If Trump believed only in "the almighty dollar" he wouldn't be fighting against mass immigration and globalist deracinated corporatism. Trump obviously believes in representing the interests of his nation-state and the people inside of it, not the interests of unnacountable corporate entities who couldn't care less about borders, identity, nationalism or mere geographic barriers. Neo-liberals and neocons are ironically more devoid of any true stance or principle beyond naked pragmatic profit than any "conservative", and the worse thing is that they paint their coldly calculated shekel chasing with utopian moralism so as to be more palatable to the useful idiots.
was pretty there with you before this..seems from where I am sitting our good Trump has been quite subverted by the military-industrial complex, most especially his infatuation with generals and overall military worship.
i would certainly call Northup-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, Dyncorp, Halliburton, and all the rest "unaccountable corporate entitites" and no matter all the talk Trump gave during the campaign about how drastically silly and wasteful (stopped short at calling it mass murder- as it is) intervention in the Middle East and elsewhere has been...only to bunker down in the Afghanistan boondoggle (hey, 17 years ain't so long!), attempt to create a 30k strong moderate rebel-YPG border force right on Turkey's doorstep...and for fucking WHAT? for WHAT, man? to please a bunch of room-temp IQ jackasses (read: voters) with no real chops in geopolitics with reports of "WE BOMBED THE SHIT OUT OF ISIS AND ISIS AFFILIATES IN SUDAN, SOMALIA, THE PHILLIPINES, MALI, NIGER, IRAQ, SYRIA, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, YEMEN, ETC ETC ETC"
check out the daily rhetoric and propaganda against Iran, decertifying the nuclear deal even though the International Atomic Energy Agency has been saying all along that they're in compliance. "ooooh they aren't living up to the SPIRIT of the deal" which basically means that they aren't kowtowing to the American Empire, lets throw sanctions on them!
Trump goes to Lebanon and says "I'd like to thank the great, wonderful, etc etc people of Lebanon for their assistance in the war on terror, defeating terrorist groups like ISIS and Hezbollah" even though Hezbollah has been shitting on Daesh for ages now, and has legitimate role in the Lebanese gub'mint. Dude doesn't know fucking anything! Its whatever McMasters, Kelley, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the world-renowned diplomatic expert Jared Kushner says.
at least getting the failing house of Saud to promise to buy several billions in weapon systems is good for the Joe on the Street, right? not so much.
