{"id":539,"date":"2019-06-19T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/?p=539"},"modified":"2019-09-29T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T14:34:08","slug":"trump-re-aligning-the-u-s-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/trump-re-aligning-the-u-s-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Re-aligning the U.S. Military?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the recent warmongering in the Gulf of Oman\/Strait of Hormuz, next to Iran, and the waterway that transports the majority of the world\u2019s oil, President Trump has acted to realign the U.S. military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kjmaclean.com\/Newsletters\/GulfOfOman.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Gulf of Oman and Strait of Hormuz (marked on map).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an earlier post I was wondering who attacked the two oil\ntankers in the Gulf on June 13. On June 5, according to oilprice.com, a huge\nfire destroyed an Iranian shipping port, and on June 7, six Iranian merchant\nships were set afire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On June 5, 2019, huge fire consumed a storage facility for oil products at the Shahid Rajaee port in southern Hormozgan Province. Located west of Bandar Abbas, the Shahid Rajaee port is Iran\u2019s largest container shipping port. Reportedly, a vehicle used for transporting shipping containers exploded and caught fire. Since there were oil products near the site of the explosion, the blaze spread quickly to several tanks and storage sites and caused heavy damage to the port. The spreading fire set off huge explosions which shot fireballs and heavy smoke high into the air. On June 7, 2019, six Iranian merchant ships were set ablaze almost simultaneously in two Persian Gulf ports.\u201d<\/p><p><\/p><cite> Source: https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Geopolitics\/Middle-East\/Declassified-The-Sino-Russian-Masterplan-To-End-US-Dominance-In-The-Middle-Ea.html <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who is behind this warmongering escalation? The Iranians\nclaim that they don\u2019t want war:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A top Iranian official on Wednesday assured the nation it would not go to war with the U.S., according to Reuters, citing state news agency IRNA. \u2018There will not be a military confrontation between Iran and America since there is no reason for a war,\u2019 Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, said. \u2018Accusing other countries has turned into a common practice among U.S. officials as they try to pressure other counties.\u2019\u201d <\/p><cite> Source: The Hill, \u201cTop Iranian official: No need for a war with US,\u201d https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/middle-east-north-africa\/449258-top-iranian-official-there-is-no-reason-for-a <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (whom he trusts way more than John Bolton, his loose-cannon national security adviser, in my opinion), made a statement. According to the Associated Press and the Courthouse News Service, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Trump administration is not seeking conflict with Iran and its military buildup in the Persian Gulf is aimed entirely at deterring Iranian aggression and threats to U.S. interests and international shipping, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday.\u201d <\/p><cite>Source: https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/pompeo-us-forces-in-persian-gulf-just-a-deterrent\/ <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kjmaclean.com\/Newsletters\/Pompeo-NoIranWar.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only that, but Trump is replacing the Defense Secretary and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the two (supposedly) most powerful positions in the U.S. military. According to Military.com, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>President Trump&#8217;s tweet on Tuesday that Army Secretary Mark Esper will take over as acting Pentagon chief could mean a dramatically altered power landscape in the U.S. military, with Army leaders in charge of the Joint Chiefs and the Defense Department&#8230;.The Army&#8217;s sudden surge in dominance at the Pentagon will represent a dramatic change from just one year ago when many top billets were held by Marines, with retired Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis serving as Pentagon chief alongside Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Mattis resigned in December and Dunford is scheduled to step down from the post at the conclusion of his second term in September.\u201d<\/p><cite> Source: Military.com, \u201cMajor Power Shift Underway at Pentagon as Army Leaders Step Up,\u201d Michael Cox, June 18, 2019, https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2019\/06\/18\/major-power-shift-underway-pentagon-army-leaders-step.html <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OK, so what caused this drastic reshuffling? I\u2019m just a civilian with no military experience, and no \u201csources.\u201d But it\u2019s pretty clear to me now that the recent U.S. warmongering with Iran is Deep State stuff. These are the same eschatological nutcases who want a world war to reduce the planet\u2019s population to 500 million or less. You can see this if you Google \u201cGeorgia Guidestones\u201d and look at the images. It\u2019s written right on one of the stones. (Truth is a lot stranger than fiction, folks. You can\u2019t make this shit up \u2013 it\u2019s too unbalanced and stupid. But the dark is stupid because they can\u2019t see the light.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, if this is true, does Trump have control of the military? Obviously not, but has any president (who is supposed to be the \u201ccommander-in-chief\u201d in this fictional, corporate controlled &nbsp;\u201cdemocracy\u201d we live in) have control of the military? Is this an action &nbsp;to realign the U.S. military, giving power to the Army? Perhaps. Why would the president do that? Maybe because Trump is sick and tired of dealing with rogue and corrupt elements in government. Many people will argue that Trump himself is the rogue element, but I don\u2019t believe that anymore. Trump has already shown his desire for peace with his trip to Singapore in 2018, and his Asian tour in late 2017, when he arranged for peace on the Korean Peninsula. He also wanted to propose a Middle East peace plan that would &nbsp;establish a Palestinian state and secure borders for Israel, but he had to scrap that one because of the Mueller fiasco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it insane to suggest that there are unbalanced people in government, and  that the dark forces want to start a war? Well, they have been trying for decades but it hasn\u2019t happened, and it won\u2019t happen. I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll eventually learn who is behind this confrontation with Iran, but for now we have to understand that the dark forces are being forced out of the closet and are making themselves known. My interpretation on this military shakeup is that it\u2019s a positive step, hopefully eliminating warmongering elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time Fractals Repeating &nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a previous blog post we have discussed the idea that humanity is on a new timeline, but that remnants of the old timeline are still in the consciousness of humanity. We said that history repeats itself. It\u2019s like in your personal life: if you don\u2019t learn a life lesson it keeps repeating, in slightly different form, until you recognize and handle it. Well, the conflict with Iran has resulted in a scene that eerily resembles the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. According to The Drive, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>One of Russia&#8217;s newest warships, the first-in-class Project 22350 frigate Admiral Gorshkov, is sailing in the Caribbean and may be headed toward Cuba&#8230;The frigate also has 16 vertical launch cells capable of accommodating the Kalibr land-attack cruise missile. Kalibr is a combat-proven weapon, which gives the ship a real long-range land attack capability. The vertical launch system array can also fire the Oniks supersonic anti-ship cruise missile.\u201d <\/p><cite> Source: TheDrive.com, https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/28591\/russias-most-modern-warship-and-its-escorts-have-entered-the-caribbean-sea <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t really a big deal, because the Admiral Gorshkov\nisn\u2019t the first Russian ship to enter the Caribbean. The article makes plain\nthat the ship is there just to show off, and has no demonstrable hostile intent.\n(If you read the article, it\u2019s reliability is even questioned.) It\u2019s a &nbsp;fractal repeat of history. In 1962, on the old\ntimeline, Nikita Khrushchev was supposedly installing nuclear missiles in Cuba.\nIt\u2019s a long way from nuclear missiles in Cuba to a small flotilla of ships, so\nthis is a very scaled-down time fractal from the original. &nbsp;But it\u2019s an example of how history can repeat,\nuntil we learn the lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s The Point?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dark-light battle is being fought on a timeline where\nthe light is winning even as the dark is organizing for its survival. Their goals\nof world domination are hardly believable because it\u2019s so stupid and insane,\nbut brave people on the front lines \u2013 whistleblowers, white hats in the\nintelligence community and in the military \u2013 are fighting and dying in this\nwar. It\u2019s up to us civilians and lightworkers not to panic. There will be no\nworld war, we are beyond extinction events. Conflicts will be fought locally or\nregionally, but they will not escalate. These time fractal history repeats are\non a much less dangerous scale, but they will be blown up by the corporate\ncontrolled mass media in order to cause fear. Don\u2019t fall into the fear trap. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oil<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world\u2019s most valuable commodity in the present fossil fuel matrix is oil. An entire economic system of world trade has been built around the petrodollar. This trading system is now beginning to break up as Russia, China, and India are trying to eliminate their dependence on the U.S. dollar (See \u201cHow Petrodollars Affect the U.S. Dollar,\u201d Investopedia, &nbsp;Zaw Thiha Tun, updated Oct 16, 2018, at https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/articles\/forex\/072915\/how-petrodollars-affect-us-dollar.asp). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The energy sector on this planet is at least 5 trillion USD every year, so that\u2019s a lot of money to fight over. Most of the world\u2019s conflicts are fought over resources that come from the earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the new timeline, inventions are coming that will lessen\nour dependence on primitive fossil fuels, which will lead to energy\nindependence for all nations and peoples. But that can\u2019t happen if the world\u2019s\npopulation is in fear. The consciousness of humanity will determine whether we\nare ready to allow these new inventions to come in, because they are based on\nadvanced science that can be militarized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the population continues in fear, the old system will perpetuate. The solution to world peace is a collective rise in consciousness, and more tolerance and understanding. This will only happen when individuals begin to practice more tolerance in their daily lives, because the collective is a synergetic sum of all individuals on the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent warmongering in the Gulf of Oman\/Strait of Hormuz, next to Iran, and the waterway that transports the majority of the world\u2019s oil, President Trump has acted to realign the U.S. military. 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