{"id":26724,"date":"2017-10-11T20:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T01:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26724"},"modified":"2017-10-11T20:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T01:06:24","slug":"empire-destroying-wars-are-coming-to-america-under-trump-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26724","title":{"rendered":"Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump \u2013 Part 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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WAR is a racket. It always has been.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small \u201cinside\u201d group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Major General Smedley Butler, War is a Racket<\/a> (1935)<\/p>\n

Yesterday\u2019s post,\u00a0Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump \u2013 Part 1<\/a>, outlined my view that President Donald Trump, despite campaign slogans to focus on \u201cAmerica First,\u201d is likely to entangle the nation in major new wars which will precipitate a chaotic and dangerous collapse of U.S. empire.<\/p>\n

I base this view on his actions since coming into office, as well as the bloodthirsty war hawks he\u2019s increasingly turning to for advice, with Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton being the most concerning of all. Today\u2019s post will dig into how Trump will attempt to sell his wars, and will also address the role corporate media is likely to play in the legitimization of any future destructive conflagration.<\/p>\n

To understand how Trump will attempt to rally his base to support another idiotic overseas conflict, all we have to do is look at his recent obsession with promoting fake patriotism via the NFL national anthem controversy. As I noted in the recent post,\u00a0Thoughts on Trump, Fake Patriotism and \u2018Taking a Knee\u2019:<\/a><\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump \u2013 Part 2 WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and […]<\/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":[5,6],"tags":[259,16435,4285,6174,3581,5638,862,5636],"class_list":["post-26724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-empire","tag-fake-patriotism","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-patriotism","tag-smedley-butler","tag-war","tag-war-is-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724","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=26724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26725,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26724\/revisions\/26725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}