The Growing Problem for Trump

the deep state, fait accomplis and spectacles are everywhere

I think we’re all familiar with Donald Trump’s strengths and weaknesses by now. His biggest weakness, in my estimation, is his age and generation. Does he have the perspective required to navigate the sea of hidden shoals and rocks known as the deep state. And while we may think the answer to that is yes we’ve all heard the mantra that personnel is policy. Do his advisors have the ability to get honest information out of the agencies they will head? He is choosing loyal people and that’s good. The question is how loyal they will be once they have to interact with the immense bureaucracies they will run and, if they remain loyal, will that matter?

Bureaucrats get a bad name because their primary job isn’t to carry out the mission they were assigned but to preserve their jobs and the bureaucracy itself. If they don’t like the orders they receive from above they have a thousand ways to sandbag, slow-walk, or just outright ignore. Trump knows this but can he do anything about it?

Right now some people are supremely impressed with the deep state’s work in Romania, Moldova, Georgia and Syria. I suppose their ability to subvert democratic processes, topple regimes and completely cuck large nations is impressive. The US blew up NordStream and ze Germans are asking “please sir, may I have some more” while their industry collapses around them.

I’m going to suggest that these blatant successes are not the acts of a confident empire. They are the acts of a desperate empire that feels the weight of the world economy tilting away from them. I would then look at the CIA as a dangerously cornered animal. I think the Russians see them that way as well.

Russia refused to fight in Syria. We may never know exactly why but it appears the Syrian army simply folded up and offered no resistance. Why? My educated guess is that the Syrian Arab Army was never very good and was exhausted from 10 years of catastrophic fighting. Turkey made it clear that, with US backing, they would annihilate Damascus and Syria’s generals gave up. Russia would not fight if Syria wouldn’t and so they are leaving. They are clearly part of the deal as their embassy has not been attacked and they are peacefully exiting the two military bases they held along the Mediterranean coast.

The new leader of Syria is an allegedly rehabilitated jihadi leading a bunch of also allegedly rehabilitated Isis terrorists. I’m assuming Turkey and Israel have this guy and his band of moderate rebels on a tight leash. Time will tell.

Ukraine is falling faster everyday and much that’s going on in the west right now is designed to distract from this fact until Trump is sworn in and the loss can be rhetorically blamed on him by the largely impotent mainstream media. This may be the reason for the “shocking spectacles” of the Brian Thompson assassination. Expect more shocking spectacles and revelations over the weeks to come. January 20th can’t come soon enough for the deep state.

And when it does the hope is Trump will be met with a series of fait accomplis that will hem in his presidency and maintain control of his administration by the deep state. They can’t do Russiagate 2 (3? 7?) and it appears they’ve ruled out assassination at this late date so this is the plan instead.

We will see if the incoming Trump administration is up to the task. What task? The massive task of moving the current crop of deep-state head creeps aside and raising up those who believe in Trump’s agenda — or are at least are willing to be brought into the circle. He’ll have to watch the latter group closely. If he doesn’t do this his ability to gather accurate information on everything from the war in Ukraine to the state of Europe’s “democracies” to China’s military strength and strategy will be woefully poor and the deep state will easily knock his second term as off-course as his first. He already appears, rhetorically at least, to buy into the Iran project. That alone could destroy his second term.

He is entering declared enemy territory when he enters the D.C. beltway and he must act with the decisiveness of a strong emperor. He’ll have to burn his most powerful enemies at the stake and any prisoners he takes must be tried and executed. Proverbially speaking of course. If he expects a lone-voiced Tulsi Gabbard to provide a bulwark against the entire deep state he is sorely mistaken.

There is only one ring and it is controlled by the Dark Lord — and he does not share power.

*Addendum in response to the idea that Trump has made a deal with the deep state: if Trump thinks he's going to hammer out some kind of negotiated agreement with the deep state he's done. They'll agree and agree and then manipulate him toward their aims by creating realities he has to respond to. They're like a giant python - once they get their body around your arm you're done.