What does
little North Korea possess to become a target for the US empire? Oil,
minerals, opium perhaps? Probably nothing. Then why Donald Trump is
choosing to escalate tension with the country at this moment?
We can think
at least two reasons, both for distraction purposes.
First, the
Donald tries one more time to 'relocate' tension from Russia towards
China's door. We've seen recently a further escalation of diplomatic
conflict between the US and Russia, as Trump couldn't do anything to
prevent further sanctions against Russia which led to proportional
retaliation actions by Putin. When heat goes up in the US-Russia
relations field, Donald provokes the right man to be used as a
frightening clown who will jump out of the closet to lure and
distract the US warmongering establishment: Kim Jong-un.
Second, Kim
Jong-un is the most suitable to attract white nationalist voters, who
appear to be one of the key components of Trump's electoral base. It
is not accidental that Trump's recent provoking statements about
'fire and fury' against North Korea came right after the rapid
decline of his popularity.
The Donald
does that. He 'adjusts' his rhetoric whenever needed to recover or
increase the number of his voters. Recall
that, right after the Bernardino incident, Le Pen's National Front
marked an unprecedented victory in the first round of the French
regional elections. Seeing Le Pen's huge success in France, and on
the occasion of Bernardino incident, Trump expanded his far-Right
rhetoric against Muslims.
Trump
appears to be desperate to present something positive after his rapid
and unconditional retreat from his pre-election positions towards
almost everything that shapes the US neocon/neoliberal establishment
agenda.
His recent
remarks about the booming of the stock market, jobs, etc. was such an
attempt to present something positive. Yet, as Michael Hudson
explained
recently, this is nothing more than, essentially, one more big bubble
that is expected to burst sometime, like all the others in the past.
Mehdi Hasan
described
recently why North Koreans hate the US. He wrote:
How many Americans know that
“over a period of three years or so,” to quote Air Force General
Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean
War, “we killed off … 20 percent of the population”? Twenty.
Percent. For a point of comparison, the Nazis exterminated 20 percent
of Poland’s pre-World War II population. According to LeMay, “We
went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every
town in North Korea.” Every. Town. More than three million
civilians are believed to have been killed in the fighting, the vast
majority of them in the north.
How many Americans are
familiar with the statements of Secretary of State Dean Rusk or
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas? Rusk, who was a State
Department official in charge of Far Eastern affairs during the
Korean War, would later admit that the United States bombed “every
brick that was standing on top of another, everything that moved.”
American pilots, he noted, “were just bombing the heck out of North
Korea.”
How could Koreans forget so much
brutality?
So, what Donald Trump does, is to
provoke Kim Jong-un every time things are getting ugly inside, and
the deep state is pushing him to escalate tension with Russia.
Because he knows that Kim Jong-un will respond at the same time. And
Kim Jong-un loves it. Because he finds something to show to the
isolated people of North Korea to distract them from their real
problems, for a while.
But while these clowns are playing
their dangerous games, we don't even dare to think the consequences
in case of some kind of accident ...
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