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Is Trump ready to go nuclear?

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A New York business source connected to the "Masters of the Universe," on condition of anonymity, unveils part of the mystery: "The United States threats over bombing all of Assad's forces were retracted almost immediately under orders to Obama from above. Kerry took the initiative of a call to Lavrov for immediate renewal of talks under similar orders. The United States does not intend to get involved in a nuclear war that we most certainly will lose, as the Russians have leaped generations ahead in defensive missiles and their air space is effectively sealed."

As for the MAD doctrine, "it is effectively over. As Brzezinski has said, if this is true, and it is, then the United States has ceased to be a global power."

Slingshot time

And yet, all across US corporate media, neocons, neoliberalcons and their shills continue to huff and puff. "Syraq" is already a de facto, indirect, mini-World War, pitting NATO and the GCC against the "4+1" (Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, plus Hezbollah), and China (and that makes it a NATO-GCC proxy war against the top two BRICS/SCO members).

Wallowing in the campaign mudslinging-fest, the Clinton (Cash) Machine accuses WikiLeaks of being "a propaganda arm of the Russian government" in favor of their "pet candidate, Trump," as Hillary's campaign manager John Podesta blames the "criminal hack" of his emails on Russia and denounces Trump's "bromance" with Putin. Neo-McCarthyism is the (hysterical) rule; virtually the whole US establishment considers Trump's conciliatory approach to Putin and Russia as treason by a Trojan Horse.

Even more alarming, both the US and Russia military seem to be on a razor's edge. "Bomb shelters" is now a common conversation topic. The CIA plan of waiting for Russia to go bankrupt before the military modernization program is ready in 2017 is rubbish. And to top it off, accidents can -- and may - happen. MAD no more: just stark raving madness, as the absolute incapacity of the War Party to read Russia's red lines keeps increasing the possibility of shadow war slouching into hot war.

Twitter-machine Trump notoriously does not read. If only one of his advisers could summarize the thesis behind a provocative book, Theology of Provocation, launched in France earlier this year.

The central thesis, as exposed by Professor Ge'rard Conio, is that neoliberalism, as imposed by practitioners of the New World Order and financial elites, is not the opposite of totalitarian communism, but rather its apex, with a tiny minority of masters wielding life-and-death power over a vast majority of slaves.

Hillary is the anointed -- warmongering -- representative of these masters; or to quote 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature Bob Dylan, she's only a pawn in their game, while Trump consciously positions himself as the unlikely outsider. She is actually the Goliath. If he wants to come out as the winning David, his (nuclear) slingshot has got to be a remixed "Daisy."

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