{"id":289258,"date":"2025-03-10T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=289258"},"modified":"2025-03-06T05:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:48:19","slug":"open-letter-to-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/open-letter-to-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

4 Mar 2025 – <\/em>Your effort to prevent further unnecessary and untimely death of people and to prevent planetary destruction is commendable. Your sense of responsibility as a family man and your willingness to be a caring grandfather and good ancestor for coming generations comes with the duty to ensure life on earth continues to be habitable and comfortable.<\/p>\n

Your kindness and magnanimity, combined with your strong political will could herald a world free from poverty, hunger, homelessness, illiteracy, bombings and destruction of what we all hold dear as human beings: LIFE.<\/p>\n

I am confident that the vast majority of politicians and diplomats on earth would like to create a world free of wars. However, they are not magicians. They cannot perform their duties of negotiating sales and the export of what their national war industries produce and promote Peace simultaneously.<\/p>\n

There is no ‘Defense’ industry. Grenades, landmines, bombs, guided and cruise missiles, torpedoes, rocket launchers, machine guns, tanks, bombing helicopters and drones, air-fighters, warships, don’t defend anything. They are made for killing and destroying.<\/p>\n

We could achieve real peaceful coexistence and shared prosperity if you proposed and collaborated with the rest of the planet towards the Universal Abolition of Militarism: the war industries and the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

As one of the most pragmatic deal makers of our century, this call is yours to make!<\/p>\n

We only need a well trained Police Force to look after security in society.<\/p>\n

You rightly disapprove of illegal immigrants, so why create them? By exporting weapons to all corners of the globe, we help destroy countries whence these people flee. If you were a citizen in one of the conflict zones orchestrated by the governments and their associates, the war industry, you would also try to escape and desperately seek a safe haven somewhere.<\/p>\n

The time is right for you and Vladimir Putin to build a better system beyond ideological divides, beyond politicians who, as if they were children, solve their problems, their differences, by fighting. Not because they like it, only because of the demands of the war market.<\/p>\n

With over 35 trillion dollars of debts, and permanently increasing, the American economy will never recover if this trend continues. The unwise expenditure on the practice of the Art of fighting, maiming, torturing, killing and destroying is not conducive to financial stability.<\/p>\n

PLEASE DONALD, the time is right to set the United States of America on the right course. Beyond militarism! Beyond wars! Save America from the capture of War Industries. The time is right for you to SAVE THE PLANET AND HUMANITY!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Alberto Portugheis is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. By profession a <\/em>concert pianist and pedagogue<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0he\u00a0is an\u00a0active peace campaigner, whose anti-military stance earned him\u00a0a nomination\u00a0for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0As a result,\u00a0Portugheis wrote\u00a0<\/em>Dear Ahed\u2026..The Game of War and a Path to Peace\u00a0\u2013 a book that has received <\/em>critical acclaim<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Another successful book followed: <\/em>$$$$$s In Their Hearts. In 2015 he founded the Movement <\/em>HUFUD-Humanity United For Universal Demilitarisation<\/em><\/a>, which has many followers worldwide.\u00a0 In 2018 HUFUD Latin America was born, based in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia and in 2020 HUFUD Africa was launched, based in Uganda.\u00a0 In Portugheis\u2019 writings, speeches, thoughts, ideas\u00a0and reflections transpire his desire \u201cto make people think\u201d and not take for granted what they read or hear, \u201cno matter where.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We could achieve real peaceful coexistence and shared prosperity if you proposed and collaborated with the rest of the planet towards the Universal Abolition of Militarism: the war industries and the Armed Forces. As one of the most pragmatic deal makers of our century, this call is yours to make!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":116240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1817,1161,1104,1253,119,249,2200,70,1594],"class_list":["post-289258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-anti-militarism","tag-arms-industry","tag-arms-trade","tag-demilitarization","tag-peace","tag-trump","tag-us-empire","tag-usa","tag-war-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289259,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289258\/revisions\/289259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}