Aligned with the Ministry of War
Yes, today I'll write about Trump again. It's not an obsession, but rather a concern for what's happening across the Atlantic, because what happens in the United States has always been a kind of horizon for what ultimately happens in Europe, and honestly, this worries me a lot.
Current capitalism increasingly requires violence to maintain the levels of inequality and injustice that exist at all levels, global and local. In fact, the super-millionaires maintain their alignment with Trump, no matter how much he claims it or makes it bigger every day. One of the latest has been the change in the name of the US Department of Defense, which has become the War Department. Trump's autocratic drift not only distances the country increasingly from a normal democracy: it is also a violent drift. The assassination of Charlie Kirk, instead of serving to rethink whether it's a good thing to have a society with more weapons than people, has ushered in a new phase of that drift.
These days Trump has once again delivered a speech that is inseparable from any textbook of 20th-century fascism: that of the internal enemy. He delivered it before the generals of all branches of the military to tell them that enough is enough, that the country is at war, and that the internal enemy is that wokeAnd immigrants: Trump has not been satisfied with creating a force parallel to the FBI and the CIA such as ICE, a militia of unscrupulous hooded volunteers who are dedicated to detaining and arresting on the street, at work or at school those they consider something more brown of what is desirable in one of the most multicultural and racialized countries in the world…
The very fact of having created a Ministry of War should already stir something in the consciences, if any remain, of Western governments: is the United States really a reliable ally? Who guarantees us that this 'war' that began a few months ago with the tariffs cannot be waged against us? Or that since we are part of NATO, they will not involve us in any war, no matter how invented, absurd or convenient it is for their interests?
Well, no. The worrying thing about all this is that no matter how great Trump or the Western governments, from Starmer to Merz or Meloni, claim it is, nobody here says or questions anything. Silence, in the face of such barbarism, is a way of legitimizing this violent drift, and violence is also used to ensure other silences, such as those of American universities attacked by Trump, with relatively little noise from universities in our region, which, under the guise of pursuing science, remain silent even in the face of denialism.
I can understand the far right following Trump and his obsessions, even if they contradict their rancid patriotism. But I find it hard to see how long-standing right-wing leaders, in addition to not contradicting Trump, adopt some of his postulates in practice, as is being done here with immigration. Because what Feijóo and Prohens did a few days ago in Formentera is exactly the same thing Abascal did last year in the Canary Islands: fanning the flames of hatred against immigrants, ignoring the fact that, until two days ago, both Galicians and islanders were a land of emigrants.
When immigration arriving by boat, no matter how much the numbers have multiplied, is ridiculous in volume compared to the nearly 20 million tourists we have no problem managing. And it's trafficked immigration, which doesn't even stop here, but the opportunity to take advantage of this drama to scrape a few votes from the far right isn't missed. And in the process, without saying it with Trump's clairvoyance, point to immigration as our internal enemy while you don't do your part to welcome, at least, the children with dignity. Trumpism in the making, without caring in the least about the social consequences of all this, with the sowing of so much evil.
More silence and complicity these days: the proposed unilateral "agreement" between Trump and Netanyahu for the recolonization of Palestine, to which even Sánchez has agreed. The cowardice of the Spanish Ministry of Defense in protecting the Gaza Solidarity Flotilla while we unconditionally join the Cold War in Ukraine. And above all, the clamorous and violent silence regarding the repression in neighboring Morocco, where many of the new islanders come from. The authoritarian monarchy, friendly to the United States, Israel, and Spain, no longer allows young people of Generation Z to leave, but continues to steal their lives... But don't sell them, eh! If they have to kill them, let them kill them, but don't sell them, and then the problem doesn't exist.
All of this, a world in which it's scary to live, to have children. All of this, because we don't dare stop being aligned with the owner of the Ministry of War. Can it really get any worse than all this?
