by Tom Luongo, Tom Luongo:

Donald Trump is winning the propaganda war against China today. But saying that doesn’t imply he either should be fighting this war or is capable of winning the real war.

What is that real war?

Retaining U.S. dominance over the flow of international capital for the next four generations.

Because that is what is at stake.

Trump’s slash and burn policies towards China have always been fraught with inconsistencies. From “trade wars are easy to win” (a lie) to the current over-reaction to COVID-19 (“the China Flu”) Trump is conflating the two main wars he is fighting into one.

Ending the Institutional Rot

The first main war he is fighting is against the globalists I call The Davos Crowd. His fundamental distrust of the post-WWII institutional architecture is at the forefront of why he deals with Europe the way he does.

Trump understands that The Davos Crowd’s goal is the cultural and economic destruction of the U.S. by creating a transnational superstate that exists as a regulatory and monetary framework built on top of the European Union.

This is why his first moves after taking office were to pull out of the Paris Accords on Climate Change and put the kibosh on the TPP and the TTIP.

It’s also why he wanted the JCPOA torn up. It had the added benefit of assisting Israel’s goals in the Middle East, but I think that is tangential to his main purpose, which was to reverse the dynamic of ceding U.S. sovereignty to Europe while they bled us dry.

Queue his complaints about NATO.

China is a willing partner with The Davos Crowd’s plan and because of that is part of Trump’s war strategy. He understands, rightly so, that China has been courting Europe, buying strategic assets there — Greek ports, the London Bullion Metals Exchange, etc. — and increasing their influence in international institutions the U.S. created and has dominated for decades.

He also sees, rightly, how the U.S. hollowed itself out giving the money to China to begin, in U.S. foreign policy terms, colonizing Asia, specifically Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran

These institutions are now, from Trump’s perspective, wholly compromised. And he’s willing to throw out as chum to his supporters in an election year as much anti-China propaganda as possible to win that point. At the same time he’s allowing his State Department and CIA, run by arch-Neocons Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel, to run wild setting off brush fires in China’s backyard, namely Hong Kong, Kashmir and Taiwan.

But, remember, Trump sees this as a defensive war, not an offensive one. And I think he’s right to think of it in these terms. There really is a transnational oligarchy trying to destroy the U.S. His narcissism and limbic nature however, make him susceptible to over-reaction and misinterpretation.

He’s been fighting an unfairly fought media and political war for nearly four years domestically and he’s finally going on the offensive for this election. Most of the people he’s fighting have been selling the U.S. out to China but are also in thrall to The Davos Crowd.

The real rot that he’s fighting is here at home, which he’s done excellent work exposing.

That makes it easy for him to be manipulated into seeing things about COVID-19 that are likely not reality. So, as I said in my last article …

I’m convinced that the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 were a plot by evil people to kill millions of people and usher in a bleak, authoritarian nightmare they’ve had legislation and action plans written to execute for years. I’m just not convinced it was China that was wholly behind it.

But for Trump, the circumstantial evidence of wrongdoing and China’s own statecraft makes the Coronapocalypse a convenient excuse to take things with China to the next level.

He’s doing this even though the real enemy he is fighting is right here at home, some of whom are in his cabinet.

The China Paradox

And this is where Trump’s conflating his two wars is not only dangerous but wholly counter-productive.

Because U.S. adventurism and the vestiges of its colonial mindset, inherited and still shaped by the British, are rooted in its military and intellectual classes which shape foreign policy.

We are still dominated by Brzezinski’s warming over of Halford Mackinder’s Heartland view of the world. He who controls the Heartland — the central Asian landmass — controls the world.

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