Conflicts of Interest: Trump Is Back, What Does That Mean for US Foreign Policy

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1. When one looks in the dictionary, under the word: PUTZ, the Donald Trumpmeister, is there.

2. It means more of the same.

   1. Better on Ukraine hopefully and almost inconceivably, yet almost certainly, worse on Israel.

      1. He wants the conflict to end. If Palestinians are fully expelled, presumably the expansion ends.

         1. What makes you think he wants to conflict to end?

            1. He said he did. For what THAT"S worth…..

            2. He also said E. Jean Carroll was his second wife, Marla Maples, when shown a picture of several women.

               Even more so than with most politicians, "he said he wants" is not an indicator of "he wants."

            3. He says it makes Israel look bad.

            4. Or CAN he. The MIC will decide that. The train has left the station, now a runaway train.

      2. You mean on Palestinians.

3. The Evil Warmongering Zionist Won (No Not That One, The Other One)

   https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/11/07/the-evil-warmongering-zionist-won-no-not-that-one-the-other-one/

   1. Best LOL headline I have seen in a while, no matter how sad in fact.

      1. Yep.

   2. Great article.

4. Here is what it means…

5. Now that's out of the way, here is a comment I just made over at Substack:

   I had to unsubscribe from Rob Campbell's Substack because he posted a ridiculously positive review of Trump's win, despite previously making disingenuous comments about how he's "not" a "Trump Savior Syndrome" victim. He was very insulted when I previously suggested he had the symptoms. Now he's revealed a massive infection which no mRNA vaccine could possibly cure.

   These people have zero intellectual integrity – doubly a problem for Campbell since he claims to be a "philosopher" – or maybe that IS his problem. Philosophers tend to be narcissists for obvious reasons. It requires a major ego to think you can comprehend the universe – one even bigger than mine (and that's saying something.)

   [Larry] Johnson is your standard, garden-variety "conservative" as is Ritter and the rest of the "Judge Nap crowd", except for Crooke due to being British. They are hampered by their limited ideology from actually comprehending the Big Picture, although they frequently get the details right, which does make them valuable for people like me who don't have the time to spend all day on these subjects or previous relevant experience in intelligence and the military.

   However I'm coming to the conclusion, as I mentioned elsewhere, that after 17 years of watching US foreign policy about Iran, and 21 years of watching US foreign policy since the Iraq invasion, and the last two years of the Russian SMO. and the last year of watching the Gaza genocide, that when I'm provided with the necessary facts my analysis is just as good as theirs and sometimes better. That is because I do not have a limited ideology.

   Anyone who thinks Trump is going to "do better this time" is a moron as bad as Trump. The man is constitutionally unable to function as anything other than what he was the first time. A moron like him hasn't learned a fucking thing and can not learn a fucking thing.

   All this BS from morons about how we need to "give Trump a chance" merely indicates how incapable they are of comprehending basic human nature, let alone Trump's entire personal history. It merely reflects their own emotional desperation to have someone – anyone – save them from their own inadequacy at comprehending how the world works.

   The same applies, of course, to all those morons who want Harris or Stein or whoever to save them.

   There ain't no "saving you", folks. No one is coming to save you. That's on you. Deal.

6. Here you go… Question answered!

   Yeah, here’s the word about “the new world under Trump” from Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal on X:

   Aaron Maté @aaronjmate
   22m

   One of the key architects of Trump’s “Maximum Pressure” on Iranian civilians. Early signal that Trump is going Maximum Neocon:

   Kylie Atwood
   @kylieatwood
   7h
   Brian Hook, a top State Department official during the first Trump admin, is expected to lead the transition team at the State Dept for President-elect Donald Trump, sources tell me + @jmhansler.

   Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal
   32m

   For those who don’t recall, Brian Hook was the head of the Iran Action Group in Pompeo’s State Dept, overseeing the maximum pressure policy that culminated with Soleimani’s assassination Trump is already letting the neocons back in the building

   Kylie Atwood
   @kylieatwood
   7h
   Brian Hook, a top State Department official during the first Trump admin, is expected to lead the transition team at the State Dept for President-elect Donald Trump, sources tell me + @jmhansler.

7. The only positive in this election, from a statistics standpoint, is that the Popular Vote count for Trump gives an exacting total of the number of gullible, ignorant, selfish, and stupid (GISS) American voters there are.

   Don't mind if henceforth, I refer to Trump's legions as the GISS Army. Apologies to Gene Simmons et. al.

8. It's been a while, but it looks like the comments section here has gone downhill since Raimondo's (himself a Trump supporter) day.

   1. Justin wasn’t a fan of the site having a comment section at all, and for the last few years of his life arranged to have commenting turned off on his own columns.

      He also quickly got over being a Trump supporter:

      https://archive.is/kmDMI

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