Trump and ‘Stockholm Syndrome’

The current reverence for Donald Trump as potential savior of the western world is like a twisted version of Stockholm Syndrome. The Biden regime was so vile and so corrupt, that the manifestation of Trump (since his election) seems like a life raft thrown to a drowning person. In other words, the US situation is so hopeless that any sort of hope from anywhere must look good to the average US American now.

The great debacle for the former United States is that its political leadership has failed — meaning both parties — and the Wall Street model of leveraged graft, theft, corruption, and greed has eventually devolved into a western financial system built on bullshit and fake industry — which Pepe Escobar calls ‘casino capitalism’. That devolution has now become apparent to the entire world.

Trump is of course beholden to his donor class. It is a donor class where unsavoury ‘trillionaires’ like Zuckerberg, Bezos and their Wall Street moguls (including the banks) have ‘switched sides’ to back the Trump regime. And well, that is the mantle of power. Trump’s backers preside over war, mayhem, and death all over the globe with glee – just as Biden’s did. The only question for Elites now – whether Dem or Republican – is how affordable this ongoing destruction may be. [1]

Trump has drawn a veil over donor influence by promoting a populist message of ending the ‘forever wars’ that the US engages in. But ending forever wars is not a goal that the entrenched Military Industrial Complex (MIC) can allow even if that is the will of the American people.

Thus, Trump has used the immigration issue as cover too, to obfuscate a deeper agenda. That agenda includes confrontation with China; assistance to the Greater Israel project; and accepting advice to leverage crypto as a means to support the lagging primacy of the US dollar. The foregoing agenda will be enforced later during his regime after the dust has settled.

The point is, Trump promised to “make America great again” — which in itself is an admission that the US has already failed, and playing catch-up. China’s success in AI with Deep Seek is just one example. Bottom line, where US America was once about its industry and the ingenuity of its people, due to the criminality of Wall Street and its banks, that dynamic is gone. Ironically, all that remains of US success (as unipolar hegemon) is the primacy of the US dollar.

US financial markets including debt instruments are still the most secure and reliable stash for trillions of US manufactured Federal Reserve Notes to go. Of course, when those dollar investment vehicles become ignored by the rest of the world, that becomes an issue, and that process is underway. Meanwhile, I stand by my article of 2019, Trump’s Limited Hangout, first published by our gracious hosts here:  https://theduran.com/trumps-limited-hangout-populism-derailed/

While the above may seem a bleak message for the west, bottom line is that the United States has been on the wrong side of history since the end of the second world war. Only the redeeming asset of the US dollar and western financial markets have maintained US primacy over these decades.

The hopeful message is, that as the US dollar erodes and eventually US financial markets crash, the Neocons and satanic creatures who have led US foreign policy for eighty years now, will finally erode away as well… or at least be marginalized. And that’s via their own historic folly, personal excess, and greed.

[1] Among some economically influential Elites, MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) may no longer be considered viable.

Steve Brown