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10.07.2019  Author: Gordon Duff

The Roots of Trump’s Militarism

Little  is  spoken  of  today,  particularly  as  Trump,  Bolton  and  Pompeo  are  threatening  war  on  three
continents simultaneously, but the failure of diplomacy and the primacy of militarism. Problem is, those
who drive these insane policies control and even own the “engines of reason and dissent.” Eisenhower
described  this  process  as  he  saw  it,  universities  “pimping”  for  militarists,  congress  bought,  judges
owned, as he left office. He never truly understood the extent of the problem as he himself was under
the thumb of the Dulles boys, John Foster (Secretary of State) and Allen (CIA Director), formerly Adolf
Hitler’s legal representatives on Wall Street prior to Pearl Harbor.

Trump simply inherited what he calls “the sewer” and has done exactly what Eisenhour did, surrounded
himself  with  the  worst  of  the  worst,  men  like  Bolton  and  Pompeo,  “shills”  for  the  military  industrial
complex and the “banksters” who have orchestrated wars for a thousand years.

Worse  still,  Trump’s  son  in  law,  Jared  Kushner,  has  become  the  “dime  store”  von  Ribbentrop  of  our
time, settling the world’s affairs with an eye to personal enrichment and little concern for justice, human
suffering or the wars his incompetence may lead to.

War for profit isn’t anything new and the American military industrial complex that failed to collapse as
intended  after  the  end  of  World  War  II  is  a  major  component  in  today’s  ever  maddening  world.
President Eisenhower warned of this in his 1961 farewell address:

—Crises there will continue to be. In meeting them, whether foreign or domestic, great or
small, there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could
become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties. A huge increase in newer elements
of our defense; development of unrealistic programs to cure every ill in agriculture; a
dramatic expansion in basic and applied research – these and many other possibilities,
each possibly promising in itself, may be suggested as the only way to the road we wish to
travel.
The record of many decades stands as proof that our people and their government have, in
the main, understood these truths and have responded to them well, in the face of stress
and threat. But threats, new in kind or degree, constantly arise.
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IV. A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be
mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his
own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors
in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry.
American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But
now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been
compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this,
three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment.
We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States
corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in
the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt
in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the
imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave
implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our
society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted
influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for
the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic
processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry
can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense
with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial‑military posture,
has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex,
and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the
Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of
scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university,
historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a
revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a
government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old
blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation‘s scholars by Federal employment, project
allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.“
What “Ike” as we called him then was unaware of was the international nature of the military industrial
complex  as  well.  Did  he  choose  to  ignore  the  roles  of  Standard  Oil  of  New  Jersey,  General  Motors,
Ford,  Alcoa,  Lockheed,  Goodyear,  Dupont  and  dozens  of  other  American  corporations  in  not  only
building the Third Reich but keeping its war machines going throughout the war?

Behind  the  corporations  were  the  banks,  Brown  Brothers  of  New  York,  the  Rothschild’s  of  London,
powerful  law  firms,  Dulles  Brothers  which  included  Eisenhower’s  own  CIA  director  and  Secretary  of
State, all working for Hitler before the war and perhaps, more than perhaps, during.

Research available to military intelligence as early as 1949, clearly showed that the “ratlines” that sent
Nazis  to  South  America  after  the  war  had  been  sending  war  profits  to  American  and  British
corporations throughout World War II, not just through Swiss banks but the Vatican as well.

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Facilitating this treason on a massive scale was America’s OSS, precursor to the CIA and Britain’s SIS
(Secret Intelligence Services) who continued to work closely with Nazi Germany’s Abwehr throughout
the Cold War.

This continuation of Nazi influence in Washington and London led NATO to largely reflect the policies of
Nazi Germany, building a world of totalitarian puppets and stripping the world bare.

Hitler’s domestic policies, however, were, for the “chosen people” at least, in this case ethnic Germans,
far more beneficial than Hitler’s predecessors have chosen for the people of the US and Britain. Is it fair
to call American and British leaders “predecessors” or “inheritors” of Adolf Hitler?

One needs only to listen to the racist and jingoistic rhetoric of Washington and London, the smears, the
threats, the raving lunacy.

As  London  now  has  its  own  “populist”  waiting  in  the  wings,  Boris  Johnson,  there  to  save  the  British
people  from  the  influx  of  refugees  resulting  from  Britain’s  own  policies  in  the  Middle  East  and  Africa,
one might feel history is actually being “recycled.”

Where Hitler had Mussolini, his inheritors now have Jail Bolsonaro of Brazil and a new military alliance
of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

The key, of course, is creating factionalism and fakery, even in the total absence of ideological conflict.

A  closer  examination  of  history  shows  the  runup  to  August  1914,  the  engineering  by  the  Warburgs,
Shiffs and Rothschilds of the alliances needed to burn down the world.

At Versailles they built the framework for the next war and by the late 1920s had collapsed the world
economy and began pouring cash into Europe’s fascists.

Of  course,  today’s  universities,  just  as  Eisenhower  warned,  would  never  allow  the  generations  of  the
latter 20th century and beyond to gain the tools needed to secure a peaceful world order.

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