By Cliff Kincaid
He gave Putin the red carpet, when Russia deserves regime change, and he called Chinese Communist dictator Xi his friend, only to have the communist impose more export controls, sparking Trump’s retaliatory strike of massive tariffs.
The stock market is falling in response, and the future of capitalism is in doubt, as Trump has seriously misjudged our enemies’ willingness to wage war, economic and military.
Consider that Putin left the red carpet in Alaska and accelerated the war on Ukraine. Now, as Trump was hoping to meet Xi at an Asian summit, the dictator has imposed new export controls on minerals critical to our high-tech and military industries. Now Trump says he will not be going to meet with Xi anytime soon.
Trump’s major mistake: thinking the sheer force of his personality would somehow convince communist leaders that they could and would enjoy peaceful relations with Washington, D.C.
Meanwhile, the “peace” that supposedly has been achieved in the Middle East comes with a heavy price – the deployment of U.S. troops to Israel, a nation-building scheme in Gaza, and the ability of Hamas to survive the war. It sounds like something George Bush would attempt.
It is the first no-win war that Israel has fought. This is not worth celebrating.
This is not peace, but a false peace, the kind predicted by Bible prophecy experts when they analyze the book of Revelation.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are winning the shutdown wars, and the price of a settlement comes with a Republican promise to expand federal subsidies for Obamacare, also known as the “Affordable Care Act,” which has proven to be not so affordable.
There are already whispers from the Republicans, including the erratic Marjorie Taylor Greene, to go along with the Democrat demands. That means more debt.
Regarding the Middle East, I remember the days when the U.S. Government said it would not negotiate with terrorists. President Reagan was almost impeached over the Iran Contra affair, involving a deal with the same regime that Trump’s bombing has left in place in Tehran.
But Trump negotiates with terrorists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood through intermediaries, such as the corrupt monarchy in Qatar. We are told this is a recipe for “peace” when half of the hostages are said to be dead.
How is this a victory? Why are so many liberals endorsing this deal? It is because it is something that a Democrat presidency could concoct. No wonder Hillary praises Trump for it.
We are still in the “first phase” of the deal with Hamas and everybody in the Fox News orbit is giddy and gleeful. I am not. It is not worth the Nobel Peace Prize, or any other peace prize. It is a betrayal of Israel. But Israel was pressured to accept it.
Our objective should not be peace but victory.
Meanwhile, “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth has announced that the pro-terrorist regime of Qatar will build a facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.
This is crazy. It is insane.
CBS News reports, “The agreement, which Hegseth announced alongside Qatari Minister of Defense Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the Pentagon, will allow Qatari pilots to receive training alongside U.S. soldiers.”
Are you kidding me? Didn’t we learn our lesson about allowing Muslim fanatics to learn how to fly aircraft in the United States?
Regarding the China threat, Trump on Friday indicated he was surprised. Trump was insulted and humiliated.
Trump should have known better. As anti-communist figure Fred Schwarz said, “You can trust communists to be communists.”
On Fox News on Friday night, Trump toady Laura Ingraham tried to blame President Bill Clinton years ago for what China has now done to Trump. That won’t wash. Trump brought this on himself.
So the “peace” that Trump has promised to pursue has backfired in a spectacular way.
There is no “peace” with Russia. There is no “peace” with China. And there is no “peace” with the global Islamic world.
Now the United States is in a very difficult situation, financially, economically, and militarily.
President Trump should cancel his Middle East trip, as there is no “peace” in the Middle East or Asia.
At the same time, the actual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, an anti-communist Venezuelan figure, María Corina Machado, shows us the way forward.
Anti-communism, not phony overtures for “peace,” should guide U.S. foreign policy.
Hopefully, Trump now understands that China is an enemy. There can be no truce with the communists.
- Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc www.usasurvival.org
