Trump against empire: is this why they really hated him? - The Grayzone
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Trump was ideologically incoherent and crassly transactional. But the threat he posed to American empire and thus the gargantuan security state helps establish a motive for why the FBI and CIA intervened in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. As president, Donald Trump lavished the rich with tax cuts and deregulation. Yet, contradictorily, he also threatened the structure of American global hegemony that does so much to keep the American one percent tremendously wealthy. In fact, Trump undertook the most […]

I know it's Grayzone which has been cringe recently but this is Parenti's son and it's a very good read so.

  • BringMeExtra [xe/xem,fae/faer]
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    2 years ago

    It’s a bummer Trump is a rightwing monster because if he just did fuck-all domestically in office then his foreign policy was actually decent.

    Unfortunately he wants to murder trans people and anyone who isn’t white. So that sucks.

    Edit: i was horribly wrong about this. As always, death to amerika.

    • wombat [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to US foreign policy

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Trump's foreign policy involved a genocide against Yemen and a re-implementation of the Cuban embargo. Foreign deaths by drone strike increased too. He also assassinated an Iranian general on Iraqi soil and very nearly started a war with Iran over it.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      his foreign policy was actually decent

      Verbally maybe somewhat, but it was the same as ever otherwise. Increased murder of people in other countries.

        • BowlingForDeez [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          He also ramped up sanctions in Iran and Cuba and doubled down on support of Israel's settlements. Dronings increased under him. He just did a slightly different imperialism, albeit one that undermined support with important US client states. He still did warfare, just under different pretexts.

            • BowlingForDeez [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              I agree with all of that. Which is why we need a competent president to manage our empire :biden-harbinger:

    • Enver_McTim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Eh I wouldnt go there, he didn't start any wars, didn't stop any either, and ramped up drone strikes A LOT since Obama. I honestly think Biden's better. He might be giving weapons to Ukraine but he got the US out of Afghanistan, ended America's "combat mission" in Iraq, and reduced drone strike attacks

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I'd disagree. They are equally shit in completely different ways. Neither has done nor did anything to get rid of AFRICOM, which is where the bulk of actual U.S. military actions are these days. Biden has ramped up rhetoric and focus on both China and Russia, which are lose-lose military situations for us even if we did bother to actually engage it. As such the nuclear clock has never been closer to midnight, which is dangerous as shit. However, Biden has also been talking about lessening sanctions on Venezuela, but also ramping up sanctions on Cuba. They're not going to bring back the Iran deal and NK is still going to continue to fester.

        At best what Biden has done is remove us from completely failed military actions and refocused them in things that are actually escalating.