Donald Trumps Cabinet Picks Are Not Looking Good For Peace In Ukraine by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-11-24 at 23:46:54 )

Donald Trumps Cabinet Picks Are Not Looking Good For Peace In Ukraine by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Conventional wisdom about the outgoing Biden administrations reckless escalations in Ukraine these past few days is that things will cool down once Donald Trump takes office, but Trumps cabinet picks are not really selling this idea.

While Donald Trump did campaign on ending the war in Ukraine, the president elect has given multiple cabinet appointments to strategists who say that the way to achieve that peace is to substantially escalate aggressions against Russia. Michael Tracey has been doing a great job compiling footage of Trumps recent cabinet picks advocating extreme measures which happen to be in perfect alignment with the nuclear brinkmanship of the demented outgoing president and his handlers.

Sebastian Gorka, who Trump has named as his next senior director for counterterrorism, is on record saying that Trump has told him he plans on saying to Putin, "You will negotiate now or the aid that we have given to Ukraine thus far will look like peanuts."

Sebastian Gorka, who Trump just named a Director of national security policy in the White House, says that Trumps strategy for ending the Ukraine war will include threatening Putin to provide Ukraine with exponentially more military "aid" "please see here:" - Michael Tracey (mtracey) November 23, 2024

Mike Waltz, who Trump has selected as his next national security advisor, promotes a similar vision. Waltz says Russia can be pressured to come to the negotiating table via increased energy sanctions combined with "taking the handcuffs off of the long-range weapons we provided Ukraine." Biden has since removed those very "handcuffs" by authorizing Kyiv to use United States-supplied long-range missiles to attack Russia.

If it seems like these remarks from Trumps incoming administration work very nicely with the actions of the outgoing administration, then you may find it interesting that Waltz just told Fox News Sunday that the two administrations are working "hand in glove" as the presidency changes over.

"Jake Sullivan and I have had discussions, we have met," Waltz said. "For our adversaries out there that think this is a time of opportunity, that they can play one administration off the other - they are wrong. We are hand in glove. We are one team with the United States in this transition."

This would seem to be an oblique reference to Russia specifically, since that is the only United States adversary with any hope that the incoming administration might be a bit less hawkish toward it than the outgoing one, and since years of mass media coverage went into spinning narratives about Trump being a pawn of Vladimir Putin.

But Trump was never a pawn of Vladimir Putin. Contrary to the narratives of both Democrat-aligned punditry and Republican-aligned punditry while he was in office, Trump spent his entire term ramping up cold war aggressions against Russia which helped pave the way to the war and brinkmanship we are seeing in Ukraine today.

Tracey recently shared an audio clip of Gorka on X Spaces back in January 2023 exuberantly boasting about the way Trump ordered the United States military to kill hundreds of Russian mercenaries in Syria in 2018. Putin himself cited the Trump administrations withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty in 2019 when defending his decision to hit Ukraine with a new type of intermediate-range missile the other day in response to its use of United States- and United Kingdom-supplied long-range missiles to strike inside Russia.

Other cabinet appointments who have taken extremely hawkish positions on Russia include secretary of state nominee Marco Rubio, secretary of defense nominee Pete Hegseth, CIA director nominee John Ratcliffe, and National Security Council appointee Doug Burgum. But it is those comments from Waltz and Gorka which I find most concerning, because they explicitly refer to escalatory strategies that Trump might employ once he takes office.

This all comes out as we get news that United States and European officials recently discussed providing nuclear weapons to Ukraine under the gamble that Putin will not escalate against the west before Trump takes office. The more aligned the Trump administrations posture toward Russia appears to be with that of the Biden administration, the less safe a gamble this appears to be.

It seems likely that the Trump administration will end the Ukraine proxy war at some point down the road in order to reallocate those resources toward preparation for war with Iran and-or China. But it is not at all clear that this will happen soon enough before soaring escalations spin out of control into the single worst-case scenario that could possibly unfold on this planet!

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