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Honesty is the Best Policy, Part Two

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Here we go again. This interview begins with the Judge and Max saying that never before have they heard a US Treasury Secretary saying something so obviously true. This is how imperialist financiers bring about regime change, and they have done it for decades and centuries. Now there are no secrets. The Judge says he can’t wait for Max to slice up Bessent’s statement. Max does a great job of it as usual, but Bessent makes it almost too easy. It’s a plain and obvious statement of the truth. What is there to analyze? It kind of reminds me of “Analyze This”, the movie, with Trump as Robert DeNiro’s gangster boss.
Further indignation is expressed by the Judge in saying that Bessant’s characterization of these sanctions as “statecraft without a shot being fired” is a gross distortion is certainly true for many reasons, and there is no doubt that Bessent was perfectly aware that his sanctions would kill many in themselves and that they were only part of a plan that he has perfected over the years for overthrowing recalcitrant regimes. The difference is that he is publicly proud of his part in it rather than hiding it. Cuba is next.
Max is then asked whether he thinks there will be a military attack on Iran soon. There are movements of weapons in the direction of Iran – as there were in Venezuela. What happened in Venezuela was a kind of “decapitation” that actually only involved special forces. Max thinks such a decapitation will be tried in Iran, which was a kind of publicity stunt more than anything else. Could we see something like this tried in Iran? Could we imagine Ayatollah Khamenei being paraded around in his pajamas? We can imagine it, but I would say that it is rather unlikely. If it did happen, of course, it would not cause the Islamic Republic to collapse, just harden its stance, probably starting with closing the Strait of Hormuz and an all-out attack on Israel. At that point we are talking about the US or Israel using nuclear weapons, so let’s hope we don’t get there.
The Judge then asks Max about Trump’s Davos speech. He calls it a laughing stock. But Max gives it rave reviews for honesty. He calls Trump’s speech “historic”, in that it shows that Trump is contributing both the destruction of NATO and the whole structure that the national security Beltway elite have been decades constructing since the end of World War 2.
But wait! Isn’t this the kind of thing that Trump supporters like Alex Krainer and Susan Kokinda have been saying all along? Again, Max called Mark Carney a hypocrite, just at the very moment that Max also said his speech was “incredibly revelatory”. Is this a contradiction? Not if you take the passage of time into account. No doubt, Mark Carney was a hypocrite all those years. But in this particular speech, in his new role as Prime Minister of Canada, he is being unusually honest.

 

 

 

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