Yesterday I looked at the Trump win in the presidential election by contrasting the perspectives of Steve Bannon and Nick Fuentes. As the MAGA pundit, Fuentes, sees it, Donald Trump did not succeed in taking over the White House by drawing over to his cause the billionaires and institutions of great influence. In fact he betrayed his revolutionary, anti-authoritarian principles that first pulled Fuentes to the MAGA cause.
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Trump won by surrendering to the agendas of core elements in the ruling establishment of the United States. He sold out.
Basically Trump extended his subordination of the Make America Great Again ideal to the supposedly higher calling of Making Israel Great, MIG. The experience of the last year would suggest that, for Netanyahu and his buddy Trump, this “greatness” is to be found in the genocidal militarism. This militarism is aimed at making Greater Israel the dominant ruler of Arab client states in a re-engineered Middle East. For some, this regional hegemony is just the beginning of an even more ambitious plan.
Fuentes has been unrelenting in following and chronicling Trump’s betrayal of MAGA to advance MIG. In almost every imaginable way, it is the agenda of the extreme Zionists that Trump prioritizes. The cause of Zionism, of course, puts at the forefront the expansionary and fascistic design of forcefully making Israel the imperial capital of a regional and worldwide matrix of command and control.
The envisaged takeover places Jerusalem and the Third Temple as the main locales for the convergence of global networks of influence, decision-making and authority.
Prior to the election, Fuentes reported at length on the personnel being put into key positions in the Trump Team. Fuentes identified many indicators that Jared Kushner has already been assigned to a largely behind-the-scenes role in selecting the top figures in the Trump administration.
Kushner is, of course, the husband of Trump’s favourite daughter, Ivanka. In 2017 Jared and Ivanka were instrumental in drawing the first-term US President to convert, privately but with great pomp and circumstance, to the Chabad Lubavitch branch of Judaism in 2017. Please see
Lutnick heads Trump’s transition team and is already facing questions about conflicts of interest in his capacity as the individual responsible for distributing many thousands of Executive branch jobs. Will Kushner be pulling the strings in this transition exercise.
One unusual feature of Lutnicks biography, is that he lost 658 employees in his Cantor Fitzgerald corporate complex. The company’s offices were located on the upper floors of the North Tower on 9/11. Like Lucky Larry Silverstein, Lutnick happened to hold back from going to work on the fateful morning.
Lutnick is on the Board of the 9/11 Museum in the Silverstein Building in New York. He has been active in trying to shift personnel from the Holocaust Museum bureaucracy to the 9/11 Official Story bureaucracy.
Does Trump Have His Orders to Prepare The US Military for War With Iran?
Today, November 7, I will continue the narrative by borrowing from and reflecting on an important essay by Mike Whitney. I find Whitney of Peace Planet News to be an indispensable journalist especially in leading the way on introducing bad news. His story today draws insightful connections between Trump’s electoral victory and Netanyahu’s firing of Yoav Gallant as Israeli Minister of Defence.
Whitney highlights his view of the role being assigned to Trump as the intended saviour of Israel’s military overextension. Whitney assumes that regardless of all the political posturing, the United States in being prepared for a full-fledge boots-on-the-ground war with Iran. As he put it in a letter to a friend just before the election,
“Trump’s gonna win.
The Deep State needs a popular president to recruit red state teenagers to fight a war with Iran.
Harris Doesn’t have that kind of appeal.”
Whitney’s interpretation of Trump’s adherence to the cause of making Israel a military, technological and intelligence leviathan, is quite consistent with Fuentes’ perspective. The MAGA brand is just a veil identifying an ideal that Trump repeatedly sells out in advancing the cause of imperial Israel. Trump will continue gutting out America in order to build up Israel.
Whitney has assembled some telling videos that identify how enthusiastically Trump’s win was received in Israel. Its as if there was a huge sigh of relief that a reliable convert to Judaism with enormous clout and prestige is riding to the rescue.
The Contrast Between the Response to the 2016 Election and the Response to the 2024 Election. What Changed?
Whitney provides a very complete answer
Why was Trump Allowed to Win the Election?
We know what happens when the deep state does not get the outcome it wants. All hell breaks loose, just like did following the 2016 elections. Try to remember what that was like. Try to remember the legal challenges and the lawsuits, the hectoring and name-calling, the spurious allegations of voter fraud and Russian meddling, and the overall discrediting of the electoral process. Try to recall the street protests, the angry antifascist mobs scuffling with cops and the relentless outbursts of rage directed at the “new Hitler”.
Do you remember that?
That’s what happens when the deep state does not get its way.
Have you noticed that nothing similar to that display of manufactured rage has taken place in 2024? Have you noticed that the liberal media has been calling for calm and unity and that it is almost impossible to find a belligerent or hostile article aimed at Trump?
Isn’t this a case of the ‘dog that didn’t bark’; a case in which a skeptical person should assume foul play not from what he hears but from what he doesn’t hear?
Indeed, the reason the election results were “free and fair” is not because the intel community has stopped rigging elections, but because no rigging was required. They wanted Trump to win because Trump was ‘their man.’
As it happens, the deep state –which unconditionally supports the state of Israel– needs Donald Trump. They need a charismatic, populist firebrand to boost recruitment and spearhead the rush to war. Harris can’t do that. Harris had trouble attracting even a hundred supporters to her rallies.
No, this is a task for a leader that is trusted, admired and loved. This is a task for a man who has credibility with the red state young men who traditionally fight our wars. This is a job for Trump.
That doesn’t mean that the deep state has abandoned its pro-censorship, pro-surveillance, anti-civil liberties agenda. (It hasn’t.) It just means that their overall priorities have shifted to more pressing issues like the Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel which could happen at any time. Trump will not only be required to respond to that attack; he will also be asked to deploy US troops to counter the Iranian threat. And given Trump’s record of sycophancy to Israel (as well as the $100 million his campaign was gifted by Zionist donors) we expect he will comply. No president has ever demonstrated more unwavering loyalty to Israel than Donald J Trump.
Underlining the Central Importance of Israel in the Dynamics of the Election Win
“It’s clear that Trump is regarded by many Israelis as an American messiah who will deploy his legions of young men to the Middle East to smite Israel’s enemies and help the Jewish state emerge as the regional hegemon. That’s the hope at least; the reality may be far different.”
Im my view the ambitions of the most radical messianic zealots, who are following the likes of Ben-Gvir and Smoltrich, go far beyond “regional hegemony.” The struggle in Jerusalem for control of the site of the Al Aqsa Mosque is, on the settlers’ side, a struggle to create the Third Temple as the site of a new Sanhedrin. This Sanhedrin is meant by some of the most messianic Zionists to become a kind of World Court of the Israeli-centred New World Order.
The Netanyahu-Yoav Gallant Conflict Over Military Strategy
“Netanyahu has been flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants from the get-go while keeping the bulk of the population on his side with regular eye-popping tactical triumphs like the exploding pagers or the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. Bibi operates on the theory that war is not a coercive way to achieve strategic objectives, but a series of oddball events aimed at garnering public support.”
Now, onto Gallant…
The surprise sacking of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is significant for many reasons, none of which have been covered in the mainstream media. Netanyahu justified the action in a statement he delivered on Tuesday:
“In the midst of a war, more than ever, full trust is required between the prime minister and the defense minister… Unfortunately, although in the first few months of the campaign there was such trust and very fruitful work, over the last few months, this trust has cracked between myself and the defense minister.”
This is nonsense. There was no “crisis of trust” between Netanyahu and Gallant. The Defense Minister was fired because he objected to the improvisational (and idiotic) way the war was being conducted. As a military man, he wanted to see the implementation of a coherent strategy that clearly articulated the objectives of the mission and the manner in which those goals could be realistically achieved.But –as anyone who has watched this bloody fiasco unfold– it’s clear that there is no battleplan, no strategy, and no endgame.
Netanyahu has been flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants from the get-go while keeping the bulk of the population on his side with regular eye-popping tactical triumphs like the exploding pagers or the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah. Bibi operates on the theory that war is not a coercive way to achieve strategic objectives, but a series of oddball events aimed at garnering public support. Sacking Gallant merely confirms that Netanyahu intends to continue in this same suicidal vein, embroiling Israel in more and more conflicts for which there is no clear definition of victory and no plan for ending the hostilities. These are truly the “forever wars.”
Don’t get me wrong, Gallant is not a ‘good guy’ by any stretch of the imagination, he’s just slightly more rational than the loonies that are fast becoming the majority of Bibi’s war cabinet. This is an excerpt from an article at The Times of Israel:
An official close to the Prime Minister tells The Times of Israel that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was fired for professional reasons, and not because of coalition politics.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says that Gallant…. advocated a diplomatic solution in Lebanon six months ago that would not have diminished Hezbollah’s capabilities, and opposed the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah until the IDF backed the move.
On Gaza, claims the official, Gallant resisted the IDF going into Rafah because of American pressure, and fought against Netanyahu’s and most of the cabinet’s position on the need to remain on the Philadelphi corridor.Official close to Netanyahu claims Gallant fired for professional reasons,Times of Israel
Gallant advocated a diplomatic solution in Lebanon six months ago
Opposed the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
Gallant resisted the IDF going into Rafah
And fought against Netanyahu’s ….position on the need to remain on the Philadelphi corridor.
On these issues, Gallant’s views closely aline up with the opinions of the majority of people around the world who oppose Israel’s genocides, provocations and escalation.
John Mearshimer does a good job of disabusing the host of Unherd of his understanding that Israel is winning or at least holding its own in the expanding conflicts being fought on many fronts.
“Gallant opposed a war with Iran, so he was sacked. Now the crazies are running the asylum and think that Uncle Sam is going to come to the rescue when they get their butt kicked.”
What is the connection between Mearsheimer’s analysis and Gallant’s firing?
Gallant’s dismissal is linked to “a harshly worded missive to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that Israel’s war efforts have become aimless and need to be refocused. According to the Times of Israel:
“Gallant’s dismissal is linked to “a harshly worded missive to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that Israel’s war efforts had become aimless and needed to be refocused. According to the The Times of Israel
In the communique, Gallant argued that Israel was fighting according to an “outdated compass” and that Jerusalem needed to revise its official war aims initially set following the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack…
“Significant developments in the war, especially Israel and Iran trading direct blows, raise the necessity of holding a discussion and updating the war’s goals with a comprehensive look” at the areas of fighting and the interconnections between them, Gallant reportedly wrote….
While Israel initially set its war goals as the destruction of the Hamas terror group and the return of hostages taken during the onslaught of southern Israel over a year ago, the fighting has since expanded significantly due to attacks by Iranian proxies and Iran itself, with Israel saying it is actually fighting a seven-front war.
Israel updated its goals to include the return of northern residents to their homes before sharply intensifying attacks on the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon last month.
Gallant was said to advocate adding the following war aims: in the West Bank, “preventing an outbreak of violence by thwarting terrorism”; in Iran, “deterrence and keeping Iran out of the war”; and in Gaza, “establishing a reality with no military threat, preventing the growth of terror capabilities, return of all the hostages and promotion of an alternative to the Hamas government.”…
Can you see what’s going on? Can you understand how serious this is?
Gallant opposed a war with Iran, so he was sacked. Now the crazies are running the asylum and think that Uncle Sam is going to come to the rescue when they get their butt kicked.
This may be the most dangerous situation humanity has ever faced. The future of life on the planet is being decided by fanatical messianic zealots whose grasp of reality is greatly in doubt and who believe that any act of violence they inflict on their neighbors is blessed by almighty God.
And now they want Trump to join their harebrained war on Iran so they can light up the entire region like a Roman Candle and bring on the End Times.
In the words of Nancy Reagan, Trump should “just say No”.
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Well written, Tony. This is indeed the null hypothesis that those cheering the Trump victory as a win for peace overlook at their peril. I hope it is wrong, but not as much as I fear it is right.
I believe Moldbug ("Grey Mirror" on SS) as is not uncommon for him, has penned the most insightful, and reality-aware, post-results commentary.
Well written, Tony. This is indeed the null hypothesis that those cheering the Trump victory as a win for peace overlook at their peril. I hope it is wrong, but not as much as I fear it is right.
✌️ Ken