Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality.
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army, the big developing story was the Roman Republic’s impending Civil War, pitting Caesar against the country’s Senate and Pompey the Great, but the Rubicon was particularly revealing in that it indicated that Caesar was willing to defy the Senate’s political control in pursuit of his own ambitions.
Caesar understood the significance when he commented “Alea iacta est!” meaning “The die is cast!” and there was no going back on his decision, which eventually led to his defeating Pompey and becoming Dictator for Life before he was assassinated by Brutus and Cassius on the Ides of March in 44 BC.
Likewise, there is a lot of seemingly lesser important maneuvering in Donald Trump’s Washington that, if taken collectively, spells out a disaster in the making for our dear Republic, just as Caesar sought to remake how and within what limits Rome was to be ruled in the future, which led to the creation of the Roman Empire.
Trump’s Rubicon moments might reasonably be seen as his declarations that he can “do whatever he wants” without any consequences and does not respect international or generally accepted law, instead relying on his own instincts and “feelings” in terms of what he should do in any given situation.
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This disregard for rules and law includes a willingness to ignore the Constitution of the United States when it comes to rights of citizens, international relations and going to war.
When attempting to judge just how far Trump might be willing to go in terms of his feelings, not to mention his subservience to foreign nations like Israel and its Jewish billionaire lobbyists, it is sometimes the small developments and blurted-out admissions by the president and his band of sycophants that are most revealing.
Some of my favorite Trumpisms relate to the military and the interventions and wars that he seems to find himself drawn to, complete with a “war” budget of $1.5 trillion, which is the largest since the Second World War.
The irony is, of course, that Trump is demonstrably a draft dodger from Vietnam with his father Fred having reportedly paid a podiatrist Dr. Larry Braunstein to fake up a medical condition, “bone spurs” that provided a medical disqualification from the draft.
Source: Trends in the News
