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Case
one: Trump still sells the image of a supposedly strong president who
resists the establishment while, in reality, he takes orders from the
US deep state, like any other US president before him. He can't do
anything about it.
Case
two: Trump is as hawkish as Bush and Hillary and cooperated with the
establishment from the beginning in order to trick the
tired-from-wars American public and carry on with the neocon plan as
scheduled.
In
any case, we are doomed ...
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