Donald
Trump’s minions tell the world that their boss is a great negotiator. Trump
says in a book that he probably didn’t write that: “Deals are my art form.
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like
making deals, preferably big deals.” But what has he actually achieved?
Absolutely nothing. Trump said he was
going to make the Mexicans pay for the wall he’s building to keep out illegal
immigrants. Well they didn’t.
He unilaterally pulled out of the
international nuclear deal with Iran and stepped up sanctions in a bid to force
the Iranians to renegotiate on American terms. That didn’t happen.
Despite three meetings with Democratic
Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the nuclear issue, Trump’s put nothing concrete on
the table and the whole process has stalled. So that’s been a waste of time.
Trump hiked up tariffs to force the
Chinese to agree to a one-sided trade deal with US imperialism. All that’s done
has been to spark off a trade war that could plunge the global economy into
another recession.
And the worthless “Deal of the Century”
that Trump’s men thought could bring peace to the Middle East by giving Israel
all that it wanted and giving the Palestinians nothing in return died before it
even got off the ground.
Whilst his Democrat rivals claim a moral
high-ground they simply do not possess, Trump is no saint either.
The Democrats like to portray Trump as a
vulgar, corrupt racist unfit to hold public office. But he is so much more than
that. The property tycoon turned president represents those who no longer want
to pay for wars they cannot win – which has been virtually all of them since
the Second World War. They too want US hegemony over the world but they believe
it can be won through trade wars and unequal treaties, which was the preferred
form of US overseas expansion in the 19th century. This is what Trump means
when he says he wants to “Make America Great Again”.
The US president wants to cut his losses
in conflicts he did not initiate in Afghanistan and Syria. He doesn’t believe
in ‘globalisation’ or the ‘new world order’ of past Democrat and Republican
administrations that tried to use US might to establish American hegemony
throughout the world.
Trump represents the American capitalists
who want to cut back US military expenditure in Europe, Afghanistan and south
Korea so that they can concentrate on controlling the global energy market by
taking over the entire Middle East and restoring US imperialism’s control over
south America.
Trump’s coming to London again in early
December for a NATO summit. He wasn’t welcome the last time he came. He isn’t
welcome now. It isn’t just because he’s a moronic climate-change denier with
sexist, chauvinist and bigoted anti-immigrant views. It’s because he is the
Supreme Commander of the most oppressive country in the world.
No US president should be welcomed here
until US imperialism ends its occupation of south Korea and closes its ring of
bases that target Russia and People’s China. No US president should be welcomed
in Britain until the USA ends its support of the fascist regime in Kiev and the
Saudi intervention in Yemen, pulls out of Syria and Iraq, and drops sanctions
against Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and Democratic Korea. No leader of US imperialism
should be fêted in Britain until America ends its support for Zionist Israel
and recognises the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
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