[Peace-discuss] Trump & US warmongering

[C. G. Estabrook]

A fortiori the same could be said (and was) of the New Deal, a more profound transformation - dismissed then (and by some historians now).

But I think amidst the assurances that it changes nothing, it’s possible that it does - if only from the opposition it engenders (unfortunate verb…). 

The populist wave is real (as the oligarchy knows - some are buying islands in the S. Pacific) an has to be dealt with.


> On Dec 29, 2019, at 3:44 PM, David Green <davidgreen50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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