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Tuesday, 29 October 2024

God Save The Man

 


God bless this man,

“Former US President Donald Trump promised not to send Americans to fight and die in countries they have never heard of while addressing a crowd in the battleground state of Pennsylvania this weekend.

Speaking at a campaign rally on Saturday, Trump once again claimed he is the only one capable of preventing an all-out global conflict, arguing that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris “would get us into World War III, guaranteed, because she is too grossly incompetent to do the job.”

“To make her president would be to gamble with the lives of millions of people. Sons and daughters will end up getting drafted to fight in a war in a country you’ve never heard of,” he said.

In his nomination acceptance speech earlier this year, Trump vowed to “end every single international crisis that the current administration has created,” particularly the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts.”[1]

"Now God save such a lord, who is so good He will not have destruction of men's blood!"

-        Chaucer, A Knights Tale

Lord is used here in the sense of ruler, of course, not in the sense of the Lord of Lords. For all his faults Trump worked hard not to start any new wars, and to draw down in the wars the US was already in, during his last presidency. And he has largely committed to doing the same next time round, with the exception of Israel, which is foolish – though he has been somewhat inconsistent on this point, so we may be in for a positive surprise.  

A leader who wants to limit the warmongering and blood thirsty US empire might be the blessing America, and we need. Remember our country follows the US blindly into all its wars. I hope we get an anti-foreign intervention leader of the western world. It is about time that the West stopped it international crusade to force all nations into its image, and pillage their resources at the same time. The West has so many problems of its own it needs to work on. Fighting other people's fights should never have been our task. American men should not be dying for foreign causes, they are far more valuable staying home and working for their own country to be improved, as is the case for Australian men.  

American elections should be irrelevant to us here, but they are not, because our country is a satrapy of the US. So, let's hope Trump restrains the warmongers.

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