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Trump continues to accompany the Democrats with "endless wars"...
It just so happens that Donald Trump talks like Pope Francis. I refer to the alarm about the danger of a "Third World War", a specter repeatedly raised by the Pope, which is now repeated in the electoral campaign of the Republican candidate. It's a topic that's also the background to a recent controversy over Trump's visit to the Arlington (Washington) military cemetery, where a memorial custodian and military authorities objected to photos and television footage near the graves of fallen soldiers.
That visit was part of a recurring theme for Trump: he denounces the foreign policy of the Biden-Harris administration as warmongering, on par with the presidencies of other Democrats (Bill Clinton, Barack Obama) and Republicans before Trump. In this, his propaganda has features in common with the analysis of Pope Francis, or of many anti-American leftists around the world.
Against Kamala Harris, Trump uses the fact that she was vice president when the disastrous withdrawal from Kabul took place three years ago, a debacle during which 13 American soldiers died in an attack. When he was president, Trump negotiated an end to US military intervention in Afghanistan with the Taliban, but the actual withdrawal was led by Biden-Harris and went horribly wrong. In general, Trump resumes his ancient polemic against the "endless wars" that are bleeding America without managing to calm the rest of the world. It was an argument that accompanied his first political ascension in 2016: he used it both against Democrats (Obama had prolonged military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq) and against the old Republican establishment and the Bush family in particular.
Trump's isolation has penetrated the Republican base and contributed to the marginalization of globalist elites in the Old Party. At times Trump has brought back "neoconservatives" as advisers and associates, belonging to the same circle of Republican hawks that inspired Bush Jr.'s wars in the Middle East. The most significant case is John Bolton, whom Trump tapped to lead the National Security Council, the White House's foreign and military policy control room. But the partnership with Bolton lasted less than two years and ended, after much debate, with a sacking. Bolton has since become a relentless critic of Trump's foreign policy.
In this election campaign, Trump is targeting the apparent continuity between Kamala Harris and Democratic presidents: Biden, Obama. The current Democratic candidate has not released any news, she has promised to continue providing military aid to Ukraine. She also pledged military support for Israel, while calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and the creation of a Palestinian state. Finally, one must assume that she would be loyal to the Biden line in Taiwan, ie. a commitment to defend the island in the event of a Chinese invasion.
Trump continues to engage Democrats in "endless wars," as he calls them. In reality, America today is no longer involved militarily in a classic conflict as it was in Afghanistan and Iraq. To be precise, this is the first election campaign in 24 years in which America has no ground troops involved in a foreign conflict. And yet supplying arms to Ukraine is expensive and has depleted many US arsenals; moreover, it leaves open the possibility that sooner or later that conflict will end up involving NATO and therefore America (if Putin so chooses). As for the Middle East, US military fleets fight daily against the Yemeni Houthis in the Red Sea and guard the coast of Lebanon in the Mediterranean as a deterrent against Hezbollah and Iran.
Trump therefore sees this world as a powder keg where at any moment the escalation of one of the many conflicts could engulf America, as long as a Democratic Administration in the White House continues to think it should be the world's policeman. Its isolation promises to reduce the risks of conflict by reducing the global exposure of the US military, guaranteeing these forces political support and funding. "We're closer to a world war than we've ever been in the last fifty years," Trump reiterated recently. The Holy See, the pacifist movements and many of the global left think exactly like him. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Corriere Della Sera"
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