Shock, Awe, and Ethnic Cleansing: Trump’s Policy in Gaza

Source: Common Dreams
by James Zogby

“President Donald Trump’s ‘shock and awe’ assault on virtually every major institution in Washington has been, to a degree, successful. There’s a perverse logic behind his radical cabinet appointments, widespread firings and threats to the federal workforce, and his seemingly scattershot Executive Orders that upset apple-carts up and down the street. Like President George W. Bush’s 2003 ‘shock and awe’ blitz of Baghdad at the start of the Iraq war, Trump’s intent is an overwhelming show of power, hitting on multiple fronts in order to disorient and demoralize his opponents. While most of Trump’s actions have been focused on the domestic front, and have served their purposes, he upped the ante by throwing in a few foreign policy zingers for good measure. He threatened to take back the Panama Canal, to force Denmark to sell him Greenland, and to annex Canada into the US.” (02/03/25)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-gaza-policy-ethnic-cleansing