Re Generations of Trumps-And Americans
The diplomatic and economic system, the LIEO, put in place after WWI, "the diplomatic and economic legacy of his (Trump's) parents’ generation", as Professor Kaiser so tartly put it, heavily and systematically favored the likes of Trump and his father, not the likes of you or me, contrary to the story being told in DK's "Generations of Trumps-And Americans."
Trump himself knows that better perhaps than anyone.
"Six months into Donald Trump’s presidency, in July 2017, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, we learn in Bob Woodward’s book Fear, brought the President and his senior advisers into a meeting at the Tank in the Pentagon to discuss post-1945 American foreign policy. “The great gift of the greatest generation to us,” Mattis said, “is the rules-based, international democratic order,” which brought security, stability, and prosperity. “This is what has kept the peace for 70 years,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson added. Unimpressed, Donald Trump—who was himself 70 at that very moment—shook his head. Later in the meeting he railed against ungrateful NATO allies, threatened to pull US troops out of South Korea, and argued that international trade merely took advantage of the United States. He left the meeting defiant...." DK
"...It turns out that Donald Trump has treated his father’s financial and corporate legacy in the same way that he wants to treat the diplomatic and economic legacy of his parents’ generation. Having taken advantage of it to become rich himself, he repudiated its basic principles and created an organization based on completely different values...." DK
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