Unelected Officials Override The President To Continue Wars (But Only Kooks Believe In The Deep State) by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-11-14 at 01:08:37 )

Unelected Officials Override The President To Continue Wars (But Only Kooks Believe In The Deep State) by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Outgoing United States envoy to Syria James Jeffrey stated in a recent interview with Defense One that United States officials have been "playing shell games" about the number of troops in the region to deceive the Donald Trump administration into thinking there has been a military withdrawal. Here are some excerpts:

"We were always playing shell games to not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there," Mr. Jeffrey said in an interview. The actual number of troops in northeast Syria is "a lot more than" the two hundred troops Donald Trump agreed to leave there in 2019.

"What Syria withdrawal? There was never a Syria withdrawal," Mr. Jeffrey said. "When the situation in northeast Syria had been fairly stable after we defeated ISIS, Donald Trump was inclined to pull out. In each case, we then decided to come up with five better arguments for why we needed to stay. And we succeeded both times. That is the story."

Officially, Donald Trump last year agreed to keep about 200 United States troops stationed in northeast Syria to "secure" oil fields held by the United States Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS. It is generally accepted that the actual number is now higher than that - anonymous officials put the number at about 900 today - but the precise figure is classified and remains unknown even, it appears, to members of Donald Trumps administration keen to end the so-called "forever wars."

Some mass media propagandists find it hilarious that the United States war machine used deceit to thwart the presidents attempts to withdraw from its illegal occupation of Syria:

United States officials have been lying to Donald Trump - and the American people - about the true number of United States troops in Syria in order to deter him from withdrawing them, according to the outgoing Syria envoy. Trump thinks it is 200.-Liz Sly November 13, 2020

This would not be the first time that Mr. Jeffrey, a foreign policy insider with the past three presidential administrations, has admitted to deceiving the public about what is happening in Syria.

Earlier this year he admitted at a Hudson Institute video event (these Beltway insiders always get extra honest in the company of fellow think tank denizens) that, contrary to the official public narrative of the United States military being in Syria to fight terrorism, it is actually there to create "a quagmire for the Russians".

This would also not be the first time we have heard reports of the United States war machine hiding the facts from the elected commander-in-chief of the most powerful military force ever assembled.

Last year The New York Times cited anonymous United States officials in a report on cyber intrusion operations against the Russian government that the United States military had deliberately kept Donald Trump in the dark about.

"Two administration officials said they believed Mr. Trump had not been briefed in any detail about the steps to place "implants" - software code that can be used for surveillance or attack - inside the Russian grid," NYT reports. "Pentagon and intelligence officials described broad hesitation to go into detail with Mr. Trump about operations against Russia for concern over his reaction - and the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials."

The United States of Americas special envoy to Syria publicly admits that the continued illegal United States military occupation of parts of the country is not about fighting ISIS or other terrorists, as Washington,D.C. claims. Instead the United States aims to "make it a quagmire for the Russians."-Bryan MacDonald May 13, 2020

Mainstream liberal United States discourse has accomplished an amazing feat of Orwellian doublethink with regard to the notion that unelected power structures are running things without the consent of the nations official elected government.

On the one hand there has been a nonstop deluge of Daily Beast articles since Donald Trumps election saying anyone who dares to suggest the existence of a "deep state" in America is a conspiracy kook, but on the other hand there has also been constant praise for the insider "adults in the room" who ensure from within the administration that Donald Trump does not demolish the United States of Americas precious norms while in office.

This cognitive two-step became even more reified after comments from the likes of Iraq war architect Bill Kristol tweeting that he would "prefer the deep state to the Donald Trump state", and the famous anonymous New York Times op-ed authored by a "senior official in the Donald Trump administration" (now known to have been former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security Miles Taylor) saying administration officials are working together against Donald Trump to "thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations".

The understanding of a deep state in the United States of America has become even more obfuscated by the other side of Americas fake partisan divide, with Donald Trump supporters now using that term to essentially mean "anyone who does not like Donald Trump". That erroneous understanding has now become so prevalently associated with the term "deep state" that it has lost all use in meaningful discourse and is better off being avoided altogether if you want to point at something real.

In reality the term deep state is meant to refer not to anyone who opposes Donald Trump, nor to a secret cabal of baby-eating Satanists, but simply to the tendency among government agencies and plutocrats to form loose alliances with each other and collaborate toward common agendas. It is a term used for political analysis to describe large-scale power agendas that are largely playing out right out in the open, hidden in plain sight.

It does not take a ton of investigative reporting and WikiLeaks drops to understand that there has been a collective of operatives mostly running the Donald Trump administration while the actual elected president yells at the talking heads on Fox News and tweets.

It is also not hard to brush away the insubstantial narrative fluff and see that United States policies have remained more or less unbroken regardless of which elected officials have been in office, and it does not take a Nostradamus to predict that that will continue to be the case after Donald Trump is replaced by the next empty husk in the White House.

The United States government simply is not what United States of Americans were taught it is in school, and it is not what they tell you it is in the news.

It is a mostly unelected power establishment which operates in the interests of imperialist expansionism and oligarchic control, with the official elected government operating sort of like the unplugged video game controller you hand your kid brother to keep him from whining for a chance to play.

All this fuss over who really won the election is missing the point.

People are bickering over which oligarchic puppet should be sworn in on January 20th when all the evidence we have been given shows that nobody gets to become president if they inconvenience real power in any way, and if they do inconvenience real power they are simply ignored.

That is the direction we should all be looking.

Not at who is president, but why things stay the same no matter who is president.

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