Showing posts with label TRUMP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TRUMP. Show all posts

Friday, February 7, 2020

PT -- Thierry Meyssan -- O “Acordo do Século”

O documento divulgado esta semana pela Casa Branca, Peace to Prosperity, deve ser tomado pelo que é: uma proposta de trabalho sobre novas bases, não um plano de paz definitivo. Para Thierry Meyssan, em vez de protestar contra este projecto, é necessário examiná-lo. É uma oportunidade para desbloquear uma situação que apodrece há três quartos de século.

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Quando os fundamentos do Direito Internacional foram concebidos, em 1899, na conferência de Haia, tratava-se de impedir guerras entre Estados por meio de arbitragem. Quando o Império Britânico descolonizou a Palestina mandatária e que o conflito árabe-israelita se produziu de modo súbito e inesperado, o Direito Internacional não foi de nenhuma ajuda, porque não havia um Estado palestiniano, nem um Estado judeu. Assim, abordamos regras incoerentes que, por engano, consideramos imutáveis.
Os princípios que os Estados fundadores das Nações Unidas, incluindo a Síria, elaboraram durante o plano de partilha da Palestina foram rejeitados por ambas as partes. Quando os Yishuv proclamaram, unilateralmente, o Estado de Israel e imediatamente praticaram uma vasta limpeza étnica (a Nakba), a ONU reconheceu o novo Estado, mas enviou o Conde Folke Bernadotte para verificar a situação no local. Ele observou os crimes de Israel, preconizou limitar em dois terços, o território Yishuv, mas foi assassinado pelos Lehi, de Yitzhak Shamir, antes de poder apresentar o seu relatório em Nova York. Depois de mais de 700 resoluções da Assembleia Geral, bem como 100 resoluções do Conselho de Segurança, o conflito piorou sem soluções no horizonte.

O Presidente Trump imaginou que poderia resolver a quadratura do círculo antes da conclusão do seu mandato. Desde a sua eleição, foi considerado, erradamente, pró-israelita quando é apenas, um empresário do Novo Mundo.
Partiu da seguinte constatação:
- Israel limpou étnicamente o território que se auto-atribuiu, em 1948. Desencadeou a guerra de 1967, que ganhou.
- Os palestinianos travaram a guerra de 1970 na Jordânia, a guerra de 1973 em Israel, a guerra de 1975 no Líbano, a guerra de 1990 no Kuwait e a guerra de 2012 na Síria, todas elas perdidas. Mas nenhum dos dois grupos tenciona assumir as consequências dos seus actos.
O debate está distorcido desde que Yasser Arafat, recusando ser marginalizado pelo processo de Madrid, abandonou o projecto de Estado binacional baseado na igualdade entre árabes e judeus e violou o plano de partilha de 1948, ao assinar o Acordos de Oslo. O princípio da “solução de dois Estados”, imaginada por Yitzhak Rabin, o antigo aliado do regime do apartheid sul-africano, não é senão a criação de bantustões palestinianos, o prolongamento do que o Presidente Jimmy Carter designou como “Apartheid israelita”.
Trump concebeu, então, um plano de paz que começou a diligenciar que fosse aplicado, silenciosamente, durante dois anos.
- Em 6 de Dezembro de 2017, reconheceu Jerusalém como sendo a capital de Israel, sem especificar as fronteiras, esperando em vão, que a Autoridade Palestiniana se mudasse de Ramallah para Jerusalém Oriental.
- Retirou o financiamento dos EUA da UNRWA (Agência das Nações Unidas de Assistência aos Refugiados da Palestina no Próximo Oriente) para forçar a comunidade internacional a parar de patrocinar o status quo. O que provocou a fúria da Autoridade Palestina e a rutura das relações diplomáticas entre Ramallah e Washington
- Herdeiro do povo que roubou a terra dos índios, reconheceu a conquista israelita do Golan sírio, na esperança de abrir uma negociação com Damasco, mas colhendo, apenas, a condenação de 193 Estados.
- Negociou secretamente um acordo entre Israel e o Hamas, que levou ao pagamento dos funcionários de Gaza pelo Catar.
O documento publicado pela Casa Branca esta semana, é apresentado pelos seus autores como inaplicável, pois não conta com o apoio de ambas as partes (página 10). Apresenta um processo de quatro anos, ou seja, durante o próximo mandato presidencial dos EUA. Portanto, é um documento para uso eleitoral nos Estados Unidos e não um plano final de paz.
Em vez de lamentar e denunciar o facto consumado, devemos compreender a onde quer chegar a Casa Branca, especialmente quando recusamos a soberania israelita sobre o Golã.
Donald Trump é um homem de negócios, que colocou na mesa um plano inaceitável de maneira a conseguir muito menos, mas alcançar a paz. É um discípulo do Presidente Andrew Jackson que substituiu a negociação pela guerra com os índios. É certo que o acordo que ele assinou com os Cherokees, foi sabotado pelo seu próprio exército e deu origem ao episódio atroz do Caminho das Lágrimas. Mas, hoje, os cherokees são o único povo ameríndio que sobreviveu como tal à imigração europeia.
A publicação deste documento também foi uma armadilha na qual Benjamin Netanyahu caiu de cabeça. Sem demora, o Primeiro Ministro israelita correu a felicitar-se, ruidosamente, sobre este plano, a fim de eclipsar o seu concorrente, o General Beny Gantz. Foi uma péssima decisão. Todos os Estados da Liga Árabe rejeitaram o plano, incluindo o Catar, que, no entanto, participa no plano em segredo. Os anos de esforços de Israel para romper a frente árabe, apoiando-se na Arábia Saudita, no Qatar, na Jordânia e em Omã, foram reduzidos a zero.

Documentos anexados

Al-Watan #3330
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Sunday, July 8, 2018

Thierry Meyssan -- What Donald Trump is preparing

What Donald Trump is preparing

After having observed Donald Trump’s historical references (the constitutional compromise of 1789, the examples of Andrew Jackson and Richard Nixon) and the way in which his partisans perceive his politics, Thierry Meyssan here analyses his anti-imperialist actions. The US President is not interested in taking a step back, but on the contrary, abandoning the interests of the transnational ruling class in order to develop the US national economy.
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When the backwash from the blades of the Presidential helicopter blew a Marine guard’s cap off, Donald Trump picked it up and put it back on his head.
This article is a continuation of “What is Donald Trump’s position?”, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 19 June 2018.

The problem

In 1916, during the First World War, Lenin analysed the reasons which led to the confrontation between the empires of his time. He wrote - Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. In this book, he clarified his analysis - « Imperialism is capitalism which has arrived at a stage of its development where domination by monopolies and financial capital has been confirmed, where the export of capital has acquired major importance, where the sharing of the world between international trusts has begun, and where the sharing of all the territories of the globe between the greatest capitalist countries has been achieved ».
The facts confirmed his logic of the concentration of capitalism that he described. In the space of one century, it substituted a new empire for the precedents - « America » (not to be confused with the American continent). By dint of fusions and acquisitions, a few multinational companies gave birth to a global ruling class which gathers every year to congratulate itself, as we watch, in Davos, Switzerland. These people do not serve the interests of the US population, and in fact are not necessarily United States citizens themselves, but use the means of the US Federal State to maximise their profits.

Donald Trump was elected as President of the United States on his promise to return to the earlier state of Capitalism, that of the « American dream, » by free market competition. We can of course claim a priori, as did Lenin, that such a reversal is impossible, but nonetheless, the new President has committed to this direction.
The heart of the imperial Capitalist system is expressed by the doctrine of the Pentagon, formulated by Admiral Arthur Cebrowski - the world is now split in two. On one side, the developed, stable states, and on the other, those states which are not yet integrated into the imperial globalist system and are therefore doomed to instability. The US armed forces are tasked with destroying the state and social structures of the non-integrated regions. Since 2001, they have been patiently destroying the « Greater Middle East », and are now preparing to do the same in the « Caribbean Basin .»
We are obliged to note that the way in which the Pentagon looks at the world is based on the same concepts used by anti-imperialist thinkers like Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi or Samir Amin.

The attempted solution

Donald Trump’s objective thus consists both of reinvesting the transnational capital in the US economy, and turning the Pentagon and the CIA away from their current imperialist functions with National Defense. In order to do so, he has to withdraw from international commercial treaties and dissolve the inter-governmental structures which consolidate the old order.
Undoing the international commercial treaties
From the very first days of his mandate, President Trump removed his country from the trans-Pacific partnership agreement, which had not yet been signed. This commercial treaty had been conceived strategically as a means of isolating China.
Since he was unable to cancel the signature of his country on those treaties which were already in force, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), he began to unravel them by imposing various customs duties which were contrary to the spirit, but not the letter, of the agreement.
Re-framing or dissolving the inter-governmental structures
As we have often written here, the United Nations Organisation is no longer a forum for peace, but an instrument of US imperialism within which a few states continue to resist. This was already the case during the Soviet policy of the empty chair (Korean War) and, since July 2012, it is once again true.
President Trump has directly attacked the two main imperialist tools within the UNO – the peace-keeping operations (which have taken the place of the observation missions which were originally planned by the Charter), and the Human Rights Council (whose sole function is to justify the humanitarian wars waged by NATO). He has deprived the former of their budget, and withdrawn his country from the latter. However, he has just lost the election for Director of the International Organisation for Migration, leaving the road open, for the moment, for the world traffic in human beings. Of course, he has absolutely no wish to destroy the UNO, but only to refocus its activities and bring it back to its original function.
He has just torpedoed the G7. This meeting, initially intended as a moment for the exchange of points of view, had become, as from 1994, a tool for imperial domination. In 2014, it transformed itself into an instrument for anti-Russian activity – thus conforming to what had become the new strategy of the Anglo-Saxon nations, aimed at « cutting our losses », in other words, avoiding a World War by limiting the empire to the borders of Russia and thereby isolating it. President Trump took great care during the meeting in Charleroix to show his confused allies that he was no longer their overlord, and that they would have to make it on their own.
Finally, after having tried to use France to dynamite the European Union, he turned to Italy, where he sent Steve Bannon to create an anti-system government with the help of US banks. Rome has already concluded an alliance with five other capitals against Brussels.
Reinvesting in productive economy
Via diverse fiscal and customs measures, rarely voted by Congress and usually adopted by decree, President Trump encouraged the major companies of his country to repatriate their factories back to the USA. There immediately followed an economic recovery, which is about the only thing for which the Press will recognise him.
However, we are a long way from noting a financial decline. World finance is probably continuing to prosper outside of the USA, or in other words, continuing to suck up the wealth of the rest of the world.
Reorienting the Pentagon and the CIA
This is obviously the most difficult operation. During his election, President Trump could count on the the votes from his troops, but not those of the superior officers and generals
Donald Trump entered into politics on 11 September 2001. He immediately contested the official version of the events. Thereafter, he expressed his astonishment about the contradictions of the mainstream story – while Presidents Bush Jr. and Obama declared that they wanted to eliminate the jihadist movements, we observed on the contrary a drastic multiplication and globalisation of jihadism during their mandates which went as far as the creation of an independent state in Iraq and Syria.
This is why, as soon as he took office, President Trump surrounded himself with officers who enjoyed a recognised authority in the army. It was, for him, the only option, both to guard against a military coup d’etat and to ensure that he would be obeyed in the reforms that he wanted to implement. Then he gave carte blanche to all the military for everything concerning tactics on the ground. Finally, he never lost an opportunity to confirm his support for the armed forces and the Intelligence services.
After having confiscated their permanent chair at the National Security Council from the president of the chiefs of staff and the director of the CIA, he gave the order to cease support for the jihadists. Progressively, we saw Al-Qaeda and Daesh lose ground. This policy continues today with the withdrawal of US support for the jihadists in Southern Syria. From now on, they no longer form private armies, but only scattered groups which are used for occasional terrorist actions.
Similarly, he first of all pretended to give up dissolving NATO if it would agree to add an anti-terrorist function to its anti-Russian function. He is now beginning to show NATO that it does not enjoy eternal privileges, as we we saw with his refusal to deliver a special visa for an ex-General Secretary. Above all, he has begun to diminish its anti-Russian function. So he is now negotiating with Moscow the cancellation of Alliance manoeuvres in Eastern Europe. Besides this, he is now taking administrative actions which attest to the refusal of the allies to contribute to collective defence as far as they are able. In this way, he is preparing to dismantle NATO as soon as he sees fit.
This moment will only come when the destructuration of international relations occurs simultaneously at maturity in Asia (North Korea), the Greater Middle East (Palestine and Iran) and in Europe (UE).
Keep in mind 
- President Trump is absolutely not the « unpredictable » character so often described. Quite the contrary, he acts in a clearly thoughtful and logical manner. 
- Donald Trump is preparing a reorganisation of international relations. This change will operate through a complete and sudden upheaval directed against the interests of the transnational ruling class.
Translation
Pete Kimberley
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