Make America Small Again 7

Make America Small Again Part 7

In March, surprisingly, Trump accepted an invitation from North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un to a summit in May. The invitation was brought by a South Korean government delegation that had participated in negotiations with the North the week before. The acceptance confirmed the daily arbitrariness of US policy toward North Korea, which Trump would one day obliterate from the face of the earth with nuclear weapons, and the next day meet. The arbitrariness led Trump to fire Secretary of State Rex Tillerson 10 days later. Despite his lack of diplomatic background, Tillerson regarded foreign policy as a matter of politics and diplomacy, while Trump alone considered foreign policy as a military issue. Tillerson was therefore replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. As new CIA director, Gina Haspel was appointed.torture center in Thailand in the 00’s.

Also in March, the president launched a trade war against the rest of the world. Trump announced the imposition of 25% duty on imported steel and 10% on aluminum. The announcement sparked widespread criticism from the governments of Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, China, Australia and Europe, all exporting these goods to the United States. According to necessaryhome, the EU quickly announced countermeasures in the form of customs duties on a number of selected goods from the United States. The trade war had four different purposes: the core of the US industry was the arms industry and the measure was to ensure that the weapons industry did not become dependent on foreign imports; weaken US economic opponents in Asia and Europe; obtain a pressed Trump backing from the underrated steel and aluminum industries; and divert attention from the recent school shooting at the Stoneman Douglas school.

The steel and aluminum trade war immediately led to the resignation of Trump’s National Economic Council director Gary Cohn. Economists agreed that a trade war between the United States and the rest of the world would weaken the world economy – and also the United States – even though Trump himself welcomed the trade war: “we just win it,” was his comment.

Later in March, Trump focused the trade war as he declared he would implement $ 60 billion. US $ in customs duties on imported Chinese goods. Already in the fall of 2017, Minister of War Mattis stated that Russia and China were the new strategic chief enemies of the United States, and since US trade with Russia was limited, the trade war was concentrated on Beijing. China responded again by declaring that it would bring the matter to the WTO and, moreover, to deposit goods from the US with $ 3 billion. US $ in customs. The trade war demonstrated how geostrategically desperate the United States was. Historically, strong states have always advocated free trade because the strong state gained the most benefits from it. The United States was a superpower that had embarked on an economic and political outing.

Despite negotiations and attempts to avert the trade war, it broke out in June, with tariffs on goods worth several hundred billion US dollars between the US and its former allies as well as China.

“Well, you shoot civilians. For fun!” In late March, soldier Jeremy Morlock pleaded guilty in a military court to killing at least 3 Afghan civilians. Along with other US soldiers in Afghanistan, he had participated in a “kill team” that shot and killed Afghan civilians “for fun”. Morlock simply entered into a centuries-old tradition of bloody intercourse with civilians. The military did the same in Iraq, and in Vietnam massacres were regularly carried out on the civilian population. The most famous was the massacre in My Lai, where every several hundred Vietnamese were murdered. Chief in charge, Lieutenant Calley was convicted – and immediately pardoned by President Nixon. “Civilians, we just shoot them for fun.” (US soldier admits killing unarmed Afghan for sport,Guardian March 23, 2018)

In early May, Israel presented “evidence” that Iran breached the International Cooperation Agreement on Nuclear Disarmament with the EU, US, Russia and China. However, the Israeli evidence was rejected by both the EU, Russia and China as completely untrustworthy. When the false offensive failed, Israel carried out extensive May 8 attacks on Iranian targets in Syria. 15 were killed, including 8 Iranians. The purpose was, as in April, to force an Iranian backlash. It also failed. The United States therefore declared on May 10 – as expected – that it would no longer comply with the International Cooperation Agreement with Iran. The decision was in violation of international law, as the agreement had the UN Security Council blue stamp, but both the United States and Israel routinely violate international law. A few hours later, Israel carried out the most extensive aircraft attack on Iranian targets in Syria since the war in 1973. 27 were killed, including 11 Iranians and 6 Syrian soldiers. Once again, the Iranian counterpart failed. Israel claimed that it had been subjected to Iranian rocket fire in the Golan prior to the attack, but Israel could not subsequently provide any material evidence of it, and it did not make sense that Iran should attack in the highly explosive situation Israel and the United States had created in the region.

Make America Small Again 7