Is the Deep State Going to Win?
Diwali is over and now to some less fun topics. I am seriously worried that Trump may lose the election. We’ll know the outcome on Nov 6th early morning. I am dreading what could happen in case Trump loses. I hope the gods are kind and spare humans the destruction of the world.
I don’t really care about Trump’s tariffs, or Harris’s idiocy. They are minor and inconsequential in the long run. To me, the most critically important issue is which of the two potential POTUS is likely to lead the world into the third (and certainly, the final) world war. Trump is not a war monger; Harris, a deep state puppet, is likely to force a war on the world.
Trump has on his side JD Vance (a young family man with three small children and therefore not inclined to war), Vivek Ramaswamy (another young family man with two small children and therefore wants global peace), Tulsi Gabbard (a war veteran who understands that peace is preferable to war), RFK Jr (whose uncle was assassinated by the Deep State because he was for peace with the USSR), and Elon Musk (who dreams of making humans a multi-planetary species).
Trump did not start any new war during his first term as the POTUS. The team he has now will help him not start any, and perhaps he’ll negotiate an end to the Ukraine and Gaza wars.
Randolph Bourne (1886 – 1918) famously wrote, “War is the health of the state.”[1]
The Deep State is for war. It is what President Eisenhower, the 34th POTUS, warned about in his televised farewell address to the nation as he was leaving office in January 1961. The wiki page on “Eisenhower’s Farewell Address” says,
Despite his military background and being the only general to be elected president in the 20th century, he warned the nation with regard to the corrupting influence of what he describes as the “military-industrial complex“.
The whole address is worth paying attention to. Here’s an excerpt from the wiki page on the address. I recommend reading that wiki page.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States corporations.
Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
John F Kennedy, the 35th POTUS, was assassinated in November 1963 — less than two years after Eisenhower’s final public speech. It is widely suspected that the Deep State was behind the assassination because JFK was trying to negotiate peace with USSR President Brezhnev. In peace there’s no profit for the military-industrial complex. So the Deep State got rid of him.
I suspect that the Deep State had something to do with the two attempts to eliminate Trump. He has powerful adversaries and they all want him dead.
I am afraid. I am very afraid.
I leave you with a bit from Jeffery Sachs. He’s a competent economist. I have met him a few times several years ago. Bono and Sachs were promoting development aid to poor countries. I disagreed with Sachs because I think aid does not help — and indeed harms development. But that is another matter.
Here I agree wholeheartedly with Sachs. Watch.
Jeffrey Sachs Tells What’s What
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— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) October 31, 2024
In the above, Sachs leans heavily on the basic game theory model of the prisoner’s dilemma. He does a good job of explaining the lesson that cooperation is better than conflict and that a repeated prisoner’s dilemma game (with an uncertain termination date) works even in situations where a one-shot PD game does not.
Let me know if you have questions on the PD bit.
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
NOTES:
[1] The wiki page on Randolp Bourne notes:
Bourne is best known for his essays, especially his unfinished work “The State,” discovered after he died. From this essay, which was published posthumously and included in Untimely Papers, comes the phrase “war is the health of the state” that laments the success of governments in arrogating authority and resources during conflicts.