Scottsdale, Arizona
December 2, 2024

by Rich Scheck

Perhaps my greatest skill is reducing complex material into simple, digestible concepts.
That’s what I attempted to do in early 2017, shortly after Trump won the election with this
suggestion for peace and prosperity: https://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=63437

Somehow, instead of economic integration, we continued the pattern of endless wars for
Pax Americana….the Republic destroying, imperial process that reeks of what some label
“mystical imperialism!” https://www.invisiblehistory.com/the-books/mystical-imperialism/

Now comes Trump, 8 years later, articulating a policy of 100% tariffs against the BRICS
nations if they dare to assert their own self interest instead of bowing to the demands of
the US Dollar, the MIC and all those entities that benefit from the post WW2 political and
financial arrangements emerging out of Bretton Woods and the UN Charter.
https://stateofthenation.info/?p=6560

Hello, Donald: we are not in Kansas anymore! It’s a whole new world and your faux
populism embedded in MAGA is now rightly seen by the rest of humanity as the self-
serving cover for a resurgent West that remains unlikely to prevail without nuclear war.

To avoid that horror, I put forward my idea as a short form of the LaRouche plan which
had long supported One Belt One Road (OBOR) as the best way forward for everyone.

Alas, it was not to be under Trump 1 or Biden or…….Trump 2!?! It’s Mackinderesque with
this fight for the Eurasian Heartland that the Brits called The Great Game and Zbig wrote
about in his classic, The Grand Chessboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard#/media/File:The_Grand_Chessboard.jpg

But this is far too serious to be called a Game especially as the fight continues in the
heavens as well as here on Earth: https://stateofthenation.co/?p=178654

This is an upgraded version of the West’s perpetual bellicosity against Russia that echoes
the Gog/Magog narrative so beloved by messianic believers in Christ’s return and the parallel Chabad sect led by the (dead fake messiah) Schneerson.

The Rebbe appears to be currently running things quite well from the grave with the devotion of major leaders like Trump, Melei, RFK, Jr. and Bibi: https://stateofthenation.co/?p=205518

This pattern of obsession with the messiah has a long history:
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/12/a-history-of-false-jewish-messiahs-and-their-impact-on-the-armenian-genocide/

Frank Herbert warned us in Dune that “it’s the prophecies that enslave us” but that message has fallen on deaf ears for millenia.

Sadly, this is a formula for endless Crusades that could readily be avoided if egoistic patterns underlying excessive nationalism and religious devotion were replaced with saner concepts that can insure peace and prosperity.

Whether Trump is merely faking it as some suspect to strengthen his control over the reins
of power and to hide his globalist sensibilities or is morphing into a full-fledged fascist remains be seen.

All I know is that what we have in America today is a frightening excuse for the original plan set forth by the Founders for a Liberty-promoting Republic.

Franklin reminded us in 1787 that it would remain so only “if we can keep it!” Sorry to report.  Ben, it looks like we failed!