{"id":23449,"date":"2017-04-03T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T20:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23449"},"modified":"2017-04-03T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T20:59:17","slug":"the-american-empire-and-economic-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23449","title":{"rendered":"The American Empire and Economic Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The American Empire and Economic\u00a0Collapse<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Despite the widespread hope among libertarians, classical liberals, non-interventionists, progressive peaceniks, and all those opposed to the US Empire that it may have some of its murderous reins pulled in with the election of Donald Trump, it appears that such optimism has now been dashed.\u00a0 While the hope for a less meddlesome US foreign policy is not completely extinguished and would never have existed had the Wicked Witch of Chappaqua been elected, a number of President Trump\u2019s foreign policy actions, so far, have been little different than his recent predecessors.<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s biggest blunder was his acquiesce to the Deep State\u2019s coup<\/em> of General Michael Flynn, the most Russian friendly among Trump\u2019s foreign policy entourage.\u00a0 Since Flynn\u2019s abrupt departure, there has been little talk of a rapprochement<\/em> with Russia, but instead there has been continued saber rattling by the war mongers that Trump has, unfortunately, chosen to surround himself with.<\/p>\n

The most recent Russian badgering has come from Secretary of Defense, James \u201cMad Dog\u201d Mattis who wrongly accused it of \u201cbad behavior:\u201d \u201cRussia\u2019s violations of international law are now a matter of record from what happened with Crimea to other aspects of their behavior in mucking around other people\u2019s elections and that sort of thing.\u201d* Of course, the US has never tried to influence the outcomes of elections or \u201cmucked around\u201d in the affairs of sovereign countries, heaven forbid!<\/p>\n

While candidate Trump correctly spoke of the Iraqi War as a disaster and US Middle Eastern policy as a failure, he has done little to alter course in the region, but continues to follow and has, in some instances, escalated tensions.\u00a0 Some ominous examples:<\/p>\n

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Bombing raids of Mosul killing over 200 civilians<\/p>\n

The deployment of another 1,000 ground troops to Syria<\/p>\n

Additional US ground troops \u201cexpected\u201d to be deployed to Afghanistan<\/p>\n

Continuous threats to Iran \u2013 \u201cput on notice\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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