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Yes, Trump is vulgar. But the US global shakedown is the same one as ever
Cook, Jonathan
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2025-03-04/trump-vulgar-global-shakedown/Date Written: 2025-03-03 Year Published: 2025 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX25255 If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for, it is this: he has decisively stripped away the ridiculous notion, long cultivated by western media, that the United States is a benign global policeman enforcing a 'rules-based order'. Washington is better understood as the head of a gangster empire, embracing 800 military bases around the world. Since the end of the Cold War, it has been aggressively seeking 'global full-spectrum domination', as the Pentagon doctrine politely terms it. Abstract: - Excerpt: Those worrying about the White House publicly humiliating Zelensky might be better advised to save their concern for the hundreds of thousands of mostly Ukrainian and Russian men killed or wounded fighting an entirely unnecessary war – one, as we shall see, Washington carefully engineered through Nato over the preceding two decades. All those casualties served the same goal as they did in Iraq: to remind the world who is boss. Uniquely, western publics don't understand this simple point because they live inside a disinformation bubble, created for them by the western establishment media. Henry Kissinger, the long-time steward of US foreign policy, famously said: "It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal." Zelensky just found that out the hard way. Gangster empires are just as fickle as the gangsters we know from Hollywood movies. Under the previous Joe Biden administration, Zelensky had been recruited as a henchman to do Washington's bidding on Moscow’s doorstep. The background - the one western media have kept largely out of view - is that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US tore up treaties crucial to reassuring Russia of Nato’s good intent. Viewed from Moscow, and given Washington’s track record, Nato's European security umbrella must have looked more like preparation for an ambush. Subject Headings |