Trump’s Stupidity

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

On February 3rd, Reuters reported that Keith Kellogg — the man whom on the basis of an April 2024 article he wrote advising the U.S. Government on the basis of an entirely unrealistically optimistic assumption about what Russia would consider in order to reach agreement with the U.S. Government to settle the war in Ukraine, became selected by Trump to become his negotiator to end that war — told Reuters that “The Biden administration had a fear of escalation. My belief is that great powers do not fear escalation.”

He is correct that “The Biden administration had a fear of escalation” in the Ukraine war. They were extremely reluctant to escalate it up to the point where Russia’s essential national-security “red line” would become crossed so that in order for Russia to prevent the U.S. from some day placing a U.S. nuclear missile on the closest of all borders to the Kremlin, at around Sumy in Ukraine, approximately 300 miles or 510 kilometers (a mere five minutes of missile-flying time away from blitz-first-strike decapitating Russia’s central command), Russia would be left with only two options — either capitulate to the U.S. Government, or else launch WW3 itself in order to avoid capitulating to it.

On 21 September 2024, I had headlined “Scott Ritter: How Close We Came to WW3 on September 13th” and gave a time-line of the key events, on September 13th, and September 15th, in the build-up toward President Biden’s ultimate decision to postpone until after the November 5th U.S. Presidential elections his decision to cross Russia’s red line before 20 January 2024 — before the end of Biden’s term of office. Biden ultimately decided not to do it. Kellogg rejects that “fear of escalation.” He rejects it because “great powers do not fear escalation.”

Keith Kellogg is saying that America — which no one denies is at least “a great power” — did a very wrong thing on this, because “The Biden administration had a fear of escalation. My belief is that great powers do not fear escalation.” That way points straight to WW3. Russia is not going to capitulate to ANY nation. (FDR had carefully and brilliantly planned to end all “balance-of-powers” — i.e., contesting imperialisms — but Truman promptly trashed those plans and instituted the goal of achieving an all-encompassing U.S. global dictatorship, much like what Hitler had planned for Germany to achieve, and ideologically this Truman plan is now called “neoconservatism.” Kellogg is in that vein — a carrier of Truman's international vision. He is saying that America must conquer all nations that it hasn’t already won for its empire.)

How intelligent would Donald Trump need to be to regret that he had hired Kellogg for that crucial function of negotiating with Russia an end to the war in Ukraine? How intelligent would he need to have been in order to have even considered Kellogg to be insufficiently intelligent to serve in this crucial position — and therefore never hired him in the first place? Even ordinary people can easily recognize that Trump’s having appointed Kellogg to that function was monumentally stupid and dangerous for the entire world.

Sheer stupidity in a U.S. President produces a situation in which the very continuation of all of human civilization, and maybe even of life on Earth, is a “crapshoot.”

America had already failed monstrously, to have reached a point such as this. What is Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) now supposed to be meaning — if anything?

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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.