President Trump today gave the Commencement Address to the West Point Class of 2020. Note that many retired Generals and Defense Department officials have been issuing public attacks against the President’s legitimate warning that if local law enforcement agencies did not stop the rampant destruction, arson and looting which swept the nation for over a week, he would evoke the Insurrection Act to deploy US military forces to do the job. Those self-righteous military and defense officials pontificated that Trump was wrong to threaten the use of military forces against “peaceful demonstrators,” against “our own citizens.” This was a lie — part of the series of “big lies” repeated ad nauseam by the media — since he threatened only the violent criminals who were causing the destruction. His warning, in fact, generally stopped the anarchy. See “Putsch Against Trump Escalates,” https://larouchepub.com/eiw/private/2020/2020_20-29/2020-24/09-22_4724.pdf .
But these military and defense officials, it must be noted, are precisely the people who have driven the United States into the most destructive, illegal, and genocidal wars since the Vietnam debacle. Today, in his speech to the Cadets, the President pointed to the actual reason that these military officials hate Trump — he has correctly identified their evil wars:
“We are ending the era of endless wars. In its place is a renewed, clear-eyed focus on defending America’s vital interests. It is not the duty of U.S. troops to solve ancient conflicts in faraway lands that many people have never even heard of. We are not the policemen of the world.”
Recall that Gen. Mattis, one of those who has slandered the President, was fired as Secretary of Defense precisely because he refused to follow the orders of his Commander in Chief to get the US soldiers and sailors and marines out Syria and Afghanistan — the “endless wars.” Recall also that Trump first made that promise during his campaign for the presidency, which is a major reason the American people elected him, to the shock of the establishment.
This is not a time for wars, nor for sanctions, nor for geopolitical confrontations. The COVID-19 virus is surging in many parts of the United States, but is threatening actual holocaust across Africa and South America. China is now deploying 30 million testing kits and 10,000 ventilators across Africa per month, apportioned according to the severity of the pandemic, as the World Food Program chief continues to warn that, barring massive emergency aid, there could soon be 300,000 deaths from the virus and starvation per day. In India, the Delhi and Mumbai hospitals are full and have been forced to turn away patients in some cases, while migrants returning to their home villages are threatening a rural disaster.
This is a time for cooperation. The economic disintegration of the past months — perhaps the most severe rate of collapse in modern history — can not be blamed simply on the pandemic, since the speculative frenzy of the past decades following the take-down of Glass Steagall, together with the financial looting of the developing sector nations under the guise of “globalization,” created the conditions for this crash. Nothing short of a New Bretton Woods can begin to reverse the decline and create a new paradigm.
The Schiller Institute is holding an international on-line conference on June 27, with simultaneous translation in many languages, calling for a meeting of the “Four Powers” (Russia, China, India and the U.S.) whose cooperation is required to bring about such a New Bretton Woods. Everyone is encouraged to register, at https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/20200627_conference_rsvp
