Masato wrote:Here is a great lecture I just watched... this guy claims that Trump has been taken over by the Deep State, and his absurd actions in Syria are the proof.
He argues that the Military-Industrial Complex, or 'Warfare State' as he calls it, is so big, containing so many departments all with Billion/Trillion dollar budgets etc, that the system absolutely needs and requires a constant existential threat in order to continue to function.
While Trump had campaigned on a relatively non0interventionalist policy, saying it was better to get along with Russia and stop meddling in Regime Changes, now he goes full 180 and does what he did in Syria with no investigation, no debate from Congress, no logical reason whatsoever? Why?
Dude argues its the Deep State, and their endless thirst for war. He points out the arming/funding of Saudi Arabia kicking the shit out of Yemen as a comparative counterpoint, much more nasty and verifiable than the claims against Assad, of which Trump is saying shit all about.
Good talk, I recommend.
So was Trump always a liar and a stooge to fool everyone into another Neo-Con War-crazy administration? Or was he the real outsider that has been swallowed up by the Trillion-Dollar super war-machine industry?
The question is almost irrelevant imo, lol
Just listening to him talk describe the current scene in Washington DC makes me nauseous. He really gets it all right.