Roundup: Trump Edging Towards Anti-War Platform? More

On Friday, Danny Davis made a somewhat impassioned pitch for a new Trump administration, based on Trump’s interview with David Sacks. Ukraine and the war on Russia is, of course, Sacks’ big issue—avoiding global war or even nuclear war. However, Sacks, when asked, has also been quite forthright in his statements about the Israeli genocide. At any rate, Trump, as usual, placed all the blame for the war on Russia on Zhou—as was to be expected. Davis focused on Trump’s claims that he had always supported Ukraine and Russia sorting out their disagreements between themselves.

Also on Friday, Andrei Martyanov addressed these issues in an interview with Nima. Martyanov, as in the past, was extremely dismissive of Trump’s narrative. I’ve prepared a transcript of his brief critique in that regard:

Nima: If Trump wins—he has a great chance of winning the 2024—he said that he's going to end the conflict in Ukraine in 24 hours.

Andrei: No, it's not going to change anything. Trump is in the pocket of [Sheldon] Adelson's widow [Miryam], and Sheldon Adelson was his main provider [of campaign money in 2016], so to speak, before. He is completely in the pocket of the Zionists in the United States and the Israeli Lobby and he will do as told. So, he's a lot of hot air. Putin in some sense, while making joke, he also was kind of not joking when he said, ‘We prefer Mr Biden’, you know, which was kind of black mark on him! But the point is Trump—don't forget—[is the one] who completely destroyed Russian-American relations. It was Trump! Even Obama wouldn't go that far—but it was Trump who absolutely wrecked it, including the diplomacy between Russia and the United States. He was the guy, actually, on whose watch Ukraine started to get those weapons and training in massive quantities. So, yeah, the guy, he likes to talk, he's full of you-know-what. So for those people who think that anything going to change? Nothing going to change. He will do as told by Israeli Lobby. And very many people among Neocons and Israeli Lobby don't like Russians. They just hate Russian guys, you know. So, yeah, there's not going to be any change.

There’s a bit to unpack here. Let’s start from the end.

Martyanov is right about the Israel Lobby’s visceral hatred for Russia and Russians. I’ve been saying all along that the Israel Lobby is very much focused on destroying Russia—as Michael Hudson says—as a form of ethnic revenge. So Martyanov is completely correct in this regard, and you can bet that Putin and all Russians understand this and are extremely wary about our Jewish run foreign policy and NatSec establishment. That’s just reality. Again, as Hudson has said, US foreign policy has been hijacked by members of an ethnic group that are intent on using US power to exact revenge on Russians. No, that wasn’t put to a vote, there was no debate, the MSM is largely in bed with the hate mongering. There have been Polish Americans who have also had that desire, but they haven’t controlled US policy to anything like the same extent (Zbigniew Brzezinski is the obvious example). There are also American gentiles—most of Trump’s NS advisers, Bolton and the rest—who are ardent devotees of the Anglo-Zionist empire but, as we saw yesterday in the case of Elbridge Colby, they are mostly not animated by the same visceral ethnic hatred toward Russians. It’s imperial ambition that drives them.

Why did Putin joke that Russia preferred Zhou? What Putin said at the time was that Zhou is more predictable. In other words, he was saying that Zhou’s hostility toward Russia was entirely predictable. The implication, as I took it at the time, was that Trump talked peace and good relations and then exercised no control over actual policy. So Putin was saying that, in a sense, they preferred the open enmity.

Now we get to the nub of Martyanov’s critique. Can Trump change his spots? Is he really in the pocket of the Israel Lobby? Unfortunately, there’s no definitive answer to those questions. Jewish money is the definitive factor in American presidential politics. Trump and Zhou are both chasing that pot of shekels and their willingness to risk losing votes to get that pot is a clear sign of how important that is. Maryanov sees that, and takes that as a clear signal. The fact of Trump’s pretty obscene rhetoric about “finishing the job” of genocide further fuels the impression that Trump is in the pocket of the Israel Lobby.

How do we factor in the Sacks interview? In policy terms, Sacks is clearly an outlier among wealthy Jewish Americans. He knows he is. He knows he can at least get away with the peace talk with regard to Russia, but he avoids talking about Palestine—although, to his very great credit, he responds honestly to honest questions in that regard. My take on Trump’s performance in the Sacks interview is the same as my take on Trump generally—he is cautious about getting out ahead of public opinion, he’s a follower in that sense, not a leader. Trump is performing a balancing act. He needs money to win and he needs votes to win, so he’s playing it safe. The biggest potential payoff in money terms comes from wealthy American Jews, who are overwhelmingly pro-genocide. On the other hand, if Trump senses that the anti-war vote is becoming dominant, the potential for votes could outweigh the ad buys that Jewish money can pay for.

Trump’s performance in the Sacks interview, while typically difficult to read, may be a signal that his polling may be reporting a growing shift among Americans on the war issue. He appears to feel safe in espousing peace with Russia—which is significant, given his experience with the Russia Hoax. However, he appears to be toning down his extreme pro-Israel rhetoric. He’s still playing the anti-war issue safe—no policy proposals you can pin him down on, still the usual if-I’d-‘a-been-president-it-wouldn’t-‘a-happened line. But he’s embracing a kind of generic anti-war line that should appeal to many voters:

TRUMP: THE WORLD IS IN CHAOS

"Europe is in chaos, the Middle East is exploding... China is on the march, and this horrible president is dragging us toward World War Three, We are racing the clock"

I can’t tell you how that will translate into concrete policy. What it looks like is Trump trying to put some distance between himself and the tough-guy war mongering rhetoric he started out his campaign with. It’s a work in progress and Trump probably will continue to avoid saying anything that will tie him down. That’s not the kind of performance that will please the Israel Lobby. The big question is how independent he will be if he wins. He tried to please the establishment the last time with NatSec appointees who reversed his campaign stances—then found out that they still didn’t trust him to go to war with Russia and/or Iran. Has he learned anything?

Speaking of Iran, and before we move on to Russia, here’s an interesting story from a few days ago:

Iran smuggles two planes out of Lithuania, bypassing sanctions 

But let’s move on to Russia. The US has targeted a beach near Sevastopol with an ATACMS missile:

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The NATO-backed Kiev regime attacked Sevastopol with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles using cluster munitions.

So far, three people, including two children, have been reported killed.

The number of injured civilians has almost reached 100.

Moments before the ATCMS cluster munition missile that made a massacre on the beach in Sevastopol, Crimea today, a US drone was circling and guiding the missile fired in Ukraine to its coordinates.

Russia was not amused (via Megatron):

Russian Ministry of Defence regarding today's massacre in Crimea by Ukraine with cluster munitions:

"The US is responsible for this massacre, and they will get an answer"

"All flight missions for American ATACMS missiles are programmed by American specialists based on their own US satellite intelligence data.

Therefore, the responsibility for the deliberate missile strike against the civilian population of Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington, which supplied this weapon to Ukraine, as well as with the Kiev regime, from whose territory this strike was launched.

Such actions will not go unanswered."

Just the other day I reported that the Amos Hochstein—the Israeli citizen and IOF vet who serves as “special envoy” to Lebanon—was pressuring the Lebanese government to start a civil war by attacking Hezbollah. Apparently the idea is that if we can start a civil war in Lebanon we can prevent a war between Israel and Hezbollah—not an idea I’d try to take to the bank. Our European jackals in the UK and FR are on the case, trying to ratchet up the pressure on the Lebanese to commit suicide on behalf of Israel (via Megatron):

The UK newspaper "The Telegraph" published a Fake News without any proof that Iran is currently supplying weapons to Hezbollah via the Beirut airport.

Immediately after that, the IDF announced that it would target the airport.

This is pure paid psychological action to give Israel an excuse to destroy the airport.

Hezbollah gets all its weapons through Syria, which is why it lost several convoys of trucks, which were bombed by Israel.

The government of Lebanon announced a press conference regarding this fake news.

France is trying to bring back the civil war in Lebanon in order to protect Israel - Breaking Defense

France told members of the Lebanese government that it is ready to support the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) if they are deployed to secure the southern border with Israel and push Hezbollah away from the area.

Discussions are ongoing to increase LAF presence in southern Lebanon to try and avoid an Israeli invasion.

Macron thinks that Lebanon will agree to self-destruct so that Israel is not destroyed. He is definitely out of touch with reality.

Meanwhile … Netanyahu is whining for more weapons again, Israeli media is reporting no US boots on the ground against Hezbollah, the Ike skedaddles, Doug Macgregor and Larry Johnson get the last words:

We have four full months to go before the elections. Lots of bad things could happen.