Trump’s claims to be seeking peace are lies.

9 June 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Donald Trump claimed during his Presidential campaign to be seeking peace but appointed war-mongers, neoconservatives, to almost all diplomatic, military and intelligence posts, as Biden had done, and he continued, also as Biden had done, to send weapons to Israel to complete its genocide of the Gazans, and also to Taiwan for it to break away from China despite America’s having signed in 1972 the Shanghai Communique, which said that “Taiwan is a part of China,” which remains the U.S. Government’s official policy to this very day, even while America sends weapons to Taiwan to break away from China. (America’s ‘news’-media hide instead of expose this duplicitousness of the U.S. Government — which is being done by both Democrats and Republicans in the Government.)

He has also threatened war against both Greenland and Panama if they won’t do what he says. And he threatens also Iran with war if Iran won’t do what he says. Trump in his first term undid one of Obama’s few constructive achievements, the Iran nuclear deal, and he thus increased the likelihood of a war between Iran versus America and Israel.

Neither Greenland nor Panama nor Iran poses, or has posed, ANY threat to U.S. national security; so, his threats to them are PURELY aggressive, not at all defensive, in any way. He is seeking NEW ‘causes’ to invade foreign countries. He is the OPPOSITE of a peace-maker.

His policies with regard to China are even more bellicose than Biden’s were.

Regarding Russia, Trump’s policy is and has consistently been that unless Russia will accept to sign with Ukraine a peace-deal that postpones Ukraine’s becoming a member of America’s NATO anti-Russian alliance, he will resume and increase the arming of Ukraine so that Ukraine will be able to blow up The Kremlin and thus eliminate Russia’s central command — conquer Russia, on behalf of America — as Biden’s and Obama’s policy-goal regarding Ukraine had also been.

There is an article on theinteldrop website “GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN HAS STRONG ADVICE FOR PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP REGARDING RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT–THE LAST REFUGE”, whose author is anonymous and which opens:

1. While most of America remains blissfully uninformed by our establishment press, the world’s two greatest superpowers are being manipulated by Dark Forces inside and outside our government, into a major military confrontation that no country wants, and no sane person would ever want.

2. I have no role in the Trump Administration, but over a long career in the active uniformed military, specifically military intelligence, I have made it a point to cultivate many sources of information around the world. From what I can piece together, I want to share my deep concerns about who is behind this march to war, and my recommendations for how our nation and the West can avoid a major military confrontation with Russia.

3. I believe that the American Deep State is staffed by those with a deep, visceral, and irrational hatred for Russia, and these persons have conspired to box in President Trump’s decision making through the Russiagate Hoax. During the time the Soviet Union was expanding and infiltrating our government, I was an outspoken anti-communist, but, despite the lies told by our Deep State, Russia is not the Soviet Union and Putin is not Stalin. Even today, years after the Russiagate Hoax has been exposed, President Trump’s efforts to bring peace are met with resistance. The Establishment Press, deeply influenced and even sometimes controlled by our Deep State, labeled President Trump and those who work for him “Putin’s Puppets” to goad him into taking unwarranted and aggressive steps against Russia. These voices from the establishment press reflect the views of the Deep State, not the American People, and not the MAGA movement, and should be completely disregarded, if not mocked.

4. During almost all of the post-World War II period, and certainly since the establishment of the CIA in 1947, these unelected dark establishment forces have acted to destabilize the world, bringing death, famine, assassinations, violence, coups, riots, revolutions, and destruction to our planet. Currently, these forces are working to provoke Russia into a major — perhaps a final — military conflict with the West. …

That viewpoint misunderstands the identity of the Deep State, as being in the federal bureaucracy rather than, as it really is, in the billionaires, who own and control the careers of those individuals and of those billionaires’ ‘news’-media and of their think tanks and universities that their Government contract-out to, and of their ‘experts’ who testify to Congress, and which billionaires ARE the Deep State and profit enormously from BEING so. (Click onto that link to see how.)

Unlike regular corporations, whose markets are to the general public or else to firms which sell to the general public, our armaments-contractors sell only or almost only to the U.S. Government and to its colonies (or ‘allies’, such as the Governments in NATO), and, so, their only way to control their market is to control the Government — WHICH THEY DO. And this is the Deep State — by contrast, its agents, such as the ‘news’-media, and the politicians-appointed federal officials, are not but are instead only EMPLOYEES OF that Deep State, our billionaires.

Donald Trump is doing everything he can to increase the sales-volumes of America’s ‘defense’ (aggression) contractors. He, like his post-1945 and especially post-1991 predecessors, is a war-maker instead of a peace-maker.

Furthermore: this Deep State did not start in 1947 but instead on 25 July 1945, and the background for that creation of the military-industrial complex (MIC) and of the Cold War on that date, can be understood and is explained here. That is the secret history of how the Deep State of the U.S. and its colonies was created, and of the creation (on that same day) of the Cold War.

Furthermore, this rabid neoconservatism of America’s Deep State is at least as much in control of the U.S. Congress as it is of the U.S. White House. The solution (if there is one) to this problem, is far more radical than what the partisans of any side of the existing U.S. Government have been suckered by the billionaires’ propaganda-operation to believe.

Moreover, this extremely dangerous neoconservatism is entirely bipartisan. For example, whereas Biden said “I am running the world,” Trump said “I run the country and the world.” The statement was aspirational for both of them. But ‘merely’ the aspiration proves how deadly dangerous this Government (in BOTH of its Parties) really IS.

I should also point out that, unlike in both Russia and China, both of whose respective Governments own and control their armaments-makers, the U.S. and its colonies kept theirs privatized and are therefore controlled by the billionaires who own and control those firms and their propaganda-agencies. Whereas America’s are run for profit, Russia’s and China’s are run for only their national security — the protection of the nation’s sovereignty and independence. So, they don’t have this enormous problem that the American empire has. And this is why, for example, the policy-priorities of the current U.S. Government are the exact OPPOSITE of the policy-priorities of the American people.

So, as I had said: the solution (if there is one) to this problem, is far more radical than what the partisans of any side of the existing U.S. Government have been suckered by the billionaires’ propaganda-operation to believe.

Some people don’t want the problem to be solved. One respondent to this article said “All black. All white. Makes for crude pictures. Maybe let’s try nuanced thinking to see if that can work to get a less crude picture definition. [For example,] Greenland: 50k people and vast mineral stores including rare earths. Threatening war with Greenland? What would such a ‘war’ look like exactly, maybe something like this: Driving from one end to the other and planting US flags on both ends. What military force would oppose this, realistically: The Danish Royal Navy. Who believes this. Is that a ‘war’, driving from one end of a giant island to the other? A change in protectorate regime is more accurate. [to describe this].” I replied: “According to the polling of Greenlanders, that would have to be a FORCED 'protectorate regime' -- nothing democratic, and nothing peaceful, but THEFT.” Some people are entirely satisfied with the existing “Might makes right” ethic that drives the U.S. empire. This is their ‘nuanced’ ‘thinking’: Black isn’t black, and white isn’t white; but “Might makes right” is right, or “nuanced.” It’s actually word-play, for psychopaths. It’s not an ethical system — it is the absence of one. And that is just as bad as a BAD ethical system, such as “Only Christians can be good,” or “Only Muslims can be good.”

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.