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How The Military Slow Rolled Trump
Axios has a series of deep dives into the last two and a half months of the Trump administration. Yesterday it publish Episode 9: Trump's war with his generals which explains how a weak Trump was pushed and tricked into approving policies which were contrary to his own preferences and instincts:
Once in office, though, Trump's ambitions to withdraw from Afghanistan and other countries were subdued, slow-rolled, and detoured by military leaders.
Trump was not assertive enough to use the power of his office to get things done. He also was not smart enough to beat the deep state in its own game.
As Kelley Vlahos of Responsible Statecraft comments:
This is an important read, which also includes new speculation about whether Gen. Milley was actively working against the civilian leadership in the Pentagon during this period. Interestingly, while Trump was railing about “stop the steal” he wasn’t doing what everyone had accused him of doing on the military side: he wasn’t using Macgregor, Miller, et al., to stay in office. Rather, he seemed to believe that following through with his pledge to “end forever wars” would be the ultimate revenge against Esper, Milley, and Generals H.R. McMaster and Jim Mattis. Too bad he did not achieve this one post-election fantasy.
Yep.
The weakness of the US working class may be the key to understanding the failure of Trumpism. S. P. Korolev @69 < The nation state system of government makes private corporate accumulation of profit making public goods and services possible. (Economics not politics is the driver; instead, politics within a nation state operates like the customer complaint in an Oligarch owned department store [nation state], you can get your money back, but forget changing the system). Such a design disenfranchises inalienable human rights, and invites use of the system to extract from the operation of the government itself public goods and services for private use. The nation state is a people control tool, capable to control every aspect of the lives of those the governments govern.
Indirect democracies are propaganda fronts, there are no direct democracies of consequence.
The nation state system turns the management of the governed over to the Oligarchs. The Oligarchs use the nation state management system to extract into the Oligarch owned private corporate treasuries, economically profitable market rights and monopoly powers [this leaves raped, the governments, that must: find ways to tend to the costly obligations people depend on; those things governments are supposed to supply to those the governments govern].
After the rape, the capacity of nation state to serve the needs and wants of the governed, depends on the ability of the govern to fund the costly things governments must provide to those it governs. True because the self funding capacity of government has been privatized by the rape.
Extracting and redirecting public wealth and wealth producing public rights into private oligarch wealth (by use of the rule of law) is the business of the nation state. The entire system (256 nation states) serve as oligarch owned government operated branch transfer agencies. Everything of value is transferred from the public side to the private side. This is true because the governed masses have been excluded from the forces that decide matters. The vote, needs and wants of the governed, are not the concern when decisions are made, the governed have been denied admission to the meetings that allocate the resources and privatize powers that governments engage in daily. In USA governed America, it is often illegal to possess a document, or to express a fact, deemed secret by the government in violation of the first amendment.
I think it is not the weakness of the working class that accounts for the mess we have been given, but instead the right of government, or any of its employees, contractors or executives to keep secret anything about anything no matter what that accounts for mess.
Nation State law making currently means redirecting goods, services, rights and powers from the public to private domain.
Understanding governmental purpose to be: to convert public property, public rights and profit making government monopoly powers (such as utility and energy services, and the practice of storing, developing and hiding assets protected by copyright, private property ownership, and patents, and private:government contracts) account for dominate private rule by a few.
For example, As soon as Government grants supported research, discovers economically promising new principles capable to enable new industry the ownership and use of those public funded discoveries are made mobile by copyright and patents. Once mobilized the profitable discovery can be easily privately owned by the wealthy few (copyright and patent monopolies transfer ownership of public power and wealth to private monopoly power and wealth). So ownership of every discovery and all technology of value is mobilized by copyright or patent monopoly law). In other words the oligarch uses the nation state system to transfer into privately owned oligarch control wealth and monopoly power and the oligarch stores that wealth in his private corporate tower and his monopoly power in his file entitled nation state made grants of monopoly power.
High technology is supported by public grants (by and thru the various agencies of government) and by the legal system that gates access to loans that never needs to be paid back (stocks); the private loans made from investor pockets made by Wall Street to the Oligarch few.
MSM funding that comes from tax deductible advertising. Every corporation of any substance provides a portion of its income to fund the privately owned MSM. MSM has access to nearly all corporate owned technology, so the corporate system is a joint and several partnership with the MSM. The MSM is used by the Oligarch to keep the governed people[deplorables] contained within the non functional [political] part of the nation state (the outcome of nation state politics does not control the operation of the nation state).
I don't think it is the nations money supply controlled by private banks and syndicated financial giants that took control of the nation state from the governed masses, I think the culprit is the design of the nation state system. It was the USA, a nation state, the Oligarch used to privatize the banks (FEDERAl RESERVE ACT of 1913) and to collaterize the banks (Income Tax Act of 1913), and it was the Nelson A. Aldridge 16th amendment ratified 1913, that made private banking possible, in the case of USA governed America.
The 16th amendment negated in nearly word for word rebuke: Article I, Sec. 9, para 4 "No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken (overruled by the 16th amendment)" but the 16th amendment reads "The congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without any regard to any census or enumeration.
My point is private banking is not the cause the nation state system is. Anything the Oligarch wants the nation state system delivers and since it is all done in secret, there is no way for the governed to balance the powers. That is why I argue we need a government made up of those who are governed, who would, in that 2nd government, govern those who are the governors.
Posted by: snake | May 18 2021 10:51 utc | 73
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