{"id":65640,"date":"2017-02-09T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65640"},"modified":"2017-02-09T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:42:06","slug":"are-more-wars-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65640","title":{"rendered":"Are More Wars On The Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Encinitas, CA<br \/>\nFebruary 8, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Trump is failing to keep his campaign promise to have better relations with<br \/>\nRussia by embracing the lies of Obama regarding Crimea, Iran and Syria.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-07\/things-will-get-worse-until-us-stops-lying-about-crimea\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-07\/things-will-get-worse-until-us-stops-lying-about-crimea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His entire cabinet and most of Congress are on board to promote the failed<br \/>\npolicies of Bush, Obama and Clinton for Pax Americana.<\/p>\n<p>I would describe the situation as bleak and growing worse by the day. The<br \/>\nannouncement of his selection of Eliot Abrams to be the #2 official in his<br \/>\nState Department implies Trump is opting for the disastrous Neocon\/Neoliberal<br \/>\napproach he campaigned against. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/46394.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/46394.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His unqualified support of Israel and Saudi Arabia can only mean more war<br \/>\nin the region and the virtual impossibility of improved relations with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Threatening China over its island bases in the South China Sea escalates<br \/>\nthe potential for confrontation and rejects the possibility of mutual support<br \/>\nfor economic development.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is proving to be the nightmare predicted by those on the Left that saw<br \/>\nhim as a likely tyrant. The honest Tea Party types who believed his pledge to<br \/>\n&#8220;make America great again&#8221; by foregoing foreign entanglements are witnessing<br \/>\nhis duplicity. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65287\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65287<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Launching a raid into Yemen a few days into his term that supports the devastating<br \/>\nSaudi war on that poor nation while relentlessly demonizing Iran demonstrates a<br \/>\nfailure to distance himself from the failed policies of his predecessors and an<br \/>\nabandonment of his Inaugural pledge to stop interfering in the internal affairs of<br \/>\nother nations. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchingromeburn.com\/news\/trump-trumpeting-war-iran\/\">http:\/\/www.watchingromeburn.com\/news\/trump-trumpeting-war-iran\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are we on the brink of WWIII? Are more wars on the way? As things now stand,<br \/>\nTrump has badly fumbled a golden opportunity to set a new tone for international<br \/>\nrelations, especially with Russia and China.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchingromeburn.com\/news\/big-deal-trump-russia-china\/\">http:\/\/www.watchingromeburn.com\/news\/big-deal-trump-russia-china\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sadly he continues the slide towards military confrontation expected by those who<br \/>\nfeared a Hillary presidency and demonstrates again the futility of electoral politics<br \/>\nfor achieving real change at this stage of the 21st Century.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65268\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65268<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}