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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, asked by an Australian journalist how concerned he was that there would be a war between the U.S. and China, responded that President Trump and President Xi Jinping had spoken, and that both “agreed 100%” that U.S.-China relations would be “very positive,” and that “any sober-minded politician” recognizes that “there cannot be conflict between China and the United States, because both will lose and both sides cannot afford that.” Wang added that China assesses official policy from the US, not “campaign rhetoric.”        

There is little sobriety in England these days, nor in the frantic, discredited Obama camp in the US. The Economist, a primary voice for the City of London and the Monarchy in the UK, runs a cover story this week with Donald Trump throwing a Molotov Cocktail, under the headline: “An insurgent in the White House.” They emphasize that “American allies are worried, and rightly so.” Their concern is that the network of treaties and trade agreements which Trump is treating with disdain “form a system that binds America to its allies and projects its power across the world.”        

Precisely. Here is the British Empire admitting that they have used the U.S. as the dumb giant, using its military and economic power to sustain the British Empire, based on the geopolitical premise that the world must remain divided, East vs. West. Now, not only is Trump making peace with the supposed “enemy,” Russia and China, but London is terrified that this will impact every other country which has been forced until now to follow the Empire’s military and economic dictates. As The Economist bluntly writes: “Countries that are dissatisfied with the world will be tempted to change it.”        

Heaven forbid!        

The Empire is clearly out to kill, as they have done repeatedly with U.S. presidents who defended America’s founding principles against the evil of the British Empire. London’s Obama and his minions have launched a series of “color revolution” actions across the United States aimed at bringing Trump down. As to Molotov Cocktails, it was not Trump, but black-clad anarchists who were throwing them at the police last week in Berkeley, California, to break up a pro-Trump event. Former high level Obama officials have mobilized two “Friend of the Court” briefs to support the Washington State judge who shut down Trump’s immigration order, quite openly acknowledging that this was just a convenient means to activate a color revolution against the government. Trump’s actions are “un-American,” they scream, while saying nothing about Obama’s thousands of extra-judicial drone killings, “regime-change” wars in league with terrorists, and threats of world war on Russia and China. In fact, one of the briefs was drafted by Harold Koh, infamous as Obama’s lawyer who issued the legal opinion that Obama’s drone killings were legal, essentially spitting on the Constitution and international law.        

While Trump has denounced many of the most egregious of the Obama policies which have destroyed the nation’s economy and left the country hated in much of the world, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche have called on him to also expose one of the most evil of Obama’s evil deeds: the orchestration of a fascist coup against the elected government of Ukraine in 2014, which was then used in Obama’s effort to provoke a war on Russia. EIR has documented in great detail the open support from Obama and his agent Victoria Nuland for the swastika-carrying neo-nazis who led that violent coup. Even Poland’s political leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski Tuesday denounced the Ukraine government for their continued support for the backers of Stepan Bandara —Hitler’s collaborator in Ukraine— who continue to parade in the streets with Bandara’s banners and brutalize any political opposition.        

The world is primed for a sweeping away of the British Empire once and for all. As Helga LaRouche said last week, if President Trump brings the U.S. into cooperation with Russia in defeating terrorism, and brings the US into cooperation with China in the New Silk Road process of nation building in every corner of the Earth, he will remembered as one of the great leaders of all history. We must all act with all our human creativity to bring that beautiful result to pass.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, asked by an Australian journalist how concerned he was that there would be a war between the U.S. and China, responded that President Trump and President Xi Jinping had spoken, and that both “agreed 100%” that U.S.-China relations would be “very positive,” and that “any sober-minded politician” recognizes that “there cannot be conflict between China and the United States, because both will lose and both sides cannot afford that.” Wang added that China assesses official policy from the US, not “campaign rhetoric.”        

There is little sobriety in England these days, nor in the frantic, discredited Obama camp in the US. The Economist, a primary voice for the City of London and the Monarchy in the UK, runs a cover story this week with Donald Trump throwing a Molotov Cocktail, under the headline: “An insurgent in the White House.” They emphasize that “American allies are worried, and rightly so.” Their concern is that the network of treaties and trade agreements which Trump is treating with disdain “form a system that binds America to its allies and projects its power across the world.”        

Precisely. Here is the British Empire admitting that they have used the U.S. as the dumb giant, using its military and economic power to sustain the British Empire, based on the geopolitical premise that the world must remain divided, East vs. West. Now, not only is Trump making peace with the supposed “enemy,” Russia and China, but London is terrified that this will impact every other country which has been forced until now to follow the Empire’s military and economic dictates. As The Economist bluntly writes: “Countries that are dissatisfied with the world will be tempted to change it.”        

Heaven forbid!        

The Empire is clearly out to kill, as they have done repeatedly with U.S. presidents who defended America’s founding principles against the evil of the British Empire. London’s Obama and his minions have launched a series of “color revolution” actions across the United States aimed at bringing Trump down. As to Molotov Cocktails, it was not Trump, but black-clad anarchists who were throwing them at the police last week in Berkeley, California, to break up a pro-Trump event. Former high level Obama officials have mobilized two “Friend of the Court” briefs to support the Washington State judge who shut down Trump’s immigration order, quite openly acknowledging that this was just a convenient means to activate a color revolution against the government. Trump’s actions are “un-American,” they scream, while saying nothing about Obama’s thousands of extra-judicial drone killings, “regime-change” wars in league with terrorists, and threats of world war on Russia and China. In fact, one of the briefs was drafted by Harold Koh, infamous as Obama’s lawyer who issued the legal opinion that Obama’s drone killings were legal, essentially spitting on the Constitution and international law.        

While Trump has denounced many of the most egregious of the Obama policies which have destroyed the nation’s economy and left the country hated in much of the world, Lyndon and Helga LaRouche have called on him to also expose one of the most evil of Obama’s evil deeds: the orchestration of a fascist coup against the elected government of Ukraine in 2014, which was then used in Obama’s effort to provoke a war on Russia. EIR has documented in great detail the open support from Obama and his agent Victoria Nuland for the swastika-carrying neo-nazis who led that violent coup. Even Poland’s political leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski Tuesday denounced the Ukraine government for their continued support for the backers of Stepan Bandara —Hitler’s collaborator in Ukraine— who continue to parade in the streets with Bandara’s banners and brutalize any political opposition.        

The world is primed for a sweeping away of the British Empire once and for all. As Helga LaRouche said last week, if President Trump brings the U.S. into cooperation with Russia in defeating terrorism, and brings the US into cooperation with China in the New Silk Road process of nation building in every corner of the Earth, he will remembered as one of the great leaders of all history. We must all act with all our human creativity to bring that beautiful result to pass.

In order to understand today’s post, you should make sure to read yesterday’s piece: Lost in the Political Wilderness. That article zeroed in on why I feel completely isolated from the current political dialogue, and expressed that those of you who feel similarly should