thesaker | Let me begin by immediately say that I have the utmost respect for F.
William Engdahl and that I consider him a person far more knowledgeable
of US politics than myself. Furthermore, I want to also make it clear
that I am not going to refute a single argument Engdahl makes in support
of his thesis simply because I believe that his arguments are
fact-based and logical. I strongly urge everybody to read Engdahl’s
article “The Dangerous Deception Called The Trump Presidency” in the New Eastern Outlook
and carefully consider each of his arguments. Of course, Engdahl only
offers indirect, circumstantial, evidence and only time will really show
whether he is right or wrong. What I propose to do today is to
consider the other possibility, that in spite of all the evidence
presented by Engdahl, Trump might not be a fraud and a showman. You
will see that this conclusion is not necessarily more optimistic than
Engdahl’s.
My main argument is much more primitive than Engdahl’s and even more
circumstantial: I see clear signs of a *real* struggle taking place
inside the US elites and if, indeed, such a struggle is taking place,
then I conclude that Trump is not a showman who has been “selected” (to use Engdahl’s words) by the US elites but that quite to the contrary, his election is a nightmare for these elites.
My subsidiary argument is that even if Engdahl is right and if Trump
is a showman, the ploy of the US elites to save the Empire and prepare
for war will fail.
