It's announced. second part Thierry Meyssan's article. The first part is Here.
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Another look at the USA (2/2)
author: Thierry Meyssan
Continuing our analysis of the erroneous interpretations of the Trump administration, we are looking at the closure of many national agencies, why they are planning to deport Palestinians as well as their approach to the war in Ukraine.
In 1838, between 4000 and 8,000 Cherokee Indians died of cold, hunger or exhaustion at the “Cross of Tears”. Under the Indian Removal Act, signed by president Andrew Jackson, they left the east coast of the United States for the benefit of Europeans and agreed to head south of the Mississippi River. Today, however, they are the only Indian tribe who has managed to keep their lifestyle without Europeans rooting out. This deportation is an example followed by Donald Trump to put an end to cultural cleansing in Palestine and solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has been going on for 80 years.
The United States was both confederate and Federalist. erstwhile the southerners were defeated at the end of the American civilian War, their winners imposed a story that the war was fought between slave-holders and abolitionists. In fact, at the beginning of the war both sides were slave-holders, and at the end both sides were abolitionists. The real object of the conflict was whether customs were subject to the jurisdiction of the national states or the national state.
Jacksonists, forerunners of the South, wanted a “minimum national state”. As a result, they transferred many powers to the national states. This is what Donald Trump did during his first term, erstwhile he supported the transfer of abortion from the national government to the national states. Personally, he does not seem to have a clear opinion on this. His rival, Kamala Harris, was incorrect to present him as a reactionary erstwhile half of the national states respect women's rights and let voluntary abortion (abortion). This was 1 of the main reasons for her failure.
When Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency DOGE, his intention was to break up the national administration that decides from Washington how all citizen should live, even if he lives 2,500 kilometres away. Although he put libertarian Elon Musk at the head of the department, his aim is not to reduce the national state in the spirit of Reagan liberalism. He intends to dissolve thousands of government agencies, not due to the fact that they are expensive, but due to the fact that they are illegal in his eyes.
In any respects, the debate between the Southerns and the Northerners, between the Confederates and the Federalists, is akin to that between the girondists and montanists during the French Revolution. However, in the United States, the federalized states had a short history, while in France the regions had a thousand-year feudal history: the restoration of power to provinces was always linked to Paris' suspicion of rehabilitation of feudalism.
American expansionism
The United States, which at the time of its inception consisted of only 13 national states, now have 50, plus 1 national territory and 6 territories. From the U.S. point of view (again, it has nothing to do with Donald Trump), they are inactive growing. Since the 1930s, they aspire to absorb the full continental shelf of North America, including Canada, Greenland, Iceland and Ireland, as well as Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, not to mention the full Caribbean [1].
In this national spirit, Donald Trump announced during his inaugural speech that his country would henceforth call the Gulf of Mexico "the Gulf of America", which he made respective hours later. In addition to the fact that the Americans consider themselves not such, but “Americans”, the word refers not to the local name, but to the colonizer Amerigo Vespucci.
He did not announce the annexations of Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, as he previously suggested, but the colonization of the planet Mars.
However, contrary to comments from the European press, Donald Trump never spoke of the conquest of the North American continental shelf by force, although he mentioned the improvement of military bases in Greenland. As a jacksonian, he would gladly get these territories. It seems that she is presently "negotiating", peculiarly aggressively, with Denmark to quit Greenland in exchange for a commitment to the defence.
It should be noted that the Trump administration continues to endanger Cuba, against which it has colonial ambitions, but not Venezuela, which lies outside the North American continental shelf. Nevertheless, it refers to these 2 countries as "communist" and claims to treat them in the same way.
Given the ideological proximity between the 2 "chosen nations", the Trump administration approaches Israel as if the Palestinians were Indians attacking the stage. president Andrew Jackson decided to end the war with the Indians by negotiating treaties with various tribes. fewer of them were implemented, but his large “success” was to fight Cherokee. He deported them south of Mississippi. It just so happens that despite the bloody episode “The way of Tears”, Cherokee were the only Indians who respected these agreements. And present they are the only tribe to last with their culture. Together, they run a casino empire. But applying the same method to Palestinians would not work: Cherokee does not consider themselves owners of the “Mother of the Earth”, may stay Cherokee wherever they are. On the another hand, Palestinians are bound to their land and know that they will die as a culture if they lose it.
Replacement of trade wars
The last crucial point for Jacksonians is to replace trade wars. Donald Trump believes most wars are pointless massacres. They are simply a means of manipulating masses to accomplish unspoken targets. Since money is frequently all about money, trade should replace war.
This doctrine works very well in most cases, but any wars have complex motives unrelated to commercial goals. In these and only in these cases Jacksonism does not work.
Take, for example, the war in Ukraine. If you say Russia wants to annex its neighbor, you can negociate with her to satisfy her appetite without violating the integrity of this country. But if you believe Moscow sincerely wants to end the “Great Patriotic War” (World War II), defeat the Nazis and full nationalists (“badderists”), no trade negotiations will halt it.
This is the Achilles heel of the Trump administration: the war in Ukraine has no economical motive, contrary to what Western politicians say. Moscow is serious erstwhile it demands denazification of Ukraine. In this respect, the United States will gotta bend or fight hard.
If they give up, a second problem will arise: Russia is simply a vast territory whose borders no 1 can defend (more than 20,000 kilometres). Therefore, Moscow traditionally demands that its militant neighbors be neutral. This is the reason for misunderstandings around NATO: Russia recognises in the Istanbul Declaration (2003) the right of each country to join the military coalition, but refuses to let this membership to pave the way for the accumulation of arms stocks from 3rd countries on its land. However, during Boris Jelcin's presidency, the United States, which were repeatedly warned, continued to press for the inclusion of various post-Soviet states in NATO, but Russia, which besides requested this.
The Jacksonians have no reason to search to grow NATO, but giving up it would mean abandoning the expansionist Republican and Democratic organization policies and focusing on their own: the North American shelf.
For Donald Trump there is no uncertainty that the United States has no reason to engage in Ukrainian conflict. He proposes to suppress the conflict by stopping the subsidization of the corrupt government in Kiev. In this case, too, the European Union interprets this withdrawal as an invitation to take power. This is another mistake: the EU exists only due to the fact that Washington wants it, and erstwhile it engages in Ukraine without the approval of the fresh US administration, the EU will only velocity up its disintegration.
As for the trade war, the non-Americans were shocked by president Donald Trump's approach to tariffs. They believe that tariffs make sense only to defend economical sectors, while the Jacksonians believe that they can besides be utilized as political weapons.
For example, Donald Trump raised duties on Colombian products to 25% for a fewer hours and threatened to rise them to 50% next week if Bogota continued to argue repatriation of its citizens. Customs were abolished as shortly as Bogota herself repatriated its citizens illegally residing in the US.
The same applies to Canada and Mexico (15%) and China (10%). besides in this case, the Trump administration has no economical argument, but has a political argument. He believes that China is supplying drug cartels with chemical substances that are intermediates, and Mexico and Canada are allowing these drugs into the United States [notice my: it's fentanyl].
The situation is very different for the European Union. The Trump administration intends to balance its trade balance. It may impose duties of 10%, but only on certain products. This is simply a conventional approach to tariffs, although it is hard to see how it fits with the commitments made erstwhile joining the planet Trade Organisation (WTO).
[1] “Trump and Musk, Canada, Panama and Greenland, an old story“ by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 14 January 2025.
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What can you say here... Let's start with our yard. Meyssan is absolutely right to say that Russia is not about annexing Ukraine. Ukraine is to halt being a threat to Russia. Unfortunately, the only way I can see is to destruct her. This is simply a deadly threat to our country, due to the fact that then all this bander scum will land in our country and be utilized by the West for terrorist attacks in Russia. This war is already developing towards state terrorism And it will surely escalate even more. I fear that there may shortly be atomic terrorist attacks in Ukraine. Both Ukraine and the West are “under the wall” and in the act of desperation they can go to the steps that are unimaginable present but will cease to be.
Now look at the economical steps of the United States. The US's precedence for both China and Europe is to reduce the trade deficit. Its elimination is impossible. I fear that even a noticeable simplification in this deficit is unrealistic. Trump, through customs, wants to force US companies to return to the US or make it profitable to make fresh companies in the US whose products will replace imports from China and another countries. In the case of Mexico, this may work little, but not against China. China inactive tolerates American and European companies, but they no longer request them as a school. Western propaganda is trying to discredit China and tells us that they are inactive copying Western products. This phase of China is over. slow the West will be forced to copy Chinese products! But the West, especially the United States, has no way of keeping pace with China. This is shown by artificial intelligence, and shortly we'll most likely hear about Chinese quantum computers. The human origin is crucial here. And it's not about quantity, it's about quality. The West does not have an educated staff that can be competition not only for Chinese personnel, but even Russia. By the way, education in Russia (actually USSR) and in east European countries was much higher than in the West. But our inferiority complex inactive keeps us from seeing it.
USA sees a rescue in cannibalizing your allies. It started behind Biden's administration, and now it will surely accelerate. Europe as an economy will be destroyed. To a large degree with my own hands. This will entail political and social disintegration. This process is irreversible in Western Europe. These societies and cultures no longer exist. In a fewer years, most east European countries will be the same. Looks like we're the fastest.
The situation in the mediate East is comparatively clear. Israeli genocide will continue. Trump just announced that the United States would take over Gaza and turn it into the Riviera. If this continues, the USrael will be a reality. But seriously – everyone is wondering what this is about! In addition, everything indicates that the USrael may face a fresh threat ...
But the decisive origin will be the monetary factor, which not only Meyssan, but nobody talks about at all. All they talk about is de-dollarization. Only the current debt service itself has reached specified size in Western countries that it does not let for another spending. The standard of surviving will be decreasing rapidly. The weapons will accelerate this process rapidly. It will be essential to "zero the counter". How will this happen? I don't know. So far, war has been a tool. But now humanity, as a species, would besides "zero out." The West, especially the Anglo-Saxons, have large experience in war and currency manipulation. I am convinced that hundreds of the most powerful heads are already considering ways out of this trap. The problem is that all the ways that come to my head end in a planet war...
I mentioned at the beginning of the first part that I haven't had any illusions about the actual face of the United States in a long time. I besides have no illusions that Trump's face won't change that. Everyone's focused on his moral moves, confined to the space between his legs. Yes, they are essential and signify a return to normality, a departure from perversion, deviation, and (there is nothing to hide) perverts. Almost no 1 notices that these changes are at least a partial departure from what we call liberalism and globalism. This is besides a affirmative one. But these are the small things that don't change the actual face of the United States. Caitlin Johnstone sees it too. He sees 1 affirmative aspect in Trump:
“He makes the US empire much more transparent and unhidden. He removes its mask and restores the Twisted face below it.“ – It makes the US empire much more public and visible. He takes off his mask and reveals the crooked face underneath it.
He continues:
“The more gimpses people get of the actual face of the empire, the little effective the imperial propaganda becomes, due to the fact that propaganda only works if you believe it. The primary obstacle to revolutionary change under the western empire is the fact that it citizens have been successfully propagated into accepting the position quo. The more people open their eyes to the fact that we are routed by psychopaths who are driving us to our doom on multiple fronts, the cloud we get to a collective motion toward a healthy world.“
The more people learn the actual face of the empire, the little effective imperial propaganda becomes, due to the fact that propaganda only works erstwhile you believe in it. The main obstacle to revolutionary changes in the Western empire is the fact that its citizens have been effectively manipulated into accepting the position quo. The more people open their eyes to the fact that we are governed by psychopaths who lead us to demolition on many fronts, the closer we are to the collective movement towards a healthy world.
I completely agree with her, but my more than half-century experiences and observations show that this process is going crazy slowly! Can we see it before it's besides late?
I, in my humble capacity, I'm doing my job.. possibly it'll help, who knows...
