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# Will War Cancel Trump's Triumphs?

Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

Asked what he did during the French Revolution, Abbe Sieyes replied, “I survived.”

Donald Trump can make the same boast.

No other political figure has so dominated our discourse. And none, not Joe McCarthy in his heyday in the early ’50s, nor Richard Nixon in Watergate, received such intensive and intemperate coverage and commentary as has our 45th president.

Whatever one may think of Trump, he is a leader and a fighter, not a quitter. How many politicians could have sustained the beatings Trump has taken, and remained as cocky and confident?

And looking back on what may fairly be called The Year of Trump, his achievements have surprised even some of his enemies.

With the U.S. military given a freer hand by Trump, a U.S.-led coalition helped expel ISIS from its twin capitals of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, driving it back into a desert enclave on the Iraq-Syria border. The caliphate is dead, and the caliph nowhere to be found.

The economy, with the boot of Barack Obama off its neck, has been growing at 3 percent. The stock market has soared to record highs. Unemployment is down to 4 percent. And Trump and Congress just passed the largest tax cut since Ronald Reagan.

With deregulation, which conservative Republicans preached to deaf ears in the Bush I and Bush II eras, Trump and those he has put into positions of power have exceeded expectations.

Pipelines Obama blocked have been approved. Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge has been opened to exploratory drilling. We have exited a Paris climate accord that favored China over the U.S.

Though Beijing’s trade surplus with us is returning to record highs, a spirit of “America First” economic nationalism is pervasive among U.S. trade negotiators,

The one justice named to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, appears in the Antonin Scalia tradition. And under Chairman Chuck Grassley, the Senate judiciary committee is moving conservatives and strict constructionists onto U.S. appellate and district courts.

Politically, however, the year brought bad news, with portents of worse to come. In November, the Republican Party was thrashed in Virginia, losing all state offices, and then lost a Senate seat in Alabama.

Given polls showing Trump under water and the GOP running 10 points behind the Democratic Party in favorability, there is a possibility the GOP could lose the House in 2018.

And though Democrats have three times as many seats at risk in 2018, the GOP losing the Senate is not beyond the realm of possibility.

Should that happen, the conservative dream of a recapture of the U.S. Supreme Court could swiftly vanish.

Recall: Democratic Senates turned down two Nixon nominees and Reagan’s nomination of Robert Bork, forcing both presidents to name justices who evolved into moderates and liberals on the high court.

But it is in the realm of foreign policy where the real perils seem to lie ahead. President Trump has been persuaded by his national security team to send Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, for use against the tanks and armor of pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk and Luhansk.

Should Petro Poroshenko’s Kiev regime reignite the war in his breakaway provinces bordering Russia, Vladimir Putin is less likely to let him crush the rebels than to intervene with superior forces and rout the Ukrainian army.

Trump’s choice then? Accept defeat and humiliation for our “ally” — or escalate and widen the conflict with Russia.

Putin’s interest in the Donbass, a part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union for centuries, is obvious.

What, exactly, is ours — to justify a showdown with Moscow?

In this city there is also a powerful propaganda push to have this country tear up the nuclear deal John Kerry negotiated with Iran, and confront the Iranians in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and the Persian Gulf.

But how much backing would Trump have for another U.S. war in that blood-soaked region, after Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria?

Who would stand with us, and for how long?

When Trump declared Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel and pledged to move our embassy there, we had to veto a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution condemning us. Then the General Assembly denounced the U.S. in a resolution supported by all our key NATO allies, Russia and China, and every Arab and Muslim nation.

A day later, Trump complained on Twitter that we have “foolishly spent $7 trillion in the Middle East.”

What then would justify a new $1 or $2 trillion war with the largest nation on the Persian Gulf, which could send oil to $200 a barrel and sink the global economy?

Cui bono? For whose benefit all these wars?

The Korean War finished Truman. Vietnam finished LBJ. Reagan said putting Marines into Lebanon was his worst mistake. Iraq cost Bush II both houses of Congress and his party the presidency in 2008.

Should Trump become a war president, he’ll likely become a one-term president.

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RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:18 PM

Damn,Buc,You a "Holster"...Big Time

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GatorMcClusky RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:24 PM

Off topic-sorta: this is from a friend I have known for 30 years. His response to a news article i sent him on violence at a New Jersey Mall

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We are witnessing the decline of the great American empire.

We are heading back to beautiful, safe Zürich now after visiting family in Houston and Chicago (two cities long past their prime). Houston not as bad but it seems even our part of town in the NW suburbs is less safe now.

First time back to US in 18 months for me and the first thing I noticed is the anger and aggression from everyone. Switzerland is soulless but peaceful. I miss it now.

Wishing you guys a happy New Year"

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Intelligence_I… GatorMcClusky Dec 29, 2017 8:46 PM

U.S. is full of niggers though, media 24/7 blaming whitey and donald trump for their poverty and the "russians stealing the presidency". Full retard jew media.

Time to fire up the ovens.

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Freddie Intelligence_I… Dec 29, 2017 9:02 PM

USSA Inc a Roth$child LLC is Trayvon and Moshe land.

Dumb white males worship ball playing Trayvons in the NFL, NBA and NCAA.

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bobcatz Freddie Dec 29, 2017 9:53 PM

Trump RECENTLY met with the devil, Netanyahoo of Israhell, and got his marching orders to finally SET THE MIDDLE EAST ON FIRE. http://wp.me/p4OZ4v-2g9

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skbull44 bobcatz Dec 29, 2017 11:30 PM

"With the U.S. military given a freer hand by Trump, a U.S.-led coalition helped expel ISIS from its twin capitals of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, driving it back into a desert enclave on the Iraq-Syria border. The caliphate is dead, and the caliph nowhere to be found."

Really? With all the evidence that the US has been arming, training, and aiding ISIS, Pat writes this revisionist propaganda??

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Derezzed skbull44 Dec 30, 2017 1:49 AM

Yeah sure like Goerges Dub ... oh but w8 !

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Squidward_Tentacles skbull44 Dec 30, 2017 5:25 AM

Yeah, normally I agree with Pat on most things but that statement had me shaking my head.

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Endgame Napoleon Squidward_Tentacles Dec 30, 2017 10:37 AM

Unless the first part of Pat’s article is somewhat tounge and cheek, I do not agree that the economy is doing well for the vast majority of citizens, particularly those who lack a spousal income or the following monthly and tax-time welfare supplements: free or subsidized rent, free EBT groceries, free electricity, nearly free Headstaet. monthly cash assistance and refundable child tax credits between $3,468 and $6,444.

One-hundred-percent-free-and-non-contributory welfare is what is is keeping up a large part of the population, specifically those who have sex and reproduce out of wedlock, with 42 million still on EBT long after the Trump victory.

The jobs are mostly part time, temporary, high turnover, 1099 gigs and low-wage fare that will not cover rent that takes more than half your pay if you are not being paid by government to have sex and reproduce, as a citizen or an immigrant with US-born kids and traceable income below the income limit for welfare.

This was the case all through Clinton, all through Bush, all through Obama and now through Trump. The public relations tactic of selling the status quo as a boon in jobs, is not working with the voters, especially since Trump promised to end the welfare party for the illegal immigrants, pouring in here, working for a pittance and getting their major household bills paid by taxpayers, more with each birth on US soil.

That is why Deplorable turnout was in the trash can for Moore. The same is true of Virginia, although it is not a deep-red state and is full of well-vacationed assortative mates, with two high government salaries. Trump just gave the parents among then a tax cut to finance more home renovations and babyvacations to Europe while upping the refundable child tax credits for the part-time-work-plus-monthly-welfare crowd.

The child tax checks for max womb productivity are already at $6,444. Will they be doubled to $12,888, equaling more than half a year’s wages for citizen parents, immigrant parents and illegal alien parents, with individual citizens surviving on earned-only income competing with all these welfare-supported workers?

It is the bad economy, and the way that relates to mass, welfare-buttressed immigration, that is reducing turnout for Republicans. But it is also antithetical to what Trump voters wanted to get into more costly foreign wars.

Tax receipts are down because the much-ballyhooed jobs are not substantial jobs, and many of the immigrants are working under-the-table. The country is trillions in debt, yet the rich just granted themselves a tax cut, not contingent on creating jobs in the US, with more refundable tax welfare for citizens and immigrants who have more kids than they can afford to feed.

> Fool me once.

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CatInTheHat bobcatz Dec 30, 2017 10:35 AM

Hey Bob, do these dudes publish anything new???

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Freddie GatorMcClusky Dec 29, 2017 9:23 PM

Well white Texans worship their Trayvon football and basketball thugs. Also their Mexicans are "good" Mexicans not like Calif Mexicans. Whites in America are Trayvon ball thug cucksters. Even idiots on message boards say the college Trayvons are what they watch.

Maybe the Austrians will get fed up as they were invaded and almost lost Vienna twice.

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Normalcy Bias Freddie Dec 29, 2017 9:44 PM

Freddie, you're a fucking maniac with your anti: white, negro sportsball worshipper rants.

...but you're right, I'll give you that.

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Normalcy Bias RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:46 PM

Pat, of late, they're all War Presidents, excepting Jimmah Cartah, who ironically was a One Term President.

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Overfed Normalcy Bias Dec 29, 2017 9:56 PM

Sheeit yeah. The average Boobus Americanus loves war and worships the military.

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RedBaron616 Normalcy Bias Dec 29, 2017 11:44 PM

The disaster of the attempted Iran hostage rescue did Carter in. That and the fact that he appeared impotent while Iran was holding U.S. embassy personnel.

Then there was discussing nuclear war with Amy. That and believing that oil was all but gone and putting a sweater on.

Jimmy should have stuck to governor. Presidency was WAY over his head.

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Urban Roman Normalcy Bias Dec 30, 2017 7:08 AM

Yeah, and Dubya said war is good for the prezinitzing bidniss.

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Endgame Napoleon Normalcy Bias Dec 30, 2017 10:49 AM

And the country is not any safer for it, either.

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joeyman9 RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:57 PM

Buch is right, a war cancels all the positive stuff he's done and paves the way back for the dems (Like one Ah Shit cancels out a thousand attaboys).

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joeyman9 RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:58 PM

Buch is right, a war cancels all the positive stuff he's done and paves the way back for the dems (Like one Ah Shit cancels out a thousand attaboys).

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hxc RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 9:19 PM

Fuck off fag boy

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general ambivalent RawPawg Dec 30, 2017 12:03 AM

Triumphs?

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RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:19 PM

Damn,Buc,You A "Holster"...Big Time

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RawPawg RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:21 PM

Sorry for repost

Damn ZH,and their Software Updates

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RawPawg RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:22 PM

Sorry for repost

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RawPawg RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:22 PM

Sorry for repost

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RawPawg RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:22 PM

Sorry for repost

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RawPawg RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:22 PM

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RawPawg RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:22 PM

Sorry for repost

Damn ZH,and their Software Updates

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RawPawg RawPawg Dec 29, 2017 8:22 PM

Sorry for repost

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Clearcutt RawPawg Dec 30, 2017 2:33 AM

well, that escalated quickly

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Cassandra.Hermes Dec 29, 2017 8:19 PM

The president of the United States is not well:

"Virtually every Democrat has said there is no collusion. There is no collusion. And even these committees that have been set up. If you look at what’s going on — and in fact, what it’s done is, it’s really angered the base and made the base stronger. My base is stronger than it’s ever been. Great congressmen, in particular, some of the congressmen have been unbelievable in pointing out what a witch hunt the whole thing is. So, I think it’s been proven that there is no collusion."

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IridiumRebel Cassandra.Hermes Dec 29, 2017 9:02 PM

No collusion.

You're delusional though.

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D503 Cassandra.Hermes Dec 30, 2017 1:04 AM

Trump is a master of manipulation of cognitive bias. There isn't a single statement he makes that you could hold his feet to the fire on. The issue simply is: you aren't the target audience. Define "virtually." Define "the base." Define "some of the congressmen."

Any response you manifest is speculation. And that is the glory of appealing to undefined language. You determine what is being said based on your emotions, and you are an emotional turd squeezing fuckwit.

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WTFUD Dec 29, 2017 8:20 PM

Expelled ISIS from Raqqa & Mosul and airlifted them to Jordan, Golan Heights and Afghanistan.

You may say i'm a dreamer but i'm not the only one . . .

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Jack Oliver WTFUD Dec 29, 2017 11:05 PM

Or in Joni Mitchell’s words - “ They don’t give peace a chance - It was just a dream - some of us had “

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Son of Captain Nemo Dec 29, 2017 8:22 PM

JHFC "Triumphs"?...

Which ones are you speaking of?... Attempting to start a war with Russia in Syria in April with a "59 Tomahawk" salute... Or attempting to use the DPRK as hostage material for the "hard up" loan from Russia and China to get U.S. to the next BIS debt payment?!!!

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Parrotile Son of Captain Nemo Dec 29, 2017 8:37 PM

If Trump willingly (or maybe un-willingly, since we are not party to what happens in the real seats of power) "leads" the US into a real conflict with NK (or maybe with Russia - via Novorussia), he may not only be a "one-term President", but perhaps the LAST President the US has, for some considerable time.

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Son of Captain Nemo Parrotile Dec 29, 2017 8:45 PM

As will the rest of US Par be serving our "last term" should he be successful on behalf of his Israeli "beneficiaries"!... Because of psychopathic treasonous fucker(s)(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAOyKRWDLHg) like this one that probably died with the worst pain coming from his ass as a "fart" instead of being skinned alive 16 years earlier by the rest of U.S. outside D.C.!

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I reckon so Dec 29, 2017 8:22 PM

"..... a U.S.-led coalition helped expel ISIS from its twin capitals of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, driving it back into a desert enclave on the Iraq-Syria border. The caliphate is dead, and the caliph nowhere to be found."

Stopped reading right there.

Who writes this garbage?

Why is it on this site?

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indygo55 I reckon so Dec 29, 2017 8:39 PM

Right. The US is training them in east Syria right this very minute. its all over the internet.

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CatInTheHat indygo55 Dec 30, 2017 10:41 AM

And ten thousand of them into Afghanistan, per RT.

Now you know why the US corrupters don't want us watching/reading RT.

US doesn't bother to hide that they FUND these fuckers too. And IsraHell and the House of SOD.

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dirty fingernails I reckon so Dec 29, 2017 8:50 PM

I'd be willing to bet that they did *drive* ISIS into the desert enclave (held by the US mil). They are nowhere to be found because they are being reinvented. Again. Just like how the groups would change names so they weren't on the list of those that couldn't be armed.

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Jack Oliver I reckon so Dec 29, 2017 11:03 PM

Yes - as usual the Zio/US rescued their pet terrorists and left the people of Mosul and Raqqa for DEAD !!

Obliterated both cities - so they are FUCKING uninhabitable !!!

Why the FUCK are these not ‘War Crimes’ of the highest order ?????

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HRClinton I reckon so Dec 30, 2017 12:03 AM

You ask "Who writes this garbage?"

Ron Paul and the Controlled Opposition this stuff. They are the Safety Valve for Flyover Country.

That way, they get to vent and still hold on to Hope. TPTB know that people in this demographic group are hope junkies, and use that -- as all con artists do.

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Theos Dec 29, 2017 8:23 PM

> Whatever one may think of Trump, he is a leader and a fighter, not a quitter. How many politicians could have sustained the beatings Trump has taken, and remained as cocky and confident?

LOL he has dementia. Of course he doesnt know that hes a laughing stock.

To quote trump: "I stand for nothing."

How can you be a leader when you arnt moving anywhere?

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kalboking Theos Dec 29, 2017 8:36 PM

sure the bone spur in chief draft dodging chicken hawk is a fighter. I just realized the trunptards are equal to the retards of jersey on jersey shore. i realize murhica is populated by jersey shore mentally challenged morons.

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IridiumRebel kalboking Dec 29, 2017 9:10 PM

Ya got an anti trump hardon eh?

time to get cunty?

whomever was “elected” would be doing the same shit. It’s all controlled.

You must long for Clinton.

fuck off and prep bitch.

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Cassandra.Hermes Dec 29, 2017 8:23 PM

"I saw Dianne Feinstein the other day on television saying there is no collusion."

here is Dianne interview:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/feinstein-senate-russia-…

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Bigly Cassandra.Hermes Dec 29, 2017 9:23 PM

You realize every person you quote has zero credibility and is a bought and paid for criminal, right?

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Cassandra.Hermes Bigly Dec 30, 2017 10:27 AM

Yes I was quoting the president of USA or the pussygrabber whichever you prefer

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