Sunday, January 05, 2020
By Killing Suleimani - Trump Squared Up On Some Spoils and Dodged War with Russia
srategic-culture | A remarkably non-propagandistic news-report, in the New York Times,
by Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman and Mark Mazzetti, included powerful
evidence that the impeachment-effort against US President Donald Trump
is motivated, in part if not totally, by a desire by US Senators and
Representatives — as well as by career employees of the US Departments
of Defense, State Department, and other agencies regarding national
defense — to increase the sales-volumes of US-made weapons to foreign
countries. Whereas almost all of the contents of that article merely
repeat what has already been reported, this article in the Times
states repeatedly that boosting corporations such as Lockheed Martin,
General Dynamics, Boeing, and Northrop-Grumman, has been a major — if
not the very top — motivation driving US international relations, and
that at least regarding Ukraine, Trump has not been supporting, but has
instead been trying to block, those weapons-sales — and creating massive
enemies in the US Government as a direct consequence.
The article, issued online on Sunday, December 29th, is titled “Behind the Ukraine Aid Freeze: 84 Days of Conflict and Confusion”,
and it quotes many such individuals as saying that President Trump
strongly opposed the sale of US weapons to Ukraine, and that,
In an Oval Office meeting on May 23, with Mr. Sondland, Mr.
Mulvaney and Mr. Blair in attendance, Mr. Trump batted away assurances
that [Ukraine’s current President] Mr. Zelensky was committed
to confronting corruption. “They are all corrupt, they are all terrible
people,” Mr. Trump said, according to testimony in the impeachment
inquiry.
In other words, Trump, allegedly, said that he didn’t want “terrible
people” to be buying, and to receive, US-made weapons (especially not as
US aid — free of charge, a gift from America’s taxpayers).
The article simply assumes that Trump was wrong that “they are all terrible people.”
Indeed, Trump himself has sold hundreds of billions of dollars worth of US-made weapons to the Royal Saud family
who own Saudi Arabia, and he refuses to back down about those sales on
account of that family’s having been behind the widely-reported
torture-murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi,
and on account of their effort since 2015 to starve into submission — by
bombing the food-supplies to — the Houthis in adjoining Yemen, and on
account of their using US weapons in order to achieve that
mass-murdering goal. Consequently, even if Trump is correct about
Ukraine’s Government, he would still have a lot of explaining to do, in
order to cancel congressionally authorized US weapons-sales to Ukraine
but not to Saudi Arabia.
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