{"id":2380,"date":"2016-11-10T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T20:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2016-11-10T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T21:31:36","slug":"the-risk-of-war-is-very-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"The Risk of War is Very Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, Trump is careless and short-tempered. That makes it easy for him to carelessly embroil the USA in foolish conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, there may be something more sinister at play. This assumes that he&#8217;s going to make peace with the capitalist elite and the GOP establishment and rule as Bush v3.0. That means double-crossing the base that elected him and reneging on his promises to scrap free-trade deals. A conveniently-timed war could serve as a useful means for distracting the attention of that base.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Economist<\/em> alludes to the latter possibility <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/buttonwood\/2016\/11\/won-t-get-fooled-again?fsrc=permar|text5\">here. <\/a>Perhaps tellingly, increasing the size of the US military is a significant part of his platform. Note that he&#8217;s such an unpredictable character that making any <em>definitive<\/em> predictions is impossible. I&#8217;m merely laying out one possibility among many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, Trump is careless and short-tempered. That makes it easy for him to carelessly embroil the USA in foolish conflicts. Secondly, there may be something more sinister at play. This assumes that he&#8217;s going to make peace with the capitalist elite and the GOP establishment and rule as Bush v3.0. That means double-crossing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}