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Trump revealed prestigious reporter Bob Woodward in talks for the book Rage, now published, that “I have built a nuclear weapon – secret – that nobody has had before in this country … with me, America will once again be great and will have more and more powerful devices.”
There was another “powerful” head of state who thought with the “secret weapon” to reverse fatality, the fuhrer Adolf Hitler. In the latter period of WWII, when the Nazis were now on their last legs, he revealed that he had a secret weapon that would turn the tide of the conflict (and Mussolini pretended to believe it). It was the V-2 missile, whose V1 prototype, both from Von Braun, had caused enormous destruction in London.
I do not usually compare the personalities of today with those of fascism and Nazism of the past. History has its specificity and adjectives coined for a certain period never fit in another context after fifty or a hundred years. Fascist and Nazi leaders were responsible for a tragic story that resulted in the deaths of millions of people, while President Trump is only up to a story that, at best, can be defined as comic and narcissistic- truculent: “I am unique, the greatest, the most beautiful, I deserve the nobel …”
So what does the news, which appeared today, of the secret weapon mean, “something incredible that Putin and Xi never knew”? This is another chapter of the electoral campaign that aims to neutralize the damage of Covid (of which Trump knew all the evil power as Woodward himself writes), the disasters of the civic-public side of cities, and the accentuation of social inequalities . economic behind the growth of the stock market. This is why the White House needs to shoot big.
In the case of the secret weapon, a new type of ICBM or nuclear device, the president also wants to please the world in uniform that has been partly alienated, as polls of military and veterans show. First there was the outcry from former National Security advisers, including right-wing exponent John Bolton, then criticism from several multi-star generals, including Defense Secretary James Mattis, then the revelation of insults directed at the dead. of the First World War and the recruits of Vietnam with the effect of breaking the consensus in the military world, traditionally oriented to the right.
In international relations, America’s attitude toward weapons has always been oriented toward a combination of the use of force for security and nuclear disarmament after the end of the Cold War. Typical was the attitude of Ronald Reagan who, after invoking “star wars” devices, met in 1987 with Gorbachev to dismantle a good half of the nuclear weapons of medium-range missiles that had also been installed in Europe.
Today Trump is going in the opposite direction with the exaltation of nuclear rearmament. But the threat of deadly weapons only apparently targets international competitors, China and Russia, while in reality it is critical to recovering the votes of that uncertain part of the electorate that can heed the accusation made against “socialist” Biden of being mercy. China, and open the borders to fill the country with criminal immigrants who will destroy the “great America.”
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