By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
In our previous article we referred to the significance of Cuba (Trump’s next target), Venezuela, and Greenland for the strategic balance between the United States and the Russia–China axis, as well as to the elements of a major deception embedded in Trump’s policy (and that of the forces manipulating him from behind the scenes, such as Netanyahu’s extremists). This deception is particularly evident in Ukraine, where the war continues unabated one year after the beginning of Trump’s new term.
A central element of this deception is what is stated in the U.S. National Security Strategy, which Trump made public shortly before attacking Venezuela: namely, the claim that the United States does not seek global domination. This phrase was intended to soften reactions to Trump as much as possible and to mislead public opinion regarding the scope of his expansionism.
But if Trump does not seek global domination, why did he approve the largest military budget ever in history ($1.5 trillion)? Why did he declare that he does not care whether the START Treaty on the control of strategic nuclear weapons is renewed? Why did he force his European allies to raise their military spending to outrageous, “pre-war” levels? Why did he bomb Nigeria, escalate the bombing of Somalia, allow the secession of Somaliland, and threaten Iran, South Africa, and Lebanon?
Since Trump was elected—fifteen months ago—three important states that are also friendly to Russia, China, and the BRICS have suffered direct or indirect U.S. military attacks: Assad’s Syria, Iran, and Venezuela (not to mention the extermination of the Palestinians and the threats against Hezbollah, the two most important, strategically vital, and loyal allies of Russia, China, and the BRICS in Western Asia).
Is this a retreat to the American continent and an avoidance of wars? Or is it preparation for a great war against Russia and China—the “Apocalyptic” war—with a very high probability of global nuclear holocaust, unless there is determination to confront the forces pushing in that direction, under Trump’s leadership and, above all, from behind the scenes, Netanyahu’s—and unless forces within Western societies themselves react in a timely and forceful manner to such a prospect?
It is entirely illusory, extremely dangerous, and profoundly foolish to hope that Trump will focus on the American continent and leave the rest of the world alone.
With the intervention in Venezuela, Trump is not only seeking to strike at every form of Russian and Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere—and thereby at their global prestige. He is not only dealing a severe blow to the ambitions of the BRICS, since Venezuela is being punished for having largely moved away from the dollar, as Iraq and Libya attempted before it. He is not only harming China’s energy supply and commercial interests. He is not only striking at U.S. allies themselves, such as the Europeans—who are threatened with the annexation of Greenland—and Canada, which is also threatened with annexation. The attack on Venezuela is not merely a prelude to the attacks he is already announcing against Iran, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Greenland, and, ultimately but inevitably, the progressive governments of Mexico and Brazil (the first letter of the BRICS).
It is also humanity’s return to Hitler’s ideology and Haushofer’s geopolitics—no longer on a European but on a global scale—as we have argued for several years, emphasizing the unity of the different wars unleashed by the leading powers of the West, namely Israel and the United States (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/ukraine-palestine-taiwan-the-course-to-world-war-and-how-to-stop-it/). First, we “clean up” the periphery (Western Asia, Latin America, Africa), seize most of the planet’s resources, fully subordinate the “allies,” and only then deal seriously with Russia and China. This is exactly what Nazi Germany did by occupying all of continental Europe and reassuring Moscow, before turning to its real enemy, the Soviet Union.
Abolition of International Law
This also amounts to the complete abolition of international law, to be followed shortly by the abolition of national law as well. For the first time in history, the President of the United States officially declares that he is not bound by international law, nor by the treaties his country has signed (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/trump-lays-out-a-vision-of-power-restrained-only-by-my-own-morality /), but only by the monstrous, predatory appetites of himself and his billionaire friends and supporters—members of a degenerate money aristocracy, bearers of an ideology of darkness and death.
“I am the planet,” Donald Trump essentially proclaims, declaring in practice that he meets the definition of a Dictator according to Carl Schmitt, the great legal philosopher and president of the Nazi jurists: a Dictator is one who has the right to declare a state of emergency and to act outside the law.
It should also be said that behind the lines of Trump’s “National Security Strategy”—the Mein Kampf of our time—there is an attempt, which cannot be concealed, to prepare the final confrontation with China. The text does not even address any of the enormous social, international, and economic problems of a planet on the brink of explosion (except climate change, which it claims does not exist). Trump is concerned only with Americans—and, more specifically, with white and wealthy Americans. The planet is merely a space of raw materials to be plundered. Worst of all, he seems to believe that America can survive in a world that is tearing itself apart and collapsing. This is worse because such an illusion encourages adventurism worldwide and may facilitate the nuclear and ecological holocausts that threaten our species more directly than ever before in its history. The “cultural holocaust”—the burning of humanity’s brain and conscience—is already upon us and is preparing the ground for the rest.
I recently read an analysis claiming, roughly, that “international law is dead—long live international law.” Anyone who supports such ideas risks throwing out the baby with the bathwater. International law may not always have been enforced, but it was a major legal, political, and ideological barrier that constrained “hyper-imperialism.” International law, especially as embodied in the UN Charter, is one of the greatest achievements of the modern era, a fundamental foundation of our civilization (for those of us who still possess one), and above all the greatest achievement of humanity’s struggle against Nazism.
The New National Socialism
Behind Trump’s bizarre figure, anyone with eyes to see can discern the shadow of Benjamin Netanyahu—the founder, inspirer, and financier of the neoconservative current; the leader of the most extremist and totalitarian wing of the collective West; a proponent of perpetual war and chaos; and the mentor and alleged blackmailer (via the Epstein lists) of the American President. For two years now, Mr. Netanyahu has not only carried out but—unlike the German Nazis—has not even attempted to hide, and indeed openly advertises, the genocide of the Palestinians. In a manner that would surely have left the fathers of dialectics—Heraclitus, Hegel, Marx—speechless, National Socialism, its ideas and methods, is now being transformed into Zionism. It is also likely that Netanyahu and Trump, who spent New Year’s together, jointly planned the kidnapping of Maduro (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/netanyahu-joins-trump-to-ring-in-the-new-year-in-florida/). The method is consistent with Israeli practices, which in turn imitate those of the Order of the Assassins—though in this case they did not kill Maduro and his wife. Israel remains the avant-garde throughout the West of global totalitarianism, one step ahead of the rest.
It goes without saying that these methods have already begun to appear within the “civilized West” itself. The program of “Perpetual War” is incompatible with both the welfare state and democratic rights and inevitably tends toward the imposition of more or less open—or disguised—dictatorships worldwide. We have already seen this in the horrific repression of the Yellow Vests in France and in the mass, often unlawful, persecution of anyone who criticizes NATO policy or defends the Palestinians.
Let us also note that international law is not only a fundamental mechanism for protecting small peoples and states; together with arms control—whose dismantling Trump is now completing—it is also a fundamental mechanism for protecting the great powers themselves from the potentially catastrophic consequences of their rivalries and conflicts.
Back to Interwar but now with means of mass destruction
I know that many will consider the above analysis exaggerated. They will do so not because it is insufficiently substantiated by words and, above all, by facts, but because its conclusions are terrifying and demand decisive action and real costs.
The same happened on the eve of the two world wars. Humanity did not want to believe what was coming. The same occurred in the 1930s, when everyone—or almost everyone—watched passively, or even supported, Adolf Hitler’s rise. The same happened to the Soviets, who expected to see freedom reign and dollars flow abundantly into their country, before experiencing the greatest social catastrophe in history and watching their state dissolve into its constituent parts.
The security and pleasures of the Belle Époque are sweet, but the longer the intoxication lasts, the worse the hangover (if the consequences are only a hangover).
For a hundred years we have known that capitalism, when faced with crisis and the danger of losing hegemony, will resort to imperialism, war, dictatorship, and fascism. The earlier—and the more decisively—this phenomenon is confronted by popular movements, by defiant states, by the “global majority,” and by the popular classes within the West itself, the better.
As the Greek founder of medicine, Hippocrates, taught: “To foresee and to prevent is better than to cure.”
Translated from Greek by Christian Haccuria
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