{"id":26196,"date":"2017-09-28T06:47:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26196"},"modified":"2017-09-28T06:47:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:47:51","slug":"trump-is-determined-to-go-to-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26196","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Determined to Go to War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump Is Determined to Go to War<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

On September 18 Presidents Trump and Macron met in New York and said a few words in front of the media. It was a love-fest, with Trump pouring out a honey-stream of compliments and one of his\u00a0observations was<\/a>\u00a0that Emmanuel Macron is \u201cdoing a terrific job in France. He\u2019s doing what has to be done. He\u2019s respected by the French people,\u201d which was one of his more dubious statements of recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Some 53 per cent of French citizens\u00a0disapprove<\/a>\u00a0of President Macron, which is exactly the same as Trump\u2019s domestic disapproval\u00a0score<\/a>, so it can\u2019t be claimed that either of them is \u201crespected\u201d by a majority of their country\u2019s deeply polarised populace.<\/p>\n

The depths of Trump ignorance are verging on the unfathomable, but it isn\u2019t that aspect of his psychotic character that is disturbing to the point of danger for the world as a whole. The scary thing about his comments was his ecstatic enthusiasm for blasting trumpets, roaring aircraft, rumbling tanks and all the paraphernalia of martial belligerence. He said he had loved the Bastille Day parade in Paris and \u201cwe may do something like that on July 4th<\/sup> in Washington, down Pennsylvania Avenue… We\u2019re going to have to try and top it… we had a lot of planes going over and we had a lot of military might, and it was really a beautiful thing to see…\u201d<\/p>\n

When I was a soldier I participated in many parades and still warm to bands and like to see smartly marching troops. The general public in almost every country in the world likes them, too, and there is no reason to propose that such events be curtailed. But.\u00a0BUT<\/em><\/strong>: I have grave doubts about a national leader who is so worked up and excited about them being \u201ca lot of military might and… really a beautiful thing to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump Is Determined to Go to War On September 18 Presidents Trump and Macron met in New York and said a few words in front of the media. It was a love-fest, with Trump pouring out a honey-stream of compliments and one of his\u00a0observations was\u00a0that Emmanuel Macron is \u201cdoing a terrific job in France. He\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12435,15342,525,8203,862],"class_list":["post-26196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-brian-cloughley","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-military","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26197,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26196\/revisions\/26197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}