Conrad Black - Global Left Fails To Grasp Strategic Vision Animating Trump’s Foreign Policy Moves

 Bringing peace to the Mideast, winning the war on terror, restoring Iran to the West, and curbing China’s presence outside its own region will be a service to the West.

The commentariat of the world has in the last month spent an inordinate amount of energy pretending to be unlicensed psychiatrists and mind-readers of President Trump. Few have the remotest grasp of Mr. Trump or the Trump movement. The result is that few can see the shift in the world correlation of forces in the last year.

In the previous four years, up to 15 million people, a large number of them seriously undesirable, had entered America illegally and threatened to turn the country into a one-party political state, as the Democrats don’t wish the constitutional formality of the requirement of citizenship as a criterion for voting. 

Communist China, with the help of Venezuela, Cuba, and the gangs of northern Mexico was pouring great quantities of lethal drugs into America, and stoking up the forces of terrorism, particularly in Iran and throughout the Middle East, and threatening the chief Western source of semiconductor chips in the Republic of China on Taiwan, and the West’s access to many strategic minerals.

Mr. Trump’s enemies are incapable of acknowledging that the president has stopped or drastically reduced almost all of that and turned the tables on China. Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran have been flipped or neutralized as Russo-Chinese allies and through Venezuela and Iran, the United States effectively controls more than half of China’s oil supply.

The anxious or hopeful question of whether Trump will simply call it quits in Iran perfectly highlights the almost complete misunderstanding of the president. He is a talented intuitive, rather than scholarly, strategic thinker. He knows that bringing peace to the Middle East, winning the war on terror, restoring Iran to the West, and practically emasculating China’s presence outside its own region will be a gigantic service to the West.

This, with his ending of illegal immigration and the green terror and the drive against an overregulated socialist economy, will establish him as one of the outstanding presidents of American history. When he says that ending the threat of a militarily nuclear Iran and its endless propagation of terrorism is more important than the polls and the mid-term elections, he shows the courage and judgment of the statesman, of which there has hardly been a trace in the White House since the departure of President Reagan. It is little wonder and of no importance that the psychotic Trump-haters wonder if he will finish the course.

Except for FDR, every two-term president since Theodore Roosevelt has had an opposition Congress in his last two years. It need not happen this year, but if it does, it is survivable, and trivial compared to the benefits of a genuine installation of peace in the Middle East, and the defeat of organized terrorism in the world. The reasons for the misunderstanding of Mr. Trump are not hard to discover.

Mr. Trump shattered the Tweedledee-Tweedledum bipartisan post-Reagan political establishment and effectively drove the Bush-McConnell-McCain-Romney Republicans into a mortal embrace with the Democrats. Instead of joining at the hip with the anti-Trump elements fleeing the Trump Republican Party, the Democrats haughtily accepted the support of the fugitives while effectively setting up a new national party to the left of anything that had been seen on a large-scale in the country before.

There had never been a party as far to the left or as revolted by the contemporary political and social ethos of the United States as the patchwork of extremist elements that came forward in 2020 behind avowed socialist Senator Bernie Sanders and the extremist African-American and Islamic elements represented by the congressional “Squad.”

Since Mr. Sanders was too much even for the Democrats, the party bosses accepted his platform and nominated for president the completely unfeasible Joe Biden. Social and political historians of the future are likely to record that America was suddenly and simultaneously afflicted by a double defection of two huge political blocs, one from each political party, causing a seismic shift in the country’s electoral patterns.

The militant veterans of the Civil Rights struggle decided it was time for a triumphal orgy of national self-flagellation and the inverse-racist fraud of “white privilege” was put to the pillory. With the contemporaneous collapse of international communism, American society could afford the luxury of exaggerated self-criticism.

To foreigners, most of them unappreciative of the inexorable rise of America and largely passively resentful of it, Mr. Trump was a Wagnerian monster of the Ugly American: gauche, boastful, and belligerent. Few foreigners have any idea how America functions politically, and they have found Mr. Trump completely incomprehensible, except as the ultimate American blowhard.                   

The good news is that the corruption of the justice system and the intelligence agencies to try to throw the 2016 election to Secretary Hillary Clinton and to destroy Mr. Trump’s first presidency and prevent him from any comeback as a candidate, at least showed that the establishment was not decadent — they are fanatically motivated, though they have been beaten by Mr. Trump.

The Trump-Russian collusion fraud, the illegal telephone intercepts, the phony impeachments, the concerns over millions of unverifiable mail-in ballots cast in the 2020 election, the refusal that year of the judiciary to hear lawsuits on the constitutional mismanagement of voting and vote-counting rules, the utterly spurious indictments designed to make Mr. Trump unelectable in his third run for the presidency, and possibly even Secret Service negligence over Mr. Trump’s personal safety, were an unprecedentedly comprehensive perversion of and assault on constitutional government in America.

All of it has failed before Mr. Trump’s campaign of genius built on celebrity (much of it negative), in 2016 when Trump marshaled the forces of the lower-income half of the country who felt ignored by the government, and the patriotic core of America that was proud of its achievements and disgusted by the forces of national self-hate. 

To the American political establishment this was the triumph of the vulgarian and the demagogue, and there was a grain of truth in this, but Mr. Trump has delivered for those whom he championed and has shown fervent and ingenious, but not xenophobic or isolationist patriotism. The Islamic Republic of Iran is doomed; it’s all just a matter of tactics now.

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