President Trump sort of denied last night’s report
that the Pentagon’s plan for a war with Iran would see 120,000 US
ground troops sent to the Middle East, saying that the report was in the
New York Times and therefore must be “fake news.”
The 120,000 troops plan was attributed to the Pentagon, and said to be a
“new” assessment which had been solicited by John Bolton, and which was
making the rounds. At the time, it was reported to be unclear if it had
gotten to where Trump was being briefed on it.
Trump was dismissive of that, though not the war, saying if the US attacks Iran he would “send a hell of a lot more” than 120,000 troops. That previous report indeed said the 120,000 was just for a border war, but not enough for an invasion.
Though some media outlets are seeing this as the White House downplaying
the chances for war, President Trump clearly doesn’t seem to be
interested in doing so. This is, after all, just a day after he
threatened “great suffering” on Iran, and his disavowal of the 120,000
troops number appeared to rest heavily on it being insufficiently large.
The concern over “fake news” *is* a valid one (and has been since the days of ‘yellow journalism’ in the late 1800s, nothing new) but this conman waves it as a magic wand so he doesn’t have to actually address anything he finds inconvenient.
It’s a waste of time to even bother to read anything Trump says or analyze it. He’s obviously not in the loop in what Bolton and the neocons and Israel are planning. His comments are based solely on his random reactions to whatever he happens to read or hear on Fox News. If Israel sets up a false flag incident, he’ll be led by the nose to starting a war.
He’s a buffoon when it comes to foreign policy. People who think he has some grand plan or that he’s secretly going to do something opposite what his neocon advisers want should know by now that is nonsense. His advisers know they could be randomly fired at any moment so they have surrounded him with people of the same ilk and know how to manipulate him.
He’s a buffoon. Period!
Don’t dismiss the Kabbalistic significance of that number. It was the number of King David’s army, “…from east of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every type of weapon – 120,000.”
The Zionists and Likudniks who pull Trump’s strings are big into numerology, and they obviously have his number. They can manipulate him at will.
I wouldn’t put it past Bolton to go rogue but I don’t think he needs to. This leads me to suspect that Trump’s Cabinet may be keeping him out of the loop to keep him from blabbing to the media about it. Trump is indeed a neocon, he’s just not a very reliable one.