How Jewish Zionists worked behind-the-scenes to undermine 'America First' and induce Trump into war with Iran
Trump’s turn toward war with Iran was not a break from “America First” by accident, but the outcome of behind-the-scenes pressure from pro-Zionist financial and political networks.
The strange genesis of the United States of America’s illegal execution of a foreign head of state who was also the spiritual leader of many of the world’s Shia Muslims in a war of attrition supported by only 21 percent of Americans lies in November and December 2024, with a seemingly anodyne choice of White House personnel. During those months, Trump appointed Howard Lutnick as Secretary of Commerce and Scott Bessent as Secretary of the Treasury—and left Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. Trade Representative in Trump’s first administration, out in the cold. Lighthizer is a policy intellectual who spoke against the doctrine of “free trade” and a true believer in using carefully crafted tariffs to re-source labor to America. Lutnick and Bessent are creatures of Wall Street and the Jewish Zionist networks which since the 1980s have justified and implemented “free trade” via White House appointments, think tank donations, and academic sponsorships. At the time of Lutnick’s and Bessent’s appointments, Lighthizer expressed concerns that America First policies would not be top of mind for people who’d spent their professional lives opposing them. According to the reporter who interviewed Lighthizer,
He sounded contemplative, trying to imagine the incentives of the particular men who might now wield influence over the President. “I don’t know—I don’t know how billionaires think,” Lighthizer went on, perhaps thinking of Trump, too. “I’ve never been one.”
Lighthizer did not misrepresent his level of knowledge of billionaires. What has happened with these appointments has been far more of a betrayal than what he foresaw. Like many seemingly bland personnel moves in the insider operations of empire, the sidelining of Lighthizer and the appointment of Lutnick and Bessent effectively secured the cooption of Lighthizer’s “America First” platform that Trump won reelection on: a platform of re-sourcing domestic production and extracting ourselves from foreign ties. What we have instead, a year and a half later, is that platform’s inverse—an empire running amok, decapitating foreign leaders and waging war. And this is thanks to the circle of whom Lutnick and Bessent are the Administration’s most visible members: Zionists who induced Trump, based on his obsessions with foreign investment and resource extractions, into global wars for the benefit of "Israel". Tracing Trump’s desires and how they were played on by this cohort shows how power works in America at the hands of the Zionist networks run largely, though not exclusively, by connected American Jews who arbiter our institutions—and which effectively disenfranchise Americans from exercising a say in our country.
Trump’s policy desires were made fairly clear less than three months after his Second Inaugural. That April, advised by Lutnick and Bessent, he imposed one-size-fits-all tariffs using a legal precedent Lighthizer had opted against, which led just last month to the tariffs being struck down by the United States Supreme Court. In the process, Trump created market uncertainties and cost-of-living concerns and eventually handed distortive tariff exemptions to a range of industries—and also hurt small businesses. All of this was popularly credited as a mistake, but, increasingly, the tariffs seem to have been working in exactly the way Trump wanted them to work. In the Supreme Court’s understated words, “the president has issued several increases, reductions, and other modifications” on most of the tariffs he’s imposed. Tariffs for Trump, in other words, are not a policy; they are a negotiating tool. And what he is negotiating for, on the evidence, are his real concerns: securing investments from foreign nations using technological trades; and securing extractions from foreign nations using commercial arrangements or military incursions.
Trump is, based on his own public remarks, obsessed with foreign investment, which Trump has claimed will total at least $22 trillion by the end of his term, which “would be equal to about three-quarters of the United States’ entire 2024 annual gross domestic product (GDP).” More reliable estimates of “real investment pledges” put the figure at $7 trillion. Significant portions of this are invested in Artificial Intelligence, which in turn “might have accounted for as much as half of the growth in [America’s] gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, in the first six months of the year.” This obsession is in every sense anathema to Trump’s stated America First policy because it involves trading technological innovations in exchange for foreign investment.
Trump is also, based on his own public remarks, indecently obsessed with extracting resources from other countries. In the days following the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, these were Trump’s answers to questions about Venezuela’s future: “We’re gonna have a presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil”; “We’re gonna get the oil flowing the way it should be”; “Were gonna be taking a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground”; “We need total access, we need access to the oil”; “We’ll be selling oil”; “What we want to do is fix up the oil”; and “The oil companies are going to go in, and rebuild their system.” Howard Lutnick’s contribution to this mantra about Venezuela was to broaden its scope: “They have steel, they have minerals, all the critical minerals; they have a great mining history that’s gone rusty: so steel, aluminum, minerals.” Trump and Lutnick, said one American comic, “are going full conquistador in front of our eyes.”
Nor is Venezuela a special case for Trump. Having presided in 2025 over what observers derided as a false “peace deal” between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, the latter of which has been sponsoring militias inside the Congo to rape and kill Congolese to facilitate on-the-cheap-extraction of precious minerals, Trump had this to say about what would follow: “We’re gonna take out some of the rare earth, take out some of the assets, and pay, and everybody’s gonna make a lot of money.” That same year, having presided over what many observers also derided as a false “peace deal” between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which included the construction of a “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity,” Trump stated: “I understand it's very fertile, it's very fertile area…we've got the gasoline prices coming way down from where they were and it's really been something to watch.” Lines like these have percolated into domestic politicking, as in this quote from a Miami “influencer” with a line to Mar-a-Lago:
This is why I am confident that Republicans will win the midterms…Gas will drop to lowest it’s been in decades... 2 years of an Unleashed nothing to lose Trump to follow. Glorious times ahead.
Where an “unleashed” Trump with “nothing to lose” gets the notion of these “glorious times” and what will secure them leads back pretty fast to the circles of Howard Lutnick and Scott Bessent. The influence of these circles help explain why, in the course of a little over a year, a president elected on a platform of reforming the “deep state” and ending foreign wars, in other words a president elected to dismantle the system Zionists had helped create, became Zionists’ biggest policy boon. This unnerving shift is often explained, or written off, as proof that Zionists “control” American policy. But the reality behind Zionists’ steering power is somewhat more involved. It amounts to arbitration via inducement: Zionists using financial largesse to draw in operators who seek power, then playing on these operators’ desires in order to advance Zionist priorities. Examining Zionists’ moves in this direction beginning in the mid-summer of 2024 when they decisively shifted to Trump, and continuing after Trump’s election when they began decisively influencing his policies, shows in outline how this strategy works in America.
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