Cold and calculating Trump

 By Milton Lima

14-03-2025

Cold and calculating Trump. Tabloid readers and consumers of the official media in their countries are likely to notice the presence of Donald Trump on the front pages of their newspapers on a regular basis.

fonte: Il Sole

It was Sunday 2 March and the Italian newspaper Il sole carried a picture of a woman in London going to work with a message on the wall in the background: 'Be brave like Ukraine’. We have not lost sight of the logic of a cold and calculating man in politics, and after the image coming from the London woman and the newspaper's defense of the courage not to give up on Ukraine; we will see other newspapers around the world in the first 15 days of March.

Protect European interests

Europe's strategy seems to be changing as Trump's cold calculations are put on the table. First, the leader of the most influential culture of perpetual war gives a nod to contributing to peace and ending the war in Ukraine. Then he asserts what he considers essential to his country's interests, leading to his strategy of re-engagement with Russia.

fonte: Politico Europe

For a rapprochement with Russia, the US president must first prioritise his cold calculations to win a narrative war on the economy. And his strategy is based on tariffs and a trade war. This was the case with NAFTA, and now he wants to follow suit with Europe.

As Alastair Crooke pointed out:

President Trump wants Ukraine settled, full stop. This is so that he can move ahead quickly – to normalise with Russia, and begin the ‘big picture’ project of setting a new World Order, one that will end wars and facilitate business ties.

Trump hopes to make US industry competitive again, and to this end he is already seeking to reduce sanctions against Russia. He wants to be cold and calculating and defend his interests.

What will happen to European interests in this new scenario of Trump's closeness to Putin? They need to show strength in order to continue writing history. In short, France and the UK want to continue to support Ukraine with arms and not give in to Russia's views.

In the European Union, with the US withdrawal from Ukraine, the idea is to use this moment to invest in the protection of Ukraine and support the nation against Russia, which means establishing new rules.

While Trump is cold and calculating, the European Union is warm and enthusiastic about a new plan to rearm and defend its interests. What is not being discussed is how it will pay for it. In fact, the economic recession Europe is going through has not yet hit home enough for citizens to realise how worrying it is for people.

Chaos

 By Milton Lima, 26-12-2024

There is chaos in society and this is nothing new. In the series of texts I'm writing, see Part 1 and Part 2 if you want more details, I see two problems with the conflicts in the Middle East. The first is the construction of a history based on religion and hegemonic power. The second has much of what this short text wants to draw attention to: the illness of our society is programmed in the most insane absence.

In my search for literature, I have always linked the texts on technologies to our present time. So you'll find references here to Brzezinski, Gunter Anders, just to remind you that literature has helped to construct every thought I've tried to present at various times in this discussion space.  

I also review texts that help us think about our moment and recommend them to my readers. : "La coscienza di Zeno" is one of them. Our society is sick for various reasons, be it because of the control it has allowed itself, or because of the pandemic scenario. But, truly the change from physical money to digital money is happening very fast.

Technology presents its last wish, which, if we put it in mythology, not even Prometheus could save us from what comes from control. In the end, it won't be a religion that sheds light on the darkness that humanity is heading towards, but the conscience of some who have survived so many ways to take away our freedom.

Without forgetting books, not to mention the writings of Italo Calvino, the practice that each text forces us to think about will only shed light on our cognition, which is not yet contaminated by all the filth that is constantly thrown at us in a sick society, if we really want to understand that they are playing to eliminate us. Take it to the symbolic to begin with, and then take it to the most extreme of the word and the radical to see that knowledge is nothing more than surviving all that is coming at us at full gallop.

Quicklly a raw vision for the year 2022

 Quickly a raw vision for the year 2022

1-12-2022

I've been getting used to writing more. The truth is, I love writing. See that may even sound like more of the same, but I still prefer to say it, with more reason than emotion. 

If anyone will still remember Julian Assange and how he was treated by the British, history will tell whether he was wronged or just a forgotten hero. This year will be one of the revelations. I have a feeling that a lot will happen, but this struggle for a world cosmogony is far from over. 

As I warned, this one, like so many here, needs and must be fast. The text itself brings a welcoming vision, nothing crazier can come to pass on this earth. But we will take a walk through Brazil, my land and my place of origin and reflection. First of all, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, we heard here and there that history had ended, that it would no longer be written, and that capitalism had won. But this, as we will see, is not true. And on truth, I think it is worth another reflection on religion, so follow me. 

In this last paragraph, I want to draw attention to the place of the country in Latin America. It is a rich place, in biodiversity, a place rich in fauna and flora. A continental country, this is Brazil. However, it is also worth remembering that, like many places in the world, there is a lot of social inequality here, and with all this richness, it is considered a poor country. Education is always hoping for better days, but honestly for this to really happen, many things would need to change, we'll leave that talk for another occasion. Let's come back here, to the elections. Quickly, the governments of the so-called MERCOSUR are aligned with neoliberal development, which means that they are conservative and defend a class and a lifestyle that does not distribute wealth, and this system has always been dominant in Brazil. Exactly 20 years ago, in 2002, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, was elected president of Brazil. Now after 20 years of a new dispute (it is not certain that he will take part in the electoral race, he has not yet confirmed), on the battlefield the opponents are from a right-wing very keen to hold on to power. In addition to the current president Jair Bolsonaro, he has his former minister of justice, Sérgio Moro running. So no surprises, what to expect, a year of conflicts. In politics, for sure, issues like corruption, security, health, education, jobs, the usual menu, will come to the fore. In the dispute over the presidency in Brazil, it seems that everything will be tough. And whoever wins, democracy will be questioned, that's the impression around here. Issues such as the Amazon, climate change and human rights, especially immigration, will be raised. Last but not least, 200 years of independence of the Republic, and about its real independence, deserves another text. Veo you soon. 

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Milton Lima

Illusion or new normal: you choose

 

Character and social being between us a structure

 

By Milton Lima, 10-09-2021

 

So I could say that I don’t know how to start it. Well, it seems to me that before I must say what this that I’m talking from between us is. The logic to back where all of the facts came and did it what makes sense. Already we’re on the day that the earth stopped, its account now brings us your relationship between mankind and non humans.

Continued were the days to understand what was happening there. I have just fourteen years and remind that in TV no there is other matter, without be that not it. Two thousand and one, and the day eleven in September, was a day that shifted something in every life.   

We’re back, now I am 20 years after. I have a possibility of returning to time and with it I can say what brought me really there is structure. Such a structure is cultural and anyone who is lost doesn't understand about character and social being.

Everybody saw what was happening there. But maybe that many people hope others sign and once a religion says to say us because all of it has that happen. I see now front in a pandemic that same logic, it is, the fear, the war, the pain, peoples out hope, but her need here would have some sense seems me that this it is the character. 

Thus of course is logic (and not think that theory or illusion) always was think to control of hearts and minds, and we have to read all moment, that we live in new normal when we’re walking to a new world. The question is: Would have dreams or just an artificial intelligence would dream by everyone?

Birthday, reset, pandemic, new green, new and new… When and where we believe this than tomorrow will be a new normal?   

Politeness and wisdom to live in peace: surface relief of the death

 

Politeness and wisdom to live in peace: surface relief of the death

By Milton Lima 29-07-2021

Today we live in a world fully connected by things invented one. But why do we be affirmative? From this shift we were connected with science and if we care about her before it is because in the last two centuries before it’s clear of WWII such shift propaganda would be great to mankind? Well first point here seems to be a key in which this world should be another thing to be invented. Now like it, politeness done to a world limited by its borders can be transformed into another thing? What do I call the spirit of peace on this wisdom? Just right would give account on this and law or contract? How will we organize it? To answer them I must remember once that it or better to all that it is a hypothesis of work and that only will make sense if we look at the whole. When we know that of course it new shape of world nonsense is nothing more than a new form of power control.see here  

So it is that now we’ve called the new normal nothing more than a totalitarian system. When I had its idea to write and too can to speak of peace I  thinking in a translate that did here of Giorgio Agamben with title: Cittadini di seconda classe, and after it I believe to be very need to had in mind that now more that never we need of the wisdom to survive.

Indeed a lot of the water still runs here. We live in a world in which truth has now become relative, where lies are evaluated as true by giants big-tech, when your power becomes easy to again create polarization, be it political or not. Well if we did a search with the name Eugène Sue, we would have arrived at death in a determinate epoch. Go on!

However, we will have more ways of light and the unforeseen. ST. Augustine's and Hannah Arendt together can aim us to understand this moment of shadow, but their same love needs to be tested as positive or negative, and mask too, acknowledging this. Here it seems to me that they are welcome, first because one paints a city with two ways with symbolism between goodness and madness, the second will go to trouble who indeed was given such a way of hope. It goes to love. The framework of death in action arrives in the conscience of a new age. For its direction we permit this development. They are here and there, in my country and amid us, maybe a contingent when just is possible see them like heroes.