by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
A month has passed since Donald Trump was declared president-elect soon to be the 45th president of the United States. Since his win, pundits, analysts, and experts continue to debate the victory – a surprise to most. While the reason/s for this victory depend on one’s perspective, most agree on one thing: Trump is unpredictable.
But is he really?
There is clear indication that US foreign policy will not change course under a Trump administration – it will simply change tactic. Those who continue to believe that the relations with Russia are headed for a reset are more optimistic than analytical. US may deviate from the path previously trodden, but it is still headed for the same goal/s.
Trump resembles Loki – a colorful character in Norse mythology. Similar to Loki, what is thought and said about Trump depends on the source. And similar to Loki, Trump is a trickster, a shape shifter (policy shifter). So to understand him better, we should concentrate on what we do know – his team.
Judging from his picks, Trump considers Islam as the number one enemy, followed by Iran, China, and Russia. The ideology of those he has picked to serve in his administration are supporters of this continuity in US foreign policy, and, contradicts his campaign slogan of ‘non-interference’. Numerous articles analyzing Trump’s choices point to the mindset of his team (click on names to read relevant articles) including Mike Pence , General Flynn, James Mattis, and John Bolton, (see footnote for additional links)[1]
Additionally, Israel’s domination of US policy has never been more apparent. Decades earlier many considered other than occupied Palestine “….the White House occupied territory”. Donald Trump proved them right. His son-in-law Jared Kushner will have an office in the West Wing of the White House. Kushner has financed illegal, Jewish settlements on Palestinian land.
The above stated information is the obvious – what meets the eye. What is more crucial is obfuscated. While Trump has made his position vis-à-vis China, Iran, and “radical Islam” abundantly clear, the media has led us on a different path where Russia is concerned. As such, one could be forgiven for thinking that Trump will reset the button with Russia. In fact, in the scheme of things, Trump is attempting to wean Russia away from China, Iran, and Syria in order to continue and accomplish US goals: Total domination, prevent Russia from re-emerging, contain China, contain Iran, Israel expansion.
It is important to Trump team to weaken both Russia and China by creating a divide between them – favoring one over the other. Trump defends Russia against allegations of hacking. To the unsuspecting eye, he has appointed a seemingly “Russia friendly” Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson (though undoubtedly the hawkish under-secretary of state John Bolton will be behind the wheel). Though under close scrutiny, Tillerson as Secretary of State is certainly not an ‘offering’ to Putin, although but he may well be a Trojan Horse.
What we are told of him is the fact that he is the CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation. That he knows Putin; and that he opposed sanctions against Russia. What we are not told is that he is also a Trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) – a neoconservative think tank. (Click HERE for full description of CSIS). Henry Kissinger, Richard Armitage, and Zbigniew Brzezinski are some of his trustee colleagues at CSIS.
Further, while Tillerson/Exxon has ties to Russia, it also has ties to Ukraine. In 2010, CIA/State Department propaganda voice, Radio Free Europe, announced that “Ukraine has been the target of democracy-promoting Western foundations, such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), for a quarter of a century”. NED’s counterpart in England, the UK funded Westminster Foundation for Democracy was an active partner in the endeavor. It was the Westminster Foundation that coopted the “Ukrainian Foundation for Democracy” – The People’s First Foundation that later same year would become a member of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC).
Senior advisors to the USUBC came from pro-Israel think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and Brookings, and Board of Directors executives selected from powerful players such as Raytheon and Boeing. Exxon joined USUBC in 2010.
Why has the media left out this contentious fact? And is this censorship directed at the West, or at Russia?
It is worthwhile mentioning that Exxon recently signed deals for oil exploration in Iraq and in defiance of the Iraqi government who asked President Obama to halt the exploration for fear that it would cause instability. Of note, Turkey is a part of this deal! Iraqi oil has been exported to Israel by the Kurds, and Israel considers oil from Iraq’s Erbil to be profitable for Israel. Aware of the Israeli domination of Washington, the Iraqi Kurds are in league with Israel and have solicited their help in establishing independence.
As with every other administration before it, the Trump administration will serve Israel. Serving Israel will come at the expense of the region, and Russia. There has always been a conflict between Israel and Russian interests (see for example the Ukraine case HERE). Netanyahu, exuberant with a Trump victory and Kushner in the White House, this week embarked on a visit to two vitally imported states: Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
These two countries have been on Israel’s radar for well over a decade. Since Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are not OPEC members, and both produce high volume of oil, control of these would erode OPEC’s power. US administration promotion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline has been to bypass Iran and Russia.
Netanyahu aims to promote business with Kazakhstan – a founding member of Shanghai Corporation Organization (SCO). The import of SCO in countering American-led ambitions cannot be adequately emphasized. No doubt it is this significance that has renewed Israel’s interest and taken Netanyahu there – to divide, corrupt, and weaken. A similar undertaking was taken with regards to BRICS.
Azerbaijan has particular value for Israel. Israel views Azerbaijan as an ally against Iran and Russia. As reported by JTA in 2002: There were many similarities between Israel and Azerbaijan. “Fear of Iran and radical Islam; suspicion of Russia; friendship with Turkey, and a desire to be part of the West.” It is also hoped that Azerbijan would fan flames of hostility and stir up discontent among the Azari population in Iran.
As the incoming Administration continues to take shape, and we are being distracted with “news”, battle lines are being drawn up. Perhaps the most important thing to remember and believe about Trump is his fondness of ‘surprises’.
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich is an independent researcher and writer with a focus on U.S. foreign policy and the role of lobby groups in influencing US foreign policy.
- Mattis approved by Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) – one of the most powerful Jewish lobby groupshttp://www.jta.org/2016/12/01/news-opinion/politics/trump-taps-gen-james-mattis-an-iran-deal-foe-for-defense-secretary?utm_source=Newsletter+subscribers&utm_campaign=6d358233e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2dce5bc6f8-6d358233e0-25418681
Mattis on Syria and Iran
http://www.vox.com/world/2016/12/1/13718282/pentagon-jim-mad-dog-mattis-trump-iran-hawk-russia-secretary-of-defense-general ↑
I fear for much of that too. Though I think at the beginning Trump might could be used to improve relations with Russia. And to cut US support for the Ukrainian junta. And the jihadis in Syria.He knows those are issues important to Russia. So if he “is” trying to “flip” Russia he’ll need to provide “cake” to start with.After that its important for Russia to not fall for the rest of the US agenda. And since we can see the policies those Trump appointees support. Surely the Russians can too.
I’m pretty sure Putin and Xi Jiping see trough this Washington game. It’s so poorly organized. I can even imagine egoist Trump bragging: “I was smarter than Putin”. Well Donald, you are not. During my life i have noticed how painfully mediocre most of businessmen are.
“Judging from his picks, Trump considers Islam as the number one enemy, followed by Iran, China, and Russia. ”
-Trump himself is very pro-Russian, Flynn is pro-Russian, Bannon is pro-Russian, the secstate Tilllson is very pro-Russian, it would be pretty hard to find any team on earth more pro-Russian then Trumps team.
Like 80% of his team is very pro-Russian and that in a political-media climate that is hysterically anti-Russians and hunts anyone that is pro-Russian. One could argue a bit over Flynn he has made some both very pro-Russian and very anti-Russian statements, but under Trump it is fair to assume his pro-Russian side will bed dominant.
The only anti-Russian one would be Bolton, but he just came out and said all this talk of “Russian hacking” is likely a Obama false-flag. Bolton might be more camoaglone than a neocon, changing his color after whoever he serves.
While I dont agree with these sort of hyper-negative speculations, as in the end, you never know, it is always best to hear both sides, but in this end I must say I have grown very bored with all these speculation, really you can take quotes, or actions or relations someone has hade during their life or currently have and pick and choose and make anyone seem extremely this or extremely that.
In the end we will just have to see what happens, once Trump is in power, but based on his picks, the only ones he could have picked that would be better would have been Ron Paul and Buchanan. What we can say for sure is that Trump is a huge win over Hillary which promised nuclear war with Russia, Trump has also made very many statements regarding Syria and Ukraine, as has his picks that leads us to believe those conflicts will soon be resolved as well. But, all we can do is wait and see. So far Trump seems do be doing just what he said he would do.
And to a bit crudely frank here, I know that many anti-whites want Trump to be corrupt and bad as Obama, because they cant stand the notion that a Christian Conservative heterosexual white old male, their ultimate racial enemy, turns out to be the real anti-establishment while their glorious black hero Obama turned out to be as corrupt as everyone before him, despite – chock, not having white skin.
Trump’s picks are “pro-Russian”? It’s as if you missed all the anti-Russian think tanks and NGO’s that these picks are key players in. And without any actual sources to disprove what the author said based on extensive research. Like all good corporatists, they will pursue profit from all quarters, but would prefer to keep/bring all operations inside US/NATO-friendly jurisdictions. And if that means inciting regime change in all it’s forms to do so, they’ll greedily participate.
More post-truth, bullshit-baffles-brains Trumpian boosterism. This is not logical “opinion”, this is paid for progaganda or parroted talking points from a blindly irrational supporter. The author has provided facts about Trump’s picks, and you provide zero FACTUAL counterpoint.
Again, for new readers, Trump’s only redeeming factor in occupying the Oval Office is he is not Hillary Clinton. No more suitable candidate for POTUS can possibly make it through the 0.001% vetting process (disguised as party politics). Trump was supposed to be the most beatable candidate for Clinton, and Clinton’s well-placed minions have been exposed as deliberately screwing over both Repuglican and Dumbocratic contenders.
I predict that if Trump’s opposition (Rep and Dem) can’t find a way to place Clinton (or any other 0.001%-approved/subservient candidate) in the Oval Office, they will reluctantly pull back all the Congressional powers that have been incrementally shifted to the Executive Branch. Primarily that Congress has to approve any war, and refine the definition of “war” to include covert-ops/spying/cyberwar, economic war and “NGO”-incited regime change. The US-centric PMMIC/0.001% (Political Media Military Industrial Complex) cannot bear to lose control of the Pentagon/DHS/CIA/FBI/NSA golden goose. All Trump’s picks are insiders of the PMMIC, and will not be changing that to become multi-polar, pacifists or even non-Imperialists.
Sorry, I am not antiwhite and I am skeptical of Trump. He seems like any other Republican to me. Keep in mind Regan was the most revolutionary candidate ever even advocating a gold standard. But even he was co-opted. Trump was always an establishment candidate.
There are people who are rooting against Trump because he is white and I’m sure they prefer Obama, but that doesn’t mean he gets a free pass with me. I see a Trojan horse who has co-opted a lot of the Alternative Right and I see where this is going.
1) Ad Hominem statement removed and the use of caps… note to commentator … please read moderation policy prior to posting mod-hs
2) Reagan, revolutionary? Like in Iran-Contra revolutions? Maybe in the running for being the President who was the most obvious puppet of the 0.001%. Ronnie loses to Shrub Bush and Obama tho’.
3) There’s a difference being a card-carrying free-marketeer Republican party member/donor/photo-op-prop and being a part of the Republican Establishment. The rest of the front-runner Rep candidates were in the Establishment, Jeb Bush as the prime example. At least Reagan made a famous speech in support of Barry Goldwater to launch his political career.
4) Trump is really not left, right or center… he’s an all-direction loose capitalist cannon… if he thought real free public healthcare would put profits in banksters and CEO’s pockets, he’d do it. If actually reducing GHG’s made money (carbon taxes don’t count) he’d have us all on clean-energy public transit in less than 4 years. He’s not really all that anti-war, he just sees a UUUGGE waste of money… especially since the US isn’t winning wars or at least gaining free access to all the resources or economic windfalls such wars were supposed to generate, win or lose.
Trump’s first 100 Days will show the extent of his intelligence, management skills and (most importantly) influence with his own cabinet and beyond. At this point we only know he can make a bad TV show/shtick a popular brand and go bankrupt even though he started with more cash than most of us will ever have, and still keeps the banks from calling in all the loans… clever, but Presidential?
The only thing “trojan horse” about Trump is the expectations people have conjured up in their minds, based on what they THOUGHT Trump meant. They thought “Trump isn’t a politician”, so that old truism doesn’t apply… which truism? The one that asks “How can you tell if a politician is lying?… When his lips are moving”… baddump/tish… Won’t y’all be surprised when you find out that in the club of wealthy corporatists, of which Trump is a charter member, lies to the public are at least as common.
Dear moderator:
My point 1) was in response to Anonymous’s reply to me where he stated he was not “anti-white”, and I asked him where I had inferred any racial stereotypes regarding Trump supporters. If Anonymous’s comment was made as a new sub-thread, fine, I would have left him to twist in the web of his own making, but it was in direct reply to my post.
By injecting this “anti-white” term, Anonymous covertly accuses me of saying he was (or other supporters in general were) anti-white, which I did not. Ever. Such accusations are absolutely unacceptable and deserve a strong response. I can see banning/editing messages in all caps as “shouting”, but this tactic of making false accusations of racial profiling, no matter how sneakily, deserves to be given due emphasis. A cap-emphasized word or two serves to impress on an offender of the severity of his transgression, and caught your attention, albeit your grabbing of the wrong end of the stick.
Again, I understand moderation is a difficult, often thankless job, but websites like this cannot afford to allow the trolls to get the upper hand. Accusing other posters of things they didn’t say is Trolling 101.
I would appreciate having this matter correctly adjusted, up to and including having Anonymous’s racial “anti-white” terminology in regards to my post be removed.
Regards
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ModHS, 1st, gratitude to you all for your work. Would it not be sensible if commentators were required to adopt a “handle”, anything at all? Of course it would not completely eliminate obfuscation and confusion, as anybody can lie and type anything, But in practical dialogue the reader wouldn’t be challenged to determine if he is reading a new anon. or the same anon. I find this anon. practice at once lazy and rude, although often the posts are valuable. We readers are here to follow discussions, not solve puzzles. I know I am not alone in this view. You might mention this to our Saker to whom we are all grateful. thanks again dth
Nice try,
My response was not directed to you, bit rather the other Anonymous poster above yours. That poster stated that many anti-white people want Trump to be a bad guy. And I agree with this statement. However, there are also a lot of disenfranchised white people who are pro Trump for no other reason than the feels he gives them.
Neither reason is a good frame to judge Trump through.
Whether a candidate is leftist or to the right doesn’t matter as both sides are controlled. The frame I look through is how a candidate deals with Americas biggest threat, the Anglo-Zionist empire. Trump is the most pro Isreal president ever. And I doubt he will keep us out of foreign entanglements, when American interests are not involved.
Trump being pro Russia and anti Iran and China, is straight from a neo-con playbook as is reflected in his staff picks. This is straight divide and conquer.
Regan, the candidate not the president, really was a revolutionary candidate. He is the one who started with the drain the swamp shtick, that Trump would later copy. But Regan was co-opted. In my opinion, Trump was not co-opted instead he was always a member of the establishment.
He may disagree with many of the things the elites are doing, but he has no desire to return power to the people. He just seeks to do a better job than other establishment types.
Thanks for the clarification, I’m sure lessons learned on all sides to be aware of how the software displays within threads. Short reply as I am mobile at the moment.
I agree. But as you say, we’ll see. After all, “the proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
“…Trump is attempting to wean Russia away from China, Iran, and Syria in order to continue and accomplish US goals: Total domination, prevent Russia from re-emerging, contain China, contain Iran, Israel expansion.”
Exactly! I’m stunned that perceptive analytical people refuse to see this – mostly I think, because they are “russiophiles” and can’t see beyond what is good for Russia. Russia, and its allies, are big enough and strong enough to topple the American empire and Trump is the last hope to stop this new reality from congealing before it is too late. This is their opportunity to try to give the Atlanticists more political credibility within Russia by not having the US as the obvious bully. But the play is to prevent, not simply the emergence of Russia, but the emergence of an economic and political space in Eurasia that 1) doesn’t need/want the AngloZionists and 2) can’t be threatened/defeated by them. This tactic is far more dangerous than the infantile neocon sabrerattling. While I agree that Hillary would have been a disaster, Trump will require a far more deft touch to keep the Chinese, Russians and Iranians onside.
“Trump is attempting to wean Russia away from China, Iran, and Syria in order to continue and accomplish US goals: Total domination, prevent Russia from re-emerging, contain China, contain Iran, Israel expansion.””
I see no evidence for this. None. Another piece of “fake news”.
“Weaning” indicating that Russia and her leaders are infants. They will go where America [i.e. Trump] dictate.
Yeah. Sure. Seen a lot of evidence for that too. Trump will “wean” Russia away from a clearly highly advantageous union with China – how? With what? And Putin will listen to him – why?
Why do people come here pretending to be supporters of Russia when they clearly are nothing of the kind?
The author is presenting a sober realistic analysis of a possible development which should be taken iinto account seriously. When you see evidence it might be too late.
People who truly support Russia are not following blindly every Kreml move and have right to worry about possible bad or stupid decisions.
I support Russia for many reasons, but also because my firstborn grandchild carries the surname of a famous Russian admiral, who is his great grand father, not to mention the war heroes of later. Since this is my future, I see it as my right to support, worry or even get angry at certain decisions or lack of decisions of Russian leaders. People like me are not pretending, they are true to their support.
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Isabella. In that case you dont see reality.
If you look at Trump´s statements the last year he is and will be doing exactly that.
Trump´s whole team is build in the same spirit of world domination, dominating China, dominating Iran, possess Iraq´s oil, increase Israel regional influence, dominate Russia´s resources.
To continue this policy he needs “the allies” (Nato, Japan, Korea) to pay more to the pot.
Same shit as every year James.
No, Isabella is perfectly right, it is fake (Fabian) news. In my opinion it is you and many other Western educated ones (like the author) who see reality almost just as the evil Western system taught, and wants you to see it. You might see relatively small faults in the system, Trump, whatever, but don’t see how the whole system was, and is, led by unspeakably monstrous criminals & liars.
I just read for instance that the Christmas tsunami, where your (Western) government murdered 100.000 Muslims (Aceh) just like that (total 250.000), just because they wanted to intimidate, and thought it might be beneficial to them. Exactly the same goes for the Fukushima tsunami & nuclear eco terrorism.
I get the feeling you (or the author) don’t even see as reality such well documented monstrous crimes, and many, many other things the (Orwellian) system hides for you.
Since you mention the word “Fabian”, I guess you, on the contrary, have been educated in the best universities for seeing every event in the world as a “conspiracy”, including environment/natural catastrophes produced by effect of modern development of human life or human mistakes/negligences, as could be LaRouche organization and InfoWars….
Well, I reckon you’d say anything, Ano, just like e.g. ‘Fabian Society’ Mr. Bliar; drivel, half-truths, flat-out lies, whatever. Of course that’s just my opinion. It is a pity you don’t have a name, though. Bye now.
Do you talk just to hear your own voice? This is symptomatic of far graver problems.
Conspiracies are the grease of word history. To deny that is to be an uneducated lout.
I am sure you would not like to become known as that.
I think real supporters of Russia would be very worried with Trump and “his team”. Period.
As Mrs. Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich so clearly, concisely, an in a fundamented way states, the signs are there for who wants to see them.
From my part, I am starting questioning the real support of Russia from the overwhelming amount of Anglo-US commenters here who, ignoring all those evident signs, are so intensely, and supposedly so blindly, supporting Trump.
To say that you love Russia and that Mr. Putin is “the best and the boss” is not enough when you ignore so clear menaces.
I agree with Mrs.Sepahpour-Ulrich in that the only thing here is that there is going to be a change of strategy, in the best case, a supposed friendly aproach the kind of the last Bush administration in order to see if, at the same time of grabing some participation in the major raw materials Russian corporations, it is possible to offer some “cookies” to the Russians as a way to sow discord amongst them and their Iranian, Syrian and Chinese allies.
Hi elsi! Glad to hear your voice again. ( yes, really)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzD5kJ87BUY ( on the reorganization of Russian ground forces)
Putin and his war cabinet are not at all fooled by anything especially the Chinese. A strategic alliance is just that for them–nothing more and nothing less-and the Chinese took advantage of the 2014 attack on Russia to sign lucrative 30 year oil deals by the way. The West has played at dividing the two off and on over the years.
Thanks for the article–I’ve been waiting for Trump, the real racist, to emerge with his support of Israel and now he plans to push the very divisive issue of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel where the US embassy will reside. That symbol tells you all and his latest pick of the ambassador to Israel is no
surprise either.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/15/trump-israel-ambassador-david-friedman
Just an addendum: staged news is a bit different than fake news or distorted news ( half truths) and disagreement with someone’s opinion does not make their opinion “fake news”. We need to be careful with our memes and clear on what are the basic issues in any discussion. Discernment is called for.
As for who voted for Trump: half the American electorate stayed home not voting at all and are now watching the new televised Shadow Show currently being presented as Nightly News as they read the latest Trump tweet in their hand held devices.
Isabella, this is a comment Trump made well over a year ago:
“One of the things I’ve heard for years and years is never drive Russia into China.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTRbJmYtXc
In other words, Trump has no real love for Russia. It is just a strategic gesture to divide and conquer.
“Trust, but verify.” : )
Believe nothing; question everything.
Thank you Soraya. At last some realism in the debate.
This analysis has a very grounding effect. This kind of approach is very necessary. Trump’s people picks are not the sort to inspire enthusiasm, yet he, and his staff, have been quite rational and reasonable in acts and words so far. The friendly attitude to israel and all the connections are the most troubling in my view. They are also the most perplexing. Why if trump is so pro-israeli are the zio-media and so many of israel’s blatant colonial quislings so against him?
What an excellent question! I have long pondered over this, and continue to do so. Perhaps there are several reasons for this and I am just sharing some thoughts here – and not in any particular order. If anyone can think of other reasons or refute those stated here, I would love to hear. I think two heads (or more) are better than one!
Hostilities could be due to the fact that: 1. The Clinton camp would have been far more successful at bringing on board the “international community” (the term the US likes to use for those who follow its lead) to further US/Israel goals. 2. Trump unveils the real America. America has spent billions over decades on propaganda painting a picture of a non-existent society. It must be very unsettling to be unmasked. 3. In spite of being morally out of sink with the Evangelicals (marriages, affairs, etc.), Trump got their vote. A vast majority of the Evangelicals support Israel, but they certainly do not support Jews ( Rapture and that). 4. Israel needs the victim card to exist and to expand. Trump’s pro-Israel choices undermine the victimhood narrative. 5. The Jewish community (not the State of Israel) feels it has to respond to the discrimination against minorities, Moslems etc. as a reflection of their own past. 6. Internal rivalry between two pro-Israeli camps, the sober, clever “Haim Saban” Brookings type supporters/planners, and the reactionary type such as Adelson, Michael Ledeen (who authored a book with Flynn and is a proponent of the Total War Concept). Then there is the conflict between Pentagon and (some) weapons manufacturers. Bearing in mind that the media magnates and people on the boards of large media-related corporations have close links with the military industry and Washington’s foreign policy. Between 50 and 60 percent of the workforce of the CIA’s most important directorate, the National Clandestine Service (NCS), responsible for the gathering of human intelligence, is composed of employees of for-profit corporations. Corporate intelligence professionals from companies such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others are thoroughly integrated into analytical divisions throughout the intelligence community. Even msm (such as LA Times) could not hold back the fact that the Pentagon and the CIA are in a brawl – especially in Syria . The Pentagon has also been at odds with some of the weapons manufacturers. In fact, shortly before the November 8 elections, WSJ had an article that stated “Lockheed, Pentagon Sparred Over F-35 Contract”. There are many such articles pre-dating the Trump election. And its not a secret that Obama (violently opposed to Trump) was at odds with this military/Pentagon. The internal conflicts are playing out. However, there is a definite but gradual change of tone in the mainstream media (CNN for example) and even think tanks that supported Hillary.
One small correction: the “International Community” is the term Clinton used to define just whom Julian Assange’s act of ‘lese majeste’ had offended.
So it is not as you say, ‘those who follow the lead of the US’. It sooner refers to the so-called ‘Elites’, probably limited to the Five Eyes + Israel, of whom Hillary would count herself very much one.
Her comment about the ‘basket of deplorables’ though it came from someone who likely shed a crocodile tear on Broadway at Les Miserables, very much out-Marie Antoinetted, Marie Antoinette.
I know that the poor girl, Marie, not Hillary, meant no harm by her statement but Hillary certainly did.
She must have seen herself, and the crumbling-away-from-untreatable-siphylis Bill Clinton, as the beginnings of an American Dynasty. And such hoity-toity pronouncements as the ‘bon mot’ which underpin dynastic rule. It was heartwarming to see the deplorables/miserables heave into view in such large numbers. I breathlessly await the erection of the first Guillotine.
Can we surmise that Israel doesn’t want to mess up with Russia? There are 1.2 million Russia-born Jews in Israel. Many claim that they still feel a very deep connection with the Russian culture and Russian literature and look at Russia as a business opportunity.
…BUT IT CONSTANTLY MESS UP WITH RUSSIANS… IN SYRIA,UKRAINE…ETC. I AM SUPRISE MR. PUTIN STLL GOT NERVE DEAL WITH THEM.BUT ACCORDING VISITOR OF KREMLIN KISSINGER ISRAEL AS STATE WILL DISSAPEAR 10YRS FRON NOW…..
“In future, please do not use all CAPITAL letters. -fk mod”
Maybe Israel came to the realization that it is futile to continue to mess up with Russia.
If we assume your article hits the spot (which I think it does), we can also conclude the following:
Everybody in the Jooish dominated Washington establishment are following the same goal of US world domination whether you are Trump, Hitlery or anybody else.
If we have this overall goal its easy to see that the competition between the Trump camp and the Clinton supporting MSM is only an internal power struggle.
The Obama/Clinton/MSM camp failed in their duty to serve NWO and Israel interest in the best way, why the elite simply elected another CEO.
Perhaps one could compare Trumps pro-Israel statements with JFK’s anticommunist rhetoric– something that comes with the territory, so to speak, something that is baked into the clay https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+2&version=GW.
What concerns me however, is iron: how can the creators of the F35 –reserve currency or not– not feel threatened to death by a civilization that produces better hardware at a fraction of the price.
SS-U
I’ve speculated earlier that there might be a conflict in the zionist establishment and trump’s people represent one side, those opposed to him the other. In foreign policy, trump’s announcement about not conducting regime changes or engaging in unproductive wars might have hit a sore spot. Some more speculation on this.
In my opinion, most of the conflicts in the Mideast revolve around israel and that state’s desire to expand their border and also to completely dominate the region. There seems to be two strategies practiced by zionists to achieve these goals.
The current dominant one is that which are in a hurry to break up and subjugate the region. I’ll call them “fast track”. On a larger world scale, they are pushing the aggression against Russia and any country not under direct western oligarch control. They are behind the war on Syria. This group bases their strategy on using conflict to get what they want. With the overwhelming force they have at their disposal, they have been very successful the last 2-3 decades.
The other zionst power group are what I’ll call “slow track”. These guys work all sides to achieve their goals, preferring using business and other methods over direct assault to achieve the same goals. Rather than direct conflict, they work to infiltrate the victims and gradually gain control from within. This appears to be the zionist strategy behind their approach to India.
The zionists often use both these strategies. Their current attack on Russia, while simultaneously more quietly doing business with Russia being an example.
The “fast track” group appears to dominate western media and the current political leadership.
With the above in mind, it’s possible trump’s people are representatives of the “slow track” zio-faction. If so, then the “fast track” see him as a threat to their dominance over western oligarch policy. Something they’ve gotten used to having and are fanatically fighting to maintain.
Outside of zionist power issues, trump recently has said they would look into the F-35, Zumwalt class, and littoral combat ship class procurements. All 3 are essentially pork barrel. This ties into what you wrote about pentagon vs defence contractor conflict. The mic may see trump as a threat because he wants to perhaps cut back on dubious weapon systems, even though he wants to expand the military. They could see him as a threat to their power and “gravy train”.
No doubt there are other aspects of the current western oligarchy which also feel threatened. Ron Paul gave a very interesting interview in which he talked about which sort of dovetail into the discussion here about power in the west and its attitude to trump.
CIA meddled in ‘hundreds’ of elections: Ron Paul talks Russia-blaming, fake news and more on RT
https://www.rt.com/usa/370596-ron-paul-cia-russia-fake-news/
““The American people should be worried about the influence of our CIA in other people’s elections, I mean probably hundreds. It’s constant,” he said, even going as far as to allude to “domestic assassinations” the CIA has allegedly taken part in.
Paul then brought his two points together in describing a sort of shadow government in cahoots with the major media, saying that the anti-Russian narrative was being promulgated in order to “amplify the arguments between Republicans and Democrats,” which he discounted as political theater.
“Our government doesn’t change a whole lot,” Paul explained. “The people, who behind the scenes control the government, are always the same. And I consider that to be the case in most governments.”
“The propagandists are on the side of the people who want us to be intervening around the world, and I imagine that because Trump has suggested maybe we ought to do a little bit less of that, maybe they don’t like that idea, and they want to discredit him for that approach,” Paulthrone,”
One doesn’t usually hear a former american politician be that frank about “the power behind the throne”.
Soraya, great article.
In response to why the Jews in America are so anti Trump, it is because Jews are not a monolithic people.
On certain issues, Jews of all stripes agree such as the need to stop antisemitism. But on others the Jews in America and the Jews in Isreal have different goals and desires.
Jews in America want to reign in Isreal so America can continue ruling the world. Isreal is making it hard for America to rule the Middle East so Obama and American Jews want to reign in Isreal building more settlements and make peace with Iran.
Jews in Isreal want to expand settlement building and topple Iran. Keep in mind Obama’s cold relationship with Netanyahu and you can see that Trump was Bebe’s man.
This isn’t the first time this has happened in history by the way. Not to bring out the old cliche but look at the history of Jews in Nazi Germany.
“Why if trump is so pro-israeli are the zio-media and so many of israel’s blatant colonial quislings so against him?”
I think Zionazi wrath, part of which is doled out for public consumption (courtesy of the Ziomedia), primarily stems from serious concern about lack of control. And it’s not just a matter of the pesky individual as they pretend — Putin isn’t raging and fuming at Israel either but isn’t exactly the darling of the Zionazis, so to speak — but the bigger picture of escalating imperialist crisis. Back in the heydays of triumphant neoliberalism, who were to take seat in the Zionazi Offal Office was a total non-issue, akin to a (very hyped up) sporting event. But after 30+ years of unrestrained Elite lawlessness, greed, and the ensuing accelerating rot and decay of the entire Western Empire, the structure has become so fragile that even the mere figureheads could — however unintentionally — do irreparable damage to it. Hillary, for her part, wouldn’t save the rotting edifice either, but with her it would at least be Armageddon, much less painful and humiliating than a plain defeat.
‘Why if trump is so pro-israeli are the zio-media’
Because it promotes the narrative of Trump’s being ‘non aligned’ with non U.S. interests. It would be quite an easy ruse to promote because no matter what a U.S. leader does for Israel, the AZ’s will always be screaming that it isn’t enough. That automatically makes is seem as if the administration’s actually in variance with AZ policy.
Regardless of Trump’s final goals, he will have to, at least temporarily, relax the Zionist’s jaws around Russia. This is all Russia really needs – a bit of time to keep rebuilding its strength and to become fully disentangled from the Anglo-Zionist matrix. The same goes for China and Iran.
I’m sure that Russian leadership is fully aware of what is taking place.
The question is will the time provided by this respite be used to further Russian/Chinese alternatives to Empire or will the Atlanticists regain enough credibility to seduce Russia to discard or at least minimize its eastern orientation. We cannot overlook the still significant fifth column in Russia’s government and how Trump’s election will breathe new life into that moribound group. Once that group have an argument to refuse further nationalist economic policies, they will “work to rule” to slow that progress to a crawl. Perhaps all this just makes Saker’s predicted “purge” of Atlanticist functionaries more likely, as Putin may determine to rid his government of those bureaucrats who are blocking his policies… we can only hope. Pulling your head out of the lion’s mouth is a delicate affair.
I am still interpreting this as conflict within the deep state and among the American elites. A significant group of powerful people wanted a pivot towards Russia. Others, especially sophisticated psyops folks, are still anti-Russia. Did anyone catch the stories and campaigns about East Aleppo recently? They are shining with the grease of a highly organized PR campaign.
Soraya is right — the idea that Trump is a lone wolf should clearly be excluded. He is going to remain Zionist and pro-business. However, he’s also free from the shackles of a significant wing of the American establishment and they’re very angry about it.
We’ll see about Trump…. But in my opinion the USA is a corporation not a country and Trump is the newly selected CEO who had better satisfy the corporation’s board. Maybe he’s there to do a successful(for the principal shareholders) bankruptcy or just to do deals in the corporation’s best interest. Whatever, private enterprise especially in the USA don’t like competition….free trade ain’t so much fair trade, so we’ll see.
Whoever he or she may become this future potus, i wish the best of luck to the rest of us.
Trump has family ties to the Tribe. He will support Israel.
Apart from that obvious prediction everything else in the article is speculation or falsehood.
Listen to Trumps recent hour long thank you speech in Ohio. If the detractors cannot see an authentic, spontaneous and intelligent human being with a long list of positive commitments, to family, jobs, infrastructure, reigning in warmongering, then they are sick in the head.
Of course we must wait and see.
What we can say now is that negative speculation without foundation IS harmful in the present.
Trump ist most likely Crypto-Jewish.
mileswmathis.com/trump.pdf
@…Trump is attempting to wean Russia away from China, Iran, and Syria in order to continue and accomplish US goals: Total domination, prevent Russia from re-emerging, contain China, contain Iran, Israel expansion.”
This is the ‘Great Game’ started by Great Britain in association with US in the 19th Century, theorized by Halford MacKinder in 1904, and played ever since, with US taking the leading role. The reverses suffered by the Anglo-US combo (with the added ingredient of Zionism) in this endeavor have not been severe enough as to deter it from renewed attempts. They continue to think that they would eventually prevail if they refine their tactics.
When it became too obvious that the neo-con tactics of Bush-Obama-Clinton (sanctions, threats) were a sure recipe for disaster, change of course was planned. The sanctions led to the elimination of Exxon from the exploitation of the Arctic, which the Russians had offered it. They certainly want their slice of the pie and for that, they must make it nice with the Russians. I guess that the cooler heads have realized that the insensate policy of sanctions could lead to the total elimination of the ‘West’ from the Russian (actually Eurasian) markets and the perspective of a military victory over Russia is a pipe dream.
They might still nurture the illusion that Russia would fall for their blandishments. The idiotical idea that what motivates Russia’s policies is the craving for ‘their recognition’ is hard wired in their collective brain.
“The idiotical idea that what motivates Russia’s policies is the craving for ‘their recognition’ is hard wired in their collective brain.”
This idea is not totally unfounded, but most definitely idiotic — even bordering on the outright imbecilic — when they apply it to the overwhelming Russian majority (mostly as part of their propaganda sewage directed at their gullible Western subjects). Indeed, the Zionazis do have a ‘Liberal’ 5th column inside Russia, itching for a Gorbachev/Yeltsin style surrender and ensuing Western rapefest of Mother Russia, this time finishing off the country and its people once and for all in exchange for some really juicy bribes.
But now there is yet another problem with the above meme about ‘the grovelling Russians’ that makes it even harder to promote: The West is disintegrating and its glorious Elites have only got sexual depravity, social chaos, war, genocide, and ecocide on offer, both at home and abroad. Liberalism is on its last legs.
Have you forgotten the liberals or merely discounted them? It seems there is a faction that passionately hates all things Russian and would crawl through…… to be accepted by the West. That faction is discredited and in disarray now, but that can change. Certainly the Yelsin days are not so long ago as to consign them to ancient history. Those people are not only still alive but many of them still have significant sway within the government. Caution is required.
I cannot see people behind Trump being able to create distance between Russia and China. After all, their leaders have proven to have a view of a much longer time horizon, and are well aware of the dangers of being played against each other.
As long as they can keep close, be self sufficient, keep building infrastructure and alliances, they will be able to control Trump, since he will always put the economy first.
It would be hard to judge Trump on Israel and the zionists now, as he just has not enough power yet to take them on. Very similar to Putin in 2000 with the olicharchs, who would have predicted he would come out on top?.
There is a big difference.
Putin had a clear political goal of serving Russia, the oligarchs goal were to serve themselves.
Trump and his 3 generals, 3 goldmann sachs, 3 ceo billionaires share the goal of serving their own ambitions of global dominance.
And who’s gonna be the vice president? Hillary. if so there’s worring time ahead anyway.
If a the real motive for a Trump charm offensive is to flip Russia from China the danger would be that this encourages the dropping of the guard of sections of the russian public rather than that of the leadership. Because this could lead to an opportunity for the russian liberal allanticists to increase their influence.
Respect! The best analysis so far on “the Don’s” mission.
Wow! Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich sees right through the fairy tales and states the obvious. Very well analyzed, thanks!
I fully appreciate the in depth critical analytical perspective Ms. Ulrich has proffered us here and one which I find hard to argue with.
That said and given political reality, I nevertheless still can’t see how the American electorate had any other real choice but to vote Trump in and Hillary out, in order to avoid a nuclear confrontation and a world war three scenario with Russia and have any other hope of ever rebuilding the US’s crumpling infrastructure and it’d own industrial economy again.
That being as it may, the question remains, is Trump just another insider beholden to the American empire’s globalist ambitions and a Trojan Horse operative to achieve the same strategic ends (as Hillary) using a different set of tactics?
Which begs the question, is he surrounding himself with tough old military generals, as a guard and defense against the deep state establishment itself, or only just in order to fulfill Hillary’s own neo liberal internationalist globalist agenda for American hegemonic world wide dominance at the expense of the American working and middle class?
Or is he genuinely an old school capitalist American nationalist patriot, leading a populist revolt and a coup against the globalist internationalist bankers and corporations, which by all appearances seem to be waging a relentless media lead counter coup campaign war against him, by doing everything in their power to stop him dead in his tracks from ever becoming the next commander in chief and the US’s 45TH President come January 2017.
As such, we can only wait and see what is the outcome of this latest duel to the death between the deep state’s establishment and their media’s # one, Queen Hillary Clinton and the outsider Russian “Putin loving unwitting agent” President Elect Donald Trump will be.
And should he manage to prevail and become US President in 2017, we will soon enough thereafter see if he is real and what stuff he is actually made of EH!..Ray
PS. As for Vladimir, ever being fool enough to be taken in by any Russia China divide strategy as a result of a Trump re-set in “friendly” US – Russian relations, get real!
Putin was indeed “born yesterday” and he well understands and knows, and ever remembers and will never forget the “Wests” 500 year aggressive vendetta against his own Slavic peoples, his home and native land.
So anyone that’s payed any attention at all to what Putin’s said (and done) will realize and fully understand, Russia will never start another world war, but it will surely END one waged against it. once and for forever more period.
So it behooves all of us here in the west, to put whatever pressure we can on our own mindless, insane leaders to once and for all, cease and desist from warmongering against re-emergent Russian, one of the world’s most powerful thermonuclear superpowers, both for the sake of us here in the west and for all the rest of mankind on the planet.
Can it be made it any clearer here? Don’t fuck with Russia!
Thus as for Trump and Russia versus Hillary Clinton propaganda, I plead no contest your honor and not guilty of any fake news crime.
Fact is that given all of your accusations against Russia, we are only alive today thanks to the patience and mercy of Putin who is doing everything he possibly can to restore our sanity before he reacts to our suicidal first strike doctrinal nuclear polices.
So wake the fuck up Americans and denounce your fucking current warmongering leaders such as Obama and former Sectary of State, running US Presidential candidate anti Russia warmongering Hillary Clinton before it’s to late.
If Trump doe’s nothing more than stop this insanity and avert world war three then he ought be eligible to take over and away Obama’s Noble Peace Prize and recycle it into something useful for all Americans and the rest of the world.
Whatever damage Trump may or may not do to the American economy or social relations it’s all fixable in the long run, but continuing killing of innocents in the middle east and north Africa for empire is not, nor is provoking a Thermonuclear war with Russia (as Hillary has promised to do) resulting in a nuclear winter, something we can’t ever undo in the next election cycle.
So take your pick folks, corrupt warmongering Hillary or wildcard Trump as your next US president, sorry but that’s the only choice you have to make for the sake of of all humanity EH..Ray (from your subject colony here in Canada, to the North and no thanks to your NAFTA deals and our wimp quisling sell out Prime Ministers here) Lest we can manage to crush them here ourselves over time and honor both our distinct cultures and our social economies.
Meanwhile.. Merry Christmas, to everyone regardless of personal religious beliefs. We are all one and beholden to only one God I do believe.
A timely and well-written ‘warning’.
Some observations:
The Barzani/Erdogan/Netanyahu oil troika is not news – and definitely not to the Russians. But the Greater Kurdistan project – on Syrian+Iraqi territory – is pretty much on hold: too much internal dissension among the Kurds, as well as hostility from Erdogan. Even Saleh Muslim, leader of the YPD, is now under house arrest in Ankara, following his about/turn on his secret deal for the GK project in Paris (reported by Thierry Meyssan).
So that particular locus of control is not being realized.
The Azerbaijan/Armenian conflict is part of the plan to keep it weak and dependent on ‘strong’ outsiders, enabled by political corruption. But the Russian-Armenian connection is fairly strong, so that rather counters the plans for Zionist control over the region, using the Azeris.
Hard to see how these issues will pan out….
Re China: Trump’s biggest beef is outsourcing to China of American jobs by corporate America, and the ensuing wage-arbitrage the Wall st banksters have made a fortune on.
It isn’t really a political gripe with China itself, so it depends on what role imported oil will play in his MAGA manifesto: if OBOR threatens it, it will become more political and confrontational. If OBOR is seen as an opportunity, not a threat,
then you will see the ‘art-of-the-deal’ played on bigger stage than the idiot box..:-)
There is no possibility of a Trump administration rolling back the decades-planned Sino-Rus synergy, short of coup/revolution in China. I can’t believe Trump or the better members of his team are that narcissistic/stupid,
Re Israel: Trump is not an ‘Israel-Firster.’ Israel will only benefit as long as it’s percieved to be good for US – not the other way round, family connections notwithstanding.
And don’t forget Bannon is ex-Navy: he is hardly unaware of the bombing of the US Liberty by Israel, his Zio Breitbart credentials aside. A fact that appears to disturb the Ziocons whose media regularly accuse him of ‘anti-semitism’ ( when they’re not calling him a ‘white supremacist’ – the ‘alt-Right’ is a largely Zio-confected fiction to use as a stick to control the Trump admin.)
So I see something of a battle between the Zio-mods and Zio-cons for greater influence, rather than any significant prioritizing of Israel: if they were that confident of control, they wouldn’t be conflicted about it.
And last, Flynn’s top-down control model over the intel/security agencies is definitely causing agitation – especially the upper echelons of the CIA.
The Wikispooks ‘Collateral Damage’ article, posted recently on this site, may offer a clue as to why…
“The Wikispooks ‘Collateral Damage’ article, posted recently on this site, may offer a clue as to why…”
So glad someone here read that!
Katherine
Still reading – along with quite a few others.
Thanks Katherine!
Not only reading but passing it around to the few people I know who are intelligent enough to understand the complexity and the importance of it.
A tripod was missing one leg up to now. We had the military, and the political forensics of one of the most vicious false-flag attacks in history, now we have the financial forensics as well.
Ultimate Policy for Nth State Sovereign Actor derives from culture and geographic and economic environment over centuries. As a developing “Island State” engaged in, from 1492, a successful looting paradigm that has evolved into the “western economic method”, the US is to-day locked into a relationship that it cannot escape without disaster, and which is creating disaster. Accordingly, one may doubt the central assumption of the author – that Trump will take office and rule according to custom and law. The inevitable alternative, ever obvious, is discussed below.
People seem to have voted for Trump out of fear of the female puppet caricature they were offered. I have heard people say that a vote for Trump was “a vote to throw a grenade”, so to speak. And I have heard people say that they fear war and that they see the female person as sure to bring war with Russia. Most rather admire Putin, despite the endless propaganda – at least in a ranching town of 14,000 people on a major river in california… They correctly understand that,whatever their own delusions, things cannot continue as they have done, and they are afraid.
The “inevitable alternative” is a polite way to say “ruin and re-structure”. The post hoc structure remains to be determined, but many have considered this matter – I. Panarin, for one. Many expect regionalisation, or balkanisation… However, if Trump does not function as leader, this process will accelerate. Trump’s clear agenda is to stave off total collapse and to try to salvage what he can – they say he’s an expert at bankruptcy. His real job is to manage the Big One, the US bankruptcy, or to stave it off for a bit longer.
The factions that reject Trump will probably manage to at least castrate him, if not take him to Dallas. If so, they will manage to ruin yet another country. A sober look at the great “achievements” in the Mideast – ruin – suggests that the symmetry of history will visit the same fate on the US… History repeats as farce…and freak show.
At first glance the points made seem worrying. At second take it becomes clear that the author of this analysis has just used the points that reinforce the authors pre-existing view.
Other points that need to be taken into account for a complete analysis is the full scale CIA controlled media warfare against Trump and the fact that without a full military coup or violent revolution, trump will have to work within the system – many of the whitehouse positions to be filled need to be approved by the likes of McCain and Graham. Add to that the continued meme of the foolish Putin easily fooled by the Americans and Zionists.
For who controls the media, look up Robert parry’s articles from several years back based on his reading of the Reagan papers – perception management. https://consortiumnews.com/2016/04/13/the-victory-of-perception-management-2/
The fact that the CIA controlled mainstream media are running a full propaganda assault against Trump, and the CIA itself are leading the allegations that Trump is a Russian agent of some type need to be taken into account for any analysis on Trump.
Nice to see that Russian oriented media has finally figured out Trump. I have to say that Trump’s ‘befriending’ Russia and vilifying China is a pretty good Psy Op. Likely, the so called war within the U.S. intelligence agencies, supposedly due to Trump’s desire to drain the swamp is a ruse. Washington’s Psy Pogroms work by inertia – it may be obvious what they’re up to to any thinking human. But the sheer weight of numbers, garnered by their control of Western MSM pushes their agenda through, assisted by the cognitive dissidence they create.
Great and insightful article.
The only thing shapeshifting about Donald Trump is his orange hair. Its not like he’s fooling anyone and its obvious the only way to defeat Eurasia is to break up Russia and China. All the BRICS apart from China have fallen to internal weaknesses exploited by U.S. hybrid warfare, Brazil being the most obvious example. They may not want to fall apart, but they can be made unworkable by internal chaos.
China has been hit hard by financial warfare and been baited into confrontation in the South China Sea, the latter of which Moscow can’t be sanguine about even if they must be publicly supportive. China is a vital support for the heavily sanctioned Russian economy; without it, rapprochement on Western terms is harder to resist.
While effort is wasted suppressing Fulon Gong, a domestic cult, China’s massive and growing Christian population is fostered by foreign Western evangelicals, and is not a domestic Christian orthodox movement. Either Christian vector challenges the traditional Chinese trinity of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism which is suspicious of the West.
Economic-financial warfare damaging the Chinese middle class drives people to seek religion – Christianity fostered by the West – and organize against corruption – fostered by the West – seems directed at a second Taiping Rebellion.
Such a neo-Taiping movement, a foreign-guided Christian Chinese revolution, would remove once and for all China’s traditional culture and resistance to westernization, which likewise removes its natural-alliedness with Russia. The Hong Kong ‘Umbrella Revolution’ was only a test firing.
The ‘Russian e-mail hack’ controversy has little to do with Russia itself; its a CIA ploy to smoke out the Democratic Party insider leakers.
The Shadow Government mentioned in the Podesta e-mails as handling Hilary’s FBI scandals – Servergate and Foundationgate, clearly doesn’t know who leaked at the DNC and wants to get them. To this end they are creating an international incident with Russia to panic the leakers into the open.
Craig Murray has offered himself up and admitted he’s the Wikileaks operative who delivered the DNC goods to Wikileaks from a courier, assuring everyone the leaker is not Russian, as reported by the Daily Mail and TheDuran. The CIA will want the courier next.
Plus, the FBI has suddenly changed its tune and supports the ‘Russian Hack’ narrative against all evidence this was a domestic internal leak, not a foreign Russian hack, as agreed by many critical intelligence observers.
The best explanation is that the FBI is now in on the sting, adding their heat to smoke out the internal DNC leakers. Arrogant and irresponsible as it is, Russia is being used as a pawn to instigate a domestic panic. The CIA would attack Russia by hackers anyway, just because Russia is there. Resolving and punishing the DNC leak is far more important to the American Deep State and ongoing anti-Russian operations will be made additionally useful to the core goal of exposing the DNC inside leakers.
No one mentions Seth Rich. He was the DNC staffer shot by a handgun with no rifling. He was shot by and untraceable gun, and left with his wallet untouched. This was right after the leaks about the DNC’s sabotaging of the Sanders campaign. Nobody mentions him, may he rest in peace.
What about the promise by Trump on transfer the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?
With what purpose?
A clear provocation.
“Transfer of US embassy to Al-Quds will plunge region into great chaos”
http://www.hispantv.com/noticias/palestina/327589/trasladar-embajada-eeuu-alquds-tension-region
“(…)While Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu expresses his joy at Trump’s promise, Friedman expresses his desire to carry out his mission in ‘the capital of Israel, Jerusalem’.
Friedman, one of Trump’s top campaign advisers, said last October that Israeli settlements built in the occupied West Bank are not “illegal.”
Palestine is absolutely against Trump’s position, since it constitutes “a violation of UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and contravenes United Nations General Assembly resolution 181″ (UNGA).”
Then you have so many here saying that Trump is going to “drain the swamp” which includes, amongst many other things, finishing Israeli managing and lobbying of US foreign policy.
To another dog with that bone, if there is something I can not stand up is people trying to make a fool of me.
It is clear from reading this article and most of the comments that not many hereabouts have actual experience dealing with governments and the reality of the complexity of governing and the role of inertia and “networks”.
An excellent primer in my view is former Counsel to the US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee Michael Glennon’s ” National Security and Double Government”
As an Obama “believer” he authored the book based on his experience at the highest levels of government and adopts Walter Bagehot’s model for understanding the UK’s governing institutions.
From Hope and Change to no hope no change he presents a credible thesis as to why based on actual experience and knowledge.
For sure he’s a CFR guy and too optimistic in many ways, but his understanding of what actually happens and why is arguably the best insider view any civilian is ever going to get.
Trump’s success will be based on bunts, walks and running out infield hits…not home runs. There are many entrenched interests in DC…they are not about to go “quietly into the night”. He has four years at least to try and change the course of the “super tanker of State”. Any expecting radical departures from Clinton, Bush, Obama (and many years of others) are sure to be disappointed.
Pragmatically attacking one foe at a time is the only option if Trump is sincere, and I believe he is.
This article is an excellent analysis that reiterates what analysts like William Engdahl have suggested.
http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO25Nov2016.php
Trump is not being “friendly” to Russia.
He is attempting to sabotage the Eurasian alliance by creating division between Russia vs. China and Iran … by offering a poisoned chalice of “friendship” with Russia.
As Zbig. Brzezinski has stated in his work The Grand Chessboard, the American (Evil) Empire is fundamentally based on dominating and controlling Eurasia and preventing its coalescence:
“For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia… Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia – and America’s global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.” (p.30)
As such, America must play major Eurasian states against each other.
Divide Et Impera is America’s fundamental game in Eurasia–regardless of who is in power, Trump or Clinton:
“…To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.” (p.40)
The Grand Chessboard
http://www.takeoverworld.info/grandchessboard.html
Keeping the “barbarians” from coming together is what Trump’s America seeks to do in Eurasia.
And of course Trump supports Zionist Israel just as much as previous American regimes and will act accordingly against Iran, Syria, and the Axis of Resistance.
It’s curious that many American “anti-Zionists’ have ignored Trump’s Zionist tendencies.
Trump is the Alt-Right version of Barack Obama–false hope and change
Welcome to Change that You Can’t Believe In, the Sequel!
“Why if trump is so pro-israeli are the zio-media and so many of israel’s blatant colonial quislings so against him?”
A famous joke has it that whenever two Jews discuss anything there are sure to be at least three opinions involved. People who are analytical by reflex action are like that.
What is no joke is the widespread misconception that their pursuit of their interests must make them the kind of easily identifiable monolith that other interest/cultural groups are (rural southern evangelicals, inner city Blacks, et al.).
Learn from the example of the USA in the run-up to WW II. The grandparents of today’s Zionist establishment in Israel were working with the National Socialists in Germany to manage its Jewish population for them (active cooperation), rabbi Steven Wise had declared war on Germany (opposition, 1933), ambassadors to the USA privately called it “Baruchistan” (from Bernard Baruch’s behind-the-scenes control of our government), and the investment bankers on Wall Street were funding both Hitler and German industry. So which fixed position identified that of “the Jews” ?
Willis Carto famously remarked that Americans are mono-diabolists. We reduce every issue to a cowboy movie — good guys wearing white hats and bad guys in black hats. Maybe that’s one reason why most of us never really understand anything more complex than a local school board election ?
Learn from the French Sun King : when you have to deal with powerful people you cannot trust (potential adversaries), the best thing you can do is to keep them in the palace with you, so you can keep an eye on them.
in my opinion the USA is a corporation not a country and Trump is the newly selected CEO
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153905823756/the-new-ceos-first-moves-and-trump
Trump ist most likely Crypto-Jewish.
Given their fondness for shtupping shiksas over the centuries, assuming it could be calculated, the actual number (most unsuspecting) of these might surprise people. The lump must be pretty well leavened by now.
TTC
“What is no joke is the widespread misconception that their pursuit of their interests must make them the kind of easily identifiable monolith that other interest/cultural groups are (rural southern evangelicals, inner city Blacks, et al.).”
Really, those two groups are monoliths? Perhaps to a bigotted chattering class, zionist Jew from new york, london or israel who has had little exposure to such “deplorables”, they might seem to be all alike.
I’d call that a major fail. :D
I have said this many times and I will say it again:
How in your right mind can you trust a nation and any of its elite, when they are run/controlled by the Jewish Zionist entity and are in a compelete alliance with such a corrupt and evil entity ?
It is absolute madness to trust anything these arrogant, corrupt and criminal people say or do. They are slaves to the Zionist Jewish scum. Such a corrupt, incompetent and arrogant people should never be trusted ever until they do not exist in their current form.
Russia should continue on its path to prepare for an all out nuclear exchange with the corrupt US-Zionist NATO alliance.
Russia should keep arming itself and keep threatening NATO at every opportunity it can get.
Russia should stick close to its allies and help protect them from this criminal US state who wants to dominate the world and weaken them. It is in Russia’s absolute interest to stand up for its alliance and if Russia does not do this, then it should expect to be eventually destroyed by the West.
Are people really thinking that guy like Trump can fool Putin, Russians and Chinese generally? The plot is clear. New masters of Pentagon are trying to write fantastic story “how Trump decimated both China and Russia”. In fact China and Russia see this game.
We are all glad that Hillary lost. That being said, we must avoid the fate of poor, pitiful ObamaBot. ObamaBot started off her political life campaigning against Hillary in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Contrary to elite predictions, Obama won the ‘surprise upset’ over the Clintons. Everyone celebrated and enjoyed the moment of watching Hillary go down in crushing defeat. Some celebrated too hard. Some actually started believing Obama’s “hope and change” rhetoric. They became ObamaBot.
ObamaBot, out of mindless devotion to her Leader, went on to cheerlead for all of Obama’s illegal wars and coups overseas. ObamaBot even sold “ObamaCare” (a corporate welfare scheme to shovel money at the bloated US insurance industry) as “progressive.” ObamaBot then sold out even further, by supporting her old nemesis Hillary for president in 2016.
The moral of the story is, not to give uncritical support to a US political figure just because he defeats someone that we really really hate (like Hillary). Otherwise, you run the risk of becoming ObamaBot.
The best part of this article is the reliance on the “players behind the scenes” approach. The “front men” are never the most important people. Obama was nothing but a “paper boy” – as Pepe Escobar called him – delivering the “news” from his masters in Chicago and elsewhere.
Trump may be an independent – and he is rich enough that he can probably afford to ignore some of the pressure on him by the US elites. And supposedly, according to Pepe Escobar, he has backers among the elites with their own agenda which may or may not equal that of other elites.
But he’s still an outsider to some degree and it’s difficult, if not impossible, to believe that he can actually make a difference in how the US will be governed for the next four years – especially with the entire mainstream media against him and the entire US elites against him if he goes against their agenda.
Add to that the fact that all he’s ever said about foreign policy is “make nice with Russia” and “no regime change” – and that leaves a lot of room for failure to improve US foreign relations – especially if he ends up starting a war with Iran and further alienating China.
It would be wise to temper any enthusiasm for Trump until we see what he does. As someone else here said, the main advantage to Trump is simply that he’s not Hillary Clinton.
But everyone (except me) got excited over Barack Obama’s election. How’s that working out for you? I submit it’s been an unmitigated disaster.
It would be easily possible to take down and destroy Google, Microsoft and other monopolies just by enforcing laws already in place.
They know this. They are changing their tune already.
Learn from history (Napoleon’s progress from Elba to Paris):
The following headlines appeared in the French newspaper Moniteur in March of 1815.
March 9 The Monster has escaped from his place of banishment.
March 10 The Corsican Orge has landed at Cape Juan
March 11 TheTiger has shown himself at Gap. The Troops are advancing on all sides to arrest his progress. He will conclude his miserable adventure by becoming a wanderer among the mountains.
March 12 The Monster has actually advanced as far as Grenoble
March 13 The Tyrant is now at Lyon. Fear and Terror seized all at his appearance.
March 18 The Usurper has ventured to approach to within 60 hours’ march of the capital.
March 19 Bonaparte is advancing by forced marches, but it is impossible he can reach Paris.
March 20 Napoleon will arrive under the walls of Paris tomorrow.
March 21 The Emperor Napoleon is at Fountainbleau
March 22 Yesteday evening His Majesty the Emperor made his public entry and arrived at the Tuileries. Nothing can exceed the universal joy.
Talks-to-Cats,
Bravo!!!!
Great article. I am somewhat concerned with how few people have raised these issues.
People need to understand:
1) The primary method the Anglo-Zionists use to wage war is through divide and conquer. They do this over and over again. Lure Russia away from China and China is isolated. Then when China is dealt with, deal with Russia who will be all alone. If Russia is more powerful, do the same thing in reverse which America already did.
2) America is neither pro Russia nor anti Russia. If Russia plays ball with the globalists, the Anglo-Zionists will be pro Russia. If Russia does not play ball, Russia will be a big threat and will be dealt with accordingly. It doesn’t matter that Trump likes Putin and is saying nice things. It all comes down to whether Russia knows its place or not.
Here Trump even says himself “One of the things I have heard for years and years is never drive Russia and China together.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTRbJmYtXc
So Trump is not bound to Russia in friendship, it is just strategy as the Anglo-Zionists do over and over again.
excellent points made both in article above an comments , really timely discussion here thanks to Saker my opinion is Isreal/zionist project is in panic and running out of time with a rapidly decaying usa proxie indebted to the gills with a depleted middleclass {theres no grass left in that field} and the rising East only growing stronger by the year see article where China’s coast guard at present growth will be larger then all eastern nations combined ,but the real threat i think comes when China completes its high speed rail threw Pakistan an allows them to move very quickly into the ME specifically Iran their main source now for oil .the The Ukraine disaster only helped Russia move towards China which it was anyway however slowly it caused rapid self developement in Russia in house, getting a gas deal with China is win-win its not like Europe can do without Russian oil/gas {as Germany is getting second pipeline from Russia to secure their needs} so Russia has increased market share and is moving on another front now in going for energy deals with Japan which the US gas/LNG companies {recently repealed law forbidding exports of} had high hopes for selling Japan their expensive LNG will now face stiff competition !! Im not at all convinced Hillery would have began ww3 as much as i do believe Trump will for Isreal’s sake
at least these Anglo Zionist officers have been captured in East Aleppo:
Mutaz Kanoğlu – Turkey
David Scott Winer – USA
David Shlomo Aram – Israel
Muhamad Tamimi – Qatar
Muhamad Ahmad Assabian – Saudi Arabia
Abd-el-Menham Fahd al Harij – Saudi Arabia
Islam Salam Ezzahran Al Hajlan – Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Ben Naoufel Al Darij – Saudi Arabia
Muhamad Hassan Al Sabihi – Saudi Arabia
Hamad Fahad Al Dousri – Saudi Arabia
Amjad Qassem Al Tiraoui – Jordania
Qassem Saad Al Shamry – Saudi Arabia
Ayman Qassem Al Thahalbi – Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Ech-Chafihi El Idrissi Marocco
source: Fares Shihabi https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=384903921843423&id=100009714551392&pnref=story
and Syrian journalist in Damascus Said Hilal Alcharifi…. https://www.facebook.com/said.h.alcharifi/posts/1401107103274526
Fantastic article – Soraya’s is the best analysis so far…thanks for posting it. I’m sorry to hear it, but it makes alot of sense.
America is important to Russia in only one regard. To reduce tensions that can lead to war. Otherwise, there is no economic or other interests involved while China is Russia major neighbor and economic partner…
Russia/ USSR was fooled once because they did not understand the nature of the USA and those who rule over it.
There is no fooling Russia again.
What I suspect will happen is that Russia will deal with whatever Trump or whoever after Trump to preserve and protect Russian core interests and continue on long term path of developing Eurasia along with China and pushing USA form Eurasia for good.
Take whatever can be taken, do not give anything in return and gradually weaken and undermine US positions everywhere in the world is what must be Eurasian powers politics. Make USA local Northern American power yet again.
Aluminium consuming is one measure to notice how real economy has moved from western counties to China and Asia. Chinese industry used four times more aluminium than US industry. Only $5 000 B of US GDP is real economy while $13 000 is virtual. Real economy per capita is about $15 000. Industrial about $1 900B = $6 000 per capita. US real economy has not increased since 1973. Nor has medium incomes.
No wonder. China got huge population. They have to have large numbers. It would be unreasonable say for Russia to produce as much as Chinese do. I wonder how does it stack in terms per capita…
I see this trend much better for American people too. I’d say they likely win in this change.
Hopefully. US population has been parasite on the world back for quite some time. They have unreasonable expectations considering they have been consuming and living beyond their means for decades. US resources are depleted and population character had changed dramatically.
The loss of the status will immediately impact their lives to the worse… It might set stage for some interesting fireworks.
One thing I did not see addressed by the Author in her excellent peace is what happens after Trump?
Trump likely has 4 or maybe 8 years in office, then someone else will replace him. Even if Trump is sincere in his overtures towards Russia which I doubt, Russia likely has just 4 to 8 years of peace until the neocons go gunning for Russia in revenge. You know the Anti Russian wing of America is seething at Russia right now, what do you think will happen to them? They will go away? I doubt it.
So it makes no sense to me that Putin will sacrifice meaningful ties to China and Iran just to weaken his hand in 4 to 8 years when the neocons go gunning for Russia. The one belt one road initiative that binds Iran, Russia, and China is far more important to Russia than anything America could offer.