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By the time most of you read this column, we will have a new US President. Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated for his second term today at 11:30 AM, Eastern time, and many Americans are hopeful that the disastrous foreign policy of the past four years under Biden will be improved. There is good news and bad news.
First the good news. It is no surprise that Trump’s appointees to foreign policy and national security positions are to the person very hawkish on China. However Trump, as he often does, has defied conventional wisdom on what his China policy might be by not only inviting Chinese leader Xi Jinping to attend the inauguration, but actually picking up the telephone and having a conversation with his Chinese counterpart.
According to a read-out of the call, the two discussed “trade, fentanyl, TikTok, and other subjects” and agreed to remain in regular contact. Winston Churchill is often (inaccurately) credited with the phrase “jaw-jaw is better than war-war,” but nonetheless it is an accurate statement. It is much better to engage even with “adversaries” than to refuse contact and add more sanctions. Those who prefer sanctions over communications are the true isolationists.
On TikTok, the popular application has credited Trump with preventing the Congressional ban from taking effect. If true, it is another good Trump move in favor of our Constitutional free speech guarantees.
Likewise with Russia, media reports suggest that holding a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be among the first things Trump does as President. That is great news for all of humanity, as Biden’s dangerous proxy war in Ukraine and refusal to communicate with the Russian president has brought us to the very edge of a once-unimaginable nuclear exchange. When the end of life on earth is at stake, it is reckless to ignore the possibility of de-escalation.
In the Middle East, incoming President Trump is being credited with securing a ceasefire in Gaza, an achievement the Biden Administration seemed incapable of or uninterested in seriously attempting for the past year. Does Trump deserve all the credit? We don’t know. But we do know that thousands have been needlessly slaughtered while Biden dithered and sent more weapons. The wholesale destruction of Gaza with US bombs and financial support will be Biden’s enduring legacy and a stain on everyone involved.
The bad news is that because of President Trump’s decision to appoint the most hawkish advisors, he will be surrounded by individuals who will constantly encourage him to confront rather than disengage. For example, his special envoy on the Ukraine war has recently boxed Trump in on Iran by declaring a return to the failed “maximum pressure” campaign of his first Administration. The policy failed to achieve the desired results when first implemented and it will fail again if adopted again. Why? Iran has developed far more extensive trade ties outside the influence of the US government, for example among the BRICS countries. It is not possible to isolate Iran as it has been in the past. As with China and others, with Iran it would be far better to jaw-jaw than to war-war. Let’s hope President Trump understands that.
We will no doubt see some disappointments in incoming President Trump’s foreign policy, but there are solid reasons to be cautiously optimistic. Particularly when measured against his predecessor.
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But he can make us eat cake.
In true Libertarian fashion, Dr Paul advises exhausting all diplomatic avenues before going to a war footing.
Time will tell how much of President Trump’s promises will be kept.
He and his buddies do talk a good story.
Whatever you do, NEVER join the US military. I hope the US military all come home to the rotten US in BODY BAGS. If you’re white, never join the US military. You risk getting discriminated against by sub human filth who couldn’t do much of anything with their lives besides maybe flip burgers at wendy’s lol. Fuck the USA, when they go to war with china, iran, russia, lets hope they all come home dead!!!
Trump will do NOTHING, The US of A has been pushing our opinions and rules on the world for 50 plus years.
It is as pointless as it is pathetic to delude ourselves that anything will change;
the Great Ponzi has run its course, and Karma´s name is Triffin:
You cannot have an absurdly overvalued reserve currency (= free lunch)
and “balanced trade”;
the Perfidious Satan held fast to free trade as an Article of Faith, and it
bankrupted them by 1908 (though nowhere near as underwater – the
petrodollah prolonged and deepened the hollowing-out).
The only way to “restore” the Great Satan is to let the dollar collapse
(Bessent to his credit knows that – I feel his pain): Say goodbye to the FIRE sector
and Empire and hello to jogger uprising (= nevah happen);
USrael does to Europe what Little Britain did to India between the Wars – to the same
avail. Brandon was more teetering, Orange Man will be more America Fuck Yeah,
but the trajectory is inexorable – as is the next World War.
Were I the betting type, will it be China, Germany or domestic terrorism ™ ?
America’s foreign policy will remain insane for three reasons.
1) Jewish influence and control of America.
2) The military-industrial complex. Now almost four times larger than when Ike first warned Americans about it.
3) Those persons in the US elite who have Wilsonian sentiments and believe America has some divine mission to save the world.
Zelensky begged 3 times to be invited at the inauguration, he was rejected 3 times.
That is a very good news. If Trump can get rid of this fraud and dictator (he cancled elections in May 2024 and should not be in power, if the war stops, the Ukrainian soldiers will go back home to do him first).
Unfortunately for the world, the usurper Zelensky is invited in Davos at the WEF globalist cabal annual meeting and who else will be talking there?
Donald Trump!
Not a good start for someone wanting to end wars, wokism, the climate hoax, resinstate borders, free speech, and end globalist-marxist rule.
So I must admit that this quote is right:
“Trump’s inauguration day and a time to be highly vigilant and streetwise. You are going to be hit by so many reasons to think that Trump is a hero changing the world. That is a crucial Stage 1 part of the Psyop. But from here on watch like a hawk the actions of the tech AI oligarchs around him, the AI control and human fusion agenda, deregulation to ease its passage, and the digital currency masquerading as crypto. Watch in general the fundamentals of the Schwab Great Reset presented as ‘setting the people free’. Fall for the Trump/Musk/Vance/Thiel/Sacks AI Psyop in the next four years and it’s over.”
#NukeDavos
#NukeWef
Maybe much more pertinent questions would be: Can Trump break through the set-in-stone fixations of U.S. “foreign policy”? Will he even try to make a show of doing so? Given his own lifelong indoctrination into those very “habits-of-thought,” and the unexceptioned “jingo bells” refrain running through his rhetoric, any real intentional departure from the ONE WAY road to perdition seems so remote a possibility as to render Dr.Paul a fantasist here, in his pie-eyed optimism. Accidents can happen, though.
This type of naivety is really obsolete. A ‘Christian’ libertarian.
I get it. He wants to turn the other cheek for our collective enemies.
But I don’t want to do that.
I want white people to improve themselves.
Ron Paul is ready to sell them to the highest bidder though.
Thats what Jesus would do, I guess.
You should do a little research before commenting. And/or your comprehension skills need to be honed. Not one sentence regarding Dr Ron Paul has the least bit of truth to it. If you really want white(or any) people to improve themselves you would recommend they emulate Dr Ron Paul.
Putin recently said the Ukraine war likely would have never happened if Trump hadn’t had the 2020 election stolen from him. We can’t see possible alternate histories but it would have been good if this war had not happened because the Ukrainians never had a chance to win against an opponent with three times its population.
Putin is a pretty smart guy. But it just goes to show, even the best people make mistakes.
(Or did Putin deliberately state a falsehood, in the hope of achieving a certain outcome?)
Read on and see what I’m alluding to.
I just can’t get over the fact that some individuals in the UR commentariat are that naive to believe the U.S President has the autonomy to make ANY important decisions of his own.
He DOESN’T.
Donald J Chump (like all Presidents of the last few decades), read from a ZOG script.
They’re all HIRED HANDS* – nothing more than actors.
(*I’m pretty sure Putin knows this. He was just flattering the Orang-U-tan by saying what he did.
I suspect he’s just trying to get the Orange Baboon to show intestinal fortitude and buck the trend of servility to ZOG – hoping that Chump will refuse to follow the script).
You can take it to the bank that the Orange Clown won’t challenge ZOG, seeing as he’s a coward through to his rotten core.