I was going to fly to Phnom Penh on March 3, 2020.
That was nine months ago.
You’d think we would have given birth by now but I don’t think we have. I think we’re in overtime, past the due date. I don’t think what we’ve been wishing for or worried about has come into being yet.
I think we are still in the gap, or in the Bardo, as The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying puts it.
Some war-wise sage said to leave a defeated army a little hole in the encirclement.
To me that means if Trump has nothing to lose, why not start a war with Iran and see wtf happens? How is that worse than what happens when he leaves his current gig and the bills all come due?
Pardon him and his whole family, please do it.
Otherwise it could easily come down to whether the military executes his commands or not.
It has been well-documented how many key military control positions have been targeted and turned-over since the election and filled with people purported to be Trump loyalists. One of the nominees, Scott O’Grady, explicitly raised the martial law scenario today
Based only on the evidence before me, I would put the probability of the President declaring an epically disastrous war higher than the probability of the U.S. Military actually implementing it. But what do I know?
To repeat: I, and I’m sure many others, are hoping that the U.S. Military would decline dangerous orders from the Commander in Chief that could easily send the world into destabilized oblivion.
Not going to war if so commanded would be, in effect, a military coup. There is no other way to look at it. The Judiciary is stacked. Congress is just along for the ride. The media willfully amplifies the President’s every move.
The U.S. Military, like all militaries, likes order.
If their coup is successful, which I hope it is, because the alternative is even worse, we will have order. Definitely, order.