Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "US Troops Will Withdraw from Syria as Trump Declares Victory Over ISIS" video.

The game is one of influence. You don't have to be successful to be influential. US military justifies it's luxurious existence by the extent--not effect--of its influence. And influence is what its been wielding via deceptive bookkeeping (the Pentagon just failed its first-ever audit) and bluster. It seems possible there's recently been a split in the deep state: the military side has been happy to flex its muscles for the past decades, while the political side has changed its attitude in an anti-constitutional direction recently, forcing the military to resist its "significant other", so to speak. So, maybe, now it's Trump and the military against what's left of the deep state, entrenched as it is at all levels of government. The extraction of this bad element is liable to be painful and violent, temporarily, as the deep state enacts its death throes. Or am I dreaming...
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