Donald Trump continues to make establishment heads explode.

The foreign policy prescription he laid out in a speech hosted by The National Interest magazine last week was more Ron Paulian than neocon, and for that it drew ridicule – like everything Trump does – from the Republican establishment, mainstream media talking heads and foreign policy “experts” whose policies, ideas and opinions have the world in flames and edging us closer and closer to all-out World War III.

Trump promised his foreign policy would be non-interventionist to a certain degree, with the idea that the U.S. could “live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and China.” He said:

We have serious differences with these two nations, and must regard them with open eyes. But we are not bound to be adversaries. We should seek common ground based on shared interests. Russia, for instance, has also seen the horror of Islamic terrorism. I believe an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia – from a position of strength – is possible. Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end. Some say the Russians won’t be reasonable. I intend to find out. If we can’t make a good deal for America, then we will quickly walk from the table.

Trump said the U.S. was rebuilding other countries while weakening our own, using trillions of American dollars to provide security to other countries that aren’t pulling their own weight, and undercutting strategic allies.

The war hawks – especially those pushing for a confrontation with Russia over Ukraine (which is in a civil war thanks to a U.S. backed coup) – quickly pounced, calling his speech incoherent, disconnected and lacking understanding.

On the contrary, aside from a couple of paragraphs of obligatory licking of Israel’s boots and the claim that Iran “cannot be allowed” and “will not be allowed” to have a nuclear weapon, Trump’s foreign policy was more reasonable than either Ted Cruz’s, John Kasich’s or, especially, Hillary Clinton’s.

It’s not a complete non-interventionist and conservative foreign policy in the tradition of Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan, but it’s certainly more conservative a proposal than anything uttered by a candidate with a realistic chance of being elected since Ronald Reagan.

Probably the most telling snippet from the reporting of Trump’s speech came from the mouthpiece of Washington D.C. conventional wisdom, Politico, which wrote:

Trump has largely been shunned by foreign-policy veterans of past Republican administrations, more than 100 members of whom recently signed an open letter saying they would not join his administration; some have threatened to vote for Hillary Clinton over Trump in November.

To which one can only say, Hallelujah!

An administration without neocon lackeys and members from the Council on Foreign Relations (forgive the redundancy) is the only way we can end perpetual war and possibly stave off WWIII.

Paul Craig Roberts, who served in the Reagan White House and knows a thing or two about cabinet selections, says finding a fresh foreign policy team won’t be easy because appointees have to be confirmed by the senate, and the senate is controlled by powerful interests. Those powerful interests are the CFR, the military-industrial complex and the globalist banksters. (For an educational exercise, look at the CFR membership list and see all the familiar names from both Republican and Democrat presidential staffs, particularly from the departments of State and Defense.)

He writes:

Trump will be advised that this and that person cannot be confirmed and that he must send a compromise candidate for Senate confirmation. Moreover, presidents are outside the loop of black op affairs. A false flag event can be pulled off that sends Trump in the direction desired by the military/security complex or Israel.

The American people are getting behind Trump because he is advocating America-first policies. Americans are tired of lying politicians who sell them out to the highest bidder, the globalists and the banksters. They are tired of perpetual war. And they’re finally learning, thanks to the efforts of the #NeverTrump crowd, that the voting is rigged for the establishment who set the party’s rules.

The big question is whether Trump is able and really willing to stand up to the powerful special interests that run the shadow government… or if he is just another Trojan horse candidate with a different agenda altogether.

But Trump is certainly no conservative in most of his policies. In fact, his trade policy is the stuff of protectionist central planners, i.e., big government socialism.