May 3, 2025 (EIRNS)—Marking a notable shift in U.S. political discourse, Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG), long a supporter of President Trump, came out forcefully against many of his actions and inactions. She denounced the possibility of war against Iran on behalf of Israel, and she criticized the U.S.-Ukraine mineral deal as not only practically useless from a raw material standpoint but also an entangling alliance that could bring Americans into harm’s way, threatening a future war.
“I represent the base and when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy,” she warned. “When you are losing MTG, you are losing the base.”
“And Trump isn’t on the ballot in the future, so do the math on that,” she concluded.
Meanwhile, it’s hard to tell what the Trump administration is planning.
The policy on Ukraine varies from seeking a long-term peace to walking away from that conflict to focus on attacking China.
The firing of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, reportedly for coordinating with Netanyahu how to achieve a U.S. policy of military action against Iran, while Trump wants to pursue a diplomatic resolution, is a hopeful sign. But Trump’s threats of enormous tariffs against countries dealing commercially with Iran drew a forceful rebuke from Tehran, where officials said that such talk was counterproductive, when seen in the light of the significant progress made on points of agreement between the two countries.
Italian economist Michele Geraci summarized the state of “democracy” in Europe and the West. Political prosecutions, attempted assassinations, banning of candidates and potentially soon the AfD party in Germany, threats to expel Hungary from the EU all make a mockery of those who sanctimoniously condemn the lack of respect for “democratic norms.”
While EU institutions demonize China for its treatment of the Uyghur population, they are almost entirely mum on the livestreamed genocide taking place in Gaza and, increasingly, the West Bank.
The non-response of global institutions to that ongoing horror that raises the specter of an end to international law altogether, replacing it with the law of the jungle, of might makes right.
How will the future regard those, who today choose to tolerate the destruction of that population, in a way so startlingly barbaric that it almost doesn’t seem real?
How will you regard yourself, if you don’t do everything you can to achieve a new system of international relations on our shared planet?
The LaRouche movement has for decades championed solutions for our troubled world, the economic outlook that generates them, and the form of dialogue capable of achieving them socially. It stands pre-eminent among institutions active in Anglo-American NATO for its uncompromising dedication to bring about a world worthy of the inherent dignity of the human species.
