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Musing About Trump’s Recent Moves
U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing his country into an uncomfortable direction. What might be the reasons for him to do so?
His recent address to a gathering of all military commanders included the demand to fight the ‘enemy’ within the country:
He did, however, speak with great moral clarity about certain classes of Americans whom he views as a grave threat:
- The American left: “They’re really bad. They’re bad people.” Again, he’s talking about Americans here.
- His own domestic political opponents: “They’re vicious people that we have to fight, just like you have to fight vicious people. Mine are a different kind of vicious.”
- American journalists: “sleazebags.”
- Residents of American inner cities: “animals.”
His Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called on flag officers (Generals) to follow a conservative ideology. He has also announced a reduction of flag officer positions which will give him the chance to weed out those officers who have a more liberal standpoint.
Trump wants the military to use U.S. cities as training grounds (archived):
It was at that moment that the president recounted a conversation with his defense secretary: “I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”
This seems to be, together with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) raids, a preparation for countering severe domestic unrest. But there is, so far no reason for any a big unrest to happen. The U.S. society is generally not a rebellious one. Why would Trump perceive that unrest is coming?
On the other side Trump is clearly preparing for a more global war.
Another round of war with Iran is imminent. Air-tankers have been deployed to the Middle East, Israel’s air defenses have been beefed up with more THAAD launchers and a carrier group is entering the Mediterranean.
The increase of forces near Venezuela is also continuing. It is clearly a build up towards a regime change attempt (archived).
Trump has increase intelligence sharing with Ukraine to allow for deep strikes into Russia.
At the same time the U.S. seems to have largely given up on militarily countering the rise of China.
Regime change in Iran and Venezuela could bring a huge amount of additional energy resources under Washington’s control.
When the big stock market crash that everybody is warning (archived) about (archived) will finally happen, the U.S. economy will get severely damaged.
Unrest in the U.S. could then become real.
Having control over additional resource assets would dampen the negative effects for the U.S. dollar and debt position.
Is Trump expecting something like that?
b has described what the US, currently in its Trumperica iteration, is doing. Why is it doing that, and can it succeed?
The apparent intention to attack Venezuela and Iran while continuing to attack Russia via Ukraine, is supposed to be impossible according to all those who are constantly claiming that the US doesn’t have the means no to do that.
By its actions, it looks like it does have the means.
It is at war with Russia, it is at war in the Middle East through Israel, it is engineering government removals in Asia, causing disturbances in the Caucasus and a lot of other known and unknown problems.
Most of that is in line with long-term US interests and the long-ago established agenda. It is the way the Trumpians are going about achieving the set goals that is striking – open, crass, brutal and unapologetic.
Such method is an inevitable evolution of the criminal capitalist system but also a reflection of the individuals who the Americans voted in to lead their country. These individuals are crass, arrogant and ignorant (a very bad combination), incompetent, brutal and unapologetic. They are “leading” the US to its doom, domestically and internationally, but (too many) Americans don’t see that.
Can the Trumpians succeed in their apparent intentions?
They can not cause change of government in Venezuela and Iran. They have been at it for a long time with no result. If they attack these two countries now, there will be a fight that the US can not realistically hope to win, and may even receive some direct hits on its own soil.
If US/Israel attack Iran again, which is expected, there is a real possibility that Israel will be destroyed, which is not in US/West/Russia interest, but is in the interest of everyone else. The Arab regimes may assist in the attack on Iran, but that is neither going to bring about the fall of Iran or save Israel. Without full control of Iran and Yemen, the US can not control the resources and the strategic waterways. US/Israel control of these two countries is not a realistic possibility.
The attack on Iran, given the complex interconnections with other states and developments, may cause WWIII to become an open military confrontation with an unknown outcome, barring use of nuclear weapons.
The US/ West war with Russia is continuing and the way, in a technical sense, it will end, and when, can not be predicted.
US plans re China have not been abandoned, just temporarily deprioritised.
The Trumpians have entangled themselves with many violent “projects”, quite a handfull by any measure, and it is highly likely that they will find out the hard way that the world is changing and that their methods don’t work any more, even if they still cause a lot of harm.
The Trumpians, who do not have a realistic understanding of the world are, however, emboldened and guided by their advance, albeit not smooth, in the Middle East. Smooth or not, it is an advance, including the majority unopposed genocide against the Palestinians.
Posted by: JB | Oct 2 2025 16:32 utc | 56
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