Trump's renegade ex-national security advisor John Bolton has caused quite a stir with the publishing of his book 'The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir.'
Predictably, Trump has been running around with his hair (or what's left of it) on fire, threatening Bolton with lawsuits and confiscation of all his book royalties.
John Bolton must not be in any way rehabilitated, like has been happening with Dubya since Trump came along.
John Bolton firmly believes in unchallenged US global hegemony by any means necessary. Wars based on lies, threats, terrorism of any kind, betrayal of vassals and lackeys, massacres of civilians; all are fair game to him, all are valid means to this end.
And then this bloody Neo-con ghoul turns around and whines about China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet and the Uighurs; the latter being a US concern for some reason lately. Maybe the CIA has ran out of Islamist dimwits to recruit since China put them all to meaningful work in factories and schools. Now there’s no one the CIA can use to bomb post offices or maybe a bar in Beijing. Whatever shall we do…
Deluded warmongering ideologues like Bolton can publish all the whiny, hypocritical and self-serving/soothing screeds they want, as long as they realize one important truth: US power is waning. China’s is growing. China has called Trump’s bluffs left and right. They’re not afraid of him or the US military. US dreams of subjugating China ended on the day that China signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Russia. Since then, the US can only huff and puff and bloviate. China has become ‘too big to fail.’
But to digress for a moment.
NATO officials and ideologues are not scared of Russia per se. They’re also not scared of a Russian invasion because they know that Russia isn’t interested in any wars and invasions. What they’re scared to death of is what will Russia do if it is attacked. How much damage will NATO forces sustain if they attempt a first strike on Russia. This is what keeps NATO strategists and paid Russophobe propagandists at bay.
Trump is threatening to de-couple the US from China and end relations. This is laughable, but it is actually China that has been ‘de-coupling’ from the US for some years now.
And Trump’s reckless and upside-down way of dealing with China’s economic power is not going to win him anything in the long-run.
Because Trump has committed a fundamental mistake: he is trying to punish China for its successes, and hold it accountable for the sins and greed of US corporations who decided to outsource manufacturing jobs to China.
Trump is being a coward by scapegoating China. If he truly wants to do something meaningful to bring US jobs back to the US, he would start cracking down on all those US companies who seek tax havens, and all those who outsource and offshore jobs to foreign countries and slap them with big taxes until they return back to the US, instead of slapping China with tariffs, which doesn’t work anyway.
China is in a much more powerful position than a US corporation. Tariffs and other US blockades can be absorbed by the huge Chinese internal consumer market, and China can just buy what it wants from someone else. US corporations don’t have that luxury, since they’re the sellers and need an outlet for their products. Trump can really make them pay up and do the right thing, if he wanted to.
Let’s remember that Trump after he became president threatened US corporations with taxes and fines, unless they repatriate their offshore assets and factory jobs back to the US. Then he backpedaled and ended up giving them huge tax breaks and tax holidays, which they took and used for stock buy-backs. Jobs didn’t return. Then he decided to blame China for everything.
All this so far has led to a bigger deficit, loss of business due to counter-tariffs by China. This has been compounded by Trump’s inept reaction to the COVID19 pandemic, and now he’s threatening protesters with bullets and bombs.
It is a presidency that is unraveling, and a society that is falling apart due to centuries of lies, hypocrisy, contradictions and theft.
It makes no difference whether Trump is re-elected or not. Neither candidate is worth electing. They are both stale, corrupt, out-of-touch creatures.
And where are the 3rd parties in all of this? The US is going through chaos, and many people are disillusioned with the powers-that-be. This is an opportunity for saner people to seize on this weakness and provide a better alternative to the two-party dictatorship.
These 3rd parties are squandering an opportunity that comes along once in a long while. That we hear nothing from them, or about them shows how sad and unimaginative US political life has become.
John Bolton's book is simply sour grapes over the fact that the US no longer has the power and means to warmonger as it once did, and that strong nations are challenging US control. Ironically, it's thanks to him and his push for the Iraq war, of which he was one of the main architects, that has led to this state of affairs.
It is quite sick that such a notorious individual is even allowed to publish anything and profit off of it.
In a just world, John Bolton would be hauled off to the Hague for war crimes along with his pals Dubya, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and other Bush II-era scum.
These facts must not be forgotten. John Bolton is a dangerous person and a criminal.
Read on.
But let there be no doubt or confusion!
This spat between Trump and Bolton cannot, and should never be used to exonerate, rehabilitate, or excuse the crimes and evils of either individual. Neither deserves any sympathy, or a 'second look.'
Both Trump and Bolton are products of a sick US society with its imperial war-driven psychopathic complexes.
They both have tons of gallons of blood on their hands up to now. They are both two sides of the same counterfeit coin, and they are both irredeemable.
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