{"id":38269,"date":"2018-09-25T10:04:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38269"},"modified":"2018-09-25T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:04:53","slug":"bannon-declares-war-rooms-to-win-european-elections-and-thats-not-meddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38269","title":{"rendered":"Bannon Declares \u2018War Rooms\u2019 to Win European Elections \u2013 and That\u2019s Not Meddling?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bannon Declares \u2018War Rooms\u2019 to Win European Elections \u2013 and That\u2019s Not Meddling?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

One trait of imperial decadence is untrammeled hubris. Given the increasingly arrant arrogance on display by United States\u2019 officials, public figures and news media we can safely conclude that this empire is accelerating into decadence.<\/p>\n

A recent spectacular example comes with separate visits to Europe by US defense secretary James Mattis and Steve Bannon, the former aide to President Trump.<\/p>\n

Bannon was addressing a rightwing forum in Italy at the weekend in which he\u00a0declared<\/a>\u00a0that he would be devoting \u201c80 per cent\u201d of his time to help anti-European Union parties win seats in the next European parliamentary elections due in May 2019.<\/p>\n

Bannon said he was setting up a coordinating committee, called \u201cThe Movement\u201d, in Brussels, from where his political project would direct \u201cwar rooms\u201d across Europe to ensure that anti-EU and anti-immigrant parties would succeed in gaining up to a third of the total seats in the 27-nation member bloc\u2019s parliamentary elections. In short, a declaration of political warfare. Unapologetic. Brazen. Arrogant.<\/p>\n

The American ideologue and former Goldman Sachs banker, who is accused of inciting racism and neofascism in the US, has openly backed nationalist politicians in Europe, from the UK\u2019s Nigel Farage to France\u2019s Marine Le Pen, Hungary\u2019s Victor Orban and Italy\u2019s Matteo Salvini.<\/p>\n

Bannon is threatening to explicitly unravel the European Union which he views with contempt for what he calls is its \u201ccultural Marxism\u201d.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, earlier last week, Pentagon chief James Mattis was in Macedonia where he gave his full-throated\u00a0support<\/a>\u00a0for a Yes vote in the country\u2019s referendum. The plebiscite to take place this weekend will decide if the small Balkan country can become a member of the NATO military alliance and the European Union. It is a crucial vote for the country.<\/p>\n

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Bannon Declares \u2018War Rooms\u2019 to Win European Elections \u2013 and That\u2019s Not Meddling? One trait of imperial decadence is untrammeled hubris. Given the increasingly arrant arrogance on display by United States\u2019 officials, public figures and news media we can safely conclude that this empire is accelerating into decadence. A recent spectacular example comes with separate […]<\/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":[18724,281,21884,16113,15706,8203,827],"class_list":["post-38269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-election-meddling","tag-europe","tag-european-elections","tag-finian-cunningham","tag-steve-bannon","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38269","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=38269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38270,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38269\/revisions\/38270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}