The one term President did have a vision. It seems to me it was honed by military service, ambassadorship, and as a Vice President. All those accomplishments are significant all by themselves, but, there was more. Surprisingly the Late President’s leadership had high ideals.
The H.W. Bush administration had an amazing cabinet. The qualifications within that cabinet was more than admirable. It was very competent to find a path to world peace if at all attainable. Their path was named, “The family of countries.”
There is a lot of criticism of H.W.’s approach as arrogant and short lived (click here). That is for history to decide and not me. My purpose in bringing the H.W. administration to discussion is the context of the achievements.
H.W. was an American through and through and one cannot deny his character included family to the nth degree. Family was his heart of hearts and it followed that international relations would be a focus on familiarity, the strength of the USA, it’s economy, it’s military, but, it’s goal to bring peace and not war to every country that would embrace it. There is no denying any of that.
Iraq’s Saddam hated him with rifle drawn on the palace balcony. To that end there was a brief Gulf War One to protect Kuwait. It succeeded. If memory serves it was the Great Warrior Joint Chiefs General Colin Powell that made us proud. The Gulf War I would be discussed for sometime after the dust settled. The discussions were happy discussions, because, freedom and democracy won out.
That administration was one of outreach. The primary incentive to enhance interest in peace were economic ties that would expand the supply chain. That supply chain swallowed the world economy. There was not one item on any given market that was a single country of manufacture. That was the vision. It didn’t sell out the USA’s democracy or freedom. There was/is plenty argument about national security and how to protect from this vast supply chain. To that end it was China’s spying that not only involved the sovereign USA but corporations as well.
Fast forward to a man that wants to be king of the USA with no respect for the Rule of Law or the USA Constitution. That is a fact. That is not an empty political dogma about Republicans. It is the absolute truth that Trump wants the USA Constitution to go away. He states he wants to be king. But, to that end Americans no longer need a public education or public political discourse. We are seeing huge upheavals in norms when it comes to the practices of federal agents. Citizens are nobody. They sure as hell aren’t family.
I read an article today that the federal system wants to enlist local and state police in their so called immigration crackdown. A crackdown whereby 86 percent of those human beings taken never committed a crime. A town in Texas did not hesitate to answer that ideology of homogeneous rights of citizens, excluding state and local authority. The Texas town said clearly, “No, Thank you.” Why? Because such activity would remove their respected officers from providing services to the citizens that paid their salary.
My concern is the context this federal administration exerts domestically and globally.
The Trump administration does not believe in the USA and its constitution. Oh, yes, the 250th birthday will be celebrated but only as a way to confuse the citizens and lull them to sleep to their own reality.
Trump loves the idea of homogenizing borders. It is not to be the sovereign USA, it is to be The America with its Gulf of America separating the southern America from the northern America. Sorry folks but there is no USA in that ideology. We also already know it has nothing to do with interdependence of a global supply chain now burdened with tariffs making the USA a nightmare for it’s citizens. Even Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal concurs in this mornings newsprint.
So, what of the relationships internationally that will result in global/world peace?
It is called surrender. There is no other name for it. It is surrender to the communists. I mean it is no surprise because Hegseth doesn’t understand the USA Navy or the importance of each and every soldier, sailor or pilot. There are only performance issues without any respect for raw power that has to be honed, managed, and respected. Oh, yes. The madly huge raw power of the USA military demands, not requests, respect.
Trump’s answer to world peace is surrender. I saw it today with Rubio. His favorite expression now is, “The world is changing right before our eyes.” In that he expects everyone in every country on every continent to come to understand three of the nuclear powers are happy with each other. Those three permanent nuclear powers are not the USA, France, and the UK.
Donald John Trump in all his idiotic aggression provided economic advantage to Russia through Hungry. As a result we have witnessed repeated attacks by Russia on Ukraine and talks called peace talks demand the surrender of chunks of Ukraine to Russia. Those are not peace talks. They are imposing Trump realities on Ukraine that states Ukraine is nothing and Russia is everything.
I suppose it has to do with Russian petroleum. Not that Ukraine’s farmland is important as one of the largest farm commodity producers in the world. That doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter anywhere including the American farmer.
Look, when a president of this country does an about face, no longer asks other countries and leaders to aspire to peace and prosperity there is not something wrong, there is a disastrous reality on the horizon for American families and forget the kids’ future. Their educational system is disappearing.
George H. W. Bush provided a vision for the world and gave it the American financial markets as an example of what striving for prosperity looks like. Ya know who listened the most? China. The Chinese Middle Class exists and it has power that turns the heads of the leaders there. That is an American victory begun a long time ago.
Donald John Trump provides no vision because he does not want Americans to know they have surrendered to Vladimir Putin and communism. Trump is responsible for the heinous deaths of the people of Ukraine. There is no doubt about that. Ask Orban. Better yet, ask the EU.
When Trump asks for peace between Russia and Ukraine; he is asking for surrender. He will announce the surrender of the USA someday when he is finished beating up our allies.
Fight. Don’t let Ukraine down. The ultimate goal was set a long time ago and is called “The Domino Effect.”
Don’t expect the truth from Trump any time soon.
It is difficult for me to believe other than Trump’s inner circle signed on to this. Trump voters sure didn’t.
