Trump may start a war to save his presidency

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On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 10:24AM, ray ray keller wrote in talk.politics.guns,alt.survival,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,misc.survivalism,rec.crafts.metalworking,talk.politics.misc:
> Trump may start a war with North Korea in order to save his
> presidency.
>
> Is it really possible?
>
> <https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-does-trump-trump-trump-start-a-war_us_5a4f977be4b0f9b24bf31699>
>
> How Does Trump Trump Trump? Start a
> War.
>
> 01/06/2018 09:22 am ET
>
> OPINION - Mueller draws closer. The press learns more about
> the Trump team’s intersections with Russian agents. Now the
> Michael Wolff tell-all-Trump book, “Fire and Fury,” debuts,
> outing people too stupid to know what “off the record,” means.
>
> So what does a president, whose only apparent “playbook” is
> Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” and who puts self well ahead of
> country and duty, do to save himself?
>
> Start a war!
>
> Sounds far-fetched? In an administration conceived of
> inconceivables, that doubles-down on everything wrong, and a
> Republican party awash in power madness, don’t rule it out.
> The Mueller investigation moves on. Trump can’t get
> lieutenants to kill it. He can’t fire it away, so he may end
> up firing away.
>
> Presidents, in times of war, have exceptional power, granted
> to focus the nation in a time of crisis.
>
> Trump’s top bogeymen of choice, North Korea’s manifestly
> unstable dictator, Kim Jong Un, is probably just coincidence,
> or “birds of a feather” comparing the size of their...
> buttons. Like the Producers’ con-men, though, it might provide
> Trump with an out to his “Springtime for Hitler”
> administration, that was started as a con to land Trump his
> own conservative television network, according to Wolff.
>
> Here is Trump’s out: We have never negotiated peace with Korea.
> Just a cease fire. Engaging in conflict there would be,
> relatively, pretty easy. President Truman ordered forces into
> North Korea in 1950 and didn’t get Congressional approval.
> This would merely be a continuation of that action after
> decades of failed attempts to gain diplomatic compliance from
> the North Korean regime. There might be a way to drag the UN
> along, given Korea’s unique status.
>
> “Surely the Congress would stop him!” you say?
>
> The dysfunctional and morally bankrupt Republican party
> controls both chambers of the United States Congress. I’ve
> told you previously how the Russia problem may run deeper than just Trump.
> There may be lots of elected officials with a Russia problem.
> Trump starting a war with North Korea would play well with
> Putin. It would drive many of America’s traditional allies
> away, destroy much of the United States’ diplomatic engagement
> in the world, and cause major headaches for Li Keqiang,
> Premier of the People’s Republic of China.
>
> It is clear, by the actions of both Speaker Paul Ryan, and
> Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, that Republicans put
> power ahead of duty and country. Assuming no Russian ties,
> they both pledge allegiance to the Kochs. The pro-billionaire,
> anti-government anarchists might well also find advantage in a
> war. It would accelerate their demolition of the government
> from within, and possibly delay the Democratic tsunami
> predicted for 2018.
>
> The Mercer faction, the alt-Right-backing billionaire and his
> daughter who also are timeshare owners of the Trumptastrophe,
> might also sign off. They want isolationism and back America’s
> racial separatists. A war would turn the fracture in American
> society into an open wound, with young people of color and
> young people from low-income, or the permanently unemployed
> again called to fight a pointless war for a mad rich white
> guy. That, in turn, would rile up the poor Alt Right whites
> who like to identify with Trump in their white power wet
> dreams. There’s a win in a war for them too.
>
> Add in the Saudis. Along with the Russians, Kochs, and
> Mercers, the power that drives conservative anti-globalism
> are these fossil
> fuel barons who pay for the chaos as an insurance
> policy against coordinated international global warming
> policy to protect the value of $159T in proven fossil fuel
> reserves in the ground. ISIS is no longer the threat that
> drives instability the way that it used to. A debilitated
> America offers the Saudis the opportunity to extend their
> influence and deep pockets to take control of parts of the
> world.
>
> Let’s not rule out the military. Trump’s continued drumbeat
> with North Korea, and his catastrophic relations with global
> leaders and nuclear-armed nations, creates a constant
> problem for the United States Armed Forces. Will he start a
> nuclear war? There is the muddy water of his alleged
> repeated questioning of why we couldn’t use them
> during the campaign in 2016.
>
> A
> nuclear expert says that it’s harder, without the
> military establishment seeing a clear and imminent nuclear
> threat heading our way, for a president to arbitrarily start
> a nuclear war.
>
> If Trump’s unstable rhetoric with Kim escalates the already
> bellicose North Korean dictatorship into revving up their
> nuclear program for a threatened strike on a protectorate
> like Guam, or the U.S. mainland, though, pressing for a
> conventional war to avert the nuclear showdown would be
> almost certain.
>
> Using President George W. Bush’s dual wars in Afghanistan
> and Iraq as a baseline, we know that hostilities muzzled the
> media, stifled dissent in the opposition Democratic Party,
> and made it easier for W. to retain power into a second
> term.
>
> Given Trump’s disregard for the rule of law, and his
> fanatic followers applauding his every Fox-justified move,
> Trump could extend his time in office almost indefinitely by
> dragging out a war that would keep him at arm’s length from
> his past, and from impeachment in the House, and trial in
> the Senate. A wartime president might even get the backing
> from his GOP-dominated Congress to suspend or kill the
> Mueller investigation.
>
> The
> War Powers Resolution of 1973 gives the president
> ninety (90) days to act before requiring a declaration of
> war with Congress. Unlike Truman, Trump will not get UN
> cooperation in any conflict with North Korea where the U.S.
> is an aggressor.
>
> It is rare that a piece of writing can stop major political
> conflict, but the Wolff book may be that most inexpensive
> “wall” to stop a war: Truth.
>
> Our American emperor has no clothes. Trump’s decisions,
> such as they are, are orchestrated by others when they work,
> and capricious and random rantings of an unstable mind at
> best when they don’t. If he threatens war, and the
> Republican-led congress fails to act, the conflict will take
> to the streets of Peoria long before it hits Pyongyang.

Too bad the Mercers kicked Bannon the LSD drug dealer out of Breitbart.

"Dem Rep Steve Cohen Loses It, Says 'Despicable' Trump May Start War Just to Boost His Ratings" [MSNBC]

Independent Journal Review - January 1, 2018
-- https://ijr.com/the-declaration/2018/01/1042573-dem-rep-steve-cohen-loses-says-despicable-trump-may-start-war-just-boost-ratings/

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>> Is it really possible?

It's good to see that all Trump's followers are willing to die on his orders
in his first of many wars. They will be forced to enlist and shot if they
resist.


Their flabby,old rotting corpes will be piled like cordwood.

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He might even pay them, too.

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