The Deep States Absorption Of Donald Trump By Jacob G. Hornberger!!
(2018-07-12 at 16:06:34 )

The Deep States Absorption of Donald Trump by Jacob G. Hornberger

The dust-up over NATO ( the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) confirms, once again, that President Trump, unfortunately, has been absorbed by the same deep state whose existence he sometimes laments.

After questioning here in the United States the usefulness of NATO, Trump traveled to a NATO meeting in Europe, where he flipped and declared his firm commitment to this Cold War anachronism, declaring publicly, "I believe in NATO" and publicly expressing his sentiment that NATO is "very unified, very strong, no problem."

Let us face the discomforting truth: President Trumps administration is just another four years of Bush-Obama.

Afghanistan? United States troops are still there, killing and dying. Like Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Trump keeps them there.

Iraq? United States troops are still there, killing and dying. Like Bush and Obama, Trump keeps them there.

Syria? United States troops are still there, killing and dying. Like Bush and Obama, Trump keeps them there.

In fact, when President Trump expressed a desire to withdraw United States troops from Syria, he immediately flipped when he learned that the Pentagon disapproved of that action.

South Korea? United States troops are still there, almost 70 years after the deep state butted into the conflict by ignoring the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war. Like Bush and Obama, President Trump keeps them there and, until recently, has even threatened to rain nuclear fire and fury on North Koreans through United States nuclear bombers.

War on terrorism? United States forces continue assassinating people. Like Bush and Obama, Trump keeps them assassinating.

The United States embargo on Cuba? Like Bush and Obama, President Trump keeps it in existence.

United States military bases in foreign countries? Like Bush and Obama, President Trump keeps them there.

The United States military-industrial complex? Like Bush and Obama, President Trump keeps it there and expands it.

Why, President Trump even flipped when the Central Intelligence Agency put pressure on him to extend the time for secrecy with respect to the Central Intelligence Agencys 55-year-old records relating to the President John F. Kennedy assassination. Although Trump had announced all the way up to the day before the October deadline set by law that he intended to release the records, he buckled on the day of deadline, acceding to what the Central Intelligence Agency wanted.

And NATO? What has President Trump accomplished in Europe?

All that he has done is pressure NATO members to plunder and loot their citizens through higher taxation to help pay for NATOs exorbitant expenses. Big deal.

How is that helpful? Does anyone really think that that is going to result in a reduction of expenditures for the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency? If so, I have got a nice bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you.

What is going on here? It all confirms what Tuft University law professor Michael Glennon sets forth in his book "National Security and Double Government". The ones who are in charge are the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency - i.e., the national-security establishment, or what people are now calling the "deep state."

The national-security branch of the federal government permits the other three branches to maintain the veneer of being in control but it is only a veneer. When it comes to critical points of policy, like the continued existence of NATO, the other three branches, including the executive branch, are expected to defer to the national-security branch, and they do.

Consider NATO, the organization that the United States deep state brought into existence to fight its Cold War against the United States governments World War II partner and ally, the Soviet Union. From the very beginning, its Cold War mission was to protect Europe from a Soviet invasion.

But the Cold War ended more than 25 years ago. So, why did this Cold War dinosaur remain in existence? It remained in existence because the United States deep state decreed that it would remain in existence.

In fact, let us not forget that as the Cold War was ending, United States officials promised the Soviets that in return for the Soviet Unions dismantling of its Cold War-era Warsaw Pact, the United States would reciprocate by dismantling NATO.

It was not to be. That is because the United States deep state - i.e., the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency - decided that keeping NATO was more important than keeping a promise made to the communists of the former Soviet Union.

Even as Soviet forces were withdrawing from Germany, Eastern Europe, and the Baltics, the United States deep state had NATO moving east, absorbing the former members of the Warsaw Pact and, consequently, moving United States missiles, bases, and forces closer and closer to Russia, all the while acting innocent and playing like they were oblivious to the response that would inevitably come from Russia.

When United States officials incited a coup in Ukraine, it was with the aim of installing a pro-United States regime into power and absorbing Ukraine into NATO, which would then enable the United States government, through NATO, to come into the country and install bases and missiles on the Ukraine-Russia border.

And it would all be "legal." Equally important, so would be the Ukraine regimes decision to evict Russia from its longtime military base at Sevastopol in Crimea.

United States officials knew that Russia would never permit that to happen. After all, what would be the response of the United States government if suddenly Mexico decided to take over San Diego, California, citing the undeniable fact that the United States government intentionally provoked the Mexican War in order to steal the northern half of Mexico??

We all know what the response would be. The United States government would never permit that to happen, come hell or high water.

The real issue is that United States officials knew that NATOs threat to absorb Ukraine would cause Russia to take over Crimea, come hell or high water, even if illegal, to ensure continued control over its longtime military base.

NATOs move was cunningly brilliant. Once Russia reacted in the predictable way, it was portrayed, once again, as it was during the Cold War, as an international aggressor that was hell-bent on conquering Europe, the United States, and the world. The only difference was that during the Cold War it was the "godless Soviet communists" who were coming to get us. This time it was the "Putins autocratic Russia" coming to get us. A distinction without a difference.

But here is the thing: the renewed Cold War environment ensured that the deep state - i.e., the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency - would continue to remain in high cotton notwithstanding the end of the Cold War, with ever-increasing budgets for them and their ever-growing army of contractors, subcontractors, and military bureaucrats.

It is worth mentioning, as an aside, that it was the Cold War itself that was used to justify the conversion of the United States government from a limited-government republic to a national-security state.

At the time of the conversion, United States officials said that if the Cold War ever ended, we could have our limited-government republic back. But when the Cold War ended, they did not give us our republic back. The deep state would not permit that to happen.

Unfortunately, that was not all that the United States deep state had NATO doing. Expanding on its post-Cold War policy of United States interventionism in the Middle East, the deep state had NATO perform a regime-change operation in Libya, which, along with the United States deep states invasion of Iraq and Syria, helped inflame the death, destruction, and chaos in the Middle East even more.

All that, of course, ensured an ongoing threat of terrorist retaliation, which deep state officials have used to further guarantee ever-increasing budgets, power, and destruction of liberty and privacy among the American people.

When the United States Constitution called the federal government into existence, the idea was that the president could not wage war without a congressional declaration of war.

Yet notice how the deep state has circumvented that constitutional provision with NATO. All they have to do is admit new members into NATO, such as Montenegro and Latvia, and they are able to automatically guarantee United States entry into a war to defend that nation, the Constitution be damned.

Our American ancestors warned us against the power of big, permanent military establishments. So did Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Truman. Unfortunately, their warnings were ignored, and the United States is now saddled with the most powerful and destructive military-intelligence establishments in history.

The deep states absorption of President Donald Trump is just one more confirmation of what our ancestors and Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Truman were warning us against.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!