{"id":77635,"date":"2017-07-12T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77635"},"modified":"2017-07-12T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T00:43:00","slug":"despite-that-handshake-the-real-agenda-remains-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77635","title":{"rendered":"Despite That Handshake, The Real Agenda Remains War!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Lynden, WA<br \/>\nJuly 12, 2017<\/p>\n<p>by Rich Scheck<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who are tired of America&#8217;s endless wars have little to be optimistic<br \/>\nabout despite the Trump\/Putin handshake in Hamburg last week.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77247\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77247<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump remains under constant assault by the <em>Deep State\u00a0<\/em>\/\u00a0Mainstream Media<br \/>\nComplex that wants the public to view him as an illegitimate president who<br \/>\nconspired with the ruthless Russians to steal the election. They will not stop<br \/>\nuntil he is gone: <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77441\">https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77441<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of the strategy requires escalating global tensions as a way to insure<br \/>\nthat funds keep flowing to the military-industrial complex rather than as a<br \/>\npeace dividend to address domestic needs.<\/p>\n<p>If your business model is based on war, you must find a way to keep feeding<br \/>\nthe Beast. So while the two world leaders are making nice in Germany, back<br \/>\nhome the Brass at the Pentagon are planning for something quite different:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47418.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/47418.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The peace movement remains feeble with the Democrats now embracing<br \/>\nRussophobia as a way to keep the pressure on the wounded Chief Executive.<br \/>\nThey have visions of Nixon and Watergate with a resignation in the offing as a<br \/>\nreward if they just keep chipping away at Trump&#8217;s credibility.<\/p>\n<p>Even with research showing that Clinton lost the election because she was<br \/>\nperceived as a hawk, those in control are bent on keeping the National Security<br \/>\nState operating at full throttle: Boston University: <a href=\"http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/boston-hillary-bloodlust-election\/\">Hillary&#8217;s Bloodlust Cost Her The Election<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This approach is also designed to narrow Trump&#8217;s options and force him to do<br \/>\nthe Deep State&#8217;s bidding by confronting Russia and China through proxy wars<br \/>\nin Korea, Syria, Ukraine and anywhere else they assert their interests rather<br \/>\nthan Kowtow to Western hegemony.<\/p>\n<p>The situation remains quite perilous. A funny-money economy based on fiat<br \/>\ncurrency with an inflated stock market and shrinking middle class discretionary<br \/>\nincome accounts for much of the clamor against our erstwhile enemies. We<br \/>\nneed to keep the folks back home edgy and distracted by the crazy kid in North<br \/>\nKorea, those aggressive Chinese in the South China Sea and the ever available<br \/>\nRussian Menace. Otherwise they may notice the bad roads, dysfunctional<br \/>\nschools, bankrupt state governments, wasteful wars and other indications of a<br \/>\ncollapsing society.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than pulling out of Syria or reducing its footprint, the US has apparently<br \/>\nexpanded one of its illegal airbases in the northern part of the country.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/07\/11\/massive-us-airbase-established-in-northern-syria\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2017\/07\/11\/massive-us-airbase-established-in-northern-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather than joining the growing chorus to promote nuclear disarmament, the US<br \/>\nboycotted the meeting that negotiated a new treaty to outlaw nukes. Ironically<br \/>\nwe were joined by North Korea, Israel and the other countries with such weapons.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/commonwonders.com\/nukes-and-the-global-schism\/\">http:\/\/commonwonders.com\/nukes-and-the-global-schism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lest you think the Democrats are better on this topic than the Republicans, please<br \/>\nrecall that it was Obama&#8212;the Nobel PEACE Prize winner&#8212;who set in motion US<br \/>\nplans to spend $1 Trillion to modernize these so-called deterrents to war.<\/p>\n<p>Whether we can continue to play this cat and mouse game of posturing towards<br \/>\nconflict or whether push actually comes to shove with &#8220;bombs bursting in air&#8221; to<br \/>\ncommence WWIII remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>What is clear is that, despite that handshake, the real agenda remains preparing<br \/>\nto fight and ultimately&#8230;&#8230;.more war!<\/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-77635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77635","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=77635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}