{"id":29001,"date":"2017-12-19T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29001"},"modified":"2017-12-19T07:29:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:29:58","slug":"29001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29001","title":{"rendered":"Bad Moon: (Trouble) Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bad Moon: (Trouble) Rising<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

It seems that we are coming to the crux: President Trump, like Reagan before him, was elected by \u2018the people\u2019 rather than by (what Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0calls<\/a>\u00a0the \u2018ruling interest groups\u2019): \u201cAs a high official in Reagan\u2019s government who was aligned with Reagan\u2019s goals to end stagflation and the Cold War, I experienced first-hand, the cost of going against the powerful interest groups that are accustomed to ruling. We took away part of their rule from them, but now they have taken it back. And, they are now stronger than before\u201d.\u00a0I too, experienced something of the panic that the end to the Cold War induced amongst the \u2018ruling interest groups\u2019 — after all, American policy in the Middle East (and western Europe) was entirely dominated by an unstoppable momentum to cleanse it of all Russian influence. And then \u2013 \u2018pop\u2019 – the Soviet enemy suddenly, was \u2018enemy\u2019 no more. Yet, the \u2018ruling interest groups\u2019 were, by then, fully committed to a globalized (i.e. a culturally non-nationalist, consumerist, life-style,) rules-based, political and financial, \u2018world\u2019, shaped by the US.\u00a0Serendipitously, after 9\/11, terrorism emerged served to underpin the perceived need for a common defence-based, NATO-esque, global \u2018order\u2019, as the glue to America\u2019s unipolar moment.<\/p>\n

President Obama lay very much in the globalist \u2018struggle for a democratic-liberal world\u2019 mould, (though he did try to make the \u2018ruling interests\u2019 understand that\u00a0there were limits<\/em>: that there had to be boundaries to US commitments). In other words, Obama accepted the globalist premise, though he tried to mitigate some of its military impulses.\u00a0Notably however, he acquiesced to re-heating the Russia \u2018threat\u2019 (after Medvedev gave place to Mr Putin (thus ending Obama\u2019s hope to seduce Russia into the embrace of the global economic order).<\/p>\n

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Bad Moon: (Trouble) Rising It seems that we are coming to the crux: President Trump, like Reagan before him, was elected by \u2018the people\u2019 rather than by (what Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0calls\u00a0the \u2018ruling interest groups\u2019): \u201cAs a high official in Reagan\u2019s government who was aligned with Reagan\u2019s goals to end stagflation and the Cold War, I […]<\/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":[3,6],"tags":[14457,7844,4801,17585,8203,827],"class_list":["post-29001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","tag-alastair-crooke","tag-donald-trump","tag-globalists","tag-ruling-interest-groups","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29001","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=29001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29003,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29001\/revisions\/29003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}