[Peace-discuss] Trump & US warmongering

[David Green]

>From the perspective of the WP, this is "populism." But not much there in
the real world for real people. The trade pacts are still corporate-driven,
if I understand them correctly. The fact that the GOP only cares about
deficits when the Dems are in power is nothing new. There is nothing here
that is even remotely redistributive, especially in the context of the tax
cuts to the rich. But I would guess that Al Capone gave some money to an
orphanage.

On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 3:19 PM C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
wrote:

>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/27/trumps-quest-shatter-gop-economics-reached-its-culmination/
>
>
> > On Dec 29, 2019, at 11:43 AM, David Green <davidgreen50 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > OK, but given that Trump's signature "domestic" achievement is to give
> multiple billions of dollars to the wealthiest 10/1/.1 %, it seems like
> rather understatement to say that he's made "few serious moves" to threaten
> neoliberalism. It's kind of like saying that Al Capone made "few serious
> moves" to end Prohibition.
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 11:15 AM C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> > <
> https://www.rt.com/news/477063-putin-trump-phone-call-terrorism-prevent/>
> >
> >
> > This is the reason for the US political establishment's rabid efforts to
> replace (not just defeat) Trump.
> >
> > The foreign policy of that establishment (''deep state') is based
> fundamentally on opposing - by war and war provocations - those whom Z.
> Brzezinski called "peer competitors in Eurasia" (Russia and China), for
> fear their development - and the economic integration of Eurasia -  will
> interfere with the US one percent's domination of the world economy.
> >
> > That's the basis of the neocon and neolib policies (more war and more
> austerity), followed by all recent US administrations. Trump must be
> destroyed because of his threat to alter those policies, which redound to
> the profit of the one percent, even though he's made few serious moves in
> that direction.
> >
> > —CGE
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