One of the most lucrative enterprises of all in the USA is the Threat Creation and War Incentives Industry.
Its elite look like able, serious-minded people who are very well-informed. They talk a very good war game...
They have set up their stalls within a fixed milieu of U.S. exceptionalism from the end of the Second World War till now and since 9/11 they are entrenched at deeper levels than ever before.
All the peacemakers, such as there were, went out of business after 9/11 and the decisions made immediately after those events mean there will be no new start-ups. The goal of total global dominance for the sake of U.S. safety is not subject to change and the incoming Biden administration will do all it can to forward that goal.
This is why upward of fifty who work within or used to work within the national security state of the USA came out in favor of Joe Biden before the election and why another one hundred and fifty or so are speaking out against Trump now.
Trump is his own worst enemy on many fronts. He encouraged irrationality and discord across a wide range of issues and created situations which demonstrated the very worst of his characteristics. This ultimately led to his downfall. The areas where his innate sensitivity to criticism and aggressive responses were seen, were many. As one example, his reaction to the coronavirus pandemic most certainly lost him votes. As with Bush immediately after 9/11, if he had simply reflected a strong core of stability on which the country’s citizens could rely he would have actually gained in popularity, not lost it. But Donald Trump has little feeling for such niceties and prefers a rather vain bluster and diversion of attention away from him thinking that’s what’s appropriate. It is not.
Where he deserves some praise is in his unwillingness to indulge the warmongers he fatally surrounded himself with. John Bolton. Mike Pompeo. Elliott Abrams. Nikki Haley and others. Why he chose such inveterate warmongers when his primary foreign policy statements during the 2016 presidential election indicated an entirely opposite ethos was his goal remains a mystery.
This may be the most important own goal of all those that Trump scored against himself and his support base. The warmongers were perhaps supposed to protect him from criticism from a Democratic Party that has become the go to place for such warmongers. As he found out this was never going to work. The hatred for him in the Democratic Party was and is such that precisely nothing he could have done would have saved him from that criticism.
The interests of Wall Street and the warmongers coincide almost completely and this was shown most clearly in the fact that the Democrats received around four times as much in donations from Wall Street companies as Trump did in the run-up to this year’s presidential election. War is such good business and those on Wall Street who are within the so-called Defense Industry know that it is the Democrats now who are most likely to keep their cash registers ringing.
There is a plethora of so-called think tanks subsidized by these “Defense” Industry corporations. They are the main source of assistance now to the assembly line of potential members of Biden’s cabinet. This cabinet will very obviously be the most neocon grouping seen since that of George W. Bush. What’s more they will be backed by every prominent member of the Democratic Party and that goes for those who call themselves progressives such as AOC. They will all defer to the official line of the Democratic Party leadership.
The unity among those warmongers Biden surrounds himself will be much more total that any seen from the Trump cabinet, especially so in regard to the president himself. You will hear no criticism of any allies and none of NATO. A fully weaponized unity across the board will be demanded and will be received... and this includes all liberal press and mass media. Those voicing any doubts will be cast as misinformed at best and foreign agents as worst, if not actual traitors. To be anti-war will be to be anti-American. Just think about that for a second as I am certain that is what we are about to see as a consequence of the Biden stance as a mirror opposite of that of Trump on foreign policy. Having said that, where Trump showed (to them) an admirable belligerence (in the case of Venezuela and Iran for instance) that will be continued.
The national security state, the military industrial complex, the serried ranks of warhawk advisers with the full compliance of wall street and liberal mainstream media will all be as one and in lockstep to talk in utmost jingoistic terms about the “enemies” of the “free world” and the need to do all in terms of threats, warnings, demands and acts of war to face them down, make them desist, surrender and obey.
These together are the archetypes and advocates of terror that will reign supreme for the next four years of a Biden administration.
So... better batten down the hatches folks. We are in for a VERY bumpy ride.
(And that is without even considering what Trump and his people will get up to in the forthcoming four years.)
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