No, but I think he likes to order the military around and might give a rambling 'order' like, 'China bad. China vaccines bad. Why send good vaccines to those sh-thole countries for free?' -- and then in so many words telling the Pentagon to make them all f-off and die.
Edit: ok, I laughed, but I wanna be clear: not at you. I don't think any of it SHOULD work like that, but in my imagination, I can visualize it happening, and some of the crap that went down what with the National Weather Service agreeing with a sharpie edit to their map... I just can't exclude the idea that such craziness could have happened.
-- but I totally admit I was just riffing on a concept
DOD psyops have been deployed against China and their neighbors for decades, is all I'm saying. The presidents just step into and out of the stream of already existing behavior
yeah yeah yeah, and not just there and not just the U.S. DoD. I think we all understand that psyops are a common military tactic. We can't even be assuaged by the idea that the U.S. government isn't 'allowed' to run such campaigns on its own citizens because: why would they even worry about that when they can just ask a dark-money PAC or the media to do it for them?
This is of course true, but the massive scale of US interventionism compared to that of other countries can’t be papered over. The US has been the mob boss of the imperial core since the end of WWII.
We can’t even be assuaged by the idea that the U.S. government isn’t ‘allowed’ to run such campaigns on its own citizens
And yet it does, often in collusion with corporate media.
Do you think Trump even knows what The Philippines is?
No, but I think he likes to order the military around and might give a rambling 'order' like, 'China bad. China vaccines bad. Why send good vaccines to those sh-thole countries for free?' -- and then in so many words telling the Pentagon to make them all f-off and die.
That's not how any of this works
lol!
Edit: ok, I laughed, but I wanna be clear: not at you. I don't think any of it SHOULD work like that, but in my imagination, I can visualize it happening, and some of the crap that went down what with the National Weather Service agreeing with a sharpie edit to their map... I just can't exclude the idea that such craziness could have happened.
-- but I totally admit I was just riffing on a concept
DOD psyops have been deployed against China and their neighbors for decades, is all I'm saying. The presidents just step into and out of the stream of already existing behavior
yeah yeah yeah, and not just there and not just the U.S. DoD. I think we all understand that psyops are a common military tactic. We can't even be assuaged by the idea that the U.S. government isn't 'allowed' to run such campaigns on its own citizens because: why would they even worry about that when they can just ask a dark-money PAC or the media to do it for them?
This is of course true, but the massive scale of US interventionism compared to that of other countries can’t be papered over. The US has been the mob boss of the imperial core since the end of WWII.
And yet it does, often in collusion with corporate media.
I thought that the ban on domestic psyops was lifted under Obama