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Donald Trump takes over from Joe Biden at the White House in less than a week in what is, for all intents and purposes, a theatrical change of the executive figurehead.
One manikin is wheeled out, another wheeled in. Cue the brass band and gun salutes.
There’s a big difference in personal style and rhetoric about policies. But the world will continue to endure its experience of U.S. power – one of imperialistic militarism, conflict, and violence.
Outgoing Democrat President Joe Biden let the cat out of the bag – as he is prone to do – when he delivered what was billed as his last foreign policy speech this week. He outlined a world of U.S. domination by military force and proxy machinations. It was a dystopian view of international relations – yet Biden exulted in the belief that “America is winning” and that this something noble to report to the American people.
During his 30-minute rant at the State Department, Biden declared: “The United States is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years ago. America is stronger. Our alliances are stronger, our adversaries and competitors are weaker.”
It was hard to listen to Biden as he slurred from one fragmented sentence to the next without punctuation. It was harder still to listen to the delusional lies about America leading the world under the aegis of his administration.
He went on to boast that adversaries Russia, China and Iran were all weakened by his policies to create a new Cold War. That’s right, Biden actually claimed it a virtue when he stammered, “the post-Cold War is over, a new era has begun” of fierce competition and crises.”
The proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, where as many as one million military deaths have been incurred in three years, has been recklessly fueled by the Biden administration. The Biden White House and former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson deliberately sabotaged an early peace settlement in March 2022.
Biden has thus brought the world to the brink of nuclear war between the United States and Russia. World security has not been this dire since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 – and yet Biden is crowing about this appalling situation as an “achievement” he can report to the American people.
During his foreign policy speech, the Israeli genocide in Gaza fueled by U.S. weapons, which has killed over 46,000 Palestinians – mainly women, children and elderly – was sickeningly rationalized by Biden as a price for weakening Iran.
Biden also bragged about the militarization of the Asia-Pacific with U.S. forces and allies under his watch, purportedly to contain China but which is escalating provocations with another nuclear power.
The cynicism of Biden is grotesque. At one point, he proclaimed, “We have not gone to war to make these things happen.”
It was reminiscent of U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham boasting how the proxy war in Ukraine was the best investment ever made by Washington since Russian soldiers were being killed without the deployment of American troops.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova got it right when she commented: “Today’s statement by Biden is an admission of a deliberately executed provocation. The Biden administration knew it was pushing the world toward the brink and still chose to escalate the conflict.”
Escalation is what Biden is doing as he packs his bags at the White House. This week saw more air attacks deep inside Russia with U.S.-supplied and operated long-range ATACMS missiles. Biden gave the go-ahead for such strikes at the end of last year despite Moscow’s warning that it was inciting a global war and nuclear armageddon.
Next week, the senile Biden heads off to a retirement home. But there is little reason to expect that the incoming Trump administration will change U.S. policy from its course of seeking global domination and confrontation to achieve that. Biden claimed he was leaving the next administration “a very strong hand to play.”
The course of conflict is historically determined by an imperialist power seeking to maintain its global power. Trump is not going to challenge the fundamental dynamic of U.S. imperialism.
During the presidential campaign, Trump often derided Biden for making the U.S. a “laughing stock of the world.” No doubt, Trump would disparage Biden’s egotistical claims of making America stronger.
Trump’s campaign tapped anti-war sentiment among U.S. citizens. He repeatedly vowed to end the war in Ukraine “on day one” of his presidency. The Republican said his focus would be “America First” and ending overseas wars and conflicts.
Even before his inauguration on January 20, Trump has gone full-bore imperialist, declaring that he is going to annex Greenland and Panama by military force if needed on the grounds of “national security.”
Trump is also more inclined to pander to Israeli aggression in the Middle East. He is on record in his endorsement of launching air strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.
His hostile views toward China are also well-documented and unhinged, as are those of his cabinet picks.
The latest reports on Trump’s much-vaunted peace intentions in Ukraine are not promising. His aides are now saying a resolution to the conflict may be months away – not “on day one.”
Trump and his aides, including his mouthpiece billionaire Elon Musk, are abjectly unqualified and ill-informed to have any ability to work through negotiations with Russia, Iran, China, or anyone else.
The difference between Biden and Trump amounts to nothing – despite all the trumpeting by Trump’s MAGA supporters and Biden’s Democrat followers who abhor Trump.
A Republican big mouth takes over from a Democrat degenerate. So what? U.S. imperialist power occupies the White House seamlessly and the world will continue to deal with the consequences of criminal American warmongering.
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