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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump cultivated the persona of an anti-establishment maverick that would \u201cdrain the swamp\u201d of DC corruption and give a voice to the suffering working and middle classes. Yet, within the weeks that have come and gone since the election concluded, Trump has noticeably back-tracked on 9 policies<\/a> he touted while campaigning for president, most recently deciding not to press charges against Hillary Clinton because she \u201chas been through enough<\/a>.\u201d Though his most ardent supporters have held fast to the idea that these \u201ccompromises\u201d highlight Trump’s pragmatism, his recent cabinet picks<\/a> and meetings with the US political elite have painted a different picture. There is no better example of this than Trump’s recent meeting with Henry Kissinger. Though the corporate media’s coverage<\/a> of the meeting referred to Kissinger as a respected \u201cmentor\u201d and Nobel Peace Prize \u201cwinner,\u201d<\/a> they overlooked his true legacy \u2013 that of an international war criminal<\/a> and the man responsible for transforming American foreign policy into one of perpetual warfare. Kissinger is also a regular attendee of the secretive Bilderberg<\/a> conferences and a vocal advocate<\/a> for one world government.<\/p>\n

The meeting took place last Thursday, though it was not their first meeting as the two had previously met in May. After discussing foreign policy with the President-Elect, Kissinger told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria<\/a> that he is optimistic about a Trump presidency and thinks that it could have positive results. Kissinger went on to say that Trump was the \u201cmost unique\u201d presidential figure in his lifetime as he had \u201cno baggage\u201d in the sense that Trump \u201chas no obligation to any particular group because he has become president on the basis of his own strategy.\u201d Kissinger then highlighted the President-elect’s unpredictability and his \u201cflip-flopping\u201d on key campaign issues, but remarked that this should be no cause for worry and that these changes are positive. During the interview, he said \u201cone should not insist on nailing [Trump] into positions that he had taken in the campaign,\u201d adding that Trump keeping all is campaign promises was unlikely as he undergoes \u201cthe transition from being a campaigner to being a national strategist.\u201d Essentially, Kissinger is claiming that Trump should not be expected to keep his promises as he undergoes the same \u201ctransition\u201d Obama underwent in 2008, where campaign rhetoric and promises became a thing of the past and the neoliberal\/neoconservative agenda was adopted in service to the \u201cdeep state.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In terms of foreign policy, this agenda advocates for perpetual war, which Kissinger himself established and the Bush administration cemented into a permanent American reality through the creation of the disastrous \u201cWar on Terror.\u201d<\/a> Trump is expected to carry the torch, much like Obama did, and he does indeed seem eager to please, if his cabinet picks and policy flops are any indication. However, it is possible, however unlikely, that Trump has been strong-armed into serving the elite’s agenda as Kissinger hinted in the interview that \u201cif [Trump] insists [on keeping his campaign promises], then of course disagreements will become expressed.\u201d Disagreements with the \u201cdeep state\u201d usually do not end very well for those opposing its interests.<\/p>\n

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