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President Trump is frequently a source of exasperation for many of us.  In one instance, he, within his position as the figurehead ‘world’s most powerful man’ will say or do something that will cause us to breathe a sigh of relief that perhaps the plight of our people (that is, our White race, wherever it may be) is not being completely ignored after all.  A recent example being might be his very public highlighting of the undoubted slow genocide of the White South Africans, and an older example his criticisms of the BLM gangs and how Black Americans cannot have anything remotely resembling a monopoly on victimhood status regarding supposed ‘police brutality’.

 

But of course, as we all know too well, on the other hand he’ll say something that indicates he’s perfectly willing to throw all that is decent and sane out the window (including things he’s said before) and cause us to curse him at least as much as previous office holders, whether this is to do with supplication to Israeli policy, leniency on US border incursions by immigrants, or endorsing rainbow-waving LGBT degenerates.

 

A species of the former occurred in the Oval Office on Thursday June 5th.  Trump, hosting the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (a former corporate lawyer), in front of the world’s cameras, made a comment that revealed a profound understanding on his part (for a modern Western leader) and a profound perversion of thought on Merz’ part.

 

The discourse in question went as follows:

 

(verbatim) 

 

Merz: “May I remind you that we are having June 6th tomorrow.  This is ‘D-Day’ anniversary, when the Americans once ended the war in Europe, and I think this is in your hand in specific, and in ours…”

 

Trump: “That was not a pleasant day for you”.

 

Merz: (clearly caught off-guard) “No, well that was not a pleasant…."

 

Trump: (turning to cameras) “That was not a great day.”

 

Merz: (appearing flustered) “Well, in the long run, Mr President, this was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship”.

 

Trump: (much quieter, perhaps even conciliatory in tone) “That’s true.”

 

Of course, neither I nor anyone else can read President Trump’s mind at any time (though, oh how we wish we could!) and few of us are in a position to ask the President in private, minus the winking eye of the camera or the open ear of the microphone, to explain exactly what he meant at that time, or at any time.

 

However, sometimes I think the simplest, most direct answer is the correct one – or, at least that most likely to be accurate.  The difference between the two leaders in interpretation of the anniversary of ‘D-Day’ is in my opinion based on the fact that sovereignty means one thing to one leader and something entirely different to the other. 

 

Trump clearly understands sovereignty.  For him, it’s a concrete notion.  For good or for ill, “my people, my nation first”.  Or, put better, “My country for right or wrong; If wrong, to be put right – but still my country!”.  This is certainly a very traditional point of view, and it’s definitely a patriarchal concept of nationhood and what it means. It was more common in the pre-war era.  But as globalism took hold in stages throughout the post-war era, amongst the political elite of most of the world’s leading nations it became obsolete.

 

If I were to go out on a limb, I’d suspect that one of Trump’s most admired historical characters is General George Patton, who, besides having the same brash, bombastic character traits as Trump, would – hypothetically - have made a very similar comment in Trump’s place.  Patton made no secret of his developing accentuated admiration of the Germans of the time, scorning the US political leadership’s insistence of siding with the murderous Soviet Union in order to wipe out what he considered to be a “superior people”.  Needless to say, Patton didn’t survive the end of the war.

 

 

For Merz, on the other hand, the nation, sovereignty, is a fluid and malleable notion.  Something that may be different things at different times.  Borders are merely administrative boundaries.  Culture an accident of history.  This is the classic unprincipled internationalist/globalist standpoint.  Any vestige of national sovereignty is to be subverted, undermined and rendered sterile at every opportunity.  It’s ‘archaic’, bothersome, a needless complication.  Like finance, everything must become fluid and open to manipulation.

 

This is the ‘nation’ of the boardroom, the corporate office, the trading floor, international expo.  The concept of nationhood doesn’t exist for he who worships at the altar of the dividend, of the never-ending chase for ‘economic growth’ and corporate expansion – nothing must get in the way of that pathological need for numbers to go up, up, up!  I’ve no doubt that Chancellor Merz and Blackrock CEO and mastermind Larry Fink are kindred, if not in race, certainly in spirit.

 

After all, such antiquated notions of the ‘sovereign nation’ get in the way of business and profit, do they not?  It’s a global consumer plantation, and a ‘nation’ is just one economic department of many within!

 

In order to better illustrate the thinking of ‘leaders’ like Merz, I wish to roll back to the 1970s and leave this interesting little dialogue from the movie Network (1976), where in the imposing corporate master Arthur Jensen’s sprawling conference room (his ‘Valhalla’), TV personality Howard Beale - the champion of wholesome, traditional middle-America, is given a private ‘education’ on the new ways:

 

Jensen: “You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale! And I won't have it! Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal? That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations, there are no peoples, there are no Russians, there are no Arabs, there are no third worlds, there is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and sub-atomic and galactic structure of things today! And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature! AND YOU WILL ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one-inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state? Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.”

 

Beale: “Why me?”

 

Jensen: “Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.”

 

Beale: “I have seen the face of God.”

 

Jensen: “You just might be right, Mr. Beale.”

 

END

 

By Troy E,

Ayrshire, Scotland