Trump was ideologically incoherent and crassly transactional. But the threat he posed to American empire and thus the gargantuan security state helps establish a motive for why the FBI and CIA intervened in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. As president, Donald Trump lavished the rich with tax cuts and deregulation. Yet, contradictorily, he also threatened the structure of American global hegemony that does so much to keep the American one percent tremendously wealthy. In fact, Trump undertook the most […]
I know it's Grayzone which has been cringe recently but this is Parenti's son and it's a very good read so.
That is very interesting, honestly it makes you wonder, to what extent the national security state has to keep a lid on everything all at once, my only guess they arent nearly as competent as we would think, it really seems like the situation is just managed chaos in terms of the George flyod situation. Their are really hard questions to askon, how much longer this thing can work as it is right now trying to contain manage ukraine, but also over throw southamerican goverments, while managing a future upcoming, Taiwan China situation, I belive we are gonna see the limits of the national security state honestly. No king rules forever and no security state can forever repress its internal contradictions forever in a declining hegemonic position.
That is very interesting, honestly it makes you wonder, to what extent the national security state has to keep a lid on everything all at once, my only guess they arent nearly as competent as we would think, it really seems like the situation is just managed chaos in terms of the George flyod situation. Their are really hard questions to askon, how much longer this thing can work as it is right now trying to contain manage ukraine, but also over throw southamerican goverments, while managing a future upcoming, Taiwan China situation, I belive we are gonna see the limits of the national security state honestly. No king rules forever and no security state can forever repress its internal contradictions forever in a declining hegemonic position.