{"id":43606,"date":"2026-01-12T14:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43606"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:38:59","slug":"trumps-war-footing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43606","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s War Footing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/trumps-foreign-and-domestic-policies?publication_id=365422&amp;post_id=184153116&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=16ex0z\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https3A2F2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com2Fpublic2Fimages2F587f3d85-e91b-401f-b26d-9caff5ae8a51_3500x2439.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:195px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>His foreign and domestic policies are becoming one and the same, and their purpose isn&#8217;t complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/trumps-foreign-and-domestic-policies\">Trump\u2019s War Footing<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>According to the\u00a0<em>Times,<\/em>\u00a0Trump \u201ctook unpredictable turns\u201d during the interview. But instead of seeing this unpredictability as a symptom of Trump\u2019s diminishing capacities and ever-shorter attention span, the\u00a0<em>Times\u00a0<\/em>reported it as \u201ca tactic he embraces as president, particularly on the world stage. If no one knows what you might do, they often do what you want them to do.\u201d<br>&#8230;<br>\u201cPolicy\u201d implies thought. But under Trump, there is no domestic or foreign policy because it is all thoughtless. It is not even improvised. It is just Trump\u2019s ego \u2014 as interpreted by the toadies around him (Miller, Vought, Vance, Kennedy, Rubio, Noem) trying to guess what his ego craves or detests, or fulfilling their own fanatical goals by manipulating it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His foreign and domestic policies are becoming one and the same, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[945,1102,57],"class_list":["post-43606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-rwnj","tag-tfg","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43609,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43606\/revisions\/43609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}