United States President Responds to His Failure to Deal With COVID-19, by Blaming China by Eric Zuesse!
(2020-05-03 at 11:10:08 )

United States President Responds to His Failure to Deal With COVID-19, by Blaming China by Eric Zuesse!

The United States President has a public response to his countrys being the only one that has over a million cases and over 62,000 deaths from Covid-19 when every other country has fewer than 250,000 cases and fewer than 30,000 deaths: he demonizes Chinas Government, and is now publicly preparing to seek trillions of dollars in compensation from it for damages from the coronavirus-19. On April 30th, CNN reiterated this response from him by headlining "Trump contradicts United States intel community by claiming he has seen evidence coronavirus originated in Chinese lab", and the New York Times bannered "Trump Officials Are Said to Press Spies to Link Virus and Wuhan Labs", though earlier on this same day, the Director of National Intelligence had issued a public statement, representing "the Intelligence Community" and saying that, "The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified."

That statement meant: this virus had not been produced in any military lab, anywhere. Unlike in 2003, when the head of the Central Intelligence Agency privately told the United States President that proving Saddam Husseins WMD and complicity in 9-11-01 would be a "slam-dunk," Americas Deep State - which controls the nations Intelligence Community and Congress in both Parties - is now disunited, not united behind the President, about bringing the nation to war, this time against China, instead of against Iraq. Under this President, there is actually a partisan Democratic-Republican split, within the Deep State (the countrys controlling billionaires).

China, of course, is probably where the virus first appeared (in December 2019). Though its population is 1.4 billion, Americas is only 330 million, and yet China has reported Covid-19 cases to be still remaining below 83,000 and stabilized (growing at around 50 cases per day since March 29th), whereas Americas cases are still rising (at more than 20,000 per day since March 29th), so that America has now experienced a solid month of cases rising at over 20,000 new ones per day, compared to Chinas 50 per day. China first reached 80,000 cases on March 1st; so, by that time, the ferocity of this contagion was well known to all scientifically inclined individuals, and could not reasonably be denied by any head-of-state. But some, such as Donald Trump, did deny it.

China also is the worlds second-largest economy, after only the United States, and Americas President had entered office promising action against China in order to keep America "#1." So, his blaming China has been part of his Presidency since even before his Presidency even began. Of course, President G.W. Bush had likewise blamed Iraq since prior to even becoming the United States President, but he enjoyed the solid support of the United States intelligence community, which President Donald Trump does not, and has not.

Americas current President, furthermore, has become famous for blaming others for his own failures, which certainly include his performance (among the worlds worst) during the coronavirus-19 challenge; and his response to the Covid-19 (or coronavirus-19) challenge has consistently reflected his blaming-of-others whenever he is himself clearly at some fault in a given matter.

What, then, are the actual merits of his laying the blame upon China, in this particular matter?

First of all, is a nations Government to be blamed for a global pandemics having had its first reported case of it appear in that country? Would that suffice, in order for China to be blamed for this?

If the reason that the first reported case of it, was in China, reflects a distinctive - a totally unique - feature of that given nations government, then, there might possibly be just cause to blame that government, for the given phenomenon.

Amongst the United States Presidents alleged or implied and propagandized reasons why China is to blame, in this particular matter, is that the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology discovered the virus.

Its Director promptly reported it to Chinas Government, though the extent of this viruss threat of producing an epidemic - far less its yet having been established to be one that cannot be controlled - was not yet known, and therefore the Government was at first more concerned to contain and halt its spread than to alarm all of China and the world, until this virus ferocity became clearly manifest, undeniable. But by no later than February 15th, it became already clear that this contagion was an epidemic, which would spread worldwide and be uncontrollable.

When the first United States case of this virus was reported, on January 20th, the infections ferocity was not yet already known. Chinas official count started on January 22nd and was 571 cases, as being the total up till that time. By February 15th there were already 68,500 cases in Chinas official count, and there were already 1,665 deaths from coronavirus-19 in China; so, by that time, anyone should have known to be alarmed, because this rapid climb in the numbers had been published to every government. But here were some of Donald Trumps actual public statements about the matter:

Feb. 19: "I think it is going to work out fine. I think when we get into April, in the warmer weather, that has a very negative effect on that and that type of a virus. So let us see what happens, but I think it is going to work out fine."

Feb. 24: "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.

Feb. 26: "Because of all we have done, the risk to the American people remains very low.

Feb. 27: "Only a very small number in United States, & China numbers look to be going down [The number of new cases in China that day had declined to 327; so, this statement by Donald Trump was correct.]. All countries working well together!"

Feb. 28: "It is going to disappear. One day, it is like a miracle, it will disappear."

Feb. 29: "We are the number one travel destination anywhere in the world, yet we have far fewer cases of the disease than even countries with much less travel or a much smaller population."

March 4: "Some people will have this at a very light level and will not even go to a doctor or hospital, and they will get better. There are many people like that."

March 9: "The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, -The risk is low to the average American.- "

Clearly, Donald Trump was trying to calm the American people about the coronavirus matter, not to lead his nation to minimize the epidemic. Soon, he was very much on the defensive about that fact. By March 9th, there were 704 reported cases in the United States. By January 23rd - the second day of Chinas official counting - there had been 830 cases, an increase of 259 from the January 22nd count. On March 10th, there were a total of 994 cases reported in the United States, a 41% increase from the March 9th count. But Donald Trump simply continued his Norman Vincent Peale "power of positive thinking" assertions:

March 10: "And it hit the world. And we are prepared, and we are doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."

March 11: "I think we are going to get through it very well."

The most severe of the alleged accounts which are blaming Chinas Government are ones which allege not that China is to blame because the infection started there, but instead that that lab in Wuhan is a Chinese Government biological-warfare lab.

No evidence has been offered that this is actually the case, but some of the United States regimes propaganda-agencies (the ones which support this President) nonetheless do allege it. If that allegation is true, then, obviously, such a source for the virus would indeed be an illegal source, because there are no legal biological-warfare labs - biological-warfare weapons are internationally outlawed. Furthermore, China signed and ratified this document on 15 November 1984. (The other two major powers had previously done so: United States on 26 March 1975, and Russia also on 26 March 1975.) Consequently, in that case, there would be at least a possible legal ground for the United States regime to blame Chinas Government.

However, still, such a case would be unlikely to be brought by the United States regime, since doing that would open up to the worlds aghast attention the long-suppressed historical fact that the United States regime itself had been the originator of the entire concept that maybe an infectious disease would be able to be useful as a military weapon.

The United States regime actually tried this profoundly evil idea in its military invasions in 1952, and that effort failed.

The 764-page "REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THE FACTS CONCERNING BACTERIOLOGICAL WARFARE IN KOREA AND CHINA" is summarized and its background described "here". There are many ways that the United States regime hides it from the public, such as "here" and "here".

That is a cat-and-mouse game, with the regime trying to kill history of the most ghastly types of international war-crimes having been perpetrated by its own leaders. Americas President (Commander-inChief) Dwight David Eisenhower was the principal guilty party - perpetrating it starting within just three months of becoming President, and then, thereafter, overseeing the denial and cover-up of it.

However, the only nations where the United States regimes effort to sue China for the United States regimes having been doing perhaps what is the worlds worst job of protecting its own population against the coronavirus-19 plague, are the United States regimes own vassal nations or "allies", and the only actual purpose which would be served by doing that is to drive the worlds markets even further into separation than they already are being driven by Donald Trump.

That would be a World War III preparation, in order to produce two entirely separate and increasingly warring-against-each-other economic blocs. The United States has already been preparing for this by now spending annually around half of the entire worlds military expenditures (that fact, too, being effectively hidden and misrepresented by the regime and its various fronts).

Be that as it may, the very idea that a viral plague can effectively be used as a military weapon is so stupid that it is insane, and the very allegation of it is an insult to the publics intelligence, because a plague, by its very nature, is one of the most uncontrollable (if not the most uncontrollable) phenomena in the entire world.

To publicize the possibility of that (i.e., to publicize the impossible possibility that a plague could be useful as a military weapon), is, itself, a nullifying discredit against any "news" medium that proposes such a possibility without simultaneously explaining precisely how a viral plague could possibly be controlled sufficiently for it to be able to serve predictably and effectively in a military capacity.

No uncontrollable plague can be targeted, and no such untargetable and uncontainable "weapon" can possibly serve as a weapon of war - not by China, not by any nation. (It failed when the United States tried it in 1952 because the bacteria were not quite as contagious and as deadly as Ike hoped, but nowadays some viruses are but can not be assuredly contained within only the target nations borders; and coronavirus-19 certainly is in that latter category.)

The fact that it is insane does not mean, however, that the United States is not still developing such "weapons": it is.

Whitney Webb headlined on 20 January 2020, "Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent DARPA Experiments." Even before that, Dilyana Gaytandzhieva bannered on 20 September 2018, "-Diplomatic Immunity- Used to Traffick Human Blood and Pathogens for Secret Military Program" and discussed "the many Pentagon biolaboratories in 25 countries across the world. They are funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) under a $ 2.1 billion military program - Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP), and are located in former Soviet Union countries such as Georgia and Ukraine, the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa."

The United States Government leads the world in insanity. After all, "America Accounts for About Half of Worlds Military Spending." This is what happens when the owners of the military-industrial complex control the government.

As regards other, less incredible, allegations by the United States regime that Chinas Government should be held responsible for the coronavirus-19 plague, those allegations against Chinas Government allege it to be incompetent. However, what is the reasonable justification for maintaining that Chinas Government should be sued for incompetence in this matter if governments such as that of the United States are bringing the suit and are themselves clearly and virtually universally recognized as being extraordinarily incompetent and failing in their own responses to the coronavirus-19 challenge?

The shamelessness of the United States regime, for its having perpetrated invasions and coups on the basis of lies such as in 1953 Iran, 1954 Guatemala, 2003 Iraq, 2014 Ukraine, and many other cases, is now about to be displayed yet again in regards to its handling of the coronavirus crisis.

Since the United States has entered its phase as a declining instead of a still-rising power in the world, the day may be near at hand when its leaders will become themselves held internationally to account for the outrageous and carefully planned evils that they have been perpetrating upon the world - soon to include perhaps their blaming China for something that the United States itself had actually done in 1952 using germs instead of viruses, after a massive use of napalm to destroy North Korea had failed to win the Korean War for the United States dictators (Americas controlling stockholders of United States international corporations).

The United States of Americas destruction of the then-budding democracies in Iran 1953 and Guatemala 1954 (and Chile 1973, and many others) were not mere anomalies, but instead the imperialistic character of post-WW-II America.

And similar United States international atrocities continue to be perpetrated, right up till today. But, fortunately, unlike in 2003, Americas billionaires are not united about whether to try doing this against China.

This time, Americas President seems to be leading not an entire aristocracy, but merely a faction of that aristocracy. If he will press for the charge, there will be considerable internal resistance.

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