Trump's imperial agenda explained
Trump's chaos reveals a plan if you look hard enough
It’s on. It’s off. It’s on again. It’s off again. It might be happening. It’s not happening. It happened already. It’s gonna happen if you don’t do what you’re told.
Trump’s relationship to blowing stuff up around the Persian Gulf is reminiscent of a teen romance, and like with hormonal adolescent drama, everyone around is getting real sick of it.
It’s draining to keep track of what’s happening, and so many people are switching off. I know I am. Our family will be prepping regardless of what Trump posts on Truth Social overnight.
But it’s helpful to have a framework to make reality make sense, and I’ve got some ideas to help you do that.
There are pretty much three takes you could have on Trump. The first is that he’s just a Zionist puppet. I don’t think that’s entirely the case. The second is that he’s just nuts and there’s no plan. I don’t believe that’s the case, either. The third is that Trump has a plan and he’s just not telling us directly what it is.
Let’s go with that assumption and see where it leads.
Trump is an economic nationalist. He has been since he attended the Wharton School of Business in his youth. The Wharton School is famous for its bias toward American industrialism rather than the usual Wall St-friendly financial focus of other prestigious schools. This might give us a clue into what Trump is really up to.
Trump has said since the 80s that he’s basically against ‘globalism’. But what does Trump mean by globalism? His base interprets it to mean he’s against wokeism. I think there’s more to it. I’m not sure Trump understands what wokeism even is.
I think Trump is saying he’s against the postwar settlement established by the American liberal elite in the 1940s. He doesn’t like the Pax Americana, the system of hegemonic imperial influence by which America agrees to become the world’s coast guard and the world, in turn, agrees to price everything in US dollars, all of it underpinned by American control of the world’s commodity markets.
Trump doesn’t like that. He doesn’t like a system that enriches the American elite, offshores American industry, and impoverishes the American people over time. Trump wants to see America building, America manufacturing, America owning, America advancing. America First!
The postwar liberal order isn’t just about ideology. It’s about infrastructure, trade routes, currency systems, and mutual security guarantees. These are all things that Trump has gone after to destroy. He doesn’t want his America to be the global hegemon.
He wants America to be a Western hemispheric territorial empire. Red, white, and blue from Greenland to Venezuela. When Trump speaks, he sounds more like a 19th-century American populist than a 21st-century neoliberal.
If we wanted to put it succinctly, Trump wants to undo everything the American elite since Woodrow Wilson has built. He doesn’t want to spread a New England-style liberal Yankee order across the world. It’s too much obligation, too much gutting of the imperial core to the benefit of elites in other power blocs, too much development of America’s future rivals.
It’s too idealistic. Too touchy-feely. Too damn nice.
Trump wants America to be badass again. This is the theory that can explain Trump’s behaviour. He hates the UN. He hates the WTO. He hates NATO. He hates USAID. He hates the liberal media spreading Yankee globalism around the world.
Trump wants a Maccas drive-thru next to every igloo in Greenland and Chinese riding bicycles again. He wants American companies mining the riches of South America using cheap local labour. He wants to see American cities scrape off the rust, kick out the genetically questionable illegals, and make America feel like Top Gun again.
It’s the Monroe Doctrine but with space lasers. American control of the Panama Canal and the oceans on both sides.
This is a theory to help us explain what Trump is really doing in West Asia. Yes, Trump is being leaned on by the Zionists because he probably did naughty things back in the 80s and 90s and they’ve got it on film. They also funded his campaigns. Sure. How Israel fits into this is something we can flesh out in a sec.
But Trump’s ideology is not Zionism. I don’t believe Trump wants to be remembered as Cyrus 2.0 or whatever. He wants to be remembered as America’s Julius Caesar; the man who took a corrupt, oligarchic republic and turned it into an imperial powerhouse that dominated everywhere around it for another five centuries.
To do that, globalism and its infrastructure must be destroyed. The global trade system has to go, because Trump doesn’t want America policing it anymore. So he puts BILLION PERCENT tariffs on every country in the world, and then he blows up the Persian Gulf and makes the world rearrange itself as cheap energy comes to an end.
Notice how Australia’s PM (whatever his name is) is jetsetting around SE Asia to engage in commodity diplomacy? That’s Trump’s plan working out. The world breaking off into regional power blocs that provide their own security so the US can retreat to Fortress America. Every nation for itself. No more complex global supply chains. That’s the future now that Trump has reneged on the liberal world order of Wilson, Roosevelt, and Kissinger.
Maybe it’s happening because the world system is running up against natural limits. Have we reached peak oil? Peak commodities generally? The world, especially the ‘developed world’, has certainly reached peak debt. The public and private debt in the global system has now become unmanageable. The Australian real estate market is an example. It has to be reset. Is that what Trump is being tasked with managing?
It doesn’t really matter why. It’s happening. Globalism is over. The unwind has begun. No more cheap Temu junk for Aussies. Maybe not many groceries for a while. If you don’t believe me, wait until the May shortages hit. Where does that plastic the milk comes in come from?
This is not a puff piece on Trump, not by a long shot. It’s just my theory of what drives this blowviating reality TV star.
My own personal opinion, for what it’s worth, is that Trump will fail. Sure, he’ll end globalism. But he won’t be able to replace it with a sustainable world order that people will appreciate later. There are too many chaotic forces now being unleashed for a smooth transition to coherent power blocs to occur.
Religion is central to this. Zionism isn’t just a political ideology. It’s grounded in a religious belief system. The Iranian government also controls a political system grounded in religious thinking. Both of those religious systems have an eschatological1 view that not only believes the end of the world is near, but that those countries have a part to play in ending it.
Add in Christian Zionists praying for Israel to start a war with the entire Middle East so Jesus comes back, and you can see how this could get real messy real fast.
Israel has at least 80-90 nuclear warheads. Iran would be mad not to have now cooked up a few in their mountain strongholds. Pakistan has told Iran they will provide them with a nuclear umbrella, which means that should Israel nuke Iran, they will nuke Israel. India, also a nation with a religious government, would be mad to sit back and let Pakistan start shooting off nukes without shooting off a few of their own pre-emptively.
I don’t believe Trump is religious. I don’t think he understands religious people. Pragmatic materialists never do. We religious people think different, and a Middle East without American protection over Israel is a Middle East that Israel will seek to obliterate first to guarantee their own security.
Trump has had a lifelong mission to restore American economic exceptionalism. You can see him talking about it in interviews from the 80s. But it’s not going to happen. We’re not going to see Top Gun. Especially not in Australia.
We’re going to see Mad Max.
End times