TRUMP’S SECOND PRESIDENTIAL BID

 I wrote the following post on the 11th of April 2023 on Facebook. Unfortunately, subsequent events proved my professional intuition right.

I wasn't a Trump fan in 2016, I'm not now one either.

It is true that during Trump's first presidency no new war broke out, like now in Ukraine. This does not mean that he has abandoned the expansion policy of NATO or the economic expansionism of the USA in Europe. On the contrary, although he threatened to dissolve NATO, he increased the budget of the American army and courted the Poles, who inaugurated a base in Poland called "Fort Trump".

Trump urged the Poles to give up Russian gas and import LNG from the US, which actually happened during Biden's time. Trump also decided to send offensive weapons to Ukraine, an aid denied to them during the years of Obama's presidency.

But the most important promise made to the American electorate by Trump was that of "the draining of the swamp in Washington". Well, although he claimed the opposite, Trump  also favoured politically and from an economic point of view (tax reductions)  big business and his cronies.