Trump: The Convenient Scapegoat for Shifting Imperial Alliances
📰 THE STORY: NPR suggests that Donald Trump's past and potential future actions are the 'unmentioned but present' common denominator, driving Asia and Europe closer due to his 'shaking up of the global order' and worrying allies and adversaries alike. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The 'global order' Trump supposedly 'shook up' was never a benevolent force. From the 1953
CIA-orchestrated coup in Iran that overthrew democratically elected Mosaddegh to Pinochet's 1973 coup in Chile backed by Kissinger, US foreign policy has destabilized entire regions for economic and geopolitical gain. These 'allies' Europe is now cozying up to have been forced into alignment through decades of coercive diplomacy, economic sanctions, and military threats, not just fear of a single
US president. Even the formation of NATO itself was fundamentally anti-USSR, not pro-democracy. Double Standard: When China forges closer economic and diplomatic ties within Asia or with parts of Africa and Latin America, Western media frames it as 'debt diplomacy' or 'expansionist aggression.' When European powers, still clinging to vestiges of colonialism, deepen ties across continents, it's
portrayed as a 'natural response' to a rogue American leader, sanitizing their own long-standing imperial ambitions and commercial interests. The devastation caused by NATO's 2011 intervention in Libya, which plunged the nation into chaos and literal slave markets, is conveniently forgotten when discussing 'European stability.' Follow the Money: The driving force behind these shifting alliances