{"id":49496,"date":"2019-11-10T06:59:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T11:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49496"},"modified":"2019-11-10T06:59:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T11:59:20","slug":"david-stockman-on-how-the-deep-state-really-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49496","title":{"rendered":"David Stockman on How the Deep State Really Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/articles\/david-stockman-on-how-the-deep-state-really-works\/\">David Stockman on How the Deep State Really Works<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DeepStateIM.jpg\" alt=\"Deep State\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Man<\/strong>: Last year, President Trump took the unusual step of bypassing his advisors to announce his intention to withdraw all US troops from Syria quickly. The decision rattled Washington and the mainstream media. It caused former Defense Secretary Mattis to resign. Almost a year later, the US has withdrawn only a token number of soldiers. It still has thousands of troops occupying the part of the country where oil fields are located. What is going on here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>David Stockman<\/strong>: Well, that\u2019s the Deep State at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump is all by his lonesome. He\u2019s home alone in the Oval Office. Now, half of it, he can blame himself. If he hires someone, a known idiot like John Bolton, what does he expect is going to happen except that everything he wanted to do is going to be undermined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, he can\u2019t seem to find anybody who can articulate on a day-to-day basis a pathway to the more restrained America First posture that he had in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s surrounded by people who constantly countermand his orders. You have James Jeffery, the US Ambassador and special envoy to Syria saying, \u201cWell, Trump didn\u2019t mean that when he said he wanted the troops out of Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have the same thing with North Korea. Trump finally said, here we are, 66 years after the armistice and we still don\u2019t have a peace treaty, and we\u2019re still occupying the Korean peninsula, which is of no interest to our national security one way or the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have to do what I would call \u201ccontrafactual history.\u201d In other words, if you understand what could have happened the other way, then maybe you\u2019re not going to be so impressed with all this threat inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Stockman on How the Deep State Really Works International Man: Last year, President Trump took the unusual step of bypassing his advisors to announce his intention to withdraw all US troops from Syria quickly. The decision rattled Washington and the mainstream media. It caused former Defense Secretary Mattis to resign. Almost a year later, [&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":[5,6],"tags":[2120,199,7844,827],"class_list":["post-49496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-david-stockman","tag-deep-state","tag-donald-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49496","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=49496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49497,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49496\/revisions\/49497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}