{"id":66231,"date":"2017-02-16T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66231"},"modified":"2017-02-16T11:32:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:32:33","slug":"these-8-neocons-are-gearing-up-to-destroy-president-trump-and-make-america-bomb-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66231","title":{"rendered":"These 8 neocons are gearing up to destroy President Trump and \u201cMake America Bomb Again\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-16-at-10.28.43-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-66232\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-16-at-10.28.43-AM.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-16-at-10.28.43-AM.png 838w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-16-at-10.28.43-AM-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-16-at-10.28.43-AM-768x281.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Christoforou<br \/>\nThe Duran<\/p>\n<p>US Senator Rand Paul <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/318211-rand-paul-urges-trump-not-to-open-state-department-to-the-neocons\" target=\"_blank\">recently\u00a0urged President Trump<\/a> not to choose neoconservative Elliott Abrams to serve in the No. 2 spot at the US State Department.<\/p>\n<p>In an op-ed published in the libertarian website Rare, Paul argues\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cElliott Abrams is a neoconservative too long in the tooth to change his spots, and the president should have no reason to trust that he would carry out a Trump agenda rather than a neocon agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress has good reason not to trust him \u2014 he was convicted of lying to Congress in his previous job.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul added that Abrams\u2019s <strong><em>\u201cneocon agenda trumps his fidelity to the rule of law.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHe is a loud voice for nation building and when asked about the president\u2019s\u00a0opposition to nation building, Abrams said that Trump was\u00a0absolutely wrong; and during the election he was unequivocal in his opposition to Donald Trump, going so far as to say, \u2018the chair in which Washington and Lincoln sat, he is not fit to sit.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you look up neocon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/neocon\" target=\"_blank\">merriam-webster.com<\/a>, you are sent to the definition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/neoconservative\" target=\"_blank\">neoconservative<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1:\u00a0 a former liberal espousing political conservatism<br \/>\n2:\u00a0 a conservative who advocates the assertive promotion of democracy and U.S. national interest in international affairs including through military means<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Here are 8 neocons<\/strong> that are gunning to take Trump down, and force America into more illegal wars and regime change operations.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>1. Max Boot \u2013 Pushing\u00a0to create a Syria \u201cno-fly\u201d zone\u2026<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12782\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/max-boot-neocon.jpg?resize=940%2C529\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/max-boot-neocon.jpg?w=1280 1280w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/max-boot-neocon.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/max-boot-neocon.jpg?resize=768%2C432 768w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/max-boot-neocon.jpg?resize=1024%2C576 1024w\" alt=\"max boot neocon\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Max Boot is an American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.<\/li>\n<li>He once described his ideas as \u201cAmerican might to promote American ideals.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Worked as a writer and editor for Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s.<\/li>\n<li>He is now Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/li>\n<li>He has written for numerous publications such as The Weekly Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he has also authored books of military history.<\/li>\n<li>In September 2012, Boot co-wrote with Brookings Institution senior fellow Michael Doran a New York Times op-ed titled \u201c5 Reasons to Intervene in Syria Now\u201d, advocating U.S military force to create a countrywide no-fly zone reminiscent of NATO\u2019s role in the Kosovo War.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>2. Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland \u2013 The family of neocons\u2026<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12781\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Robert-Kagan-and-his-wife-Victoria-Nuland.jpg?resize=940%2C424\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Robert-Kagan-and-his-wife-Victoria-Nuland.jpg?w=1571 1571w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Robert-Kagan-and-his-wife-Victoria-Nuland.jpg?resize=300%2C135 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Robert-Kagan-and-his-wife-Victoria-Nuland.jpg?resize=768%2C347 768w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Robert-Kagan-and-his-wife-Victoria-Nuland.jpg?resize=1024%2C462 1024w\" alt=\"Robert-Kagan-and-his-wife-Victoria-Nuland\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Victoria Nuland was Obama\u2019s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, married to the top imperial Neocon Robert Kagan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/03\/20\/a-family-business-of-perpetual-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Run a neocon family business<\/a> that had Vicky\u00a0Nuland engineer a hot war in Ukraine, and ramp up\u00a0Cold War 2.0 with Russia.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Kagan works outside of government lobbying Congress into jacking up military spending so America can meet \u201cNuland created\u201d\u00a0security threats.<\/li>\n<li>An inside-outside team that creates the need for more military spending, applies political pressure to ensure higher appropriations, and\u00a0watches as\u00a0thankful weapons manufacturers lavish grants on like-minded hawkish Washington think tanks.<\/li>\n<li>The Kagan clan includes Robert\u2019s brother Frederick at the American Enterprise Institute and his wife Kimberly, who runs her own shop called the Institute for the Study of War.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/05\/20\/hillary-clintons-neocon-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kagan openly supported Hillary Clinton<\/a> during the US elections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>3. John McCain and Lindsey Olin Graham \u2013 Congressional war hawks\u2026<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12790\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/john-mccain-joe-lieberman-lindsey-graham-presidential-candidate-election-1.jpg?resize=739%2C559\" sizes=\"(max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/john-mccain-joe-lieberman-lindsey-graham-presidential-candidate-election-1.jpg?w=739 739w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/john-mccain-joe-lieberman-lindsey-graham-presidential-candidate-election-1.jpg?resize=300%2C227 300w\" alt=\"US Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Linds\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McCain and Graham are lifetime US Senators who sponsor American aggression and interventionism at every turn.<\/li>\n<li>A \u2018husband and wife\u2019 team that were leaders in pushing the Iraq WMD invasion on George W. Bush.<\/li>\n<li>Supported the dismemberment and destruction of Libya.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/john-mccain-and-president-trump-are-at-war-but-these-5-photos-show-senator-mccain-in-bed-with-al-qaeda-and-isis\/\">McCain has been photographed<\/a> meeting with various ISIS and Al Qaeda leaders in the run up to the destabilization of Syria.<\/li>\n<li>Both men worked closely with neo-nazi elements in Ukraine to overthrow the democratically elected government of\u00a0Viktor\u00a0Yanukovych, and place in power\u00a0a far-right oligarch puppet regime in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>Both men are never shy <a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/breaking-trump-accuses-mccain-graham-looking-start-world-war-iii\/\">to voice their disdain<\/a> for Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/john-mccain-urges-president-trump-to-escalate-conflict-in-ukraine-by-sending-lethal-weapons-to-far-right-neo-nazi-forces\/\">Highly critical of President Trump<\/a> and his desire to build bridges with Russia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>4. Bill Kristol \u2013 Started the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12780\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kristol-neocon.jpg?resize=940%2C529\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kristol-neocon.jpg?w=992 992w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kristol-neocon.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kristol-neocon.jpg?resize=768%2C432 768w\" alt=\"kristol neocon\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bill Kristol recently said: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-09\/bill-kristol-decadent-lazy-spoiled-white-working-class-americans-should-be-replaced-\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDecadent, lazy, spoiled, white working class\u201d Americans should be replaced by immigrants.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>He is the founder and editor at large of the political magazine The Weekly Standard and a political commentator on several TV networks.<\/li>\n<li>He was chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005.<\/li>\n<li>He co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with Robert Kagan.<\/li>\n<li>He is a member of the board of trustees for the free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research,<\/li>\n<li>He is also one of the three board members of Keep America Safe, a think tank co-founded by Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame, and serves on the board of the Emergency Committee for Israel and the Susan B. Anthony List.<\/li>\n<li>Kristol supported the Bush administration\u2019s decision to go to war with Iraq.<\/li>\n<li>In 2003, he and Lawrence Kaplan wrote The War Over Iraq, in which he described reasons for removing Saddam.<\/li>\n<li>Kristol predicted a \u201ctwo month war, not an eight year war\u201d during a March 28 CSPAN appearance.<\/li>\n<li>In the 2010 affair surrounding the disclosure of U.S. diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks, Kristol spoke strongly against the organization and suggested using \u201cour various assets to harass, snatch or neutralize Julian Assange and his collaborators, wherever they are.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In March 2011, he wrote an editorial in The Weekly Standard arguing that the United States\u2019 military interventions in Muslim countries (including the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War) should not be classified as \u201cinvasions\u201d, but rather as \u201cliberations\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Kristol backed Obama\u2019s decision to intervene in the 2011 Libyan civil war and urged fellow conservatives to support the action.<\/li>\n<li>Kristol recently said that President Trump treats Putin \u2018with more <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/314364-bill-kristol-trump-treats-putin-with-more-respect-than-a-civil\" target=\"_blank\">respect\u2019 than John Lewis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>5. Elliot Abrams \u2013 The neocon\u2019s Trump insider\u2026<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12779\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Elliott-Abrahms.jpg?resize=940%2C627\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Elliott-Abrahms.jpg?w=960 960w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Elliott-Abrahms.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Elliott-Abrahms.jpg?resize=768%2C512 768w\" alt=\"Elliott Abrahms\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/02\/trumps-neocon-elliott-abrams\/515784\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elliott Abrams is reportedly under consideration<\/a> to be deputy secretary of state.<\/li>\n<li>Politico\u2019s reports that Abrams is meeting with President Trump on Tuesday, and that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson supports him for the job.<\/li>\n<li>His first big job came in the Reagan administration, where he was assistant secretary of state.<\/li>\n<li>The independent counsel investigating the the Iran-Contra affair considered charging Abrams with several felonies, but Abrams agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor cases of withholding evidence. He was later pardoned by President George H.W. Bush.<\/li>\n<li>When Bush\u2019s son became president eight years later, he appointed Abrams deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser, supervising U.S. policy in the Middle East.<\/li>\n<li>Abrams was a supporter of the Iraq war and took a lead on Israeli-Palestinian issues.<\/li>\n<li>He\u2019s now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and writes for a variety of outlets, including items posted on The Atlantic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>6. Michael Weiss \u2013 The next generation, hipster, neocon\u2026<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12783\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/weiss_neocon.jpg?resize=940%2C529\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/weiss_neocon.jpg?w=1024 1024w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/weiss_neocon.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/weiss_neocon.jpg?resize=768%2C432 768w\" alt=\"weiss_neocon\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weiss has served as co-chair of the Russia Studies Centre at the Henry Jackson Society (HJS).<\/li>\n<li>Weiss currently serves as the editor-in-chief for the online magazine Interpreter, which translates and analyzes Russian news.<\/li>\n<li>He is also senior editor of The Daily Beast, a regular columnist for Foreign Policy magazine.<\/li>\n<li>In 2015, he co-wrote the book ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror with Hassan Hassan.<\/li>\n<li>In November 2014, Weiss published a special report in his online magazine the Interpreter that accused Russia of waging \u201cpropaganda and disinformation\u201d campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>Went on CNN and proclaimed that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zIziugfwJAE\">Trump a fascist; like Stalin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/12\/07\/how-to-salvage-syria.html\">Advocates<\/a>\u00a0placing \u201csmall but effective U.S. garrisons indefinitely in eastern and northeastern Syria and western Iraq.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>7.\u00a0Eliot Cohen \u2013 First neocon\u00a0to advocate for war against Iran and Iraq\u2026<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12778\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Eliot-Cohen-neocon.jpg?resize=640%2C360\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Eliot-Cohen-neocon.jpg?w=640 640w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Eliot-Cohen-neocon.jpg?resize=300%2C169 300w\" alt=\"Eliot-Cohen-neocon\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eliot Asher Cohen was a counselor in the United States Department of State under Condoleezza Rice from 2007 to 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Cohen is the Director of the Strategic Studies Program at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.<\/li>\n<li>He is a specialist in the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq, arms control, and NATO.<\/li>\n<li>Cohen was one of the first neoconservatives to publicly advocate war against Iran and Iraq.<\/li>\n<li>Cohen wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post on 3 March 2014, between the ousting of Viktor Yanukovich on 22 February and the Crimean referendum on 16 March. In it, he maintains that <em>\u201cPutin is indeed a brutal Great Russian nationalist who understands that Russia without a belt of subservient client states is not merely a very weak power but also vulnerable to the kind of upheaval that toppled Yanukovych\u2019s corrupt and oppressive regime.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/01\/a-clarifying-moment-in-american-history\/514868\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fiercely critical<\/a> of President Trump and Steve Bannon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>8. Hillary Clinton \u2013 A top\u00a0neocon dressed in\u00a0liberal left clothing\u2026<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12791\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hillary-clinton-george-bush-neoconservatives_850_560.jpg?resize=850%2C560\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hillary-clinton-george-bush-neoconservatives_850_560.jpg?w=850 850w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hillary-clinton-george-bush-neoconservatives_850_560.jpg?resize=300%2C198 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/theduran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/hillary-clinton-george-bush-neoconservatives_850_560.jpg?resize=768%2C506 768w\" alt=\"hillary-clinton-george-bush-neoconservatives_850_560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Several neoconservatives have spent years admiring\u00a0Hillary Clinton\u2019s penchant for supporting every foreign war or military escalation in the last decade.<\/li>\n<li>Kagan said in 2014: <em>\u201cI feel comfortable with her on foreign policy\u2026If she pursues a policy which we think she will pursue, it\u2019s something that might have been called neocon, but clearly her supporters are not going to call it that; they are going to call it something else.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/05\/20\/hillary-clintons-neocon-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary\u2019s neocon<\/a> r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes Serbia where she urged an initially reluctant Bill Clinton to launch what became a two-and-a-half month bombing campaign that killed many thousands of Serb civilians. In urging this carnage on the president, she used the false claim that lethal military force was required to stop Hitler-like \u201cgenocide\u201d in Yugoslavia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/05\/20\/hillary-clintons-neocon-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary\u2019s neocon<\/a> r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes a YES vote for an Iraq invasion as a U.S. Senator.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/05\/20\/hillary-clintons-neocon-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary\u2019s neocon<\/a> r\u00e9sum\u00e9 a coup in\u00a0Honduras with bogus claims\u00a0that, then President Zelaya, had been trying to establish a dictatorship and that Hondurans had after the coup experienced \u201cfree and fair elections\u201d that restored \u201cdemocratic and constitutional government\u201d in Honduras.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/05\/20\/hillary-clintons-neocon-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary\u2019s neocon<\/a> r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes the\u00a0removal of Momar Gadaffi \u2013 \u201ca hero to black Africa\u201d because of his efforts to create a progressive pan-African Union and his decent treatment of Black Libyans \u2013 through U.S.-led Western force turned Libya into a jihadist nightmare zone.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/05\/20\/hillary-clintons-neocon-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary\u2019s neocon<\/a> r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes her staunch support for the removal of Syrian President Assad and the\u00a0destabilization of Syria.<\/li>\n<li>Hillary Clinton has consistently sought to demonize and isolate Russia, blaming the Ukraine crisis on \u201cPutin\u2019s imperialism\u201d and endlessly justifying Washington\u2019s relentless provocation of Russia.<\/li>\n<li>Hillary\u2019s close ally is top neocon insider and Ukraine coup architect, Victoria Nuland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"embed_iframe_bc_13142\" class=\"embed_iframe_bc\" src=\"http:\/\/blankchat.com\/embeded.php?a=embeded_post&amp;m=13142\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theduran.com\/these-8-neocons-are-gearing-up-to-destroy-president-trump-and-make-america-bomb-again\/\">http:\/\/theduran.com\/these-8-neocons-are-gearing-up-to-destroy-president-trump-and-make-america-bomb-again\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Christoforou The Duran US Senator Rand Paul recently\u00a0urged President Trump not to choose neoconservative Elliott Abrams to serve in the No. 2 spot at the US State Department. In an op-ed published in the libertarian website Rare, Paul argues\u2026 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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-66231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66231","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=66231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}