by Peter Koenig
Trump, within a span of a week, has made a U-turn; from a coward to hero. So the MSM; his aggressive violence, his murderous killing spree in Syria, Yemen and threatening North Korea with a nuclear ‘take-out’ – turns Trump from a pussie to a macho. Overnight, so to speak, Trump has become the darling of the presstitute Zionist-MSM. That tells you who is controlling the ‘brainstream’ of the masses. Just look at the 24 April 2017 edition of the US Inquirer – “Trump Declaring War on Dictators”, depicting photographs of Presidents Putin, Assad, and Kim Jong Un, with the caption “Dead Men Walking”. What this paper says – if the term ‘paper’ even applies to this piece of junk – is the opinion of a large segment of the US population – and the west in general, led by the puppets of Europe.
After attacking Syria for a false flag Sarin gas attack on mainly women and children, instigated by CIA and carried out by Erdogan’s forces, helped by the Saudis; pretending sending the nuclear aircraft carrier Carl Vinson to the shores of North Korea – and taking over from the Saudis, the most vicious war against helpless Yemen, killing thousands of civilians, women and children, soon exceeding Obama’s murders – and plunging this poverty struck country into further misery and famine – Trump has finally ascended to the level corporate Zion-America and their corrupt media requires a US president to command the world. Bravo!
Actually, with all the hoopla of the new warrior Trump, there seems to be a lot of confusion regarding his turn-around politics in Syria, and especially with the aircraft flotilla sailing towards North Korea. According to the NYT, the Navy released photographs of the Carl Vinson off the coast of Indonesia to take part in a joint Navy exercise with Australia, thousands of miles away from the Korean peninsula. Trump then corrected himself saying the vessel would arrive in North Korea by this weekend, whereas the Pentagon speculated it would reach its destination more likely towards the end of April. And a few days ago, the White House reported sending two more carriers and flotillas to North Korean waters? – What is actually going on in the waters off the Korean peninsula?
Not least as Trump’s heroic bravura, he inaugurated the “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB) – the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Blast Bomb, by dropping it – an 11,000-ton bomb equivalent of TNT – on Afghanistan’s villages – killing dozens of innocent people. Even within his first 100 days in office, Trump has joined the club of murderers, assassins and war criminals of his predecessors. Just to see whether MOAB behaves as expected, busting bunkers and other underground structures, causing earthquake like explosions up to 200 m below the surface, capable of destroying bunkers and nuclear reactors. Its reported to be the most devastating bomb, other than a nuclear bomb. The most vicious and devastating test since the nuclear Hiroshima blast.
The MOAB is mainly thought for nuclear reactors. Afghanistan, already a wasteland, complements of the horrid west, was not chosen by accident for the test. Afghanistan, in addition to the transit still planned of the infamous and highly disputed TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) pipeline, also possesses uncountable riches of rare earths and minerals – worth billions and especially needed for the ever-growing war industrial complex – which already today uses up more than half of the extractive industry’s output, worldwide.
Imagine – first devastation of mother earth by plundering her unrenewable resources; then doubling up with destruction and merciless killing and maiming of countries, cities, cultures and entire populations. All for dominance, power and – greed. And Trump goes along with all of that – at least for now, as he needs the support of Zion-Neocons to survive.
Yes, Trump, after just 100 days in office has proven that he is up to the task that his masters have carved out for him. He had a choice of sticking to his campaign promises of seeking peace not war, of not interfering in other countries’ businesses – and risking being impeached or even killed – there are precedents of neutralizing inconvenient politicians, including in the history of the United States, as we know – by the deep establishment. Well, The Donald chose to live and bask in the sun of his success. Who wants to blame him? But turning from an eccentric billionaire macho bully to an outright mass murderer, makes him a first-degree mass murderer. If there was an independent Nuremberg style court on this globe, their fate would be sealed.
Justice in our western world is nothing but a pipedream. And unless, We, the People, stop believing in the fakeness of the UN System, of international institutions, including the International Court of Justice – once designed as balancing organisms, as peace and justice seeking institutions – we are actually contributing to the fraud played out in front of our eyes.
Now let’s face it. Would Washington and its masters be stupid enough to risk a nuclear war over North Korea, or Syria for that matter? – I doubt it. Not even Trump would be stupid enough to risk destroying the world as we know it, with no known outcomes, other than probable and likely total or close to total destruction. That’s not good business. That’s not good for profits. On the other hand, keeping wars and conflicts as vicious and chaotic as possible and as long as possible, that’s good business, bringing high profits for the war industry and its sub-contractor, the extractive industry.
Mr. Trump, you are businessman. Your sable-rattling scares people. Scared people do not invest. But you know such things. Do you? – So, you can’t really believe that you will scare Presidents Putin and Jinping onto their knees? – They are much stronger than you, intellectually, spiritually and your war-mongering armada displayed around the globe. And you and your masters know it. But hope more deception-propaganda may help postpone your faltering empire’s demise.
Talking to Americans of all walks, talks and believes – the Inquirer, mentioned above, may at least partially reflect the opinion of a large a segment of people. Though, one thing is crystal clear and unites pretty much all US citizens I talked to – whether they voted for The Donald or not – none of them wants war. They are all scared of another war; they want peace, work and a livelihood that allows them to feed their families.
President Trump take note. They elected you. Most of them are sick and tired seeing their tax dollars being spent on wars and endless conflicts around the globe – while at home they are suffering unemployment at rates way above the official labor statistics – around 22% – a rate similar to those of Spain and Greece. They all may like the MSM hammered and brainwashed slogan of “America First” and “Making America Great Again” – but they do not see the connection to wars. None of those that I talked to think that the Inquirer’s ‘dictators’ – Messrs. Assad, Kim Jong Un and Putin are a threat to US national security.
President Trump wake up! Your co-citizens are waking up. They want an America of Peace, not of bombs and blood. They want the America your promised them – of friendly relations with other nations, including Russia, of non-interference in foreign lands, of a reduction of the more than 1,000 US military bases around the globe – and they want you to bring back outsourced jobs to their Homeland. The want a strong America, as in a solid economy, not one based on wars and destruction.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 4th Media (China), TeleSUR, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
Trump is a neo con.
Planning wars on Syria, Iran and North Korea and Russia.
As well as keeping the wars going in Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ukraine, Libya.
Russia needs to give up any hope of cooperation with the US and its puppet allies and prepare for war.
@James
I don’t know if this is the gossip, but have a look.These days informations are very fradulant unfortunately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0aTbjKi84
The MSM and Washington insiders deciding Trump is suddenly a “hero” will last about a half-week news cycle. The latest edition of the “debt crisis”/Obamacare/Wall will hit the MSM and will wipe the warmongery failures off the page.
Like all “capitalists”, Trumpty Dumbdy is an opportunist, a scam artist in an expensive suit. Dumb Donald was born into the TBTF class, knows the only way to keep his corporate empire afloat was to act like he is in control. Hence his blowhard bravado, which may work in the boardrooms and on TV shows, but not in the Zionist/Rothschild Machiavellian corridors of Washington and Tel Aviv. The corporate sycophants that kept the Trump business afloat and Trump apparently at the head of it had a vested interest in keeping the illusion alive. The Rep/Dem establishments and their Zio-bankster paymasters will tolerate Trump as long as he doesn’t derail the Rothschild generational world-power-grab. And we see that process in action as Trump is led by the nose to war when he clearly said exactly the opposite not a few months ago.
Trump has mostly proven he has no intellectual or moral core to fall back on, so he relies the advice and especially the approval of those around him. In short, he’s insecure about his own abilities/intellect as POTUS. This makes him easy to manipulate, so when presented by the Washington Zio-warmongers (and his tearful daughter and psychopath Zio-mob-family son-in-law) with the opportunity to “look tough”, he gave approval without knowing just what the chickenhawks intended to do. You can bet that if all 59 Tomahawks and the MOAB had caused seriously big destruction, Trumpy would have been swaggering about like George W. Stupid under the “Mission Accomplished” banner. But like the insecure faker he is, he followed the script provided by the same chickenhawk/zio-warmongers who needed sidestep the failures, and so imperiously said he had delegated the details to the military. (It is a possibility that the professional military chose the least aggravating targets and may have even “accidentally” mis-programmed the off-target Tomahawks. The Russian military (and therefore Syrians) were warned with sufficient time to avoid the worst of it.
And the whole MSM idiocy around the fleet heading immediately to North Korea, when in fact the actual US command had it dilly-dallying around the Indian Ocean for a week or more… another slap at the White House Clown-Car Cabinet.
Think about that for one second… the US military/CIA are fighting wars that Congress did not approve, under the thin pretense that a “police action” against a non-state, non-entity like “terror” or for a non-existent cause like R2P is the sole purview of the POTUS. But now it appears neither primary Constitutional authority has control of the US military or CIA/black-ops… precedent set…
I doubt the US military will play the Praetorian Guard role and remove/install a new POTUS/gov’t they approve of, but it seems Trumpty Dumbdy’s horses-ass generals and chickenhawk men are not going to get the US professional military to deliver the first strike in a nuclear exchange, let alone participate in a false-flag on the scale of Pearl Harbor or the Gulf of Tonkin.
Ya, poor form to “reply” to oneself, but had a thought I haven’t seen put forward anywhere else.
Think of the Milgram Shock Experiments, how the subject willingly volunteers to participate in a project he/she is told, and believes, is for the advancement of society. In your mind, put POTUS Trump in that role.
Now cast the role of “lab-coated authority figure with a clipboard” to the many cabinet appointees, advisers, lobbyists, banksters, Deep State moles and assorted other self-serving influential hangers-on Trump says are people “he knows who know stuff”. These are the people urging Trump to “push the button”, on a waste-of-tax$ wall, tariffs against Canada for lumber and milk (REALLY, MILK???!!!), running threatening war games/”exercises” worldwide, giving the military carte-blanche to drop 59 Tomahawks, and MOAB, etc.
Now think about the biggest button of all… the nuclear first-strike one. I doubt Trumpty Dumbdy has the intelligence or intestinal fortitude to tell them all to get stuffed. Let alone to fire the lot of them and jail a big % of same.
I can’t see a sane voice in the warmonger/chickenhawk/spy-wonk ranks around Trump. Does Melania have a firm grasp on reality and Donny-boy’s nads, and has made it clear she’ll publicly leave him (or worse) and take their son if he even THINKS about pushing that button? She seems to be a very ferocious momma bear protecting her cub, and Trumpty Dumbdy is a man who thinks with his emotions (or crotch?) more than any logic the rest of us would recognize as such.
We shall see…
For the first time in all my puff I am truly concerned about the potential for a major conflict, a conflict that will effect my children and grandchildren.
I was about to go to China for an extended stay, arriving about the same time as the US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is due to arrive off the shores of North Korea
Not bloody likely ….. I am going to huddle down Hobart and observe what happens
My friends and family seem to agree that war is not possible, it would be just too stupid. I am sure many people said that before all the major wars.
It IS too stupid ….. yet I am worried …..
My friends in China all simply say they trust their government, and support whatever the Chinese government decides to do. Yesterday, the Chinese Global Times editorial stated that China would use diplomacy if North Korea was attacked by missiles and the like, but if one American soldier put one foot over the border, it was war.
Quote from the Editorial:
‘Now would be a good time for Beijing to brief Washington on its pre-established position should a war break out. If Pyongyang’s unwavering pursuit of its nuclear program continues and Washington launches a military attack on North Korea’s nuclear facilities as a result, Beijing should oppose the move by diplomatic channels, rather than get involved through military action. It would be in Washington’s best interest if it would take into full consideration the high level of threat that could emerge over a revenge attack on Seoul carried out by Pyongyang. Such a revenge attack would be too heavy for Washington and Seoul to withstand.
However, if US and South Korea armed forces cross the Korean Demilitarized Line in a ground invasion for the direct purpose of annihilating the Pyongyang regime, China will sound its own alarms and ramp up their military immediately. Beijing would never sit back and watch foreign military forces overthrow the Pyongyang regime. If it has not done so already, Beijing will rather quickly illustrate their overall position in a clear fashion to both Washington and Seoul.
China opposes North Korea’s nuclear program, and also opposes changing the status quo of the Korean Peninsula through military force. China should work closely with the US and all related parties in order to inspire Pyongyang to cease its nuclear activities. China should also stick to its bottom line to the end, no matter the expense. Right now more than ever, China has the power to remain steadfast with its own agenda without having to bend its knees to foreign pressure, and this is the underlying stance supported by millions of Chinese people.’
End quote.
The Chinese people like the Russian people have know war on their own soil. The America people have only watched movies (except for the brief skirmish known as the Civil War). The North Koreans, the Chinese and the Russians will be protecting their soil with their blood. The Americans, and their allies, will be the aggressor, their soldiers dying far from home …….. if you read and understand Sun Tzu the result is a foregone conclusion.
I was too young in 1962 to understand the Cuban Missile crisis. The attempt by the USSR to have a missile base just off the American coast. The world was almost bought to war because the Americans knew it could not be tolerated.
So they should understand that for China it is the same. The Korean peninsular is a direct threat to China. An armed and aggressive America in control of the whole peninsular cannot be tolerated. Better to have it out now and get it over with so the children and grandchildren have a chance of living in peace.
North Korea is useful for China. A small ‘insignificant’ country with the ability to wage nuclear war. A terrier to annoy and bite the heels of Japan, Sth Korea, Taiwan, Philippines ….. and now, yikes, Australia.
America was instrumental in causing the problem in the 1950’s …. It is now faced with solving that problem, and in the intervening years the problem has only grown in size ……. like a mushroom (apt simile ).
A Chinese friend of mine told me that in the history of China, each time the dynasty in Korea changed, it heralded a change in the Chinese dynasty. I have not checked if this is a fact or not. She is a top government official, so her observations are worth considering. She said that the Chinese government will protect the Pyongyang regime because they do not want to see that dynasty toppled. They do not want to test ‘history’. In the light of that, the wording in the Chinese Global Times is interesting …. ‘However, if US and South Korea armed forces cross the Korean Demilitarized Line in a ground invasion for the direct purpose of annihilating the Pyongyang regime, China will sound its own alarms and ramp up their military immediately. Beijing would never sit back and watch foreign military forces overthrow the Pyongyang regime.’
China probably is the key. China’s rise and rise has been done on a win/win basis, for the most part. Americans seem only to understand the concept of win/lose. If America stops threatening and waging war around the glove, then China (and Russia) will not become the aggressor. China will let North Korea bluster and splutter, but will not let it attack, that is not in China’s interest.
My grand-daughter is two years old. What world will she grow up in? I fear my generation, the 60’s, hippy, peace-loving generation have failed her. As a generation, we have grown up to be avaricious war-mongers.
From smoking mushrooms to causing them
Great comments Graeme.
Seems to me the (?semi-official) Global Times editorial is spelling out China’s position vis-a-vis North Korea. Two passages stand out for me:
If Pyongyang’s unwavering pursuit of its nuclear program continues and Washington launches a military attack on North Korea’s nuclear facilities as a result, Beijing should oppose the move by diplomatic channels, rather than get involved through military action.
I hope Kim in NK is reading this. No military action of Beijing’s part.
China has the power to remain steadfast with its own agenda without having to bend its knees to foreign pressure…
Don’t bother with your efforts to get us to lean on NK more than we have to.
However, if US and South Korea armed forces cross the Korean Demilitarized Line in a ground invasion for the direct purpose of annihilating the Pyongyang regime, China will sound its own alarms and ramp up their military immediately.
… and China’s red line.
Conclusion? China is not terribly keen on NK developing nuclear weapons any further — there are more cons than pros for China–, is not averse to see change in NK leadership as long as it is orderly (no nuclear fallout reaching China, no Middle-East style chaos, no refugees), and no hostile regime planted in reunified Korea. Quite a tall order for the Americans, I would think.
I’m more attuned to Hugh White’s thinking regarding China’s role in Asia especially his thesis that China’s rise could be peaceful. There could be accommodation between China and the US, the two powers that really matter, in Asia. That the US, instead of going for ‘strategic rivalry’, could cede some power in Asia and let China play a bigger role in Asian affairs to the benefit of both powers, Asia, and Australia. 40 years of peace and more.
I think the key to the problem in the Korean peninsula is actually the US. At the moment I’m not too hopeful that there will be a good solution to the problem of NK’s nukes….not while Trump lets himself to be treated like a mushroom: kept in the dark and fed sh*t.
“each time the dynasty in Korea changed, it heralded a change in the Chinese dynasty.” Have not heard it before, and I can point out a few times it did not happen.
However, Threats to China were from north, later east. So it is totally possible at end of past a few dynasties, northern and eastern barbarians took Korea first, before Chinese government collapse.
Current political and geopolitical situation is not similar to those situation. But letting a hostile force take North Korea will eventually create a situation the will be a great threat to Chinese government.
I do not think you need to to worry about visiting China. I see no one worried from my reading of news and comments from inside of country.
Chinese army is exercising at the border, loudly, and shown on TV. People’s reaction to the news is SO… We all know if American cross DMZ, then China will join the war.
It is mainly caution. Not keen to be there if it hits the fan. I doubt it will, depending on what America decides to do. My friends in China just laugh as say it is will not be a problem even if it does hit the fan.
It seems inconceivable doesn’t it?
That is my view as well. China is so big, as long as you are not too close to Korea, you are going to be fine. Or you will have a front line show. I do not think the food or services will interrupted. As a foreigner, you are likely will be the last person be impacted.
There is nothing serious I can pick up from Sina news or comments. I do not detect any jingoistic sentiment there. I have to say I feel very proud of fact I have being reading some very rationally reasoned articles, and comments, which prove that we are level headed, and peaceful people.
I think the dolts in the Washington had delusions of splitting Russia and China. China is not going to let the US annex NK no matter how good the chocolate cake.
Well I don’t know about you mate, but I’m buggered if I can see that I have failed to do what could reasonably have been done to prepare the next generation for their future.
I’m sure as hell not feeling guilty about the state of the play : the big boys make the play; the rest of us just have to read the signs, and be clever.
My friends and family seem to agree that war is not possible, it would be just too stupid. I am sure many people said that before all the major wars.
July 1914 the German General Staff went on vacation content that peace prevailed……by August war had broken out.
There’s a reason I call him the Trumpster. He’s not stupid but he is a fluent liar and con man and as such he is exceedingly good at telling people what they want to hear. Dirty dealing comes naturally and he has therefore most but not all the qualities needed in a US President in ‘Idiocracy’ times.
I suspect he has those academic credentials awarded the successful graduates of the Flim-Flam Man -Donald Trump MBSCSDD
(Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Dirty-Dealing)
Good essay, though I think you meant 11 ton or 11,000 pound bomb, not 11,000 ton…
hahaha – that does sound like the MOAB – Trump is beyond our asking him for a change of heart and mind – but I understand why Mr Koenig asked him that –
“After attacking Syria for a false flag Sarin gas attack on mainly women and children, instigated by CIA and carried out by Erdogan’s forces, helped by the Saudis;”
The same CIA that tried to make a coup against him and kill him?
It’s TNT equivalent is 11 tons, not 11 kilotons (11,000), I don’t know why people everywhere are confusing it, including russian media. Conventional explosives cannot have even remotely near yield, there are about six orders of magnitude of difference between those two. Too much hype was created around MOAB. Plus, it’s not the first time it was used. Saudis and Americans have dropped it onto Saana in Yemen two years ago:
https://twitter.com/hamedalbukhiti/status/855118496455417856
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au00XYpNg-Y
There was no information in western mainstream media of couse. You see, there is no convenient explanation as “democratization” of Yemen is performed by US, UK and Saudis in a truly nazi style.
“six orders of magnitude of difference between those two.”
Three not six!
The confusion results from ton is 1000 kilo while kiloton is 1000 tons, in reality it makes no difference to the general reader; it would have been better to use Hiroshima’s bomb as a measure.
An image of the really remarkable National Inquirer front page can (currently) be seen here: http://i1.wp.com/radaronline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/president-donald-trump-plan-war-dictators-06.jpg
Talking to Americans of all walks, talks and believes – the Inquirer, mentioned above, may at least partially reflect the opinion of a large a segment of people. Though, one thing is crystal clear and unites pretty much all US citizens I talked to – whether they voted for The Donald or not – none of them wants war. They are all scared of another war; they want peace, work and a livelihood that allows them to feed their families.”
The American people love to beat their chest in self-righteousness, as they delude themselves that are the good guys fighting evil-doers, or a “War on Dictators” as that American rag, The Inquirer, put it.
But, penetrate the veneer of this nationalistic jingoism, and you will see that Americans are afraid to die. They are afraid to go up against another country that could acutally fight back, and turn their precious American Empire into an inferno of nuclear fire.
Americans are deeply insecure, on a cultural and historical level. They compensate for this lack of ethnic and cultural cohesion by deluding themselves into thinking that they’re the strongest country militarily, in the world.
Notice that anti-Trump liberals are suddenly supportive of his war mongering. This is because this was the status quo mantra all along – the establishment wanted war and the liberals are bitches of the establishment, regardless of its position on the left/right paradigm. Yes, even liberals in America will sacrifice conviction in order to feel strong on the world’s stage.
It’s actually quite pathetic.
Jordan
Don’t mistake the bleating of the democratic party leadership and the remains of the Clinton crowd as representative of liberals in general. Those clowns may control the narrative of the ‘left’ (actually right of Richard Nixon) with the MSM for now. Save your badmouthing for something you actually know and not what is spoon fed to the drooling right by Limbaugh and the rest.
And big footing around the globe and manipulating finance by threat doesn’t work forever. And not much longer in any case. No matter how loudly you scream how special and strong you are. I may be a liberal, but I am not blind to the world, and I am not alone here.
Americans don’t care that their government kills foreigners and bombs brown people. They never have really objected to that.
Koenig’s article is useless and conclusions he made are wrong in core. American worldview is much more brutal and violent than koenigs of our time want to admit and see. However Americans in war are far from brave when facing stubborn and determined resistance.
The fact that Americans love violence and killing “the other people” is still too poorly understood because huge propaganda of American dream backed by effective pro America media brainwashing.
The president of China is Xi Jinping, Xi is the family name and Jinping is his personal name.
Since Trump’s regime seems to want to target Iran. Attacking Syria to get at Iran. Wanting to break the nuclear agreement that was made with Iran. Basically doing everything they can think of to harm Iran. I’m thinking we should look a little bit at Iran. Iran is (so far) one of the only countries in the MENA not being attacked with terrorism.Where people can feel safe. Isn’t that really amazing. All the propaganda the US puts out about how “horrible” Iran is and yet their people can live their lives without fear of terrorists. Only some of the Gulf States I think have that level of safety (so far). From Algeria,Tunisia,Libya,Egypt,Palestine,Saudi Arabia,Kuwait,Bahrain,Syria,Lebanon,Jordan,Iraq,Turkey,Afghanistan,Yemen.All of those countries,and even Pakistan,and India are menaced by terrorist bombings.Or by war,with ISIS,and other terrorists,Western air forces,spreading death and destruction throughout those countries.Yet Iran has been strong enough to prevent that kind of terror befalling them.Its no wonder the US hates them so much. Having a democratic (fairly democratic for the region) Muslim state,not subject to terrorists must drive the US (and Israel) crazy.And they intent to put a stop to that if they can. And entwine Iran into the chaos and terror they have pushed onto all those other states.
What an excellent observation. The safety of Iran. Thank you.
DPRK with a population of 23 million and under severe sanctions has mastered fusion technology of light isotopes.Now the DPRK nuclear program requires only 2-3 percent GDP a few hundred million dollars at most . Conventional weapons are not adequate in nuclear war. DPRK has shown the poor a way to nuclear power and independence. Expect yield of 200 kilotons on Sixth nuclear weapons test. The DPRK is using gamma triggers of less than 1 kiloton to trigger fusion light isotopes. It claims “unlimited supply”. The materials for the DPRK SIxth test are likely widely available . If the poor are empowered it is a threat to the rich.Expect severe backlash against DPRK by countries controlled by wealth .
Trump hasn’t changed at all. He’ll say whatever it takes to ‘win’ i.e. to make money. He is fake and as such he represents his country. To know his country look at it’s friends. To maintain an interest in this fantasy is to perpetuate a delusion.
Sadly, from Sadness’s pov, these bovver boys (and girls) who must rule us all are submerging a revolution in social and ecological mores that might have saved us.
….Empty pictures on pages lost in time, so sorry….
Mr. Trump, you are businessman.
NO ! He is a “salesman” nothing more
RT news item.UK Defence minister says PM can launch nukes as first strike if circumstances give cause for this event even if national security is not immediately threatened….
.sounds like UK subs could also target NK???? as well as their russophobic objectives. …….
LOL. So what will happen in very likely scenario that they do not take out their enemy in the first strike? Become fish feed?
Everyone in America that voted for Trump, at least the ones known to me, voted for economic recovery. Or at least an admission that we’ve been on the wrong track since at least George W. Bush and probably sooner.
The “Trump Dump” following his Syrian bombardment, etc, was quite real.
Most common comment: So Hillary won after all? (Variation: Obama got his third term, eh?). It was brief and to the point: He lied to us, the hell with him.
The folks near here, an old industrial town, are working two jobs if they’re lucky and see a No Jobs future if the status quo does not change. They are scared out of their wits. They have no illusions and certainly no ambition to see World War III, or any other half-wit foreign interventions.
Trump might have believed his campaign hype. Then he got in, and the actual rulers told him to back off, chill out, and fiddle while what’s left of the US working class burns itself out.
The end.
No big conspiracy, just an explanation that fits what we see. No reindustrialization, not even any Potemkin bail-outs. Just heading to Third World status at lightspeed. The rulers do not live here so what do they care?
Sorry. Love to say “Crazy Americans just want war” but I guess I live where the work used to get done. And we’ve been tossed out, so far out they forgot we ever existed.
http://www.unz.com/freed/first-transgender-president-trump-becomes-hillary/
Speaking of Durrutti in the Cafe yesterday (I get his email blasts) he was a former regular here, a loveable Anarchist who left (not really in a huff, but more because the Vineyard was too anarchistic and wouldn’t quite follow his unique and interesting perspective, to the letter……my anarchistic counter-spin) and he is, of course in a very good humor because the living reincarnation of his Liberte, from the Delacroix painting in the Louvre (Marine LaPen) is in the final round.
And he gave me that link, by email. Enjoy!
Why worry? Deep down, “He” always felt like “her” and now we should respect his gender change “choice”!
If war breaks out in Korea,there will be a long list of parties responsible for it.
1. The US,they are pushing this crisis to the limit. And actually there would be no “crisis” except for them manufacturing it.North Korea is doing no more than what a sovereign nation has the right to do. They have created nuclear weapons for a defensive deterrent against those that wish them harm.The US,Russia,China,Pakistan,India,France,the UK,even Israel,have nuclear weapons. And no country demands that they disarm. And threatens war if they don’t. The US is in clear violation of the UN Charter. So they are the main ones responsible for this possible war.
2. North Korea,they could end the crisis by doing away with their nuclear program.But in doing so,they would be defenseless against a US attack. And given the attitude the US has towards them.There is a strong possibility that the US would cook up another excuse in the future to attack them.Only an internationally guaranteed treaty would be worth the risk for North Korea to cancel their nuclear weapons program.
3. South Korea and Japan,they support the US aggression against North Korea. Even though they know that they may suffer enormously if war breaks out. They could tell the US they object to its actions against North Korea. And will have no part in supporting them. That US bases in their countries must not be used for aggression against North Korea,or the US bases must be closed down.
4.The UN,was created to prevent war.And under the UN Charter the plotting of aggressive war is the ultimate of World crimes.The UN has done nothing to try to stop this crisis.
And finally.
5. China and Russia,bear responsibility as well. Any war that breaks out might easily affect them.Even if China doesn’t take part in it.So as a matter of self interest if nothing else they need to help stop this potential war.The easiest and simplest way to do that is to negotiate with North Korea. And pledge that China and Russia will take North Korea under their “nuclear umbrella”. That a US attack on North Korea will be as if the US attacked China or Russia. And be responded to in the same manner. And in exchange North Korea would give up their own nuclear weapons program.With the World on the brink of a major war. And very likely a nuclear war. Taking a measure like that is little enough to prevent that potential holocaust.
It amazes me that the World just stands by when we are on the edge of a nuclear nightmare.
Its the British who have now openly announced their utter insanity, for anyone declaring a moral right to use thermonuclear weapons, so threatening to launch a “First Stirke” if they so choose, is insane.
Here we go
https://larouchepac.com/20170426/brits-nuclear-first-strike-jolly-good