"EU foreign ministers have been called to a special dinner on Sunday to discuss the consequences of Mr Trump's unexpected victory, which has cast doubt on core strands of Europe's foreign policy alignment with Washington."
What has Russia been guilty of? A normal protection of their own people, the Russians, who were the vast majority in Crimea, a peninsula that had belonged to Russia from the seventeen-hundreds until 1954, when Khrushchev gave the peninsula to his native Ukraine. Crimea's population is for the large majority Russians and I have dealt with this subject in detail previously. [2]
We are in a desperate need of a global de'tente. The world can not go on living under the constant threat of annihilation. Expansionism and aggression with the overriding struggle for oil and fossil gas must give way to people's need for a decent life where constant fear of tomorrow won't have to be part of our lives, where we can live in security and enjoy the basic human needs for food, high-quality education and proper housing.
For the rich countries in the West these rights ought to be self-evident, but they ought to be standard in third-world countries as well. We can obviously not expect this to change with Trump as the future president. He himself is after all part of the 0.01% elite that runs the world. However, if he is honest in his promise to end the wars and the stand-off situation towards Russia, that would indeed be a first step to get the world out of the insane situation it is in at this point.
However, the all over-reaching issue today is obviously the fight against global warming and the gradual destruction of our planet. Here Trump must, above all other concerns, be taught by wiser men and women than he himself that there is no putting off till tomorrow of this pressing issue. It must be faced and proper measures taken NOW.
Donald Trump should
surround himself with advisers who are not hawks, who are not oligarchs, unless
there are oligarchs who can change their skin when they see how the cookie
crumbles. The big question now is "Can a leopard change its spots?"
Unfortunately, Trump has chosen people for key positions in his upcoming
cabinet and top political positions who are precisely what we do not need. The
question now on the table is whether Trump has a realistic view of what it will
take to save the world from wars and destruction. At best, it might be possible
for people with common sense to make it clear to him that the people he has
chosen at this time for top-level positions are not what we need at this point.
At worst, those people were chosen by the neocon super-hawks and bigots who
make up the shadow government. If that's the case, the only way to save the
world would be that the Empire self-destroys. It is already on its way by
crucially over-reaching in their ceaseless expansionist policies.
Americans right now express their disgust for the sleazy Donald Trump, but they
have quite forgotten, or simply never realized, how incredibly scary Hillary's
political platform was. Those who are strongly opposed to a future with Trump
as America's next president should first of all realize what a future with
Hillary would have been like. Feminist or not feminist (all thinking women, and
men, are probably 'feminists', forwomen's equal rights). What should be
of crucial importance to all of us is the fact that our planet will not survive
yet more of an onslaught of destruction by wars and by unnatural biotech seeds
and pesticides that will play hell with existing ecosystems.
Mrs. Clinton's criminal background through the Clinton Foundation should be
decisive for our choice. But even without that, we would have to mention her
war policies -- her psychopathic and happily laughing scene caught on video
after the unbelievably torture and
killing of Gaddafi, and the entire destruction of Libya. That war can be
written to Hillary's account, even if she was helped by the then French
president, Nicolas Sarkozy and NATO in general. Barack Obama was against the
war, but he was pushed by Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, to go along
with her war plans.
What was Hillary Clinton's real platform? Subversion of all Latin-American
countries -- Venezuela (well on the way), Brazil (virtually finished case by the
United States-supported opposition) -- Paraguay (coup in 2012) and Argentina
(coup in 2015) are already 'completed', the next country scheduled for a coup
is Bolivia, which is already on the US list of "evil states". Iran is
of course in turn to be obliterated, as Hillary promised. [3]
First of all, we must consider how African and Asian countries must regain their true sovereignty and their independence of big multinational corporations, a sovereignty which they finally got back from the colonizing Europeans after World War II, in many cases after shameless wars and great loss of lives. They must have the means to give their people decent livelihoods, instead of getting their natural resources expropriated by large multinational corporations. And this scandalous takeover of poor nations' livelihoods by the oil and mining industries is only one part of the scandals brought on by neo-colonialism. Multinational agribusiness is another.
On the other hand Europe has also come eerily close to total submission under the US Empire.
If all goes well
after this transition period in the U.S., Europe and Russia will soon be able
to resume their peaceful mutual trade relations for the benefit of all -- relations
that were suddenly broken by the sanctions installed on Washington's orders
after the Crimean crisis. These sanctions have met with resistance from several
EU countries, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, just to mention
one. [4]
Washington will not be able to strangle Russia economically. [5]
Europe has suffered more from these sanctions than Russia, since it simply
turned to the east for their trade, primarily natural gas
US cooperation with ISIS in Syria (which is also supported by Saudi Arabia,
Israel, Qatar, etc.) is one more stain on Washington's list of dirty
interventions in sovereign nations.
Under Trump, it looks pretty certain that EU will lose its present role as a
virtual US colony and that NATO will lose most of its importance or it will be
dissolved. This organization has no more raison d'Ã ªtre since Russia is an
entirely peaceful country without expansionist ambitions -- and is all set to
cooperate with Europe.
The Kiev coup and the following Crimea uprising, the latest false-flag attempts
by Washington to make Russia appear to be the aggressor, ended up as a total
fiasco. Ukraine, at this time, is a 'lost state' and the world knows that
Washington was the agent in this coup.
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