{"id":23908,"date":"2017-02-05T21:25:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23908"},"modified":"2017-02-05T21:25:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:25:51","slug":"trump-orders-military-to-prepare-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/02\/05\/trump-orders-military-to-prepare-for-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Orders Military To Prepare For War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Counter Currents<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/2017\/01\/28\/trump-orders-military-to-prepare-for-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Orders Military To Prepare For War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe order further instructs Mattis, in the words of the Washington Post, which obtained a copy of the order prior to its formal release, \u201cto examine how to carry out operations against unnamed \u2018near-peer\u2019 competitors, a group which US officials typically identify as China and Russia.\u201d And it commands the Pentagon and the Office of Management and Budget to develop a \u201cmilitary readiness emergency budget amendment\u201d that would increase military spending in the current year and increase the budget for 2018 and thereafter\u2014increases to be offset by cuts to social spending.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>if this is accurate (and I have no reason to believe the Washington Post), now might be the time to start worrying. In case you think Hillary (or Bernie or Jill Stein ) would have been better, look into the following book:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Deep-State-Democracy-Library\/dp\/1442214244\" target=\"_blank\">The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy (War and Peace Library)<\/a> by Peter Dale Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counter Currents has the article Trump Orders Military To Prepare For War. The order further instructs Mattis, in the words of the Washington Post, which obtained a copy of the order prior to its formal release, \u201cto examine how to carry out operations against unnamed \u2018near-peer\u2019 competitors, a group which US officials typically identify as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23909,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23908\/revisions\/23909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}