Donald
Trump has recently been meeting several times with Henry Kissinger
Is
Trump the Back Door Man for Henry A. Kissinger & Co?
F.
William
Engdahl
Journal– Neo,
9
January, 2017
The
term Back Door Man has several connotations. In the original blues
song written by Willie Dixon, it refers to a man having an affair
with a married woman, using the back door to flee before the husband
comes home. During the Gerald Ford Presidency, Back Door Man was
applied to Dick Cheney as Ford’s White House Chief of Staff and his
“skills” at getting what he wanted through opaque means. More
and more as Cabinet choices are named, it looks like the entire Trump
Presidency project is emerging as Henry A. Kissinger’s “Back Door
Man,” in the Cheney meaning of the term.
Long
forgotten is Trump’s campaign rhetoric about draining the swamp. In
October during his campaign candidate Trump issued a press release
stating, “Decades of special interest dealing must come to an end.
We have to break the cycle of corruption…It is time to drain the
swamp in Washington, D.C…That is why I am proposing a package of
ethics reforms to make our government honest once again.”
So
far, the President-elect has already named more billionaires to
cabinet and other top posts than any other president in US
history–Betsy DeVos of the AmWay fortune as Education Secretary,
Wilbur Ross as Commerce Secretary, Linda McMahon as Small Business
Administrator, and Vincent Viola, as Army
Secretary.
That’s not including Trump himself as a putative billionaire.
Then
in terms of the vested special interests of Wall Street, Goldman
Sachs has a huge power in the new Administration. Goldman Sachs
partner Steven Mnuchin is Trump’s nominee for US Treasury
Secretary. Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn will be his top White
House Economic Adviser. Anthony Scaramucci, Presidential Transition
Team Executive Committee member, is a former Goldman Sachs banker as
well as Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and Senior
Counselor.
We
add to that assemblage no fewer than four US military generals
representing the most corrupt military industrial complex in world
history: as Secretary of Defense retired General James “Mad Dog”
Mattis, Board member since retiring of major defense contractor
General Dynamics; retired Lt. General Mike Flynn, with his own
consulting firm, as his National Security Adviser and retired General
John F. Kelly as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Add
to this collection the naming of Rex Tillerson the CEO of ExxonMobil,
the largest oil multinational of the United States, as Secretary of
State; the ex-Governor of Texas, America’s largest oil producing
state, Rick Perry, as Secretary of Energy, along with pro-shale
energy Oklahoma Attorney General, Scott Pruitt to be head of the
Environmental Protection Agency, and certain dramatic economic policy
flips begin to emerge compared with the previous hapless Presidency.
Back
Door for Kissinger Geopolitics
What
emerges is not pretty and, sadly, more than confirms my earlier piece
on the Trump
Deception.
However,
all this misses in my view one essential component, namely the
shadowy role of former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who is
emerging as the unofficial and key foreign policy adviser of the
Trump Administration. If we follow Kissinger’s tracks in recent
months we find a highly interesting series of meetings.
On
December 26, 2016 the German daily Bild Zeitung published what it
said was a copy of an analysis by members of the Trump Transition
Team which revealed that as President Trump will seek “constructive
cooperation” with the Kremlin, a dramatic contrast to Obama
confrontation and sanctions policies. The newspaper went on to
discuss the role of 93-year-old former Secretary of State, Henry A.
Kissinger as Trump’s leading, if unofficial, foreign policy
adviser. The report stated that Kissinger is drafting a plan to bring
Putin’s Russia and Trump’s Washington to more “harmonious”
relations that includes US official recognition of Crimea as part of
Russia and lifting of US economic sanctions that Obama imposed in
retribution for the Crimea annexation in 2014, among other steps.
The
kicker in this otherwise sensible-sounding US policy change is
Kissinger’s sly geopolitical aim in “gettin’ Putin back in the
(NATO) tent,” as late Texan President Lyndon Baines Johnson might
have elegantly put it.
What
is the aim of Kissinger? Not any “multi-polar world” that
respects national sovereignty as he claims, of that you can be
certain. Kissinger’s aim is to subtly erode the growing bilateral
axis between China and Russia that threatens US global hegemony.
The
trend of the last several years since Obama’s ill-fated coup d’etat
in Ukraine in early 2014, threatened to jeopardize Kissinger’s
lifetime project, otherwise called David Rockefeller’s “march
towards a World Government,” a World Government in which
“supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world
bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination
practiced in past centuries,”
to use Rockefeller’s words to one of his select groups during the
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Bild Zeitung
Trump-Kissinger memo states that the idea of warming up to Russia is
aimed at offsetting China’s military buildup. In other words,
a different game from Obama’s, but a game of power nonetheless.
Real
Balance of Power
Kissinger
is one of the few surviving practitioners of historical British
Balance of Power geopolitics. True British Balance of Power, as
practiced in British military and diplomatic history since the Treaty
of Windsor of 1386, between England and Portugal, always involved
Britain making an alliance with the weaker of two rivals to defeat
the stronger and in the process, to afterwards loot the exhausted
weaker power as well. It was extraordinarily successful in building
the British Empire down to World War II.
British
Balance of Power is always about what power, in this case a
Kissinger-steered United States, does the “balancing.” Following
the defeat of Napoleon’s France at the Congress of Vienna peace
talks in 1814, British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Castlereagh,
architected a treaty that insured no Continental European power could
dominate over the others, a strategy that lasted until 1914 and the
First World War. What many political historians ignore is that that
Continental Balance of Power was essential for creation of the
British Empire that dominated the world as the leading naval power
for a century.
In
his 1950’s Harvard University PhD dissertation, Kissinger wrote
what became a book titled, “A World Restored: Metternich,
Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-1822.” That study of
British Balance of Power is at the heart of Kissinger’s
Machiavellian machinations ever since he took his first job with the
Rockefeller family in the 1960’s. In A World Restored Kissinger
states, “Diplomacy cannot be divorced from the realities of force
and power. But diplomacy should be divorced…from a moralistic and
meddlesome concern with the internal policies of other nations.”
Further, he states, “The ultimate test of a statesman, then, is his
ability to recognize the real relationship of forces and to make this
knowledge serve his ends.”
Since
his relationship began in the 1950’s with Nelson Rockefeller and
the brothers Rockefeller–Laurance, David, Winthrop– Henry
Kissinger has been the core strategist of the Rockefeller family’s
globalization or World Government above nation states as David called
it in 1991. That included Kissinger’s role with the Bilderberg
Meetings, with David’s Trilateral Commission and right down to the
present. It was Secretary of State Kissinger who asked his good
friend David Rockefeller to facilitate Nixon’s “China opening”
to the West in 1971. Then the geopolitical aim of Kissinger’s
rebalance was to seduce China, then the weaker of Washington’s two
great adversaries, into the Western alliance against the Soviet
Union, then the stronger adversary, at least in military and
geopolitical terms.
Today,
as the year 2017 begins, the roles have turned and clearly China has
emerged after more than three decades of unbridled industrial and
economic expansion, as the stronger challenger of David Rockefeller’s
so-called World Government. Russia, following the economic savagery
and deindustrialization of the post-1991 Yeltsin years, is in
Kissinger’s view, clearly the weaker of his two adversaries. Both
China and Russia under Xi Jinping and Putin, are, together with Iran,
the most formidable defenders of national sovereignty–the main
obstacles standing in the way of David Rockefeller’s (I use him as
the template) World (fascist) Government.
Kissinger’s
strange diplomacy
If
we perceive Kissinger’s recent actions from this perspective–how
to break the emerging Eurasian threat to a Western-dominated One
World Order–it makes much sense. He has been shockingly fulsome in
his recent praise of the political neophyte casino mogul Trump. In an
early December CBS TV interview, Kissinger said that Trump, “has
the possibility of going down in history as a very considerable
President.” He added that because of perceptions that Obama
weakened America’s influence abroad, “one could imagine that
something remarkable and new emerges” out of a Trump
administration. “I’m saying it’s an extraordinary opportunity.”
The
more we look under the rocks and at the key foreign policy choices of
neophyte Trump, we find the pawprints of Henry A. Kissinger. The
choice of General James “Mad Dog” Mattis to be Secretary of
Defense intersects Kissinger. Mattis and Kissinger both served until
early 2016 on the Board of Directors of a bizarre and very
controversial California medical technology private partnership,
Theranos, together with (until recently) former US Secretary of State
George Shultz, former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry, retired U.S.
Navy Adm. Gary Roughead, former Wells Fargo Bank chairman Dick
Kovacevich.
Mattis,
whom Trump compares to General Patton, in August, 2016 wrote a report
attacking both Obama, Bush and Bill Clinton administrations’
foreign military policy, blasting the last three administrations for
a perceived lack of national security vision, by ignoring threats
posed by Russia, China and terrorist groups worldwide.
As
well, the pawprints of the sly Kissinger appear with the surprise
naming of ExxonMobil head Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State.
ExxonMobil is of course the original core of the Rockefeller family
wealth. Kissinger issued a decisive and strong recommendation of
Tillerson, stating that because Tillerson has strong personal
relations with Russian President Putin and Russian state oil company,
Rosneft, it is no reason to disqualify Tillerson: “I pay no
attention to the argument that he is too friendly to Russia. As head
of Exxon it’s his job to get along with Russia. He would be useless
as the head of Exxon if he did not have a working relationship
with Russia.”
As with Kissinger and Mattis, Kissinger also serves on a Board of
Trustees with Tillerson. Both Tillerson and Kissinger are Trustees of
the very influential Washington Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS), along with such as Zbigniew Brzezinski
and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
In
true Kissinger secret diplomacy style so skillfully applied during
his role in triggering the October, 1973 Yom Kippur war, Kissinger
has apparently won the respect of Vladimir Putin as a “world class
politician.” In February, 2016 Kissinger went to Moscow to
privately meet with Putin. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called
that meeting a continuation of “a friendly dialogue between
President Putin and Henry Kissinger, who are bound by a
long-standing relationship.”
And
on December 2, Kissinger was personally invited by China President Xi
Jinping to meet in Beijing to discuss the prospects for China of the
Trump presidency. Kissinger is regarded since 1971 as uniquely
trusted by the Chinese to serve as a mediator of US
policy intentions.
With
Kissinger now in a unique relationship with President-elect Trump as
shadow foreign policy adviser, with Kissinger allies Tillerson as
Secretary of State and Mattis as Secretary of Defense, it is
beginning to appear that the heavy hand of Kissinger and his version
of British Balance of Power political manipulations is about to
target China, as well as Iran, and to try to use Putin and Russia to
destroy the genuine possibility of a counterweight to Western One
World delusions, by fostering mistrust and bad blood between China
and Russia and Iran.
There
is simply too much coincidence in the recent emergence of the
Kissinger–world statesman of peace–to not think that in truth,
from the outset, Donald Trump was designed to be Henry A. Kissinger’s
Back Door Man, in order to re-tilt global geopolitics back to a US
leading role as Domina über Alles.
F.
William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a
degree in politics from Princeton University and is a
best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the
online magazine “New
Eastern Outlook.”
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