Conman President Donald Trump knows his first half year plus now as second term president has been sheer disaster. His constant back and forth flip flops, interspersed with his trademark belligerent threats have the rest of the world largely trying to stay clear of his grandiose sized ego and ever-changing demands. Trade-wise, his tariff aggression has most other nations trying to avoid him and his self-undoing tariffs, resolving to take their business elsewhere to actively court new partners for trade and commerce. Trump is being forced to realize he and the US are not the center of the world but just another dying paper tiger ex-empire going down in flames. Trump and the US are forced to face the humbling reality that they need the rest of the world more than it needs them.
Donald Trump’s face-saving “peace deal” in June to ostensibly end the Israel-Iran “10-day war” was a desperate gloss-over ploy to obscure the fact that within 10 days a bruised and battered Israel was already on the ropes, at the brink of total defeat and humiliating annihilation. To stop the bleeding, the last-minute kabuki theater antics included the US-Iran preannounced token airstrike exchange as yet more face-saving charades leading within hours to Trump and VP Vance’s grand gesture announcement of a total [fake] US victory ceasefire and mission accomplished, capped with Benjamin Netanyahu nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize. It could not have looked more choreographed and staged as purely forced fake optics designed to show the world that Trump championed his career dealmaker skills as the grand peacemaker president on his way to the next Nobel prize. In reality, it’s all poorly managed soap opera theater on the grand chessboard stage that failed to hide the pathetic fact that Israel and the US are both has-been hegemons, weak actors acting out in false bravado while these two rogue state pariahs show their true reptilian colors before the world as coldblooded, genocidal, death cult vipers.
This week’s grand theatrics atop the world stage once again are now on full display. First, last Friday the showman Trump hosted Russia’s Putin in Alaska and then Monday back on home turf White House, the Grand Poohbah reigned in his captured audience from vassal Europe – Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky surrounded by his fellow lapdogs. Trump dictated his and Putin’s agreed upon terms for permanent peace between Russia and Ukraine. Just prior, Trump made certain to repeatedly remind the world he is currently the odds-on favorite delivering an Oscar-worthy performance leading to his grand Nobel Peace Prize acceptance and global recognition. This of course provides the necessary optics to rebound and recover from his first six months of total failure and nonstop floundering disaster. Just ahead of his big Oval Office meeting, Trump wrote on Truth Social:
I’ve settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster… Despite all of my lightweight and very jealous critics, I’ll get it done — I always do!!!
While in Scotland on July 28th, pounding his “peacemaker-in-chief” chest, he boasted:
I’ve stopped six wars — I’m averaging about a war a month.
Also, as of August 15th, Trump’s official White House website proudly declares:
I’ve solved six wars in six months
This kind of unvarnished, if not nakedly raw braggadocio splashed everywhere characterizes this president’s grandiosity more than any US president in history. It certainly warrants, if not begs for a loud bubble-popping reality check. So let’s examine all his peace conquering episodes to save the world from going asunder, only prevented by his brash and daring “heroism” banter no doubt. The “peacemaker-in-chief,” as some of his supporters call him, claims he singlehandedly stopped six wars around the globe within six months. In addition to aforementioned Israel-Iran “10-day war,” let’s dive into the his five other conflicts cited – the Democratic Republic of Congo vs. Rwanda, Cambodia vs. Thailand, India vs. Pakistan, Serbia vs. Kosovo, and Egypt vs. Ethiopia.
The long-running conflict between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government and alleged Rwanda-backed M23 rebels fighting in mineral-rich eastern Congo last month drew a temporary 30-day ceasefire. But its deadline for reaching a more permanent ceasefire as of Tuesday August 18th failed to materialize. No doubt fueling this regional conflict are the $24 trillion estimated worth of untapped raw rare earth materials needed for the AI robotics revolution. An August 11th UN report accused Rwanda backed M23 militia of recently stepping up attacks on civilians, followed by denials by both the M23 militia and the Rwanda government, making countercharges that DRC has been recruiting child soldiers allegedly killing civilians. The failed deadline this week was sabotaged by warring parties’ lack of trust in the face of increasing violence this month. Thus, no peace deal was ever actually brokered, much less by Trump and his bogus claim that he ended the war, which is a complete lie. If anything, the deaths of thousands in this conflict have only flared up in recent weeks. With US diplomatic personnel playing a secondary role, it actually is the Gulf State of Qatar acting as primary mediator in ongoing peace talks in its capital Doja. The Council on Foreign Relations stated in June that this 30-year conflict has tragically killed over 6 million people and is far from over.
Next conflict not over by a long shot is the Cambodia-Thailand war. An August 20th headline from the Bangladesh newspaper Weekly Blitz captures the on-the-ground reality far closer than braggart Trump claims:
Thai-Cambodia conflict is not over: it has merely been folded into the larger drama of the New Cold war
Trump credits his thuggish tough talk threatening explosively high tariffs on both countries as what ceased hostilities as the “peacemaker” president, but the Blitz adds the far more in-depth actual reality:
The ceasefire may hold for now, but thus far, none of the underlying dynamics — political instability in Bangkok, Cambodia’s dependency on China, the militarization of ASEAN, and US aggressive attempts to preserve hegemony — have been resolved.
Whereas Trump’s approach is one of pure dominance and belligerence, coercing other nations into intimidation and subservience, Beijing maintains close relations with both countries, and as a major trade partner with Cambodia, China encourages mutual reconciliation and deeper cooperation within the ASEAN alliance, and offers to mediate. It takes little insight to know which diplomacy approach works more effectively, yet the fading US unipolar kingpin, personified by bully Trump, apparently never got the “soft touch” memo that his self-serving, brute aggression as standard US foreign policy amidst this now multipolar world, backed by ever-expanding BRICS and a Global South nation majority, are far less apt to kowtow and fall in line with Trump’s threatening demands.
Again, the US and Israel as today’s genocidal world bullies, known for their mass murder of darker skinned races and nations, are rapidly alienating themselves as terrorist rogue state pariahs. As the Zio-Anglo-American Empire freefalls into civilization graveyard collapse, sadly, people of the West are unfairly suffering for the sins of their traitorous puppet leaders as the rest of the world is likely not to show much sympathy after centuries of exploitation and maltreatment. Trump constantly justifies peace in Ukraine out of his supposed desire to save lives on both sides. Yet not once in his entire life has Trump applied that same humanitarian concern for saving Palestinian lives as justification to stop Israel’s unholy genocide slaughter of mostly women and children. Donald Trump obviously has no compunction, much less any real compassion, for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians cruelly being massacred with his bombs.
Turning to the relative brief war between nuclear powers India and Pakistan, it broke out on April 22nd with a terrorist attack killing 26 in India’s Kashmir. Tit-for-tat military hostilities escalated for several days until May 10th. By mid-month, Trump began repeatedly lying, saying that he personally brokered a peace deal. Wrong again, fork-tongued breath. In Trump’s grandiose words:
I don’t want to say I did, but I sure as hell helped settle the problem between India and Pakistan last week, which was becoming more and more hostile. All of a sudden, you saw missiles of different types. We got it settled, and I hope when I walk out of here two days late, I don’t find out it is not settled.
A breaking Fox News announcement in June reported how former Congressman Matt Goetz said if Trump was able to broker a deal where nuclear inspectors were to go into both Israel and Iran, Trump would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, adding “it should even be named as the Trump Peace Prize. When asked later about Goetz statement, ever the self-promoter, Trump bitched and moaned:
They should give me the Nobel Prize for Rwanda and if you look, the Congo, or you could say Serbia, Kosovo, you could say a lot of them. The big one is India and Pakistan. I should have gotten it four or five times.
President Barack Obama undeservedly received his Nobel Prize just a couple months into office. He then strung out the Afghanistan war for his next eight years, and started wars in both Libya, Syria and the Big One still in Ukraine. So his atrocious war record forever tainted the peace prize. Three other presidents were awarded the Nobel. Trump was at it four days later, still taking false credit for something he did not do, while attending the NATO summit at The Hague on June 25th, he uttered:
May be the most important of them all (wars) was India and Pakistan. I ended that with a series of phone calls and said that if you fight each other, we are not doing any trade deal. The General (Asim Munir of Pakistan) was very impressive. Prime Minister Modi is a great friend of mine, he is a great gentleman and I got them to reason. They said we want a trade deal. So we stopped a nuclear war.
Also while at The Hague, so full of himself, Trump touted:
In the last few weeks, we’ve been working on India and Pakistan, Kosovo and Serbia. We’ve also gotten involved in Congo and Rwanda – that was a brutal war that lasted a long time. We’ve done two more things on top of that. Nobody has ever done anything like it.
More than annoyed a month later hearing this bombastic self-flattery lies way too many times, on July 28th, India’s perturbed Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar addressed India’s lower parliament spelling out:
I want to make two things clear – one, at no stage in any conversation with the United States, was there any linkage with trade and what was going on. Secondly, there was no call between the prime minister and President Trump from the 22nd of April – when President Trump called up to convey his sympathy – and 17th of June when he called up the prime minister in Canada to explain why he could not meet him.
On May 10th, Trump patted himself on the back, claiming on Truth Social, “After a long night of talks mediated by the United States,” a deal was reached. CNN reported that same day:
Then, out of the blue, US President Donald Trump on Saturday said the US had brokered an end to the fighting… But this Trump truce may not herald a lasting peace. But there is a bigger problem too: the US-brokered ceasefire agreement will not go anywhere near addressing the fundamental grievances fueling the decades-long dispute over the status of Muslim-majority Kashmir, which is claimed by both India and Pakistan and has a separatist, independent movement. The latest confrontation over Kashmir may be coming to an end, but it is likely to return with a vengeance.
So even though CNN normally bashes Trump basher, it credited the ceasefire to Trump, concluding that the ongoing clash since 1947 over disputed Kashmir territory still remains unresolved, and that these two nuclear rivals share a deep-rooted conflict and mutual distrust that could erupt again at any time. So, with or without Trump, another potential flareup of this war, like the one between Thailand and Cambodia and most of the others, is not likely over yet.
On the next Trump war over the Serbia-Kosovo conflict, politifact.com explicitly stated on June 28th:
Little evidence Trump thwarted an escalation.
The above statement followed Trump’s Oval Office press conference from the day prior, bragging:
Serbia was — they were getting ready to go to war with a group. I won’t even mention, because it didn’t happen, we were able to stop it. But I have a friend in Serbia, and they said, ‘we’re going to go to war again.’ And I won’t mention that it’s Kosovo, but it’s Kosovo. But they were going to have a bigtime war, and we stopped it. We stopped it because of trade. They want to trade with the United States and I said we don’t trade with people that go to war.
And now the final Trump whopper of a story – his claim that he brokered peace preventing war between Ethiopia and Egypt. On July 3rd this year, right after the Ethiopian prime minister announced completion of the $4 billion hydroelectric Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River, under construction since 2011, from the outset Egypt has contended that it unfairly diminishes its water supply downstream. Despite this conflict brewing over the last 14 years, including throughout Trump’s first term in office, the conflict failed to be resolved. Five days prior to the dam opening, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty reported:
After 12 years of talks, the negotiations have yielded no concrete outcomes.
On July 14th Trump stated in a press conference:
I think if I’m Egypt, I want to have water in the Nile and we’re working on that one, it’s a problem, but it’s going to get solved. It’s a very important source of income and life, it’s the life of Egypt, and to take that away is pretty incredible. But we think we are going to have that solved very quickly.
Trump is a close ally with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, and when Trump tried to coerce Ethiopia into signing the deal he had worked out but it refused, at the time an irritated Trump warned that Egypt could “blow up” the dam, adding:
I had a deal done for them, and then unfortunately, Ethiopia broke the deal which it should not have done.
A month ago, Fekahmed Negash, a former executive director at Eastern Nile Technical Regional Office (ENTRO) of the Nile Basin Initiative told Ethiopian newspaper The Reporter:
President Trump held grudges against Ethiopia for not adhering to his self-styled mediation efforts between Ethiopia and Egypt eight years ago during his first presidency. The Egyptians got the better of him to take a stand that Ethiopia should sign a binding treaty with Egypt and Sudan regarding the GERD.
So after using his usual hardball tactics, the incompetent “dealmaker” blew it before, leaving it an ongoing conflict that if not resolved, could easily spill into another violent war in a very volatile region. And now Trump has the nerve to deceitfully claim he brokered a peace deal that never was? Again, all this proves is Trump is a pathological narcissistic psychopathic chronic liar.
Surprisingly, Trump failed to mention in recent boasts how he recently prevented a seventh war from breaking out earlier this month between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Trump had both leaders Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev shaking hands in his Oval Office on August 8th when Pashinyan treasonously signed away a strategic section of his own country, the Zangezur Corridor on a 99-year US lease dubbed “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” (TRIPP). I wrote an article how it’s a win-win for both the US and Turkic nations Türkiye and Azerbaijan, but a huge loss for Armenia, Iran and Russia, and could well become the flashpoint for World War III with 15-20,000 Azeris living in northern Iran. The US, Israel, Azerbaijan and NATO Turkey not only cut off the land route connecting strategic Eastern allies Russia and Iran, but the US coalition will now attempt to destabilize Iran for the next US-Israel attack to take out the Tehran government. Perhaps Trump failed to mention this “peace deal” just brokered because it soon will become the staging area for launching Armageddon against Iran.
Trump will be supplying US weapons for Ukraine, regardless of whether NATO/EU or Ukraine buys them. So when Europe and Zelensky sabotage the peace deal, US weapons will continue killing Russians. On Wednesday August 20th, UK’s warmongering rag Express runs the headline:
NATO warplanes scramble a second day after huge attack as WW3 fears explode
The article states that less than a mile from NATO member Romania last night, major Russian strikes targeted oil and port facilities on the border River Danube. Europe is doing everything to keep this war going and undermine any workable peace agreement with Russia. The suicidal/homicidal puppets in Europe will not allow this war in Ukraine to end. Meanwhile, the US and Israel continue to wipe out Gaza Palestinians. No, Trump is not the peacemaker, but the polarizing battering ram that the City of London is using along with the NATO minions as the genocidal spark to ignite WWIII.
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