Neocons
and the “Deep State” Have Neutered the Trump
Presidency, It’s Over Folks!
By
The Saker
See
Update Below
February 14, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- Less than a month ago
I warned
that a ‘color revolution ‘ was taking place in
the USA.
My first element of proof was the so-called
“investigation” which the CIA, FBI, NSA and
others were conducting against President Trump’s
candidate to become National Security Advisor,
General Flynn. Tonight, the plot to get rid of
Flynn has finally succeeded and
General Flynn had to offer his resignation.
Trump accepted it.
Now
let’s 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. That
he was not. However, what
Flynn was
is the cornerstone of Trump’s national security
policy. For one thing, Flynn
dared the unthinkable: he dared to declare that
the bloated US intelligence community had to be
reformed. Flynn also tried to subordinate the
CIA and the Joint Chiefs to the President via
the National Security Council. 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. 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. That is
another absolutely unforgivable crimethink
in Washington DC.
The
Neocon run ‘deep state’ 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.
And
Trump accepted this resignation.
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 “stars” and even
from European politicians. And Trump took each
blow without ever fighting back. Nowhere was
his famous “you are fired!” to be seen. But I
still had hope. I wanted to hope. I felt that
it was my duty to hope.
But now
Trump has betrayed us all.
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Remember how Obama showed his true face when he
hypocritically denounced his friend and pastor
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.? Today, Trump has
shown us his true face. Instead of refusing
Flynn’s resignation and instead of firing those
who dared cook up these ridiculous accusations
against Flynn, Trump accepted the resignation.
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 – hard Cold Warrior types, ideological to
the core, folks who want war and simply don’t
care about reality.
Again,
Flynn was not my hero. But he was, by all
accounts, Trump’s hero. And Trump betrayed him.
The
consequences of this will be immense. For one
thing,
Trump is now clearly broken. It took the ‘deep
state’ only weeks to castrate Trump and to make
him bow to the powers that be.
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. 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.
It’s
over, folks, the deep state has won.
From
now on, Trump will become the proverbial
shabbos-goy, the errand boy of the Israel
lobby. Hassan Nasrallah was right when he
called him ‘an idiot‘.
The
Chinese and Iranian will openly laugh. The
Russians won’t – they will be polite, they will
smile, and try to see if some common sense
policies can still be salvaged from this
disaster. Some might. But any dream of a
partnership between Russia and the United States
has died tonight.
The EU
leaders will, of course, celebrate. Trump was
nowhere the scary bogeyman they feared. Turns
out that he is a doormat – very good for the EU.
Where
does all this leave us – the millions of
anonymous ‘deplorables’ who try as best we can
to resist imperialism, war, violence and
injustice?
I think
that we were right in our hopes because that is
all we had – hopes. No expectations, just
hopes. But now we objectively have very little
reasons left to hope. For one thing, the
Washington ‘swamp’ will not be drained. If
anything, the swamp has triumphed. We can only
find some degree of solace in two undeniable
facts:
-
Hillary would have been far worse than any
version of a Trump Presidency.
- In
order to defeat Trump, the US deep state has
had to terribly weaken the US and the
AngloZionist Empire. Just like Erdogan’
purges have left the Turkish military in
shambles, the anti-Trump ‘color revolution’
has inflicted terrible damage on the
reputation, authority and even credibility
of the USA.
The
first one is obvious. So let me clarify the
second one. In their hate-filled rage against
Trump and the American people (aka “the basket
of deplorables”) the Neocons have had to show
they true face. 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. In other words, just
like Israel, the USA has no legitimacy left.
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. So yes, the Neocons have won. But
their victory is removes the last chance for the
US to avoid a collapse.
Trump,
for all his faults, did favor the US, as a
country, over the global Empire. Trump was also
acutely aware that ‘more of the same’ was not an
option. He wanted policies commensurate with
the actual capabilities of the USA. With Flynn
gone and the Neocons back in full control – this
is over. Now we are going to be right back to
ideology over reality.
Trump
probably could have made America, well, maybe
not “great again”, but at least stronger, a
major world power which could negotiate and use
its leverage to get the best deal possible from
the others. That’s over now. 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.
I
am quite sure that nobody today is celebrating
in the Kremlin. Putin, Lavrov and the others
surely understand exactly what happened. It is
as if Khodorkovsy would have succeeded in
breaking Putin in 2003. 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
‘color revolution’ started against him. But if
Trump is the new Yanukovich, will the US become
the next Ukraine?
Flynn
was very much the cornerstone of the hoped-for
Trump foreign policy. 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. With Flynn gone, this
entire conceptual edifice has now come down. We
are going to be left with the likes of Mattis
and his anti-Iranian statements. Clowns who
only impress other clowns.
Today
Neocon victory is a huge event and it will
probably be completely misrepresented by the
official media. Ironically, Trump supporters
will also try minimize it all. But the reality
is that barring a most unlikely last-minute
miracle, it’s 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. That is clearly not going to happen.
I see
very dark clouds on the horizon.
The Saker
UPDATE1:
Just to stress an important point: the disaster
is not so much that Flynn is out but what
Trump’s caving in to the Neocon tells us about
Trump’s character (or lack thereof). Ask
yourself – after what happened to Flynn, would
you stick your neck out for Trump?
UPDATE2:
Just as predicted – the Neocons are celebrating
and, of course, doubling-down:
The
Anti-Flynn ‘Deep State’ Coup
Spelling it out in the clearest way possible
Update By The Saker
Okay, my
sense is that a large number of commentators are
misunderstanding the nature of what is going
on. So, this time, rather than writing an
analysis, I will spell it out, ‘talking points’
– style and, hopefully, do a better job about
making my point. So, here we go.
-
THIS IS
NOT ABOUT FLYNN. Let me
repeat that once more.
THIS
IS NOT ABOUT FLYNN!!!
Please don’t come and tell me that Flynn was
wrong on Iran, on Islam or on China. I
agree. But,
==>>THIS IS
NOT ABOUT FLYNN!!!<<==
-
THIS IS ABOUT POWER. As
in, who is boss? Who is number one? Who is
the alpha dog? The President or the ‘deep
state’? That is what this is all about –
showing everybody who is in charge.
-
FLYNN WAS A SYMBOL. He was
the symbol of the entire notion of draining
the Washington swamp, which is mostly the 3
letter agencies + Pentagon anyway. Flynn
was the guy who dared defy the thought
police and be friendly with the Russians.
Flynn was the man who wanted to bring the
CIA and JCS back under White House control.
And Flynn was the guy with contacts with
SOCOM and JSOC. Flynn had to be brought
down.
-
FLYNN WAS ALSO A CORNERSTONE.
For better or for worse, it is absolutely
evident that Flynn was the brain behind
Trump’s entire foreign policy. On some
stuff Flynn was great (Russia), on some
stuff he was okay (Takfiri terrorism), on
some stuff he was ridiculous (China) and on
some stuff he was terrible (Iran). But that
is not what matters here.
Listen to Kucinich who clearly says that
this is not about Trump or Flynn, but about
a coup against the Presidency by the US
‘deep state’. Now that Flynn has been
brought down, there is no “Trump foreign
policy” left.
-
FLYNN IS ALSO A DOMINO.
Okay, this is crucial, pay attention now.
Putin has often been criticized for
protecting his friends even when these
friends are guilty of wrongdoings. Now let
me ask you a simple question: would you
rather stick your neck out for Trump or for
Putin? Exactly. If Trump was a loyal
kind of person he could have called Pence
and Flynn to the Oval Office, told Flynn to
apologize and told Pence to shut up. But he
did nothing of the kind. By accepting
Flynn’s “resignation” Trump showed that he
does not protect those who fight for him.
There will definitely be a domino-effect now
as everybody who matters has now understood:
Trump is weak, the Neocons got him by the
balls, and Trump will leave you hanging when
the shit hits the fan.
-
FLYNN’S DOWNFALL IS A MESSAGE.
A message to all those who hate Trump and
what Trump represents. And that message is
simple: we are back in control and the
party is on! Now that Trump has been
humiliated and broken, now that he lost his
only high-IQ and powerful ally in the White
House, the Neocons are the deep state are
smelling blood and they will double-down and
resume their attack with increased
intensity. The next highly symbolic
sacrificial victim might be the much-hated
Steve Bannon. The bottom line is simple: the
hunt is on for anti-deep-state
‘crimethinkers’.
- AT
THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS ABOUT
TRUMP’S CHARACTER. That was the
big unknown, right? Nobody really new what
kind of President Trump would make.
Everybody, including yours truly, enjoyed
speculating about his ego, his lack of
political experience, the fact that he owed
nothing to anybody, that he was a deal
maker, a common sense pragmatist. Well, we
still don’t know what kind of President
Trump will be, but I am afraid that we now
know what kind of President he will NOT be:
he will NOT drain the swamp, he will NOT
change the subordination of US national
interests to the AngloZionist Empire, he
will NOT forge a historical partnership with
Russia and he will NOT send the Neocons down
to the basement from which they crawled out
24 years ago.
Whether Trump lacks brains,
spine, or balls is anyone’s guess, but it is
now painfully clear that he has much more in
common with Yanukovich then with Putin.
As I
said, it’s over. Not because of Flynn’s views
on Iran or Islam. But because Trump has caved
in, he has been broken and now all that’s left
is a painful 4 year long agony. That’s assuming
that the Neocons don’t impeach him just to bask
in their arrogance and sense of supremacy.
Frankly, my heart goes out to all those who
sincerely hoped that Trump will be the man to
free the US from the Neocons and restore the
power of the “basket of deplorables” over the
many minorities and special interests. Some
will now indulge in a lot of “I told you so” but
they will be wrong. To hope for the best was
the right thing to do. Those who voted for
Trump did the only thing in their power to
prevent Hillary from occupying the White House.
That was the right decision, they did the right
thing, both morally and pragmatically.
But now
we also need to gather our courage and accept
the reality of what has taken place. Minimizing
the implications of this deep state coup makes
no sense whatsoever, neither morally nor
pragmatically. And the reality is this:
It took
the Neocons and the US deep state less than a
month to overturn the results of the
Presidential election.
Trump
now declares that he “expects
Russia to return Crimea“.
It’s
over folks – welcome (back) to the war between
Russia and the Empire.
The
Saker
PS: one
more thing. Trump himself was always, of
course, the candidate of
one
part of the ‘US deep state’. Trump did
not appear ex nihilo, and neither did
Flynn. It is taking place is one faction of the
deep state fighting against another faction of
the deep state. The US elites have been split
for a while now. But since Trump now has legal
authority and those trying to color revolution
him do not, I speak of the deep state vs the
Presidency.
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