The Trump Doctrine: “They Have It. We Want It. We Take It.” By Ron Unz

Don’t think that empire building abroad will lead to anything but tyranny at home. From Ron Unz at unz.com:

Back when I was a young child, I used to enjoy watching my Saturday morning cartoons, and they were often quite amusing.

More decades have passed than I’d like to consider and my memories are garbled, but I recall that those cartoons occasionally featured a character called something like Ugh the Cave-Man.

Ugh was always casually dressed in a one-piece leopard-skin sarong and he walked around with a gigantic club slung over one shoulder. Whenever he saw another cave-man with something that he wanted, he would smash that fellow on the head with his club and take the item. This suggested the nature of business transactions in those prehistoric times.

President Donald Trump is quite a bit older than I am, but those cartoons had already been around for many years when I watched them, so he may have done the same as a child. It’s also quite possible that his love of television cartoons remained strong even as he reached adulthood, so he might have still been watching such cartoons at the age of twenty or thirty, prior to his gradual shift to the far more sophisticated adult fare of pro-wrestling shows.

For whatever reason, it does seem that Trump’s understanding of international relations derives from the lessons that he had originally learned from old Ugh the Cave-Man.

Last week I published an article on the sudden American commando raid on Venezuela and our seizure of President Nicolas Maduro. I noted that at the press conference announcing his military triumph, Trump declared that America will now control Venezuela and that our country will “take back” the Venezuelan oil reserves, which he stated were rightfully ours.

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