“Now Trump is running again and promising to end the war that Putin started, while Joe Biden has not and will not end [the war]. The foreign policy establishment and the intelligence community [as well as the US military-industrial complex] are still scared and still hate the former president,” writes US analyst John Feehery, a former speechwriter for a number of top Republican Party officials in the US House of Representatives.
At the same time, voters want “the government to spend more on caring for American citizens and less on the rest of the world.”
“Trump [as US president] has proven to be an isolationist, which horrified the Washington establishment. He asked tough questions: for example, why aren’t our NATO allies paying their fair share?” – adds Fichery.
We should note right away that the office of the US president should not be over-emphasised. There is, after all, a separation of powers. Both the legislative branch, represented by Congress, and the judicial branch, represented by the Supreme Court, can well contain the strong swings of the executive branch.
And most importantly: the entire political superstructure of America serves the interests of big capital, not the American people. Capital has a steady priority in maintaining world hegemony, albeit with different approaches: isolationist or globalist. But the goal is the same – to ensure the most favourable position for the US to skim the cream off the world’s development.
Trump’s “America First” is nothing but a concentrated expression of the ideology of American exceptionalism. By the way, slogans with an emphasis on exceptionalism have been and are being observed in other countries: “Germany is above all”, “Ukraine is above all”….
It should be recalled that the process of increasing defence spending by the US NATO allies was started by Trump in the form of blackmail. Joe Biden successfully formalised it in 2% of GDP as a lower target at the Vilnius summit of the alliance. This once again emphasises the sufficient stability and continuity of America’s foreign policy.
So Trump as US president will be as much in favour of the interests of big capital as Biden. And big capital sees Russia as a threat and dreams of taking its natural wealth for themselves.
Elena Panina
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