By
Sajjad Shaukat
Trump whose political
character is an amalgamation of the traits of Louis XVI, the king of France,
Prince Metternich, the Austro-Hungarian emperor, Rasputin, Russian
spiritualist, Germany’s rulers William II (Kaiser) and Adolf Hitler will
take the world to the ‘state of nature’ when there was a war of “all against
all”, if he becomes American president.
Wavering between fact
and skepticism, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump shares a number of similarities with
the above mentioned famous persons like ungoverned temper, rashness,
self-egoism, unrealistic idealism, lack of pragmatism, ignorance of ground
realities, religious prejudice and so on.
During the early years
of his reign, Louis XVI focused on religious uniformity and foreign policy. He
supported the American colonies’ fight for independence. However, the policy of
taking out international loans increased the debt and drove the country to near
bankruptcy. Afterwards, class distinction rapidly increased in France, as more
taxes were imposed on the lower class and the upper class was exempted. Hence,
fiscal policies of France badly failed. When events were leading to the French
Revolution of 1789, Louis XVI was busy in lock-making and hunting from the
palace-window, which was his famous hobby. He also invited foreign forces to
crush the French Revolution. According to historians, “stupidities” of Louis
XVI resulted into French Revolution. He was executed for treason by guillotine
in 1793.
Renowned historians
agree that in the post-Napoleonic era, the Treaty of Chaumont which was made in
March 1814 by Great Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria…even the Vienna
Settlement (1815) and various conferences of the Concert of Europe (1815-22)
were used for the purpose of suppressing nationalism and liberalism everywhere
in Europe and restoring the status quo…sealed the triumph of reaction and
restored the pre-revolutionary conditions” [of the French Revolution]…European
Powers devoted to the grand interests they had in common.”
Prince Metternich, the
emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire did what he could by subjugating the
alien peoples by employing every possible techniques of state terrorism. It was
due to his influence that the principle of intervention in the internal affairs
of other states was accepted in 1820 by the Congress of Troppau. The Protocol
enabled Metternich to police the whole of Europe and crush liberalism and
nationalism wherever it raised its head. When revolutions had broken out in
Naples, Spain and Portugal and the people had forced their kings to give them
liberal constitutions, it was in pursuance of this policy that Austria was able
to crush the revolts in Naples and Piedmont. France also interfered in Spain.
According to Indian
historian, V. D. Mahajin, “Terrorism at that stage initially appeared as the
mode of activity of the small conspiratorial groups, such as student bodies and
secret societies, which grew up throughout Europe in the aftermath of the
post-Napoleonic restoration. These early days were exciting, since Europe still
abounded (as indeed it did until 1918) with kings, emperors and tsars to be
eliminated because they were using the machinery of state terrorism in
suppressing the genuine aspirations of peoples such as liberty, freedom and justice…the
principle of the French Revolution. The example of France became the
inspiration of Europe and from there of the whole world…Metternich was the
enemy of the French Revolution and all that it stood for.…Metternich had to
admit that he was fighting for a lost cause, and the empire disintegrated,
resulting in the independence of Italy, unification of Germany, Bulgaria and
other states whose secret societies had been waging wars of liberation.”
Gregory Rasputin was a
religious figure who was a mystical adviser of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, the wife of Czar
Nicholas II of Russia. Rasputin was a notorious individual due to his rampant
lascivious, compounding contempt among state officials. He became the most
influential person of the imperial court and all the decisions of the
government such as resistance to the demands of political and economic reforms
were made by him. When Russia entered World War I, Nicholas II took command of
the Russian Army, and Alexandra took responsibility for domestic policy.
As per instruction of Rasputin, she dismissed ministers who were said “to be
suspicious of the mad monk.” Government officials tried to warn her of
Rasputin’s undue influence, but she continued to defend him. By February 1917, poor management of the government
led to food shortages and famine gripped the cities. Industrial workers went on
strike and people began rioting in the streets of St. Petersburg. Russia was
engaged in a full civil war, with anti-tsar Bolshevik forces which culminated
into the Revolution of 1917. Historians agree that besides other causes,
“stupidities” of Rasputin were the major cause of the Revolution.
As regards William II
and Hitler, both were famous for their pathological egotism and belief that
Germany existed for their own aggrandizement. Both were fierce racists and
anti-Semites. They believed in the principle of “world power or downfall.” They
had a firm faith in the superiority of German race. The two leaders believed
that the path to German greatness was through aggressive military actions. They
started a programme of enormous armament by developing German military on
modern lines. William II and Hitler became powerful rulers and acted
upon an aggressive foreign policy to subjugate other nations. It was due
to their unskilled diplomacy that militarization of Germany
alarmed France, England and Russia. Thus, they humiliated the Germans, as their
country was defeated in the World War I and World War II.
Especially, Hitler’s
character and adverse circumstances in Germany helped him to come to
power. The Germans were badly humiliated by the Treaty of Versailles (Peace
Settlement 1919) which resulted into multiple crises, particularly unemployment
in Germany. Hitler was a great orator and his techniques of propaganda helped
him to influence millions of people. The Germans felt that Hitler could not
only resolve their problems, but could also restore the glory of Germany in the
eyes of the world. The more Hitler manipulated the injustices of the Treaty of
Versailles, the more he became popular with the public.
After coming to power,
like the despotic kings of France and Russia, Adolf Hitler’s internal policies
were authoritarian and totalitarian. Liberty disappeared completely. The secret
police-Gestapo was formed to deal with the slightest indication of opposition.
He mixed politics with religious fervor and massacred several Jews in the
concentration camps. Hitler and his Nazi party had planned to conquer colonies
for the German people in the East and South of Europe. They must have a living
space-Lebensraum, as Nazis called it.
In one
way or the other, like Louis XVI and Rasputin, Donald Trump’s political character is full of
“stupidities.” Besides, following William
II and Hitler in the modern era, Trump promised to restore American prestige
and to make America great again. Like Hitler, Trump succeeded in mobilizing the
electorate of the Republican Party with promises to restore jobs and to resolve
the internal problems of the US. During his emotional speeches, Trump’s body
language and way of speaking were not less than those of Hitler.
Nevertheless, despite the resistance from his own party, he won over his fellow
candidates in the nomination race.
Regarding the propaganda
techniques, one can easily witness resemblance between Trump and Hitler. In
this respect, on May 31, 2016, nearly 400 pages of a US court documents
revealed, “Trump University instructed employees on how to play on peoples’
emotions to get them to buy more expensive seminars for succeeding in real estate…it
is our job to rekindle peoples’ motivation...to make them once again see the
potential of achieving their dream…the documents unsealed in San Diego were
part of a lawsuit by customers who say they were defrauded…a judge who has
earned Trump’s scorn agreed with attorneys that the public had a right to know
what was previously confidential.”
It is mentionable that
as part of the anti-Muslim approach, and with the support of its Western
allies, American President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama
deliberately created chaos in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria,
including other Islamic countries such as Somalia, Yemen etc. where Washington
was indirectly involved. If Hitler had erected concentration camps for Jews,
Bush and Obama also converted these countries into concentration camps for the
Muslims to obtain the illegitimate political and economic interests of the
Zionist Jews and Israel. In case elected, as the US president, Donald Trump who
wants to complete the unfinished agenda of Israel will continue anti-Muslim
policies.
Like Hitler, Trump
manipulated the terror attacks in Paris and Brussels to get the sympathies of a
majority of the ordinary Americans and those of Europe, who do not have much
time to go into depth-analysis and have been misguided by his emotional speeches,
statements and false hopes. As part of the double game, these terror attacks
were planned by the Israeli Mossad with the help of Mossad-CIA supported ISIS
(ISIL or Daesh) terrorists in order to obtain several aims such as
exaggeration of Islamophobia, expulsion of Muslims, especially Syrian refugees
from Europe, anti-Islam movement etc., and to get the assistance of Europe,
including other Western countries against Russia in connection with Syrian war
and for intervention in the Islamic countries like Libya on the pattern of the
Concert of Europe.
Anti-Muslim rhetoric of
Trump could be judged from his own statements. While addressing a rally, Trump
had called for a ban on Muslims, entering the United States.
Trump’s opposition to Muslim refugees, especially from Syria is very well
known. During his appearance with the National Border Patrol Council’s Green
Line radio show on May 15, 2016, Trump
predicted that refugees with ISIS-funded cell phones will conduct another
9/11-like terrorist attack in the US. During a GOP debate in December, 2016, he
had already expressed similar thoughts by giving “Americans wake-up call about
border security and to take it seriously,” elaborating that he had “no doubt,
the attackers were already entering the country.”On February 14, 2016, CIA
Director John Brennan warned that ISIS attacks on “U.S. soil is inevitable.”
However, these warnings were exploited by the Israeli Mossad and its
affiliated CIA operatives to target the night club of Florida.
Although the
presidential nominee of the Democrats Hillary Clinton is also Israeli
agent, yet her criticism about contributions of election-campaign from Wall
Street backers, email-scandal etc. have weakened her position. Therefore,
Donald Trump suits the interests of Tel Aviv. Notably, in an interview with the
Daily Mail on May 2, this year, Trump stated that Israel should continue
construction of illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank.
After the shooting at
the gay night club in Florida, He also criticized the US President Obama to
resign, slamming him for having “disgracefully refused to even say the words
“Radical Islam.” Calling on Clinton to get out of the general election race for
the same reason, Trump said, “Because our leaders are weak, I said this was
going to happen…we cannot afford.” Trump again remarked that he would decrease
immigration from the Middle East because “since 9/11, hundreds of migrants and
their children have been implicated in terrorism in the United States.” He,
once again, asked for the ban of any Muslims, entering the US. On June 19,
2016, during his interview with the CBC News, he called for racial “profiling
of Muslims inside the United States to combat terrorism.” In fact, like Hitler,
the more Donald Trump speaks against the Muslims and the more he exaggerates
Islamophobia, the more popularity he will get among the people who have been
impressed by his stereotypes.
In this regard, Trump
who lacks farsightedness has totally ignored American’s home-grown terrorists
who are proving more dangerous than those of the ISIS. Besides, if elected, the
presumptive American president Trump promised to stop immigrants from Mexico by
erection of a boundary wall, while calling the Mexican immigrants “criminals”
and “rapists”. Trump is creating racism between the Muslims and Christians—the
black people and the white people. And if he becomes the US president, he is
likely to move America towards autocracy, while American public is already
protesting against the curtailment of liberty. His racist approach could also
cause a civil war in the US.
It notable that in case
America’s anti-Muslim, pro-Israeli and pro-Indian Donald Trump becomes American
president, by following Hitler, he would erect more concentration camps by
attacking more Muslim countries. While pursuing Prince Metternich, he is
likely to interfere in the Muslim states, while backing the reactionary polices
of some Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia. Thus, Trump will destabilize the
entire Middle East, including more Islamic countries, especially Pakistan to
please the fundamentalist government of the BJP and Israel, as Pakistan is the
only nuclear country in the Muslim world, which irritates India, Zionist Jews
and Israel. Pursuing Metternich in one way or the other, Trump will encourage every
possible techniques of state terrorism, being employed by India and Israel in
the occupied territories of Kashmir and Palestine. Notably, there are already
governments of the religious extremists in India and Israel, so if succeeded in
the forthcoming presidential election, the fundamentalist and impulsive
politician Trump will not bother for dangerous implications of the US flawed
strategy.
Renowned thinker of
international relations, Hans Morgenthau points out that external policy of a
country should be moulded in accordance “with the exigencies and circumstances
of time and place” otherwise, there will be “failure of the foreign policy.” It
is quite true in case of Trump who will further thwart the American foreign
policy goals, because, he does not have political wisdom.
Donald Trump seems to
further strengthen the alliance between the US and the West, particularly
Europe against Russia, as the US-led Western countries have started a cold war
against Moscow and compelled the former to follow the suit. True to his rigid approach,
he has set aside the facts that one of the major causes of the disintegration
of the former Soviet Union was that its greater defense expenditures exceeded
to the maximum, resulting in economic crises inside the country. In this
context, about a protracted war in Afghanistan, the former Russian President
Gorbachev had declared it as the “bleeding wound.” While learning no lesson,
the US has already been acting upon the similar policies which led to the
demise of the former Russia.
There is a co-relationship
of the US internal and external policies. But, like William II and Hitler,
Trump is uncompromising.
After taking cognizance
of the grievances of the international community, Russian President Vladimir
Putin is rapidly restoring the balance of power in the world. In this respect,
Moscow which also has China’s support, though Beijing does not, openly, show,
is in better position than the US and its Western (NATO) allies who are also
entangled in Afghanistan and the Middle East. This cold war will enhance
American expenditures by deepening the US momentary problems and other internal
problems which are badly affecting the Americans, while it is already been
becoming difficult for Washington to maintain its military bases abroad.
According to a recent report, America is near military collapse. However, while
speaking in the language of William II and Hitler-world power or downfall,
Trump who lacks pragmatism would expedite the disintegration of America and the European Union (EU) like the former Russia.
It is of particular
attention that on June 24, 2016, Britain has
voted to leave the EU, compelling the British Prime Minister David Cameron to
resign. UK itself could now break apart, with the leader of Scotland,
where nearly two-thirds of voters wanted to stay in the EU, saying a new
referendum on independence from the rest of Britain was highly likely.
President Obama who was insisting upon London to keep aligned with the EU is
trying to limit the fallout from Britain’s separation from the EU, which
“threatens to harm the U.S. economic recovery and distract U.S. allies from
global security issues”, as he said on June 24. 2016. On the same day, Donald
Trump stated, British voters just shattered political convention in a stunning
repudiation of the ruling establishment in a referendum…in November, the American people will have the chance
to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for
trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first…people
want to see borders. They don’t necessarily want people pouring into their
country that they don’t know who they are and where they come from.”
Nonetheless, it will be
misfortune of the US and other Western countries, including the whole world, if
Trump becomes American president, as his personality contains the qualities of
Louis XVI, Metternich, Rasputin, William II and Hitler who brought about
destruction not only for their own countries, but also for Europe and other
regions. Enigmatic, confused, emotional and religious extremist Donald Trump
will cause a major nuclear war between Russia and the US-led West in wake of
the unresolved issue of Syria. Most probably, he will divide the international
community on religious lines, culminating into ‘clash of civilization’ in the
sense of Huntington. Any major war or such a clash will take the US and
Europe and the entire world to the era—from 1511 to 1648 when Europe witnessed
a prolonged arena of barbarism, religious bigotry and intolerance, resulting
into beastly violence, and the Treaty of Westphalia was concluded in 1648 in
order to maintain the nation-state system whose basic purpose was to honor the
dignity of human beings.
On May 21, 2016, Kevin
Barret, while giving a wake-up call to the Americans, wrote on the Veterans
Today, “Donald Trump’s terror hysteria, combined with the ever-growing
terrorist attacks around the world means that a dark future awaits America in
case the presumptive GOP nominee becomes president.”
Returning to our earlier
discussion, if Donald Trump becomes the US president, he will take the world to
the ‘state of nature’ when there was a war of “all against all” in the sense of
Thomas Hobbes.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on
international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible
Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email:
sajjad_logic_pak@hotmail.com
Courtesy Veterans Today
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