The following is the text of a column that I submitted to the Waco "Trib", as a member of their board of contributors. So far they have not chosen to use it. However, I thought the content important enough to post here, so that at least some of the public could read it. So here it is:
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President Trump is a transactional-type person, and he demonstrably only understands other
transactional-type people. It’s always only
about the deals to be made. Which in
part explains the raid into Venezuela,
and the start of war with Iran:
those on the other sides would not make any sort of deal with him, and that angered him into impulsive actions.
It also explains why the Iran war has dragged on without any
resolution. Those left in charge on the
other side are mostly just the terrorist army (Revolutionary Guard), who are anything but transactional. For them,
there is no deal to be made. They
either stay in charge and inflict whatever harm they can on the rest of the
world, or they die.
President Trump went to China to make trade deals. That’s why he took American billionaires with
him. However, China’s dictatorial leader Xi is a strategic
thinker as well as transactional! Trump
is not a strategic thinker, as his foreign
affairs actions have proved.
Xi wants the US to stop supporting Taiwan, so that mainland China can take it over. He is counting on Trump to abandon defense of
Taiwan, in order to get some sort of
trade deal.
Xi is also very deceptive:
the public excuse here is that Taiwan is historically part of
China, and they “just want their
territory back”. That same excuse has
been used by Xi’s predecessors all the way back to Mao Tse Tung.
But in today’s world that excuse is simply no longer
true: if simple territory were the
goal, a massive military strike-from-a-distance, conventional or nuclear, would depopulate the island, and they could just walk ashore and occupy
it. They have not already done
that. So, today,
it is so very clearly not just about the territory!
Taiwan has over 90% of the entire world’s manufacturing
industry for computer chips and electronic devices. That is a huge industry, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions! That industry is what Xi in China
wants, not the island and its people. And that is why they have not already
launched an invasion. They would have to
defeat an armed Taiwan, supported by the
US to help with its defense, but they
must accomplish that without destroying that industry!
If Xi’s China possessed that industry, it would essentially be a monopoly supplier
of chips and electronics devices to the rest of the world! It could extort anything it wanted from
everyone else! Gaining that ability to
extort whatever he wants, is Xi’s
strategic goal here.
A weakened Taiwan without US support makes that possible! And in Xi’s own words, his military is to be ready to do that, starting in 2027.
Xi also knows that Trump is a transactional thinker, but not a strategic thinker! He intends for Trump to offer abandoning the
defense of Taiwan, in order to get the
trade deals he wants. The odds actually favor
Xi getting that outcome, and he knows it! Such is based on the past un-strategic things
Trump has done: stopping support for Ukraine
against Putin’s Russia, and alienating
our European allies.
Trump simply cannot see past the immediate trade deal! He cares not about the consequences for the
US and the world, should China acquire what
would be essentially monopoly control over the availability of electronic chips
and devices to the rest of the entire world,
including the US. Which would be
an economic catastrophe unlike any other!
Trump has more-than-amply demonstrated his lack of strategic
thinking ability, by not caring (and he
said so, publicly!) about the still-unfolding
but horrific consequences of the current oil shortages upon everybody’s
economies, including the US. Those are traceable directly to the
interruption of about 20% of the world’s oil supply through the Strait of
Hormuz, due to his war. That strait was open, before he started that war!
So now you understand what the true looming pitfall is here,
with Trump’s trip to China along with
the billionaires. He is about to “give
away the store” to Xi! If that fails to
happen on this trip, it will still happen
soon.
And you, not Trump, will have to pay for it! He’s too old and too rich to suffer any of
the consequences. Consequences that all
of you and your children will have to bear, for the rest of your lives!
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end of submitted article
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I want to take you one step further now.
You readers out there need to ask yourselves a critical question. Is not weakening and destroying our alliances against our enemies treason of the aid and comfort type, when those enemies could not do it for themselves?
Your answer should help guide your vote in November, despite the gross, blatant attempts to steal that election, by gerrymandering. Massive turnout might still overcome that. But if it does not, I predict you will never see another national election that is not a sham in a dictatorship imposed upon you. And the secret terror-police force for it, is already in place.
Remember, your Representatives must impeach, and your Senators must convict, to address that treason, since the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution, for any crimes that he commits while he is in the White House! Impeachment requires only a simple House majority, but conviction requires a 2/3 majority in the Senate!
Trump has already weaponized the Department of Justice into being his personal law outfit. We have all already seen it. No help there!
As for the candidates you might vote for, do not listen to what they say! Words are cheap, and political words are usually lies. Look only at what they have already done! That is the only reliable guide as to what they might yet do.
If you find your present officials, or your usual candidates lacking, then vote for somebody else. Anybody else! You could not do worse, but you might do better!
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