{"id":35797,"date":"2018-07-08T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35797"},"modified":"2018-07-08T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T11:37:15","slug":"america-first-helsinki-and-trumps-existential-threat-to-the-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35797","title":{"rendered":"America First, Helsinki, and Trump\u2019s Existential Threat to the Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a title=\"America First, Helsinki, and Trump\u2019s Existential Threat to the Empire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/featured-articles\/2018\/july\/03\/america-first-helsinki-and-trump-s-existential-threat-to-the-empire\/\">America First, Helsinki, and Trump\u2019s Existential Threat to the Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n<section class=\"uBlogsy_post_body\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulinstitute.org\/media\/121263\/trup-putin-handshaek.jpg?width=450px&amp;height=253px\" alt=\"undefined\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The major \u2013 perhaps only \u2013 redeeming virtue of the Donald\u2019s ersatz campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America\u2019s commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to discard &#8220;Regime Change&#8221; as the core tenant of foreign policy. In essence, &#8220;America First&#8221; was to become the new route to domestic security and safety.<\/p>\n<p>Those eminently sensible notions struck the Deep State\u2019s <em>raison d\u2019etre<\/em> to the quick during the campaign; and by hook or crook, the Donald\u2019s rapid fire actions toward these objectives since April have induced a palpable shock in the Imperial City.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly he means to withdraw America\u2019s\u00a029,000\u00a0military hostages now stationed in South Korea in return for some sort of peace treaty, economic normalization and denuclearization arrangement with Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, he has sensibly suggested that demonizing Russia and Putin has accomplished nothing, and that they should be invited back into the G-8. And as soon as Robert Mueller finishes his RussiaGate farce, Trump can get rid of the present asinine sanctions on various Russian officials and Putin cronies, too.<\/p>\n<p>We also now know \u2013 owing to the sullen reporting of the\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0\u2013 that Trump has been hounding the national security bureaucracy about another utterly ridiculous artifact of the Empire. Namely, the fact that 73 years after Hitler descended into Hades from his bunker and 27 years after the Soviet Union slithered off the pages of history, there are still\u00a035,000\u00a0US troops in Germany:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pentagon is analyzing the cost and impact of a large-scale withdrawal or transfer of American troops stationed in Germany, amid growing tensions between President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to people familiar with the work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America First, Helsinki, and Trump\u2019s Existential Threat to the Empire The major \u2013 perhaps only \u2013 redeeming virtue of the Donald\u2019s ersatz campaign platform was his clear intent to seek a rapprochement with Russia, revamp America\u2019s commitments to NATO and other cold war relics and to discard &#8220;Regime Change&#8221; as the core tenant of foreign [&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":[14764,2120,7844,553,1343,14830,694,827],"class_list":["post-35797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-america-first","tag-david-stockman","tag-donald-trump","tag-nato","tag-regime-change","tag-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797","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=35797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35798,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35797\/revisions\/35798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}