Sundaz Wandering Political Thoughts

The Trump Regime announced its foreign policy during this past week, quietly dumping it .

Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy

Trump’s security strategy slams European allies and asserts U.S. power in the Americas

Anyone who has been paying attention notices that Trump is pretty okay with Russia and is eager to abandon established international protections and orders. The Trump Corollary pretty well spells that out.

Several things are made much clearer for me now.

1. The Trump Regime, embraced and empowered by the Heritage Foundation and IAW Project 2025, has decided that the only elected political office that matters is the presidency.
   • They’re pulling hard on the unitary executive theory. The POTUS can do whatever he wants so long as he declares it as a threat to the United States.
   • Reinforced by the Roberts Court shadow docket, they are confident that this will advance with little challenge.
2. Trump and his minions will employ the United States’ military power and reach to do whatever they want.
   • This is along the lines of Russia’s thinking. It’s basically an imperial “we’re bigger than you” attitude, so go screw yourself.
3. Bombing ships and killing the people onboard was their deliberate statement that the Trump Regime thinks it can and will get away with it.
   • They believe the POTUS is bigger than history and law, whether it’s national or international.
   • POTUS makes policy and executes wars as he sees fit, in the Trump Regime’s opinion.
   • The boat bombings of 2025 were a test as well as a statement to see how everyone else reacted.
4. That the attacks are illegal and horrid and counter to law doesn’t affect the Trump Regime at all.
   • That they’re purportedly Venezuelan boats and citizens have everything to do with fossil fuels and Venezuela’s reserves, and nothing to do with whether drugs are onboard and destined for the United States.
   • The target and efforts were perfect test scenarios for them after they first flexed military power by bombing Iran under the guise of protecting Israel.
5. The Trump Regime is aware of blowback from previous efforts to bully other nations and/or conduct regime change.
   • That’s one reason why they’re shutting down inroads and making the U.S. hostile to people coming to our nation.
   • By aggressively doing so and making migrants, immigrants, tourists, and foreigners less prevalent among our population, they can more easily keep tabs and more heavily surveil them when they’re here, and more swiftly and ruthlessly come down on them. In their minds, that probably equates to being less susceptible to terrorist activities.
   • They’re discounting what could happen to U.S. bases and corporations doing business outside of the United State, or what can happen to tourists beyond our borders. It’s another amazing example of how they think with blinders on. They think the threat of military retaliation will keep U.S. businesses and citizens safe in other nations.
   • That’s part of their ‘obey or else’ doctrine as Trump has warned others several times.
   • The Trump Regime is encouraged by how NATO and others responded to Russian aggression.
6. Trump’s economic policies completely align with the Trump Corollary.
   • Trump claims that he wants to return manufacturing to the United States. That’s clearly just another promise to satisfy his base.
   • By breaking trade agreements and increasing tariffs, the Trump Regime has slowed the flow of goods to the United States.
   • Via this slowdown and tariffs, the Trump Regime can now manipulate what materials enter the country, affecting food supplies, consumer goods, manufacturing, construction, and prices. This becomes another weapon for Trump to coerce cooperation from states, businesses, and people.
7. Putting U.S. national guard units in ‘blue’ cities along with attacks on the media and the persecution of his political enemies is a deliberate and orchestrated Trump Regime three-pronged strategy.
   • Their goals are clearly to mute criticism of Trump and his policies.
   • The strategy permits the regime to control the flow of information and to have boots on the crowd to quell public protests and outcry.
   • The Trump Regime knows that’s coming. Trump might not know of increasing unpopularity of him and his policies but his regime knows, are they’re expecting it to grow worse, and are planning against it.
8. Dismantling the Department of Education and shifting focus from public education to private schools empowers the Trump Regime.
   • The Trump Regime is basically following the old communist game plan. Teach them young, and teach only the ‘facts’ which the Regime wants the young to hear.
   • This practice creates an easily malleable young population, perfect for expanding military forces.
9. The icing on the strategy is ICE.
   • By establishing and heavily funding a huge paramilitary organization, the Trump Regime has created a de facto national police force.
   • They can then use that ICE force to curtail and restrict travel and enforce curfews in the name of ‘national emergencies’.
   • Trump, as POTUS, can declare a national emergency at will. Given the nature of the GOP-dominated Congress, Congress would only make mewling noises about it.
   • That would leave relief about Trump’s declared emergencies to the judicial system, where the Trump-friendly Roberts Court rules.

Can anyone say Iron Curtain? Through the ‘Trump Corollary’ and the Trump Regime’s already well-established practices, this administration is creating the Trump Wall. They, with ‘they’ defined as the primarily white fascist Christians of Trump’s base and the oligarchs courting Trump’s favor, believe that this policy will make the United States stronger and more successful by isolating it and using its military power to bully others. It completely discounts twentieth and twenty-first economic, cultural, political, and military history. It also belies the truth about how the United States advanced through education, opportunity, and international military, diplomatic, and economic cooperation. But remember that those successes and advances were often done when Democrats were in charge. This Trump Corollary is a reactionary throwback to a far different time, one well before computers and the vast technological communications systems that now exist.

The Trump Regime is on that, though. By developing relationships through business, profits, and grift with the techno brothers, they’re establishing the framework for shutting down and manipulating the social media information flow. AI will only enhance the Trump Regime’s ability to manipulate facts and the truth…just as foretold in 1984.

Bottom line, the Trump Corollary is a death knell for true freedom, democracy, and equality in the United States. Unless you have the money or power to procure them.

Good luck, people. Good luck.