Now let\u2019s immediately get one thing out of the way: Flynn was hardly a saint or a perfect wise man who would single handedly saved the world.\u00a0 That he was not.\u00a0 However, what Flynn was is the cornerstone of Trump\u2019s national security policy<\/strong>.\u00a0 For one thing, Flynn dared the unthinkable: he dared to declare that the bloated US intelligence community had to be reformed.\u00a0 Flynn also tried to subordinate the CIA and the Joint Chiefs to the President via the National Security Council.\u00a0 Put differently, Flynn tried to wrestle the ultimate power and authority from the CIA and the Pentagon and subordinate them back to the White House.\u00a0 Flynn also wanted to work with Russia. Not because he was a Russia lover, the notion of a Director of the DIA as a Putin-fan is ridiculous, but Flynn was rational, he understood that Russia was no threat to the USA or to Europe and that Russia had the West had common interests.\u00a0 That is another absolutely unforgivable crimethink<\/em> in Washington DC.<\/p>\n The Neocon run \u2018deep state\u2019 has now forced Flynn to resign under the idiotic pretext that he had a telephone conversation, on an open, insecure and clearly monitored, line with the Russian ambassador.<\/p>\n And Trump accepted this resignation.<\/p>\n Ever since Trump made it to the White House, he has taken blow after blow from the Neocon-run Ziomedia, from Congress, from all the Hollywood doubleplusgoodthinking<\/em> \u201cstars\u201d and even from European politicians.\u00a0 And Trump took each blow without ever fighting back.\u00a0 Nowhere was his famous \u201cyou are fired!\u201d to be seen.\u00a0 But I still had hope.\u00a0 I wanted to hope.\u00a0 I felt that it was my duty to hope.<\/p>\n But now Trump has betrayed us all.<\/p>\n Remember how Obama showed his true face when he hypocritically denounced his friend and pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.<\/a>?\u00a0 Today, Trump has shown us his true face.\u00a0 Instead of refusing Flynn\u2019s resignation and instead of firing those who dared cook up these ridiculous accusations against Flynn, Trump accepted the resignation.\u00a0 This is not only an act of abject cowardice, it is also an amazingly stupid and self-defeating betrayal because now Trump will be alone, completely alone, facing the likes of Mattis and Pence \u2013 hard Cold Warrior types, ideological to the core, folks who want war and simply don\u2019t care about reality.<\/p>\n Again, Flynn was not my hero.\u00a0 But he was, by all accounts, Trump\u2019s hero.\u00a0 And Trump betrayed him.<\/p>\n The consequences of this will be immense.\u00a0 For one thing, Trump is now clearly broken. It took the \u2018deep state\u2019 only weeks to castrate Trump and to make him bow to the powers that be<\/strong>.\u00a0 Those who would have stood behind Trump will now feel that he will not stand behind them and they will all move back away from him.\u00a0 The Neocons will feel elated by the elimination of their worst enemy and emboldened by this victory they will push on, doubling-down over and over and over again.<\/p>\n It\u2019s over, folks, the deep state has won.<\/p>\n From now on, Trump will become the proverbial shabbos-goy<\/em>, the errand boy of the Israel lobby.\u00a0 Hassan Nasrallah was right when he called him \u2018an idiot<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n The Chinese and Iranian will openly laugh.\u00a0 The Russians won\u2019t \u2013 they will be polite, they will smile, and try to see if some common sense policies can still be salvaged from this disaster.\u00a0 Some might. But any dream of a partnership between Russia and the United States has died tonight.<\/p>\n The EU leaders will, of course, celebrate.\u00a0 Trump was nowhere the scary bogeyman they feared.\u00a0 Turns out that he is a doormat \u2013 very good for the EU.<\/p>\n Where does all this leave us \u2013 the millions of anonymous \u2018deplorables\u2019 who try as best we can to resist imperialism, war, violence and injustice?<\/p>\n I think that we were right in our hopes because that is all we had \u2013 hopes.\u00a0 No expectations, just hopes.\u00a0 But now we objectively have very little reasons left to hope.\u00a0 For one thing, the Washington \u2018swamp\u2019 will not be drained.\u00a0 If anything, the swamp has triumphed.\u00a0 We can only find some degree of solace in two undeniable facts:<\/p>\n The first one is obvious.\u00a0 So let me clarify the second one.\u00a0 In their hate-filled rage against Trump and the American people (aka \u201cthe basket of deplorables\u201d) the Neocons have had to show they true face.\u00a0 By their rejection of the outcome of the elections, by their riots, their demonization of Trump, the Neocons have shown two crucial things: first, that the US democracy is a sad joke and that they, the Neocons, are an occupation regime which rules against the will of the American people.\u00a0 In other words, just like Israel, the USA has no legitimacy left.\u00a0 And since, just like Israel, the USA are unable to frighten their enemies, they are basically left with nothing, no legitimacy, no ability to coerce.\u00a0 So yes, the Neocons have won.\u00a0 But their victory is removes the last chance for the US to avoid a collapse.<\/p>\n Trump, for all his faults, did favor the US, as a country, over the global Empire.\u00a0 Trump was also acutely aware that \u2018more of the same\u2019 was not an option.\u00a0 He wanted policies commensurate with the actual capabilities of the USA.\u00a0 With Flynn gone and the Neocons back in full control \u2013 this is over.\u00a0 Now we are going to be right back to ideology over reality.<\/p>\n Trump probably could have made America, well, maybe not \u201cgreat again\u201d, but at least stronger, a major world power which could negotiate and use its leverage to get the best deal possible from the others.\u00a0 That\u2019s over now.\u00a0 With Trump broken, Russia and China will go right back to their pre-Trump stance: a firm resistance backed by a willingness and capability to confront and defeat the USA at any level.<\/p>\n I am quite sure that nobody today is celebrating in the Kremlin.\u00a0 Putin, Lavrov and the others surely understand exactly what happened.\u00a0 It is as if Khodorkovsy would have succeeded in breaking Putin in 2003.\u00a0 In fact, I have to credit Russian analysts who for several weeks already have been comparing Trump to Yanukovich, who also was elected by a majority of the people and who failed to show the resolve needed to stop the \u2018color revolution\u2019 started against him.\u00a0 But if Trump is the new Yanukovich, will the US become the next Ukraine?<\/strong><\/p>\n Flynn was very much the cornerstone of the hoped-for Trump foreign policy.\u00a0 There was a real chance that he would reign in the huge, bloated and all-powerful three letter agencies and that he would focus US power against the real enemy of the West: the Wahabis.\u00a0 With Flynn gone, this entire conceptual edifice has now come down.\u00a0 We are going to be left with the likes of Mattis and his anti-Iranian statements.\u00a0 Clowns who only impress other clowns.<\/p>\n Today Neocon victory is a huge event and it will probably be completely misrepresented by the official media.\u00a0 Ironically, Trump supporters will also try minimize it all.\u00a0 But the reality is that barring a most unlikely last-minute miracle, it\u2019s over for Trump and the hopes of millions of people in the USA and the rest of the world who had hoped that the Neocons could be booted out of power by means of a peaceful election.\u00a0 That is clearly not going to happen.<\/p>\n I see very dark clouds on the horizon.<\/p>\n The Saker<\/p>\n UPDATE1<\/strong>: Just to stress an important point: the disaster is not so much that Flynn is out but what Trump\u2019s caving in to the Neocon tells us about Trump\u2019s character (or lack thereof).\u00a0 Ask yourself \u2013 after what happened to Flynn, would you stick your neck out for Trump?<\/p>\n UPDATE2<\/strong>: Just as predicted \u2013 the Neocons are celebrating and, of course, doubling-down:\n
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