Atlanticism

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

Best explantion I have read about the fuckheads who were ruining the world up until a few weeks ago:

Trump v. Atlanticism: Understanding Russiagate by one legged parrot

Introduction: 

Last month, President Trump bypassed Europe, NATO, and the entire postwar order and opened a conversation directly with Russia. In doing so, he defied Washington’s established foreign policy paradigm that had been in place since the 1940s.

“They” always feared he would go there, and “they” tried to prevent it by a never-ending string of investigations, prosecutions, and impeachments.

The “they” Trump defied is called on X “the Deep State” which is a colorful nickname. It has a real name, too: “Atlanticism,” after the Atlantic Charter entered by Roosevelt and Churchill. It is the “A” in “North Atlantic Treaty Organization.”

In high-toned treatises, Atlanticism described a form of empire built upon American hegemony. The moral justification was ostensibly based on American benevolence, a projection of virtue that relied on propaganda. It’s closest historical analog, though, was colonialism.

The lands occupied by Atlanticist ideology traded in American currency. NATO existed to deter the Soviet threat. But it was also an occupying army. There were not colonial governments. There was, instead, strict control of information, puppet governments, and election interference.

When Trump questioned the continuing need for NATO in 2016, institutions with a financial stake in Atlanticism performed a Cold War soft power operation against him. Western intelligence agencies mobilized to connect Trump to Russia, leading to a series of political dirty tricks.

Russiagate was not merely bureaucratic haplessness masquerading as foreign intrigue. It was, instead, the sclerotic postwar spy apparatus targeting an American presidential candidate and then president.

In 2024, Trump won the presidency again, in part out of the electorate’s disgust over the dirty tricks. Upon returning to the Oval Office, he deliberately refocused foreign policy on the American hemisphere.

He Truth Socialed aggressively about Canada, Mexico, Greenland, and Panama, sending his new Secretary of State on his first diplomatic mission to negotiate better rates on passage through the Panama Canal after threatening to take it back by force.

President Trump was steering the ship of state back to the foreign policy of The Monroe Doctrine, in which America’s focus was on problems in its own hemisphere – and not on “democracy” movements abroad.

Last paragraph: 

Trump’s first term was crippled by Atlanticism. In his second term, he has turned spectacularly on the beast, driving a stake into its still beating heart. The true facts of Russiagate are especially important as the Trump administration proceeds to transform the foreign policy establishment. The above telling is the full story of the worst scandal in American political history.

I like this quote: 

I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics - Donald Trump

The whole story is 9K words long, so it might take a while to read the whole thing, but it's totally worth it. He mentions everyone who was involved on both sides. Marco Rubio was on the wrong side then but evidently realized the error of his ways has come around and is now working with Trump as Secretary of State. I pulled all the names mentioned in the story and put them in a spreadsheet along with links to associated Wikipedia articles. There are 64 people on the list. Took me all morning to put it together.

I asked ChapGPT to do this simple chore for me but it refused. Useless twerp.