Our previous articles concerning President
Trump have caused some fierce reactions from our readers. Some of them have
been wondering about the naïvety apparently displayed by Thierry Meyssan
despite the warnings issued by the international Press and the accumulation of
negative signals. Here is his response, well-reasoned as always.
Two weeks after his investiture, the
Altantist Press continues its work of disinformation and agitation against the
new President of the United States of America. Trump and his new collaborators
are multiplying declarations and gestures which are apparently contradictory so
that it is difficult to understand what is going on in Washington.
The anti-Trump campaign
The bad faith of the Atlantist Press can be
verified for each of these four main themes.
1. Concerning the beginning of the dismantling of Obamacare (20
January), we are obliged to report that, contrary to what is being announced in
the Atlantist Press, the underprivileged classes who should have benefited from
this system have avoided it en masse. This form of «social security» turned out
to be too expensive and too directive to attract them. Only the private
companies who manage this system have been truly satisfied with it. 2. Concerning the prolongation of the Wall at the Mexican border (23
to 25 January), there is nothing xenophobic about it – the Secure Fence Act was
signed by President George W. Bush, who began its construction. The work was
continued by President Barack Obama with the support of the Mexican government
of the time. Beyond the fashionable rhetoric about «walls» and «bridges»,
reinforced border systems only work when the authorities of both sides agree to
make them operational. They always fail when one of the parties opposes them.
The interest of the United States is to control the entry of migrants, while
the interest of Mexico is to prevent the import of weapons. None of that has
changed. However, with the application of the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA), transnational companies have delocalised, from the United
States to Mexico, not only non-qualified jobs (in conformity with the Marxist
rule of «the tendency of the rate of profit to fall (TRPF)», but also qualified
jobs which are performed by under-paid workers («social dumping»). The
appearance of these jobs has provoked a strong rural exodus, destructuring
Mexican society, on the model of what happened in 19th century Europe. The
transnational companies then lowered wages, plunging part of the Mexican
population into poverty – which now only dreams of being correctly paid in the
United States itself. Since Donald Trump has announced that he intends to
remove the US signature from the NAFTA agreement, things should return to
normal in the years to come, and satisfy both Mexico and the United
States [1]. 3. Concerning the abortion issue (23 January), President Trump has
forbidden the payment of federal subsidies to specialized associations which
receive funds from abroad. By doing so, he has warned those specific associations
that they must choose between their social objective to help women in distress
or being paid by George Soros to demonstrate against him – as was the case on
21 January. This decree, therefore, has nothing to do with abortion, but with
the prevention of a «colour revolution». 4. Concerning the anti-immigration decrees (25 to 27 January), Donald
Trump announced that he was going to apply the law – inherited from the Obama
era – in other words, to expel the 11 million illegal foreigners. He has
suspended federal aid to those cities which announced that they would refuse to
apply the law – where will we get our cleaning ladies if we have to declare
them? He specified that among these illegal immigrants, he would begin by
expelling the 800,000 criminals who have been the object of criminal
proceedings, in the United States, Mexico or elsewhere. Besides this, in order
to prevent the arrival of terrorists, he has suspended all the authorisations
for immigration to the United States and has placed a three-month ban on people
from countries where it is impossible to verify their identity and their
situation. He did not draw up the list of such countries himself but referred
to a previous text from President Obama. For example, here in Syria, there is
no longer a US embassy or Consulate. From the point of view of the
administrative police, it is, therefore, logical to put Syrians on this list.
But this can only concern a minimal number of people. In 2015, only 145 Syrians
managed to obtain the US «green card». Aware of the numerous special cases
which might arise, the Presidential decree allows all liberty to the State
Department and Homeland Security to issue dispensations. The fact that the
application of these decrees was sabotaged by civil servants opposed to
President Trump, who applied them with brutality, does not make the President
either a racist or an Islamophobe.
The campaign led by the Atlantist Press
against Donald Trump is, therefore, unfounded. To pretend that he has opened a
war against Muslims, and to evoke publicly his possible destitution, even his
assassination is no longer simply bad faith – it’s war propaganda.
Donald Trump’s objective
Donald Trump was the first personality in
the world to contest the official version of the attacks of 9/11, on television
that very day. After having noted that the engineers who built the Twin Towers
were now working for him, he declared on New York’s Channel 9 that it was
impossible that Boeings could have burst through the steel structures of the
towers. He continued by stating that it was also impossible that Boeings could
have caused the towers to collapse. He concluded by affirming that there had to
be other factors of which we were as yet unaware.
From that day on, Donald Trump has never
ceased to resist the people who had committed those crimes. During his
inaugural speech, he emphasized that this was not a passage of power between
two administrations, but a restitution of power to United States citizens, who
had been depriving of it [for sixteen years] [2].
During his electoral campaign, once again
during the transitional period, and again since he took office, he has repeated
that the imperial system of these last years has never benefited US citizens,
but only a small clique of which Mrs. Clinton is the emblematic figure. He
declared that the United States would no longer attempt to be the «first», but
the «best». His slogans are – « Make America great again» and «America first»
This 180° political turn has shaken a
system which has been implemented over the last 16 years and has its roots in
the Cold War, which, in 1947, only the United States wanted. This system has
gangrened numerous international institutions, such as NATO (Jens Stoltenberg
and General Curtis Scaparrotti), the European Union (Federica Mogherini), and
the United Nations (Jeffrey Feltman) [3].
If Donald Trump is to reach his objective,
it will take years.
Towards a peaceful dismantling of the
United States Empire
In two weeks, many things have begun, often
in the greatest discretion. The booming declarations of President Trump and his
team deliberately spread confusion and enabled him to ensure that the
nominations of his collaborators were confirmed by a partially hostile
Congress.
We must understand that it’s a fight to the
death between two systems that has just begun in Washington. Let’s leave the
Atlantist Press to comment on the often contradictory and incoherent statements
by this one or that, and look at the facts on their own.
Before anything else, Donald Trump made
sure that he had control over the security apparatus. His first three
nominations (National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Secretary of Defense
James Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly) are three Generals who
have contested the «continuity of government» since 2003 [4]. Next, he reformed the National Security
Council to exclude the inter-army Chief of Staff and the director of the
CIA [5]
Even though the latter decree will probably
be revised, it still has not been. Let us note in passing that we announced the
intention of Donald Trump and General Flynn to eliminate the post of Director
of National Intelligence [6]. However, this post has been maintained and
Dan Coats has been nominated for it. It transpires that talk of its suppression
was a tactic to demonstrate that the presence of the Director of National
Intelligence in the Council was enough to justify the exclusion of the Director
of the CIA.
The substitution of the word «best» for
«first» leads to the engagement of partnerships with Russia and China, rather
than a tentative to crush them.
In order to hobble this policy, the friends
of Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Nuland have relaunched the war against the Donbass.
The important losses they have experienced since the beginning of the conflict
have led the Ukrainian army to withdraw and put paramilitary Nazi militia in
the front line. The combats have inflicted heavy civilian casualties on the
inhabitants of the new popular Republic. Simultaneously, in the Near East, they
have managed to deliver tanks to the Syrian Kurds, as planned by the Obama
administration.
In order to resolve the Ukrainian conflict,
Donald Trump is looking for a way to help to eject President Petro Poroshenko.
He, therefore, received at the White House the head of the opposition, Yulia
Tymoshenko, even before he accepted a phone call from President Poroshenko.
In Syria and Iraq, Donald Trump has already
begun operations in common with Russia, even though his spokesperson denies
it.The Russian Minister of Defence, who had imprudently revealed it, has ceased
to say anything on the subject.
Concerning Beijing, President Trump has put
an end to US participation in the Trans-Pacific Treaty (TPP) – a treaty which
had been conceived in order to inhibit China. During the period of transition,
he received the second richest man in China, Jack Ma (the businessman who
confirmed – «No-one has stolen your jobs, you spend too much on war»). We know
that their discussions touched on the possible adhesion of Washington to the
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). If this were to be the case, the
United States would agree to cooperate with China rather than hindering it. They
would participate in the construction of two Silk Roads, which would make the
wars in Donbass and Syria pointless.
In matters of finance, President Trump has
begun the dismantling of the Dodd-Frank law which attempted to resolve the
crisis of 2008 by averting the brutal collapse of the major banks («too big to
fail»). Although this law has some positive aspects (it’s 2,300 pages long), it
establishes a guardianship of the Treasury over the banks, which obviously
hinders their development. Donald Trump is also apparently preparing to restore
the distinction between deposit banks and investment banks (Glass-Steagall
Act).
Finally, the clean-up of international
institutions has also begun. The new ambassador to the UNO, Nikki Haley, has
requested an audit of the 16 «peace-keeping» missions. She has made it known
that she intends to put an end to those which seem to be inefficient. From the
point of view of the United Nations Charter, all such missions will be audited
without exception. Indeed, the founders of the Organisation had not foreseen
this type of military deployment (today, more than 100,000 men and women). The
UNO was created to avert or resolve conflicts between states (never intra-state
conflict). When two parties conclude a cease-fire, the Organisation may deploy
observers in order to verify the respect of the agreement. But on the contrary,
these «peace-keeping» operations are aimed at enforcing the respect of a
solution imposed by the Security Council and refused by one of the two parties
involved in the conflict – in reality, it is the continuation of colonialism.
In practice, the presence of these forces
only makes the conflict last longer, while their absence changes nothing. So
the troops of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) deployed at the
Israëlo-Lebanese border, but only on Lebanese territory, do not prevent either
Israëli military operations or military operations by the Lebanese Resistance,
as we have already seen many times. They serve only to spy on the Lebanese on
behalf of the Israëlis, thus prolonging the conflict. In the same way, the
troops of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, or UNDOF, deployed
at the demarcation line in the Golan have been chased away by Al-Qaïda, without
that changing anything at all in the Israëlo-Syrian conflict. Putting an end to
this system means returning to the spirit and the letter of the Charter,
renouncing colonial privileges, and pacifying the world.
Behind the media controversy, the street
demonstrations, and the confrontation between politicians, President Trump is
holding his course.
Notes:
[1] “Behind
the bipartisan wall”, by Manlio Dinucci, Translation Anoosha
Boralessa, Il Manifesto (Italy), Voltaire Network, 28 January
2017.
[2] “Donald
Trump Inauguration Speech”, by Donald Trump, Voltaire Network,
21 January 2017.
[3] “Germany
and the UNO against Syria”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete
Kimberley, Al-Watan (Syria), Voltaire Network, 28 January 2016.
[4] “Trump
– enough of 9/11!”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire
Network, 24 January 2017.
[5] “Donald
Trump winds up “the” organization of US imperialism].]”, by Thierry
Meyssan, Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Voltaire Network, 31 January
2017.
[6] “General
Flynn’s Proposals to Reform Intelligence”, by Thierry Meyssan,
Translation Anoosha Boralessa, Contralínea (Mexico), Voltaire Network,
1 December 2016.
French intellectual, founder and chairman of Voltaire
Network and the Axis for Peace Conference. His columns specializing in
international relations feature in daily newspapers and weekly magazines in
Arabic, Spanish and Russian. His last two books published in English : 9/11 the Big Lie and Pentagate.
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