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What I suspect is happening is this. The Security apparatuses are herding Trump in a particular direction. It would appear to be away from Russia and back to NATO's encirclement option. Is it working? Hard to say but it is worth noting that the White House grandees who spoke in Europe recently were all keen to say they were going along with that option. For me the leaks are all about the disciplining of the President. The other stuff that Trump appears to be into - The Judaeo Christian warrior looking for a Battle of Lepanto Mark 2 - has most sane people at least puzzled. Who knows what the CIA etc think of this? When they look at Bannon do they see "The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall; the last and lingering troubadour to whom the bird has sung that once went winging southward when all the world was young?" I have no idea. How could I? But I have a strong suspicion that Bannon who probably grew up on a diet of Chesterton and Belloc looks in the mirror every morning and sees a latter day Don Juan. In any case we would do well not to underestimate the paranoia of the denizens of the Deep State. When they look at Trump they appear to worry that they may be looking at the Moscow Candidate. Most people discounted the story of the "Pee Pee Tape" as SNL calls it. But I do wish I had the same chance of winning the lotto as the odds that the CIA etc believe such a tape exists. So what will happen? My guess is that Trump will be herded away from Putin. Then there might be an operation to herd him away from Bannon. If Trump resists, he will go down. ae Gary On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > By Greg Grandin. > > https://www.thenation.com/article/what-is-the-deep-state/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
