A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #16-26 - Between Head and Neck. Trump and Neoconservatism (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Contrary to what might have been expected, there hasn't been much 
interest among analysts and the public in determining whether the latest 
alleged attack on Trump was genuine, a farce, or a complete farce. The 
most frequent question, in fact, hasn't been the classic "Cui prodest?", 
but rather the even more classic "Who cares?" In short, the question of 
Trump's fate doesn't interest almost anyone; if anything, it raises 
significant lexical issues. Based on the precedents set by the Trump 
administration itself, it would be necessary to understand how to 
classify any attempt to eliminate the current president. As an attack, 
or as a "decapitation attack"?

No international body has formally condemned the kidnapping of Maduro 
and the assassination of Khamenei, and the United States is a permanent 
member of the UN Security Council; Therefore, given the precedent, 
eliminating heads of state or government can no longer be considered an 
illegal or terrorist act, but rather a normal political practice.

On the other hand, one might wonder whether the term "decapitation" 
could be applied to Trump's possible elimination. This is a legitimate 
doubt, not only because Trump appears to be out of his mind, but above 
all because of the growing evidence that Trump is not the "boss." Much 
of the media narrative over the past year has presented it as a surprise 
that Trump speaks and acts like a neoconservative, and that 
neoconservatives like Lindsey Graham are instrumental in dictating his 
agenda. In reality, Trump's communication reliance on neoconservative 
tropes was evident from the beginning, as demonstrated by economist 
Thomas Palley's 2017 articles. It wasn't hard to see that Trump's 
anti-globalism was merely a media circus to capture the vote of 
blue-collar and former blue-collar workers. (1)

Trump has mainly borrowed from the neocon narrative the rejection of a 
sense of limits, thus believing that problems are due to "too much 
goodness," to having tied one's hands for the sake of political 
correctness. Simply put, it's the usual bully-like victim mentality, 
where every attack committed should be compensation for imagined wrongs 
received in the past. A demented argument, but entirely functional to 
what the neocons need to do: lobbying for arms contracts and for the 
laundering of public and private money directed to Israel. Political 
science has always taken it for granted that states and governments are 
political-institutional entities definable according to a 
legal-rational, or ideological, framework. Lobbying contradicts this 
axiom, demonstrating how a network of people gathers around a business 
transaction that functions like an automatic, one-way mechanism. 
Lobbying is a predatory activity, but unlike a bank robbery, it doesn't 
require a preemptive plan or a defined number of members. The lobbying 
ecosystem is one of confusion, the dissolution of institutional roles, 
and even the boundaries between public and private, and between legal 
and illegal. Lobbying is pervasive and reproduces itself through 
conformity and imitation, so it doesn't even require a full level of 
awareness, to the point of representing and perceiving itself as in an 
advertisement. To understand what lobbyist communication is all about, 
just listen to Lindsey Graham: no reference to facts or chronologies of 
events, only slogans and, as the only concrete reminder, the 
money-making mechanism to be set in motion. (2)

The trouble, however, is that one ends up living only in one's own 
advertisement, which explains the neoconservatives and Trump's 
intolerance toward international organizations, which are supposedly 
still an indispensable cornerstone of US imperialism. For example, in 
the 1990s the USA imposed the establishment of the World Trade 
Organization (WTO). In the name of an alleged "freedom of trade", until 
2019 the WTO functioned as a fake arbitration structure, based on tying 
the hands of some and leaving them free for others. The Trumpian legend 
holds that, with its "rules", the WTO favored the economic rise of 
China. In 2019 Trump blocked the alleged arbitration activity of the 
WTO, in addition to violating its rules by imposing tariffs. In these 
seven years, however, China continued to grow industrially, and the USA 
continued to regress. The WTO therefore has nothing to do with it, and 
the deindustrialization of the United States is due to the fiscal and 
financial privileges of corporations. (3)

Unfortunately, in recent years, a counter-narrative of "opposition" has 
emerged, interpreting US schizophrenia as a reaction (whether unhinged 
or particularly astute, depending on the assessment) to a supposed 
"multipolar challenge" by the so-called BRICS. If we step beyond the 
illusion and examine the actual behavior of the individual BRICS 
countries, we realize that the reality is the exact opposite: there has 
never been a multipolar challenge, and the BRICS countries cooperate 
with each other as little as possible, purely for the sake of surviving 
the dissociated and aggressive behavior of the US. Modern apps for 
facilitating international payments were already technically available 
before 2019, but it took the US's rampage of sanctions and predatory 
practices over the last five years to finally launch an international 
BRICS Pay system. (4)

Comidad

1) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/05775132.2017.1324190

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9SwH3LIBSI

3) 
https://www.rsi.ch/info/mondo/La-rivalit%C3%A0-fra-Stati-Uniti-e-Cina-che-ha-azzoppato-l%E2%80%99OMC-2744258.html

4) https://brics-pay.com/

https://umanitanova.org/tra-capo-e-collo-trump-e-il-neoconservatorismo/
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