THE TRUMP ENIGMA

Donald Trump has been re-elected President of the USA for another 4 years. This shows that the American electorate is deeply misogynistic and does not want a woman to be president of the most powerful country in the world. Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris have paid for that misogyny with their defeats. Americans always prefer a man, even if he shows a certain degree of brutality, as is the case of the real estate magnate, apart from his ignorance of international politics.

Before being elected to his first presidential term, in 2016, Trump claimed that he did not think about winning the presidential elections, especially after having run in 2000 and 2012, but to everyone's surprise, he won against a woman, Clinton; and on this occasion he has defeated another woman, Harris. It is clear that although the winner lacks a long political history; he was not even a senator; his overwhelming character has served him to dominate the Republican Party.

Two non-American leaders must have celebrated Trump's victory with champagne. They are called Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, who not only consider the victor a close friend, but also an ally, and even a major accomplice in the case of the Jewish prime minister.

Trump is not Jewish; he is a Presbyterian, but with Netanyahu he acts as if he were, supporting Israel's expansionist plans with absolute complicity. It is therefore to be assumed that Trump will not put the slightest obstacle in the way of the Israeli prime minister's ambitions to colonize Gaza and continue his war, illegal under international law, against Lebanon, an independent country that has already seen its borders violated.

Netanyahu hopes that Trump will support him if he decides to engage in a third conflict against Iran. The real estate magnate cannot say NO to the Jewish politician, but neither does he want the US to go to war, given that Afghanistan was the last one. Therefore, it is not to be expected that Netanyahu will achieve his objectives. One can be an absolute accomplice of the Jew, but he will have to ask him for a long time to reflect before creating a direct conflict against the Islamic Republic.

On paper, Trump cannot allow himself to declare Putin an ally. This would unleash a huge bipartisan problem on Capitol Hill and there would be talk of “impeachment” again to stop him in his declared friendly relations with the Russian dictator.

Trump, who wants to present himself as the great politician who ended the war in Ukraine, can count on Putin’s help. Trump’s peace plan has been known for a long time: The Russian troops would withdraw from Ukraine, except from the Donbass of course, and Zelensky would grant Russia the use of Crimea in a form of “100-year lease” as is the case with Guantanamo in Cuba. In this way, the Russian fleet in the Black Sea would perpetuate itself in the naval bases of the peninsula.

Both plans are susceptible to partial reform, but in essence there will be no changes and Putin would allow Trump to present himself to the international public opinion as the politician who ended the bloody conflict in Ukraine. It is likely that this solution to the war will not take long to appear as a historical fact in the mass media.

In Western Europe, the other side of the coin could be reached to please Putin. During his first term, Trump said that NATO no longer has a reason to exist after the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact. As an excuse, he advanced that some members do not comply with the obligation to pay their dues. But we must take into account the majority that does not want the Atlantic organization to disappear in any way. In any case, Trump is not going to strengthen it, taking refuge in his motto of “America First”

Trump's enigma is highlighted by his way of dealing with possible challenges in the international arena. The re-elected president has no faith in his advisers and acts on "hunches"; on ideas that come to him alone and that he does not share in the materialization of them. His former adviser, John Bolton, still insists that Trump is a zero in international politics and ignores the name of the president of North Macedonia, to give just one example.

It remains to be seen, however, what advisers the president intends to have and how long they will remain in office, since he already demonstrated in his first term his fondness for dismissing those around him, whoever they may be. Another of his objectives: not to allow any possible success in politics to appear as shared. Trump is a man obsessed with the art of governing alone.