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Did A Blonde Blogger Inspire Trump’s Air Strikes on Syria? - Peter Diekmeyer
By Peter Diekmeyer
April 10, 2017
Donald Trump’s order of US air strikes on
Syria last week provides investors with a sobering taste of what the coming
four years could look like on the global-macro front.
The US attacks, against a seventh* Muslim
country in less than three months, just days after his administration signaled tolerance
for the Assad regime, portray an inexperienced and impulsive President with
few checks on his behavior.
Trump is thus seemingly at the mercy of:
-the last advisor he speaks to, or
- whatever information he picks up watching late night TV or surfing the Internet - his main sources of news.
-the last advisor he speaks to, or
- whatever information he picks up watching late night TV or surfing the Internet - his main sources of news.
The radically-changed geopolitical environment:
The worst US foreign policy blunder since Bush
The Trump Administration’s
attack on Syria will set the tone for the balance
of Trump’s mandate, thus,locking America into a trap... the threat of war
Trump inspired hope that although his administration would carry a big stick, it would be less belligerent.
Trump inspired hope that although his administration would carry a big stick, it would be less belligerent.
Violation of US and international law
- strikes against Syria were launched without approval from
Congress, the United Nations, nor any international body.
- actions against
the other six Muslim countries that America has attacked* this year saw attempts made to get
some legal cover.
*(Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia)
*(Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia)
War with Islam
- air
strikes on Syria give increasing
numbers of ordinary Muslims cause to believe that America is at war with Islam
Strengthening the SCO, a quasi-military partnership between Russia and China
- air strikes against a Russian
ally end any possibility of America splitting Russia from its
partnership with China, the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization.
- a reason for other non-aligned nations, particularly Iran, to join.
- a reason for other non-aligned nations, particularly Iran, to join.
The “United State of Fear”
- the American people made anxious and in an uneasy “state of fear”
Is Trump watching Lauren Southern's blog?
The dangers of inflammatory talk during a
time of growing American Islamophobia was dramatically illustrated two weeks
before the Trump attacks, by Lauren Southern, a fast-rising media star.
Her shock video launched a tirade against Muslims,
new Americans and the decline in Western values.
Lauren Southern is author of Barbarians: How Baby Boomers, Immigrants, and Islam Screwed My Generation, who says,
Lauren Southern is author of Barbarians: How Baby Boomers, Immigrants, and Islam Screwed My Generation, who says,
“We have to deal with a sickness within
ourselves and inside our culture”
Southern concluded by calling for the rise
of “strong” men to take on the challenge.
The idea that Donald Trump was one of the
more than 500,000 viewers who watched Southern’s video fits a US President, with a penchant for beautiful
young blondes, the Alt-Right and late night Internet surfing.
Perpetual war. Perpetual spending. Perpetual
printing.
The global-macro backdrop in which America
now finds itself provides considerable clarity about where the country is headed on the fiscal and monetary
policy fronts.
Wars, ranging from
the Second World War to Vietnam and Iraq, were all fought with increased
spending, financed by printed and borrowed money.
The base case scenario, as America awaits possible
strikes on Korea, Iran and other nations that the Trump Administration had
threatened, has to be for bigger budgets, continued low interest rates and
central bank balance sheet expansion...