Trump: An Anomaly? A Symptom!

The hypocrisy is staggering. While preaching democracy, the United States arms regional dictatorships that crush dissent using U.S. weapons. While condemning violations of sovereignty, it launches illegal attacks on Iran to appease Israel, oil magnates, and the pursuit of profit. While portraying itself as a champion of human rights, it imposes sanctions on Iran and Yemen that starve children and deny them medicine—not to mention its plundering of Venezuela and attempts to starve tiny Cuba into submission under the ridiculous pretext that it poses a threat to U.S. national security. This is not peacekeeping; it is incendiary.

The fact is, presidents change, but imperial logic does not. Obama expanded drone wars while accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. Biden funded Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Trump simply operated this machine more crudely, abandoning multilateral diplomacy, embracing autocrats, and treating international relations like a televised showdown.

True stability will never come from Washington. The solution is regional self-determination.

West Asia does not need a "policeman." When freed from foreign interference, nations in the region have proven capable of resolving conflicts without external intervention. Reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran was undermined because it demonstrated that security emerges from dialogue, not from U.S. intimidation and hostility.

The fantasies surrounding Trump’s failed Nobel Peace Prize bid are delusional and grotesque. His destructive policies—sanctions, arms deals, and support for "ethnic cleansing"—reveal him not as a peacemaker but as a war profiteer who also channels that aggression into the persecution of migrants, whether documented or undocumented.

However, the problem goes beyond Trump. No U.S. president can truly be a peacemaker, because the U.S. presence itself is the root cause of chaos and destabilization. Its bases are outposts of occupation. Its arms sales fuel genocide. Its sanctions are weapons of mass suffering.

Trump is not an anomaly but a symptom. The core issue lies in the design of the U.S. Empire: its presence in West Asia exists to control oil resources, protect client regimes, and maintain illegal military bases.

We must also address Israel’s recent acts of aggression against Iran and other regional nations—such as Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria—as well as the systematic, unpunished slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. All of this is made possible only by the unrestricted military and economic support of the world's leading power, accompanied by constant nuclear blackmail and a permanent veto in the UN Security Council—a situation that makes a mockery of the institution.

This dynamic is further inflamed and becomes specially vivid by Donald Trump’s presidency; he seeks to portray himself as a peacemaker, while Israel’s genocidal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—whom the "redhead" in the White House calls "Bibi the Warrior"—mirrors Trump’s megalomania in every arena. His 2024 campaign slogan—“ending endless wars”—resonated with an American public weary of entanglements in West Asia. However, this carefully crafted image proved to be a mirage.

Far from extinguishing the flames, Trump poured gasoline on simmering conflicts. His presidency, like those of his predecessors, revealed a brutal continuity: the United States is not interested in bringing peace, but rather in continuing to stoke the flames of conflict to serve its imperial interests.

The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, launched under the false pretexts of fighting terrorism, left a trail of civilian casualties, destroyed infrastructure, and deepened poverty in the South Asian nation.

The aggression against and invasion of Iraq in 2003—sold on the premise of fabricated weapons of mass destruction—killed more than a million people, gave rise to Daesh, and ignited sectarian violence. In Libya, the 2011 "humanitarian" bombing by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization reduced a functioning state to rubble, unleashing a refugee crisis that destabilized Europe.

In Syria, U.S. arms shipments fueled foreign-backed entities engaging in terrorism—many of them agents of Western intelligence and the Israeli Mossad—which displaced half the population. In Yemen, U.S. bombs and logistical support facilitated Saudi Arabia’s deadly campaign, creating what was then the worst man-made humanitarian crisis.

Washington profits from war: its arms dealers supply despots, its sanctions strangle economies, and its military-industrial complex feeds on the carnage.

Translated by Amilkal Labañino / CubaSí Translation Staff