The despair in the weeks following the election has now turned
into constructive rage. Opposition – more precisely, oppositions – are
forming, not only in the general population, but inside the government
itself, as is evident from the cascade of leaks and rogue tweets. One
can only speculate what is happening in the intelligence agencies and
the Pentagon, but the reaction to Trump’s characterization of the CIA as
‘Nazis’ and his appalling speech about the size of his inauguration
crowd in front of their memorial to fallen agents was plain. Moreover,
in a move at first barely noticed in the general chaos, Trump removed
the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of National
Intelligence from the Principals Circle of the National Security Council
and replaced them with Steve Bannon, the white nationalist who has
become Trump’s Cheney, co-wrote the ‘America First’ inauguration speech,
and was the architect of the current Muslim ban. There is a probable
impending major crisis with North Korea – probably graver than anything
in the Middle East – and Trump’s fascination with nuclear weapons is
well known. A military coup is no longer unimaginable in the USA: Trump
calling for a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Pyongyang and the
spooks and brass rising against him.
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