After three weeks as president, Donald Trump
has turned out to be “same as the old boss,” definitely when it
comes to US foreign policy. The short explanation is every
US president merely plays a puppet figurehead role, taking his orders directly
from the New World Order elite and their neocon surrogates, fast moving
us towards one world government tyranny that will be the ultimate outcome of a
simultaneous collapse of the global economy timed with the
launch of another world war.
Just as there was no difference between the same neocon
interventionist aggression displayed under Obama and the war crime-ridden
Bush-Cheney administration, President Trump is now also marching quickstep down
that same seamless path towards world war as did Obama. Regardless of who or
what party occupies the White House, the one constant is an aggressive foreign
policy delivered by deep state neocons entrenched in Washington power for
many decades now. And the neocons take their orders from the ruling elite.
Trump, the candidate promised a major shift
in US foreign policy towards a far more sensible, even planet-saving, non-interventionist, “America first” approach,
avoiding the constant meddling entanglements in other nations’ internal affairs
that only polarizes the geopolitical chessboard towards increasing global
conflict. It appeared as though the United States might finally be free of the
near four decade-long bipartisan neo-conned control bent on maintaining US
Empire at all cost, insisting on the status quo of
unipolar sole world superpower hegemony and full frontal military dominance.
The neocons refuse to live in a world where power is shared with emerging
regional players Russia and China.
And since neocons are still in control in
Washington, after just three weeks in the White House, it’s already
disturbingly clear that the Trump presidency will be no different from the
rest, racing full speed ahead, plunging the earth straight into a homicidal if
not suicidal course toward World War III. Be it through escalating existing
wars in Syria and Ukraine that lead to bigger wars
with Iran, China and Russia, the Bush-Obama-Trump regime
seems hell bent on world destruction. Meanwhile, even at home, Washington’s
ever-rising authoritarian control and the violent anti-Trump mania are creating
conditions ripe for even a domestic civil war to break out.
Evidence of this disastrous road we’re
already traveling at breakneck speed on is overwhelming. Just the fact that Elliot Abrams, a neocon from way back to the
Reagan-Bush senior-Iran Contra days is currently up for consideration as deputy
secretary of state, speaks volumes that we’re about to be pushed off the
doomsday cliff.
This presentation will focus on specific
actions that the Trump administration has already completed that provide more
than enough proof that we’re perhaps just weeks if not months away from
escalating yet more catastrophic war. This analysis addresses the likelihood of
imminent global war based on the three-year-old violent conflict in Ukraine
ratcheting up now, and how that hotspot is being used to undermine, neutralize
and effectively reverse promises that Trump the candidate made to cooperate
with Putin. The bottom line is neocon forces greater than the president still
holds the agenda to continue to demonize Putin in their race to global war.
Reminiscent of the tag team duo of the
corporate press working in tandem with the federal government, first we had
Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham over in Ukraine egging on the US
illegally installed puppet neo-Nazi regime in Kiev to launch yet another offensive into the former Ukraine eastern
provinces, now the Donbass region on January 2nd as a new year’s prelude of what’s to come
in 2017. Then like predictable, synchronized clockwork, US mainstream media as
typically represented by a February 1st Foreign Policy article was quick to claim that Putin
delivered the Trump administration its first foreign policy test. The hit piece
falsely charged Russia with firing off the countless rocket and artillery
rounds at Ukrainian forces, killing a dozen Kiev soldiers the last few days of
January. Another MSM war propaganda headline, this time Newsweek’s, read “While Trump Fiddles,
Putin Steps Up The War In Ukraine.”
These articles emphasize that the renewed
volley of Russian “aggression” came just one day after Trump and
Putin’s hour long first phone conversation agreeing to work peaceably together
as partners fighting the common ISIS/al Qaeda enemy as well as forging a plan
to diminish hostilities in Ukraine. As is typical of Western press to vilify
Putin, Foreign Policy conspicuously plants the notion that Putin
launching artillery strikes in Ukraine has already proven he is betraying
Trump’s trust.
The piece goes on to report that the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
contends that Russia unilaterally stepped up its shelling against Kiev forces
to the extent that after 2600 counted rounds fired on January 29th, so many
came later that OSCE lost track. As far back as a decade ago Putin exposed OSCE as a propaganda front for Western aggression in Ukraine as
well as throughout Eastern Europe to further its own imperialistic and
geopolitical interests to encircle, isolate and weaken Russia. Of course, that
has been the US foreign policy all along with both Russia and China.
The 2014 conflict erupted in eastern
Ukraine after the Russian ethnic majority residing in Donetsk and Lugansk voted
in a spring referendum for their independence from Ukraine, prompting the Kiev
government to invade the Donbass region to oppose the freedom fighting
separatists. Once again the West backing Ukraine is lined up on the wrong side
of history as Kiev has engaged in ethnic cleansing and as of two years ago
killed over 10,000 civilians in Donbass. In the meantime,
Kiev has made repeated accusations that OSCE is failing its assigned task as a
neutral monitoring observer but instead favors the Donetsk People’s Republic
(DPR) military. This underlying dynamic may contribute to OSCE now pointing the
finger at Putin as the latest aggressor, as a demonstration to Kiev and the
West that it can act “impartially.”
In any case, an anonymous defense official
reiterated the Pentagon’s position that it was anticipating Putin aggression in
Ukraine designed to assess what he could get away with early on in the Trump
administration. The US defense propagandist stated to FP:
This is all very calculated to have this
open, bleeding sore on Ukraine’s body politic that will allow [Russia] to
manipulate the situation and the politics of the country, and thereby keep
Ukraine in this post-Soviet kleptocratic orbit.
The FP article goes on to innocuously slip in
a sentence that’s clearly intended to soften Ukraine’s long planned Donbass
offensive backed by US war hawks McCain and Graham, clearly violating the 2014
Minsk cease-fire agreement:
Ukrainian forces also appear to be
advancing into the no man’s land separating government-controlled territory
from rebel-held areas…
Reports from on the ground indicate that
the real aggressor on January 28th was the Ukrainian army that began shelling DPR forces. The Kiev military
moved on the offensive south of Donetsk, only to encounter minefields, in large
part accounting for the couple dozen fatalities. Accusing DPR of a false flag
attack was mainly to recruit Western sympathy, material support and more
mercenaries for the unstable Poroshenko regime that’s steeped in political
corruption and economic upheaval.
Earlier in the month the McCain-Graham envoy had promised additional
support for another campaign into Donbass despite never having any legal
authority, as still acting President Obama at least officially did not send
them abroad. Thus, the bobsy twins may have in effect violated the Logan Act of
1799 which prohibits Americans in foreign countries operating outside
presidential authority to interfere with foreign policy as set by the
president. For their undermining the Trump presidency and ceaseless
warmongering, even Trump called them out for their latest devious ploy to
trigger World War III.
The fact that Trump has made statements
during his campaign indicating that he would be open to normalizing relations
with Moscow, lifting sanctions and advocates disbanding NATO poses a serious threat to the likes of the two
treasonous senators and their nucleus of neocon policymakers who’ve been consistently
aiming to provoke war against Russia for over three years now. Ever since the
February 2014 US induced Kiev coup and a month later Putin’s legal annexation
of Crimea after the ethnic Russians in Crimea voted overwhelmingly to rejoin
Russia (which from 1783-1954 Crimea had always been part of Russia). And then even from 1954-1990,
Crimea was part of the Soviet Union as a USSR state within Ukraine, but still
belonged to the nation that was the USSR.
While Obama was still president and the
chicken hawk senators snuck over to Ukraine, Kiev then waited till after Trump’s
inauguration before unleashing its greenlighted invasion further into Donbass.
The Kiev military incursion has far more to do with testing what Western-backed
Ukraine can get away with on both Trump and Putin’s watch than any Putin
testing of Trump waters. After all, Putin once again is not the aggressor. The
offensive was solely executed so Empire neocons could sabotage the Trump-Putin
relationship and prevent peace from breaking out. Only war is permitted by the
Washington evildoers.
As part of the anti-Moscow propaganda to
justify the latest Kiev military campaign, the Ukraine defense minister accused a Russian oil rig in the
Black Sea of firing upon and damaging a Ukraine Navy transport plane. A Russian
defense ministry spokesperson denies any Russian ground fire occurred,
reporting that the Ukrainian plane was merely warned with four flash signals by
rig security that the plane was flying too low, endangering Russian personnel
working on two oil rig platforms and nearly hitting a rig tower in two
simulated fly-overs. These types of aerial aggression stunts are common forms
of intimidation and provocation used for propaganda purposes as yet another
false flag to further justify war escalation and retaliation. The just retired
NATO deputy secretary general pounced on it, claiming the incident proves that
Russia is not at all interested in peace with Ukraine. In his words:
[The Kremlin] may be trying to test the new
administration to see if they distance themselves from Kiev, and tell [Ukraine
President] Petro Poroshenko that he has to make the best deal with Russia,
which of course would destroy him politically.
Last week formerly disgraced CIA director
General David Petraeus testified before the House Armed
Services Committee. It’s a bad sign when Congress seeks the “expert” testimony
from a top US spy who lied to the FBI after violating the Espionage Act,
breaching national security by handing over highly classified material to his
mistress. Prior to that crime, the war criminal was a military war commander on
two fronts. Petraeus was singularly the most responsible general for causing
the sectarian civil war in Iraq that eventually led to the ISIS Sunni invasion
as well as contributed to the US still ongoing military defeat in Afghanistan.
Petraeus trained Shiite death squads that killed thousands of Sunnis who later
became Islamic State terrorists.
And it was Petraeus who wrote the war bible
– the US Army Counter-Insurgency (COIN) manual – that strategically defined how
America’s twenty-first century wars would be fought and lost, at enormous costs
and wastes replacing many military functions with private civilian security
contractors (such as hired mercenaries like Blackwater) in a failed
“nation-building” attempt to imperialistically “democratize” the Middle East,
proving a complete humiliating disaster in both Iraq and Afghanistan. But
Petraeus’ notorious career of abject failures has now apparently earned him the
status of a foreign policy guru. On February 1st the guru warned the House:
[Putin] understands that, while
conventional aggression may occasionally enable Russia to grab a bit of land on
its periphery, the real center of gravity is the political will of major
democratic powers to defend Euro-Atlantic institutions like NATO and the EU.
You can see where all this is going.
Petraeus reporting that Russia, China, Iran as well as the terrorists all pose
an “unprecedented threat” is part of the staged war prepping narrative. The
Washington political war machine is in full swing, ensuring that an alliance
with Russia can never happen, despite whatever Trump the candidate may have
uttered. That was then, this is now. So war in Ukraine once again becomes the
bogus rallying cry to ensure the US-EU-NATO glue sticks together against those
“imperialistic, warring” Russians bent on splintering centuries’ old allies.
The elite and their neocons will not allow Brexit, strained Washington-Brussels
relations or Trump nationalism ever get in their way.
Western press explains the enormous troop
buildup of US-NATO forces complete with US-German-NATO tanks amassed along the Baltic state-Russian border
to “protect” NATO allies from big bad Russian expansion. This again is all
fabricated prewar propaganda prepping us for the war to come. Trump the
candidate grumbled how once he becomes president, Europe will need to pay for
its own defense. The former secretary general of NATO called that “a breach of
solidarity” with Europe, warning:
The Russians would see that as a bonanza
that they would try and exploit by convincing countries like Bulgaria and the
Czech Republic that the US couldn’t be counted on.
Another lockdown to prevent thawed
Russia-US relations is the rigid adherence to extending economic sanctions
against Russia over Crimea and Donbass. After Trump the candidate had hinted to
lift the sanctions, UK Prime Minister Theresa May rushed to Washington to ensure they stay
in place and that Trump renews US commitment to NATO. GOP faithful like McCain threatened to pass
laws to codify the sanctions should Trump let up. So you can see that the
anti-Putin vilification and cold war still rage on with the latest lying
rhetoric and external threats brought to bear against the US president to stay
with status quo or else.
And to prove that Trump the president has
succumbed to holding the anti-Russian hardline, Trump’s brand new UN ambassador
Nikki Haley on her very first day at the
office sounded the alarm at the UN Security Council, mimicking the same broken
record as her neocon predecessor Samantha Power:
I must condemn the aggressive actions of
Russia. It is unfortunate because it is a replay of far too many instances over
many years in which Unites States representatives have needed to do that…
Unites States continues to condemn and call for an immediate end to the Russian
occupation of Crimea. Crimea is a part of Ukraine. Our Crimea-related sanctions
will remain in place until Russia returns control over the peninsula to
Ukraine.
In response a Russian senator tweeted:
It looks like the new US representative at
the UN came with remarks that were written by Power.
Nikki Haley obviously received her orders
from above to slam Russia despite the US-Kiev collusion to recently renew
aggression towards the citizens of Donbass. She also showed ignorance in
failing to know that Crimea’s Ukrainian history was short. It was illegally
annexed by Ukraine in 1990, thus the Black Sea peninsula was
forcibly part of Ukraine for less than a quarter century. Yet the entire
pretext for the US condemning Russia over Ukraine is completely based upon a
lie. So are the sanctions, and so will the coming war. Again, this entire
anti-Russian false narrative is such a nauseatingly tiresome US theme.
American exceptionalism means the murderous world bully
can continue operating with total impunity while wrongly accusing Russia
constantly, or any other nation in its crosshairs, of the exact same sinful
crimes that Empire perpetrates every single day of the year. Empire’s European
vassals and smaller intimidated countries must silently toe the line or else
they too will be unjustly targeted with lies and punishment in the form of
illegal invasions and wars (be it US boots on the ground or proxy allied
mercenary terrorists), inhumane economic sanctions, trade embargoes, regime change coups and assassinations.
The only guilty nation that remains judge,
jury, and executioner in this world of other countries is the United States.
And Trump has already demonstrated as the White House figurehead that he is not
in control but follows his globalist marching orders. Thus Trump is powerless
to change rigid foreign policy still being dictated by the neocons. Nothing
will change in Ukraine except more death and violence will escalate to the
larger arena. Russia is still the West’s scapegoat as is every other nation
that asserts its own will and independence free of the killing Empire. Only the
US has invaded dozens of sovereign nations, initiated more wars and maintained
the most aggressive foreign policy of any nation on earth over the last
century. But it’s always Russia that’s the falsely accused aggressor that
Washington and its corporate media endlessly hype in order to further justify
Empire aggression and violence. After all, war has always been an American
agenda.
Joachim Hagopian [send him mail] is a West Point graduate and
former US Army officer. He has written a manuscript based on his unique
military experience entitled “Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down.” It
examines and focuses on US international relations, leadership and national
security issues. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in
Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health
field for more than a quarter century. In recent years he has focused on his
writing, becoming an alternative media journalist. His blog site is at http://empireexposed.blogspot.com.