By JOÃO QUARTIM DE MORAES*
The political decisions announced by the abominable rhetoric of the current US president are not substantially different from those that correspond to the protocolarily hypocritical phraseology of Joe Biden
On February 26, Donald Trump released a cartoon, more vulgar than macabre, proposing a “final solution” for the Gaza Strip, similar to the one that the pioneers of the “American dream” applied in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries to eliminate indigenous peoples: empty the country of its historical inhabitants, to install the new owners of the land.
The film, which proposes the creation of a luxurious “Riviera” in the ruins of Palestinian territory devastated by Israel, begins with a soundtrack in the style of an advertisement: “Donald Trump will set you free […], no more tunnels, no more fear”; “Trump Gaza is finally here”.
The tycoon with a pompadour is shown in the video alongside his partner Benjamin Netanyahu, the man responsible for the operation to annihilate the Palestinian people of Gaza, the two sunbathing and having drinks in a pool at a “resort” on his planned “Riviera”. In an atmosphere of general tackiness, we see his partner Elon Musk throwing money to poor children on the beach and odalisques making languid gestures for tourists to see.
This tasteless farce is guaranteed to go down in the annals of infamy. But it certainly wasn’t gratuitous. It confirmed a characteristic trait of Trumpian rhetoric: expressing one’s own interests and ambitions with blatant crudeness, without regard for formal good feelings. In this case, it illustrated the radical rascality of ultraliberal “entrepreneurship”: creating a “business environment,” regardless of the circumstances.
It is worth noting, however, that the political decisions announced by the abominable rhetoric of the current US president are not substantially different from those that correspond to the protocolarily hypocritical phraseology of Joe Biden and his European NATO partners. Joe Biden helped Israel to annihilate Gaza and to continue the massacre of the Palestinian people.
The European Union did not lift a finger to denounce the dark operation led by Benjamin Netanyahu. On the other hand, in partnership with the governments of the main European powers (in reality, powerless powers), the arrogant “Fuhrerin” Ursula van der Leyden, President of the European Commission, has added fuel to the fire of anti-Russian hysteria that is haunting the “West”. This is the crux of the discrepancy between the positions of Joe Biden and the European Union compared to those of Donald Trump.
It is worth remembering that the collapse and dismantling of the Soviet Union in 1991 was interpreted by the “West” as a green light to take over the world. The leaders of the capitalist counterrevolution in Russia, led by the despicable Boris Yeltsin, festively greeted by the bourgeoisie of the entire world, immediately proceeded to plunder the Soviet economy through privatizations that were scandalously damaging to the national heritage; the most successful plunderers, known as “oligarchs”, squandered fortunes in London, Paris, the Côte d'Azur and other luxury tourism centers, while the Russian people suffered a brutal drop in their standard of living compared to what it had achieved under socialism.
Disregarding the strong historical and cultural ties that unite Serbia with Russia, because they were convinced that Boris Yeltsin's corrupt regime had contaminated the energies of the Russian nation, NATO leaders undertook the annihilation of Serbia, the last country in Europe that resisted the neoliberal avalanche. In March 1999, Air force of the German IV Reich, following orders from the social democratic chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, bombed Belgrade.
The capital of Serbia had already been razed in April 1941, also by Air force, at that time displaying the swastika of the Third Reich. Undoubtedly, the political responsibility and the ideological justification of the two bombings were very different. Hitler's Germany carried out, among other macabre supremacist projects, the subjugation of the Slavic peoples. Today's Germany, the main European satellite of the United States, took the lead in a particularly cowardly war in which NATO used its overwhelming ballistic superiority to force the socialist government of Serbia to capitulate, completing the destruction of Yugoslavia and with it the subjugation of Europe to the “West”.
Over the following years, NATO used the pretext of the never-before-explained attack on the “Twin Towers” to unleash an avalanche of lead, steel, uranium and fire in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, which left millions of victims. In 2011, it carried out a new ballistic massacre, this time in Libya, and began preparing the next operation, directed against Syria, to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. With the exception of Afghanistan, dominated by the Taliban, the three Arab countries attacked by the NATO cartel were secular regimes with anti-colonialist positions.
Convinced that they were the “masters of the world,” the “Western” plutocrats, politicians, and bureaucrats were slow to take into account that the Russian national state had reconstituted its forces and reaffirmed its status as an autonomous power. Vladimir Putin, the great architect of this resurgence, had decided to no longer stand idly by as the liberal-imperialist hegemonic bloc recolonized the planet. He supported Bashar al-Assad’s resistance to the destabilization of Syria promoted by armed groups of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism and pro-imperialist liberals. The NATO cartel responded by supporting the fascist coup in Ukraine.
On February 22, 2014, the president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovych, opposed to those who wanted to break his country's neutral status by making it join the European Union and NATO's war machine, was overthrown in a coup d'état, supported by the heads of the European Union and Barack Obama. The crypto-fascist junta that took power immediately unleashed a wave of persecution against Russians in general and communists in particular, repealing the law that recognized Russian as the official language in regions where it predominated. The Russian-speaking populations of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions responded by proclaiming independence and preparing to defend it with weapons in hand.
The minimally objective sources recognize that Vladimir Putin made efforts to avoid an escalation in the confrontation, publicly asking the leaders of the two already proclaimed people's republics to postpone the referendum to ratify independence, in order to allow negotiations with the government installed in Kiev.
He was well aware, however, that the installation in Ukraine of a government submissive to the “West” would complete the encirclement of Russia by the missile bases already installed in neighboring satellite countries (generally as rabidly anti-Russian as the “West”).Fuhrerin" van der Leyden or the little Napoleon of Paris). He warned NATO and the puppet Volodymyr Zelensky that the Russians considered themselves seriously threatened by their aggressive maneuvers. He was not taken seriously. When he resorted to the argument he had left, that of weapons, the beautiful Western souls feigned indignation, but they had poked the bear until it became exasperated.
Volodymyr Zelensky is a notorious predatory adventurer who has collected billions of dollars from Joe Biden, his main protector, in addition to what he has collected from hysterical Europeans. Spending colossal sums on a war that does not correspond to the essential interests of the United States greatly bothers Donald Trump, a businessman who hates throwing money away. That is why he publicly reprimanded Volodymyr Zelensky, demanding that he open negotiations with Russia and grant Wall Street tycoons privileged access to raw materials and rare earths used in cutting-edge technologies.
A business incomparably more profitable than a luxury “Riviera” on the ashes of Gaza. And since profit demands more profit, the bill that Donald Trump presented to the Ukrainian puppet reaches 350 billion dollars, although according to the US government’s own sources, the actual spending, since 2022, in support of the crypto-fascist regime in Kiev was actually 83,4 billion.
Volodymyr Zelensky will have to use his art of passing the dish to try to get his cash deficit in dollars in euros. Very nervous, the little Napoleon Emmanuel Macron has promised to help him with what he has and especially with what he doesn't have. The last word really lies with Donald Trump and the rare Lands from Ukraine.
*João Quartim de Moraes is a retired full professor of the Department of Philosophy at Unicamp. Author of, among other books, Lenin: an introduction (Boitempo). [https://amzn.to/4fErZPX]
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