FORMALLY ADVANCES TRUMP'S IMPEACHMENT: ANOTHER RED RAG OF THE EMPIRE'S ELITE
December 19, 2019 , 3:16 a.m. .
Donald Trump is the third president to submit to a recall vote of the US House of Representatives (Photo: Getty Images)
This Wednesday, December 18, the House of Representatives of the United States Congress formally approved the impeachment against President Donald Trump. It is the third time that a formal charge of impeachment against a White House tenant occurs in the history of the American country.
THE "RATIONALITY" OF THE REASONS FOR THE IMPEACHMENT
The vote made official this first step, review the average American Politico , had the overwhelming support of the Democratic Party that dominates more than half of the seats in the lower house of Congress. In total, two articles (abuse of power and obstruction of Congress) that constitute the formal accusation against the president were voted; both articles obtained 230 and 229 votes, respectively.
The reasons for this accusation against Trump "come from the president's attempt to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, as well as Trump's effort to block Congress' investigation," says Politico about the impeachment .
As we know, the Democratic Party seeks to subject Donald Trump to a political trial since the manufacture of the so-called RussiaGate.
Having failed that route, after proving that there was no such "Russian interference" in Trump's electoral victory in 2016, they took advantage of the leak of a Trump conversation with Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski to put together an artificial case of political crime and abuse of power.
But that makes the political trial a maneuver tailored to the interests of the Democratic Party, lies in its own imperialist vision of things: Trump is not a "criminal" who deserves to be judged for his aggressive campaign of criminal sanctions against Venezuela or for supporting Saudi Arabia in its illegal war against Yemen.
No. What makes Trump a "criminal" is to have tried to take advantage in front of Democrat Joe Biden, trying to convince the Ukrainian president to investigate his corrupt family environment.
Although the following statement corresponds to the field of speculation, it should be done to represent the thinking of impeachment promoters: if Trump had decided to realize his repetitive threats of military intervention against Venezuela, or if, contrary to what he did, had doubled, or better, tripled the number of military troops in Syria, or if on a democracy feast he had bombed Cuba and Nicaragua on the same day, without a doubt the controversial US president would have gone from being an "enemy" of the fundamental values of the United States to its most convincing defender in the 21st century.
The enemy of the United States is not a license of this rostrum, but a review of what Nancy Pelosi said, the Democrat who presides over the House of Representatives of Congress and one of the visible faces of Trump's political trial, in the last hours .
"The president is a continuing threat to our National Security," said Pelosi, making it clear that gringa constitutional democracy is an extension of that moral imperative called "national security," with which a complex system of illegal wars, global espionage, terrorism of State and corporate financialization has been imposed as the Empire of our traumatic political era.
THE NEXT STEP OF A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS
The Western press has reviewed the formal impeachment vote as a "historic day." If the yardstick to measure that statement consists of events that occur from time to time, almost always reflecting exceptional circumstances, it certainly is: it is the third president in the history of the United States to undergo this procedure.
The first was former president Andrew Johnson, in 1868. After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Johnson, his vice president, assumed power in a country warmed by the aftermath of the Civil War that consolidated the victory of the Union over the slave states of the South . The political and economic instability, and its supremacist orientation, caused the triumphant abolitionist sector of the capitalist elite to take it to political trial by not representing their interests, a process that was acquitted by the Senate some time later.
The same happened with former President Bill Clinton, who received a recall vote after lying in front of a grand jury after being accused of sexual harassment by Paula Jones, a worker from the state of Arkansas. Clinton then lied about whether she slept with her secretary Monica Lewinsky, causing a set of leaks that revealed how, in fact, she did have extramarital affairs with her. Finally, Clinton was acquitted by a Senate dominated by Republicans.
Amid the iconic Watergate scandal, former President Richard Nixon was forced to resign by his Republican colleagues before the House of Representatives voted to impeachment. This example does not count because the voting was never carried out.
Trump is confident that the impeachment against him will culminate like the Johnson and Clinton cases. Senate Republican leaders Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell make him feel confident about this after warning that the process will be thwarted. "The political consequences of this will be felt in the next elections ... Play this tape on election night. I will make a prediction here: the accusation of this president by Nancy Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler will do so much for Donald Trump be re-elected, " said Graham.
Regardless of Trump's security and the electoral objectives pursued by the Democratic Party (undermining Trump's support primarily), each look in the process explores the dark areas of an institutional civil war combined with a constitutional crisis. And it is that the elites in the United States are in a violent confrontation over the control of a middle-declining Empire in a rising multipolar world.
Both Trump's controversial figure, as well as the cynical impeachment promoted by the Democratic Party, are symptoms of a political and economic system that cannibalizes itself by not being able to export its internal contradictions (through illegal wars) and plunder the wealth of the Global South with the ease of the past decade.
As American business leaders claimed in 1942 to justify the country's participation in World War II: "The economy of the United States has never shown that it can work without the periodic injection of new and real wealth. The entire border saga (referring to the colonial war against Mexico), in fact, focused on this economic imperative. "
The corporate media of the time, serving as spokesmen for the industrial capitalist class of the United States, accurately reflected how the Empire adapted the colonial principles of the Founding Fathers (expropriation of land by military means) to configure the deployment of its hegemony to world level
WHY IMPEACHMENT IS THE LEAST IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW
A few days ago The Afghanistan Papers , a colossal package of confidential documents from the Office of the Special Inspector General for Reconstruction in Afghanistan (Sigar) that were leaked by The Washington Post, came to light .
The leak, which according to The Guardian is comparable to the secret files about the Vietnam War in 1971, exposes how the administrations that preceded Trump (that of Bush Jr. and Obama) cheated the American public about the actual results of the illegal war in Afghanistan, sold at the time to public opinion as "necessary" and "urgent" to eradicate world terrorism.
Broadly speaking, this mega filtration summarizes how the military commanders and special delegates of the United States in Afghanistan from the administrations prior to Trump's administration modified statistics and indicators to sustain the lie that they were winning the war against the Taliban.
The false progress they showed in the military, political and diplomatic arena justified an increase in defense expenses that went directly to the pockets of the national security establishment and allied companies of the industrial military complex.
During the last 18 years of "War on Terrorism" in Afghanistan, the American elite and its capitalist class developed a powerful public relations campaign to transform military and political defeat on the ground into a mechanism of original capital accumulation. The logical result of this modus operandi was an orgy of defense expenses, budgetary devaluation, drug trafficking growth and geopolitical dysfunctionality that was held by deceiving public opinion for almost two decades.
The magazine War On The Rocks affirms after the leak that "the cost of Afghanistan to the American public, the army and the government has been enormous. Almost $ 1 billion spent on federal money, more than 2,300 lives lost and another 20,000 wounds, and two generations of destroyed Afghans is possibly too high a price to pay for a war that seems like the country cannot win. "
The publication escaped commenting on the relationship that military intervention had in the exponential increase in poppy crops (heroin base), and how this factor has been key in the opioid crisis that kills Americans every day, homeless by a public health system underfunded after the budgetary looting that produced the war against Afghanistan.
This fatricidal war based on a false account has cost Afghanistan nearly 150,000 dead, according to official UN figures.
The American capitalist elite tries to transform the impeachment against Trump into the pattern of public discourse, not only American but also on a global scale. The liberal imperialists and national security hawks who set up the plot of looting, cynical robbery and lies in Afghanistan, organize themselves in one side to try to sweep Trump.
The reasons for this dramatic movement have nothing to do with the erratic foreign policy of the White House tenant on different fronts (Venezuela, Iran, Syria, North Korea, China, Russia, among many other target countries), or with their appetite for illegal sanctions as a mechanism of destruction by economic and financial means. These actions were even backed by those who try to dethrone him from power.
The problem really, and is what they try to convince us, is that Trump is an eccentric homophobic racist who is shaving the face of a corrupt American Empire, in structural crisis and in the midst of internal decomposition. Those who promote this discourse are the same politicians and representatives of the capitalist elites who have bombarded and killed dozens of countries in recent years.
While global public opinion collides uselessly against Trump's impeachment, the Empire's elite replicates the same plot of corruption and deception to the American people, applied in Afghanistan, in their current war of attrition (through illegal sanctions) against a Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela That resists.
But this and other similar situations are not a matter of importance, because the most "urgent" thing is to get the energumen from the White House, which does have enough of that.
Because this war is also being lost and they want, as soon as possible, to charge Trump that failure.
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