Trump Picks Exxon Mobil’s Tillerson as Secretary of State and Faces Fierce Opposition from Neocons from Left and Right
By Julio
Severo
President-elect
Donald Trump announced Tuesday he has picked Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to
be secretary of state, calling the oil executive with close to ties to Russia
one of the most accomplished international dealmakers in the world.
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| Rex Tillerson |
McCain
was praised
by the Islamic State in 2014 for helping them invade Iraq. Just as Obama, he
has supported the Syrian rebels, who has been torturing, raping and
slaughtering Christians. The only international leader helping Christians in
Syria is Putin. McCain prefers partnership with Islamic terrorists against
Russia. This is the neocon pattern.
In his
campaign, Trump
faced fierce opposition from Democratic and Republican neocons. And now he is
facing the same opposition from the same people.
One
of the main concerns among conservative
evangelicals, who were the main group supporting Trump, was: After
elected, will Trump he fulfil his promise of confronting neocons, who focus on
Russia, not Islamic terror, as the biggest threat?
Neocons
have been for decades partnering with Islam and Islamic terror against Russia.
In contrast, in his campaign Trump promised a breakthrough: partnership with
Russia against Islamic terror.
Apparently,
Trump is honoring his promise, because he said that Tillerson’s choice would
“help reverse years of misguided foreign policies.” This is a powerful blow on
neocons.
Trump
called Tillerson’s career “the embodiment of the American dream.”
“His
tenacity, broad experience and deep understanding of geopolitics make him an
excellent choice for Secretary of State. He will promote regional stability and
focus on the core national security interests of the United States,” Trump
said.
Trump
said that he “knows how to manage a global organization and successfully
navigate the complex architecture of world affairs and diverse foreign
leaders.”
Yet,
the senior Democrat on foreign relations, Bob Menendez, said naming Tillerson
secretary of state would be “alarming and absurd … guaranteeing Russia has a
willing accomplice in the (Trump) Cabinet guiding our nation’s foreign policy.”
Neocon
Republican senator Marco Rubio chimed in: “Being a ‘friend of Vladimir’ is not
an attribute I am hoping for from a secretary of state.”
Trump
was aware that Tillerson’s announcement would face opposition, but he chose to
push through it quickly.
Actually,
Tillerson has had multiple contacts with Putin as he negotiated energy deals in
Russia, got awarded a medal of friendship by the Russian president, and is
captured on video toasting champagne glasses with Putin.
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| Rex Tillerson and Vladimir Putin |
In
2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded Tillerson his nation’s Order of
Friendship.
But
the energy deal was put on hold when the Obama administration and its European
allies imposed sanctions against Russia allegedly for annexing Crimea, a region
traditionally Russian for hundreds of years. Relations between Obama and Putin
had in fact begun to turn sour after Russia passed a law banning homosexual
propaganda for children. The law was antagonized and mocked by Obama and all
the U.S. mainstream media.
ExxonMobil
reportedly vowed to resume the agreement after the end of the Obama sanctions –
and Tillerson has already spoken out against such sanctions and the economic
hardships they impose on Russia.
Normalization
of relations between the U.S. and Russia was one of the most prominent promises
of Trump during his campaign.
Russian
President Vladimir Putin said he was ready to meet with Trump “at any
moment."
In
the transcript of his interview with journalists which was released Tuesday in
Moscow, Putin said, “it’s widely known that the elected president of the United
States has publicly called for the normalization of the Russian-American
relationship. We cannot but support this.”
Who
is Tillerson? A corporate titan, he has traveled the world and represented
Exxon in 60 countries. As Trump, he is also soft on the gay agenda. But he never went to war against Putin over the Russian ban against the homosexual propaganda. Obama wanted a war.
Why
as a businessman is he ideal as a secretary of state? Most businessmen are
interested in doing deals, making money and, if the terms are not met, walking
away, not starting a war.
And
here is the heart of the objection to Tillerson. He wants to end the Obama sanctions
and partner with Putin’s Russia, as does Trump. But among many in the
mainstream media, think tanks, websites and especially Republican and
Democratic neocons, this is craven appeasement. For neocons, the Cold War is
never over.
The
attacks on Tillerson coincide with new
attacks on Russia, based on CIA sources, alleging that not only did Moscow hack
into the Democratic Party and Hillary campaign, and leak what it found to hurt
Hillary Clinton, but Russia was trying to help elect Trump, and succeeded.
Mainstream
newspapers, which are rightly seen as left-wing and in such capacity would
defend only a socialist Russia, speak of a “darkening cloud” already over the
Trump presidency and warn that a failure to investigate and discover the full
truth of Russia’s hacking could only “feed suspicion among millions of
Americans that the election was indeed rigged.”
Behind
the effort to smear Tillerson and delegitimize Trump lies a larger motive.
Trump has antagonists in both parties who are alarmed at his triumph because it
imperils the foreign-policy agenda that is their raison d’etre, their reason
for being.
These
people do not want to lift the Obama sanctions on Russia. They do not want an
end to the confrontation with Russia. They do not want to force Saudi Arabia
from funding ISIS. They want to enlarge NATO to encompass Sweden, Finland,
Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova.
They
have in mind the permanent U.S. encirclement of Russia.
They
want to provide offensive weapons to Kiev to reignite the civil war in the
Donbass and enable Ukraine to move on Crimea. This would mean a war with Russia
that Ukraine would lose and the U.S. and its NATO allies would be called upon
to intervene in and fight.
Their
goal is to bring down Putin and bring about “regime change” in Moscow.
In
the campaign, Trump said he wanted to get along with Russia, to support all the
forces inside Syria and Iraq fighting to wipe out ISIS and al-Qaida, and to
stay out of any new Middle East wars – like the disaster in Iraq – that have
cost the U.S. “6 trillion dollars.”
This
is what America voted for when it voted for Trump – to put America First and
“make America great again.” But neocon agitators are already beating the drums
for military confrontation.
Early
in his presidency, if not before, Trump is going to have to impose his foreign
policy upon his own party and, indeed, upon his own government. Or his
presidency will be broken. Or he will govern for neocons or for his voters,
according to his promises that got him elected.
He is
having a good beginning. By nominating Rex Tillerson for secretary of state, he
is directly confronting neocons.
With
information from WorlNetDaily (Pat Buchanan’s article “Will Trump defy McCain
& Marco?”), DailyMail and the Associated Press.
Portuguese
version of this article: Trump escolhe
Tillerson da empresa petrolífera Exxon Mobil como secretário de Estado
Source: Last Days Watchman
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