For the second time in as many months President Trump went against
the grain of US foreign policy.
I will not
mince words. I was hoping for more from the Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki;
something concrete. Even a small agreement about a quid pro quo in Syria would
have been welcome.
But, given the
level of histrionics on display in the US media and on the left I guess I
should have tempered my expectations. Cries of Trump being guilty of ‘treason’
and ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ are rampant.
And they aren’t
going to stop.
Crying treason
for opening up diplomatic contact with a foreign leader whom we are not at war
with is beyond hyperbole. It is the height of insanity. And I don’t use that
term lightly.
Trump’s
opponents both from members of the Deep State and media as well as those
citizens supporting ‘The Resistance’ are so unhinged they have become indistinguishable
from Colonel Jack T. Ripper from Dr. Strangelove.
I swear I saw a
tweet from Obama Administration CIA Director John Brennan discussing bodily
fluids, but I may have misread it.
They have
nurtured their own angst and denial at having lost an election they have
erected a bogeyman in Vladimir Putin as the only way in which the disgusting
Trump could possibly have won.
And the Deep
State of permanent government has cultivated this psychological poison
perfectly. Now there are truly millions of otherwise normal people frothing at
the mouth about everything Trump does is proof that he is the puppet of Putin,
his evil master.
This has placed
them firmly in the camp of wanting perpetual, undeclared war with everyone
Trump wants peace with.
All because
they don’t have the emotional maturity to accept reality.
And Trump,
never one to miss an opportunity to twist the knife, in a moment of near
sublime statesmanship during the post-summit press conference declared, “I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk
peace in pursuit of politics. I will not make decisions on foreign policy in a
futile effort to appease partisan critics, the media, or Democrats who want to
resist and obstruct.”
That statement
won his candidates the mid-term elections and likely won him re-election in
2020. It’s a statement that he can campaign on and give not only his base a
boost but convince even more of the political center to reject the insanity of
the left and side with him.
After all, he
just put something above politics and that something is the very thing that got
him elected in the first place, peace.
And that is
eternally to his credit.
It is also in
stark contrast to his ill-conceived bombing of the Al-Shairat airbase while
hosting Chinese Premier Xi Jinping in April of 2017. This was an act of pure
political optics, designed to appease his virulent critics.
But, as he learned from that act and many others since
then, nothing will appease these people than his removal from the office. The
Resistance needs it to vindicate their descent into madness. The Deep State
needs it to ensure the gravy train keeps flowing.
There are too
many cozy relationships at risk, too many think tank jobs on the block, and too
many weapons contracts at stake and too many more taxpayer-funded junkets to
attend for Trump and Putin to remake the post-WWII political order.
Putin, for his
part, was obviously firm in his dealings with Trump. There were many rumors of
offers being made which were rejected. As myself and many others have pointed
out, Trump didn’t have much to offer Putin in concrete terms on many of the
outstanding issues of the day.
I believe the
only thing they can agree on is that Syria is nearly settled in Assad’s favor
and all that needs to be done now is convince the Israelis and Iran to behave
themselves. In all of the furor over Trump’s meeting with Putin this tweet from
uber-hawk and MIC-mouthpiece, Senator Lindsay Graham is the most telling.
“It is beyond absurd to believe that Russia will ‘police Iran’ or
drive them out of Syria. Iran is Assad’s biggest ally – even more so than
Russia. Russia policing Iran makes about as much sense as trusting Russia to
police the removal/destruction of chemical weapons in Syria.” -- Lindsay Graham, July 16th
No one that I
know of other than myself and a very small handful of equally obscure political
commentators have broached the subject of Russia policing Syria after the US
picks up and leaves as any Grand Bargain for Middle East Peace.
Remember,
Graham was just in Syria trying to drum up further support for Kurdish
independence in a clear attempt to undermine what he just told everyone what
Trump’s plan was.
So, to me, this
signals strongly that peace in Syria is what Trump and Putin discussed at
length in their meeting and why the Deep State has so thoroughly gone off the
deep end. Graham just told everyone what the plan is, folks.
And the
plan is peace in the Middle East.
Trump and Putin
both referenced working with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to craft
a post-Civil War plan of action in Syria. Putin mentioned restoring Syria to
the 1974 border of the Golan Heights while Trump made it clear he no longer
wants our people there.
Moreover, Trump sent an envoy from the US to
sit down and talk peace with the Taliban in Afghanistan, putting paid Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo’s assertion that the US is ready to talk. Lindsay must be
shaking in his thigh-highs over the prospect of this as well.
Remember, the
US only negotiates when it knows it is losing. Empires dictate terms, they
don’t sue for peace.
And that is
exactly what Trump is beginning to do with Russia on a number of fronts across
Central Asia. And for this he is being vilified by his opponents for being a
traitor. A traitor to what?
Chaos.
