{"id":338824,"date":"2017-12-10T20:59:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=338824"},"modified":"2017-12-10T20:59:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:59:01","slug":"trump-continues-obamas-wars-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-continues-obamas-wars-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Continues Obama’s Wars Against Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. President Trump\u2019s bold support for the apartheid dictatorship of Israel against that theocratic-racist nation\u2019s non-Jews, fits into a larger picture of the supremacist nation that America itself has increasingly become. His immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, had repeatedly referred to the United States as being the only indispensable nation \u2014 that all others are \u201cdispensable\u201d \u2014 such as when President Obama addressed America\u2019s future military leaders, at West Point, on 28 May 2014<\/span><\/a>, by telling them:<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation.\u00a0That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come. \u2026 Russia\u2019s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China\u2019s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us, and governments seek a greater say in global forums.\u00a0\u2026 It will be your generation\u2019s task to respond to this new world.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

He was telling the military that America\u2019s economic competition, against the BRICS nations, is a key matter for America\u2019s military, and not only<\/i> for America\u2019s private corporations; that U.S. taxpayers fund America\u2019s military at least partially in order to impose the wills and extend the wealth of the stockholders in America\u2019s corporations abroad; and that the countries against which America is in economic competition are \u201cdispensable\u201d but America \u201cis and remains the one indispensable nation.\u201d This, supposedly, also authorizes America\u2019s weapons and troops to fight against countries whose \u201cgovernments seek a greater say in global forums.\u201d In other words: Stop the growing economies from growing faster than America\u2019s. There is another name for the American Government\u2019s supremacist ideology. This term is \u201cfascism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The reality, not talked about in public (since America isn\u2019t a democracy<\/span><\/a>), is that the United States Government propagandizes against foreign governments and then perpetrates coups and\/or military invasions against them, in order to impose the U.S. empire\u2019s dictatorial stooges, and then to crush whatever democracy had existed there. This U.S. fascism didn\u2019t happen only in Iran<\/span><\/a> in 1953, Guatemala<\/span><\/a> in 1954, and Chile<\/span><\/a> in 1973, but it happens also today, long after the \u2018anti-communist\u2019 excuse<\/i> for it had ended in 1991. <\/span><\/p>\n

Examples will be cited here, and the silenced lessons will be drawn from them, about the actual nature of the post-1952 U.S. Government \u2014 the global fascist victory that has increasingly emerged<\/span><\/a> after the immediate ashes of fascism\u2019s global defeat in 1945. This far-right, imperialist or \u201cneoconservative,\u201d international ideology has risen like a phoenix from those physical ashes of World War II, and has increasingly won \u2014 led by the U.S. Government \u2014 against the shrinking democratic world, and now seriously threatens to bring World War III to finish it, against the now non-communist lone nation of Russia, after the U.S. and its so-called \u2018capitalist\u2019 (but actually and increasingly fascist) NATO military alliance had won the ideological Cold War, and the communist Soviet Union broke up and ended its Warsaw Pact military alliance in 1991, while the U.S. secretly continued its side of the Cold War and has already brought into its anti-Russian NATO alliance virtually all of the Warsaw Pact nations, and all nations except Russia from the former Soviet Union.<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

The grim global reality is that the U.S. Government has become the world\u2019s leading fascist nation. (And people around the world \u2014 outside the U.S. \u2014 already know it<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

When U.S. President Barack Obama came into office in 2009, one of the first international problems he had to deal with was a Honduran coup (probably \u2014 but not provably \u2014 pre-approved by the U.S. White House) that occurred on 28 June 2009, overthrowing the democratically elected progressive President of Honduras and replacing him with a junta who were selected by that country\u2019s dozen aristocrats (or \u201coligarchs\u201d), who practically own the country. On 16 October 2013, I headlined “Hillary Clinton\u2019s Two Foreign-Policy Catastrophes\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and the main \u201ccatastrophe\u201d detailed there was her having assisted those oligarchs (Honduras\u2019s aristocratic families) to keep their new dictatorship in power despite the U.S. Ambassador\u2019s cable to Clinton, from Honduras\u2019s capital, informing her that there would be no legal way to do it. She ignored his comment, persisted at propping up the imposed regime; and Obama remained publicly silent and followed-through by his actions with his Secretary of State\u2019s position, which position was to keep the oligarchs in power despite the opposition not only of the Honduran public but of almost every government in the world against the newly installed Honduran dictatorship \u2014 and the U.S. regime kept the coup-regime in power and thus forced the end of Honduras\u2019s brief democracy \u2014 and promptly, and for years afterward, Honduras\u2019s murder-rate and drug-trafficking soared.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, in February 2014, Obama himself perpetrated a very bloody coup in Ukraine overthrowing the democratically elected Government there and replacing it with a racist-fascist anti-Russian regime that promptly began a years-long ethnic-cleansing program to eliminate the people in the regions of Ukraine that had voted the most heavily \u2014 ranging from 75% to over 90% \u2014 for the President and legislature whom Obama had overthrown.<\/span><\/a> (Getting rid of these Ukrainian voters <\/span><\/a>was necessary to Obama because if they still lived in Ukraine, then the Obama-installed Ukrainian regime would quickly be elected out of office, and his coup-regime on Russia\u2019s doorstep would end.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Trump constantly criticizes both Obama and Clinton for many things, but as the U.S. President he continues their most evil policies, and he sometimes imposes far-right policies that are even worse. One of the instances of this is Honduras, where Trump continues the aristocracy\u2019s and Obama\u2019s dictatorship, even in the face of its now especially clear recent repudiation by Hondurans at the election-polls: the Trump regime had actually trained the Honduran regime on how to rig the vote-count in preparation for the latest Honduran national election, which occurred on November 26th<\/span><\/a>. However, since that election, the many public demonstrations against the official outcome, by courageous Honduran democrats and sometimes in the face of police bullets, are making unexpectedly embarrassing the U.S. dictator\u2019s support of the Honduran regime\u2019s crackdowns against the Honduran public<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding the Ukrainian dictatorship that Obama had imposed, candidate Trump was anti-Obama, and on 1 August 2016 in Harrisonburg PA he said, about Crimea, \u201cYou want to have World War III to get it back?\u201d<\/span><\/a> (He assumed that \u2018we\u2019 had \u2018had\u2019 Crimea, but his pro-imperialist audience went along with that aggressive nationalistic and obviously false assumption.) However, on 2 February 2017, President Trump\u2019s official policy regarding this matter turned out to be the exactly the same policy as Obama\u2019s, when CNN headlined \u201cUN Ambassador Haley hits Russia hard on\u00a0Ukraine\u201d<\/span><\/a> and reported: <\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0US ambassador to the United Nations offered a strong condemnation of\u00a0Russia in her first\u00a0appearance at the UN Security Council on Thursday,\u00a0calling on Moscow to de-escalate violence in\u00a0eastern Ukraine and saying\u00a0that US sanctions against Moscow would remain in place until it\u00a0withdraws from Crimea.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

“The\u00a0United States continues to condemn and call for an immediate end to the\u00a0Russian occupation of\u00a0Crimea,” said Nikki Haley, President Donald\u00a0Trump’s envoy to the world body. “Crimea is a part of\u00a0Ukraine. Our\u00a0Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns\u00a0control over the\u00a0peninsula to Ukraine.”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In other words: Trump\u2019s policy is that only if Russia repudiates and rejects the 90%+ desire of the residents of Crimea to be Russians and not to be expelled from Crimea or else killed by the rabidly anti-Russian Obama-imposed Ukrainian dictatorship<\/span><\/a>, will Trump even so much as consider<\/i> ending the U.S. economic and other sanctions against Russia. This is Obama\u2019s policy, and Trump\u2019s policy. And NATO\u2019s pouring U.S. and other hostile troops and weapons near and even onto Russia\u2019s borders<\/span><\/a> is likewise \u2018justified\u2019 by this position.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump likewise continues Obama\u2019s policy against Syria, which is a nation that has long been a crucial ally of Russia, though not on Russia\u2019s border as Ukraine is. Obama came into office with a secret plan to conquer Syria<\/span><\/a>, and it was fully operational by 2012, when some dissidents within the U.S. intelligence community privately objected up the chain-of-command<\/span><\/a>, against Obama\u2019s then-increasing reliance upon Al Qaeda in Syria for providing the training and leadership of the U.S.-and-Saudi-selected-and-funded \u2019moderate rebels\u2019 who were America\u2019s \u201cboots on the ground\u201d to bring down Syria\u2019s Government<\/span><\/a>, which was and remains led by Bashar al-Assad. However, just as Victor Yanukovych had won the Presidency of Ukraine in 2010 on the promise of keeping Ukraine as a free and independent sovereign nation answerable only to Ukrainian citizens, Assad won Syria\u2019s first-ever democratic election in 2014<\/span><\/a> by promising to keep Syria as a free sovereign nation answerable only to Syrian citizens \u2014 but as one that\u2019s allied with both Russia and Iran, against the U.S. and its pro-jihadist allies. In repeated Western-sponsored polling of Syrians, even during the U.S.-Saudi-UAE-and-allied invasion of Syria by tens of thousands of imported foreign jihadists who demand Sharia law for Syrians, every poll shows that well over 50% of Syrian citizens want Assad to continue leading the country<\/span><\/a>. But America\u2019s dictators have different ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

As regards Ukraine, the U.S. stooge-regime is trying to outlaw the teaching and speaking of the Russian language<\/span><\/a> there, and to encourage the takeover, by force, of orthodox churches<\/span><\/a> (considered \u201cpro-Russian\u201d), by Catholic and Protestant ones there.<\/span><\/p>\n

As regards Syria, the Trump Administration has repeatedly indicated its intention never to end the U.S. military occupation of Syria<\/span><\/a>, though this would (if the U.S. military occupation of Syria were to become permanent like in Afghanistan and Iraq) entail a war, in Syria, between Syria\u2019s invited defender Russia, versus Syria\u2019s uninvited enemy the United States occupiers there, which would quickly escalate into a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia \u2014 WW III. The U.S. regime expects to \u2018win\u2019 such a war<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org U.S. President Trump\u2019s bold support for the apartheid dictatorship of Israel against that theocratic-racist nation\u2019s non-Jews, fits into a larger picture of the supremacist nation that America itself has increasingly become. His immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, had repeatedly referred to the United States as being the only indispensable nation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":338826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[115,30,96,3604,698,522,524,754,6257,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-338824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cover-up","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-hillary-clinton","13":"tag-obama","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-syria","16":"tag-trump","17":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}