I had to do extensive research to find out rationale of most momentous policy reversal of second Trump presidency. On May 19, Mr. Trump had a telephonic conversation with erstwhile friend Putin in congenial atmosphere, in which Putin even asked for snaps of First Lady’s nude photoshoot that Trump graciously sent him via Whatsapp on the condition that he would keep them for personal use and wouldn’t disseminate them commercially, but all that bonhomie suddenly transformed into overt hostility after Trump said Putin had gone “absolutely crazy” after a routine Russian attack in Ukraine on May 26.
Some consequential event must’ve taken place in the week
between May 19-26, and guess what was it? Predictably, it related to domestic
politics of US instead of foreign policy. Through a reconciliation process, House
of Representatives passed Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill for the first time on May
22 with razor-thin majority of 215 votes to 214. Later, Senate approved the
bill 51–50 on July 1, with Vice President JD Vance casting a tiebreaking vote
in support. And it again passed the House of Representatives, 218–214, on July
3, for the second time. Trump immediately signed the bill into Act the same
day.
GOP holdouts, particularly the House Freedom Caucus, were
opposed to the Bill. Whereas Trump was so sensitive about his legislative
agenda that he unfriended Elon Musk simply because he dared to criticize the
Bill. Therefore, Trump needed the support of someone powerful enough to have
the Bill passed through Congress, and for that purpose, he struck a Faustian
pact with deep state and solemnly pledged to continue providing military
assistance to Ukrainian proxies and abruptly terminated friendship with Russian
strongman.
Security establishment kept its end of the bargain and instructed
its covert operative, who was elected Speaker of the House in October 2023 with
the blessings of deep state, to follow Trump’s orders and have the Bill passed
through Congress, a task that he executed with such artful wheeling and dealing
that even Trump grew fond of him.
In April 2024, Speaker Mike Johnson put forward a $61
billion aid package for Ukraine that passed in Congress despite opposition from
GOP and was signed into law by then-President Biden. Mainstream liberal media called
that a Churchill or Chamberlain moment. Johnson said the classified briefings
he had received about events unfolding in Ukraine played a significant role in
his decision to stab Republicans in the back. But that treachery blew his cover
as a deep state mole.
AIPAC was Johnson's largest financial donor in 2023. Johnson
chaired the Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus of conservatives in
Congress, from 2019 to 2021. He was supported by the House Freedom Caucus PAC
and frequently attended House Freedom Caucus meetings without formally joining
the Caucus. This was the reason he was able to easily convince the caucus
holdouts to support Trump’s Bill.
The deployment of National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles
in early June to quell anti-ICE protests instigated by California’s Democratic
Governor Newsom and Israel’s bombing campaign in Iran lasting from June 13-23
and subsequent American bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites, during which Mr. Trump
attended several security briefings, have brought the White House and Pentagon
much closer to each other.
Now President Trump has gone a step ahead even from hawkish
Biden admin in providing lethal military assistance to Ukrainian proxies for
striking deep inside Russia that would further escalate the proxy war and peace
would remain elusive for the remainder of Trump presidency.
The only difference being that Trump wants affluent European
regimes to bankroll American weapons destined for Ukraine instead of adding
additional economic burden on American taxpayers. But this isn’t
noninterventionist pacifism that characterized first Trump presidency; it’s
financial frugality at best.
Like Mike Johnson who was clearly an aspirant for
presidential office in next elections, the Atlantic’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg
is also a certified deep state stooge. He wrote an article in the run-up to
2020 presidential campaign, accusing Mr. Trump of describing military vets as
“suckers and losers.” That article significantly dropped Trump’s ratings before
elections.
It wasn’t a coincident that in March, Mr. Goldberg was the
central figure in Signalgate scandal, after which Mike Waltz was sacked as NSA.
Although a former special forces officer, Mr. Waltz ran afoul of military brass
after he met Russian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, alongside Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff.
That meeting was meant to pave the way for a summit between
Trump and Putin. After the talks ended, Waltz said he thought the summit could
be arranged in the coming weeks. Thus, Mr. Waltz ruffled the feathers in
Pentagon by actively working to arrange a meeting between US and Russian
leaders.
This transgression was deemed a sacrilegious assault on
national security domain. No wonder deep state assigned the task of doing a hit
job on Mr. Waltz to its trusted and most experienced operative, Mr. Deep Throat
of Watergate fame, who artfully hatched the plot to kick Mr. Waltz out from key
NATSEC appointment.
Notwithstanding, President Trump is unconsciously trying to
create distance between himself and Putin by uncharacteristically heaping
insults on him and holding him responsible for escalation in Ukraine War. Mr.
Trump is cognizant of the fact that Putin is despised as arch-foe by deep
state, and he doesn’t want to spoil cordial relations with powers that be after
re-election by courting estranged friend Putin.
On June 1, Ukrainian proxies mounted Operation Spiderweb,
after getting a greenlight from Pentagon’s EUCOM head General Christopher Cavoli,
in which Ukrainian drones struck deep inside Russia targeting strategic bombers,
in order to scuttle peace talks between Russia and Ukraine happening in Turkey.
That was Gen. Cavoli’s last major operation against Russia, as he retired on July
1 and was replaced by Gen. Alexus the Grynch.
In the Orwellian dystopia of mainstream political orthodoxy,
any deviation from dogmatic adherence to charade of democratic values and civil
liberties is promptly dismissed as heretical “conspiracy theory,” and
conspiracist infidels are publicly burned at stakes, like condemned witches of
medieval era, by establishment inquisition because blindfolded sheeple don’t
want their illusions destroyed.
Even if it is proved beyond doubt that democracy and representation is a farce and deep state and corporate interests in fact rule the roost, naïve electorate still enthusiastically votes for its preferred poison to perform its civic duty of digging its own grave.
