Trump is not the savior some dissidents believe
It never "drained the swamp," and it could play a vital role in de-dollarizing international trade
Article by Icaros from Essential News
At first glance, one readily admits the impressive nature of the fact that Americans did exactly the opposite of what the establishment seemed to expect of them. The mass media, the heads of multinational corporations, the “experts,” “intellectuals,” politicians, and the entire class of speakers, “celebrities,” and other opinion formers had, almost in unison, warned against a Trump election.
From Dick Cheney to Beyoncé, Obama and Taylor Swift, everyone had repeated the same refrain: Donald Trump is the reincarnation of Hitler, and his election would condemn America and the world to Calvary.
Not only did Trump win the election in terms of "electors," he also obtained a popular majority, something that none of the institutional "observers" had predicted.
Trump's victory therefore produces great satisfaction among those disappointed by the establishment, in the United States and abroad. Whether because of the "health crisis", Western hypocrisy on the Ukrainian question, or the new "gender doctrine" that proclaims transvestites to be women, anyone who has lost faith in political, moral, financial, cultural and health orthodoxy is tempted to celebrate this victory.
Moreover, great discipline is needed to resist a certain
schadenfreude in the face of the rout of extremists of orthodoxy and defenders of the new obscurantism (amusing reactions
one ,
two ,
three and
four ).
Yet, as we have already had
occasion to write, Trump is probably not the savior that some dissidents believe.
Donald Trump and the Deep State
Since his first election campaign, Donald Trump has built his brand as an opponent of the deep state. But is this identity authentic? A closer look reveals that it is not.
First, one of his major
financial supporters , for all three of his campaigns, was
Sheldon Adelson and his foundation. He is the Israeli-American oligarch and billionaire known for having repeatedly advocated a nuclear attack on Iran.
Far from repudiating this support, Donald Trump claims it; more generally, he claims his proximity to the Israeli hard right. Not only did he actively promote Benjamin Netanyahu's election campaign in 2013, but he
surrounded himself in his first administration with the most virulent Zionists.
Then he has been
surrounded and financed for decades by the so-called
Kosher Nostra .
Roy Cohn is certainly the best known, but
he is certainly
not the only one .
And then of course, if Donald Trump "drained the swamp" during his first term, it was in his administration that he did it; he
notably appointed no less than 60 members of the think tanks
Council on Foreign Relations and
Bilderberg, more than
280 lobbyists ,
not to mention the worst neoconservatives of the Bush Jr. administration.
But ultimately, and beyond his political acquaintances and appointments, we only need to look at a few of Donald Trump's decisions when he was president.
- He is the father of Operation Warp Speed, which was nothing more or less than the American project overseeing the manufacture, distribution and inoculation of Covid injections. A record for which he has congratulated himself several times .
- During his first campaign, Donald Trump prided himself on being the "debt king," and during his first term as president, he actually repeatedly insisted that the U.S. central bank adopt a policy of monetary financing and negative interest rates; in other words, he is a proponent of central economic planning, monetary profligacy, and excessive indebtedness.
- He ordered and repeatedly bragged about the extrajudicial assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani , even though the United States was not at war with his country.
- Not only did he refuse to release journalist Julian Assange, he also demanded solutions to have him assassinated while he was under siege in the Ecuadorian embassy.
- Before leaving the White House, he granted presidential pardons to, among other criminals , the four Blackwater mercenaries who summarily executed Iraqi civilians, to five mega-banks (Citigroup, JPMorgan, Barclays, UBS and Deutsche Bank) accused of fraud and corruption, to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sentenced to 28 years in prison for racketeering, extortion, fraud and corruption, and, at Netanyahu's urging , to the recruiter of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
In other words: despite all his statements, Donald Trump is not on the side of individual freedoms. He is a statist, a Zionist, and an apologist for war crimes.
His only valid defense is that every other American president for two generations has been even worse than him, which is indeed, for the moment, indisputable.
End of the dollar as a reserve currency
We can decide to put all of the above aside, and consider the election of Donald Trump from another angle: it is perfectly congruent with the global project of a new multipolar order, in which the American currency would no longer be the backbone of the international financial system.
Trump, for his part, talks about abandoning the post-war globalist model, centered on the United States. While openly leveraging the American currency in a trade and economic war with China, he
openly advocates a policy of devaluation.
The establishment, meanwhile, which claims to oppose Donald Trump's isolationism, nevertheless predicts (and rejoices) that his policy will lead to the end of the dollar's dominance:
- On November 5, 2019, the Washington Post published an article titled “Why It’s So Hard to Topple the Mighty U.S. Dollar.” It asks questions like “Why are some people fed up with the dollar?” and, while denying that it can be dethroned in the short term, explains why it is under threat.
- On January 18, 2020, The Economist published an article titled “America’s aggressive use of sanctions is endangering the dollar’s reign.” It states that “Mr. Trump has exposed China’s deep vulnerability to the dollar-centric financial system” and that “the new era of international monetary experimentation is characterized by the de-dollarization of assets, trade workarounds using local currencies and swaps, and new bank-to-bank payment mechanisms and digital currencies.”
- On July 16, 2020, CNN published an analysis titled “The World Loves the U.S. Dollar. Trump and the Pandemic Could Change That.” The silver lining is clear: “If Trump wins a second term, Nomura believes the continued push toward deglobalization could weaken the U.S. dollar and encourage greater use of the Chinese yuan, or renminbi, to settle transactions.” The logic is that “foreign demand for dollars could decline if the country is no longer seen as a security guarantor for its allies, leading them to hold more of their reserves in euros, yen, and renminbi.”
- On July 28, 2020, Foreign Affairs peremptorily declared: “It is time to abandon dollar hegemony.” It added that “issuing the world’s reserve currency comes at too high a price” and that abandoning the idea “could benefit the United States and, ultimately, the rest of the world.”
- The same day, Bloomberg published an article stating that "Goldman [Sachs] Warns Dollar's Role as Global Reserve Currency Is in Danger," in which it quoted the bank as saying that "the U.S. dollar's reign as the global reserve currency is under threat," and that "real concerns about the longevity of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency have begun to emerge."
- On August 25, 2020, Nouriel Roubini via The Guardian wrote that "another risk is the loss of US geopolitical hegemony, which is a major reason why so many countries use the dollar" and that "the weaponization of the dollar through trade, financial and technological sanctions could accelerate the transition."
But here is probably the most interesting article: Counterpunch, a notoriously left-leaning media outlet,
published an article in February 2019 entitled “Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember the Hegemony of the US Dollar.” It perfectly illustrates the role that Trump could be brought to play.
But who could have imagined that Donald Trump would become the catalytic agent? No left party, no socialist, anarchist or foreign nationalist leader anywhere in the world could have succeeded in breaking the American empire.
The deep state is reacting with shock at how this far-right real estate scammer was able to push other countries to fight back by dismantling the US-centric world order. […]
The end of our monetary imperialism, which I first wrote about in 1972 in
Super Imperialism , astounds even a seasoned observer like me. It took a colossal level of arrogance, shortsightedness, and lawlessness to accelerate its decline—something that only crazy neoconservatives like John Bolton, Elliott Abrams, and Mike Pompeo could offer Donald Trump.
In other words: under the cover of isolationism and a trade war against China, it could well be that Donald Trump's presidential term will actually serve to bring about the de-dollarization of international trade, a theme that Essentiel News has
already covered at
length , and which is an essential component of the new order planned for the world.
Hegelian Dialectic
Donald Trump seems to be reviled by the establishment, and to have suffered media, political and judicial persecution from it. In this respect, he arouses the enthusiasm of the supporters of change and of many virtuous dissidents.
But could appearances be deceptive? Could this be a case of reverse psychology, where the system pretends to hate Donald Trump in order to better promote him?
If so, we would find ourselves in a classic Hegelian dialectic situation: central planners deliberately create a
problem , against which they anticipate and control the
reaction, before introducing a pre-cooked
solution .
In this case, the problem (or thesis) would be the caricatured corruption and decadence of power, the reaction (or the antithesis) would be the emergence of a new populist and national-Zionist right, and the solution (or the synthesis) would be a series of providential saviors, like Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Thus, the planners would be able to introduce a new order; because in fact, before that, the previous order must be destroyed. This new order would never have been accepted outright, but under the guise of being a solution to an existing problem, it will be approved with thunderous applause. As the alchemists say,
solve et coagula: dissolve and coagulate.
Conclusion
The exercise of demoralization currently underway in the West, whose recent culmination has been a pseudo-pandemic accompanied by totalitarian and liberticidal measures, and whose backdrop is a decadence of taste, morals, science, culture and thought, has led many people of good faith to rejoice in the defeat for power that the election of Donald Trump seems to represent.
Yet, upon closer inspection, we realize that this may be a ruse, and that behind a hoped-for savior there may be an agent of that same power.
Time will tell whether this analysis is correct. In the meantime, it is likely that the saga is not over. If, for example, Joe Biden's death were to be staged before January, Kamala Harris could still be inaugurated, and even go so far as to refuse to give up power; this would guarantee even more chaos, and would further reinforce the image of Trump as a martyr and savior.
In any case, the path that is required can be summed up in three principles: not falling into the trap of identity politics, avoiding the comfort of certainties, and morally and physically detaching oneself from bread and circuses by becoming more autonomous and regaining one's individual sovereignty.
