According to a 1950s political theory The Structure of Power in American Society is
mainly build on three elite groups,
the high military, the corporation executives and the political directorate.
(The “political directorate” can best be described as the bureaucracy, the CIA
and their proxies within Congress.)
On
election day I noted that only the military had supported The Not-Hillary President. The corporate and
executive corners of the triangle had pushed for Hillary Clinton and continued
to do so even after Trump had won. (Only recently did the “collusion with
Russia” nonsense suddenly die down.) I wrote:
The military will demand its due
beyond the three generals now in Trump’s cabinet.
That
turned out to be right. A military junta is now ruling the United
States:
Inside the
White House, meanwhile, generals
manage Trump’s hour-by-hour interactions and whisper in
his ear — and those whispers, as with the decision this week to expand U.S.
military operations in Afghanistan, often become policy.At the core of Trump’s
circle is a seasoned trio of generals with experience as battlefield
commanders: White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis and national security adviser H.R. McMaster. The three men have carefully cultivated personal
relationships with the president and gained his
trust….Kelly, Mattis and McMaster are not the only military figures serving at
high levels in the Trump administration. CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Attorney
General Jeff Sessions, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Interior Secretary Ryan
Zinke each served in various branches of the military, and Trump recently
tapped former Army general Mark S. Inch to lead the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
[…] the National Security Council [..] counts two other generals on the senior
staff.
With
the firing of the renegade Flynn and various other Trump advisors, the Junta
has already removed all independent voices in the White House. It is
now attaching more control wires to its
“salesperson” marionette:
The new system, laid out in two
memos co-authored by [General] Kelly and Porter and distributed to Cabinet
members and White House staffers in recent days, is designed to ensure that the
president won’t see any external policy documents, internal policy memos,
agency reports, and even news articles that haven’t been vetted.
Trump
has a weakness for the military since he attended a New York military academy
during his youth.
But
he does not like to be controlled. I expect him to revolt one day. He will then
find that it is too late and that he is actually powerless.
—
The
Zionist propaganda is claiming that Iran is taking over Syria
and that its sole concern is to create a land-corridor between Iran and
Lebanon. The AP is now reporting this myth as if it were fact. The argument the
AP writers make is illogical and fails:
The
land-route would be the biggest prize yet for Iran in its involvement in
Syria’s six-year-old civil war. […] It
would facilitate movement of Iranian-backed fighters between Iran, Iraq, Syria
and Lebanon as well as the flow of weapons to Damascus and Lebanon’s Hezbollah,
Iran’s main proxy group.
That
landline would facilitate something that, according to further AP “reporting”,
has already been achieved without it:
The route is largely being carved
out by Iran’s allies and proxies, a mix of forces including troops of Syrian
President Bashar Assad, Hezbollah fighters and Shiite militias on both sides of
the border aiming to link up. Iran also has forces of its own Revolutionary
Guard directly involved in the campaign on the Syrian side.
So,
apparently, Iran needs a land corridor to move weapons and fighters to Syria
and Lebanon. To open that currently closed-off land corridor it has moved
weapons and fighters to Syria and Lebanon. Somehow that argument is not
convincing at all.
—
The
usual NATO propaganda outlets are retching up fear over an upcoming Russian
maneuver:
Russia is preparing to mount what
could be one of its biggest military exercises since the cold war, a display of
power that will be watched warily by Nato against a backdrop of east-west
tensions.Western officials and analysts estimate up to 100,000 military
personnel and logistical support could participate in the Zapad (West) 17
exercise, which will take place next month in Belarus, Kaliningrad and Russia
itself.
It
follows a lot of speculation and obvious bullshit. In reality Zaphad is a series of smaller
maneuvers taking place over some six month. It includes local police and civil
defense agencies which lets the numbers look big. Each year such maneuvers take
place in one of the four military districts of Russia. The number of soldiers
at the core of the exercise will amount to about a division size force of
13,000-15,000 troops. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is unusual with that
maneuver but the NATO propaganda attempts to make it look like an imminent
Russian invasion of western Europe.
Reprinted with permission from Moon of Alabama.
