A lot is being written about Donald Trump, some for and some against him. Apart from his well-known impetuous behavior, unpredictability, and rashness, in his exuberance to make the US great and glorious again, he is making enemies both at home and abroad. Consequently, he has more enemies and very few friends.
Let us be clear about a few hard realities which have remained unchanged since 1991/92. After the US emerged as the sole super power, it formulated NWO to hegemonise the world for the next one hundred years.
The US has not changed its global goals despite suffering reverses in Afghanistan and the Middle East and denting its reputation.
Traditionally, the US has acted as a war monger, and has craved to capture the world’s resources, particularly of the mineral rich Eurasian continent.
It has been formulating strategies to slow down China’s economic growth, to keep Russia contained and the Global South at its mercy. For this purpose, it is maintaining 800 military bases all over the globe and has six command centres deployed in each ocean.
The USA is still the strongest military and economic power and would remain so for the next two decades if not more.
NATO is the US’s strategic arm and a global policeman. Israel and India are its strategic partners. All four are natural partners with common objectives and imperialist ambitions.
No US President can afford to displease Israel, and for his survival , would remain at its beck and call.
The US has become the most reviled country in the world due to its outright support for the war crimes of Israel.
This laxity is not for NATO and India. The former has been cautioned by Trump to pay more, or else the US would stop funding it. The latter will remain an extremely important ally of the US as long as it serves its geopolitical and geoeconomic interests.
Oil rich Arab States are important for the US due to oil and their bank reserves deposited in Washington. Egypt is strategically important since it provides a forward base to NATO for its adventures in the ME, and also because of its peace treaty with Israel.
Trump, Netanyahu and Modi think alike and aspire to make the US, Israel and India great. Achievement of this greatness will be at the cost of the world at large.
For the achievement of their global ambitions, rules, regulations, conventions, resolutions, international laws, morals and ethics are of no consideration to them. Rule based international order is only for the Global South and not for the G 7, Israel and India.
Trump’s main headache is China and BRI, and to a lesser extent Russia and nuclear North Korea.
Next in the line are Iran wanting to achieve nuclear capability and nuclear Pakistan.
India acts as a bulwark against China and Pakistan, and hence its significance for the US. More so, India is the biggest buyer of the US and Israeli arms and technology, and the biggest contributor of IT to the US.
From the time of George Bush senior, all the successive US presidents have been doling out huge material benefits to India and also covering up its sins against the Kashmiris and Indian minorities. The US is responsible for disturbing the military balance in South Asia.
India will continue to enjoy a special place in the US strategic calculus, while the US will maintain transactional relations with Pakistan and keep it in a fix.
The less the dependency on Washington, the better it will be for Pakistan. For its security, Pakistan will have to correct its internal disharmony and fault lines and to become economically self-reliant.
Irrespective of the greedy ambitions of the imperialist powers, the resistance forces would continue to resist their evil designs. Herculean resistance put up by the people of Gaza is a case in point. Kashmiris are also not abandoning their movement of liberation in spite of record breaking atrocities inflicted upon them since 1990.
China and Russia would be in the vanguard of the Global South to make the world peaceful, and the two are likely to redouble their efforts to change the prejudiced and discriminatory world order which is unjust, conflict ridden and pro-rich.
Above all, the people of America, Israel and India would sooner than later rise against the tyranny of their fascist and racist rulers, and would play a lead role in removing them from power.
In America, a large segment views Trump as a madman akin to Hitler and Gorbachev who had destroyed Germany and the USSR respectively. Netanyahu has become the most hated man in the world, and Modi is also looked down upon as the product of RSS and a danger to peace in nucleated South Asia.
