Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country! John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address on January 20, 1961. A Democrat, formally ‘Left Leaning’, rejecting claims by ‘entitled’ people within the community. And we know how that ended. The consensus, though not the ‘official findings’, lean towards killers (those who planned and executed) working hand in glove with institutions created and financed by the State, closely connected to the mob in the US. Who exactly took the lead is unknown, but Lee Harvey Oswald acting on his own, armed with a Carcano model 38 rifle firing from a high rise building at a moving target, always was an unbelievable story. Similar doubts surrounded the killing of his brother, Robert Kennedy, though Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, most certainly was involved. But he claims to have no recollection of anything that happened on that fateful day, and after ‘MK Ultra’ was exposed to the public, conspiracy theories popped up which claimed that Sirhan Sirhan likely was a mind-controlled ‘patsy. Yet again: Who planned that assassination. I want names. And who wouldn’t? Robert Kennedy’s son, Robert J. Kennedy Jr., joined the Trump administration after Trump pledged to release all the remaining files on those murders.
In my essay posted yesterday, I tried to determine what the Alaska-summit would be about. I suggested that it would be about trade and the Dollar as a preeminent trade currency, and not about Ukraine, though the subjects are intertwined since NATO’s strategy involved the use of all-out economic warfare and plundering Russian bank-accounts. That strategy was not some kind of improvised response to the launch of the Russian ’Special Military Operation’. It had been planned well in advance. And those who crafted that strategy were convinced it would ‘overextend and unbalance’ Russia, creating the conditions to destroy Putin’s reign, walk into Moscow, carve up the country, and live happily ever after. Ukraine was the ‘patsy’ in that story.
What we witnessed yesterday, if you accept my reading of what happened since 2022, or rather since 2007, Putin’s address to his friends in NATO at the Munich Security Conference, was the unwinding of that war in Ukraine, and the need to protect trade among the most important countries, to prevent the economic destruction of the ‘Collective West’. No doubt Putin and his ’team’ of experts on finance and trade explained to Trump *why* the Russian economy did *not* collapse, and why it won’t. And that if he wants to Make America Great Again, he will have to dump the ‘drag’, the ‘entitled’ lot which can’t stop asking the US for support. Europe (the EU that is, including the UK), and Zelensky who sold his country and his people down the line for a chance to get into NATO and the EU, without thinking about the consequences.
Next summit in Moscow.
Alright then, a wide range of fierce ideologists supporting Zelensky and the ‘Coalition of the Willing’, which includes more than a few American politicians with a seat in Congress, are feeling betrayed by Trump because he acted on Kennedy’s vision, dumping the drag which is only producing more debt with every new day. That actually is a ’no brainer’ if Trump doesn’t want to end up as the president who destroyed the United States of America. He hasn’t been shy to expose that priority either. In ’negotiations’ with the EU and Ukraine, he made it crystal clear that he would retreat from footing the bills, as he extracted all kinds of concessions from Ukraine and Europe, in exchange for a promise to deliver the weapons those countries needed to continue the war they provoked, even though the US was in the lead back then.
Brian Berletic and others explained this as a ‘division of labour’, offering the US a chance to take on China, and decapitate and regime change Iran, while Europe is expected to keep the Russians busy. Which portrays Trump as a cheat, and member of the same ruling elite in the US which has this grandiose vision of ‘Wall Street’/‘Davos’ controlling the world with ‘Vulture Capitalists’ in the lead. It is way too early to state that this is obviously *not* the case, and that Trump is genuinely aiming much lower, because he doesn’t exactly shy away from ’talking the talk’ of using violence, and economic warfare to subdue the competition. He has been saber rattling in his attempts to bleed China, despite claiming that he has a ‘Great Relationship’ with Xi. But then again, he always claims he has ‘Great Relationships’ with everybody, even as he tries to pull the rug from under them. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Or, only facts matter sufficiently to make a difference in the end.
Various commentators said that this summit in Alaska failed to deliver anything substantial, and that the only result worth mentioning is Putin’s ‘PR-Victory’. Wrong. For starters, Trump will not move ahead with sanctions. I may be ‘reading’ that wrong, and with Trump you never know, but I need to assume that Putin and his ’team’ managed to convince their American counterparts that these sanctions and tariffs are killing the goose which is laying the golden eggs. In other words, the offer made by Putin, on behalf of ‘BRICS’, is by far the better offer, compared to what the EU, the UK and Ukraine are putting on the table. Absolutely no comparison. Nowhere near. Europe is suffering from the same illness which killed the American industry, and it grew *much* worse when they lost access to affordable and comparatively clean pipeline gas and Russian oil. During Trump’s first term he delivered Javelins to Ukraine, threatened to end NATO, and demanded that Europe would stop buying gas and oil from Russia, sanctioning companies which contributed to the construction of ’Northstream II’, a German/Russian joint venture. As such he was not exactly doing Russia any favors, and he isn’t in the business of helping Putin today. Or Europe. Or Canada. Or the UK. Or Ukraine.
To convince his own party that the war with Russia as conceptualized by the Rand Corporation and NATO in 2019 is lost, and that trading with ‘BRICS’ without resorting to violence actually is the best deal on the table, will not be easy. Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard and Pam Bondi are moving ahead with indictions against leading Democrats on several grounds, related to what they did to obstruct Trump in his first term, to enriching themselves through trades based on insider knowledge, and a few other things. As we all know, the Epstein files may come to haunt Trump as well, although Melania just filed a legal complaint against someone who ‘repeated’ the claim that her relationship with Trump was ‘arranged’ by Epstein, demanding a huge sum because of reputational damage. Why are things like that important against the backdrop of ‘Alaska’? Because it is part of the strategy to create leverage if Trump is seriously contemplating to take on the ‘Warparty’ this time around, as his fans expect him to do. Isolating ‘Alaska’ from the rest of what Trump is doing, and worse, thinking that ‘Alaska’ was about Ukraine, will leave you blindsided, as you stumble from surprise to surprise, unable to connect the dots.
While hedging my bets, I’m willing to accept that Trump is erratic and unpredictable for a reason, confusing friend and foe alike. I do not accept that he is ‘gaming’ the system by playing ‘Five Dimensional Chess’, or ‘Five Dimensional Go’. ‘Five Dimensional Poker’ would be more like it. Artificial Intelligence beat human beings in all of these games, including the ‘imperfect information game’ of Poker, but I’m no ‘pro’ in any of these games, so I need to be careful. In my book ‘intelligence’ has nothing to do with these games, but points towards responsible people seeking ‘Win-Win’ solutions, and not ‘Winner Takes All’. In my perception the leaders of the ‘BRICS’-nations want to go down in history as intelligent leaders in my book. They want to be seen as growing their countries from a national wealth perspective, elevating the people, using ‘Win-Win’, thus avoiding ‘War-War’. Did Putin reach out successfully to Trump to make him one of theirs? Because from his days as an entertainer producing ‘The Apprentice’, to today, we’ve come to see him as a ‘Vulture Capitalist’, always after ‘Winner Takes All’-deals in businesses estranged from producing ‘added value’ in a very *real* sense, economically. That is right, I do not think the ‘Real Estate Business’ is about ‘adding value’ in a very *real* sense, comparable to investing in *real* tech and production facilities, or means of transportation. But much closer than the ‘Vultures’ in Congress trading with advance knowledge, and placing leaked information to hurt opponents, while entertaining thoughts on how to profit from war.
The entire meeting in Alaska lasted only two and a half hours. Way too short to change someone’s perception of the world using calibrated arguments. But all you need is ‘hypnotic’ chemistry to sway people on the brink. Which is not the same as what ‘MK Ultra’ was about, since human drones are not exactly useful at the executive level. Those drones are ‘One Trick Ponies’, unable to handle complexity. At least, in the human realm, outside of mechanized ‘thinking’. Someone in doubt will look for opportunities to get things done with the least resistance. If Putin laid out the road ahead towards reforming and recreating the American economy as it existed in the days of John F. Kennedy, with Russia, China and India lending a helping hand, saving the Dollar as a world trade currency, as opposed to sticking around with a ‘cursed continent’, the label I recently used for Europe, I can see why Trump would be eager to dump the ‘Warparty’ and the Europeans, which tried to choke him after 2016, and which are a drag today. And yes, Russia will offer guarantees that they won’t conquer all of Ukraine, and that they won’t invade Europe, since they never intended to do that anyway.
The above is nothing but an attempt to explain my own ‘thinking’ after seeing events unfold, and convinced about the desire within ‘BRICS’ to stop the madness, and start developing the world. In other words, I see a spark of light in a pitch-dark world which is embracing war as a living. But let’s wait and see, it may be wishful thinking.