Even as Trump spins many plates among Syria, Russia, China, and North Korea, the crises may always be about #TrumpRussia sanctions relief… Follow The Money
Even after all that possible military action, there will still be gangsters and banksters, and they will still be running our country.
How much of US national security will be expended in the coming months to take our collective attention off the crimes committed by the Trump Administration, Transition Team, and GOP 2016 campaign. Money laundering continues, evidence will get destroyed, and justice will be obstructed as we achieve a “war-footing”.
In terms of the WH, if Bannon and Priebus are removed we’ll know whether Bannon was actually demoted even though he never attended an NSC meeting. The #TrumpRussia damage may have already been done and its cover-up must not deter an impeachment path that at least weakens the reign of error and at most forces the removal of POTUS45*.
Congressman asks Trump if Syria attack was a “head fake” to provide cover for Russian sanctions relief
California Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman has some strong words and scary questions for Donald Trump about the missile attack on Syria, via Facebook:
Mr. President, you’re learning the hard way that navigating difficult policy issues from healthcare to foreign policy is actually complicated. That’s especially true with the myriad of conflicts and crises we face on the world stage.
But you cannot lead the free world by being impulsive, unilateral, and unpredictable. You have signaled for months that the US doesn’t care about humanitarian and moral issues. You’ve completely ignored a massive humanitarian crisis in east Africa that threatens starvation and death for 20 million people – in fact, you’ve proposed deep cuts to humanitarian aid that would make it worse. You’ve turned your back on desperate refugees fleeing Assad’s war crimes in Syria. You’ve signaled that Russia and Assad are free to do whatever they want because it’s not our fight – almost inviting more atrocities in Syria and beyond. And now you suddenly change your mind — but it’s not clear if it’s just this once, or something more.
Was it the images of dying Syrian babies, even though you ignored prior images of dying Syrian babies and all of the dying African babies? Was it politics – perhaps your historically low poll numbers and complete lack of accomplishment in your first 11 weeks as President? Was it the fact that oil prices will now magically go up, a boon to your fossil fuel cronies? Or was it something else – a head fake vis-à-vis Russia in advance of Tillerson’s trip, to provide cover for the sanctions relief your team has been pursuing ever since before the election?
We shouldn’t have to ask these questions about our President, but with this President, I’m afraid we do. We have far more questions than answers after last night’s airstrikes. And it underscores, among other things, why Congress must reassert its authority over war decisions as called for by our Constitution.
Parody aside, if not all 12 helicopters were taken out of action in the 59 cruise missile raid on Syria last night, it was truly another Trump PR stunt, minimizing Russian collateral damage by giving 90 minutes warning before launch. And then there’s the proportionality of not cratering the runway.
Further evidence of this stunt is the heightened military readiness in all potential OA theaters, making Kubuki available to a mass audience for global(ist) security theater.
Because global media needs to do its usual spinning. And Congress will argue AUMF constitutionality yet again, taking the eye off high crimes & misdemeanors in 2016 election collusion by gangsters & banksters and the now continuing cover-up.
And now the saber is being rattled to imply that North Korea is an existential danger and an attack may be warranted because of “...20 years of diplomacy and sanctions under our belt that has failed to stop the North Korean program,”
When the first missile hits a carrier strike group, because President Queeg has put more tow targets in range, we will see more than lost ball bearings.
How creative(sic) to pull this stunt while Chinese President Xi was in attendance, providing the optics of consent for Trump’s actions and perhaps trying to leverage a Chinese position on North Korea, all while pretending to “act strong” on both Russia and Syria.
Trump seems to believe folks are oblivious to this manipulation, much like when you try to buy a car and the sales associate goes off to talk to the manager, or when you get a premium for listening to a time-share pitch.
The reality is that this escalation positions our military assets so that a provocative ‘enemy strike’ is more likely and we will need the cooperation of “our Russian allies” for example in the Syrian peace process, because bilateralism is always profitable.
The US could get a alternative result for the sanctions originally imposed to punish Russia and reverse a Crimean annexation. Russia gets paid, keeps Crimea, and the US gets a lousy red cap but Trump gets a Nobel Peace Prize … (perhaps for threatening to use a nuclear device)
And the escalation of military readiness extends to the overlap of China, North Korea, Russia, and Syria, because the National Narcissist loves an audience.
The National Security Council has presented President Trump with options to respond to North Korea's nuclear program — including putting American nukes in South Korea or killing dictator Kim Jong-un, multiple top-ranking intelligence and military officials told NBC News. [...]
The White House hopes the Chinese will do more to influence Pyongyang through diplomacy and enhanced sanctions. But if that fails, and North Korea continues its development of nuclear weapons, there are other options on the table that would significantly alter U.S. policy. [...]
"We have 20 years of diplomacy and sanctions under our belt that has failed to stop the North Korean program," one senior intelligence official involved in the review told NBC News. "I'm not advocating pre-emptive war, nor do I think that the deployment of nuclear weapons buys more for us than it costs," but he stressed that the U.S. was dealing with a "war today" situation.
He doubted that Chinese and American interests coincided closely enough to find a diplomatic solution.
ZOMG, even the North Koreans have their own gangster/banksters, because of those whatabout MSM memes attempt to claim some false equivalents