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Cara posted an update 7 years, 11 months ago
“Rapprochement with Russia is now a core policy objective in Berlin, according to a senior German official with knowledge of the chancellery’s strategy.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-17/trump-s-global-disruption-pushes-merkel-closer-to-putin-s-orbit
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One has to wonder, could this possibly have been a deliberate objective of Trump’s? Given the monumental establishment forces arrayed to stop any overt moves to make good on his promises for peaceful relations with Russia and a smaller military presence in the world, could his wildly unpredictable behaviors actually belie a kind of Byzantine maneuvering to foil his enemies and achieve his objectives?
In say 2021, the Anglosphere oligarchs, as the balance between warmongers and pragmatists leans away from the former, we could see a “grand reconciliation” with Russia, with all the due theatrics (though the pragmatists, as long as they are just another emanation of the debt-creation system, will not in reality be very peace-loving either!).
To be sure, I’m not saying Trump is a peace-loving saviour. But with all the superficial and rather flimsy warmonger victories (hiring John Bolton, the anemic Syria strikes, et al.), the real long term victories appear to be going towards the pragmatists.
Remember, Trump tends to surround himself, in certain positions, with people with whom he does not always agree. Those people stay until they are no longer useful to Trump. Consider Tillerson at the State Dept. where he ‘cleaned-out’ some of the folks that were no longer welcome in Trump’s Administration, and eventually Tillerson was no longer needed.