Those unfit for purpose should serve humbly not haughtily

U.S. president’s hostility and highhandedness toward world nations serves ill will all round

Some of the Horrors of the 45th

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The U.S. President:

“The dictatorship used the funds to build nuclear capable missiles, increase internal repression, finance terrorism and fund habit and slaughter in Syria and Yemen. The United States has launched a campaign of economic pressure to deny the regime the funds it needs to advance its bloody last month, we began re-imposing hard-hitting nuclear sanctions that have been lifted under the Iran deal. Additional sanctions will resume November 5, and more will follow. We are working with countries that import Iranian crude oil to cut their purchases substantially.

“… [W]e ask all nations to isolate Iran’s regime as long as its aggression continues and we ask all nations to support Iran’s people as they struggle to reclaim their religious and righteous destiny.”

[NOTE: Iran was a dictatorship under the U.S. supported Shah of Iran. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was “the Western-allied dictator and the last monarch of the House of Pahlavi, known by a variety of titles including Aryamehr (‘Light of the Aryans’), Bozorg Arteshtaran (‘Commander-in-Chief’), Shahanshah (‘King of Kings’), Mohammad Reza Shah, Shah of Iran (September 16, 1941, until his overthrow by the Iranian Revolution on February 11, 1979).”

The Islamic Republic on the Persian Gulf (Iran) is not a dictatorship]

The U.S. President continued:

“They [Iranians] do not respect their neighbors, borders or the sovereign rights of nations. Instead, they plunder the nation’s resources to enrich themselves and to spread mayhem across the Middle East and far beyond. The Iranian people are rightly outraged that their leaders have embezzled billions of dollars from the treasury, seized valuable portions and looted the religious endowments to line their own product -- their own pockets to -- and to send their proxies to wage war. Iran’s neighbors have paid a heavy toll for the agenda of aggression and expansion.”

“Every solution to the humanitarian crisis in Syria must also include a strategy to address the brutal regime that is fueled and financed in the corrupt dictatorship in Iran. Iran’s leaders sew chaos, death and disruption.”

[NOTE: The U.S. President’s Demonization of Iran is reflective of Washington and U.S. leadership, character, actions, and impunity policy in the Middle East; and its domestic neglect of the people and problems of the United States.]

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yria

 The U.S. President:

“Rest assured, the United States will respond if chemical weapons are deployed by the Assad regime. I commend the people of Jordan and other neighboring countries for hosting refugees from this very brutal civil war.”

[NOTE: This is not a civil war but is foreign waged aggression against a sitting government and sovereign nation. The refugees and refugee crisis across the Middle East are the result of violent and continually stoked, provoked and aided foreign aggression.

Syrian President Bashar Hafez al-Assad is the duly elected president of Syria. He has held office since July 17, 2000. President Assad is also commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces (as is the U.S. president in the US), General Secretary of the ruling Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party and Regional Secretary of the party’s branch in Syria (background source Wikipedia).

President Assad is not a dictator.]

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emen, Syria, Iraq

The U.S. President:

The UAE [United Arab Emirates], Saudi Arabia and Qatar have pledged millions of dollars to aid the people of Syria and Yemen. They obliged to help end Yemen’s horrible civil war.… [T]he United States is working with the Gulf Corporation Counsel, Jordan, and Egypt to establish a strategic alliance so Middle Eastern nations can advance security and stability across their home region. Thanks to the United States military, and our partnership with many of your nations, I am pleased to report that the bloodthirsty killers known as ISIS have then driven out from the territory they once held in Iraq and Syria.”

[NOTE: The U.S. has supported terrorists and obstructed the work of President Assad to rid his country of them. The U.S. has contributed troops, arms and bombs against the suffering people of Yemen (and Syria).

The war against Yemen is not a “civil war” but a foreign-waged and prolonged war of aggression against the Yemeni people.

It was not the US that drove out terrorists. The US is uninvited in Syria and in violation of Syrian sovereignty.

As to Iraq, US policies and actions have divided and virtually destroyed Iraq and its people; and the U.S. remains a military offensive occupation in Iraq.]

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N Human Rights Council, WTO, China

The U.S. President:

“…The UN’s human rights council had become a grave embarrassment to this institution; shielding egregious human rights abusers while bashing America and its many friends.”

[NOTE:The U.S. president withdrew the U.S. from the body but, again, his statements reflect U.S. impunity in abusing human rights globally.]

The U.S. President continued:

“[W]hile the United States and many of the nations played by the rules, these [WTO] countries use government run industrial planning and state owned enterprises to rig the system; they engaged in relentless product dumping, forced technology transfer and the theft of intellectual property. The United States lost over thrill million -- 3 million manufacturing jobs and 60,000 factories after China during the WTO. …

“We will no longer tolerate it and we will not allow our workers to be victimized, our companies to be cheated and our wealth to be plundered and transferred. America will never apologize for protecting its citizens. The United States has just announced tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese made goods.…”

[NOTE: The U.S. does anything but protect its workers, except when forced, if then; and only those who can afford legal representation. Corporate payoffs do not amount to a long-term ethic and practice of protecting workers.

Moreover, Americans are not obliged—to buy Chinese, borrow from China, use products made in China under horrific working conditions to be bought cheaply. China is not obliged to accept America’s waste dumped in China.]
 

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nti-Venezuela, Anti Socialism

The U.S. President:

“Today, socialism has bankrupted the oil-rich nation and driven its people into abject poverty. Virtually everywhere, socialism or communism has been tried. It is produced suffering, corruption, and decay. Socialism’s thirst for power leads to expansion, incursion, and oppression. All nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it brings to everyone. In that spirit, we asked the nations gathered here to join us in calling for the restoration of democracy in Venezuela.”

[NOTE: The president’s remarks about “socialism” are reflective of what he knows best—capitalism. In the U.S. example, capitalists, as with all extremists and monopolists, have caused huge disparities, corruption in public office and business alliances with public officials. It has virtually destroyed communities and public schooling, and an effective, oversight, monitoring, fully functioning Civil Service.  Capitalism together with a broken public service has brought the United States of America to human and constitutional crises.]

Threatening Venezuela, its people, government, sovereignty

The U.S. President:

“Today we are announcing additional sanctions against the repressive regime targeting Maduro’s inner circle and close advisers. …. That will be headed up by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.” 

[The head of state in Venezuela is neither repressive nor dictatorial nor violent.

In May of 2018, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced an estimated “5.8 million” yes votes for the reelection of Nicolás Maduro Moros, who had been president of that country since 2013. Before assuming the presidency he had been Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006-2013) and Vice President (2012- 2013). 

Note also that the current U.S. president had held no public office before being elected to the U.S. presidency; he held no pertinent credential for the substantive requirements of the office of U.S. president.]
 

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nti-OPEC

The U.S. President

We have become the largest energy producer anywhere on the face of the Earth. The United States stands ready to export our abundant, affordable supply of oil, clean coal and natural gas. OPEC and OPEC nations are ripping off the rest of the world and I don’t like it. Nobody should like it. We defend many of these nations for nothing, and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices, not good. We want them to stop raising prices, we want them to start lowering prices.”

[NOTE: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries—Headquartered since 1965 in Vienna, Austria, the intergovernmental organization of 15 nations, OPEC or the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, was created in 1960 in Baghdad by five member nations: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. 

Today the fifteen member countries account for an estimated 44 percent of global oil production and 81.5 percent of the world’s ‘proven’ oil reserves” (2018 figures). 

This means OPEC has “a major influence on global oil prices,” a position “previously determined by the American-dominated grouping of multinational oil companies labeled “Seven Sisters” in reference to “seven transnational oil companies of the ‘Consortium for Iran’ oligopoly or cartel” that, from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, “dominated the global petroleum industry”: 

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP); Gulf Oil (later part of Chevron); Royal Dutch Shell; Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal, now Chevron); Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Esso, later Exxon, now part of ExxonMobil); Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony, later Mobil, also now part of ExxonMobil); Texaco (later merged into Chevron).]

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.S. President’s Africa omission

Except for Egypt, read as part of the Middle, near East or Arab state, and and though the United States has a heavy military presence amidst conflicts in Africa, the U.S. president failed to mention a single Sub-Saharan African country of which there are 50:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Democratic Republic), Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Réunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

U.S. Global Offensive Presence

Africa: In Africa there are three U.S. regional commands: ● North Africa, West Africa (including the Gulf of Guinea), and central and southern Africa—Europe Command ● The Horn of Africa (including Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Djibouti, and Sudan) as well as Egypt—Central Command ● Madagascar, the Seychelles, and the Indian Ocean area off the African coast—Pacific Command. Council on Foreign Relations

Globally: Across the world the U.S. military is deployed in an estimated 150 countries “with approximately 170,000 of its active-duty personnel serving outside the United States and its territories.”

The United States is threatened by no one, no country, no country leaders. The United States, under a hostile character of leadership and action for the whole of the post- Cold War era, at least, is a threat to the whole world.
 

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s there any wonder the UN General Assembly audience laughed at the U.S. president's mendacious grandiosity? And, even worse, the U.S. president seemed clueless. Ill will all round!

Other Sources

Venezuela Star reporting May 21, 2018 http://www.venezuelastar.com/news/257314021/venezuelan-prez-nicolas-maduro-wins-re-election; Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

U.S. deployments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deployments

U.S. Africa Command or AFRICOM https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-africa-command-africom

Library of Congress

Sub-Saharan African countries https://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/guide/afr-countrylist.html

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