Ever the master negotiator, creative practitioner of art-of-the-possible, and all-around disciple of distraction, Donald J. Trump, may have just concluded a deal with his most dangerous & powerful adversary; the US Deep-State.
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, the Trumpster let the news fly that he fully expected Europe to buy American natural gas, or they too, could look forward to some serious tariffs, balancing-out their yearly $150-200 billion in natgas purchases from others (read: Russia, Iran/Qatar, et al). My geostrategic, ‘spider-sense’ seismometer took a leap on the spool.
You see, trade in energy is absolutely critical to global maintenance of the “Petrodollar Imperium”; something I detailed years earlier in these 2 op-ed pieces from 2020, The Petrodollar Imperium Explained, and its Part Two. This is why I firmly believe Trump has made a deal with the US Deep State.
A little history here: for all practical purposes the US Deep-State was technically created on Saturday July 26, 1947, and in a damn big hurry. President Truman signed the bill creating the enterprise, while waiting on the tarmac at DC’s National Airport (now Reagan National), aboard his presidential airplane, the Sacred Cow. The Cow had been suddenly delayed from carrying Truman to his mother’s deathbed back in Independence, Mo. Unfortunately, after all the protocols concluded, he didn’t make it back in time.
The hurry to get things done included 2 biggies: creating the US Air Force as a standalone entity, and creating the Central Intelligence Agency. A critical factoid some historians link to strange events happening 3 weeks earlier in America’s southwestern desert, near her only atomic bomb flight command at Walker AFB, in Roswell, New Mexico.
At any rate, the American Deep-State has a birthday, and it wasn’t nicknamed this until senior congressional staffer, Mike Lofgren, labeled it as such in an interview with Bill Moyers in early 2014. Lofgren first used the term, one frequently attributed by historians to the workings of the Ottoman Empire from 1299-1922 AD. Lofgren’s moniker stuck.
Now Mr. Trump has made a deal with ‘em. They didn’t like the guy originally, but have since warmed up to his concept of multi-polarity, in a post Cold War world. As they both know, the longer you keep the dissipating US Dollar afloat in the world system, the easier a transition to that multi-polar world (on America’s terms) will be. And quite frankly, the Deep-State’s incredibly sad bench of political weenies from ‘Planet Woke’ weren’t up to the task. Mr. Putin, Mr. Xi, Mr. Modi & Co. could do rings around ‘em.
Not the Trumpster; Oh Hell No.
Sellers is a Southpark, Roosevelt-Republican (TR) living in incorporated Oro Valley; his background is federal technology commercialization, and administers the private group, Tucson E-P-T News, on Facebook
