Harold Pease, Ph. D
Fallout from President Donald Trump’s pullout of 28 soldiers from Syria has brought globalist of both political parties to the front in opposition. Turkey used the pullout as an excuse to invade Syria in a centuries-old conflict between themselves and the Kurds who were paid heavily by the American taxpayer to help the United States round up the last remaining fragments of ISIS. With that done the rational for staying in Syria vaporized. Globalist networks did site as rational for withdrawal, Trump’s fulfilling a campaign promise to bring home American troops, but all networks, including Fox, failed to share the military industrial complex part of the story. This we share.
What Trump is about is the most massive change in American foreign policy in a hundred years. We will no longer fight, be wounded, die, and fund endless wars where we have little or no defensive interest. We will no longer serve as the policemen of the world or of the world governing United Nations. Globalists and globalism are out of power—at least in the Trump Administration.
This is the real reason for the three-year-long never-ending multiple impeachment attempts, started even before Trump’s inauguration. Why? Because this is the only president that could not be purchased, controlled, or at least managed, by Wall Street’s globalist special interest group, The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
If this is new to readers, hundreds, including previous columns of this columnist, have documented this organization’s globalist aspirations and the power it has had in all elections and administrations since its founding in 1921. The extent of one’s ignorance of this organization demonstrates the power this largely secret combination has had over education, all national medias and government.
So what did the globalist establishment medias omit from the news? That war industries profit from war, thus love war—the same message that President Dwight D. Eisenhower shared in his final address as president, January 17, 1961, warning of the dangers of the military industrial complex.
Globalists, often called the establishment or the deep state, prefer world-wide open borders, the eventual transfer of all political power to international levels, and eventually world government. National sovereignty is their enemy—thus their hatred of Trump’s America first policy. Patriots prefer freedom from excessive government, independence from any governing entity other than Congress, patriotism, and today, the Constitution as written. The choice is uncannily similar to the that of Americans in 1776 — liberty.
Trump told reporters who slammed him “for abandoning the Kurds” by removing 28 soldiers manning the border between they and the Turks. “We don’t have to fight these endless wars. Were bringing them back home. That is what I won on.”
Then he identified the real issue, “Some people—whether you call it the military industrial complex—or beyond… would like me to stay …They want me to fight forever. They do very well [financially] fighting. That is what they want to do, fight. A lot of companies want to fight because they make their weapons based on fighting—not based on peace—and they take care of [employ] a lot of people.”
Trump explained, “I want to bring our soldiers back home. We are not a police force, we are a fighting force. We are the greatest fighting force ever. I spent 2 1/2 trillion dollars over the last almost three years rebuilding our military. When I took it over it was an absolute mess. It was totally depleted.” Now, he adds, “We have the most powerful nuclear base by far in the world. We have things that we never had before.”
Continuing, “We have a great modern military but that does not mean that we are going to waste it. It does not mean that we are going to deplete it like we did before with these crazy endless wars. So, Turkey and Syria will hopefully work it out between themselves. Hopefully ISIS [prisoners] will be guarded” because “Russia, Iran, Syria, and, to maybe a slightly lesser extent, Turkey, they all hate ISIS as much as we do. And, it is their part of the world. We are seven thousand miles away (emphasis added)” (MSNBC Press Release with Italian President Sergio Mattarella. October 16, 2019).
On the same day in a subsequent press conference Trump added more, “We were supposed to be there for 30 days. We stayed for 10 years and it is time for us to come home. We are not a policing agent and it is time for us to come home .… The plan is to get out of endless wars to bring our soldiers back home. They are not to be policing agents all over the world.”
Russia and China do not have troops in other countries he argued. How many countries have American troops? “We are in 90 countries all over the world policing. And frankly many of those countries, they don’t respect what we are doing. They don’t even like what we are doing and they don’t like us.” By not having a military presence in 90 countries we will save tremendous amounts of money, manpower, and lives.
Trump is returning American sovereignty to America and all globalists hate him for it. They will do anything to destroy him. This is what the globalist media outlets have not shared. This omission was intentional.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Dr. Pease in his essay “Trump Delivers Major Blow to Globalism”, which I just read on our local paper (Nov, 1, 2019), states “Russia and China do not have troops in other countries, he (Trump) argues. how many countries have American troops?” The historical facts are: After WWII, the European allies were in no position to establish a postwar world order without the support and leadership of the U.S.., The Soviet Union controlled the entire Eastern Europe and the eastern portion of Germany. Balkan were ruled by communist parties under the domination of the Soviet Union. In Asia, the U.S. fought the communist invasion of South Korea – a Stalin’s move without China’s (Mao’s) consent, and China was “forced” to send in “volunteers” to do the fighting for Stalin. After the deaths of Stalin and Mao, the communists (China and the Soviet Union) began to retreat due to their domestic problems. Several smaller states in the Baltic ,and in Eastern Europe Poland, Czech, Ukraine, Belarus and the Soviet states in Central Asia all gained their independence. Russia was in retreat . China, being just freed from ruthless rule of Mao, needed time to rebuild itself. The Western (NATO) powers (the Great Britain, France, the reunited Germany, Italy, and the United State began, by necessity, to fill in the vacuum left by the weakened Russia. ..). Now both Russia and China are getting strong. Putin plans to regain what the loss (territories and sphere of influence) due to the disintegration of the USSR. China with her fast growing economy (and military strength) is expanding her economic influence/control global wise with good and long range planning. Russia is ready and well prepared to fill in whatever and wherever the U.S would retreat and to give up. Russia (Putin) will move very fast and resolutely to fill in the places abandoned by the U.S.. President Trump’s policies seems to provide Putin such possibilities. In short, Russia is looking forward to fill in whatever places the U.S. is prepared to leave and to give up. Dr. Pease’s essay is a timely discussion that makes us to think what and how the U.S.’s global policy and position should be. (The author of this response to Dr. Pease’s article “Trump Delivers Major Blow to Globalism” was a professor at State University of New York at Buffalo, (retired).