Was the Syrian false flag President Trump's price for the getting the Gorsuch confirmation? And if so, has the Deep State turned the new president into their marionette?
As pretexts for illegal foreign aggression go, the Trump strike in Syria is about as weak and transparent as they get – and I suspect that is intentional. The McCain/Ryan/Obama/Bush coalition was finally able to bring Donald Trump to heel, and they want the whole world to know it. My guess is that they convinced the president that they were willing and able to stall, derail or defeat every aspect of his agenda dependent on congressional cooperation, which is most of it. The last straw, it seems, was the Gorsuch confirmation, and I'm guessing that putting our nation on the brink of nuclear war was their price for taking the "nuclear option" in the Senate confirmation process.
I could be wrong about what was traded, but I'm convinced there was a quid pro quo and that it was in any case a bad trade because of its implications.
The neocon media are spinning the "silver-lining" theme about how the Syria strike proves Trump isn't in league with Russia (deviously bolstering their false assumption that being in league with Russia is a bad thing while ingenuously appearing to defend Trump), and how it puts North Korea on notice that the U.S. is serious about confronting its cartoon-villain president (as if there weren't many better ways to make that clear).
But there really is no silver lining in the abandonment of Trump's promise to seek global partnership with socially and fiscally conservative Russia, because it suggests the leftist elites have won the day and will now use their war machine to create such a climate of crisis across the world that the populist/nationalist movement falls by the wayside in the minds of an anxiety-ridden world population. There's nothing like a world war to justify police-state repression, and nothing like wartime propaganda to produce wide-scale conformist groupthink in a target population.
Trump could, however, turn the tables on the puppet-masters and use the crisis for his own ends, calling for a summit meeting with Russia to avert war and finally having a context in which to find the common ground that favors the conservative solutions American populists and nationalists elected him to pursue.
This is a crossroads for me in my support for President Trump, and I assume that's true for a large number of the voters who put him in office. If he's going to toe the globalists line on war policy, we're headed for disaster of potentially biblical proportions. I'll stay on the Trump bandwagon just long enough to see whether he's able to steer it back on the road to conservatism, and I'm praying fervently that he summons the will and the resolve to do so quickly, before it runs off the cliff.
I can live with failure to accomplish the Trump agenda so long as he keeps fighting hard for it and showing the public it's the fault of the obstructionist RINOs. We can then take them out in the mid-term elections. I can't live with compromise of the basic principles and vision he ran on.