Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
What do we make of Trump’s national security speech?
First of all, it is the military/security complex’s speech, and it is inconsistent with Trump’s intention of normalizing relations with Russia.
The military/security complex, using Trump’s position as President, has defined Russia and China as “revisionist powers,” Washington’s rivals who seek to put their own national interests ahead of Washington’s unilateralism. Russia and China are “revisionist powers” because their assertion of their national interests limits Washington’s hegemony.
In other words, Washington does not accept the validity of other countries’ interests if those interests are contrary to Washington’s interests. So, how does Trump expect to work with Russia and China when he reads a speech that Russia and China seek to “shape a world antithetical to our interests and values.”
“Our values” means, of course, Washington’s dominance.
Trump begins by honoring the military, police, Homeland Security, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In other words, “America first” means domination by Washington over the citizenry as well as over foreign countries.
Trump then cloaks himself in the American people who “voted to make America great again.”
Then Trump’s speech picks up the Israel Lobby’s line about a bad deal with Iran and asserts that previous administrations tolerated ISIS, when in fact they created it and set in upon Libya and Syria.
Then he attacks environmental protection and complains of illegal aliens, while ignoring the refugees Washington’s wars imposed on Europe.
In an era of neoconservative celebration of US world hegemony, Trump accuses his predecessors of losing confidence in America. This is extraordinary.
When a country’s entire foreign policy is based on the assumption that it is the “exceptional and indispensable country,” how is this a loss of confidence? It is massive arrogance and hubris. The problem is not a loss of confidence by the rulers but an overbearing hubris.
Then Trump claims that through him, Americans again rule their nation.
He says that now Washington is serving the citizens. Looking at the tax bill, he must mean that citizens consist of the One Percent.
He next associates making America first with more money for the military.
Then he blames Iran for terrorism, something that Iran lives in fear of, but he does not mention Saudi Arabia’s support for terrorism or that of the US military/security complex’s which encourages terrorism as a weapon against Iran and Russia and as an excuse for its massive budget and power.
Trump then claims credit for the Russian/Syrian defeat of ISIS. It has been proved that ISIS is supported and financed by Washington. Trump’s claim is even more ridiculous than the previous claims of the Obama regime that the US defeated National Socialist Germany. Russia, which did defeat Germany, was not invited to the anniversary celebration.
Trump next demands that the countries we defend pay for it. Who are these countries and who do we defend them from? He can only mean Europe, Canada, Australia, Israel, and Japan. Is Washington defending them from Russia, China, North Korea and Iran or from the terrorists Washington creates, arms, and supplies to overthrow Libya, Syria and whatever countries Washington is successful siccing terrorists on. Apparently, some of these CIA-created terrorist organizations break loose from their creator and conduct operations on their own. So, Washington is a government that creates its own enemies.
Trump next brags on the sanctions he has imposed on “the North Korean regime.” He doesn’t mention, and I would bet he does not know, that Washington has withheld a peace treaty since the 1950s from North Korea. Washington has kept the war status open for 64 years. Having seen the fate of Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, etc., little wonder North Korea wants nuclear weapons.
Trump, standing there threatening the world, says that Washington will take all necessary steps to prevent North Korea from threatening the world.
Trump then delivers the establishment’s propaganda that unemployment is at an all time low and the stock market at an all time high. So, what is Trump rescuing Middle America from if unemployment is at an all time low? What happened to Trump’s case against jobs offshoring?
This is nothing but feel-good talk. Trump is repeating the lies because the lies make him look good. What Trump should be doing is pointing out the meaninglessness of the unemployment rate, because it doesn’t count the unemployed, only those few who looked for a job in the last 4 weeks. He should be pointing out that the stock market is not a sign of a growing economy but a sign of massive money creation by the central banks of the US, EU, UK, and Japan. The massive printing of money has flooded into paper assets, driving up their price and further enriching the One Percent.
Trump says that one leg of the strategy is to “preserve peace through strength.” What peace is he talking about? In the past two decades Washington has destroyed in whole or part eight countries and overthrown democratic governments in others. Is Trump equating peace with Washington’s wars? No other country has initiated wars and invasions and bombings and aggressive military actions on other countries’ borders. Trump says that America is threatened by enemies and to protect us the military will be enlarged. He said he was overturning the “defense sequester,” something that clearly does not exist.
My conclusion is that Trump has surrendered to the real rulers of America - the powerful interest groups such as the military/security complex, the Israel Lobby, the environmental polluters, Wall Street and the banks “too big to fail.”
America is a country in which despite the hopes flyover America had in Trump, an oligarchy rules.
The American people, regardless of who they elect, have no voice, no input, no representation.
The governments of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush were the last governments that were subject to any accountability. With the Clinton regime the United States entered into the age of tyranny.
put dotard on your ignore list ;)
Sad and bitter truth is that we live in a Clepto-Plutocracy, on the US Debt Plantation.
If you're part of the Debt System and depend on their Credit Rating (for loans and job applications), you are a Plantation Slave. You are their property, their chattel, their Subject. You're a "Debt Nigger", and they won't let you go free.
But butt... who could 'ignore'...
"Trump the Great — written by "the Late" Paul Craig Roberts" November 25 2016, a guy who so GUSH ingly USHERED in the man who he now excoriates...
for bein the guy who he back then celebrates...
an now BELATEDLY berates...
in a manner perfectly in keeping with the TARDNATION AMERICA has become. Hindsight whores whose rear view mirrors allow us to see what was in common sight a year ago or so... to ANYBODY paying attention to ... accident prevention!
And now that the big bumper car of Drumpf TRIumphalism has crashed n burned -BIGLY- taking the half-lives of all the CRASH TEST NUMMIES who snuggled snidely inside...
we can watch the rump o trumptardians here TRY ONCE AGIN... to pick up the pieces of the shattered shell of Drumpfty-Humpty... the man whose smallish hands were found to have left their fingerprints all over the crime scene of "takedown America 2017... the closing chapter of a longish screenplay written and directed by
the usual suspects of HOLLOWWOOD AND TEL AVIV.
BANNON/PERON 2018!
HURRAH.
trump taked big and sounded very peaceful , it took less than a year to become a warmonger and pussy to the military who usally take their orders from the president, now they order the president, he cannot even stop them from having generals who are trannies .
What I find interesting is how people take Eisenhower's comments about the military industrial complex. Eisenhower was really on the side of the CIA when he made that speech. He wanted people to fear the military.
But you could argue that the military is the only force, if controlled by true patriots, that can control the CIA and their New World Order aspirations.
Ponder that for a while.
Eisenhower isn't as great as you think he is.
Interesting perspective on Ike's famous farewell MIC speech. However, I'm not sure I concur. If he was a CIA ally and supporter of the MIC, that type of warning speech strikes me as an awfully large gamble in terms of reverse psychology. If it had generated the result it SHOULD have, there would have been major blowback from the people seeking to rein in that growing monster.
Unfortunately, at the time the vast majority of the people still had unwavering faith in the government. Thus, his warning fell on not so much fearful ears.....but rather on disbelieving ears.
This guy needs to chose two names. Only complete douches use three names.
I get bored and annoyed reading his unnecessarily long douchy name in the title, and as such skip reading the entire article.
that's what he is always talking about, the indifference of the american people to their own destruction, they would not live long enough to regret their own ignorance. BOOM , a huge flash of light , the end.
Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,
He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.
And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York Times
To see the killing has intensified along the road to peace
There was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew
On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War Two
And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards away
With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace
Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a
In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)
And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"
And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace
Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon
Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant
And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide open
And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons
It's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras
But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car
There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV
Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace
Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday
Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers
So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians
They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78YpvJI6eSw
Big Brother inc won folks. Deal with it.
Yes. As I commented on previous article this week, the elite just swung their not so big dick.
What is Paul Craig Roberts saying again?
22 more years of no change and complaining about it?
What? Hillary Clinton with Bill as First Man would have been better?
Paul is basically saying that Oligarchs, including Jewish Oligarchs have gotten to Trump.
They already had Hillary.
PCR also thinks that Trump is butt smooching Israel to get Mossad protection. American Jews, including owners of corporate news media, threw everything a Trump. Almost all never trumpers were American Jews.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=162933
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What do American Jews have against Donald Trump? I noticed early in the Presidential campaign that the parade of Never Trumpers brought on every network were mostly Jewish. I also noticed that every Jewish Congressman and Senator was a Never Trumper. The top newspapers in this country are Jewish owned and their newsrooms are filled with reporters that are Jewish warmongers and Never Trumpers. The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol, and a long list at the New York Times writers including, Bret Stephens and Thomas Friedman are Jewish. The National Review’s Jonah Goldberg and over at the Washington Post you have Jennifer Rubin and Richard Cohen, just to name a few. Over 90% of the media is Jewish controlled, and over 90% of the media’s coverage of Trump is negative. Whatever you do though, don’t talk about Jewish control because they don’t want anyone talking about it, cautioning, that would be anti- Semitic. Think Tanks in America are extremely influential and they not only make regular appearances on all of the news shows, but these Organizations advise presidents. Think Tanks such as The Cato Institute, The Center For Strategic And International Studies, The Council On Foreign Relations, The Heritage Foundation, The Hoover Institute, The Rand Corporation and the American Enterprise Institute just to name a few, are all Jewish controlled. Support for Israel is a bi-partisan issue. It’s why voting for Israel’s wars and kissing Bibi’s errr ring when he’s in D.C. is obligatory if you want to stay in office.sO.... A few obnoxious clowns wearing Woody Allen masks over top their Nole Kidre outfits wander around pretending to be 'never-drupfers'...
while a collection of billionaire sreal-firsters load the orange donkey's back with silver shekels and send him out on a mission to
Make Armageddon Go Alive... again... and "jerusalem" the new capital of the new world ordure which was basically ushered formally into being the day the guy was sworn into .... orifice.
We may never know when THAT 'skull n bonesman'-like event happened... but somewhere's along the way... Donnie kissed the wrong asshole... and "Satan's Choice" got a brand new meaning.
These storylines with their twists n turns attempting to explain away the obvious... to an audience oblivious... to pretty much everything...
are gettin BEYOND pathetic.
It is certainly not simple. Trump's major contributors were Jewish. His family is virtually all Jewish. He is fast friends with Bibi. He has expressed undying love for Israel. From a Jewish standpoint, what's not to like? I'll tell you what's not to like - uncertainty. Killary was a proven commodity, an arsehole well used by and familiar to Zionist pricks. Of course, they would have favoured the Pantsuit Bleach Blonde Bomber over a relative unknown who simply wasn't proven to them yet. So they pulled out all the guns to get her into office. But they hedged their bets buy giving major financial support to Trump behind the scenes - just in case that idiot actually won.
And they were not disappointed by any means!
Trump talks to Putin, American Jews scream.
Trump has Netanyahu's balls in his mouth, American Jews bury their heads in the sand.
Simply saying that you've /we've been had.
Dotard sold us out.
PCR is a whiny, long winded bitch.
You are arrogant, racist and also stupid.
Let him rant, the article was mostly truthful but he was angry, and so should all of us be.
Roberts is even older than i, we have both lost so much, we have all lost so much.
Younger people have never seen it. I remember like it was yesterday. I pray you get it back.
Kids just split for years on end and went thru Greece, Turkey, Iran to India and then on to Afghanistan. No war zone (except Palistine), drugs were still legal. Freddy Lakers Skytrain flew walk on service to New York for £99 return.
Not too many roads in those days and sometimes you could get a free ride on merchant ships.
They delayed the flight from Gatwick for me - i was 5 minutes late - no checkin - they said run quickly - plane moved as soon as i sat down, i lit a cigarette.
Better a freedom rant than a final squeaky whine.
CNN is still around i believe...
I thought this was a pretty level-headed and plain-spoken summary of all the areas where American policy is BS hypocricy. He points out many contradictions in a relatively short piece.
As usual, the things our nation's leader is saying are bogus, they don't withstand any kind of intellecutal or logical challenge.
And you are blind, or stupid, or paid........... or all three!
You're a stinking dog. I notice you cannot say what it is about the piece that draws your ad hominem.
Great piece again PCR.
This caught my attention. "My conclusion is that Trump has surrendered to the real rulers of America - the powerful interest groups such as the military/security complex, the Israel Lobby, the environmental polluters, Wall Street and the banks “too big to fail.”
Trump's reign so far is not about surrendering to the real rulers. This was the plan from the get go.
The sooner we all drop the illusion realize this, the better, imo.
Agree or disagree with PCR, the EVIL Empire's influence will continue on the wane trajectory. Deal with it!
Wane trajectory huh?
WANES WORLD - THE SEQUEL -
Watch as a blazing tower of trumptardian hopes n fantasies (of 'better days to come')... falls crashin towards planet earth in a cataclysmic corroboration that...
some folks can just never learn
G.H.W. Bush, subject to accountability?! Are you nuts? The last U.S. government subject to any accountability was in the nineteenth century. . . maybe.
Andrew Jackson, who threw the central bankers out on their arses, was the last American president with the balls to take responsibility for the country.
JFK supercedes him. He had the balls but they were removed.
I like what I see in the tax bill but it is what I can't see that worries me. What else is in that bill? I don't have time to read it and I suspect many do not. Trump does some to be talking about spending more militarily but that does not make sense if you are going to cut taxes. Not all of the parts for U.S. military equipment are even made in the U.S. anymore. What's with the picture on the dreadnaught?
I would like to see the effect of this tax bill. Cuts must occur at .gov agencies. There is already way too much legislation on the books that no one can seem to figure out how to administer to properly and that includes the military. It's not that hard to figure out. What about education? It's a monetary black hole. My personal favorite is infrastructure and the fraud that occurs there. Our roads and bridges are aging, city sewers and waterlines are ancient and those are things that we have been paying taxes on forever and really need. Where is that money now? I think all of you know because if dumb old me knows then it's an open secret. We lost it to inflation, we lost it to exorbitant .gov pensions, we lost it to ridiculous pie in the sky .gov pension investment vehicles, we lost it to fraud in the bidding processes for infrastructure.
That said, I think some Canucks feel the same way about some of this shit going because one guy decided to make a board game of it. It's a brilliant notion. I think I might have to participate to get this guy off the ground. You have to admit, it's totally a ZH type of concept.
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/the-ultimate-montreal-board-game-construction-corruption
Nobody believes trump except some rabid trumpists , he is claiming a huge win on tax reform and tax cut yet the annual deficit will grow to $2 trillion per year, it does not take a genius to figure in a time where the world is threatened by a worldwide economic collapse trump orders a massive tax cut for corporations who already do not pay taxes giving them more cash to buy back their stocks to show profits when profits do not exist .
The us military are exhausted and demoralized by the division in the country and too many wars at the same time while resources are scarced , all new weapons are not only inferior to Russia's weapons, they simply do not work.
nikki haley is threatening the world and the countries that vote to enforce the un resolution that forbid israel from declaring jerusalem its capital, this type of bullying will backfire.
PCR is always right, he was in the reagan administration and saw with his own eyes the destruction of americans when interest rates went to 21% and 24%, since then america had to live the lies and the fraud of telling americans that they are exceptional by buttering their ass before assfucking them.
trump is no different, he is taking his orders from the military, his cabinet look like an israeli cabinet , savage and ruthless cabinet and give credence to the saying : "patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel".
Oh shut up. This is Congress making the decision on the taxes and not Trump. You are living in a way different world than Cold War Soviet Union. The Russia thing is not gaining any traction because so many of them came here. I brought my Russian wife here 15 years ago at no cost to any of you. Forget the Russia bullshit. It won't work. In Russia, people like you are considered the fool. Mr.s M has her own nice car, her own Harley, her own job, her own bank account and she has no debt.(nor do I) Don't talk about shit you don't know about. We know how to work together.
Who even gives a shit about the National Debt anyway? When you can buy your own you are gold colored.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201712201060155370-trump-approval-poll/
at 35% trump will be a one termer and probably will not seek another term
you sound stupid thinking that the national debts means nothing, the us is living by fraud and this fraud will be ending sooner than later.. first the us will lose it's status as world reserve currency , second interest rates will move up on their own like during the reagan era where investors demanded much higher interest rates putin the us on its knees with 21 to 24% interest rates.
I do not care about your Russian wife, I am Canadian and a fan of Putin, I no longer step foot in the us from fear of civil forfeiture crap, I sold my florida house and vermont cruiser, closed my us bank accounts and us credit cards and never been happier
I feel sorry for the american people who will die from ignorance as for now they are sending their kids to die in wars then the war will follow them on the mainland then the big bang.
I didn't use plural when I said debt. I don't care if you care about my wife. You were the one that brought up Russia and not me. You have no idea what assets I have in Russia. Let's just say....
I don't care about your Florida house or your boat or your accounts that you never had. You are troll.
It's not just the Americans who will die from ignorance. Ignorance has been taugh globally for decades and it's working very well so far.
How dare Pual Craig Douchnozzle rail against the president he worked so hard to elect with his endless propaganda pieces about Trump being the peace candidate. Perhaps PCR isn't as fucking smart as he thought he was.
Is the tax bill going to pass or not? What else is in it? Right now, it sounds good to me but that doesn't mean it is. I keep reading about sunsets and that looks like a ploy to garner relection kudos for the GOP which is probably a smart political move. Get rid of the Obamacare penalty and Obamacare is gone. I think it is a good idea that U.S. based corporations who stayed here through all of the shit deserve that tax break. I don't think the ones that moved their "Operations" to Ireland deserve jack shit for special treatment. Maybe we don't want you back? Maybe your buisness model is so shitty that you needed to go to Erins Isle to keep to your shitshow low margin, high expense operation afloat. Don't come back here looking for a bailout.
Business is business of course.
For most of us, this is a good bill or at least what we know of it so far. I don't see the tax on the middle class. I see more people who might be more motivated to find work. Now provide incentives like Sioux Falls, South Dakota has been doing. Trump needs this and we need this. We just need less government and to hold accountable what government we do need. Let's produce again.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201712201060155370-trump-approval-poll/
trump approval dips to 35% . the man was elected to terminate all american wars and shrink the military to only defending the us homeland, no foreign wars, but he ignored all this and only delivering chaos.
what is the us benefit from moving its embassy to jerusalem other than aggravation ??
the us and israel are two states sponsoring terror cannot dictate to the world what to do? luckily Russia and China are there to counter balance them.
The Orange Obama
Say one thing, do another
No one around who will arrest these war criminals
America, you get what you pay for...
It's what they ALL do, (see above post), including the heads of other states worldwide.
Not Putin. Not Orban. Not Xi. Not Iran. Not Syria. Maybe a few others.
Devil's advocate here, all leaders are read the "riot act" once in office and threatened into following the orders from those whom we don't see or hear talked about. Tow the mark or else! That's pretty much an easy choice to be forced to make. JFK decided he didn't have to follow those rules and we see what happened to him.
It's already over as China's gold backed Yuan brings the Saudi Barbarian oil peddlers under its wing. Now that the USSAN banksters have stolen back all that "treasury" debt owed to the fecal filled feudal crypt of Saud and tried to frame them for 9 11 (the "28 pages" meme) kiss the IOU Petroscrip (no longer) I$I$ backed Saudi Mercan toilet paper free loader dollah goodbye. Jim Wille's Scheiße dollah is coming home to Slumville in a tsunami of toxic derivative shit after all the lost judaic wars and bananas republic debt splurge and it's going to guarantee overnight Third World status for 98% of USSANS, already on the edge of ruin.
No one likes a slacker and a hustler and the "exorbitant privilege" reserve currency gig is over as the Pentacon mob fizzle out in a swamp of hubris. China's Korea and China's "big, beautiful" South China Sea "resort" islands are bristling with big sticks and USSA can do NOTHING, and the rest of humanity knows it and enjoys seeing the snaggle-toothed, drug-addled, big mouth dumb a$$ mutt get kicked in the face. Ya'll had a good run as long as the anglozionazi abomination lasted but now it's high time to get out while you're still ahead. Dump the petroscrip and prep before the big flush washes you down the Wall St bankster sewer in the imploding shitter of the Potemkin Village idiot "economy" of misery and carnage for the Zero 1% scum that own US.
Trump the swamp pool boy can no more dream about Pentacon Inc. "containing" Russia and China than he can afford to watch Japan and South Korea burn if he were ever insane enough to attack Pyongyang. USSANS have killed all the Koreans, Chinese and Russians they ever will...with impunity.
Hooverville, Trumpville and Slumville is our future.
Has PCR been drinking?
When you look around the room and can't tell who the fool is in the group, it's you!
Lest there be any doubt:
That 'Stab In The Back' Merchant in the WH has now TOTALLY signed-on to the ZOG 'War-ON-Humanity' Agenda.
We've been "had" by a tawdry 2-bit orange-mug flimflam man with a bad toupee in a dumb baseball-cap.
So if this is the fourth Caesar we have eight more to go. Whoopee!
'"WH has now TOTALLY signed-on to the ZOG 'War-ON-Humanity' Agenda.'
i don't think ethnicity is such a huge factor. K Marx once said - "Proletariat does not have motherland"
Would Marx be alive, today he would say the same about oligarchs. Someone like Trump plays a nationalist only as long as it suits him, because of pure pragmatic reasons.
Trump proofs himself a big liar and promise breaker again.
"What Trump should be doing is pointing out the meaninglessness of the unemployment rate...."
Paul, right as always.
230,000,000 or so able bodied adults,
98,000,000 or so out of work,
that equals 42% or so unemployed.
It's all smoke and mirrors people.
I liked the way he defined the "unemployment rate" - the "percentage of out-of-work people who looked for work in the previous four weeks."
Most have long since stopped looking.