President Trump poked the Deep State — and OMG the world is ending (so they say)

22 December 2018

As I peer over the rim of the American cuckoo nest

I am struck by how predictably lunatic everything that American Deep State leadership does, thinks or says — is.

For example, on 19 December

President Trump indicated that he wants to withdraw US forces from Syria.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis immediately resigned with a two page protest.

And our deeply treasured (and treasuried) Military Industrial Complex — in happy accord with the Great American Lamestream's propaganda-deluging apparatus — skyrocketed into Doom Prediction mode.

We can, I am sure, conclude that Jesus's scheduled Second Coming has been toppled awry by The Donald's recklessness.

Given that this is the New America, no one provides any facts

Knowing what we are actually doing in Syria (and almost anywhere else) is impossible.

The US military, and the Complex that feeds it, conveniently keep almost everything secret.

War and fear-favoring brainwash fills the gap.

Nevertheless, a couple of things should be clear . . .

. . . to anyone with a less than comatose brain.

Similar "stay" logic has us still in Afghanistan. Accomplishing nothing strategic.

We've been there 17 years. The Taliban now rules 60 percent of the country. And the US-supported toady government that opposes them is losing the rest.

Are you going to tell me that the Taliban could not launch a knock against the American "homeland" from their 60 percent of Afghanistan?

Does 70 percent control mark the danger threshold? Preventing this additional 10 percent escape from American control — is that why we're still in Afghanistan?

How are Syria and ISIS different? Particularly when ISIS controls almost nothing in Syria anymore. This happy development — predominantly, some think — thanks to the Russian Federation:

[Russian President Putin's] aim is a return to the pre-civil war status quo: a friendly Assad regime, a safe Russian naval base in Tartus, and an end to jihadist-fueled instability across Syria.

That latter one is especially important to understanding the Russian psyche. Putin fears nothing more than a weak state besieged by armed rogues, a result of his formative experiences in chaotic Dresden after the Berlin Wall came down and later amid uprisings in Chechnya. Hence the desire to protect Assad, who will keep the mob from the Tartus door.

The real disruptive change, then, won’t come if Putin “wins”; it will come if the United States were to somehow realize its original delusion of overthrowing Assad, which would (further) tear open a power vacuum that would be filled at least in part by jihadists.

Using similarly less biased sources of information and analysis, you may also recognize that the United States was probably intentionally fostering terror activity in Syria. Including Al Qaeda's.

Our terrorists (you see) are always better than theirs.

"That's not it, dumbshit Pete!"

Instead, it is that "we" need to stay to protect the Kurds from the Turks, who consider them to be a terror group.

How does that work?

We support the Kurds against our allies the Turks. While pretending that we're actually protecting ourselves against the clearly non-existential threat posed by ISIS. Who, in turn, does its recruiting by pointing to our usually hostile presences in Islamic lands.

Like this one:

US Army Sergeant Major John Wayne Troxell stated that “In five months [the coalition] fired 30,000 artillery rounds on ISIS targets … They fired more rounds in five months in Raqqa, Syria, than any other Marine artillery battalion, or any Marine or Army battalion, since the Vietnam War.”

Airwars estimates that no less than 1,300 civilians were killed in Raqqa by the US-led coalition in four months—about eleven people per day.

According to UN officials, eighty percent of the city was destroyed by a combination of airstrikes and artillery fire, and is now uninhabitable. Virtuous or vicious?

If you lived in Raqqa, what would you think?

Or if that's too far a leap . . .

. . . we being (predominantly) a comfortable nation of NFL watchers — who know nothing (at all) of the experience of war inside the "homeland" — how about imagining:

being Muslim

and

living under the United States' omnipresent, missile firing drones,

while watching family members get bits-i-fied or incinerated on a regular basis?

"I really don't understand why they hate us so, Pete."

The moral? — For whatever impulsive or attention-misdirecting motive, President Trump is contemplating doing something arguably reasonable

And characteristically, our warmongering Plutocracy is up in arms.

Pardon the pun.

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President Trump poked the Deep State — and OMG the world is ending (so they say)