It is said that recently, many forces in the United States and abroad have begun to prepare to form a group to "pledge allegiance" to Trump. For example, the elite on Wall Street, the leadership in Japan and South Korea, and so on.
And the most anxious may be Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
After all, in many speeches, Trump has confidently declared that if he were still president, the Russia-Ukraine war would not have broken out at all.
He also passionately predicted that once he became president again, he would immediately and successfully mediate the Russia-Ukraine war. In this regard, the expression of "understand the king" is very simple and image - it is easy to stop the war, don't give Ukraine tanks, it is very easy to do!"
But the question is whether this Russia-Ukraine conflict can be ended will not be decided by Trump as president, or by certain groups unanimously opposing the war.
The president of the United States is not a feudal king, and even if he is a king, he has bureaucrats such as cabinet ministers to assist and restrain the monarch's decision, and nothing can be left to one person.
What's more, the United States has a separation of powers, and once Congress goes against the president, it will often be difficult for the president and the ruling party to implement their executive power. For example, every time the U.S. government clamored for a shutdown, it was almost always related to partisan disputes in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
In addition, there is also a popular saying that the United States is an "arms company disguised as a state."
This one... Although it is an exaggeration, you seem to have to admit that this is one of the major characteristics of the United States.
According to statistics, at least a third of the members of the US Congress hold shares in the five major US military-industrial complexes, and some are members of the board of directors of these enterprises.
Moreover, the above-mentioned five major arms groups have always been the "old employers" of many high-level US politicians.
In American politics, there has always been a so-called "revolving door" pattern - the phenomenon of high-level public officials in the United States going back and forth between government agencies and private enterprises.
In addition to members of Congress, most of the top members of the US government, whether they are from the Democratic or Republican Party, basically hold shares in Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics and other related military-industrial complexes, or have worked directly there.
For example, Trump's Republican opponent Nikki Haley joined Boeing as an executive after resigning as ambassador to the United Nations.
The relationship between the two seems to be good
Let's take Thor as an example.
Mark Esper, the second Secretary of Defense in the previous Republican Trump administration (below). Before entering politics, he worked as an executive at Thor for several years.
This round of the Biden administration's Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, who was hospitalized for surgery a while ago and did not ask for leave, was accused of "absenteeism", after he was discharged from the army, he also went to Thor "dormant" (American soldiers must voluntarily retire before entering politics), and was appointed Secretary of Defense when Biden came to power to form a cabinet.
As a result, we have seen that the US Secretary of Defense usually always advocates the "threat of war" and calls for an increase in military spending.
After all, they all hold other people's shares in their hands; in addition, after the change of government, they may also have to return to the arms company to continue their employment, so they naturally have to serve their "old employers" well.
And war, on the other hand, is the nourishment of those military-industrial complexes.
In order to satisfy the boss, if there is no war, make war, and if there is no enemy, make enemies.
Whoever touches the cake of the military-industrial complex, in turn, will be unlucky.
For example, Trump has been boasting that he is the only president who has not started a war in office since World War II, and has since claimed that he "can resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 24 hours," that he is "the only person who can prevent World War III," that "he will not waste American taxpayers' money on stupid "foreign wars," and so on.
As a result, Trump was entangled in lawsuits and has been tossing and turning until now. He often goes to court in New York during the day to fight lawsuits, and then flies to various campaign sites at night to give speeches and interact.
In fact, in terms of the stains on their bodies, the Clintons, Biden and his sons, and the Pelosi are not clean, and even the melons dug up may be bigger and more amazing. Typical like Hillary's "mailgate" and the "Benghazi tragedy" involved. But these scandals were eventually over, and after checking and checking, there was no follow-up.
It can be said that if you list all kinds of scandals and shady scenes, Trump's opponents are likely to be superior, and even the kind that can strip off all the coats of American democracy and freedom, and even have no underwear left.
But only Trump was grabbed and died.
Since Trump left the White House, there have been a few groups of people who have been working hard to send him to court and throw him in prison for "sealing".
Some pictures of American netizens using AI to spoof
Obviously, whoever wants to stop the war is the enemy they are going to die.
The Russia-Ukraine war has made most American interest groups very satisfied, Wall Street is satisfied, the Federal Reserve is satisfied, energy companies are satisfied, and the military-industrial complex is even more happy.
However, Trump himself is rich and popular, but he has a hard time satisfying the American ruling class.
His slogans, whether "America First" or "Make America Great Again," are more like a businessman's way of governing the country, despise allies, refuse to take any responsibility, and want to put it in his pocket as soon as possible, no matter what the benefits are.
For example, when Trump was in office, he expressed many times - "We pay too many bills in the United States, and you all rub our oil".
He was against immigration—"How can you just come over and touch the light of our America?"
Militarily, he is also not too concerned with NATO allies, and he has never made decisions based on illusory "values" and the so-called "free world". In Trump's eyes, America's NATO allies are simply "taking advantage of the United States and wiping American oil."
Therefore, for Trump, giving up aid to Ukraine is not an unacceptable option. You know, Trump has described Ukraine as "not really a country".
Moreover, he himself has never hidden his admiration for Putin (why does Trump always like to pat the other person on the back?). ）。
He even met the "strongest post-80s generation on the earth" with the atomic bomb in his hand several times, and the atmosphere was very good....
Obviously, the above situation is unacceptable to the US military-industrial complex, and they will definitely use all their energy to constantly shoot the plan that Trump has concocted to death, even if he really "returns like lightning" and re-enters the White House.
After all, as was said earlier, war is the nourishment of the military-industrial complex.
If there is no war, there will be war, and if there is no enemy, there will be an enemy.
Behind the logic of almost all the actions of the U.S. government and the U.S. military, it is ultimately the interests of capital.
This article was originally written by Ms. Huang Na.