TRUMP’S STATEMENT THAT HE WOULD ENCOURAGE RUSSIA TO ATTACK ANY NATO NATION THAT DOESN’T PAY ITS DUES WAS NOT AS DUMB AS PEOPLE THINK

 This was a well-calculated statement not a gaffe. Trump is attempting to attract votes of the majority of people in the U.S. who are opposed to endless wars. People know full well that a good part of their financial problems are due to Ukraine, Israel, Yemen and the list goes on and on. Trump opposes those wars but for the wrong reasons. The left has to contest Trump’s occupation of this anti-war political space. For a starter it needs to run one presidential candidate not three. Two of the following candidates should resign and support the one who doesn’t: Cornel West, Jill Stein and Claudia de la Cruz. And second, of equal or more importance, the candidate, whoever he/she is, needs to prioritize U.S. interventionism throughout the world. And it needs to do this without claiming that Russia and China are equally to blame. You may condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Russia doesn’t have 750 military bases throughout the world. The narrative that places all three nations in the same sac is, in effect, letting the U.S. off the hook. The narrative that places Israel and Hamas in the same sac is, in effect, letting Israel off the hook. Leave that up to the corporate media to do.