@TheConversationUS So much beating around the bush “what does Trump want?” “what are trump’s goals?” … Deeply unpopular at home, with resistance to his domestic oppression agenda, a never-ending slow-motion scandal in the Epstein affair, and a slowly gathering economic disaster, Trump needs a crisis (or five) to give him enough cover to truly take over a number of functions, powers, and controls that he does have … yet. Another war in the middle east might be just confusing enough that a lot of Americans will sit by in confused uncertainty while he grabs more levers of unilateral power. A war that creates credible terrorists threat at home coupled with the funding freeze for DHS could provide a “pressing need” rationale for folding the department into the military structure and giving him a military he can more easily deploy domestically against Americans. ️
