TheAltWorld Trump’s Art of the Con is accelerating the collapse of American Empire
Dimitri Lascaris says Trump’s chaotic second presidency is hastening the demise of U.S. global power.
“Trump could turn out to be a godsend for the rest of us if we can avoid a catastrophic war,” says Lascaris.
Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and activist. He worked for many years as a lawyer for some of the biggest corporations on Wall Street. To say he knows a lot about deal-making is an understatement.
Lascaris says Trump’s acclaimed business prowess and “art of the deal” are wildly overrated. He is a failed real estate magnate who has been bankrupted and bailed out numerous times.
His 1987 bestselling book, The Art of the Deal, should have been titled The Art of the Con.
Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza and turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East” is typical of his unscrupulous and brutish style. It is ethnic cleansing – a blatant war crime on a massive scale – dressed up by Trump as a wonder deal.
The 47th U.S. president’s stupidity, arrogance and criminality are fully on display.
As Lascaris points out, this does not bode well for Trump’s other big ambition – to produce a peace deal in Ukraine with Russia.
Trump and all recent American leaders have no credibility. They are seen as “agreement incapable”. During his first presidency (2016-2020), Trump broke the Iran nuclear deal and Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia.
It is doubtful that Trump possesses the depth of historical and political understanding to cut a deal over Ukraine. Especially since, as Lascaris notes, Russia has won the war and Trump has no leverage. He will be forced to accept Russia’s exacting terms, which means a humiliating defeat for the U.S. and its NATO proxies.
However, Lascaris warns that denouement could make for an extremely dangerous situation because Trump’s megalomania will find it impossible to accept such a debacle and contradiction to his boasts about “Making America Great Again.”
Lascaris says that Trump’s MAGA slogan will turn out to be MAWA – make America weak again.
His chaotic, irrational, impetuous and unscrupulous mode of business and foreign policy is alienating America’s postwar alliances and client-state relations. Trump is accelerating the demise of the American empire.
As Lascaris points out, Trump’s brutish and bullying behavior is a con to distract from not addressing the deep economic and social problems of the United States.
In Trump’s case, it’s not so much the Art of the Deal as the Art of the Con.
Illya
Trump is playing Putin, like he is playing the US puppet Arab regimes in the Mid-east.
The trick is there, in Palestine he goes banana with a gross ‘plan’ to transform Gaza into some kind of resort by the sea.
The reality is that he is pushing his puppets, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, KSA to create an alternative where they will marginalize Hamas, the only read defenders of Palestine with Hezbollah. Therefore Trump delivers for his handler Netanyahu (and all the Adelson bribers) while letting the dirty job be done by the Arabs themselves. Same in Lebanon, the mock ‘ceasefire’ was a trick to install a puppet regime which will neutralize and eliminate Hezbollah. Or, if it doesn’t work, then sectarian strife might start again, both scenario serves israel.
RUSSIA: The trick is to make Putin believe that Trump really wants to end the conflict in Ukraine. At the same time congress is about to vote more budget for arming Ukraine further and pressure is put (false pressure as they workd hand in hand) on the European tyrants of the UK/EU to steal more of Europeans taxpayer money to keep rolling the Ukraine money laundering scheme while furthering the conflict.
Putin seems to be desperate to end the conflict so he’s keen to believe anything, He has already been humiliated and lost a lot in Syria, but he doesn’t seem to understand that the west is lying, has always been lying and will try to play him again and again.
At the moment, US/NATO/UK/EU “ukie” troops are launching an offensive in the Kursk region and are bombing deep inside Russia regularly. Putin holds it while he said he would strike hard if that happened.
Trump is talking peace while escalating everywhere and the US who own the EU wants us to believe that there is a rift between the US, UK and EU while they are unrolling the exact same agenda, this time Europeans will suffer even more, the economy will go in th red for good if the conflcit doesn’t end. This is exactly what the rotten criminals at the head of the EU/UK want, They work for the ‘great reset’, ‘agenda 2030’, not for Europe or Europeans.
‘By 2030, you will own nothing’. After the plandemic, war is the best way to achieve that.
Putin doesn’t play chess, neither does Trump but Trump is a salesman and TV showman, that is a professional liar without any scruples. Putin expresses principles that make him prone to be conned
For the moment Russian media don’t seem to express doubts about Trump and his EU lackey real intentions. I hope they will wake-up.
Julia
Nice
Julia
nice