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Donald Trump has shown he is ready to use ‘bullying tactics’ to ‘force peace on everyone’ for one purpose – to make more money, according to a renowned defence and security expert
The US president believes ending the world’s wars will allow him and America to grow rich – but the tactics he’s using won’t work, an expert has said.
Last week’s spectacle in the Oval Office showed how Donald Trump is willing to turn nasty if leaders don’t follow his orders. And today he issued a stern warning to Hamas ordering the release of hostages being held in Gaza. If this doesn’t happen, Trump said: “It is over for you.”
The White House has revealed Trump gearing up to hold talks with Hamas despite decades of US policy preventing the country from direct engagement. In 1997, Washington put Hamas on the terror blacklist.
Taking to Truth Social, the president’s own social media platform, Trump wrote: “Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you. Only sick and twisted people keep bodies, and you are sick and twisted!” It’s believed that Hamas still has 24 hostages in captivity in addition to the bodies of at least 35 more.
Defence and security expert Professor Anthony Glees described Trump’s approach as a “bullying tactic”. He reckons the president’s sudden desire to bring peace to warring nations isn’t benevolent, but rather a “desperate” attempt to shape the world into his greedy “money-making golden autocracy”.
The professor explained: “I continue to believe that Trump is angry old man in a desperate hurry to impose peace on everyone and force on a fractious globe his vision of a money-making golden autocracy, free to buy and sell and spend as little as possible on US security or helping people live out their lives in peace and free from disease and hunger.”
This is possibly most evident in Trump’s ridiculed plan to turn the besieged Gaza Strip into the “Riviera of the Middle East”, which didn’t include any indication as to where the war-beaten residents would live once expelled. However, Trump does have one saving grace in that “he is not a warmonger”, Professor Glees said.
“When he was a young man, America resonated to the peaceniks’ call of ‘make love – not war’. Now, 60 years later, Trump’s total focus is on ‘make money – not war’ and he’ll use all the threats in the mafia playbook to get his way.”
While Trump thinks he’s going to make the world a better place and get rich while doing it, Professor Glees says “he’s deluded”. “He’s sowing the winds of chaos and America will reap the whirlwinds of his impetuous threats and readiness to get others to use violence to impose his will on all of us,” he said.
His heavy-handed approach may be nothing more than a tactic, but one that may not always play out the way he thinks it will – especially when he comes up against those who “won’t be bullied” like Putin, Kim Jong-un, and Hamas.
“It shows a bizarre disregard for reality. Bullying can only get you so far. That’s because there are people who won’t be bullied: those like Putin or Kim Jong-un who want both money and war, and people like Hamas, angels of death who are only interested in terrorism and war and couldn’t care less about making money.”
