{"id":26771,"date":"2017-10-12T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26771"},"modified":"2017-10-12T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:38:09","slug":"empire-destroying-wars-are-coming-to-america-under-trump-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26771","title":{"rendered":"Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump \u2013 Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump \u2013 Part 3<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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The first two parts of this series focused on how Trump-specific factors could lead the American empire into another series of foolish and highly destructive wars. Part 1<\/a><\/strong> discussed my concerns regarding Iran deal certification, as well as Trump\u2019s increased coziness with Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, who appears to get turned on by the use of violent force. Part 2<\/a> <\/strong>considered how Trump might sell his wars by promoting an environment of slobbering, superficial patriotism, and also speculated that corporate media might rally behind Trump if the target of his aggression happens to be Iran.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s piece will be slightly different. The prior posts focused on Trump-specific angles with regard to how America\u2019s forthcoming military mistake might play out, but I want to make one thing clear. While Trump carries his own unique risks when it comes to militarism overseas, this is all much bigger than Trump.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, I\u2019ve become convinced that the U.S. empire will never reform on its own. There\u2019s simply too much money and power at stake, and we already know oligarchs are above the law under our two-tier justice system. The biggest financial criminals of a generation were not only spared prison for their actions, but were handsomely rewarded. Wall Street ran the Obama administration before, and it runs the Trump administration now. It\u2019s become clear to me that these lawless elite crooks and their enablers will continue with their insane and oppressive policies until the whole thing collapses. Whether Trump, Pence or Hillary Clinton run the charade doesn\u2019t change where this train is headed.<\/p>\n

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Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump \u2013 Part 3 The first two parts of this series focused on how Trump-specific factors could lead the American empire into another series of foolish and highly destructive wars. Part 1 discussed my concerns regarding Iran deal certification, as well as Trump\u2019s increased coziness with Arkansas […]<\/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":[3602,3306,7844,259,312,1120,4285,16461,536,599,643,3142,860,862],"class_list":["post-26771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-american-empire","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-empire","tag-financial-crisis","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-kireger","tag-money","tag-oligarchs","tag-power","tag-us-empire","tag-wall-street","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771","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=26771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26772,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771\/revisions\/26772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}