A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob

Week 2 of Trump’s tenure showed the president Americans grew to distrust in his first term — erratic, conspiratorial, and divisive — had not really gone anywhere.

Huntington Post • by Igor Bobic, Arthur Delaney, Liz Skalka February 1, 2025 ~ Yahoo

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s first week in office was a blitz of executive orders and memos — some important, others little more than press releases on fancy letterhead — designed to overwhelm Washington into submission.

Week Two showed Trump’s maximalist second-term instincts were more than just an opening bid. It revealed how the president many Americans grew to distrust in his first term — erratic, chaotic, and unwilling or unable to focus on uniting the country rather than dividing it — has not really gone anywhere.

The result, for many Trump critics in Washington, is a mixture of fear and hope: worries about purges of the civil service and unconstitutional power grabs by Trump, mixed with a revival of hopes that Democrats can fight a president who’s proven more effective at blustering than taking real action.

Trump, who has largely shed the illusion he is not attempting to implement large chunks of the Project 2025 agenda, is unlikely to let up. And unlike in early 2017, Trump and his core allies are more familiar with the federal government and how to bend it to their will.

“It’s vastly different. There’s a level of preparedness and focus that frankly we didn’t have last time,” said Sean Spicer, Trump’s first White House press secretary. “The four years out of office have really allowed the president to think about the people he wants to surround himself with, the people he wants to stay away from, the policies he wants to pursue and the process by which he can get those things done.”

But Trump’s second-week struggles, including a brazen and potentially unconstitutional attempt to freeze all federal spending and the possibility that two of his Cabinet nominees may not be confirmed, prove Trump’s “golden age” is not a sure bet.

“I think one of the things that we are remembering this week is that no politician, no administration, is unconstrained by politics,” Sen Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) told HuffPost. “Everybody is subject to the laws of politics and the law of gravity.”

Trump’s MAGA and the new Chaotic Pax Americana

Pearls and Irritations • February 3, 2025

Although the US has held a dominant and frequently hegemonic position in the international order (IO), this very system is now rejected by Trump and his administration as not working sufficiently to the advantage of the US and against the interests of Americans who voted for him and his make America great again (MAGA) clarion call.

Opening shots against the current rules based order

For now Trump’s targets to skew the global system much more to American advantage are:

Making Canada and Greenland (a Danish territory) part of the US or to have much greater control of these two northern neighbours.

Regaining ownership over the Panama Canal by military or economic force.

His fan club sees this not only as a needed return to the Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary with its territorial expansion and neo-imperialism ideology. It is also touted as a necessity to ensure the security and advancement of the US, and to prevent Russia and China from gaining any foothold in the western hemisphere.

These opening shots in geo-politics and international relations are being reinforced by Trump’s threat of a soon to be launched tariff war against Canada, Mexico, China and other countries seen as taking advantage of Biden’s economic policies which, according to Trump, has destroyed the US economy and reduced it to a failed state.

Targeted are not only countries accused of taking jobs away from the US but also businesses and companies that refuse to move their factories to make America great again.

Speaking to a gathering of the world’s elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos on other nations, he declared:

Three days ago, I took the oath of office, and we began the golden age of America.… And some of the political pundits, even some of my so-called enemies, said it was the most consequential election victory in 129 years…. Our country will soon be stronger, wealthier, and more united than ever before, and the entire planet will be more peaceful and prosperous as a result of this incredible momentum and what we’re doing and going to do.

Trump’s new Pax Americana

What Trump is announcing to Americans and the world contains more than elements of a new security, economic, political and human rights order.

He is essentially proclaiming a new Pax Americana charter to replace the United Nations charter which he, and it should be noted, together with other US presidents have consistently violated since the charter was established in 1945 but which none until Trump has explicitly repudiated.

This position can be clearly seen in his stand against key UN global agreements on health, climate, environment and sustainable development, besides those on peace and security.

For now, US allies in the ‘free’ world are in disarray and awaiting the worst.

After unsuccessfully trying to play up to Trump’s ego by lauding his electoral win and leadership qualities, leaders in the United Kingdom, Canada, European Union countries, and Australia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific region are scrambling to ensure that they and their countries do not end up as collateral damage in the next four years of the Trump administration.

To placate Trump on the international security and geopolitical front, NATO and other US allies have been pushed to raise their defence expenditures to five or more percent of their budgets.

This doubling or even trebling of military spending for US allied countries will see weapon manufacturers principally from the US but also other armament exporting countries reap windfall profits.

This will make their world more rather than less insecure. It is a double edged knife for the US since Russia, China, Turkey and Iran – not exactly allies of the US – will also benefit from an arms sale race.

Unfortunately the dangers of this contrary scenario is lost to Trump who is boasting that the world will enter a new era of peace under his watch.

G7, NATO and countries that see the US as a big brother and are generally supportive of American foreign policy are now finding that the old International Order is being upended for a new Pax Americana one in which they will have little or no say and which will see their national interests and concerns marginalised or ignored.

They will also find that with Trump’s MAGA focus, they will have to comply with policies being formulated in the economic, trade, energy, immigration and other domestic US sectors that will adversely affect their economy and related interests through sanctions and more punishing policies.

In the short and medium term, the most important of the ripple effects of Trump’s “most consequential election victory” outside the US is its impact on the politics and policies of America’s allies.

Leaders of governing parties from the West espousing inclusive, progressive, liberal or green manifestos are increasingly being made aware that their political positions stand in contrast to that of Trump and the ruling Republican party; and that his preference is for allies and leaders from the conservative and right wing of the political spectrum.

This preference was clearly showcased to the world during Trump’s inauguration ceremony which saw conservative leaders such as Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and Argentina’s Javier Milei, and what western liberal media describe as far-right politicians from the UK, Germany, France and other countries invited, with some occupying front row seating.

Prominently missing from the invitee list were top EU leaders as well as those from US allies in the Indo Pacific region.

Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau’s resignation as Canadian prime minister, seen by observers as an outcome of Trump’s repeated personal insults and humiliation – Trump famously referred to Trudeau as “governor” when he proposed that Canada should become the 51st state of the US – should serve as a warning to leaders from the West, including Keir Starmer and Anthony Albanese, and their ruling parties in the UK and Australia. As US vassals, it is MAGA and Pax Americana that they have to support and uphold if they want to continue in power.

And now consider a prophecy by Isaac on Esau after finding out that he had lost his birthright to his brother, Jacob:

“And upon thy sword shalt thou depend, entering at every place: yet thou shalt be supple and credulous, and be in subjection to thy brother [Jacob]; — that is, under the hegemony and yoke of the Monroe Doctrine since December 2, 1823;

but it will be that when his sons [the endtime children of Israel, led especially by Ephraim, the United States] become evil [such as leading in a global woke rot among other evils], and fall from keeping the commandments of the law [a culture of telling lies, swearing false oaths, domestic killings and breaking of God’s Sabbaths], thou shalt break his yoke of servitude from off thy neck….and then will I kill Jakob my brother,” Genesis 27:41-42 Jonathan

~ by Joel on February 7, 2025.

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