{"id":33337,"date":"2018-04-12T06:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T11:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33337"},"modified":"2018-04-12T06:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T11:01:53","slug":"the-harder-the-winds-of-war-blow-the-more-they-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33337","title":{"rendered":"The Harder the Winds of War Blow, the More they\u00a0Suck."},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2018\/04\/10\/the-harder-the-winds-of-war-blow-the-more-they-suck\/\">The Harder the Winds of War Blow, the More they\u00a0Suck<span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<blockquote><p>In Vietnam, the wind doesn\u2019t blow\u2026 it sucks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tag Line for Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u201cFull Metal Jacket\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I wrote a few weeks ago that I thought the Neocons were making the full-court press for war I thought President Trump was a reluctant player in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Part of me still believes that.<\/p>\n<p>Part of me also believes that Trump, like everyone else, is a slave to his passions and is easily manipulated into terrible decisions.\u00a0 Case in point was last year\u2019s bombing of the Al Shairat airbase in Syria after a similar\u00a0<em>false flag\u00a0<\/em>chemical weapons attack at Khan Sheikoun.<\/p>\n<p>Will he fall victim to them again this year?\u00a0 According to him, we\u2019ll know soon.\u00a0 Meanwhile a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-10\/us-deploys-truman-carrier-strike-group-and-7-warships-cruise-missiles-mediterranean\">carrier group has been dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean.<\/a>\u00a0 Chinese missile frigates are there supporting Russian vessels and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-04-10\/russia-furious-us-navy-destroyer-approaches-syria-without-notification\">destroyer U.S.S. Donald Cook<\/a> is now just off the coats of the Russian base at Tartus.<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances are exactly the same as last year.\u00a0 The pro-Assad coalition is winning, having made short work of the \u2018rebels\u2019 in Eastern Ghouta.\u00a0 And now we are to believe they are so stupid as to gas women and children after Trump\u2019s big light show last year?<\/p>\n<p>New Russian sanctions were unveiled on Friday.\u00a0 A new alleged chlorine attack on Saturday.\u00a0 The Israelis lobbing missiles on Sunday.\u00a0 Russian markets melt down on Monday before Special Counsel Robert Mueller orders an FBI raid of Trump\u2019s lawyer, Steven Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just a full-court press for war.\u00a0 It is the push for a Faustian bargain with the most evil people on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The political establishment across the West is reminding us all the price of opposition to perpetual war for perpetual serfdom.\u00a0 The people of Russia spoke loudly three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Defy the West however you have to Mr. Putin.\u00a0 It\u2019s obvious Mr. Trump isn\u2019t up to the job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harder the Winds of War Blow, the More they\u00a0Suck. In Vietnam, the wind doesn\u2019t blow\u2026 it sucks. \u2014 Tag Line for Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u201cFull Metal Jacket\u201d When I wrote a few weeks ago that I thought the Neocons were making the full-court press for war I thought President Trump was a reluctant player in [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,7844,561,694,776,16963,19766,19742,862],"class_list":["post-33337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-neocons","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-tom-luongo","tag-united-stats","tag-use-donald-cook","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33337","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=33337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33338,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33337\/revisions\/33338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}