Draft Dodger Donald Trump Charts Course for War With China by Finian Cunningham!
(2020-05-02 at 11:04:05 )

Draft Dodger Donald Trump Charts Course for War With China by Finian Cunningham!

It is a grim number. This week sees the United States death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic exceeding the total number of United States of American troops that were killed during the decade-long Vietnam War - some 58,000.

In a matter of just a few weeks, United States deaths from the disease make that nation the worlds leader, in a macabre way not imagined by preening "American exceptionalism".

But never mind, United States of Americans can take heart that they have got Donald Trump as their leader. (That is genuine sarcasm unlike Donald Trumps brand of fake retro-sarcasm.)

He has described himself as a "wartime president" heroically fighting "a war against an invisible enemy". His daily press briefings to the nation beamed from the White House have become an exercise in boasting, hyperbole and unctuous self-congratulation.

However, Donald Trumps bravura predictions of defeating the Covid-19 virus and a rocketing recovery really do not inspire confidence. This is from the same "stable genius" who not so long ago dismissed the pandemic as a hoax which would pass the United States of America "like a miracle". Just like his prescription for injecting bleach as a cure - later denied as "sarcasm" - Donald Trumps credibility should carry a graphic health warning.

The irony of Donald Trumps flip from "virus hoax" to proclaiming himself to be a "wartime president" in combating the pandemic is that the real estate heir never saw a real war in his life. Or to be more precise, used his old mans wealth to pull strings in order to avoid the draft for the Vietnam War. Donald Trump would even brag about his partying days during the 70s - and his non-existent medical condition of "heel spurs" - while tens of thousands of working-class United States of Americans were getting cut to pieces in the jungles of Southeast Asia.

Donald Trumps ineligibility to lead the United States in any sort of war is manifest in the abysmal impact on American lives and society from the Covid-19 pandemic. The singular devastation wrought on the United States from the disease is ultimately the responsibility of the so-called Commander-in-Chief.

The lack of public health defenses, the cavalier complacency, the arrogant indifference during a crucial two-month warning period, the hollowing out of disease control infrastructure - are all attributable to this presidents watch.

But just like the Vietnam War era, Donald Trumps cowardice and cynicism is on full display for those able to discern. The megalomaniac narcissist is not going to take the rap for the disaster. His administration and its Fox News-aligned foreign policy is lining up China to take the heat.

Donald Trump once boasted that he does not let adversaries know what his game plan is. That is laughable. It is easy to read Donald Trump. Just watch Fox and its rabid anchors and pundits.

China and the "Chinese Communist Party" are the "evil of our time", informs the Murdoch-owned outlet. China has to be sued for trillions of dollars for deaths and damages inflicted on the United States of America. Pundits are advising an easy way to collect. Just do not honor the United States foreign debt held by China.

Earlier this week, Donald Trump signaled he was firming up his "get China" game plan in accordance with his Fox briefers. Donald Trump has gone from "looking into" Beijing being possibly liable for the outbreak of Covid-19 to now openly accusing China of "not protecting us".

"We are not happy with China," the president told the press in recriminatory tone. He said there were "a lot of ways" to hold China accountable. "We will let you know at the appropriate time."

A quick switch over to Fox News to see where this policy is going and pundits like Senator Lyndsey Graham are proposing economic sanctions and freezing of Chinese assets "until they learn how to behave". One can anticipate Donald Trump soon using the same language of unilateral punishment of Beijing for allegedly destroying the United States.

In the Rose Garden briefing Monday, Donald Trumps fury towards China was palpable.

"I built the greatest economy in the history of the world," said the president. Leave aside Donald Trumps vulgar immodesty and ridiculous self-congratulation, the point is that Donald Trump and his cohorts deludedly think that their wonderful American paradise was sabotaged by China, which, he warns, has to be "held accountable" for spreading the disease.

"We had the greatest economy in the history of the world," he repeated. "And one day because of something that should never have been allowed to happen, we had to close our country, we had to close our economy."

Never mind a woman scorned, hell hath no fury like a megalomaniac whose vanity and presumed glory have been sullied.

Donald Trump is going to blame China for every perceived problem stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic. We can expect to see unilateral measures like expropriating Chinese-owned United States treasury bonds and other investments by way of self-declared "compensation" for United States of American losses.

This is going to get very nasty. The earlier United States trade war antagonism with China is going to look like a picnic by comparison.

China and the renowned stoicism of its leaders are not going to sit idly by as Washington,D.C. dips into their sovereign coffers and begins looting trillions of dollars out of some deluded sense of victimhood. Especially when China already knows that it is most likely the victim here of United States of American scapegoating over Covid-19. In short, draft-dodger Donald Trump and his Fox News armchair generals are charting a course towards war.

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