Do as I say, or I will bomb you into the Stone Age
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Do as I say, or I will bomb you into the Stone Age
Paul Craig Roberts
According to news reports President Trump has said that Greenland is necessary to US national security and has ordered the US military to prepare for an invasion of Greenland.
There is no reference to a national security document that supports Trump’s claim that Greenland is necessary for US national security. An invasion of Greenland would be an act of war and under the US Constitution would require a declaration of war by the US Congress.
In the 21st, Century US presidents have declared countries to be threats without explaining why they are threats. For example, in 2015 President Obama declared Venezuela to be “an unusual and extraordinary threat to US national security” without providing any explanation of the threat.
Some Russians, who still hope for a Washington-Moscow peace agreement, interpret Trump’s threat to Greenland as Trump’s intent to break up NATO and thereby arrive at a peaceful solution with Russia.
European NATO members, according to news reports, are discussing the possibility of sending military forces to Greenland’s defense.
Most likely this is Trump issuing a threat that he will withdraw in exchange for an agreement about Greenland. However, Trump has said that he “doesn’t need” international law and is bound only by his “own morality.” “My own mind is the only thing that can stop me.” in other words, Trump is a law unto himself.
Trump has also ordered Cuba to make a deal “before it is too late.” Militarism is in the picture, but it is unknown whether it is real or an intimidation tactic.
Reports conflict on whether intimidation is succeeding with the Venezuelan government.
Trump’s approach is not diplomatic and displays his firm belief in US hegemony. Will Russia, China, and Iran notice, or are their heads in the sand like ostriches?
Can Trump enforce his threats over a wide area of the earth from Latin America to a NATO member to Iran? If not, will the US be isolated by Trump’s threats?
Trump’s latest excuse for taking Greenland is to prevent Russia and China from doing so. The head of Denmark’s defense committee said that it is delusional to think that China and Russia have a military presence in Greenland and intention to seize the Danish territory.
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Which Country Is Israel’s Most Complete Puppet, America or Britain?
Paul Craig Roberts
To please Israel, Trump attacked Iran, an act of war, and Trump is likely to submit to Netanyahu’s pressure to conduct a larger American attack on Iran. That the American people can be sent to war by the Israeli Prime Minister is an example of the control that Israel exercises over the United States of America.
The British government rivals and perhaps exceeds Washington’s subservience to Netanyahu. British citizens who protest the Israeli genocide in Palestine have been formally classified by the UK government as terrorists. This makes the protesters subject to arrest and imprisonment under Britain’s Terrorism Act 2000. In other words, if you criticize Israel, you are a terrorist subject to punishment by years in prison. Clearly, the British people no longer have free speech. The British media are carefully avoiding the hunger strike by British citizens imprisoned for daring to protest Israel’s genocide of Palestine. But, of course, the British media are outraged by the shooting of an ICE protester in Minnesota.
Neither do Americans have free speech. Critics of Israel are fired from their jobs. In states such as Texas and Florida critics of Israel are prevented from having state contracts and from working for the state government. Students who protest the genocide in Gaza are expelled from their university. If the students are foreign, Trump deports them. Trump is so completely under Netanyahu’s thumb that Trump has turned on his two strongest supporters, Marjorie Taylor Green and Thomas Massey. To please Netanyahu Trump has demonized his own supporters and is driving them out of the House of Representatives. Clearly in America, the First Amendment is dead even for elected United States Representatives. Israel has demonstrated its power to cancel the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
It is difficult to say which country, the US or the UK, is the most subservient to the Israeli government. For many years, Israeli Prime Ministers have bragged publicly about their control of the United States. But if an American citizen acknowledges Israel’s control, the American citizen is demonized as an antisemite and conspiracy theorist, despite the fact that he can cite Israeli prime ministers’ public boasts as his source.
The United States is a strange place. Americans pledge their allegiance to the United States of America, but their government pledges allegiance to Israel. President Trump parades around as if he is the master of the world, but he is not even the master of his own country.
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