EXCLUSIVE: BEHIND THE SCENES OF TRUMP'S NEW REALISM
How far will he go to stop the forever wars?
Here is a write-up of an interview I conducted with Dr S Maitra, an adviser on diplomatic realism and editor of The American Conservative.
This is paywalled as it is an exclusive insight into the policies and structure of the incoming Trump administration1.
If you are skint and want to read it, email me.
Maitra’s paper on a “Dormant NATO”, published by the Center for Renewing America2, has sparked considerable media panic as it has been “widely circulated” in Trump’s “inner circle”.
I asked him for the facts on policy and practicalities behind the headlines.
Why does this matter?
I think Trump is going to win.
What does this mean for our world? Trump has claimed he will
End Forever Wars
Demolish the “Deep State”
Start mass deportations
and has said he will never introduce a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
How far will he go to combat the permanent state and its “ideological bureaucracy”?
For the hard of understanding I do not think Donald Trump is a saviour.
I think his policies deserve to be examined. Does he mean what he says?
How will he do what he says if he does? How will this shape reality?
This is what I examine here.
WARNING- INCOMING TRUMP ADMIN
Shocked headlines appeared last October, warning that Trump was going to “abandon NATO”. Citing the work of a British academic, Dr Sumantra Maitra, a report in Rolling Stone on his “Dormant NATO” paper claimed his influence had pushed Trump to consider withdrawing from NATO completely.
As the Liberal establishment and its media woke up the strong likelihood of a Trump win in November 2024, I spoke to Dr Maitra to ask him to explain some of the ideas behind the incoming Trump administration.
Here he explains some of the reasoning behind the new realism of the incoming Trump administration.
Dr Maitra has stressed he does not speak directly for President Trump.
ESCAPING THE FANTASY TRAP
Many of the globalist crises facing Americans - and the West - are a result of the extraordinary moment of “unipolarity” - the moment after the fall of the Soviet Union, where the US was left in the position of global supremacy.
In place of the ideology of fantasy of the Liberals, Maitra presents realism.
“The foundation of realism is to see the world as it is, rather than as it ought to be.”
His assessment of the state of the US and its problems is not only a strong indication of the platform of the coming Trump government, but also an analysis of how the US came to make what he calls so many “expensive mistakes”, and replace its interests with those of large scale international bureaucracies.
RENEWAL IN A NEW REALITY
The unipolar moment has passed, but its legacy, says Dr Maitra, fuels the repetition of these “expensive mistakes” - which have also enabled the rise of competing powers to balance that of the US.
Its legacy is an international industry of death which has corrupted democracy and ruined nations at home and abroad.
Soaring costs, damaging commitments and the collapse of diplomatic power have followed creation of a massive self serving domestic and international bureaucracy, which is currently fighting for its life.
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