Trump's Warmongering Speech in
Miami
Trump's Depraved Doctrine
Paves Way for
More Anarchy,
Violence and War
Demonstration in Edmonton, February 16, 2019, one of many across
Canada
condemning
U.S. plans for military intervention and the despicable role
of the
Canadian government in supporting it.
On February 19, U.S. President Donald Trump
delivered a
speech at the
International University of Miami in which he threatened to
intervene
militarily in Venezuela
and as much as said Cuba and Nicaragua were next on his list for
regime
change. The speech
elaborated Trump's depraved doctrine which advocates immorality,
corruption, anarchy,
violence and war on a grand scale.
Revealing a morbid preoccupation with defeat,
Trump's
speech was a
hateful diatribe against
the "horrors"  of socialism
(mentioned 29
times) and communism (seven
times), associating
them with every evil imaginable -- crime, corruption, poverty,
hunger,
persecution, rigged
elections, tyranny, cruelty and more. It shows he has no moral
justification of any kind and so
resorts to boorish Cold War disinformation and hyperbole which
attributes to socialism and
communism all the things that in the experience of humankind
actually
characterize the
imperialist system of states and especially the U.S.
imperialists.
Trump claimed that by nature socialism does not
respect
borders, the
sovereign rights of its
citizens or its neighbours, and that it "always seeks to expand,
to
encroach, and to subjugate
others to its will." Socialism promises prosperity but delivers
poverty, he said. It "advances
under the banner of progress, but in the end it delivers only
corruption, exploitation, and
decay." It promises unity but delivers hatred and division, he
said.
The speech contained a number of threats based on
end-of-history assertions which claim that the U.S. system is the
highest form democracy can attain and must therefore be defended
at all
costs. According to the Trump doctrine this means civil war at
home and
imperialist war abroad, this time against Venezuela, then
Nicaragua and
Cuba. He directed his threats against the working class and
people of
the United States itself. To "those who would impose socialism on
the
United States," he said, the U.S. will never be a socialist
country.
"We are born free and we will stay free, now and forever."
Trump also repeated the stock lies and slanders of
Marco
Rubio, John
Bolton and architects of
previous U.S. dirty anti-communist wars which have caused
hundreds of
thousands of deaths,
disappearances, torture and human rights crimes and suffering in
the
countries of the
Americas. Nicolás Maduro is a "Cuban puppet" and Venezuela
a
"police state run directly
from Havana," he said. He put Cuba and Nicaragua on notice,
declaring
that the days of
socialism and communism are numbered in those countries as well
as in
Venezuela and
anywhere else it exists.
"The twilight hour of socialism has arrived in our
hemisphere and,
frankly, in many, many
places around the world," he said.
Would that be a message to Vietnam and the
Democratic
People's Republic
of Korea, whose
leaders he will be meeting with in a few days?
He spent considerable time giving Venezuela's
Bolivarian
National Armed
Forces (FANB)
"choices" -- to abandon their duty and support the puppet calling
himself the "acting
president" which he said would allow them to live their life "in
peace"
with their families, or
remain loyal to Nicolás Maduro and "lose everything." This
was
accompanied by a reminder
that if a "peaceful transition" was not possible, there were
other
options on the table.
The FANB gave Trump an immediate and fitting
reply,
reminding him that
they answered to
their own Commander-in-Chief, President Nicolás Maduro
Moros,
and nobody else.
The depravity of Trump's discourse was such that
he
tried to invoke the
fight against slavery
and for civil rights in the U.S. by appropriating for his own
nefarious
purpose words made
famous by Martin Luther King: "[Y]ou have prayed for the day we
can now
see, which is just
ahead -- the day when all the people of this region will at last
be
free."
Later, in an appeal to "every member of the Maduro
regime" he said,
"Let your people go.
Set your country free."
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro replied
that
Trump's Miami
speech was full of tired
Nazi-like rhetoric, prohibiting different ideologies and trying
to
impose the "single thinking of
the supremacists in the White House" on everyone. "They want to
enslave
us; either we think
like Trump or we are nothing," he said.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel called
the
speech arrogant,
cynical and immoral, among
other things, and denounced Trump's warmongering against
Venezuela and
Cuba. He said the
Cuban people would respond with a mobilization for peace and
against an
imperial
intervention in Latin America and by voting Yes in the Sunday,
February
24 referendum on
Cuba's new constitution.
All over the world, demonstrations and actions are
taking place in
support of Venezuela's
sovereignty and against the pending U.S. invasion of that
country.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 6 - February
23,
2019
Article Link:
Trump's Warmongering Speech in
Miami: Trump's Depraved Doctrine
Paves Way for
More Anarchy,
Violence and War
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