{"id":71394,"date":"2017-04-15T20:19:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T00:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71394"},"modified":"2017-04-15T20:19:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T00:19:23","slug":"trump-abandons-his-base-to-go-full-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71394","title":{"rendered":"Trump Abandons His Base To Go &#8220;Full Empire!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Santa Barbara, CA<br \/>\nApril 15, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>President Trump&#8217;s abandonment of his base and embrace of so many things<br \/>\nhe campaigned against is beautifully captured in this essay by Bill Bonner.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=169396\">http:\/\/revolutionradio.org\/?p=169396<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather than draining the swamp, Trump was able to restock it with generals<br \/>\nand billionaires who have quickly gone &#8220;full empire!&#8221; The National Security<br \/>\nState is scheduled for an infusion of $58 billion more to boost our global<br \/>\ninterventions and accelerate the exact policies that have failed miserably<br \/>\nwith the last several Administrations in ways candidate Trump warned against.<\/p>\n<p>Bonner along with Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, Jeff Rense and countless millions<br \/>\nof the less famous are expressing their disgust with the new president,<br \/>\nespecially with regard to his aggressive foreign policy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/04\/14\/ann-coulter-i-am-through-with-neocons-endless-wars-in-the-middle-east\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/04\/14\/ann-coulter-i-am-through-with-neocons-endless-wars-in-the-middle-east\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was his pledge to put America First and eschew our addiction to endless<br \/>\nwars for regime change that captured my interest. I saw Hillary as corrupt<br \/>\nand unworthy of holding high office for her hawkish ways and sick gloating over<br \/>\nher role in the death of Gaddafi. Calling Vladimir Putin the next Hitler was<br \/>\nalso an egregious display of ignorance and hyperbole.<\/p>\n<p>I did not vote for Trump even while praying he would defeat the former First Lady.<br \/>\nBut almost immediately it became clear to me what his true agenda would be<br \/>\nbecause of his November 11th speech in which he said Israel is &#8220;a beacon of hope<br \/>\nto the world!&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/1228090\/trump-hails-israel-beacon-hope\/\">http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/1228090\/trump-hails-israel-beacon-hope\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>America First yes&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;but only after Israel was protected and the Zionist dreams<br \/>\nof Bibi Netayanhu were fully augmented with the eager support of Jared Kushner.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71059\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71059<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Bonner documents, it took less than 3 months for the nimble Trump to shift his<br \/>\npublic agenda by escalating the war in Syria based on an obviously false flag event<br \/>\nthat benefits the goal of forming Greater Israel. Right on cue, enter the Rothschilds<br \/>\nto implore the West to finish the job: <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71125\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71125<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of this reminds me of George Orwell&#8217;s Animal Farm: &#8220;all pigs are equal except<br \/>\nsome pigs are more equal than others&#8221; and his 1984 world of &#8220;perpetual war for<br \/>\nperpetual peace!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Gerald Celente says, we have a military takeover of the government which appears<br \/>\nto be going &#8220;full empire&#8221; for Pax Americana and global hegemony with Trump at the helm<br \/>\nand his Zionist backers urging him on.<\/p>\n<p>With the left strangely supporting his use of force and berating the few in their party who<br \/>\nreflect an anti-war perspective, it will be interesting to see how the political alignments<br \/>\nshift in the months ahead. <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71103\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71103<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I repeat my mantric call for a new political party to dispatch the two wings of the War Party that dominates Washington and their Imperial ways: https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68524<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Full empire&#8221; will not work for Trump any more than it did his predecessors. His show of force around the planet is not scaring anyone. As Coulter explains, this is a sign more of weakness and the desperate last gasps of a dying hegemon rather than an intelligent application of the military.<\/p>\n<p>We need a dramatic transformation of political consciousness and the restoration of the rule of law. \u00a0Hopefully that will emerge soon and that a transpartisan coalition will form to restore peace and sanity.<\/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-71394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71394","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=71394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}