Western-hemispheric Contraction: Part II
Trump re-issues a two month old post on BRICS
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Published: 2025-02-02
Unitary Executive
With the experience of a presidential term from 2016 to 2020 behind him, US President Trump has begun his new term with the bombast of a New York real estate developer, as opposed to the delicacy required in diplomacy. Nonetheless, some consistency can be seen from his remarks and initial Executive Orders. The US Republican Party have been working towards a unitary executive branch of their government for decades. With Trump's attitude and the progress they've made they may experience the consequences of their efforts.
An early Trump foray included renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, threatening to annex Canada into a 51st US state and the same (but with lack of statehood) for Greenland. These were early signs of the late 19th century western-hemispheric or Monroe Doctrine approach which Trump appears to be pursuing. Since, threats towards Mexico and Canada have morphed into the imposition of 25% tariffs. This is another signal of a return to that late 19th/early 20th century period, before the Income Tax was created and the US got deeply involved in European affairs via WWI and then WWII.
Not So Unipolar
Prof. Diesen observed two quotes from new US Secretary of State Mark Rubio in the first interview which he gave in the role:
Rubio recognised that unipolarity, having one centre of power in the world, was a temporary phenomenon that has now passed:
“it’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power. That was not – that was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the Cold War, but eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet”.
Rubio suggested that the hegemonic position of the US resulted in a weakening of the Westphalian system based on sovereign states, and replaced it with a globalist system where the US claimed the role of a world policeman:
“And I think that was lost at the end of the Cold War, because we were the only power in the world, and so we assumed this responsibility of sort of becoming the global government in many cases, trying to solve every problem”.
Rubio is referring to the end of the unipolar world order that emerged after the Cold War, and the need for the US to adjust to multipolar realities.<
[Diesen, emphasis mine]
Waving Goodbye
On his social media, Truth Social, President Trump has just re-issued a post from Nov 30, 2024. It threatens member states of the BRICS group with 100% sanctions on their exports to the US market if they attempt to "create a new BRICS Currency, [or] back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar". They can "say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy", "wave goodbye to America". This "waving goodbye" signals a retreat by the U.S. back to its protectionist past.
Alex Christoforou noted that one good thing about this re-post is its mentioning of BRICS, a term which US corporate media are reluctant to use, perhaps hoping that by not acknowledging it, it will go away or that the US citizenry will not investigate it.
F’off, Foreign-Funded Fifth Columnists
One of President Trump's initial Executive Orders was a 90 day pause on foreign aid. The funding block has fallen heavily on the US State Department's primary foreign influence agency, USAID. A consequence of this has been a sudden panic in members of the "foreign-funded fifth columnists [who] routinely disseminate disinformation" abroad. Kit Klarenberg cites alarm in 90% of Ukrainian media which are funded by USAID and declarations of doom from US information operators in Nicaragua.
Mark Sleboda noted the negative feedback loop created by US corporate media quoting the slanted coverage funded by the State Department which leads to foreign policy based on garbage. He agreed with The Atlantic Council that "Trump Is Facing a Catastrophic Defeat in Ukraine", but based on a better understanding of the reality of the NATO-Russia Ukraine War. The key agreement was that as US President, Trump does inherit the war.
Trump's laudable intention to extricate the US from both the NATO vs. Russia war in Ukraine and the awful mess which Zionists, the US and Turkey have created in southwest Asia is more evidence of his intention to return the US to its late 19th century, western-hemispheric position. He will, nonetheless, face plenty of opposition to how policies in this direction are implemented. Nobody in the US establishment cares about the lives of Ukrainians or Arabs, but powerful elements care very much about the structure and flow of international trade.
One cannot just throw holy hand-grenades with 100% tariffs into modern, delicately balanced, "Just In Time" supply chains.
Speaking Truth to Power
While Trump's lack of delicacy in his statements does not land well with international diplomats, their brutality does deliver for elements of the US establishment. There was nothing subtle either about the unprecedented volume of his initial batch of Executive Orders.
Some sureties are obvious. Trump believes in himself, his right to rule and that he is right. Where this leads the US and the global order will be most interesting.
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Sources
Did the US Declare the End of the Unipolar World Order?; Glenn Diesen; Glenn's Substack; 2025-02-01
A Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?; Ted Galen Carpenter; The Libertarian Institute; 2025-01-28
Trump repeats tariffs threat to dissuade BRICS nations from replacing US dollar; Reuters; Archive.today; 2025-01-31
"The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying ...", US President Trump, Truth Social, 2025-01-30 (a re-issue of the same from 2024-11-30)
Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network?; Kit Klarenberg; The Grayzone; 2025-01-31
Trump Is Facing a Catastrophic Defeat in Ukraine; The Atlantic Council (NATO); Archive.today; 2025-01-23
Team Trump and a Western-hemispheric Contraction; YesXorNo; 2025-01-14
📽️ 100% tariffs BRICS. RUBIO admits Ukraine cannot win. North Korea disappears from Kursk; Alex Christoforou; 2025-01-31
Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve; James Corbett; The Corbett Report; 2014-07-06
📽️ MP4
Mark Sleboda: Is Trump Shattering the Unity of the Western World?; Alkhorshid interviews Sleboda; Dialogue Works; 2025-01-31
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