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Thursday, 21 November 2024

Trump’s Appointments

 




If you are like me you have been less than excited about many of Trump’s appointments. My biggest concern so far is how many Zionists that Trump has put in his administration. This was predictable, Trump did the same thing the last time round. He has taken big money from the Israel pro-war lobby in both campaigns, but this time he seems to have increased their preponderance in his team.

However, there is something to be said for people with my perspective that maybe we put too much emphasis on the Zionism of the people he is picking and overlook some of the advantages for other parts of his platform. RFK junior, Tulsi Gabbard, and Matt Gaetz all have the swamp freaking out over their selections, and even the radical Zionist Pete Hegseth has a history of speaking out against things like women in the military, so he has some big pluses.

This over-emphasis perhaps comes from this simple fact that I am not an American. So, my largest concern with the Trump election was regarding the ongoing world war that is happening as we speak in Ukraine, the Middle East, and with tensions heating up in East Asia. Because of this focus on foreign policy, and war, people like myself might put an inordinate amount of emphasis on the foreign policy positions of Trump’s selections. For instance, RFK is horrible on Israel and Gaza, but could do wonders for world health when he tackle the Pharmaceutical companies and their corruption. So, there is something to be said for looking at Trump’s picks as a whole, and not just looking at their foreign policy statements.

If you also have concerns, let me encourage you to listen to this debate between Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal and Revolver News founder Darren Beattie.[1] Beattie thinks we should give Trump every benefit of the doubt, because he earned it in his first term. He started no new wars and can be trusted to do the same this time around. Max is not so optimistic. Although, interestingly, both of them agree about the positives of many of Trump’s picks. There is no doubt that a lot of the right people are upset about the damage that people like Gaetz or Gabbard could do to many parts of the elite establishment, and this has to be at least a partial good.

It may be that Donald is simply seeking to work within the Zionist dominated American political system as best as he can, and he is determined to restrain the war hawks and focus on solving the border crisis, fix health, and rectify the American economy. If he does, this will be good for America and the world.

But it could be that Trump is committed to the Zionist cause, and is putting the right people in place to take control on the Middle East. His picks do not make this an impossibility. Hegseth’s past positions on war with Iran make him sound like he wants that war bad, as do many of the swamp creatures Trump once committed to stopping.

If I were to put on my Trump 4D hat, I might be able to make a case that Trump is playing the long game here and knows that he needs to have the Christian Zionist and Israel lobby on his side so that he can have the strongest position for his presidency as possible, but he is also using this as an opportunity to show the American people just how bad things can get with their involvement in Middle Eastern war. But at the end of the day Trump is a politician, he does not deserve trust, but scepticism and he needs to prove that he can fulfill his promise not to worsen World War 3 before I’ll give him that credit.

Of course, I am not an American, so my opinion does not have a major effect one way or another. But I am hoping that Trump is the man to stop World War 3, solve the border crisis, and inspire other nations to do likewise, and that he restores some prestige back to the western economies that has been squandered since 2020. He may not be that man, but one can hope and hope is never bad.

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[1] Debate


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