In spite of the show of strength by the US Navy in the Persian Gulf and the Asia-Pacific, Trump did not go to Beijing looking strong. Right after the welcoming ceremonies showing the rude orange-haired man that his Chinese counterparts respect hospitality, Xi did not mince words with Trump: “If the Taiwan issue is not handled correctly by the United States, our two countries will collide.” This is about Chinese sovereignty and territorial unity. This is also affirmed by the now anti-communist but pro-Chinese leaders of the Taiwanese Kuomintang party. As for who hasn’t noticed, Trump has embroiled himself in the Middle East by following in the warmongering footsteps of Netanyahu, launching new acts of aggression against Iran and Lebanon. Meanwhile, the odious and genocidal “IDF” continues its massacres in Gaza and intensifies its apartheid policy in occupied West Bank. Recently, the Israeli army even allowed Israeli settlers to force Palestinians to unearth their octogenarian father buried in the ancestral cemetery of that Arab village. Meanwhile, the mega-aggressor Israel-US (backed belatedly by Macron’s aircraft carrier) is not out of the woods yet as Iran, controlling the world capitalist economy through the Strait of Hormuz, destroying American bases in the Gulf, and striking back against Israeli aggression and its Saudi and Emirati collaborators.
In Korea, Pyongyang does not flinch in the face of the challenging US Armada or the revengeful Japan on the verge of revising its constitution in an openly militaristic direction.
In Ukraine, the corrupt, Russophobic, anti-worker, neo-Bandera Kiev regime is facing increasing difficulties and has been duly warned by Moscow, and along with its Western sponsors, is advised to fight until the last Ukrainian. The hierarchs of Kiev and their NATO “advisors” risk their lives now if they continue to seek to kill the Russian leadership in the same way Trump had the Iranian leadership assassinated (and that too during supposed talks).
In Cuba, nearly the entire Cuban adult population (71%) has signed the petition launched by the PCC in defense of Cuban sovereignty strangled by the Trump regime trying to starve the island to impose a “regime change” that was so ‘liberating’ as seen in Cuban hospitals without electricity being unable to operate. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on May Day in Havana behind Raul Castro and Miguel Diaz-Canel. A heroic challenge that demands extra political solidarity from us as the rude retiree from Washington has announced – “let’s invade Cuba on return, if there is such a return, of his UN-defeated Armada that was held back in Ormuz.” Meanwhile, anger among workers whose salaries remain stagnant while gas prices soar is on the rise. This anger is already manifesting – from the US to Belgium, India, and Quebec – through strikes that virtually hint at a worldwide awakening of the working class.
Therefore, let us neither display foolishness by selling off the feathers of the American Eagle before clipping its talons, nor harbor pessimistic black thoughts underestimating the response of the global peace camp, provided that, country by country within broad united social movements, and peoples supporting each other from the Caribbean to the Sahel and Quebec to Asia, the winning strategy of “all together at the same time” against the oligarchic enemy prevails over the “each for themselves and successively” which signifies defeat for all.
Georges Gastaud (reitre = brutal warrior)
