The New York Times: Trump’s Strategy Is Dividing America.
According to Al-Mayadeen, the American newspaper The New York Times writes in an article by Thomas Friedman that the Trump team’s strategy is based on shock and awe and rapid and extensive control of the fronts in the United States to reduce the change in domestic and foreign policy priorities of the country. This strategy was previously used by the George W. Bush administration in the occupation of Iraq in 2003.
The author of this article adds that three weeks after the start of the war, he traveled to Iraq with some relief forces to examine the effectiveness of the shock and awe policy, and during the same trip, he wrote his first article titled “Abandon the Encouragement.”
He had traveled with relief forces to the city of Umm al-Qasr, which was the first city that the coalition forces took from Saddam, but after 20 days of war, the people of this area still did not have drinking water, security, or enough food.
Friedman pointed out that these images did not show the freedom of Iraq, but rather humiliated the country; He continued that although the United States overthrew Saddam, it failed to create a new system in the country.
Pointing out that America has once again fallen under the control of right-wing ideologues who seek to purge the government of the ideology of diversity and comprehensive equality and stop supporting the environment, clean energy programs, and foreign aid, he wrote: I believe this policy is just a cover and I imagine that Elon Musk and his comrades are an extremist team who are trying to fulfill the special dreams of the Republican strategist Grover Norquist, whose goal is to make the government so small that a person can take it with him to the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub!
The New York Times author emphasizes in this article: I am not against reducing the size of the government, but I want to make this situation better. Musk’s team is not pursuing this policy, but its behavior is part of a comprehensive plan of feudalism. Without a doubt, the strategy of the United States government will lead to the disintegration of America.
Friedman adds: Musk is trying to do this because his method is known as “sawing” and wants to equip the American bureaucracy with a “grinder”. He and his team seem happy to lay off employees and eliminate think tanks such as the National Academy of Health, as well as isolate climate scientists at the National Weather Service.
He also writes in the article: Let’s imagine that the top official of the United States Agency for International Development, in response to Trump’s move to dismantle the agency and cut foreign aid, was exaggerating when he said that this would lead to 18 million cases of malaria and 200,000 cases of polio and hundreds of millions of other infections, including 28,000 new cases of infectious diseases such as Ebola and Marburg. But what if these statements are not exaggerations?
Referring to Trump’s appointments in the new administration, he wrote that former Army Chief of Staff General Charles Q. Brown Jr., who was removed from his post, was an Air Force Academy graduate with more than 3,100 hours of flight time in the F-16 fighter jet, including 130 hours of combat. He had a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in aeronautical science, but Peter Hegsett is a second-rate Fox News anchor whose mother has accused him of abusing women.