President Donald Trump sent his warmer cordial to the leaders of China, Russia and North Korea on Wednesday.
However, the jokes came with a turn: in the same breath, he accused Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong one to conspire against the United States when the trio met in a massive military parade in Beijing.
Although the great missile exhibition and marching troops may have been limited by the release of 80,000 pigeons in the heavens of the Chinese capital, the US president suggested that he saw something completely more sinister behind the show.
“President XI and the wonderful people of China have a great and lasting day of celebration,” Trump wrote in a publication about Truth Social. “Please give my warmer greetings to Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, while conspiring against the United States of America.”
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The Kremlin, who has continued with his war against Ukraine despite Trump’s thrust, dismissed the accusations.
“Nobody was plotting any conspiracy, nobody was plotting anything,” said the assistant of the foreign policy Yuri Ushakov a State Televis Wednesday. “Besides, nobody had such thought.”
Ushakov said he suspected, and expected, that there was at least one small irony in Trump’s anger.
Conspiracy or not, the parade and its trio of high profile assistants served as an unmistakable message for Trump and others that they observed in the West.
XI declared challenging that China was “unstoppable” and said that humanity must choose between peace and war, since it described its alternative to the global order led by the United States that has been beaten by additional turbulence in the Trump era.
On the surface, the “Victory Day” parade marked the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Imperial Japan at the end of World War II. In practice, it was a colossal exhibition of strength, showing hypersonic missiles, drones and combat planes as part of the XI impulse to modernize the military and challenge the West.
A large number of countries disagree with the United States and its allies attended for this unity exhibition for the “axis of agitation”. There was no American delegation, but a notable American seemed to be observing.
Early in the day, Trump had reached a more relaxed tone, telling the Scott Jennings radio program that “was not worried” by China and Russia that possibly formed an axis.
“We have the strongest army in the world,” he said. “They would never use their army in us, believe me. That would be the worst thing they could do.”
But it sounded more worried later.
In his real social position, Trump mentioned the “large amount of support and ‘blood'” that the United States gave to China during World War II.
“Many Americans died in the search for victory and glory of China. I hope they are legitimately honest and remembered for their courage and sacrifice!”
