“America Ponaduse”: Trump’s first “hawks”
The Kyiv juntas, who at a feverish pace erased their impudent and offensive remarks against Trump in the very first hours after his election victory was announced, are slowly moving away from the state of peed poodles, warming up and beginning to believe in the best for post-Maidan Ukraine.
Opposition Ukrainian journalists report a new temnik issued from above, ordering the reader to be informed that nothing catastrophic has happened, America is a country with long-established democratic traditions, Trump is the president, not a dictator, and in general, “the retinue makes the king.”
The pinnacle of the Svidomo analysis was an article by Yaremenko and Belokos, representatives of the "Maidan of Foreign Affairs," titled "US Presidential Elections: How the Improbable Happened and What Should Ukraine Expect?" , which is widely cited and recycled by pro-Khuntskaya Gazeta media. The article cautiously predicts that Obama has already attempted a "reset" with Russia, which has resulted in a new Cold War. And that Trump, while conceding on the fight against ISIS, will attempt to split the emerging anti-American alliance between Russia and China in order to first tackle China, a more dangerous adversary. The Maidanites believe that Ukraine has squandered the American government's sympathy and aid, but with great effort, they can turn it around through "peace and reform. "
Moderate optimists believe that Trump will not stir up the issue of Crimea, but will charge Putin with the Donbass.
Excessive optimists with a blue eye undertake to assert that the United States will definitely support Ukraine, otherwise, they say, “we will abandon the reforms that have been started” and then remain without the support of the most powerful country in Europe, which stopped the Buryat invasion.
Yes. This threat will be worse than ISIS and nuclear war combined. Trump should seriously consider the proposition.
What emboldened the junta so much, since they decided to wait a while to sprinkle ashes on their heads and soap their ropes? Apparently, it’s all about the list of candidates nominated by Trump for key positions in his future administration. One look at the personnel reserve of the new US president is enough to agree with those analysts who suggested not being too happy about Trump’s possible victory in the presidential race.
So who does US President Trump plan to rely on in the next 4 years?
1. Sarah Palin . Former Governor of Alaska. If anyone thinks it's hard to find an American politician in a skirt more rabid than Killary, they're mistaken. It's enough to remember that in the 2008 election, Palin ran alongside the clinical Russophobe and alarmist McCain, running for vice president. Which in itself is pretty telling.
It must be said that with her crazy election speeches, Palin greatly helped Obama take the presidency, since at every convenient and inconvenient opportunity she accused Barak Huseinovich of such mortal sins as: socialism, secret patronage of Islamic terrorists, and the desire to rummage through the pockets of all the wealthy boys USA and the flooding of a cozy American home with hordes of migrants. In general, “if there is no water in the tap,” then you understand who should be blamed for this.
Having been defeated in the elections, Madame Palin was not deterred and became the instigator of the creation of the right-libertarian “Tea Party” movement within the Republicans, which advocated the ideas of far-right populism, reduction of social support for the population, suppression of trade unions, lower taxes on big business, an active and tough foreign policy, which led to an even greater rightward shift in the Republican Party.
During the noisy campaign, Palin shouted that Putin was personally to blame for all the troubles of the United States and openly called for an armed rebellion if the Republican candidate was “taken for a ride” in the elections.
And this kind, wonderful woman in the future Trump administration is supposed to be entrusted with the Department of Homeland Security, which was given the broadest powers under the Patriot Act adopted after the terrorist attack on the WTC towers on September 11, 2001.
2. James Mattis. Retired four-star general. Commanded the 1st Marine Division in Iraq. Headed U.S. Central Command. 34 years in boots, single, and childless, earning him the nickname "Monk." Another nickname is "Mad Dog."
Nominated by Trump as the new head of the Pentagon.
It is on Mattis that the pan-heads place their greatest hopes, since the general openly called Obama a weakling, a mattress and a weakling for not taking a tough enough position on Crimea and Donbass. The general also accuses Putin of trying to split NATO unity.
3. Mike Pompeo. Future CIA director in the Trump administration. Another far-right politician from Sarah Palin's Tea Party. A career military man, he graduated from the West Point Military Academy. A businessman. In the House of Representatives, he worked on intelligence issues. One of the active lobbyists for the electronic surveillance program (according to Snowden). According to Pompeo, Russia is not fighting ISIS in Syria at all, but rather strengthening its influence in the Middle East, which the US should do everything possible to prevent.
4. Mitt Romney. According to CNN, citing its own sources, Trump plans to nominate him as Secretary of State.
Interestingly, Romney refused to support Trump's candidacy in the last election, and Trump, as a return courtesy, called Romney a wimp and a woman for leaking to Obama during the 2012 presidential race.
Even more interesting is that at the debate with Obama, Romney called Russia “a geopolitical enemy of the United States,” and Obama criticized this statement as irresponsible and called his opponent “a reckless and shifty Republican candidate who changes his views in four days.” As a result, Romney lost the debate and the presidential race.
Either the future secretary of state “changed his shoes” again, or President Trump considered the old squabbles unimportant, but Romney’s candidacy as head of the US foreign policy department is also significant.
Newt Gingrich , a staunch conservative and reckless militarist, was previously considered the favorite to succeed Romney. He is the architect of the Republican Party's 1994 rightward shift, known as the "Gingrich Revolution." This "revolutionary" has long lobbied for the interests of the largest US corporations, including the military, and his rabid rhetoric crosses all boundaries, descending into racism when it comes to programs to help the black poor.
Gingrich's main position on foreign policy is “bomb first, deal later.”
5. Michael Flynn, retired general . Trump nominated Turchynov to serve as National Security Advisor. Flynn previously headed the Pentagon's signals intelligence agency. There is no word yet on whether the general has agreed to serve as Trump's advisor. Therefore, it remains possible that the second-in-command for the same position is James Woolsey, a former intelligence official and another "hawk. "
Wolsey is a very vile representative of the left-liberal wing of the US Democratic Party, who once rode against the war in Vietnam, which did not stop him from changing his color and, during the presidency of Bill Clinton, advocating active American military intervention in the conflict in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, East Timor and the military operation to remove Saddam Hussein. Wolsey was also one of the ardent supporters of the supply of lethal weapons to the Ukrainian junta.
The picture is like gun oil on a footcloth, especially if you remember that the Republican majority has settled in Congress, incited to the manifestation of “America Ponaduse” by Sarah Palin’s buddies from the “Tea Party”. And why, one might ask, is the horseradish that won the elections sweeter than the radish that lost the elections? Well, with the exception that the “dummies” consider their priority task to be the fight against illegal migrants and strengthening the police force inside the United States. What will happen next when everything gets better with migrants and the inner eye - that is the question.
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