Hilarious! – Fired by Twitter.
Apparently, that’s how Rex Tillerson
learned about his dismissal, while he was talking to Chinese diplomats
about a possible rapprochement between Pyongyang and Washington.
Frankly, Tillerson is no loss to humanity. The only point in his favor
is that he disagreed with Trump on the Iran Nuclear Deal. Trump wants to
abolish it (following like a poodle Netanyahu’s orders), but Tillerson
doesn’t. As former Exxon CEO and oil mogul, he may have personal and
corporate interests in Iran, and especially in not destroying Iran. But
these have nothing to do with a human approach; this is sheer interest
proper, egocentricity – as it is a staunch western characteristic. The
“Me” and Lie society syndrome through and through.
Plus, somebody
who smiles and expresses satisfaction when told how North Koreans are
suffering and possibly dying in the thousands from famine, thanks to US
imposed sanctions – does not even deserve to be called human.
Of course, he
is not alone. The current Trump Administration is full of either
halfwits or criminals. Take Mike Pompeo, the up-to-now CIA Director; he
is an ultra-conservative southern Tea Party member, many of whom are
still segregationists (wanting to separate the US south from the north) –
racists, sexists – and yes, they hate everything that comes from the
east, especially from Russia or is Russian. The latter applies to Pompeo
for sure.
So, we can
expect more Russophobia, more (totally worthless, sheer propaganda)
sanctions, and more belligerent saber-rattling towards the east, mostly
Russia, then China. Pompeo is also a loyal buddy of Trump’s, a yes-man,
something apparently Tillerson never was, but Trump seems to need. So –
why did Trump hire Tillerson in the first place? – It was an odd
appointment from the get-go. Tillerson felt lost in his role as a
‘diplomate’ – instead he was an aggressive wolf in sheep skin.
Let’s not be
fooled. Much of the chaos being played out for more than a year now in
the White House – and an end is not in sight – is, of course, a planned
strategy – a strategy to confuse. It makes straight thinking difficult.
That’s the plan anyway. Trump looks like a loose cannon, maybe he is,
but he plays his role well. Take the new tariffs on steel and aluminum –
for starters.
Everyone
screams and hollers – China, the EU, Japan, Canada, South Korea, even
Africa. Yet in the end Trump will prevail in one way or another. There
are already a number of fallback positions in case these neoliberal
‘partners’ go to complain to WTO, the mother of neoliberal
globalization. Alternatives include import quotas, or even higher
tariffs for some countries and exemptions for others.
The point is
“Make America Great Again” – meaning bring back jobs and a real
hard-core industrial growth element into the US faltering economy.
Trump, in fact, is applying what everyone around the globe should apply –
a sort of ‘resistance economy’ – de-globalization, working for the
national economy, not for transnational, mostly US globalized
corporations – which is the case today (see this).
The trade fiasco may be just another one of the typical deviation
maneuvers, so people will not look what’s going on in the back, namely
in the more compelling course of foreign US policy. The Deep State
pulling the strings on Trump wants blood, Russian blood – and then
Chinese blood – and they also want to dominate the Middle East – Full
Spectrum Dominance – i.e. bombing Damascus into rubble and abrogating
Iran’s Nuclear Deal – and provoking a pretext to start a war with Iran –
the one Netanyahu is lusting for. But all of this has to be softened
with some trade chaos. And it seems to work.
Let’s see what
next month’s Trump-Kim – or shall I say, Kim-Trump? Summit will bring,
if it will indeed take place. Someone, for some reason must have
convinced Trump that for now an “arrangement” with Pyongyang is better
than a potential all destructive nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
That ‘someone’ – shall we call it again ‘Deep State’ – has a more vital
interest in the full dominance of the Middle East. So, Iran, Syria and
Russia beware. The new Axis of Evil. It keeps shifting according to
Washington’s priorities.
President Kim Jong-un’s Administration, or those who worked already under Kim’s father, Kim Jong-Il, may remember
the 1994 ‘Framework Agreement’, initiated by President Clinton, under
which Pyongyang agreed to freeze its embryonic nuclear program at
Yongbyon and in return would receive economic aid and diplomatic
concessions from Washington. The thawing of relations between Pyongyang
and Washington prospered until 2000, shortly before President Bush took
over.
With his
hawkish, neocon entourage, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bolton, exerting
pressure, Bush declined to reaffirm the backbone of the Agreed Framework,
“no-hostile-intent”, and he pulled out of the Clinton made deal. Not
unlike Trump, who wants to pull out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Shortly
after reneging on the Agreed Framework, Bush invaded Iraq under
false pretenses and declared Iraq-Iran-North Korea the axis of evil;
launching the endless war on terror. Kim Jong knows that Washington
cannot be trusted.
Why would
Washington be trustworthy now? – Of course, it is not. Pompeo, the new
hawkish chief diplomate, is certainly not a friend of Kim Jong’s, or of
communist DPRK. For now, he has to go along with the propaganda summit
next month. But once that’s over, however it may play out – anything is
possible, he may default on the deal, just like Bush did in 2000, on a
peace-favorable agreement and return to square one. By then DPRK may
have denuclearized again.
And who will succeed Pompeo at the CIA? – Gina Haspel,
the first women ever to head the CIA, a perfect candidate for this
criminal agency. Haspel herself earned the not-so-cute nickname
“Godmother of Torture”, as she directed and oversaw a secret US torture
prison in Thailand. Her appointment bodes well for what’s to come – more
aggression, more torture around the globe. The typical last-ditch tools
of a faltering empire. Haspel belongs before a Nuremberg-type tribunal –
not to be seen again forever.
But that won’t
happen, as all the beautiful people of the exceptional nation get away
with murder. Literally. Most of them with mass murder, some even with
genocide. And zilch happens. Again, the world just gawks and says
nothing, accepting crime in biblical dimensions has become the western
new normal.
What a world
we are living in: White collar criminals with blood stains all over
their elite-white shirts. And the western masses just stare and say
nothing – but they become warriors, as the presstitute tells them lies
after bloody lies; they become complicit in the war machine that is
killing millions of people on behalf of their silence.
Fortunately,
there is Russia coming to the rescue. Despite the rambling bulldozer of
western lie-propaganda, Russian voices, especially Mr. Putin’s voice and
that of his Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov – are increasingly heard
and listened to. But the western propaganda machine, knowing of its
crumbling Master-empire, knows no limits of sowing Russophobia.
Take the
latest case of senseless Russia bashing – the case of Russian double
agent Skripal and his daughter’s nerve gas poisoning on a London park
bench. Theresa May, receiving orders from Washington, is accusing Russia
of the crime – why would Russia be so stupid and commit such a crime on
a spy who has been released from a Russian prison years ago – and that
in a prisoner swap with the US? – And why just before Russian elections?
– Not one single proof is presented. Yet, the accusations are loud –
and ludicrous.
Does anybody
still have just a few neurons in their shrinking brains left?
Threatening Russia with more sanctions for a crime most likely committed
by the British MI6, MI5 or even Mossad, at Washington’s behest, and so
that the entire western world could slam down on Putin and Russia again –
is sheer insanity. This lunacy is topped off by a Joint Statement, by
Trump, May, Macron and Merkel blaming Russia for the poisoning. Such
strong lie publicity is certainly taking hold in the western brainwashed
armchair population.
Is anybody asking cui bono?
Who benefits? And to make the Zion-UK-Washington argument even stronger
– UK PM May expulses 23 Russian diplomats. Is Russia going to be
responding in a tit-for-tat manner? – Or will Russia just lay back,
enjoying the fake news and insane, hysterical behavior of the West?
*
Peter Koenig
is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World
Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of
environment and water resources. He lectures at universities in the US,
Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH;
RT; Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; TeleSUR; The Vineyard of The Saker Blog; and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
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