I've written about this before with the hope of being
wrong. And I was. Unfortunately, I don't think I was wrong about the
war, only the target, and I fear it's still coming. It's just looking like Trump will attack North Korea, instead.
Makes a lot of sense, really.
Iran, my previously
suspected target, is a Russian ally. My reasoning was that Putin
doesn't give a fuck. I firmly believe that he'd feed us Iran if it
made us happy so that he could concentrate on his own European
aspirations as long as we made some deals regarding the distribution
of oil. Since he has a puppet in the White House that wouldn't really
be much of an issue.
North Korea, however, is looking like a better target.
I'm already seeing Trumpkins on twitter urging military action
against North Korea for “bullying the US” and “building weapons
of mass destruction”. Gee whiz, it all sounds so familiar.
Nevermind that Kim Jong Un isn't really a threat. Trump
needs a boost to those approval ratings. The kind of boost that only
military action can bring. A war turns nationalism into patriotism,
paranoia into prudence, dissent into disloyalty. “You're either
with us or against us!”, they'll cry.
People need to wake up to the danger that is Trump's
administration. They are a desperate and flailing bunch that will do
anything to succeed up to, and including, throwing the country under
the bus. Our fate lies in the hands of folks like Mattis and
McMaster - potential voices of reason within the administration that
could steer Trump away from war.
It's something to hope for in a time
seemingly without hope.
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